Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-02
! NOTES OF INTEREST.


The German government operates
152u0 telephone central stations
The German government operates
l1,2Oo central telephone exchanges.
The growth of vegetarinnism in the
nted States is gradual but persistent.
Peat has about half of the heating
power of coal and double that of wood
More than half the external business
of Costa Rica is with the United States,
Anthracite coal underlying 1000 acres
has been discovered in Vancouver island,
+. G.
Timber is now vulcanized in England
10y forcing n boiling solution of sugar into
its pores,
A number OF South African Beers arc
to leave that country and settle in Tex
as.
The Corean government is consider
ing the advisahility of introducing uni
yerSal CONSUMPTION.
Mining enterprises and limited com
panieS are now taxed > per cent. of their
net profits i'll Bolivia.
Very stringent laws have been enact
ed in Japan in regard to secret proprie-
tary medicines.
Il Bangor (NIel man, who is said TO
he otherwise sane. has an American flag
tattoOeu on ms cheek.
To he able to pronounce "hereditabil-
ity' is Il sure sign of soberness, says a
Cardiff (Walcs) doctor
Austro-Hungary bought abroad S3t4,-
10000 worth and sold abroad S}S2, 800
600 last year.
The highest mountain in the moon is
at least $4,000 feet, this is, 5000 feet
higher than Mt. Everest.
AT the state fair in Syracuse there
was n race between two tiocks of geese,
driven by women.
The origin of natural gas is the ac-
ton of water upon. aluminium carbid, by
which methane is evolved.
The saloon is now prohibited in but
four states-M Maine, New Hampshire,
Kansas and North Dakota.
1t is found that silk cocoons can be
given any color by coloring the leaves
upon which the sikw0rm feeds.
Texas now produces more cotton than
largest cotton states, combined.
Within twenty years the South has
increased its railway mileage 1872 per
cent. and its exports % per cent,
In Gnrsen. Poland. the daughter Of
land owner is said 10 awakened from a
trance on the day of her funeral
The Russian navy has been u.ing
alcohol boat motors mp to 300 horse power
with highly satisfactory results.
sln 1880 there was one criminal 10
every }Il2 Of tn" population; the proper
ton is now greater than one 10 700.
But half the girls who graduate from
college marry, and those that do produce
only one and a half children apiece.
The Bible Society has entered on ts
year of existence. having been
founded in London on March {. 1901.
A Pennsylvania hotcikecpcr was
fined "a cents for swearing al Ills sery-
ant who would not get up when called. /
During 1902 the lifcb0nts Of the
Royal National l.ifcboat Institution were
'2SJ times and saved 1876 lives. /
The Grand Rapids * Indiana rail
way recently sent vaccination train
alou- its lines and $50 enployc escaped it. /
Tile banks advantage at Monte Car !
10 over the play is less than per cent, I
and IT wins about 1920, 900 per auIum
Prof. Maunier OF the French Acad- /
envy of Science announces that volcano
is forming under the Palace Republic
ia Paris.
Ten British towns besides London
sire larger than Dublin which now has
$4,000 people. Edinburgh beats Dublin
by 5000.
During tho last year California pro- /
luced twice as much gold as Alaska and /
olarado produced more than three times
rs much.
The population or New NcAico eN
ecrd- that Of Arizona by about 13.Uno /
being l95,31D. OF that number l96olb /
7Fc whites
one hundred pressed steel ears are
% be delivered 10 the Penu~y lyania Rail 4.
HBy Company every day during inc cur
ems half year.
Il. IS proposed to distribute Greenwich
inc 90 vessels on the Atlantic and Aledi- {
rIrancau and to European cities by wire
less tcieEraphy.
A company has been formed ut Seat
tie with a capital of $4,000, 600 to build
nm iron furnace and steel plant in thar
ITS.
Representative Littlcfeld has had
list Of 800 trusts Of the Unit
ad States, with an aggregate capital IF
S14 10000, 900.
The damage to the cotton crop from
the leaf worm, which in some seasons
exceeded $20.000,O00, is now prevented
by insecticides.
A son was born a few days ago to