Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-10
- Miscellaneous Items. -


1t is alleged that there is only one
doctor available fol a population Of i3,
900 in the West Indian Island Of Nevis
1t has been decided TO establish wire
less telegraphy apparatus on all stations
and on all passenger trains on Italian
railroads.
Miss J. E. Buttolph, who is making
a collection of menu cards for the New
York public library, has already gathered
together 10,250.
BY applying glucose or glycein to
their roots a French scientist declares
that he has been able to stimulate the
growth of plants.
Just $3.50 minutes was the tiEs
taken by an ordinary cable message 4
co;a9 round the world from Boston via
Vancouver and Australia.
Automatic machines supplying hot
milk will be placed this winter in all the
principal squares at Stockholm by the
Swedish Temperance Society.
One of the Russian railway com
panes has built n special Pullman cur,
containing luXuriously lifted dining,
smoking, sitting and sleeping conpart-
ments, for the sole use Of honeymoon
couples.
When the harbor authorities of Cal
cutta advertised for bids on locomotives
the lowest English bid was S1349, with
delivery in nine months; the lowest
American bid was $JJ9S, delivered III
six months.
The new meat inspection law Of Ger
many absolutely prohibits the impOrta-
ton of American canned c0rned beef and
sausage The trade in American canned
meats formerly amounted to about Ss1,-
W0.00O per annum.
The largest mule on earth, a 3-year-
81. flh. ,l -
of Hereford Mo-. will he exhibited ut the
Worlds Fair st. Louis. She is Is hands,
or feet, high at the shoulders and
weighs 1905 pounds.
Every native and naturailzcd citizen
in Denmark over go years Old and mn
able to support himself or family re-
ceives a pension varying from 500 TO
$3.50 per month.
Among the men called out by the CON
scription at Cunco il one Battista Ugo,
feet inches high and weighing 80 stone.
He was rejected because he showed up
the shortness of the other soldiers He
is II and still growing.
The cultivation of onions in Egypt
is assuming from year TO year larger
proportions, and there are now but few
markets in Southern Europe which the
Egyptian product does not control dur
ing the earlier part of the season.
Many cases of new type of in
hucnza are now under treatment in
North London. states the st. James GA
Zette. The victims are attacked by
severe rheumatic pains about the body,
accompanied by swelling of the legs
and ankles.
-Germany's reservation at the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition. st. Louis. was
turned over to the representatives, Of that
country on December 6. DIR. Theodore
Lewald, the German imperial commits
sioner general to the Worlds Fair, ac-
cepted the site with a short address.
From 1890 to 1900 the capital In
vested in the silk industry in the United
States was increased from SOL .O00O
TO $Sl 100000, the value Of the finished
product increased from SS7 100000 TO
Sl0I 100000 and wages to silk opera.
tives from SlS,000,000 to S21 100000.
The Noah Webster Memorial Asso-
citation has been formed ut West Hart
ford, Conn, with Gen, Joseph Il. Haw-
ley Mt the head of the board of directors.
its object being to erect library build
Ing i'll memory OF Noah Webster, who
lived there and whose home is still stand
ing.
j. VI. LongyeAr of Marquette. Mich,
who built himself a palatial home at n
cost of 100000 in that city has become
N' NtAlbittNtth against iilt CIV 1NF allow
ing railway to run 80 near his property
that he will move the house. stone By
stone. to toston, which project will al
most reach the original cost of the styuc-
ture.
In nearly all Chinese cities large
percentage of the inhabitants live in a
sort Of hand-tO-mouth fashion, huying
food from restaurants. Hot water il
sold IRON stands by people who make
4 business of providing it. The great
necessity for economy in fuel seems 10
he the primary cause of this mode of
living.
The necessity Of having banks which
VIII advance money on crops, either In
the field or III storage, or will loan on
real estate or chattcls. has become =,
manifest throughout Brazil, particularly
IN states that rely upon agriculture. that
tie state of Bahia has taken the matter
IN hand and. 10y recent legislation. has
granted special privileges for Tie estab-
hShment of such n concern.
Reports from Italy state that the
phylloNera is working ravagps among
the vineyards of that country. ana that
there VIII be an unprecedented demand
for American vines with which to graft
the OLD ones. Ii is reported that DOS
provinces in Italy have been invaded
by the insect aud that not less than
100000 acres of Vnelaud have hpru on
Nrply destroyed
Tho patient aud costly attcmpts OF
the Prince OF Schaumhprg To hrred .
cross from mares and rabbits have been
successful. although the two Sne,.ips diff
for almost wholly in the fact that m,
rabbit brings lis young into the worlt
band, and therefore lives In a hlIrrn,y
while the young hare, as soon rs il !
born, runs eli "pon-eycd and wei