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


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Dalny appears to have been taken like
n ncanut. The laps shcllcd it first.
An Austrian PEASANTS wife, in revenge
for her husbands loss OF lawsuit.
sowed tares during The night i'll the
wheat field OF his successful opponent.
She was sent TO prison for three months.
II is sometimes said that the United
States is the best field for newspapers,
but some Of the papers of Paris have
enormous circulatons. The largest are
lie Petit journal, 100000, aud lie Petit
Parsien, 1I00a00.
Greece is overIun by wellcducaled
men who do not know how To earn
living The country swarms with doc
tors who have no patients and lawyers
who have no briefs. while laborcrs to till
the soil are Mt Il premium.
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II transprcs that the poison class
of the University of Michigan has been
chewing wild chickweed in the cause of
science Their achievements open way
to fame for those who have been vast
ing their chewing energy on tinciured
chewing gums.
GuStave Mace the famous Paris de-
tective who died recently, invented for
his own use pair Of spectacles, the
glasses of which were divided, one part
enabling him to see the ground on which
he trod, and the other = observe peo-
pie who were behind him.
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Cannibnlsm Is still practiced III New
Guinea and solomon islands in the Pa
cihc; in the Muir river county, West
Africa in several parts OF South Amcri' |
ca. including Colombia. and is believed
to be praciced in northern Iuzon. L. l.,
and in the voodoo worship Of i!ayd.
Good society in Korea has many
curious customs. One of these is that
widows must not rtmarry No widow
in the really smart set would ever
dream of remarryiug, however young She
may be or however soon the death Of
her husband may have followed her
wedding.
The Austrian marriage laws are
very severe. They prohibit marriages
between Christians and Jews aud be-
tween Christians aud utidcls. a mar
rage between a Protestant woman and
man who said he had no particular
creed has just been annulled by tac SUI
preme court.
A basalt stole found by Rev. Mr..
Scheil. a Roman Catholic priest, in the
archaeological museum ut Constantinopie
has ON it an Assyrian inscription Of
King Nobonod of the Sixth century be
fore Christ, telling OF the destruction OF
Ninevch. No other record of the KIM
has ever been found.
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The bodies of all the Cars of Rus
Sia who have died since Peter the Great
lie in memorial chapel in one Of the I
islands of the Neva. All the ccnotaphs I
consisting Of q block of plain white (
marble. are exactly alike, excepting that 7
each bears the name Of the Emperor (
whose body is beneath it.
Ii 4 pound of coal is subjected to a .
dry diStllaton and the products and re,
sidual treated chemically the processes .
for obtaining the well known coal tar
colorS, it will yield enough magenta to .
color 900 yards of flannel, vermllion for
1850 yards, auriue for 120 yards and ali .
Karin sufficient for la1 yards Of red cloth. (
An effort i being made 10 procure .
from the museum of Trinity college, /
Dublin. Ireland, the ancient harp OF (
Tara'S Hail. to be exhibited ut the 81.
Louis fair. This harp is said to be the .
one played by Brian Boru, who lost his ,
lite in i0l4, when the Danes were do I
teated by Ireland at the battle of Clon-
tart
The 6ndiug OF six skeletons by cxea-
vatorS near Necuah has aroused in some /
minds a suspicion of wholesale murder.
There are bones enough of "frai mortal
ity' lying about in the earth to create a
Ike suspicion every minute of the day. il .
oNcavatorS could strike them either in
single skeletons ar lunches of remains.
From the standpoint OF the antiquarian,
the earth is a vast graveyard
George j. Gould is reported 10 have
fallen out with his architect. who was
engaged To reproduce Kilkenny Castle
IN S0ch manner that it would Contain
ali the comforts of home Modern ideas
as Ia comfort DO not haymonize with .
past Ideas as 20 architecture, and the al .
legged mi>ht 10y The arcbiJrc, is not san
pIi>ms,
Sport, a hiG Newfoundland log. .
awned by Cay Engineer Ruudlct, vt -.
Faux saved tho Gte of Mike. his own