Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-04-11
y Curious CONVERSATIONS. -

theaters averages $1,000 persons.
-One-third of the physicians Of Der
lin earn less than St5 Il month.
Eleven per cent. of the immigrants
TO the United States in the last four
years have been Jews.
One of the most complete electrical
power plants recently installed Is that
Of the Osake military arsenal of Japan.
A person usually begins to lose height
nj the age of 10, and nj the age OF w
has lost AT least one and Il half inches.
In London last year the number Of
husbands who advertised disclaming
credit obtained by their wives was 31S.
AT Niagara Falls 3j.000-horse power
is used in twenty different electrical
processes for producing metals and chem
icals
The use Of electricity in everyday af-
fairs is developing enormously III Great
Britain The usual price is 21a cents per
unit
The work ON the Simplon tunnel Is
progressing rapidly on both sides of the
Alps: about 1000 w0rkmen are employed
in the tunnel.
One hundred and seven thousand
tons of American peanuts were bought
at Marseilles in 1902 for use in making
olive oil soap.
was used 75T 100000 times, making an
average Of nearly eight calls a day by
each subscriber.
The three l6.000-ton battlcships are
10 be named Vermont Kansas and Min
nesota and the two l3,00O-ton vessels
Mississippi and Idaho.
The stars in the milky way are equal
~ distributed in a uniform ring IN the
heavens and are several times as bright
as stars in other regions.
In England the annual consumption
of Southern fruit amounts to hfteen
pounds per head. In Germany it aver
ages not quite three pounds per head.
The lead" Of black lead pencils is
now made from coke. Ii is ground and
mixed with iron ore and chemicals and
subjected to pressure under great heat.
The telephone can no longer be legal
~ used by German physicians in dictat-
ing prescriptions to druggists, because Of
;he chances of fatal misunderstanding.
The agricultural department has 10T.-
900 voluntary crop observers. Cotton is
reported on seven times a year. wheat
eight times. corn and oats each six times.
The Royal Geographical Society has
recently acquired the boats compass
used by DIR, Livingstone on his first
journey down the Zambesi valley in 1876.
- Illinois ranks first among the states
in the manufacture of agricultural nipple
ments, bicycles, cars, glucose and dis
titled liquors, and in Strengthening and
meat packing.
~Coincidently with the presentation of
Il silver service to the battlcship Ala,
bama by the citizens of the Cotton State
portrait of Admiral Raphael Semmes
was placed in the gallery Of the state
historical department at Montgomery.
In the electrical furnaces now in use
quartz Is yolatilized at relatively low
temperatures. and lime and magnesia be-
come yapor before the highest tcmperi-
ture possible is reached.
The oldest man in California has
added two years to his century. lie has
been a smoker for 81 and a moderate
drinker for - years. hut never touched
modern breakfast foods.
--Germany has built the finest, fastest
vessels ail0at, although she is not geo
graphically maritime country, and no
other country is SO largely dependent on
others for the raw materials which enter
into the making of a ship
-Four hundred and fifty acres of land
have been obtained Mt Blairgowrie,
Perthshire, Scotland. to enable Scottish
peasants to try the Irish scheme of small
holdings, but without aid from taxation.
Fruit growing and fowl rearing are to be
insisted ON.
Ont of 1000 school children examined
IN England less than half were normal
the external ear wing affected in 40 and
the middle ear in 3lS eases. Chronic
Suppuratlon was present in 81 and 434
had adenoid tumorS ana there were 247
deaf ears. Only 10 had perfectly healthy
ears
locomotives propelled by electricity
drawn from the air without cost, and
ocean liners racing over the sea hy the
agency Of the electric current drawn in.
cNpcnSlyely from the same source. are
promised for the near future by Tesla
Ii Is to he done on the principle OF Wire
less biography.
Even the faded taste of the pari-
slams is responding to the sensation Of
seeing child lion tanner in the person OF
IIlly Hehc, a frail lf-yearuld girl She
dominates the savage beasts by affec-
tiou, aud although She bears ugly
scratches. says that none was given with
moHce THIS modern Una is said to
sleep with her lions frequently.
The rattlesnai,r'~ rattle consists of a
number Of hollow, horny rings. somewhat
like quill IN substance and mtcracked
with one another while tHcv are SO elias
tlr as tn permit NJ n considerable amount
ni motion hrtWoCu them. These rings are
not indicative of age. as has been ~up-
posed since in some Years several a;-
pear. while IN others only uuv rim. may
he developed
In England the Sunderland town
council has decided 10 Supnly electricity
for the lighting of the w1hmcn's dwell
ilng~ owned 10y thr municipality ou The
p,upy-iU-thc-~int principle. one penny IA
pay for an elght-candle power lasting tive
and onc-tltJh hours.