Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-08-20
x Curious CONVERSATIONS. =:

Iron mountain, the hlgheSt elevation
in Missouri is but 1900 feet above the
level of the sea.
Within the last thirty years the trade
OF the United States with South Amer
"a has increased only ) per cent.
The Dublin corporation is said 10
have passed resolution prohibiting
soldiers walking in the main streets.
Successful experiments have been
made in the treatment of neuralgia and
hyStcria with radium at the Salpetnere
hospital in Paris.
4 married couple of Lcnz, Austria,
celebrated their silver wedding by filing
petition for divorce on the ground of ''un-
conquerabie mutual antipathy.
The new city directory for Chicago
has been given to the public. Based on
The number of names it gives Chicago
population for 1904 of pa 900
-C,old-bearing quartz has been found
in Ccyon, but it remains to be seen
whether it is present in sufficient guam
tity 70 he commercially successful.
There is a board of guardians in the
south of London that allows inmates
who have seen better days to don the silk
hat when they go out for holiday.
There are -four ranches in Texas with
M area of over ,0OO,OOU acres apiece,
and there are a number of ranches with
II
by a curious anomaly, although a
man can now he converted TO New York
for SO. it costs bulicE $3.50 to book
MS passage from Canada to Liverpool.
1t Is said that the Gar of Russia is
dominated by his mother, the DOwager
EapresS Marie Feodor0vna, sister Of
Queen Alexandra.
Football and many other outdoor
games are played by the blind, certain
changes being made 50 that iii each game
the SENSE Of hearing takes the place Of
sight.
n caterpillar in a month will deyour
COCO times its own weight. 1t will take
an average man three months before he
cats Il quantity of food equal to his own
weight.
There is legend that the first lace
WAS made by u girl who preserved
beautiful bit of seaweed by attaching al
the dainty parts IF leaves and stems
TO Il piece of linen with fine thread
IN fasting reasts the sect known rs
The Iains. In India is far ahead of all
rivals. FastS of from thirty to forty
days are very common and once n year
he people abstain from food for seventy
five days.
-Goyernnr General Tscn II Canton is
said to have urged the Empress Of China
five times tn declare war against Russia
and to have sent Geographic messages Ia
all leading MandarinS in the empire 10
support him.
From bombay Presidency a native
petition has been forwarded to the gov
eminent Of India, praying that the sale
If feaihered caps. etc. throughout Brit.
ISL India may be prohibited by law Oh
account Of the cruelty involved.
Certain spiders can be transported
hy the wind, owing TO very light Silken
thread chat they emit from the spinneret
which is blown along by an ascending
current of air a thread a yard long
can sustain the weight of a young spider
William \. Appleby of Georgetown,
Md, is the inventor of an ingenious
means of capturing mail on the fly and
number of small mail stations are being
erected along the Baltimore X OHIO for
the purpose of testing the new invention
Among the latest fads of the summer
girls are sunburned initials on their
arms Short sleeves, initials cut from
black court plaster and affixed to tha
arm, and the sun will do the rest. leay-
ing the letters in pink and white on the
sunburned skin.
In Russia the native Insurance COM
paneS, which do the major portion of the
country's business. insure the lives of
single women and widows hut at Il high
ef rate than those of men, ana married
women are only accepted in case their
husbands are also insured.
l'ruf. AsSmuuu. one of the German
government meteorological experts has
riseu to explain that lightning seldom
strikes in a forest where the trees ara.
dense aud of about the same height
Danger exists only whore isolated trees
rise above their surroundings.
Ii is announced in scientific io,rnal
that Prince \ Inert nf \Ippnph hay tal .t,,