Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11
y Curious Condensations. y
Suicide is rare among The aged

The investment IN the government
priuting office is 81, $4,000.
-Bostons oldest resident, Mrs. Han,
nah Newell Barrett, recently celebrated
her 10Gth birthday.
Great Britain spends S112,jG0,W1 a
wear on the support of the poor. ms
does not include private charities.
Tie Italian Parliament is considering
proposal to grant a pension OF SJVV
year to the four granddauGhters OF ten.
Garihaldi.
An English miller has successfully
tested the vitality OF some wheat Whlch
was grown IN 1899 and carefully pre-
served since
-Ethnologists are of opinion thai when
America was discovered there were not
on the continent of North America any
more Indians than exist now.
The French. as well as the English
aud Germans. are awakening 10 sense
Of the vast future possibilities of the cot
ton growing industry in Africa.
At Merriott, near Crewkerne. Were
there are several inhabitants over 90
years old woman named Austrcc Knott
las just died in her i0Sth year.
Education Is so general in Denmark
and Sweden that they are the only Eu-
ropean countries ia which all the mill
tary conscripts cam read and write.
When the white man first reached the
City of Mexico it had 3O0,WD inhabi-
tants probably more than the entire pop
ulation of the North American continent.
in New York, at the lowest possible
average 100000 people live in rooms
which ought to bc considered absolutely
uninhabitablc. dark and without any Win
dow or ventilation.
Census returns just issued show a
singular record for BuckmghamShire.
England. The number Of unmarried Wom-
en-, 1I.92S, is precisely the same as the
number Of bachelors.
1t is expected that the immigration
into the United States for the year ending
this month will total 100000. Two
thirds of the immigrants are from Rus
sia, Italy and AuStriaHungary.
In the principal public squares of
Stockholm. Sweden, are automatic tele-
phone kiosks. Anyone may use the tele-
phones by dropping into the slot cop
per worth > or ) Of our cents.
Suffering children are numerous in
the schools Of Germany, and it is thought
the ailment is contagious. Al present
there are 10000 school children in that
country whose speech is thus affected.
The monks of the Charreuse, who
have been expelled from France under
the enforcement of the associations law.
nave been offered large sums for the So
liquor.
The visitor who has been charmed
with the glamour of Warwick castle will
bc glad to know that the beautiful aud
brilliant countess owner is soon 10 fur
niSh history of that picturesque and
venerable pile.
While cleaning goose for a customer
IN New Aork poultry shop George Ken
hedy discovered Il diamond ring in its
gizzard. The bird came from Baltimore,
aud the ring was estimated by a jcweer
10 be worth $3.50.
st Andrews is the oldest Presbyte-
fi&a church in South Africa, aud il has
for nearly - years been the garrison
church for Presbyterian soldiers in Cape
Town. Ii is proposed To erect building
TO seat about 1900 people.
The new Belgian military system, es-
tahlished on the basis of voluntary con
Scription, has already proved "A failure.
Notwithstanding the active efforts of the
enlistment committees but few vOlun-
tccrs have come forward during the last
year.
Prime Minister seldom Of New Zca-
land announces that the government pro-
poses to buy meat in the colony ANA Ship
II direct TO the United Kingdom. where
d'pots for its sale nj cost will be eStab-
llShed IN the big manufacturing CeutcrS
he purpose is TO drive out competitors
A German service review recently
took sort of postcard census Of the ad-
ihlralS ana leading engineers of every ma
val power in the world, including Japan.
hy largely preponderant vote il was
agreed that for general ail-round excel
!cuce the Italian hattleship Nittoyio
ismanuce is the finest in the world.
-tor year the use Of phosphorus
matches has been prohibited in Sweden.
The new law has resulted in the inyen-
ton OF match 10y the engineers Landin
and hernandez which has been named the
'repStlckcD, or scratch match Ii will
light against wei surface. Ii is said to
he less poisonous than safety match.
One of the most remarkable cities in
The world is kclburg, near Cracow. Po-
land. for, besides being situated under.
ground, II is eNcayated entirely in rock
salt. The inhabitants, to the number OF
over 3Fh are, of course, workers in the
famous salt mines, and all the streets and
AeuSeS are of the purest white imagiu-
able,
1t is reported that the Consolidated
Tobacco company has secured A contract
with the French government for the Ha-
N0na Tobacco company under which the
latter is 10 supply the French govern
meut, which has monopoly Of The to-
hacco business in Frauct. with AN tho
Havana cigars. cigarettes and tuhayco
which it will need.
There are twelve Yale students who
because they are more than Il feet inch
tall. are eligible 10 membership In Tho
new club of Brohdiugnags of the uuiy,r-
shy. The president is Frederick w
Wilhem of New York: the secretary
George A. Gross OF Waterbury. Conn
and the vice president and treasurer
Stuart Il. Sutphjn of Cincinnati. The
talleSt man uf the club is Thorn Baker
Of Cincinnati, Who stands feet ! inches
in his stockings.
In order 10 supply the Coolcar3ir and
Nalgoorhe gold fields in Western Au>tra-
l'a with water an aQueduci is under ,on.
StFuvuon, leading from a reservoir un ria
Helena river, BPS miles distant. ana o-,n
feet below the level of the district ~ be
supplied. The water is to be carried i,
a 3O-inch pipe ana elevated from tobl,.
land 20 tabeand by means uf rirE,
pumping stations. The cost az The .yyo~;
Is estimated at S15,WU,0pN. ana the nm.
iual expense for operating and Interest
al %,I50.oD0; but those who hav, nuder.
taken 1t believe that the gold fields Tor
The benefit of which they are working ~,
the richest in the world.
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