Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-31

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Marconi's wireless telegraph is wonder
full, but Chicagoans are to have hello
girlless telephone.
Strawberries at so cents boz
wouldn't look quite so high if the empty
package had any value as fuel.
A Texas oil company has done some
thing that is never promised in the pros
pectuses of promoters; it has failed.
Judging from the multiplication of love
tragedies, Cupid's equipment will have tt
be increased by the addition of the reyol
yer, bowie knife and poison package.
Finland's deplorable condition should
awaken practical sympathy in America,
among those who are profting largely
from the existing prosperity. There are
large margins for giving in many indus
tries,
If Uncle Sam takes the Nicaragua
route because Colombia holds out against
the terms upon which he is willing to
take the Panama route, his case will be
like that of the man who was kicked up
stairs.
A Massachusetts man claims to have
invented cheap process for converting
seaweed into briquettes which make a
fuel equal to coal Now let some Iowa
or Missouri man see what he can do with
cornstalks.
The sixty st. Louis factory girls who
have struck against an order which for
bids them from using chewing gum dur
ing working hours, will probably stick
to their guns if they have to utilize the
gum for the purpose.
The judicial recognition of kerosene as
kindling, at st. Paul. is based upon an
abundance of evidence that it nevec
fails if the match touches the right spot.
But no court decision will ever make it
other than blank blank foolishness to in
dulge in the starting of kitchen fires with
kerosene.
The exports from the United States in
1902 were $3S,600,000 less than they
would have been but for the short corn
crop of 1901. Last weeks corn ship
ments were 2,S56,9S6 bushels, compared
with 1867 bushels in the corresponding
week of last year. Corn is resuming it's
old rank of king.
A German doctor claims to have dis
covered a rabbit serum that will cure
sufferers from hay fever if they will re-
main indoors from six to eight weeks,
while they are being rabbitized. Perhaps
IL hay fever subjects We're to remain in
doors that long every year they might
need no long-eared treatment.
The human fly" who didn't climb the
sides of Milwaukee's City Hall tower
'as advertised" during Carnival days,
has been discovered ut Washington, en-
gagged in the steeple buzzy-ness. But he
isn't climbing tower walls any more now
than formerly, probably because the walls
are not made of sticky fly paper.
A few weeks ago it was stated that
farmers in Indiana were burning beans,
finding them cheaper rs fuel than coal
and now il is reported that the prospect
of bean famine confronts the people
of Boston. The Western literary center
used beans to do its baking, and the East
ern literary center is without beans to
bake. It's very trying winter.
The reported find of gold on the Lana
ma river, in Alaska. is another timely
jog for the business interests of the terri
tory, which from the time of the first
rush into the klondike have been ia
vored by periodical revivals of gold ex-
citement incidentally, the port of
Seattle, Washington, has been growing
Fat on rush" orders in the Alaska min
ing business.
Passengers of the Philadelphia and the
Lucania played chess by the use of wire
less telegraphy while the ships were many
miles apart at sea. This bit of sport re-
calls the complaint of the passengers of
the disabled st. Louis, who had no wire
less instruments to flash out messages
of more serious import. Soon no first.
class ship will be without it's telegraph
instruments
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