Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-09-10
x Curious COMBINATIONS. *

spoken Of in Ireland-a Home Rule
league and Progressive party
Every adult passenger who travels
through the Suez canal pays a toll Of 50.
Children under II are assessed 81.
Up to Iheir arrival IN Lhassa the
British had lost, in the course If their
mission IS killed anu 1872 wounded
The twenty anniversary Of the
Introduction of electric tf9ction into Ger
many will soon b. celebrate III Berlin.
The mayor Of Portsmouth, England
has formally inaugurated as "A Dickens
museum the Louise in Commercial road.
Landport in which Charles Dickens was
born.
1T is estimated that 100 houseboats
may he found upon the Thames and its
hackwatcrs. Some Of these are very gor-
gcous. and resemble miniature floating
palaces.
Up to 1920 the bells of the parish
church OF Chesterfield, England were
rung each year in celebration of the races
Then an unsportsmanlke vicar put an
end to the practice.
There are 100 street railway clrpoea-
tons in Massachusetts, and they carried
IN the year ending September 30. 1903,
q total of 504 .G62 243 passengers. the
cars running 107 .J0G.S12 miles
There is in Paris new school Of
psychology to investigate such questions
as mind reading. mental suggestion at u,
distance, clairyoyancr, presentimeuts, au-
tomato writing, double personality. etc
This school has for its members medical
men almost entirely.
During the summer nearly 1000 cart
loads OF ashes and more than 300 cart
loads of waste paper and old bottles and
rags are disposed Of daily in Brooklyn
alone: and in winter the amount Of ashes
is increased two and one-haif times, to
say nothing Of the garbage.
Tho cuckoo plays an important part
IA German superstition. If an old wom-
an wants to know how many years She
has To live. or a young girl whom she is
- be married all they have to do is to 20
INTO the woods On May day and listen for
the cuckoo. The number of times it yaps
Is the answer
y recently formed creyassc on tho
mississippi just above New Orleans has
been pouring into the great Des Ale
mands swamp The result has been 10
multiply the so-called floating islands
for which the swamp has long been
noted. until they constitute a menace to
the inhabitants aud to the railroads
AT West Point it has been decided
thar no fat cadet may go into the caval-
Iy, because he must lack the agility of
:
burden to his steed. Excessive weight.
says Gen. Burton, Inspector, lis ruinous
10 horse, Is cumbersome to n rider and
weakens the endurance of the indiyid-
ual"
1T is a general opinion that mean
descent electric lamps give out compare
lively small quantities of heat Meas
ufes show. however that of the energy
OF the current only per cent is Turned
into light the other - per cent mani-
tests itself as heat. lnfanmable sub
stances near incandescent lamps are
readily ignited
C. r. Pettis of the New York state
forest fish and game commission de-
>Crihcs for science some peculiar fish thar
were Matched artiiicially ut Saranac lake
in March, 1902. Among the fry OBJ
tanned from SO0,O0O eggs very small
number perhaps 10-wcre perfectly col
orless. Only four lived to maturity. Two
of them were typical albnos.
George Frederick Watts. the great
English artist, who died recently in Lon
don, rarely worked from living subject
hut modelled fragmentary studies in wax
and clay for particular parts of the fig
ures OF his pictures. This patriarch OF
painters said in reference 10 his prin-
tlpai works that one OF his great aims
was 10 take the terror away from death
The Persiaus very seldom hang a
man for crime If he Kills another he is
fued Sl5 and allowed to 20. II he Kills
ten or twelve and the people finally de-
cide that he ought 70 be put ont of The
way he is hanged. But he is not hanged
rs they hang men in this country He
Is hanged by the feet and heavy weight
Is tied to his head. Then he is allowed
To die
A Washington woman has a callec-
whole room. There are in this colier-
tan over 500 pots of china. copper and
"afthenWare. Some of them are in form
ut dolls, monkeys, elephants and tigers.
Others are in the form of houses. tenn
pies and towers. Others still are in the
form of fans, walking sticks, bracelets,
birds and flowers.
The ordinary microscope reveals OH
jects of the size of Il thouSaudth OF u mix
hmctcr, or Il twenty-five thouSandth of an
inch. But the Improvements lately made
hy Sicdentopf and Hzigmondy have low
cred this limit very much. These invent
orS concentrate Oh the 6eld the direct rays
of the sun. nnd thus render visible par
ticleS whose diameter is only one to five
mililonths of a millimeter.
There are some indications that fishes
possess sixth sense, the organs Of which
are the pores II the head and of the lat
canals connected with the external world
by holes through the scales In these
cavities, under which runs a large nerve.
are found nerve heads or examinations
like those Of other sense organs The uSt
or this apparatus is unknown.
Some years ago the Sultan of SUN
learned that the pearl fishermen We're
re0pmC big profits He supplies his reyr-
nue. collectors with sleeves and ordered
that all pearls found near Suu must hc
tested in these sleeves. Those that dropped
through were to he retained by the fish
crmcn; those that remained in the sleeves
were 10 belong to the Sultan for taxes.
It nearly ruined the pearl fisheries.
The building N Liberty. Mo. famil
iarly known as "thc old Mormon jail,
has just been torn down. The structure
was Lihertys jail during the Mormon
war IN Missouri many years ago. and =,
lot of Mormon prisoners were confined
m il ut that time. Many members of the
Mormon sect have visited Liberty within
recent years to see the prison i'm which
their brethren lansuished during the
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