Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-28
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London policemen patrol 24451a mile
of streets.
The growing of walking sticks is
special industry.
st. Petersburg's authorities now dis
infect small coins.
An electric carpet beater is to al
leviate spring fever.
An oil motor from Indianapolis j,
grinding wheat at Mt. Lebanon
One hundred and fOrty-fOur cardinals
have died since Leo XIII. became Pope
The street passenger traffic Of Lon
don gives employment to D,0O0 persons
Permission to reside in Canada has
been given TO Il large number Of British
Rcservists.
Herr Botta. German lawyer. has
left 10000 for the foundation Of a school
of cookery.
The average railway employe viii get
$50 more in wages this year than he
received in 1902.
The Dodeian library at Oxford is
just three centuries old. 1t is the largest
university library in the world.
A bust of Sir Arthur Sullivan will be
erected next March on the Thames EN-
bankment facing the Savoy Theater
England the cost OF living has increased
greatly during the last twelve months.
Hundreds of Indian laborers are be.
ing recruited for service in the kOffy-
fontein diamond mines near Kimberley.
A minister for the administration of
navigation and commercial ports has
been added by the Russian government.
A Partisan pays an average annual
tax of about q francs, while Il provln-
cial Frenchman pays less than 3 francs.
For riding a bicycle after being
warned canon named Stampa has been
suspended by the Bishop of Assist, Italy.
Prince Hugo Hohenlohe is working
in New York bank as volunteer IN
order to pick up American business meth
DDS.
DR. Loeb says electricity is the I'M
DERIVING cause of vital action, but lie has
not as yet made a fair demonstration
of it,
-Roaches have a silverv appearance
generally; one C0lOred Il bright red has
been taken from the Thames at Pang
bourne.
Coffee has been cultivated in Vene-
zuela only since 1879 and yet it is now
that much-talked-of country's chief com
mercial product.
An agent or the British and Foreign
Bible Society at MonaStir. Turkey. is be-
ing prosecuted for selling Bibles in the
Albanian language.
Wisconsin, most valuable crop is
hay. Last years product was worth
$50. 100000. The oat crop was next in
value at $26,G00,0O0
The inspector general shows that in
London the losses from unsuccessful
companies during the last ten years have
exceeded $780, 100000.
The navy which gives England the
supremacy of the seas costs $155,OU0,000
year. or little more than the United
States pays in pensions.
Flower growers in the south of
France and other favored cimes find il
profitable to send the products of their
skill to British markets.
~Austlia-IIungary has the longest
frontier of any European nation, its from
tier line being 2996 miles. Great Britain
has 275T miles OF coast ilne.
Heavier SHOWS have fallen this win
ter on the inner ranges of the Himalayas
bordering on the Pamirs than have been
known for twenty five years.
Australia has the largest duck farm
and the largest incubator in the world.
The incubator has a capacity Of II, 40
ducks eggs, or II $50 hens eggs.
--Revis Patterson, Lake Forest, died
at the age of 80 years, lie was formerly
member of the produce commission firm
of Patterson * Glatt in New York.
A splendid marble bassoriIievo has
been discovered in Pompeii. in little
garden of Il house on the east side, says
Naples letter in the Paris Messenger.
-Twenty-thrcc ounces more thaa
twice the normal-was the weight of the
heart of n porter on whose body an ia
quest was held recently at Westminster.
Prof. Lawrence Bruuer state eth
nologst at the University of Nebraska,
has collection of 10000 graSshopperS.
among which are to be found 10000 dis
tinct species.
The city Of Cleveland is ia get rid
of its l34 grade crossings at cost of
Nl0,000,oo0 Half this expense will be
borne by the seven railroads interested
and half by the city,
Quito, the capital of Ecuador. is u
have a cotton mill The machinery for
il must he carried on the backs of mules
10 an altitude OF 10000 feet in the
Andes in sight of Chimborazo.
Only one halfpenny was bid nj an
auction in Paris for two bills signed hy
MADAME Humbert-onc for 5000 GOO and
the other for $4,000. The hid was not
accepted.
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