Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-10-01
- Miscellaneous Items. =

CuJ IRON TIE lu~ks OF an ti"b!4'iAt - t'4''
In Bucnos Ayres horses are 50 plenti-
full that even the begSdrs DeG on horse
back.
In 1t97 the New York state Council.
ordered hnlsohul lers tn hang oUt iaE-
t,ra.-fbc first street lighting IN America.
There are ~ 600 hotels IN the Unit
"a states. representing an invested cap
ital If over SG.000.0 00000. These estab-
Usliu.enis employ 3,50000G persons
Horace johnson of Haddam. Conn,
offers Ia het $1,000 that he can beat the
official forecasts sent out from WASH
;petat in predicting the weather, and ne
proposes the month of December next
for z test.
4 fayorite design for lanterns used
I'm She professions to celebrate the Japd-
ne>e victories is one having on it, four
sides the Rising sun, the Union Jack,
the Italian flag and the Stars and
Stripes.
A professional man who found re-
Gef from insomnia by reclining on sea
.,dp porch. where the sight Of rolling
waves soothed his nerves, will make the
experiment of attaining the same result
with moving pictures
Fatrolman John Pentlcy Of Staten
island was kicked off the running board
Of n trolley cal by mule tied 10 the
Ii glazed the headquarters of the mule
and instantly the animals heels were ny
ing.
In Great Britain among women work
ers there are IS auctioneerS. & architects.
3071 brickmakers. 1880 butchers, ~
chimney sweeps. ] dock laborer, 0l10
aoldsmiths. 9G03 printers, 745 railway
portcrS. $40 tailors and veterinary
surgeons.
- ~, r..,,n1 a., -;unuIor ,,Io ~
capable Of qaeling hunger or thirst for
several days. II is named erythoXyolon
c0cua The plant appears to narcotiZe
the HtrVeS of the stomach and suspend
the digestive functions without aff0rding
nUrinitnt.
a London ieweler recently had Their
mumeter stolen from his shop and the
next day he affixed the following notice
to his door: viii tie misguided indi-
ritiual who cook the thermometer without
leave the other day please return the
same? He has made a mistake. Ii caI
be e no use 10 him in the place TO which
he * going. as il only registers 10 de
rrCeS OF heat
An unsuccessful effort has heen made
in France to revive the fair " Beaucaire
un Il scale comparable To that of the good
old times. These fairs began in the Thir-
teemh century and gradually rose to such
business transacted amounted to 10000
OHO francs. Before the middle of the
last century the railway changed all this
and today the fair is Il mere shadow Of
its f. "map self
The Tlnnsyaal colony in South Africa
IS rich not only i'll gold. but Also in other
metals which received no attention dul-
ing the Boer regime. The first step IN
tile exploitation course has Just been
taken by erecting a furnace for smelling
iron one near Pretoria. Large deposits
of this metal and of coal and lines
abound there in close proximity. II is
contemplated to start n rolling mill an
other iron works in the same region.
A London hospitals latest device for
winning contributions is in the form Of
q clock, on the face of which appears
the announcement that the hospital has
10 collect | penny s,nts-per second
aud on the pedestal is an invitation 10
the visitor Ca defray the cost of the liz
stltutlon fer that brief period. When the
penny is dropped in the slot it sets some
INTERIM mechanism in operation by which
the clock hand is advanced and the con-
tubuton recorded
Statistics of murders, which have
lust been compiled in Italy, show that
Wmle III France the annual rate is one
murder to every 100 zoo inhabitants. Ia
L.
provinces tWenty-tuur, aud in the south
em provinces, including Naples and
Sifiiy, it j. thirty. Last year the Cook
county CUB coroner held nqueSts In ISIS
raSeS of homicide Of which J. were re-
ported hy him ms juStihahle This is at
the rate OF about six for every 100000
OF the population.
The measurement Of dew has always
neen aiilcnit' because of the fact thar 40
method heretofore has given exact re-
suits NJ. Ferb describes il new >ost nr
df">ometer which has given satisfactory
results and which is composed of Il piece
ot paper which has been put through =
special Preparation ana dipped in chem
zeal solution. This paper is exposed in
Il box placed during the night on the
ground, the quantity of dew being inGi-
Gated by the discoloration of the pappr.
n scale OF tmtS is determined experi-
mentally, which is used for the purpose
of comparison.
1t has been discovered that the air
chambef III the larger end OF the egy in
creases in size in direct ratio to the are
OF the potential chicken. If the egg is
placed IN solution Of common salt il ey-
nbts an increasing inclination to float
with the long axis vertical 4 fresh egg
Hes m almost horizontal position at IN,
bottom Of the vessel An egg five DAYS /
ga SHOWS an elevation of the fiat end. 50
that us long axis forms au angle of ~
degrees. With an egg Fights dayS of ne, /
the angle increases 10 - degrees. whila /
an c&@ which has resided in this nhap,,y /
world for month stands straight IN Ia /
mute protest,
series Of experiments, ruudurtr3 /
10y l'r. Philip b, Hawk. demnn>,r9ftr
~ physiological chemistry at the Juiycr- (
S,,,., vi pennsylvania. has proved that 4