Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-21
= Miscellaneous Items. II
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Pain is always danger signal
-spain exports $500 tons Of cork an
nually valued at about S6,000.00O.
The descit on account of the British
postal telegraph is $f,50O,oOO for the
Headings from the Bible are now be-
ing given III Berlin by professional re-
citers.
The so-called Gil Of roses is manufac-
tured from the grass AndropoGon schoen-
anthus.
Not more than II per cent. Of the
deaths from heart disease occur at ages
under 10.
Mans recupcrqtiye power after an
injury is in an inverse ratio to his social
advancement.
A wheeled chair for two persons,
which is driven by a storage battery, is
the latest vehicle.
Yale professors will hereafter be re-
tired from service, excep, in special cases,
at rs years Of age.
Lighthouses and lightships dot the
coast of ritain at the rate of one TO
every fourteen miles.
A locomotive testing laboratory will
be a feature of the Transportation build
ing at the worlds fair.
"A locomotive testing laboratory will
be a feature of the transportation build
Ing at the worlds fair
The Magyars rule Austria Hungary
although they number but 6,OOO.OO0 OF
100000 in a total Of 100000.
The Pope is the head of over 2J0,-
100000 human beings, or nearly one
seventh of the population of the globe.
Ten ritish towns besides London
are larger than Dublin, which has now
$4,000 people. Edinburgh beats Dublin
by 5000.
Over 100000 pieces Of mail mat
ter, covering $4S,643 in money and ST.
493.0O checks and drafts, reached the
dead letter Office during the year.
The secretary of the Aeronaut!cal so
ciety of Great Britain expects the kICe
to be the base of the future instrument
Of aerial navigation. the aeroplane.
At Il wedding celebrated Mt Bandon,
County Cork, the brides father ana
brother were the officiating clergymen,
while the bridegroom was also a CLERGY
man.
The Russians are experimenting with
a water dad battleshp which has an
upper deck Of cork and a second deck
of armor. The space between the two
can be filed with water; then the ship
floats a foot under the seas surface.
In several respects the Albanans are
the most interesting people in Europe.
They commit no crimes but murder.
Among them human life has an even
smaller value than in Sicily, and the ven
delta prevails even more rigidly.
T0rquatO Tass0 was famous through
out Italy before he was years old as an
accomplished Greek and Lntin scholar,
and the author of clever and polished
verses; and at l3 he was the intellectual
center of the brilliant court at Urbino.
Municipal development of water, gas,
electricity, street railways. markets, baths
and cemeteries in Nottingham, England.
1aS showed an average annual net profit
of $15S,000 for the last four years. The
money IS applied to the reduction OF taxes.
In recent newspaper article a Phil
lppine student at Georgetown university
Ramon Jose Lacson, quotes the record 10
show that there were universities in the
Philippines before institutions of as high
= grade were established in the United
States
An new schools in Switzerland boya
a portion of the ground floor Appropriated
for baths. Each class bathes about once
fortnight, summer and winter. Soap Is
used, and warm bath is followed by y
cooler one. Sick children and those hay-
ing skin diseases are excluded.
The results of the change from steam
to electrical power on New Yorks clo-
waited railways are n reduction of cost ppr
passenger FROM 224 cents under steam
to .9S cents, and an increase in gross
earnings Of 500 600. accompanied by a
decrease in expenses Of $4,000.