Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-05-14
= Miscellaneous Items. -

Canada is capable of furnishing more
than the 200.000,0O0 bushels Of wheat
which Britain has to import every year.
The public of Liberia is worried over
polygnmy. 4 bill has Just been land be-
fore the I.iberian Senate for the regula-
ton of il.
M. Pierre Dec0urceles drama. La
Railmnoe. which has just been pre-
duced in Paris. is one of the greatest
successes Of the season.
A number of Dublin men have been
engaged to take their jaunting cars 10
81 I.ouiS and ply for hire in The streets
Of that city during the exhibition.
AT some rf the public libraries in
London the racing news is carefully
hacked ont of the newspapers befGr
they are put upon the files for reading.
The earliest spur known consisted Of
a sharp prod mounted on Il base to
foSten about the heel. .AntiguariauS
place its date at from 300 to 100 i. G..
For new variety of rhubarb it is
claimed that it not only fruits all the
year round, but that its flavor resembles
ii combination Of ;he raspberry ana
strawberry.
The present Trinity church at the
head Of Wall street. New York is the
ceding structures erected upon the same
ground having been burned.
The Trans Siberian railway is nearly
5000 miles long. and cost in rough tig
ures. $1,000 OOO,000 The first sod was
turned in 1899. and in nine years ;}};tI1
miles were laid, including 80 miles of
bridges.
Eight hundred young men ana wom-
en-. representing twenty universities, Mt
tended Il recent conference of student
volunteers at Edinburgh 10 discuss The
Evangelization Of the World in This
Generation.
In 1873 in Germany 1.J00,0O0 trees
are said to have been destroyed in the
Hartz forest alone by two small species
at beetles. The larvae burrow beneath
the bark and thus cause the injury to the
growing trees.
The present custom in England of
brides carrying rayerb0Oks instead of
bouquets has caused n boom in the pray
crbook trade. The bindings have to he
white Morocco calf, ivory. silver pr
mother-of-pear
The three important wheat states of
Australia produce 3J.OOO00O bushels.
The yield to each acre in New South
Wales is 1916 bushels. in South Aus
tralia, 50 bushels. and in West Aus
u'aNa, 46 bushels.
Andrew Carnegie has the best colec-
zion Of autographs Of crowned heads and
famous persons IN cotempuraFy history.
There are frequently not only sigma
lures. but also letters written to him Oh
various subjects.
Two and half tons of whalcbone
was recently sold at Dundee ut the
rate it is understood. of Sl1.OOO u ton.
or $1,000 a ton higher than the previous
record price. Early last century the
price was $l25 a ton
Lately q find of diamonds rubies and
sapphireS was reported to have been
made in the Hope valley of the Orange
River colony, South Africa. Experts N
.f1lamssbdig nave examined the speci-
mems and say they are glass
Lieut.. Charles NJ. Mclsaac of the
Eighth Massachusetts regiment has re-
ccived an appointment. as instructor in
the new Chinese imperial forces. with
captains commission. lie will leave for
China in three or four weeks.
British officers are having the scars
of face wounds removed by the use Of
light rays. The London Mail says THE
custom is rapidly growing of surgeons
sending their patients to have the sears
left 10y operations removed.
The present war has produced the
first heading containing more than sim
lie line ever published in a Russian news
paper. Previously the most important
news had never been SO honered and the
death of Queen Victoria was announced
without any heading.
The Norwegian town OF AaleSund
which was destroyed by fire some months
ago, is being rapidly rebuilt with the aid
Of lNDO.OOO crowns received from Sean
linavian and German cities.
Several projects are on foot in Eng
land for hanoring the memory Of the late
Charles I'll. Spurgeon the great Baptist
preacher. One is the plan to buy the
large and beautiful estate Of Wc>tWood
and convert it into a home of rest for
ministers and missionaries.
The Saxon government now that ID
has been found necessary Ia discontinue
the Frciberg mineral mines within the
next ten years, intends to open NJ inn
mediately brown coal mines near LriSnig.
which IN 1901. II is estimated. will have
an output of lU4,0OO metric tons.
Considerable >uppog; is being given
~ The Swiss press 10 a suggestion hv
Nine, liihkcrSchmid, physician OF
Zurich, who asks that the state uaSs a
law compelling al unmarried girl, of tb,
rich business class to devote one wear ia
unpaid hospital OF ambulance work.
a big parade called the Parade nf
Peoples and Beasts will be feature of
Ike day at the worlds fair June !
SlN thousand natives from all climps
SPEAKING thirty tongues viii take part.
Thirty thousand dollars will be Spcuf
ON the demonstration.
The Paris Academy of Medicine I'm
view Of the excellent results obtained i'm
divers countries 10y the mechanical pro-