Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

States that have not a large German
population are Boston, with less than
five per cent Germans and Washing
ton, d. c., with seven per cent.
A piously inclined schoolboy in Liver
pool wrote religious essay. in which
appeared this striking passage: $50
he sed unto Moses Come forth; but he
came fifth and lost the job. Moral
Get up urly, and avoid the rush"
1t may be of interest to farmers to
know that the postofice department
does not require rural carriers to de-
liver mail where vicious dogs are kept.
In such eases the animals must be re-
moved or delivery win be discontinued.
The right kind of citizen does not
look across the continent for an in
vestment. but spends his money at
home and encourages home enterprise.
The right kind of citizen knows the
distinction between the virtue of econ
omy that avoids waste, but spends
money freely for public improvements,
and the vice of parsimony that spends
nothing unless absolutely compelled to.
During the past year twelve hundred
free public schools were opened in
Porto Rico with an enrolment Of rs 600,
which represents an increase of 50 per
cent in two years. Twenty-Five per
cent of all the money raised on the
Island since American occupation has
gone into the schools while last year
the school fund was % per cent of the
whole, amounting to SIS, 900.
Residences for single families are
now rarely erected in New York City,
but flats" are going up all over the
residence section. The great cost of
building site is an almost insuperable
bar to the erection of single residences.
The ideal home life cannot be expected
in the ordinary fat. 1t is far better
for child to grow to maturity in a
small, poorly furnished cabin than in
the most sumptuously furnished fiat.
Modern transportation is the won
der of the world. The modern pas
senger engine, pulling a solid vesti-
bule train weighing 1000, 900 pounds
at sixty miles an hour, is the height
of achievement in land transportation.
On the water, passenger steamer
seven hundred feet long and making
nearly 25 miles an hour between New
York and Liverpool, is an accomplished
fact beyond the visions Jules Verne
of fifty years ago.
Secretary Wilson sapstbat the Ameri-
can working people 10 not appreciate
the bean-the bean is legume, rich
in heterogeneous, flesh-forming, muscle
producing properties, and can be eaten
as an efficient meat substitute. 1t con-
tains all the properties of meat for re-
plenishing waste tissues due to hard
manual labor. The endurance and
strength of the japanese. who eat lit
tie meat, is attributed to their free
consumption of the soy bean.
The great fair at st. Louis is doing
very well, and if no calamity befalls it,
the money advanced by the United
States is likely to be repaid Already
nearly two millions of dollars have
been refunded to the Treasury which
leaves 81 900, 900 more to be paid. The
people of Europe appear to take a
deeper interest in the fair than.those
of this country. 1t was the Emperor
of Germany who advised some of his
wealthy American hosts to return to
the United States. and visit st. Louis.
He hoped they would look at some of
the art treasures contributed by Ger.
many, and possibly purchase few.
The largest grape vine in the world
is growing in the Carpinteria Valley,
twelve miles east of Santa Barbara.
Cal, and is called La Para Grande. Ill
was started from cutting sixty-one
years ago by young Spanish woman,
Dona Ayala. 1t is eight feet four
inches in circumference ut its base and
one of the horizontal branches measure
more than three feet in circumference,
The trellis covers about third of an
acre and sixty heavy posts support It. |
The vine produces as many as five
thousand lunches annually, as con. /
serv"tive estimate, and in good years
many clusters measure twelve to ff- |
teen inches in length aud weigh six to
eight pounds. Its owner estimates
that IN lS95 the vine yielded ten tons
of grapes.
An excellent opportunity to get
your local paper, The News, and two
good MagaZiupS nj a var,r l,,,+ ,,;