Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-04-18
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in 1926.
The germ which causes tonsilitis is
the staphylococcus.
-''Sew-Sew" is the name OF ladies'
club in Glasgow, Scotland.
The electric motor is fast dlSpiac.ng
the leather belt in factories.
The average watch represents but
twelve hours of human labor.
The total population Of Canada
equals that of the state of Ohio.
England was first divided into shire>
during the Seventh century, \. y.
The field worl, of the forestry bureau
engages 1G2 scientific men III IL states
A bill to abolish coroners has been
introduced in the New York legislature
Texas leads in cotton ginning and the
manufacture Of products from cotton
seed.
The army of G0ooo men costs the
people less than 81 per capita per an
mum.
Ecuador will have a worlds fair as
soon as the Guayaquil railroad is i'm
ished
The Teachers College of New York
will hereafter train teachers to teach
health
-One-twcntietll of the wealth of the
German nation is in $500 share com
paniee.
Both sutta-percha and rubber hay"
been found in large quantities III Ne"
Guiana.
A new trust is the Steel Tile and
Metal Ceiling Company; capital. %io'-
100000.
The United States produces Of mann-
factules half as much ns all Of Europe
combined.
The fixed capital in agriculture in the
United States lis -four times that in man-
ufactures
The highest fail of water used for
power is that of 201S feet ut NoaYfy.
Switzerland.
A new wireless piano is made with
n comb reed of steel upon bridge ana
sounding board.
1T has been demonstrated that alfalfa
can be- successfully grown in nearly al
the Northern states.
Striking an average of the Whole
Orange River colony land values have
doubled since the war
Duluth, Mimi. is to have, an I'M,
mcuSe electrical power plant winch VIII
rival that at the 800,
OF the twenty five men who have
been President of the United States ten
have today no descendants.
Government inspectors passed upon
a91JS.G43 live animals last year at q coss
Of a little more than | cent each.
Speaking generally, wild creatures IN
habiting hot countries are more savage
than those Of cold or temperate countries.
-Rev. l. |. Trebitsch. converted He
brew, in q lecture Mt Ottawa. estimated
the Jewish population Of Canada at -
600
Connecticut ranks first in the manu-
facturp Of ammunition. braSSware, clocks,
corSets cutlery, needles, pins and hard
ware.
birmingham. England, has upward Of
10000 back-to-back houses and 5000
courts. which are entered by tunnels from
the street.
The Homestead mills produce, with
about 1000 men. three times as murh
steel as the Krupp works produce with
$4,000 men.
A German mathematician estimates
that the average man who lives to be
20 years old consumes $4,000 worth Of
food In his life.
Foreign manufacturers often turn up
the nose of Scorn at American machine
made products, hut they quail before the
american terror
The first "blacklist of hahituai
drunkards' published in London under
the new licensing act shows three times
as many women as men.
Electricity. which is being gradually
introduced into the clothing factories Of
the North, now drives 1900 sewing ma
chimes nj Leeds, England.
In cutting canal at Bordeaux a
buried statue has been discovered of
Anne of Austria, Queen of Louis MIL,
who died N Paris in 1866.
The number of irrigating bitches ana
canals III operation in the United States
ANN 1 Al
is not less than 10000 miles.
The Royal Geographical Society has
recently acquired the boats compass
used by DR.. Livingston on his FIRST jour
ncv down the IambeSi valley ia 1896.
The report of the commissioner oi
patents for 1902 shows total of 10. i9t
applications for patents, including de
signs. and that 2LIIG patents, includin.
designs, were issued.
1t is complained in London that nj
the emgrantS from Southwestern Eu
rope who are incapable of earning none,
enough 10 pay Storage passage 10 the
United States stop in that city.
The state of Virginia has received +,
favorable report ON a bill dedicating /
site IN the capitol square, Richmond. fo1
an equestrian statue of Gen. Jch Stuar
and appr1priatng $4,000 therefor
Mr.. Star, rcgiStra general of vita
statistics for Scotland, declared his opin
ion that bachelor life was more destruc
tive to males than the most unwhoesom
trade or the most uusantary surround
ingS.
The anniversary of the emancipation
OF 23.0oO,OOu Russian peasants. Hherate,
by Alexander II. in 1861. is ta be cele
hrated hereafter in the orthodox churchc
10y elahoratc thanksgiving services in
stead of 10y single requiem mass.
The policy of Western educator, =,
gardmg the Rhodes Scholarships ha
been decided upon. Young men, 10 l.
eligible. must bc al least - wears al,
unmarried and not under the grade q
juniors in college, according To the i,
clsion of the representatives, uf twenty
four Western universities DIR. Georc
II. farkin. representing the Rhod,
fund. was present at the meeting of IN
educators. which was held nj the In
versity of Chicago recently.
Muncie. Ind has almost been ha,
ing hairpuiling over it's new Gh.9rv.
gift from Andrew Carnegie. The tit
over the entrance is "Muncie Publ