Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-05
y Curious CONVERSATIONS. -

The gross earnings Of the civilized
world are about $4,000, G00,000 per
annum.
There are 500 Chinese students in
the colleges of Japan aud 500 more are
TO be sent.
Appendicitis insurance policies are
issued in England at $1.25 Il year for
every $500.
Three persons claim to haze the field
glasses that Napoleon used on the heid
OF Waterloo.
-rhe PENNSYLVANIA Society nf New
York. organized in 1899, has more than
500 members.
The Seven Stars Inn at Manchester
England, boasts of having been licensed
for $50 wears.
1t is estimated that the output of
whisky in Kentucky this season will be
25.G00.000 gallons.
Panama ranks fifth in population
and seventh in area among the states of
the Colombian republic.
"A boy of should weigh fifty-four
and onp-half pounds. have a height of
four feet and u chest girth of twenty
four and One-half inches.
Farm laborers in Mexico may be em-
ployed at from - to 20 cents a day,
though in many parts of the country they
are scarce and unreliable.
Statistics show that in fifty years the
average height of British men has risen
an inch. The present average height for
man Of 80 is , feet S12 inches.
American archaeologists have Sc
cured concession from the Turkish gov
eminent 10 make excavations on a site 10
the northeast of the old city of Babylon.
Massachusetts is free from the re-
peated murder trial farces of New York.
There is only one appeal possible ther.
from the jurys verdict straight to tho
highest court.
i committee has now been formed
in Paris TO erect a public monument to
the memory of the carrier pigeons that
rendered such signal services during the
siege OF Paris
The British NATIONAL pavilion 1T the
worlds fair. ST. Louis, will be Il repro.
dnctiOn of the Orangery, or banquet hall,
OF the kensingt9n palace, in kensington
gardens. London.
The citrus-fruit industry of Italy has
been for long time in deplorablc con-
ditioI. Lemons that a few seasons COM
manded $3.50 per 1000 on the trees are
now hard TO market at 81 cents.
A recent census Of China shows that
that country. crowded with 'teeming
millions" has lob to the square mile
Belgium has 220 TO the square mile
Great Britain 1870 and Germany 100.
The operating expenses Of bank vita
II capital of 100000 Is 2.34 per cent. OF
the loans and discounts but the operating
expenses are only 1.33 per cent. IL the
bank has a capital Of 81 100000 or more
The atom Of hydrogen is the smallest
" the ultimate atoms" of the chemists,
hut il is 1850 times as large as the
corpusces which have recently beea
demonstrated as the elements of the
atoms.
The German empire is divided into
lla chamber of commerce districts.
Each chamber of commerce has control
Of its own finances and Is compelled by
..lsaAs. 10 -appoint an. able and Experienced
man as secretary.
Damascus now contains about the
same number of Jews that it had in the
time of st. Paul. In the middle of the
first century of our era some 10000 Jews
an Ethnarch: the present Jewish commu-
nifty is computed at about II 900.
.All new schools in Switzerland have
portion of the ground floor appropriated
for baths. Each class bathes about once
II fortnight summer and winter. Soap is
used and warm bath is followed by a
cooler one. Sick children and those hay-
ing skin diseases are excluded.
"A fund is being raised In Tennessee
for the purchase OF the Andrew Jackson
relics at the Hermitage. The Ladies'
Hermitage society has made the first
contribution of 500 To the fund. 1t is
understood that persons outside the state
are ready 10 purchase the relics anc
patriotic Tennesseeans are trying to pre-
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