Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-24
- Miscellaneous Items. -

During the twelve months ended with
last March there were in London 49O
known cases of infants suffocated in bed.
A Cape Town sergeant of police con
yicted of accepting brides from women,
has been sentenced TO sixteen months inn
pIisonment.
-Au Austrian railway mechanic has
discovered a process, says the Paris Rap
pei. hy which the smoke of warships can
be entirely concealed from view
Among the marriages recorded III
Berlin last year there We're l2l Of blood
relations. One hundred and eight of
these were marriages of Cousins.
For baby show in Plaistow, Eng
land. Il mean old bachelor offered a val
liable prize for the homeEest baby, but
the managers were wise enough to de
cline it.
-Oxtail soup was first made by the
very poor Huguenot refugees from
France after the revocation OF the edlct
Of Nantes. because OK tails then had no
market value.
The tobacco farm at KandalSt0Wn,
Ireland. is proving n success. Fourteen
thousand pounds weight Of leaf, the
product of twenty acres, is being pre-
pared for the factory.
Ten years ago Japan exported 5000
worth of cotton Grape to the United
yearly. .Japans total export of Grape IL
worth $235,000 yearly.
In the district about Gridley, Eng
land. twenty women work as blacksmithS
10 every man following the trade. For
many generations this work has been
almost entirely in feminine hands.
Two men were charged with stealing
slippers from a church at tlontara. Ire
land. and the slippers were found on the
IL. i -
Il sacrilegiouS dog had stolen the slippers.
The largest sailing vessel in the world
has nearly been finished at Bremenhaven
Germany 1t will be 1000 tons larger
than the Preussen which is now the larg-
est and fastest sailing vessel in the
world.
A French physician, DIR. Foucauli
has found that in 1l,04S deaths investl-
gated by him, I59, or per cent, result
ed from cancer. He could not find that
heredity was a factor in the cause Of the
disease.
"A London jewcler has made collec-
ton Of ancient forks used in England,
which show some little known facts
about the table manners Of n few cen
turtles ago. The forks, which are of solid
silver, date from the Sixteenth century.
In many cases the designs in all this time
have scarcely varied in any detail and
bought today The old forks were
great luxury. in their time and were only
used by the aristocracy.
Recently painted extracts from the
diary of Adolf Pichicrs show that that
Tyrolean poet did not endorse the popu-
lar notion that travelling has an cduca-
tiOnal value Most tourists are, in his
opinion, guided chiefly by the desire to
get good things 10 eat in the hotels and
to tiirt with the foreign girls and in the
end they are surprised to find them
selves rs much bore as at home. He
commends the sincerity of party of
Bavarans who played cards ON top of a
high peak 70 pass away the time
has long been mooted question
whether insects are attracted TO flowers
by the bright hues of the petals or by
the odor of the flowers, and recent expert
mcnts carried ont on quite an extensive
scale seem TO Indicate that the perfume is
the essential directive agent. 1t is con-
cRded that insects are guided from dis
tant to masses of flowers by their per
fume alone, but that where flowers are
grown singly, insects are attracted gem
orally by color and where the distance
is small the odor doubtless assists in at
tracing and directing the movements of
the flying insects.