Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-05-28
NOTES OF INTEREST.

tf.IlliZtU mt eighty i've AtaiN.
Two hundred machines which supply
newspapers on coins being placed in the
slot are now installed in Berlin.
The wholesale textile firms Of Lcip-
zie, Germany, have determined to have
bargain sales on stated days of the year.
The Eskimo population of Alaska.
| abrador and Greenland is estimated az
$4,000 Twenty years ago it was 10000.
There are fewer blind people in the
United States than in any other country
in the world, in proportion TO the popula-
ton.
-Mcmbers of the Saxe-Cob,rg family
occupy five thrones in Europe--thoSe of
Great Britain. Germany, Portugal, Bel
GUM snd Bulgaria.
The divorced husband Of Nine. Lii
liam Eordica alleges that the eight years
%! his welded life with the famous singer
cost him S330,;i0O.
Italy and Spain have fewer houses
in proportion To their population than
any other country in the world; the Ar
gemnc Republic and Uruguay have the
most.
The great Corliss engine that fur
E.Shed the power for the Centennial eX.
position at Philadelphia had 300 horse
power. At st. Louis one engine has
fF''' 'l'lNt ti'N'i'
The clock placed in the hail of the
Hoborn (EnglandD borough council is nj
least 2I0 years old, and has been in the
possession Of he local authorities for
that period. II >till keeps good time.
AbySsjmia produces the finest ostrich
feathers. the price there being %l.44 to
S2.3l per dezen for the hest white. 9G
cents to Sl.I3 4 dozen for black and half
as much for gray feathers
There are Il few carpet factories in
smyrna, but most OF the carpets are
made in the dwellings Of the peasants;
each house has it, loom. ana carpet
weaving is done in the intervals of farm
Ing.
Japan. with her l7.0O0,0OO popula-
ton, has 4.302. G25 pupils in her ole
mrntary schools, or ~ in every 1000,
while Russia with l30.00O.OUO popula-
tion, hn, Only I.113,59l, or - in every
1000
The earrings worn by Italian women
indicate the part OF Italy the Wcaror~
come from; the longer the earrings the
farther south the original homes of the
women. In the far north the ornaments
are quito short
John Baumgartnrr of Williamsburg,
\. y, invited 800 friends 10 accompany
him to the theater. and just as they were
ready to start with Il band of music to
cad them Baungartncr was seized with
illness and died
The district Of Guayaquil. in the ro-
public of Ecuador. leads the world in the
production of cacao. and has a larger
output than the whole of Africa. which
continent however, is in many parts
well adapted for it's culture
II is said that the effect of utoxicat-
lnS drinks Is such as to make French
nam In Il.
q Spaniard To gamble. an Englishman 10
cut an Italian to boast an lrishman To
right and an American 10 make u speech
\ cheap and novel plan for heating
houses is being put in operation nj Glen
wood Springs, Colo. Water from the IA
nous boiling springs l., being pipcd into
town. and 50 great is the supply thar
houses can be heated at a very small
expense.
a new theory of the Marian
canals is that Mars has solid crust
and an elastic nucleus of higher tenn
pefature. The crust in cooling neceS-
sarily contracted. and the pressure upon
the mass within caused assures 10 lee
formed in the surface
according to Belgian paper The
tzar Is among the composers 1t is stat
cd that at Il SojrCr in the Winter Palace
several works from the Imperial pnu
were performed, among them one en-
titled, significantly enough, The Song
OF Peace"
Chicago is a little piqued at the re-
port that the first days attendance III
the Louisiana exposition was greater
than that mt the opening day of The Go
iumhlan exposition. Tine number in al
tendance nj ST. Louis is given as 1S1.793
that ut Chicago was l3I,5
The largest lo0vcS of bread baked in
the world are those of France aud ltaly.
The pipe" bread of Italy is baked IN
loaveS two feet or three feet long. while
IN France the loavcS are made in the
shape of very long rolls. four feet or hva
feet in length, and in many eases six feet.
The old English inns are fast pass.
ing away. The king Of Prussia" hos
terry at tinchlcy was recently torn
down. 1t had been running since 1T51.
ANA me license had been continuously IN
the hands Of one family since that
Time. The old "plow." at Kng>lury
Green. is said To he so years old. ana
the king JamcS." at EndGcd. 800
Years old.
New York boasts of some fair mita,
tons Of the Fewer of Babel. Such are
the Manhattan Life huilding - stories,
MS feet; the 81, Paul huldiug. u
stories. SOS feet, and the Park Row
building, - stories, ~ feet. Buildings
at from - to - stories and 25O 10 500
feet are such common incidents of the
landscape as scarcely 10 attract attea-
ton.
The largest >touc,arch bridge in the
world is now ia course OF erection n;
l'Huen. SaNuuV, This bridge will have
span eft &si1 fcct, eNetcdm. hy - feet
the lannon's Luxembourg bridge opened
last wear, and by >tiil more the Nor,