Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The payment for the transportation
of mails is practically the same rate a
it was a score of years ago. while til
cost of transporting other classes o
matter has been reduced one-third t
one-half.
If man who works by the day 0
week refuses to spend his money fool
ishly people call him stingy If a ma
who has few millions exercises prr
dence concerning his investments the
say he is conservative.
Under the law of congress requirin
that the names of states begiven to ma
val ships of the first rate, all the name
of states have been used except stEtal
Delaware, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and North Dakota.
OF the 16, 0oO, 900 gallons Of alcoho
used in the ARTS" in this country, Ed
ward Atkinson, the eminent authority
on statistics, says more than half Of
this quantity is used in making patent
medicines
If you would get rid Of discomfort
don't compare your lot with that q
those that are better off than yourself
Contrast it with the lot of the pool
fellows whom you see shoveling snow
and glad of the chance. Some of then
not many, of course-have quite a
good brains as you own under thei
battered hats. Fancy yourself ont 0
luck as they are, and with imagiIs
TONS aid put yourself in their place
Then humbly thank God for his di'
elimination in your favor.
The manufacture of butter is rapid
on the increase. But oleomargarine ha
trebled it's output. The state Of low
makes l39 900, 600 pounds of butter pc
year, and more than half OF this
made in ereameries. Ohio made so
o0O,0o pounds, but only s.00o,oG
pounds were from the creameries.
When you read ), our local paper an
find items you think should have AZ
peared. missing, remember the maker
of the paper regret it more than 70
do. If you can hand in items oce;
sionallY your kindness will be reciprt
Gated.
Dr.. Joseph Z Winters, professor {
diseases of children in the Cornell Met
zeal college, says that potatoes, hoe
ever served, should be cooked in the
jackets, for the reason that the out,
riud. just under the thin skin, Is IL
richest in potash, and constitutes chi'
supply of these salts to the body. Til
portion is sacrificed in peeling. an
that vegetables should be steamed il
stead Of boiled, as boiling dissolves til
potash salts Fruits should be cate
raw. When cooked the chemical unio
of salts and vegetable acids is dc
troyed"
The woman with tact lsnod~ tbat
man doesn't want to be asked his re
sons for everything he does. Nine tim
out of ten he doesn't know what the
are himself.
Manchuria contains about 364,0t
square miles, or nearly seven times
large as the state of New York. Core
contains las, 900 square miles. on abol
three times as large as New York.
The vegetarans at meeting in Ne
York, declared that appendicitis oeeu
red only among meat eaters. They 81
it is choice between appendicitis ~
vegetarianism. Lovers of juicy steal
will be bothered to know which to a
cept, and the big number win take
chance with wrestling with the al
ease.
There has never been as hight a
outlook for good roads in America /
there is today. Thirty thousand o
ders for automobiles have already bee
placed with American Manufacture
this year: and for each one of those o
ders there are several citizens who vi
work and vote for better roads.
a woman selects husband ~ he
self, but She takes three other wome
with her to pick Il hat,
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