Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-12
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To-day the empire cf Japan has a
population of 43,000.000. In other words.
She contains 100 people within square
mile.
The income of the British postofIice
from money in envelopes having no 81
insufficient address is 10000 or $4,000
a day.
There is 4 point near the famous
Stony Cave. i'm the Catskill mountains.
where ice may be found on any day OF
the year.
There has died in the Kentish village
of Rolyenden an old lady, 90 years of
age, who was present at the battle "
Waterloo.
AT Yakutsk. in eastern Siberia, the
record annual range of temperature Is
/ reached 1t varies from 30 above to %
below zero.
The value of the X-ray in the treat
ment of cancer depends upon the fact
that the rays induce fatty degeneration
of the cancer cells
Mrs Elizabeth Caplinger died ii
West Virginia. leaving sixteen children.
siXty-two grandchildren and ninety-threg
at-graHdchildren.
BY the flash of an electric spark one
hundred and twenty-five millionths of a
second in duration n rife bullet can be
photographed in its flight.
I'm the opinion of the health DEPART
ment of Chicago every school in thar
city should be provided with apparatus
to steriize drinking water.
The 81, 142.207 worth of platinum ex-
tracted i'll the Gorotiagodatski district of
Russia last year is practically the world
supply of that metal.
The average Australian eats twice
rs much meat as an Englishman. three
lines as much as a Frenchman and four
and a half times as much as a German
The average age of death of work
.ngmen i'll East London is about %
whereas in the well-to-do districts of
West London the average age is about
81.
Several local councils in Russia have
passed resolutions declaring that reduc-
ton Of the acreage which gives a vote is
desirable, and that women should re-
ceivc the franchise.
Henry c. Caldwell, the federal Judge
Of the Eighth circuit court. who will re-
tire from the bench on June 80. is tnt
only surviving appointce on the bench
OF President Lincoln.
Egyptian fishermen receive $40 pei
thousand for cells caught in Lake Men
saleh. These arc sailed and packed in
ice and sent to Hamburg, via Trieste,
where the ice supply is renewed.
Official experiments in feeding hogs
with corn in Alabama showed that the
cost of the grain in weight was 3Ib cents
a pound, in Massachusetts , Is cents
and in Vermont 40 cents a pound.
The Americans and English, al
though they consume twice as much
| sugar as the French and Germans, have
much better teeth. The American den
list, however, ranks first in all countries.
The connecting of France and Eng
land by wireless teIegraphy is due, writes
| H. Moves Lewis in letter to the London
Mail to the earnest efforts of H. Nj.
Lambert. the late marine superintendent
of the Newhaven-Dieppe service.
The diversity of tongues to be found
in one country is often a matter Of sur
prise. Last year the Bible societys
| agents sold the Scriptures in iifty-three
languages in the Russian empire, in
twertyeight languages in Burmah. in
thirty in South Malaysia and fifty-three
in the Egyptian agency.
Many English doctors are now con.
vinced that the eating of pigs flesh in
different forms is greatly responsible for
the increase of cancer. They point ont
that it is most common among the poor,
whose chief meat is that of pigs, while
the disease is extremely rare among the
Jews.