Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-03-28
NOTES OF INTEREST.

In the eleven states interested in the
industry 100000 acres are sown in sugar
beets.
Last wear is claimed to have been
the mos prosperous ever enjoyed by
Canada.
The Roman Catholic nuns in the
world are alleged 10y statisiician to
number 45S,000.
The lowest priced vehicle at the
New York automobile show was 5000;
the highest $500
The Northwestern is the first univer-
sity TO officially appoint college 'orum-
mer" to get students.
-Twenty-Six pounds was paid for q
pack of German playing cards dated lJ'S
at Sctheby's recently.
The question Of alien immigration Is
now far more serious IN London than II
ever was in California.
Thirty tons of cauliflower from Italy
are now being landed daily at folkestone
for the London market.
Not less than four hours instruction
in England is To be given weekly III the
Swedish national elementary schools.
The mechanical force of the sound
emitted from J.00O.0O0 to 10,00000O cor
nets would equal hut one horse power.
OF every 1000 men accepted for the
United States army last year 33.44 were
born in Germany and 2f.IS in Ireland
Wire screens are now placed in the
tramway cars nj New Orleans to sep
crate negroes from white passengers.
All over the District Of Columbia
are scores of types of volcanic action
and all show traces of electrical energy.
1t has been found that 10000 chill
dren under II are employed ia New
York city in spite Of the child-labor law.
During 1902 the lifeboats Of the Roy
al National lifeboat Institution were
launched 2S9 times and saved 1876 lives.
a tract of 10000 acres in Western
Kansas has been bought by Indiana and
Ohio capitalists for raising polled Angus
cattle
Practically the entire commercial
wealth of Iudia'S 3n0.OOO000 inhabi-
tants is in the hands Of 10000 Parsces
and Rajahs.
In Sweden the Rikstag has proposed
Il special tax on punch the national
beverage 1t will increase the retail
price by - per cent.
Striking resemblance has been point
ed ont between the remarkable ancient
ruins at Zmbahwe, in Rhodesia, and an
Equities in Cornwall.
Arrangements are being made in Der
lin to publish in English a technical Jour
nal on German electrical engineering for
circulation in British colonies.
Preparations are being made for tax
ing a census of the IrauSvaal at the end
of the year in connection with census
scheme for the whole of South Africa.
The pentateuch written in Samaritan
characters on gazcllc parchment and dat
ed in the year 1iG of Mahomet or A. ID.
10. was lately discovered in Syria. 1t is
the oldest of Biblical manuscripts known.
The mines OF the Black Hills district,
$. d., fer the year just closed produced
SS363 1872, which is nearly S1,000,00O in
crease over the previous year. The aver
age value of the ore handled in the dis
trict per ton was. S4.44,; ...... ....,4,.
woui. few ycaH $50 to the ton were de-
SpiSed ana rejected as Improbable. Now,
with improved methods of extracting,
ore containing as low rs So per ton pays
fair dividends to the stockholders.
The amount of water within the crust
of the earth is enormous, amounting to
1,iI,00O. 900, 00000O cubic yards This
vast accumulation. if placed upon the
earth, would cover its entire surface to
. uniform depth of from 1000 to $500
feet