Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-27
- Miscellaneous Items. -

| Nearly all the teachers in tLo School
Of Agriculture at Lima, Peru, are Bel
gians.
In their annual report the Irish An
| tlguares denounce the injury 10 the Hill
| If Tara.
1t is expected that telegraphic com
mnmeatlon with Fash0da will be estab-
/ llshed very shortly
Pullman ears passing through Ken
state board Of health
4 Philadelphia girl gives her sweet
heart the parings Of her finger nails as
| souvenirs.
In Scotland in 1893 there We're 204
insane. persons in each 100000 p0pula-
ton; there are now 250
The bodies of 500 American soldiers
who died in the Philippines are being
| sent home to the States for interment.
-Abraham Lincoln, the oldest male
survivor of the Lincons from which de-
seconded the President, is living at Lacy
| Springs. Va.
Three million and quarter tons of
coal, OF the value of $50 per ton and
under. were shipped from the United
Kingdom in 1902.
The inspector general shows that in
| London the losses from unsuccessful
| companies during the last ten years have
| exceeded $2,C90,0 100000.
The largest and best stocked marine
| aquarium in the world is in the old moat
OF the abandoned Fort Jefferson on Gro
den Key, Dry Tortugas.
In case of fire send in the alarm,
| close all doors and windows and then go
ont and wait for the fire department,
says Insurance Engineering.
The New York Central and Pennsyl-
| wanna RAILWAYS each estimate thair
copts from summer vacation travel at
more than Sl,O00,000 a season.
| The rate Of suicides per million in
! London is 30; in Brussels. Berlin, Stock
| holm and St Petersburg 300, and in
Ians and Vienna 400 per million.
The "Reminiscences system OF wire
less teiegraphy has been tested on NOV
lnS railway trains in Germany. The
messages proved absolutely reliable.
| Machinery has been ordered for the
| Argentine Republic to turn out $50 tons
a week of 'Molascuit,' the new cattle
food made from molasses and sugar cane
| fiber.
Medicine as Il profession for women
IS constantly growing i'll popularity in
| London. Women now holding medical
degrees i'll Great Britain number more
| than 300
The internal commerce of the United
| States last year has been estimated by
| the government statistician at $50. 000,-
| 100000. Fifty years ago it was only ST.
| 100000, 900.
One consequence of the Belgium anti
| gambling law is that even the game of
| lotto has been prohibited in the fisher
mems public house at Blankenberghe.
near Ostend.
1t is suggested that the wreck recent
ly discovered in Dublin bay may be that
| Of a troopShip which went down in the
hay in 1915 with troops returning from
| Waterloo.
Illinois ranks first among the states
in the manufacture of agricultural inn
| PIGMENTS, bicycles, cars, glucose and dis
| titled liquors, and in Strengthening and
meat packing.
"A japanese inventor has discovered
a compound which will remove natural
and artificial blemishes in the skin.
Birthmarks and tattooing disappear aft
er one application.
Nries, the great Dutch experimental
evolutionist, has by long-continued selec-
ton produced variety of clover which
has normally four leaves.
A great ships boiler furnace from
Swansea was recently on view in the pri-
vate roadway by the law courts in Lon
don, England, as evidence" in a case
| nearu before justice w alton.
Faith in the new steam turbine en-
gines is shown in the fact that two man
| nfacturers have contracts to furnish i'll
the aggregate approximately $4,000
horse power capacity of them.
In many respects, and especially be-
| cause of the peoples palaces in which
they carry on all kinds of cooperative
| industry, the Belgian Socialist party is
| the most interesting N Europe.
| Mr.. Schalters of the United States
| immigration bureau has said: One
| third Of the Jews of Russia already own
| one-half of the property, although the
| ratio of Jews to christians is only one TO
| twenty"
| Japan is getting the bicycle craze !;
it imported $2,100,0O0 worth of wheels
| last year, mostly of the cheaper grades,
| costing from So to $50. They are chief
| " used for business purposes; also in
| The army.
j. X. Starley, the inventor of the
| safety bicycle, is 10 be immorta|ized by
a memorial in England, for which $500
| has already been subscribed. The sub
scriptiors are coming in very literally
at present
In a recent comparative test between
| Scotch and American AryShires, the
| Scotch averaged one pound more of milk
per day, but the Americans exceed in
butter yield. the average being 2.16
| pounds per day.
| Electric street cars have killed 1916
! persons and injured 4742S in the last
twelve years since they came into use.
In that time the number of passengers
carried in year has increased from .
000,000,000 tc 5.000.000000
The lock to be placed in the Danube
Oder canal will he 13l feet high, and
| rho HIGHEST in tho world Tho 7,
minister of commerce has offered prizes
e 100000. $4,000 and 10000 crowns for
the best plans for it.
/ During the past five years the aver
age consumption of alcoholic beverages in
the United Kingdom was 33 gallons per
head OF the population. in France 81. in
Germany 80. in America II and in Can
| ada =. The consumption in the United