Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-03-19
- Miscellaneous Items. II


The Japanese navy is now seventh
among the nayies Of the world.
Japan has written history extend
ing over two thousand five hundred years.
Frances last potato crop was over
$50 100000 bushels, valued nj about 81
cents a bushel.
Ont Of 80 automobiles in the annual
exhibition in New Jersey city 30 were
electrical and 175 gasoline.
The Dowager Empress of China re-
Gently placed an order for fifty motor
cars TO be made in Germany
Agricultural implements to the value
of $50, 951. 800 were exported from the
United States during the year 1908.
The foreign population of the British
isles numbers 10000. Germans hold
first place in point of numbers, Russians
second and French third.
Steam launches with glass bottoms
are now mt the service of those who
wish to view the marine growth about
Catalina island. California.
An orange measuring IL inches in
diameter and weighing 8 pounds has been
grown by +. Gerber Of Braam river,
kouga. South Africa.
A Texas jury has sentenced negro
to 1900 years in prison for an attempted
assault. He can have 200 years taken
off for good behavior, however
Germany and England get most Of
their flax from Russia. The failure Of
the last crop in that country has led to
an advance Of % per cent. in prices.
The London Times, commenting on a
correspondents letter on child emigra-
ton to the colonies, says in 81 years 49,
900 children have been sent 10 Canada.
There are 2GG00 French in Great
Britain and Ireland, more than three
fourths of the number being in London.
The business most followed among these
is cookery
At recent fashionable wedding in
London the hats of the bridesmaids were
trimmed with nautral flowers; and it is
Predicted that the style win be popular
8eXt summer.
Seventeen horses were required, says
the Paris Matin, 10 draw an enormous
cannon intended for coast defense from
Ponrges 10 Havrc. The gun weighs over
seventeen tons.
The new cathedral at Liverpool will
he remarkable for its high vaulting Of
the nave and choir~ll6 feet, measured
in the barrel vaulting, and in the high
transepts, 40 geet.
The efficiency of an old lamp may he
improved Is to 10 per cent. by surround
ing the lower part of the flame with
copper ring to prevent loss of heat
through convection.
DR.. William Foster Of the depart
mcnt of chemistry at Princeton university
his discovered a new acid, hereafter to
he labeled with the Interesting name tri-
sulphoNyarsenic acid.
The South African medical congress
ut Cape Town has initiated Il movement
for the formation of an association for
the prevention Of consumption and other
forms of tuberculosis.
"A 100-ton electric travelling crane
lifts an S0-ton locomotive in the repair
shops of the Lake Shore railroad at Col
linwood, o.. said to he the largest loco
motive repair shops in the world.
The number of Catholics among
Americans is 19,J00,000. They are mir
istered 10 by ! cardinal, II archbishops.
81 bishops, apostolic curateS and 1850
priests in nearly 1000 churches.
The Germans have been quietly build.
ing for three years At Tstoin on the
Rhine. fortress. Its gums command the
crossing Of the river from the Bclfort
district. The construction is So far adj
vanced that the guns have been mounted.
There are seven government ASSAY
offices in Great Britain four in England.
Two in Scotland and one in ireland. The
royal mint in London is the head office,
'"N ~ ''i' ~ ifli Hlllt@ Hdui - the nl1-
.est for business, because the city is the
center OF the Jewelry industry
The Saxon government now that il
has been found necessary 10 discontinue
The Freiherg mineral mines, within the
next ten years, intends to open up imme-
diately brown coal mines near Leisnig.
which in 1904, 1t is estimated. will have
an output of 100000 metric tons
The failure Of the fruit crop in Great
Hntaln caused a great demand upon the
United States and Canada for apples.
Prices rule high, the importers onota-
lions to the trade ranging from S4.S 10
SI.21 \ barrel for the best grades, aud
IRON 80 to S1.1o for ordinary grades
lf a Japanese husband divorces his
Nlte he makes no provision for her, and
he has no dowry from her family, but
divorced women in Japan nearly always
Marry again. She brings him nothing
but Il gentle and ohedient slave. and
t9keS nothing away with her bur the
same valuable commodity
"A project is on foot in Alexanlrja for
restoring the Sphinx. near the Great pyr-
amid of Ghizeh, to its original condition.
Thick layers of soil completely cover Tho
lead of the monument, while the lower
parts are greatly obSeured by accumnlo
lions of sand. 1t is proposed to clear nh
these Accommodations away and to clean
the head completely. When the work ms
tcoo completed the Sphinx will once more
appear, if not in its first freshness. ar
hast IN the grandeur of its original mo.
pcstiona.