Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-25
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Tropical agriculture IN HeNl'" ma
absorbed S2S000,000 American capital.
Some five editions Of Dickens works
we're sold for $50 ut MessefS. Sotheby
recently.
IT is estimated that every man walks
two miles a day, if only Strrlng about
his room or Office.
I'm the ten city churches administered
nv the Glasgow corporation 1915 sittlngs
out Of 1890 are inlet
The first life insurance company was
e4ortpd in London in 1G9S and another
IN ZOO Neither was successful.
Within six months 120 new conf
NAMES have been incorporated whose
stock aggregates ~ .500,000,00U.
Egypt has exported S2J,S21.G00
worth Of cotton from the seasons crop,
Ealf of which went to England.
Women are now admitted 20 the -.
Petersburg Academy Of Art rs students
If architecture and house building
The Magyars rule Austria Hungary,
although they number but 100000 or
100000 in total Of 43,000,0U0.
Hard work does not shorten life.
Bancroft the historian died AT 30 Peter
Cooper at ~ and Humboldt at 90.
There are 70,S29 insane patients III
the 30 asylums OF Prussia. according
10 the prussian statistical office.
During the last three years twenty
two millionaires have died in England.
Their average age was - years.
A John Ruslsin Club" has been
formed in Vienna, Austria. for the pur-
pose Of studying English literature.
Only about :: per cent. of the radiant
energy that comes to rs from the sum IS
capuble of affecting the human eye
- I Il.
court. London has been labeled by the
authorizes as Il dangerous structure.
Leather waste is no longer wasted.
Manufacturers use il in n compressed
form. instead of iron, to make cOgwhcels.
Minnesota is deyoting her energies to
preserving section OF her magnificent
lake and forest region for national
park.
--Grcot Britain's colonies, with which
Mr. Chamberlain tariff scheme is to fos-
ter trade. furnish bat fourth Of her
foreign business.
Savings deposits in Chicago banks
have passed the S1O0.000.O0O mark. In
the past year they have increased more
shan S22,000,000,
The Bclgans are great pigeon breed
ers, aud Que OF the choicest birds of this
kind is the true Antwerp carrier. which
Chicago had an attendance of 5000,
600 people at her Worlds fair, bur st.
Louis counts confidently Oh an attendance
of 100000
Flower growers in the south Of
France and other favored cIimoS find it
profitable to send the products of their
skill to British markets.
In Nuremberg Germany, 500 work
men are employed making lead soldiers
and lead toys. They turn out about
100000 lead soldiers day.
The flnctuatiens q the light of Nova
Geminorum IS often Iii nnph as half u
magntude IN tNxnnfs four hours lilse thu
of Nova Pefsei Ma. q
There are more than 1900 machine.
tending operatives IN Lowell, Mass, car
ing for S3S,000 spindes and earning over
S500,0O0 a month i'll wages.
Ia 1870 the German people barely cx-
ccedcd 40O00,000; in 1880 they had
risen 30 nearly 47.000,0OO. ana in 1900
the census return gave 56,345,0l4
During the last three months the
Easton Sparrow club in Essex, England.
las destroyed 1894 sparruws, as helm.
pests to the farmer and gardener.
In a laying" competition of the
ttil'ty Poultry club ut Crewe, England,
the 4year-old pullets which took the
first prize laid 216 eggs in rs weeks.
Another step in the commercial an
neNation of Canada is the taking 10y
New Workers of 5000 shares III $50
each, in the Royal Bank of the Domiu-
ion.
I'll" British National Pavilion ut the
worlds fair. st. Louis, viii he a repuy
ducton of the orangery or banquet bali
OF the kensington palace IN kenSmstor
gardens, London.
1t is reported that 2513 out of III,
2S!4 Congregational ministers In Eng
land and Wales are total ahStamerS
while in Ireland and Scotland the proper
ton is still larger.
The project of the Sienc having ula.
cardcd Paris with posters describing In,
terrible effects of ac0hul and ahSiuth,
drinking the cafe proprietors each filed 8
damage suit against him.
New York city will no longer tax,
her refuse to sea and dump H. hut wit
make il into hrlquetteS with Il hitumin
puS lux, which will probably be burned
IN municipal lighting plant
The German Antarctic expedition IN
the Gauss has reached the Care Of Good
Hope after nearly two years of effort
Every previous well-tttcd expedition ha.
penetrated farther south than IT,
An official report shows that ut ;ht
tfit VA ilNt .fhE liAtIf were M INl3f
ninety seven agricultural schools. jfty
commercial schools. seven mcrcaBtiI,
schools and >lNty-tWo industrial schools
On the army this year we Shall sneno
Sl3o.W0.Wo; on the navy. SN5.Uuu, 600
The civil establishment viii cost SIG.
0UU,@o, To the Indians we shall give
$l3,0uo,o00. The interest ON the public
debt viii be S2T.000,00o.
The Russians are experimenting with
q water clad batte>hip. which has nm
upper deck of cork and a second deck Of
armor The space between the two can
he filed with water; then the shin floats
a foot under the seas surface.
The death rate in Cuba before the war
averaged about l. 10 luuO, taking ne
rlod Of several years. Il is now hui II
This means Il decreased loss of time
from illness, as we'll as saving Of life.
The result is due 10 the sanitary methods
introduced by Gen. Wood.
The New York public library has
placed on exhibition nj rhe LcuuN build
ing, Fifth avenue and Seventeen street.
New York. Il collection OF wauu>rript>
maps, books and engraviug> illustrating
the history of New York under the
Dutch.
There air two things" said Josh
Billings. for which man Is generally