Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-06
= Miscellaneous Items. y


A person can now 90 from New York
to Seattle, on Puget sound. in four days.
Europe has four and a half miles Of
railway for every 10000 people; the Unit
cd States has % miles.
The United States consumes half Of
the 1G.O00.000 bags which constitute the
worlds crop of coffee.
British Columbia has produced $fS9.
G2s,. l3S worth Of gold and S3S,9S9, J12
worth Of coal and coke.
SAN Domingo has officiaiiy accepted
the invitation - participate in the
worlds fair, St. Louis, 1904.
The birth rate among the foreign
born in Massachusetts is - per 1000;
among the nativo-born it is Il.
Seventy German. poets in Berlin en-
tered into union, refusing 10 accept less
than 10 cents u line for their rhymes.
In the first half of 1903 FIVE railways
went into the hands of receivers, but they
aggregate but seventy-two miles Of track.
In the pest years time sixty-four
new freight vessels have been built and
launched on the Great Lakes with a
gross tonnage capacity of 4,750000.
The Buckinghamshire township of
Btaconsfield England, which has pop
ulation of 5000, has not had a case Of
infectious disease this year
The British Museum has an atlas
seven feet high Of the Fifteenth cen
tiiry. 1t is supposed to be the largest
book in the world.
The mineral resources of Manchuria,
IS shown even by the surface scratching
that has been done, are simply stu
Dendous. AS a wealth giver it may send
more to st. Petersburg for the next half
century than India win to London
The Minnetonka, built at Cleveland
for seacoast trade. being longer than the
locks in the Weiland canal, was dry
locked at the head of the st. Lawrence
system and cut IN two. The rear half
steamed through the canal, while the for
ward half was towed.
Marine insurance is very old The
earliest voyagers, the PhoenicianS. prac-
ticed kind of insurance. The MASTER
before sending his small bark to the
rdge of the earth, mortgaged her against
her return. II she came back he re-
turned the loan with a heavy premium.
The banana possesses all the es-
sentials to the sustenance of life. OF
wheat alone, or potatoes alone, this cam
not be said. When taken as n steady
diet the banana is cookc1-baker dry in
the green state. pulped and boiled in
water as soup or cut IN slices and
fried.
In England, where automatic coup.
ling of cars is yet unknown. 10000 rail-
way employees are killed or injured in ten
years in making couplings, as shown by
reports of the board of trade. This of
sets in Il way the mortality for passen-
gers, which is very much smaller than ON
our railroads.
George w. Vanderbilt comtemplates
building another model village near his
estate ut Ashcville, n. G.. The village
viii be built about thirty miles from
Asheville and S1.000000 1T least win be
expended ON the project, Mr.. Vanderbilt
lag already expended about $4,000, 900
in western North Carolina.
"A curious phenomenon has been no
ticed in the trophies that can never he
seen at higher ATTITUDES \ mining shaft
ut Sombrerete, Mexico, is almost exact
ly on the Tropic of Cancer, and ut noon
on June p the sun shines to the bot
ION, lighting up the we'll for vertical
depth of 100 feet or more.
The beggars of China have organized
a regular system OF blacEmail Every
town has a band Of them With king. =
The king goes about among the mer-
chants and others, collecting tribute in
return for which he gives signed docH,
ment insuring them against all annoy
ance for certain length of time.
"A British expedition has been sent te
explore Hudson Bay for the purpose OF
determining whether a new grain ROME
is practicable. The plan is to ship grain
from the western portion of Canada, tC
he stored IN elevators ON Hudson bay and
shipped by water during the brief sum
mer season in which navigation is open
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austri,
is nine times King. twice grand duke
once grand prince four times Mar
grave and the multitude of the titles rs
count and so inth is past enumeration
In addition, as King OF Hungary. ht
hears the title of Most Apostolic.
which is one of the four honors bestowe,
by the Pope.
Some deadly music was disc0vere,
by theatrical brass band in Jackson
Miss. To advertise the show the ban,
paraded the streets. A mule Stiffeme,
its ears rs ii heard the walls from tn
brass band. dropped to the earth an,
gave UP the ghost. The theatrical man
nger settled a claim made by the owne
of the dead mule
During April last the population o
Berlin proper Decreased by 2000 persons
who moved their homes to what Is hope,
Will some dag be parts of Greater Berlin
Twenty years ago the consolidation
might have been effected at cost o
S@0,o00,0Oo, To-day the government /
opposed 90 The plan. SO that there is lii
IKE NtldliNt u itS -heiHE 1Uupieu.
The largest tree in Oregon wa.
felled recently to be sent as a curiosit,
10 the World's fair In in the Aher,leel
spruce. and stood nearly 800 feet high
10 feet around and II feet from IN,
ground 10 the FIRST limb. Its age is cal
culated at 400 years, being Il good-size,
tree when Columbus discovered the Ian,
that was afterward called America.
The idol OF the late Camille Pissar,
was his teacher Corot. whom he place.
higher even than lngreS During Ia,
years that be was especially under IN,
idtluenee OF Corot he lived and worke,
in the solitude Of the country In latel
gears he preferred 10 dwell in the noisi
est and most crowded quarters of Hayr,
and other ports His fad was light
TOO dark was his almost invariabl,
criticism Of pictures shown to him b,
pupils He disliked artists who tried /.
paint ideas" In speaking Of Hogratl
he once said: "A painter should NOT
think. he Should stimulate thought"
Expensive Feminine Fashions.