Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-17
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the house of Antony.
The cost of producing sugar III Cuba
averages ia cents pound
The worlds population is increasing
about 50O.000.000 IA century.
Twelve Chippendale chairs have been
sold by auction for 500 at Alton Hants.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
has started to build a road to the Pacific
In San Francisco the per capita yearly
receipts of street railway companies IS
S13S3
Puerto Cabello has a fine harbor and
La Guaira an open roadstead with a
COS ly breakwater.
A liquid glue may be made by put
ting naphtha in wide-necked bottle and
dissolving shellac in it.
The number of leaves on a large 60
foot-high oak tree has been counted and
found to exceed 6,000,0OO.
Bicycles are taxed in Vancouver, Il.
c., the municipal revenue from that
source last year being S21S0.
Very few peoples noses are set prop
erly on their faces. Ninety-nlne out OF
every hundred turn to the right.
-Somali husbands always carry n whip
during the first fortnight of their honey
moon TO keep their wives in order.
Except school taxes, there is no
state tax levied in New Jersey other
than that derived from corporations.
The bulk of the cranberries of this
country come from the part Of Eastern
Massachusetts which lies near Cape Cod.
The new railroad through Canada
TO the Pacific coast will pass through
vast regions never heretofore explored.
Although the Suez canal is only %
miles long it reduces the distance from
England to India by sea nearly 1000
miles.
Eighteen miles is the distance at
which the new $4,000 candle power light
IN the Bass rock, in the Firth of Forth,
will he visible.
or the engines running on Russian
railways 47G6. or 30 per cent, were built
abroad and 1927 are the product of Rus
sian engine yards.
Great Britain buys over 1000 tons
of German toys annually, while the Unit
ed States ranks next with an importation
of about G0O0 tons.
Big prices were obtained for Chodo-
Weeks tiny engravings in Leipsic recent
ly, 300, 400 and 500 marks being paid
for single pictures.
The managers Of the Swedish State
railway have ordered a locomotive built
especially for burning peat in the gen
Grafton of steam.
The Manitoba potato crop amounted
10 3,459,323 bushels, and the root crop
to 3,230,995 bushels. There are 1871
threshing outfits in the province.
British county court judges have re-
ceiyed circular from the Incorporated
Law Society approving of solicitors be-
ing desired TO wear gowns in court.
"A century ago only 300 species of or
chldS We're known, and those very inn
perfectly. Now the latest authority gives
the number of known species ut 10000.
mo
taken from the title page of the Gentle
mans Magazine, NJ the time of the Revo-
luton having a large circulation in the
colonies.
The only considerable fields of an
thraclte coal aside from that of Penns =, !
vania are those of China, which, how
ever. are vast in comparison with Penn
Sylvania's.
The government Of South Africa has
n great scheme on hand, namely. the CON
structiou of a railway across the Austria
liam continent from Adelaide To Port Oar
win. distance of 100 or 1900 miles.
The disastrous effects of the drought
in New South Wales may he judged from
the fact that a meat preserving company
mt Albury has purchased 100000 sheep
at from pence to l shilling per head.
A murderer in Canada waiting exc
cution insisted on n game Of ping-pOng
just preceding death, and also for Il view
of the scafiold, both OF which wishes
were gratiiied.
Emperor William is ambitious to ere
ate monumental structure in his capital
city which shall match Westminster Al.
hey, IN London, At present the remains
of the former leaders Of the Hohenzol-
lerns are scattered.
The sum of $4,000 was collected by
the Hanover student societies for the
erection of statue of bismarck The
project has had to be abandoned for the
present, however. owing i" the failure Of
the bauk in which the money was de-
posted.
To lessen the risk OF disease orders
have been given that all Egyptian pill
grims going To Mecca next year must ac-
company the holy carpet. which is sent
from Cairo to Mecca annually with a
military escort. Doctors will travel with
the pilgrims.
William $. Hubbard Of Indianapolis
has promised TO give the last $1,000
needed TO purchase the United States ar
Senal grounds in that city rs Il site for
the National Technical Institute With
this pledge $4,000 of the necessary fund
remains to be raised.
Tell-tale tattoo marks recording
their coustanCy In love Identified two
prisoners in NORTH London recently rs ate.
serterS II love l.oUie Bartiu." con.
fesscd the left arm of one, while The 9TH
er man bore the initial letters OF the
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