Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-02
- Miscellaneous Items. -

half that of The United States.
There are 10000 persons in the mu-
nicipal service in New York city.
The London Times pays it's Berlin
correspondents 5000 to $4,000 a year.
in the United States one death in
every sixty-fve is either murder or sui
eide.
If men were relatively as strong as
BEETLES they could juggle with weights OF
several tons
More poisonous snakes are found in
Arizona than in any other part of the
United States.
Nearly 800 missionaries of the British
and Foreign Bible Society are at work in
Australia and New Zealand
The Church of the Latter Day Saints
CMormon), now in the SEVENTEEN year,
has some 100000 adhcrents.
In New Zealand government sub
sidy is given the Salvation Army to pre-
vent suffering among the needy.
Near Tiverton Devonshire, England,
there is TO be seen Il black bird with a
white head and "A speckled back.
A full-sized quartz mining claim is
GOO feet wide and 1900 feet long thus be-
ing approximately 20 acres in area.
The special franchises for transpoi-
tation and lighting in New York city are
-
Examination has disproved the fears
that the waters of Carlsbad had been af-
fected by the recent earthquake shocks.
Several agents have been sent TO
South America by the Hungarian govern
mcnt to study the commercial situation.
or 1858 unemployed men at Leeds.
England, 1921 are outdoor and o53 in
door laborers, while GAG are iron workers.
Jtba tro1Io,, l;,oe t,we ,rc.a.a.l
duction of 10000 annually in the num-
Der Of passengers carried by steam rail
roads.
Prof Calmette Of Lille, France, pays
snake catchers 10 cents each for the
vipers for the production of his anti
venom serum.
An electrical railway is projected be-
tween Paris and Brussels upon which \
in two hours
The four greatest needs Of e @ece-
grain. coal. iron and lumber arssfhe ones
wGieI, the United States wodd best he
able to supply.
Following the example of America
Cambridge University has decided 10 in
stitute now tripos for economics and
political science.
The copper belt in Cochise county,
'zoda, is three or four miles wide and
traced for sixteen miles across the
ito Mexico.
Pawlow finds that among the
hemical excitants of gastric Seere-
the extractions of meat such as
basis of bouilon.
The cotton exported from the Unit
ates last season England got l,529.-
,aes, France AZ, 052 bales aud other
.ntries 1,524.107 bales.
The New York Rapid Transit Com
pany anticipates putting Il second tunnel
under the East river from Maiden lane
to Nassau street Brooklyn.
The most valuable medal in exist.
ence is the Blake victory medal. struck
in 1853. It is of gold, oval in shape and
its original cost was $500.
horticulture is being taught to girls
Prof. lfnard is giving Il course of lee
lures on the care of babies before
young ladies' seminary at Paris.
"A cotton mill to be built at Quito, the
capital of Ecuador, must be carried on
the backs of mules through the Andes,
passing a point 10000 feet in altitude.
There is no bridge between the
spiritual and material world" says Sir
William Cr0okes president OF the British
Association, "aud l don't see how there
can be"
While an Edinburgh woman was
chopping wood nail flew out and com
pletely buried itself in her throat. It
was located by the aid of N-rays and
removed.
The 1,000.000.O00 pounds of cotton
imported, which gives each adult person
in the United States two pounds month,
is 50 per cent, Brazilian and but > ID per
cent. Java.
To help the starving hsherfolk OF
Brittany the Car has spent $4,000 las a
testimony of my sentiments of lively and
unchanging sympathy for France, my
friend and ally.
The new theory of matter taught by
Lodge is that all matter is made up OF
tue CorpuscleS of electricity. The the
org of Thomson is that negative eleC-
triCity is matter.
The postotIice of New York city has
80 stations and l59 SubstatiouS. In il is
handled daily 400 tons OF mail matter.
Fourteen stamp cancelng machines each
handle $4,000 letters an hour
The 921 New Jersey corporations.
n.ving $2$S 600, 00O capitnl. recently dis
solved for non-payment of taxes repre-
sent bat one in tweuty-four Of the eom-
panies Incorporated in that state.
--GermanS have long been in the fore
most rank rs potato eaters. Among n
very large proportion of the labornS
classes potatoes and dark bread are the
principal staples of daily subsistence
1t has often been stated that sixty
miles an hour was the utmost rate which /
swallow could fly Recent experiments
upon Compeigne and Antwerp proved
that swallow in n hurry can cover
l2Sia miles in an hour
"A notable parrot, the property OF
resident of Baskerville, Mass. died the
other day at the age of - years This |
birds claim to distinction hay in the fact
that, though educated ON shiphoard. il |
was never known to utter Il vulgar or
profane word.
Sho Masuda. female servant of
Niwagori. Japan. has had a green rihapd
conferred upon her by the Japanese Ru-
reau of Decoration for remarkable fdeU-
" TO the family that employed her. She
is said to he the first domestic servant
who has ever been decorated 10y a gov
eminent.
The Pope recently granted an order
10 NJ. Bettini, who showed his holiness
q phonograph made by now system.
The Pope rectcd into the phonugraph
the Ava Maria and the Bencdicite. which
the machine repeated with marvellous nc.
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