Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-07
y Miscellaneous Items. X

lie HuiIu1E III luldtitS hAldtA NOAAAA'i
in ireland is $4,000 an increase of 1905
in two years.
Agricultural implements exported
from the United States last year amount
ed to $21 100000 in value.
America is now exporting about 81
100000 worth of shoes a year, Of which
Great Britain gets onc-third.
In 1901 the number of indictable Of
lenses committed in Irela nj was 900U,
but in 1902 they sank to 1925.
The actual number OF naval and milf
tary prisoners committed to civil prisons
in Ireland during 1902 was 527.
The total income Of all American
farmers last year was about $500. 000-
600.
The United States has $4,000 post
offices; Germany is next. with 1853, and
Great Britain third. with %, 400
The longest telephone wire span in
the world is 5000 feet from pole to pole,
spanning the Susquehanna at Lancaster,
Pa.
The tenement inspectors Of New
York city have found over 325,000 occu-
pied rooms which have neither light nor
ventilation.
The 50 ,142207 worth of platinum ex-
tracted in the GortlG godatski district of
Russia last year is practically the worlds
supply of that metal.
According to a recent census there
are upward of 600 Chinese in Johannes
burg, of whom 100 are in business. All
are reported to do well.
The Belfast City corporation has de-
cided to place shelters for consumptives
in one of the public parks. Protest
meetings are being held.
Since 1852 more than 10000 convicts
have been sent 10 French Guiana, Of
whom S4I2 per cent. die of disease, hard
ship and insufficient food.
For 100 years Spain tried in vain
10 subdue the Moros. Under American
management they walk right up TO the
trough three times a day.
The London county council now
makes 10000 a year from tramways.
Leeds corporation secures from a similar
source an income OF E2l 900.
A sensitive dog will follow the track
Of n man who is wearing his masters
boots and will reject the track of its
master if he has on strange boots.
The women of Toms River, y. j..
have formed n village Improvement as
ISOLATION to beautify the city, and have
elected Mrs. G. T.. Burr president.
The ''housesmiths" are those iron
workers who put together the steel skele-
ton frames which are now used in the
construction of all large buildings.
Farm laborers in Mexico may be EN-
ployed at from 10 to 30 cents per day,
though in many parts of the country
they are very scarce and unreliable.
No less than Ill officers of the Brit
ish army have qualified as interpreters
in the Russian language, cighty-thrce OF
whom belong to the Indian service.
In the south Of Ireland, near In
chigeelah. is the Cats Well" the wa
tiers of which are supposed to exerS
marvellous remedial effects upon ailing
tabhies.
The number of insane in California
IN 1860 was one TO 1000 and in 1870 one
to 500. At present the registered in
sane number one to 2G0 Of the general
population.
Manila has total population of
something like 300 900 about 10000 be-
ing American and European born. The
American population is estimated at
about 5000.
The new Pennsylvania railroad
bridge across the Delaware at Trenton
will bring Philadelphia twenty minutes
nearer New York The total cost is
So, 500, 900.
The number of murders per million
inhabitants is; In England. 5:l3 in
Germany. 3.45: in France. 1855: in Aus
tria. 13.12 in Italy, 1G.ll, and in Spain,
"A. 20.
"A small fraction OF an ounce of RAJ
dium, properly employed, would provide
n good light sufficient for several rooms,
and would not require renewal during
the present century.
The peon child of Mexico may now
pass from his letters to the highest
diploma entirely at government expense.
and the government hopes shortly to
make education compulsory.
1t is said that nine different systems
OF wireless telcgraphy made a Babel in
the air during the first yacht race, and
that the one with the heaviest battery
knocked the others out of tune
Out of the many thousands of candi-
dates declined for the British army each
wear by far the largest number are re-
jcctod ON account of being unable TO pass
the authorized test for eyesght
The authorities OF the Iowa State
university have declared a boycott against
boarding houses which refuse 10 conform
~ certain regulations promulgated by the
dean of the woman'S department
! In tclephoning between Paris and
London during storm conversation in
English is impossible. hut French is ems
lily understood. because il has not so many
>lbilant sounds and uneQuaily accented
SyllubleS.
The British army under the new
scheme requires 10000 recruits annually
According 10 the director generals report
only hN.oOn ale examined annually. and
VI 'heSe ABOUT @3'bn are rejected. Etv-
ing deficiency of $500 per aunnm
which England hopes to make up by colo,
MAJ assistance.
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