Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-27
u Miscellaneous Items. -

The church of England enjoys an
income of about one million dollars per
week.
In London. at the Billinssgate mar
ket. $4,000 to 1900 tons of fish are nan
died every month.
Orders nave recently been executed
in Japan for supply of hshlnS nets Tor
Alaska, valued ut 100000.
Eleven thousand automobiles were
sold in this country during the six months
ending with November last
The number of ants in nest varies
from u 293 to 1864. These figures are
from recent count of five nests.
The average farm laborer's family in
England lives on S1Sj year: the aver
age mechanics family spends $500.
The surplus of the Western Union
Telegraph company has risen. as shown
by the reports just issued. to Sl3,619,OOO
The income of the British postofiice
from money in envelopes having no or
insufficient address is 10000 or $4,000
day.
-Ieipzig's new railway station cost
130.000000 marks (S32.000,000). or this
sum Prussia and SaXony contribute OBJ
100000 marks.
There is a point near, the famous
Stony Cave. in the Catskill mountains
where ice may be found on any day Of
the year.
-Seventy.sev per cent OF the wom-
en- and but % per cent. of the men TAX
ing the civil service examination are able
10 pass it.
Paris Of the Sea Of .Azoy are frozen
SO hard that. ii is reported, artillery
might with safety be maneuvcred over
the surface.
The total receipts Of animals at the
T.. 10,
l5.1l3.5fJ. Il slight increase over the pre-
ecding year.
One of the great railroads of the
world will be built in China from Cam
tun to HankoW. 600 miles, through Il
tecmng population.
During the recent weather the Chesa-
peake bay was frozen over from shore To
shore nj Poplar island with ice in some
places inches thick.
The Italian state railways. according
To Il report from Rome. will soon place
orders for 300 locomotives and several
thousand freight cars.
Brick dust mortar is often used rs
substitute for hydraulic cement; anything
made of burnt clay is bound TO be good
for building purposes.
During 1903 1867 cattle, 30 calves.
2l3G hogs. $50 sheep and 773 horses were
driven from the country 20 the Union
SluckNards IN Chicago.
Sisnor Francolini of Spoleto, Italy,
asserts that the little Chtumno river,
formerly yenerated by the Romans as 4
holy stream, contains radium.
4 German innkeeper on the Swiss
border has undertaken as result of Il
wager 10 roll a barrel full OF wine across
SwAtzegland and Italy 70 Roqles
The StnttpGTfer Mit-tind Ruckyefz
Sicherungs-A ktiengesellschaft is an in
Surance company. with Il capital Of ST.,
100000, which insures machinery.
St MichacIs church at Coventry is
said To have the widest nave OF any Eng
lish church 1t is 125 feet wide That
Of York Minister is 1912 feet in width.
Mr. Carncgie's gifts TO countries other
than the United States are recorded to
the amount of S5.S6l 800, making Mr..
Carneglc's total gift 60 libraries $i4 1866,
$50.
The annual loss from the burning OF
buildings in the United States is about
Sl3J,0oO,0OO, not including cost of msur-
ance and the appliances for fire protee'
ton.
For the defense of member Of the
Malta, who is to be tried for murder in
Florence. it is stated that $1,000 has been
contributed anonymously in Palermo
alone.
or the $676.023592 wages paid by
railways of the United States. > per
cent. goes to general officers. II per cent
10 other officers. engineers ana con
ductors. and 81 per cent. To the other
employees.
A good authority on horses says that
the gray will live the longest. and that
loanS come next in order. Blacks seldom
live to be over twenty and creams rarely
exceed ten ar fifteen.
Fashionable dogs in Paris. which for
some time have worn overcoatS with
pockets for their little handkerchiefs, are
now provided with goggles for their eyes
when taken motoring.
The natural right Of parental domin.
ion is held. in state versus Jackson On.
III 60 l.. L. A. $50. not 10 render un-
constitutional statute requiring chill
dren to he Scnt 10 school.
Atlantic liners to the number of fifty
have wireless telegraph apparatus Ia
communicate with forty-cight land sta
tons. Sixty British and twenty four
Italian war vessels are so equipped.
The mining companies of Mexico are
taking active interest in the worlds fair,
NJ. Louis and will make an extensive
display, eXcelhng that of any other coun-
Try, the United States alone excepted,
The wcalthiest educational institution
az INV NNtR'tF AiAt l4tAdHu FNlNlllOfU. IT.,
university, is located ut palo Alto. Santa
Clara county, California. II has an en-.
doWment of over thirty million dollars.
The population of the United States
has for 40 years been about twelve times
thar of Canada; the number of divorces
IN the United States in that time ms
been 10000 times the number of Canada.
Mrs. Matilda Il. CarSe. founder of
The Woman : temple aud one of the lead
ers Of The National Women'S Christian
Temperance union. suffered n fan ON nm
icJ pavement which resulted in a broken
hip.
While ouC-room tpnemcntS in Lon
don have decreased from Ia. 1u2 To / 10
81. or II per cent, three-room and fnur.
room tenements have increased l6 per
cent. IL per cent. and 81 per cent. re.
speCtivcly.
Most fishermen on the French roast
AVOID going TO sea on the first two DAVIS
Of November owing TO superstitinrs
fear of the death wind" and the heller
that drowned fishermen ut that time rise
and capsize boats
A Flemish artist has produced what
is said 10 he the smallest painting in the
world. 1t is picture of miller mount.