Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-08-27
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Webster City. Ia, carries the mn
nicipal ownership idea to the extent Of
,Wninc the towns newspaper.
Two rival railways up Mont Blanc,
one going to the very summit, the other
10 within 500 feet. are projected.
The iumber Of outdoor and indoor
palIperS in London ON the last day OF the
third week of June was l0S.42S
4 company with II capital Of 5000.
001 has been chartered in Massachusetts
to manufacture non-rchllable bottle.
a newly discovered cotton tree in
Mexico promises TO rival III production
the cotton plant of the United States.
A newly invented microscope is said
70 magnify the eye of house fly SO that
L covers an apparent area of 81 feet.
1T is believed that French prune
growers use glycerine to give their dried
fruit its peculiar glistening appearance
British India has the swiftest river
in the world. 1t is the Sutlej, which, in
$50 miles. has a descent of 1900 feet
The annual catch of fish in American
waters is 696,000,000 pounds which
represents Il money value of SAT 10000
The house in Raleigh, \. G., where
Andrew Johnson was born, has been puT
chased by the Colonial Dunes. 1t will
be a museum.
The cleanest town in the United
States is said to be Shakertown, Ky, in
habited by Shakers. 1t has large brick
hotel. but no business houses.
la Burma and Brittany yellow is the
color Of mourning. in Persia pale brown,
III Ethiopia grayish brown. in Syria and
Armenia blue. in China white.
In 1892 there were 1881 breweTics
in Germany while in 1901 although the
production of beer increased. the number
of breweries decreased TO G674.
Only one public writer" is left III
Paris In former years one could be
found every few blocks. Her business
is TO write letters for the illiteratc.
Miss Mile Holmes, English. has
after twelve years residence taken OUT
naturalization papers in order to he eli
gible for a position at the Philadelphia
mint.
Dor some maladies physicians recon-
mend yawning. They say that muscles
are brought into play during Il yawn
that would otherwise never get any exer-
else ut all.
The race of Todas. in India who
practice polYandry tone wife having two
or more huSbandSl. which was 100000
strong a century ago, has dwindlcd 10
l0l persons
The 250th anniversary of the coming
Of Father lie Moyne the Jesuit mission
ary to OnOndaga county, New York, will
lac celebrated IN an elaborate manner at
Pompey Hill on August 10.
The clocks and watches of savage
and semi-civilized people come mostly
from Connecticut and Birmingham. Eng
land, Connecticut having a practical no.
nopoiy in supplying the watches
After seventy-iiye years of captivity
a female eagie owl has just died in IN
ayiary IN England Brought from Nor
way in 1929, this bird within the last
thirty years has reared ninety young.
Successful experiments have beea
made in various forests of France III
cutting trees by means of electricity \
platinum wire is heated to a white heat
ty an electric current and used like Il
saw.
One of the queer industries of the
Italian quarter is the manufacture Of
wax models of various parts of the
human body to be used as votivc offer
ingS to saints in gratitude for cures cf-
Iectod.
When the originator of the genuine
eau de cologne died. aged ~, he gave his
secret To his nephew and heir. Since
100 only ten persons have seen the
recipe. which is kept in box trcbly
locked.
The average cost nf food per family
III 1880 was S31S.20. In 1896. the year
OF lowest prices. II fell Ia $3.50. IG: in
1902 i reached the highest point Of the
period, hcing $3tI.Gl; while in 1903 il
FELL slightly. to S:i42.15
The Berlin Cremation society has
sent Il petition containing $500 signatures
1" the Pope. praying that the laS rites
uf the Roman Catholic church shall no
longer hc denied tu persons wishing their
remains to he crPmatcd
Nearly ninc-tenths go per cent? of
the negroes living III continental United
States are found in the southern (Suuth
Atlantic aud South Centrnh states. and
thrte-teuths Ola per cent? in Georyia.
Mississippi and Alabama,
There are some 100000 German SET
tiers IN Brazil, most of whom are Brazil
ian subjects. but who send their children
10 German schools, which are maintained
for the purpose of training them in Ger
man habits and Il love of Germany.
koryak women of northwestern 81
herm. having no carriages in which 10
convey ihtf offspring, resort to the IN
geniouS method OF droppin. the tiny crnl
rureS into blanket bags which are tightly
strapped abcut the mothers neckS.
or the 1902 students enrolled i'm
the GerluaH universities for the term
nov drawing tn close 3O93 werc for
esguerN. ot whom 9SG were Russians and
IA Americans. Female students ia the
number of 1914 were enrolled for the
term.
a strongly rudio-actjye earth consist
llig chiefly of lauthunum has been oh
tanned from pitchbleude by GcSel. a Ger
man chemist He finds that the behavior
of The material is different from that nf
radlum. aud believes that he has obtained
now element which he calls em2ni1un
and which he hopes To separate from lam
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