Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-03
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Spain in the last few years and cmigrd
ton is increasing rapidlF-
Breton Woons, ~ H.. has IN auto
mobile school for horses that is proyin.
successful.
Owing 10 the use of artificial indigo
manufactured in Germany. the produc
ton of natural indigo has greatly dimin
ished in East India. The latter countr,
last year exported only G5,000 hundred
weights OF Tins article. against lI0UW
hundredwetshts in 1897.
An apparatus called the teiccrypto
graph, which telcgraphs aud records il
print messages over ordinary telephone
lines, without interfering with the tec'
phone, is said to have been invented 5y
Signor Mclcotti, an Italian electrician.
AT Versailles is n p0megranate tree
which is said to be the oldest in France.
1t is in an old orangery and was planted
in 1866. In exceptionally warm seasons
the tree still puts forth n few flowers,
hut it has borne no fruit for many years.
The median age Of negroes is 1914
years-that is. half the negroes in the
United States are below that age The
mrdian age is four years below that of
the whites Obj years.. 4 difference close
Nv connected with the high birth rate and
nigh death rate Of the negroes.
An article in the London Daily Telc.
graph shows that mt the end of July,
1904, T30,2lf persons were receiving in
door and outdoor relief in England and
Wales, representing = g for every thou
sand inhabitants an increase Of "a 33l
compared with tho same time in 1903.
IN fight between troopers of the
Ninth cavalry tcolored) and Fourth cav
airy and Fifteenth infantry in IA low re.
sort nj Monterey. Cal. on the night II
October 20 Sergeant Tuoity of the
Fourth was killed ana Private Moore Of
the Fifteenth wounded, perhaps fatally.
y man brought up at st. Adams as
an incorrigibic rogue was proved to have
married his aunt. His children are there
fore his hrt cousins and he is his own
uncle. His grandmother and his mother
ln-laW ere the same person. Apparently
the judge >yInpathizcd with him. fer he
was discharged
In one Of the London public schools u
teacher asked her class what turf was
Nobody could tell. She next asked what
grass was. There was long pause,
and then the SmarteSt scholar raised Il
hand. ''Well?' asked the teacher.
'ileascm. its what You got 10 keep of
Of" was the reply.
An expedition TO the Nam MAN
country will he Eugiands next little
war; The country is 500 miles south
west of Khartoum and eau muster IA
fighting force of $4,000. The eXpcdi-
tionary force will consist Of 1000 Sou
dancse troops under ritiSh officers. The
start is TO be made next month.
A number of Philadelphia business
men have organized what is 10 be knorn
as the Downtown club, each member =
whi,n rs piedged TO war on tppng.
They have become tired of fleeing wait
crs ut noon in order to secure reasonably
quick service, and the Downtown club Is
their way of overcoming the nuisance.
In 1898 there was established at
Hanover, through the instrumcntalty of
the German Association of Gopher
smiths, school for the instruction Of
young men in the copper-w0rking indus
try This school was organized as .le-
partmcnt Of the school for mechanics
and industrial arts located in that city.
The first regularly ordained and in-
Quoted woman pastor of an English
church is Miss Gertrude Won Petzold, Al.
y. Edinburgh, who conducted her first
service in the Free Christian church,
Leicester, on September % She is the
daughter of Il German army officer and
is ~ years old She has had IL notable
scholastic career.
the other night the Japanese in San
Francisco gave Il war drama for the
benefit of the widows and orphans of the
Japanese army. The audience was .Iapa-
neSe, large and enthusiastic. 4 news
paper report Of the play says the ham
ding Of the Russians in it was fierce"
One Cossack received threc-iuch cut ON
his arm from ,lap's sword
The SpaniardS met with the potatD
in Peru, where il had long been cult
waited by the natives. but il was we'll
nigh hundred years before il was taken
over to Europe. I'm 1857 we hear of its
being introduced into Spain. while in the
preyious year Sir Walter Raleigh began
TO cultivate It in Ireland from seed which
was taken over from North Carolina
The value of real estate in California
As officially estimated tn be worth $SS1 3
lhI,1a9, the improvements on real estate
S3lG,20S. l23. the value of personal prop
crty S2S9.G23,2S2. the money ana solvent
credits $l2.ou6,24N. ana the total value
OF property as returned 10y auditors is
Nl,lSO, 81, 100, exclusive uf the rail
roads, which are assessed at $6g. G,i9, Dts
hy the state board of equalization.
The Guyana and Culata trihcsmen.
whose country is situated near the Ger
man frontier in Southwest Africa, and
VINO have risen against the Portuguese,
who hold their country. can put 2O.ON
men into the field. They have I0R
MauScr rifles, a great stock Of ammuui-
ton and many horses. \ number oi
Beers are with the Portuguese expedi
tlon that has Just been defeated in col
liSion with the triheSncn.
Recently in n paper read before q
technical society at Odessa Mr. I.okuz2
iewSli described way of killing th,
young ~ insects in fields by electricity
dynamo is carried OH q wagon (herSt
or automohliei, and the current excite
an induction coil. giving a high tension
discharge. One pole of tn, coil is 10 til,
metal tires ana the other ia meta
brushes passing over the ground. I'll,
discharge Kills the gruhS, etc, in the Sol
After eight months work the prom.
figure that Is to be placed ON top of III,
Mckinley monument in Golden Gati
park. san Francisco. has been east T..
is that ot a draped woman. crowned Wit
bay and holding IN enc hand Il spear an,
Ia the other an cNtuEuiShed torch aru
palm branches The statue will "
mounted on a square granite cohmn. az
tbr front Of which viii he large marhl
medallion of William Mckinley. and Il
the base on the four sides. a scat. III
shaft viii hc uu a circular granite piat
form reached ty steps surrounding ih
entire Cdihce