Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-23
& Curious Combinations. *

-Spid,r mntbers remember their off.
spring after IN absence Of - boUrs. hut
forget them when fun day has elapsed.
Radiun is said To be well but timely
distributed in the crust of the earth.
New finds in some country are reported
almost daily.
An kinds of corn ar, altered hy heat.
but only in the popcorn is the struct nre
~uch as 10 favor an explosion, when
gives to tho popcorn its name
Gold was first discovered in Alabama
at Arbacoochee in 1915. and from that
year to 1910 5000 persons We're shaking
pans for the precious particles.
Sachs. who was both an alhino and
scientist. demonstrated that the hair of
ashinos contains less iron than that Of
formally constituted individuals.
Some Of the inhabitants Of Cam
bridge. England. are Trusting to the
presence Of II goat to protect them and
their houses from the infection OF small
poX.
The male human needs more food
than the female. The man tends - eX-
pend energy and the woman Ia store Il
ap in the form of fat; he burns the
faster.
Owing TO great losses of cattle by the
rndcrpeSt in Egypt. the large plantations
aud farmers there are about to introduce
steam plows and automobile machines for
the cultivation Of grain aud cotton.
A mining shaft at Sombrerete, Mex,
is almost exactly on the troplc of Cancer.
and at noon ON June u the sun shines
to the bottom, lighting up the well for
vertical depth of ] 100 feet or more.
Anybody may practice medicine in
China; 10 license or special course OF
siudy is required. Many Of the phy-
sirians are students who have failed TO
pass the government examinations.
In u recent European case reported
IN Il French paper u murderer was de
rected through the agency of Il thumb
print on the rail Of n broken saSh--So
slight mark that II was scarcely visible,
A hotel keeper in the City Of Mexico
has been condemned To- years inprsoll-
ment and has been Fined S;}370 for steal
ine from the electric light company the
current with which his hotel was lighted,
The examination Of the physical con
dition of the 1900 street SweepcrS EN-
pioyed by New York city shows that 2S3
are affected with tuberculosis, contract.
cd during the course Of their work by
iuhaling diSeaSe-laden dust.
Careful tests at Cornell university
demonstrated that one-horSe power en-
CINE working continuously for one hour
could produce only enough liquid air,
when converted into power, to run a one.
horse power engine one minute.
The best dye for blue was formerly
furnished b. the indigo plant, Int chem
lists and scientists have been able 10 pro-
cure from the bypr0ductS of petroleum. an
Hniline dye which for almost all ordinary
purposes has Sunplanted indigo.
With two exceptions there have
been no young men elected To the office
q vice presidents of the United States.
These two exceptions were John C.
breckenridge, who was 81 when he lie
came vice president, and Theodore
Roosevelt. who was Is.
II specie of natural soap tree is found
IN Japan, China and India Ry using
water Of alcohol the sap0nacculls in
Sredient of the fruit IS extracted The
soap possessing no alkaline qualities is
claimed to he superior To the ordinary
soap Of commerce..
That most extraordinary ppaYl-0r
rather. cluster Of pearls--knoWn as ne
southern Cross, u owned hy a Syndi-
cate Of Australian gentlemen. who vaiuo
II at Sa0oO0O. II consists of nine pearls.
naturally grown together in so regular a
manner as 10 form Il perfect Latin cross.
The hydro>, ope may render useless
torpedo boats and mines. Should the
captain of Il cruiser see the submarine
before amy damage was done. In navi-
CATION the instrument should also he
serviccahle. as rocks and sandhanks viii
be clearly seen
nil recently il was almost uuner-
sally believed thai petroleum was. ike
coal, derived frum fossil vegetation or
ioSSlhly ircm animals or fishes Of some
ION" past age, Now IL is asserted by
many scientific meu that it may NOT he Of
Ia mn d., 4.
terranean chemical action.
In those lands where horse, are the
food of men all manner OF flesh goes the
way Of the sausage machine Recently
there had 10 lac slaughtered nj Ghtut
an elephant. the last iuhahitaut of the
geological garden. aud his flesh. which
. stated 70 have weighed $500 pounds.
or nearly two tons, all Went 80 the Sau-
sage makers.
The koreau never cuts his hair ar
trdrd. To do So is consider ed "A mark
u diShonm tn his parents. whom he
strongly fcverenccS. Aany hairs that
may happen 10 come on; and even the
Earrings of his finger nails are carefully
saved and put into the coffin with him
IN order that he may 80 back to mother
earth intact
How readily Americans move" i,
shown by the fact that hardly two-ihiYd,
80 NV - ~ 'NNt'AhltNt ditN bftfA HHUlIl
half the senators in Congress were born
in the states which they now serve. NJ
member of either house from Colorado
Idaho. Montana. the Dakotas. Washing
ION or Wyoming is native Of the star,
he represents.
Twenty years ago great volcanic
eruption absolutely killed nh life in the
volcanic Island of Krakatoa. near Java
This island has again become covered
with verdure. without the agency OF
man. The first vegetable settlers on The
covering of pumicc stone, lava and ash
were microscopic algae. These organ
ISmS covered the surface with "A SHINY
layer. which acted as decompo>ing
agent and created valuable sub,traun
fur ferns.
Taking the last five years the world,
average production of cotton per annur
has been lG,000,0O0 bales. calculated nj
$50 pounds To the bale: the production
during the year lS|S was lI.IOu.0W
bales This gives au increase OF hut
iuu.Hd0 bales during the last i've wears
pr an average increase uf lOn,0uO haloS
ger year, which does NOT keep step with
The Increase of the worlds population and
The much greater Use and demand for cot
ton fabrics which is Il marked feature Of
Thp times