Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-16
lNOTES OF INTEREST.

Good soap IS made from the soap
tres, Of Florida.
Tile cncalytus tree dries up springs
rapidly.
Nj. Eiffel has been utilizing the IA
mons tower in Paris that bears his name
Ia measure The pressure Of WIND.
Miss Blanche Minton OF New York
packs trunks for gnests at notes Inc
frst day She tried il she made SIT.
We import 100000 pounds of piune-
and We export G6.000,000 pounds in a
year Frenchinen buy our prunes.
Miss Yoemans is known all over Cali
forIlia as a butterfly catcher. She runs Il
regular International butterfly exchange.
and finds It very profitable.
Americans are the most excessive
coffee drinkers in the world. over n
billion pounds of coffee is imported into
the United States each year.
In Denmark there Is what is called
-old maid insurance" By paying a CTR
tain sum each year until they are ~
they receive pension fol life.
The worlds best timekeepcr is said to
he the electric clock in the basement nf
The Berlin Observatory. which was in
stalled by Prof Forester in 1860.
From measurements made bg +.
bachnetjew we learn that Inc tempera-
tire Of an insect may be varied within
wide limits without doing harm to the
insect.
4 Lehigh Valley freight train consist
in. Of 1OI loaded cars, containing 1913
tors, was handled between Sayre and
Weldon, Pa. The train was pulled by Il
single locomotive.
The region near the Persian gulf is
the hottest on earth. the mean annual
temperature there being ] / degrees high
er than in Death Valley. Cal. The in
habitants are stunted, mentally and
physically.
Teachers in the Horace Mann School
for the Deaf, ut Boston, have found the
piano one of the best me> ms of develop
nG the speech of the pupils Pupils Of
all ages now have the assistance Of the
piano in lessons.
The great flood AT Topeka, Kan. last
year has been found to he Il blessing in
disguise. Ever since the district has not
been bothered with the ycrmin that be-
fore infested it-mice rats moleS,
sdphprs and rabbits.
Among the trees that are most >enSi-
tive To the wind are the cherry. the plum
the walnut, the black poplar, the service
Tree, the ash and certain varieties OF
pine. OShcr pines, especially the moun-
tain varieties. and also certain frs. are
very resistant to wind.
The western genius who discovered
that there is u market for canned Jack
rabbit has probably sounded the death
knell of the long-legged creature of the
prairie. The first canning factory has
been established at Echo, Ore, and
thousands of jack rabbits are slaughtered
in that vicinity every month.
The Cherokee Advocate (the only In
dian paperl, the official organ of the Cher.
okee nation, is "a years old 1t is pub.
lished AT Tahleqnah at the nations ex-
pense. One-half is printed in the Chero-
kee language. The paper is forbidden 20
deal IN politics. Its cost Of publication il
about $500 above all receipts.
1T appears from II decision Of the
French courts that n man may fight n
duel with pistols or swords and if fatality
results there is no penalty But if one
cannot afford these weapons and fights
with humber means there is no such i'm
hunlty, as two men who fought with
knives were given four months each in
prison.
A iack-rabbit roundup in the west is
full of interest. A huge circle of hunters
IS formed, miles in circumference, and an
enclosure, built of woven wire. so high
that no jack rabbit could iump over. is
the objective point of the hunt. From
the entrance to this enclosure extend
two fences broadening ont as they leave
the corral Into this wedge-like snace
the rabbits are To be driven: after which
they viii naturally run into the corral ~
The only exit in sight