Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-08-01
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worth of coal and coke.
In Tenerife. Canary islands, 5000
women make $2J0,000 worth OF drawn
work for English and Germans annually.
In America alone 10000 automobiles
viii he placed on the market during the
present year, which will only supply half
the demand.
The borough of Fulham, London, by
fhe use of it's garbage in the furnace Of
the municipal electric lighting plant,
makes profit of $3442 year,
Since the return Of the polar c1pedi-
tions led by Perry, Sverdrup and Bald
win only the Russian expedition of Bar
On Toll is left in the north. He spent
The winter 81 1902 OH the island Of
katelnoi and has not been heard from
since.
In letter advocating plan for the
establishment in England Of a great
scientific school Lord Ro>ebcry says: III
is little short Of scandaious that onr am
bilious youths should be obliged Ia resort
10 the United States and Germany for
technical training.
Not more than $50 square miles of
territory are under cultivation in bene-
quin, or siSal hemp, yet on this small
area is produced the fiber that litarally
binds the wheat harvests Of The world.
gentina, in Siberia and Egypt.
The Massachusetts state building ut
the Louisiana Purchase exposition is to
he Il reproduction Of he historical
colonial house in Cambridge. where
Washington established his headquarters
during the siege of Boston and which
later was the home of Henry WadSworih
IongfellOw.
AS the outcome ST much painstaking
Investigation the existence has been
demonstrated of Il class of human beings
called moral imbecilcs. Their essential
characteristic is complete moral in
scnsibility. revealed 10y a total absence of
repugnance 10 the suggestion of crime be-
fore the deed
In the Alps Mont Blanc, the highest
Is tedious, but easy. Dclicatc women
make il by hundreds without much dan
ger. The lower Matterhorn, when con-
quered, took four lives. Whymper. one
Of the three who escaped death. after
ward broke his leg 10y falling off a plat
form at lecture
The Tucson chamber of commerce
has given the site and will install wa
Ter supply and an electric light plant for
the desert laboratory of the Carnegie in
siitution on mountain two miles west
Of heir city. The object of the under
taking is 30 study the plants chaalter-
lstic OF arid regions.
Every animal is said to have it's own
Kind of flea, sometimes several different
kinds. Many thousand specimens of these
ficas have been gathered in the unique
museum of Charles Rothschild, kept by
1T. leTdan at Iring Park, the. giant of
this strhige collection being i nole flea
j 9Th IT au Inch long.
III times III tsphpid geSers Stcriize
ah drinking wsiter hy boiling II. Pas
feurfze al milk and ereati. Keep flies
from all food supplies. Thoroughly wash
in boiled water all fruit and vegetables
intended to he eaten raw. Disinfect all
discharges of every description from
those sick with typhoid fever.
In view OF the fact that chickens do
not suffer from tuberculosis nr. Niguer
lie Maillane of France tried to cultivate
she bacillus of consumption in the serum
If fowls blood and completely failed.
He Is now experimenting, with cncourag-
ing results, ~ the use of chicken serum
rs IN anti-toNin for consumption.
While the business passing the Soc
canal III the great waterway to the Sca-
board at Montreal and New York has
been rapidly increasing the Weliand and
Erie canals have fallen into diSuSe. Now
W-ton cars aud l0O-ton locomotives take
the lake freight from Buffalo to New
Aork, Philadelphia and Boston.
Prof. Newcomb considers that we
are probably nearer the boundary Of the
visible universe which lies in the direc-
ton of SagittariuS and Scorpo. aud he
thinks that we may possibly I've SO much
nearer this particular region that we
may soon be able to detect motions among
the fainter stars i'll this direction.
The most surprising property Of
aluminium is its newly discovered power
OF giving a fine, ra2or-ike edge Il steel
cutlery. Magnied a thousand times the
knife edge produced on the ordinary
milestone appears rough and tagged.
while that yielded by the aluminium
>hdrp"ner is straight and smooth.
Ether and chloroform. 50 n~efu IN
sending men to sleep, have the very on
puS9tc effect on plants. which are >,imu.
lated to the greatest possible activity by
these drugs. In Denmark aud Germany
advantage has been taken of this facr
10 force towerS in rooms and glass
houses. and 20 max" them bloom ont of
season. The results are said to be mar
Noions.
I'r. D'Arsonyal. lecturing in pari,
last week on the effects ot electricity rpgu
human beings expressed the hrlirr that
tH' world IS ON the eve of a therapeutical
revolution, electricity being the mcdiriE,
ot the future lie demonstrated the ut{!-
ny OF electrical treatment in skin diseases
&hd SAID that under auaeSthesia produced
10y electricity patient could bc subjected
Z" llEhj surgical operations without mar
eatirS
a review Of the climate and acrj-
culture of last year. which ranks rs one
ot great agricultural produce. reveals
some curious facts Canada reaped the
greatest wheat crop ever grown in tho
i'"m'nion. Australia. ON the other hand.
had to endure the worst OF All the ais
'>trouS drouEhtS il has known. and Tie
grain harvest was nearly ruined and
many millions of sheep, with thousands
OF cattle, persisted.
The United states owns the CHIEF
way stations of commerce.. the rriucipa!
islands and Aarhor>. in the mid-pacit,-
nal4Ska on the north, Miiway island.
tb" Hawaiian group, Tutuila i'm the "a.
moan group Guam in the l.adroncS and
Manila. Il is generally conceded char
foarl harhor. in the Hawaiian cro,r,
and thar of Panso Pingo, in the samoan,
are far The best, If uot the only yaluahlr
haroorS in all the mid-pdci6c.
Lewis Lewark of Cuui;uck comfy g.,
SHOWN aS The strong boy of North caro-.
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