Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-27
NOTES OF INTEREST.


in height.
-Red-haired people, it is stated. are
less liable to become bald than those
with hair of any other color.
In shipbulGlng Pennsylvania stands
FIRST and New York second, while Callfor-
MIA Is d good third.
by 1876 votes to 81 the Italian Cham-
her has passed the bill for the mu-
LIBERALIZATION of the public services.
Pennsylvania mas a larger number Of
persons Of Negro descent IN It's popuia-
ton than any other Of the northern
states.
So fan this year the contracts let for
the construction of new railroads aEgE"-
gle 1876 miles. against 0,26 mites
built in 1902.
The deal just closed by which the
Rock Island acquires tie - Louis &
san Francisco railway involved 5ooo
miles Of road.
Forty thousand birds. mostly sand
piperS are reported to have been killed
recently on the North Carolina coast Tor
millinery purposes.
In the Indian Territory 100000 acres
of coal lands are to be sold at auction
end the proceeds divided among the In
diaus.
The minerals Samarskite and mona
zitc. both from North Carolina, are the
principal sources for the recently dlSc0Y-
cred radioactive thorium.
There are about $50 volcanoes on this
earth that have performed IN modern
times. There are many hundreds more
that have long been extinct.
According to the monks of the hos
pice Of st. Bernard their famous dogs
save on an average of twenty lV's
every year in the mountain.
The navy which gives England the
supremacy of the seas costs Sl55,OOO,UOU
a year. or a little more than the United
States pays year IN pensions.
Statistics show that in fifty years the
average height Of British men has risen
an inch The present average height Tor
q man Of 30 is ; feet 81 inches.
1t is stated that on January /. 1909.
there were 1l34 hitumnouS coal mines in
operation in Pennsylvania, as compared
with 9lS on December 81, 1900.
Certain species of mosquitoes liher~
nate in the adult state, others in the
larvae state and some in the egg. Larvae
live through winter in solid ice.
The experiments of Muller prove that
il microbes he placed in gun barrel the
wound made by bullet fired from Il
would be infected by the microbes.
Imports of iron and steel material for
the month of March amounted to ~, 600
tons. Of which h}.al tons was pig iron,
rs against 81 ,932 tons in February.
The completion OF the Nile works
within the time specified has, says Sir
John Arid, resulted in saving To the
Egyptian government of $4.000.00O.
Since the Birmingham corporation
acquired the city gas works, in 1879.
nj ) atssl. a
to the relief of rates from this source.
Imports of iron and steel material
for the month of March amounted to
l42,0O0 tons. of which 1891 tons was
pig iron, as against 1882 tons III Feb
ruary.
The annual loss from the burning Of
buildings in the United States is about
Sl35,O0O,000, not including cost OF in
Surancc and the appliances for fire pro-
lection.
The last census gave the value of
poultry raised in the United States dur
ing the year 1899 as $136, S91 ,SIT; Of
eggs produced in the same year, $l44,-
2S6. 1873.
Manufacturers of American threSh-
crS, reaperS, binders and mowers have n
monopoly Of the trade OF France. and
their goods are becoming more popular
each year.
The cost of railways has been calcu-
lated at about S. per inch and S195, 600
every mile. Ii is Also said that British
railways are three times as costly as
those of America.
The number of murders per million
population is 5.13 in England. 5.45 IN
Germany, 1856 in France. 1912 in
Austria, 7611 in Italy and 44.I0 in
Spain.
1t is claimed that Boston makes the
finest quality of Egyptian cigarettes, pro-
duces the choicest Italian marcaron and
has altogether the best brand of the
lrishlnan in politics.
The head and antlerS of magniti-
cent specimen of the extinct Irish deer
have been found in hog near Limerick
The horns measured nine feet six inches
from tip to tip and the head is the finest
ever discovered.
1t is estimated that the journey be-
tween London and Paris will be short
ened by twenty minutes by the use of
crates for passengers luggage, expert
mentS with which were made recently ut
Calais.
The last Congress created tI.3tG new
offices and employments at an annual
compensation of S7.92T $50 As the Con
sress also abolished 1915 offices the net
increase u ttltl. WIN an aggregate OF
$G,9So,l3S in salaries and wages.
The people of the United States now
consume eight times as much sugar per
capita as they did in the first quarter of
the last century, four times as much as
the average per capita during the decade
ending with 1890. and twice as much as
they did in any year prior TO 1870.
Private generosity in Salt Lake civ
Is giving the school children the full ypar
of schooling which the municipal atuhorj-
ties have failed 10 provide. Money i
lacking for teachers salaries. ana hut for
a popular rally the schools would doubt
less have closed. temporarily ut least.
DR.. lIaecher (Mmchener Med.
Nochl says that the method of hardening
children by means OF cold baths is not
only unnecessary. hut it is oftentimcs in,
furious. II increases rather than dimiu-
lShes their susceptibility 10 "caldS." thus
inducing coryza, throat affections hrou-
chitl> and pneumonia.
The chief defects OF the noy kite AZ
which llr. Langiey'S aerndromc is an
elaboration. is that the weight increases
with the cube dis rapidly as the lifting
power does with the square. So that tie
larger the Kite the less il will lifr in nrn.
portion. Prof. Graham Bells kites ara
eQual-Sided triaugeS, So that they need
no hracing. and il is found that the Hn
ing power increased at greater rate
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