Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-06

be eaten. The use even of foreign jams
aH1 conserves is forbidden.
A curious medical fact was ELECTED
lately at an inquest on a man who died
from injuries received in falling our of
bed in HoXton House Lunatie asylum
Londcn. The bones of lUnaric. staten
doctor. are far more brittle than those
of a person Of strong mind.
Peaches and plums from the Cane
with such dalnties as custard apples
grape fruit and pears, are now obtainabla
III the London fruiterers' shops. The
peaches compare very unfavorably in ap-
pearGnce with representative home fruit
but the plums are very fine.
Married men live longer than bache-
lCfS. In other words. cOnjugal life seems
a necessary condition of longevity. An
authority cites the cases of fifty cente.
narians, not one of whom is a bachelor.
A curious fact, too, Is that these fifty
centenarians were all widOwers.
A wealthy resident of Beverly.
Mass. advertised in a local paper recent
~ that he would give a ton of hard
coal as a reward for the return of pet
cat that had strayed away from his
home. The whole town Immediately
turned out to hunt for the cat.
A strange punishment is endured nv
Armenian maidens when they have at
tanned their seventeenth year and are not
engaged t. be married. They are forced
to fast three days; then for twenty-four
hours their food is salt fish. and they are
lot permitted TO quench their thirst
The venom of snakes contains only
intermediary bodies, which alone would
not be vlrulently poisonous; but the nor
MAJ blood serum of susceptible animals
contains the substances which, by con-
joint action with the Intermediary bodies
of the venom, cause the deadly poisoning
The Australian death rate from can
Ger for every 10000 living has risen in
the last thirty years from 2.75 to 81.
1t has more than doubled for males and
nearly doubled for females. Cancer is,
however. distinctly a disease of later life,
increasing in prevalence as age increases
beyond its middle term.
AS stammering is a cause of rejection
for military service its frequency is
shown by the statistics of the eXamina-
ton of recruits in different nations. The
number rejected as stammerers is $50
per 1000 examined in France, 3.23 in
Switzerland. 2S7 in England, % in Aus
tria, sc in Italy and but 10 in Russia
in Germany electricity, among other
curious results. has rehabilitated the dis
carded windmill. At Neresheim wind
mill supplies power for thirty-siX mean
descent lamps that light a large paint
factory. Another in Schleswig- HolStein
keeps up Il steady current of 30 volts.
AT Dusseldorf a windmill winds up Il
heavy weight of which the descent works
powerful dynamo.
Practically only the buildings are
taxed in England, and this tax the occu-
pant pays. There is now strong move
ment in favor of the taxation of ground
rents" and "site values" and the intro
duCtion of the plan of laying assessments
on property for local improvements. as in
this country 1t is vigorously opposed
by the wealthy class. especially by the
dukes who own the ground upon which
London is built.
A remarkable sea monster was re-
Gently caught in Port Fairy bay by
some fishermen. 1t measured nine feet
six inches in length, had a tail like that
of a screw tail-shaft, no teeth, a nose
like Il rhinoceros, a head like an elephant.
two dorsal fins, four side fins and two
steering fins. The skin was black and
very soft. The most experienced fisher
men say the specimen is altogether new
to them. They cannot hazard a guess
as to the species. The fish has been sent
on to the Melbourne museum.
That the rattlesnake uses his tail to
decoy birds has been observed a num-
Der of times by correspondent of the
Scientific American, who says: THE
snake hides himself in the tall grass and
initiates the buzZing of bee. The in
sectivorous birds, such as the phoebe and
kingbird, are attracted by the sound and
become an easy prey for his snakeship.
have seen rattlesnakes concealed in the
dense foliage of trees twenty feet from
the ground practicing the same deception
on the birds and getting the bird every
time"