Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-06
y Curious Condensations. -,


The output of the American furnace
is more than double that the British
The average annual temperature of
Sitka and Omaha is the same.
-Eich asbestos mines have been dis
covered near irkutsk, Siberia.
-EthiOpia's railway being completed
Americans are exploiting that Kingdom.
1t has been decided that alieas in
British prisons are not to be taught any
trade in the future.
The Canadian government has decd-
ed to add one-third to the tariff duties
of all German goods.
The enlisted men of the navy will
have added to their menu this year 230,-
0OO pounds of frankfurter sausages and
$4,000 pounds or sauerkraut.
Miniature arrow heads cut out of
Jasper and carnelian are found to this
day by Arabs in the desert sands and
strung in necklaces for charms.
The secretary of the treasury of Prus-
STA and Councillor of Commerce Boxer
are here to learn of our railways, canals
and steel works.
The greatest pumping plant in the
world is one which draws 100000 gal
Ions of water day 3S7 miles to the gold
fields at Bulla Bulling, Australia.
The production of pig iron in the
United States last year was 1881 1907
gross tons; in 1901 it was 1J.S7S354,
and in 1900 it was 13,7S9242 tons
Liverpool has decided to try the sug-
gestlon of the city engineer to build
workmen's dwellings, with concrete slabs
made from dust destructOr clinkers.
There are about 200 deaths yearly in
England due to weather. One hundred
and forty of these are due to cold and
the rest to sunstroke and lightning.
Machinery has been ordered for the
Argentine Republic to turn out go tons
week of ''molascuit," the new cattle
food made from mOlasses and sugarcane
6ber
The streets of Bombay are excellent,
ms are generally the main roads through
out India. They are thoroughly macad
amized or metaled and made smooth by
heavy rollers.
Two hundred and eighty stars north
of 20 have velocity through space of
twenty miles per second. The speed Of
our solar system is but 12.4 miles per sec
ond
An inventor has perfected a device
by which hand organs and similar in
struments using perforated rolls can be
kept playing continuously, with no pauses
to change the music.
-Manchuria rivals Oregon in fertility.
timber and climate and has abundance of
gold, silver, iron and coal. 1t has the
area of Texas and three times the popu-
iatiOn of the state of New York.
Russia has invested in Manchuia
millions for railways, millions for a
standing army to protect them and TWEEN
ty millions in building the city of Dalney.
The total is hundreds of millions.
There are not more than 1000 gem
eral advertisers III the whole country-an
astonishingly small proportion of the to-
tai number of firms and corporal ions en-
gagged in advertisable lines of business.
Before recruit can be said to have
joined the British army his name must
be entered siXty-two times and that of
his superior officer twenty-nine times in
the documents required by the war office
The Italian popula ton of New York.
which must now be toward 250,000. is
increasing by immigration at so rapid a
rate that it is likely to he somewhere
about half million in 1910, for its nat
ural increase is also large.
There is only one statue in Great
Britain with an umbrella. This is to be
seen at Reading and represents G.
Palmer of biscuit fame standing bare
headed with silk hat and umbrella i'll
hand.
-Radium rays may prove of inestim-
able value in the control of the various
germ diseases, for Danjsz, in Paris, re-
ports that they check the development of
the ANTHRAX bacillus.
A small quantity of borax will act as
n preseryative just as well as a large
quantity of salt. If preservativeS are
really injurious the injury is a necessary
evil, unless the meats are preserved sole
ly by the canning process.
In Ireland great efforts are being
made by the department of agriculture to
improve the methods of farming. In
County Donegal poultry, flax show, live
stock and cottage, garden and farm prize
schemes have been introduced
Should present indications hold good
it is said that the wheat crop Of 1903
in this country may break all records.
II is estimated that Kansas alone viii
harvest 100000.000 bushels, Oklahoma
40,0G0.000 and Nebraska 60.000.000
The Italian government has lust
erected a fortress on the great Chaherton
summit opposite Brincan, for the defense
of the Simplon tunnel This fort is 10
eco feet high and is believed to be the
most elevated fortified point in the world
A German photographer named Kun
wal, when taking a picture OF lady of
doubtful age, places sheets of celuloid
behind the negative and the printing pa
per, thus producing very softening eff
feet, which hides the discrepancies of
age.
Few people know that Baron Mum
nary adventures, was a real person. a
member of AN ancient Hanoyerian fami-
ly. He served in the RuSso-Turkish wars
of the latter half of the Eighteenth CEN
fury
The Russian minister of war has just
discovered that only one man in a thou
sand in the Russian army possesses a
pocket handkerchief. He has invited
tenders for 100000 haudkerchiefs. which
will be decorated with Russian flags and
other patriotic devices.
Almost every adult Manchu carries
Connecticut dollar watch. The United
States had no trade worth mentioning
with Manchuria until We began to fur
nish Russia ties. rails and engines for
her railways. Now the trade in flour
and cottons is important.
Recently issued instructions prescribe
that in the garrison kitchens and can
teens of the German army, home prod
uce only shall be, so far as possible.
used. American lard and fat are not to