Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-09
NOTES OF INTEREST.

The constitution Of Mexico forbids
monopolies.
cotton last year.
The electric motor is fast displacing
the leather belt in factories.
--Cireece has as many people as Michi
gan ard as Macy acres rs West Virginia.
-DogfiSh are doing great damage 10 the
fisheries on the eastern shores of Canada.
Throughout the world about 3 per
cent Of people gain their living directly
from the sea-
Twelve thousand people were arrest
ed in Glasgow last year for using Oh
scene language.
More than a million dollars worth is
taken out of the copper miles at Butte,
Mont, every week.
y storage elevator just completed in
Montreal is the largest and best-equlpped
enc in the world.
Floors of rubber, claimed to be as
durable as asphalt and cheaper, are be-
Ing tried in Germany.
The Coast Yukon is the name of n
proposed railway from kitamaat inlet,
H. G.. to the Yukon and Dawson.
Prof Watson Of Columbia will CON
tinue work in empryology at Naples,
aided by the Carnegie institution.
The mechanical force of the sound
emitted from 100000 TO 100000 cor
nets would equal but one horse power,
My putting aside their weekly pence
the school children Of Atlanta, Ca, have
saved enough to purchase an elephant
for the local zoo.
Liverpool has decided to try the sug-
gestion Of it's city engineer 10 build work
mems dwellings with concrete slabs made
from GCst Instructor clinkers.
A speed Of 50 miles an hour for IL
miles has been attained on the Midland
railway of England with their now com
pound locomotives, with n 350-ton Dad.
In trial at Atlanta the fact was
elected that at one drug store in that city
more than 1000 prescriptions for cocaine
had been filed within two months.
The number of deaths each year in
London was. 100 years ago, ~ per thou
sand. In 1920 it was % per thousand
and it now is about Is per thousand.
The average railroad rate across the
American continent in carload lots is SD
a ton: the rate on similar goods from
London around the world to Seattle is
$40 ton.
The fxing Of the distance Of the new
star in PerseuS at 100000. 600 100000
miles gives the first approximation of our
distance from the Milky Way, III which
it is situated.
1t is estimated that the recent in
crease in the pay of railroad employees
throughout the United States affects GGO.-
600 men, involving a cash outlay for 1908
Of $3S,350, 900
The persistent increase in the produc-
ton of petroleum at Baku, which has
doubled in eight years. is now checked,
rs shown by the Russian governmental
report for 1902.
Some enthusiastic Dundee anglers
are about to convert "A morass near the
town into an artificial loch. thirty five
acres in extent, so as to have Loeb l.eycn
trout near at home.
formed by light waves around bright
points. such as particles of gold a micro
scope has been given a magnifyiug power
OF $4,000 diameterS.
or the 100000 people in England
more than half OF them live Oh an in
come of less thnn Sl2 Il week, and the
earnings Of 100000 of this number do
not exceed So week for the family.
The Natal government is issuing an
advertisement inviting applications from
farm lahorcrs in Northern Italy who are
prepared to emigrate to the vine and
fruit districts Of the Western provinces.
The possession Of an automobile
multtpheS the contents and sphere of n
mans life by more than six, if he pre-
NlouSiN Kept HORSE and ny much more
If he did not This IS the estimate of the
English editor of Worlds Work
The steamship Sierra, which has ar
rived at san Francisco from Australia.
reports that while steaming ut "a rate of
Ii knots she struck huge whale. break
ing its back aud cutting into il SO deeply
that the monsters carcass stuck fast to
the stem.
The education side of rural free de.
livery comes ont clearly in the statistics
of one Western route, ON which there arr
100 mail boxes. When the route WINS
established the number of daily papers
taken in the district was :. Now IN.
number is 90, and most of the paper,
come from one or the other of two large
cities. What an enlarged outlook. what
a widencd horizon that means,
In view of the establishment of the
department OF commerce and labor il
may lac interesting to note that the, in
ternal commerce of the United States
last year has been estimated Inv the COY.
ernment statistics at S20.OOO. 900 .OOO
FIFTY years ago il was only So 900 0Ou
utN, The manufacturers of the United
states are nearly double those OF Grrot
Rritin aud Ireland. and about euunl to
those of France Germany and Russia
combined