Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-03-05
= Curious Condensations. -

way securities.
The United States buys from Cuba
three times as much as Cuba buys from
the United States.
Most reptiles are VIGOROUSLY deaf
except caymans and cr0codiles; the boa
seems absolutely so.
Much amusement is being caused in
South Africa by the adoption by ladies
of young calves as pets.
An the steel TO be used in the con-
struction of the Havana docks is being
made at Pottsville. Pa.
The meat received into Smithheld
market every year for the feeding Of Lon
don exceeds 1890 tons.
Coffee is very strong antiseptic
There are many diseases the microbes Of
which are destroyed by il.
The Austrian warship kais sin Eliza
bet has left Pola for Australia on a yoy-
age of scientific research.
Within a mile of Johannesburg build
Ing contracts TO the amount of over ten
millions are being carried out.
Jenna is to have q lupus hospital,
which will provide accommodation for the
treatment of a hundred patients.
The legislative council at Pretoria
has voted in favor Of the introduction OF
Asiatic labor into South Africa.
France exported S5,S32.34l worth Of
~
only S206,00O in imported ones.
There are 5147 national banks in the
Cnited States with authorized capital
stock aggregating ST6G,000,000
London beer makers send among the
people of the poorer districts canyassers
who sell Oh the installment plan.
The proportional increase i'm the
population of the cities was less during
the last ten years than previously.
Owing to the clearness of the air con
versaton in the Arctic regions can be car
ried Oh by persons two miles apart.
The treasure hunting craze has in
yaded Vienna and thousands of Wen
Ifese are now digging all over the place
Ten years ago we imported 81 800
600 year in hosiery from England: to-
day we buy but 100000 worth Der year
1t is estimated that our manufactur-
erS turn out about S104 100000 of what
might be termed chemical productions"
in a years time
Life can be sustained for something
ike thirty days on water alone; with only
dry food one could live but Il quarter
If that time.
The greatest mortality from pneu-
monla Is in the months Of February,
March and April. thar for the latter
month being the highest.
A Steel-like grass from tine volcanic
slopes of Oran, Algeria, is so elastic that
il can be used instead of springs in the
manufacture of furniture
Domestic telegraph business in Ger
many in 1902 was ~ per cent. above
1892. but business of Htock Exchange
houses fell off II per cent.
1T is estimated that nearly all the pine
timber now growing III Minnesota laboui
30.000,000 feet will he cut and marketed
with the next fifteen Years
just quarter of century has
elapsed since the first German crematory
was built at Gotha. To-day there are
nine crematories in Germany.
"A Texas jury has sentenced negro
to 1000 years in prison for an attempted
assault. He can have 200 years taken
off for good behavior however.
The authorities in charge of the tcle-
phone service in Japan have decided to
employ only girls both for day and night
duty. at the various exchanges.
Citizens of Nuscatinc. Ia, claim that
Big Rem" the sea lion which escaped
from Lincoln park, is dispOrting himself
in the Mississippi river at that point.
The police telephone system to en-
able patrolmen on posts To communicate
quickly with police stations is now in
operation in five precincts in Manhattan.
Enthusiastic members of the Lon
don's Audubon s." iety propose n law to
authorize the coniiscation OF all HAYS
decorated with the plnmage of song birds.
The rate of interest which the invest
mtnts of Harvard university earned last
year was 4 6S1O0 per cent. decrease
& 12-lO0 Pc" cent. from the preceding
scar.
A prominent ladies' club in London
has lately found il necessary to afiix to
It's notice board the following: No menu
her shall bring pets" animals or birds
into the club
Within few miles of Dublin. oec71-
nylnc mill which had fallen into de-
cay, an enterrriSing gentleman has hit
upon profitable plan of turning peat
into brown paper
DIR. William Foster Of the dppart
ment of chemistry at Princeton university
has discovered new acid, hereafter 70
he labeled with the interesting name tri-
sulphoXyarsenic acid
During the German army mnnenyerS
there were moved over one railroad in
two days, without suSpending its regular
traffic. $1,000 men. 800 horses Dos
wagons and $50 tons Of baggage.
In volume of commerce the great
ports stand in this order: London. New
York, Antwerp, Hamburg, Hong Enn..
Liverpool, Cardiff, Rotterdam. Singaporr
Marseilles, Tyne ports and Gibraltar
Recently an old woman at Chchy.
France. was told She had won 500 900
in Il Spanish lottery Later She found
She had been hoaNed, nnd the shock nf
the disappointment killed her instantly.
A specially constructed covered van
containing twcntycight cages is to make
the daily round of the Paris police sta
tions TO pick M stray dogs THAT have
been captured and convey them to the
pound.
Coffee drinking was forbidden 10 nh
but the wealthiest classes in Westpbalia
in 1866. Five years later. 10 enforce the
ordinance, Il penalty was imposed on any
one importing less than fifty pounds OF
coffee az time, or distributing or selNn.
ii TO others.
According to some interesting stats.
tics of the library OF the British museum
the number Of hooks which II contains
IS l.t00Wh. not counting single sheets
ar parts Of works that are accumuInt;nr
The shelving of the library exceeds siyfv
miles in length.
The 1000 telephone girls in Germonv
are government employees Each must
he of good character and live i'm ~.
spectacle family The pay is 81 Gems