Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-31
Il Curious CONVERSATIONS. X

No circle can be squared, because
31416, which is the ratio of the circum-
ference to the diameter, is not square
Over 100000 pieces of mail mat
ter, covering $4S.643 in money and ST.
4J3, 900 checks and drafts, reached the
dead-letter office during the year.
The number of insane in California
in 1860 was ! to 1000, and in 1870 ! 10
800. At present the registered insane
number / to 2G9 of the general popula-
ton.
The Atlantic Transport line recently
had four similar ships bHilt-twO in Bel
fast and two in Philadelphia. The Amer
lean built ships cost $1.S75,00O, while the
Belfast ones cost 81 100000
The third of the manufacturing estab-
ishments in Indiana which are incorpor-
ated pay az average wage OF SZ.40 10
skilled labor S1.33 TO unskilled. Il cents
10 boys and So cents 10 women and girls.
With 1856 pounds of smokeless pow
der the new 40-caliber. 12-inch gun will
send an S50-pound armor-piercing shell
through 10 $40 inches of Haryeyized
nickel steel armor at a distance of
mile and a half.
In the opinion of the editor of The
Mirror, a paper printed in English in
British India, american womanhoOd is
admirably the finest, the very best, phy-
sically and intellectually, Of all the wom-
anhood OF the world"
-Indisputable evidence that the Eng
lish race has deterioTated seriously in
physique is found in comparison of the
measurements of the men selected for the
army in ten years, as shown by the re-
port of the director general.
The Canadian Pacific railway sold
ast year from its subsidy land nearly
than 81 an acre In the previous ya1F il
sold less than 100000 acres a. price
averaging a little over So an acre.
The coal-handling machinery ut
Boston wharf recently lowered the
worlds record by raising coal from
steamer 30 feet to storage pockets mt
the rate of 800 tons an hour. The ca
pacity of the shovel was two tons.
In sixty years the annual per capita
consumption of whisky has gradually de-
creased from two and a half to one and
Il fourth gallons. In forty years the CON
sumption of beer has increased from less
than two 10 more than seventeen gal
Ions per capita.
The authorized capitalization Of
street car lines III the United States in
1902 amounted to $3.50. G29.316, while
the gross earnings from operations were
S24I BOB ,99o. and the net income, after
deducting all expenses, both operating
and fixed charges, was $30,695,977.
-Grapts by the British and Foreign
Bible society to DIR. Morrison and his
assistants for producing the first Chinese
Bible totaled $4,000. while to DIR. VIII
liam carey and his associates in the
various Serampore versions the grants
Of money end material exceeded $4,000.
In four lines--cotton goods, Kerosene,
lumber and -four American goods will
be met in Manchuria. Russia has every
advantage in flour and lumber aud will
soon be our most active rival in these
lines in the general trade of China.
Kerosene Russia can produce cheaper
and sell cheaper. although the product is
inferior in quality, but this is not SO
serious a drawback for, the Chinese
trade. In cotton goods, while her trade
is growing, il is handicapped by inabiii-
~ TO meet American prices.