Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-10
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women. The last English census report
ed several hundred women doing the
work of seamen.
The first lead pipe ever made in Can
ada from Canadian lead is now being
| produced at Trail by the Canadian Smelt-
/ ing works Any dimensions required are
made up 10 4 inches in diameter
On exhibition at Coventry, England,
is pile carpet. 24x712 feet, which was
made in Lahore in 1854 for a director
Of the old East India company. The
+ beautiful coloring is still perfect.
The enforced Sunday rest which has
/ been introduced into Spain is causing
much dissatisfaction in all commercial
and industrial centers. 1t is considered
/ likei5 that the Cortes viii repeal the law.
Machinery for paper manufacture is
/ in demand in Japan, as the trade in pa
/ per is largely increasing, owing to eXpOr
: tation to China and enlarged home con
sumption, due to the growth Of japanese
newspapers.
A certain prince. says the South
China Post. has engaged a foreign cir
Gus troupe to perform for the delectation
OF the Empress dowager and her retinue
/ The troupe has been engaged for ten
, days at a cost of $4,000,
Rev. Thomas Bates. who has JUST
completed twenty-five years work at st.
Mary'S, BALKAN, a suburb Of London,
has kept a record Of the number of times
he has preached during that time, and
finds that he has delivered $3.50 sermons.
Pipe lines are to be laid by the
Stanard Oil company fro Red Fork, |.
r., to the oil fields near Florence ana
Boulder, Colo, If the plan works with
success, extensions will be made from
Denver to the Wyoming oil fields.
Copper mining once tourshed in Ire
land. The Ballymurtagh mine, in Wick
low county. averaged 5000 tons of copper
pyritc per annum between 1910 and 1913.
DesultOry prospecting is going on at the
present day in several localities.
The largest British submarine was
launched recently. 1t is called the r. l.
1t is $50 feet in length and IS feet in
girth-submarnes have no beam-and is
about 80 feet longer and 20 feet greater
in girth than any of its predecessors.
There are 1000 American teachers in
the Philippines centered III 33S larger
towns out of oh towns in the entire ar
thipelago. Two thousand primary
schools are in operation, aud they employ
he services of 1000 native teachers.
Jesse Wood of Haywards, Cal. is
trying to raise funds for a monument tc
the memory of Juan Rodriguez Cahillo,
the Portuguese explorer and navigator
who discovered California. landing in the
bay of San Dregosin. September, 1852.
Every October 81 at the base of Mel
sons monument, Trafalgar square, Lon
don, is covered with memorial wreaths
and always among them is one to the
memory of 'the gallant sailors of France
and Spain, who fell in the battle of Ira
falgar
Arrangements are being completed by
the City Of London International Com
mercial association for the holding of an
international Society Dance in Decem-
bers at which atbousand guests Erom the
various trading centers Of Europe viii be
present.
Timothy ]. Lee, an American loco.
motive engineer, has been held rcspon-
sible FOR the wrecking of Il train he was
driving near Iacatccas. Mexico. and sen
fenced To hard labor in the salt mines
for four years. He was badly hurt III
the wreck.
Mount Sopris. near Glenwood
Springs, Colo. 14.200 fec. above sea level
is to be made into summer resort
Among the unique attractions will be the
perfection of natural toboggan slide
which may be used all through the sum
mer months.
esq., In Italy there are 10000 skilled
workmen engaged in the manufacture of
silk. In 1902 100000 Of her people emf.
grated. More than 100000 of her peo-
pie have left their country during the last
ten years, yet there is gradual increase
in population.
After three months trial of the re-
suits of backing out the betting news
from the newspapers in Bermondsey
tLondOnl public library. it has been de-
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ground that ii excludes an undesirable
class of readers.
A modern church, built upon the site
Of an ancient one ut Ilanderaud, Wales
had no bell. \ farmer offc"ed enc that
was lying in one Of his barns. 1t turned
ont To Ice one that had hung i'm the toWei
of the ancient church and had not been
rung for 800 years.
Hearing one OF his officers say M
dinner that half a dozen Russians could
| drive the English out of Thihpt" q sol
dier in Manchuria, who had been serv-
| ing as a waiter at the table, asked some
| people where Thibet was. and learning
/ that 1t was somewhere southwest. per-
| suadCd seven comrades to Join him in nm
| expedition. They had not eonr far when
! they We're attacked and seized by Chinese
handitS' rom whom they were after
ward rescued
The coal mine owners in the south of
| Austria have been obliged to reduce tn
! price of coal because English ships OH
| their way 10 the Black sea for corn huya
taken British coal from Cardiff "a
Trieste ut the rate OF 81 a ton. whereas
the usual rate is between 81 so and -
aud has even been as much as 50
The price of British coal is So low thaf
unless Austrian mine owners reduce
their prices British coal viii lind II, ,,a,.
INTO Austria i'm large u}fan1itias