Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-23


Ten thousand persons have entered
their names at the lankton land office
ss participants in the rush for the Rose
bud Indiana lands, making an entry list
tong enough to entitle the sprint to des-
gnation as the human race.
Servian statistics for 1897 show three
persons between 135 and 40 years old,
is from 1876 to 1"J. 123 from 10 to 120
and 900 from 100 to 1f5. in 1890 there
were in the United States 1881 persons
over 100 years old and 81 in London
The japanese jinrickisha has been used
at treaty ports for about thirty years,
but it reached Pekin only about five
years ago. There are over $500 of them
in Tien Tsin, each of which pays a tax
Of about 81 a month TO the government.
The effects of alcohol are especially
seen in the case of mothers among the
iaboring classes of England: rs per cent.
Of The offspring of inebriate women die
at birth or under = years of age, while
N the case of sober women only ri per
cent. die.
We are warned by the Lancet QLon-
DOM not to open letters ut the break
FAST table. They are usually laden with
germs which it is not well to mix with
food. The enyclop flaps and stamps
hat have been moistened by the human
tongue may be bristlng with containing
ton.
In an account by japanese officer Of
the first fights on land near the Ialu he
records that the men could not keep their
European-fashioned boots on their feet,
so that most Of them preferred to sling
their unaccustOmed footgear over their
shoulders, wading through the icy mud
in their bare feet.
The Thibetan young man Of fashion
wears his pigtail like the Chinese, and
would be lost without his native girdle.
This is complete multum in parvo, at
once his arsenal, his pipe rack and his
treasury. In it he carries all that is
really near to his soul.
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The nail of a person in good health
grows at the rate of about one-slxteenth
OF an inch each week, but during illness
or after an accident or during times of
mental depression this growth is not
only affected and retarded so far as its
length is concerned but also as regards
its thickness.
BY taking globe and stretching Il
thread from the mouth Of the Columbia
river to the port of Manila in the Philip
pines, it will be seen that the shortest
or great-circle route passes through the
Aleutian islands, and close to the Jap
Rnese coast leaving the Hawaiian is
lands far to the south.
NJ Binot, chief of the Paste'w insti-
ute lahratory, has been studying the
Mont Elanc glaciers from the hacterio-
.ogical standpoint by taking behring's II
different points. so as to bring mp spcci-
mems Of ice from various depths. An
examination shows thut liz all ldvcrS OF
the glacial ice coloaics of microbes Of
different species are present.
British soldiers are provided with
boiled water for drinking. The water is
arst clarified by kind Of rough Ultra.
ton through charcoal containing Il Ger
tain amount Of potassium permansanate
and then 'steriliacd' either by filtration
or by heat, after which IT is distributco
10 the troops hy means Of water carts
reserved for safe water only.
$. II. Powell of Fulton, Mo-, is the
owner of diminutiye gold coin which
was prented TO his grandfather, sol.
der in the Revolutionary war, 10y George
Washington, while the latter with his
army, was making ms celebrated crossing
Of the delaware river ut trenton. y. J..
IN the carry morning OF december 70
lao. Inc com was mllied by Spain III
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