Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-22

pI4eu immediately the patent VIII hVt
even suffer any swelling and viii entire
" avoid pain.
The report that a method Of making
fuel gas out of crude petroleum has been
fested with continuous success at Hart
ford City, Indiana in a giass-maki king es-
adjustment, viii send cold sAivers"
alternating through the spines of the
coal dealers. The gas is said to cost
only seven cents a thousand feet.
Tie will Of an Austrian detective
provided an unusual way for dividing
his property among his six children
His estate. about $4,000. consisted
mostly Of realty. He ordered that six
envelopes should be placed in a box,
each child to draw one and have the
portion Of the property described on
the paper inside the envelope.
In the pioneer days Of railroadine il
was sometimes necessary for the con-
ductor to run forward over the roofs of
the cars to shout orders to the engineer
Travelling at night was generally avoid
ed. though one road adopted the exped-
ent of running ahead Of the locomotive
a fiat car loaded with sand, on which a
bonfire was kept burning as Il headlight,
While q recent forgery prosecution
was in progress in a Washington (state)
court the accused calmly reached over,
took the forged document from the table
and ate it before the astonished court Of
fcials recovered sufficiently to interfere
Thereupon the prisoners counsel prompt
ly moved for his discharge on the
ground that there was no evidence
against him.
A dispatch from Culi0can. Mexico,
says that. because a woman entered the
Jesus Maria Y Anexae mines, several
hundred miners went on strike and re-
fused to return TO. work until the Parish
priest went into the mines and spriukled
all shaft sand tunnels with holy water
1t is an old superstition among Mexican
miners that if woman enters mine
catastrophe will follow.
1890 barrios, or villages. with an av-
erage population of 500 inhabitants. The
average size of the tarrio varies widely
in different provinces 4 number Of adj
5accnt barrios form a pueblo. or munc-
pal unit, and thus there is practically
no rural population. Three6fths Of the
population live in villages Of less than
1000 inhabitants and per cent in towns
Of over 5000.
What is believed by antiquarians 10 be
The oldest paper book in existence Is the
Red Book of Lynn" an ancient register
belonging to the corporation Of Kings
Lynn. England. This volume is known
as the Red Book" from It's original
binding having been of that color. The
first entry is a transcript of tie will of
Peter de Thorndon, Burgess of Lynn.
dated 1909; the latest entry is dated
10 Richard ii.
Marriage has 4 fatal effect on music.
For some occult reason as soon IS a girl
is married the piano--the grave Of SO
much money and time-retires out If &C
tive life, and, swathed in art drap-
cries, burdened by vases, cabinet photo
graphs and imitation "curios." serves
less as a musical instrument than n
warning. Music, as it Is taught. is not
So much fine art as had habit. says
tie Outlook
" cubic foot Of earth weighs about two
and a half times as much Is cubic foot
Of water. 4 cubic mile of earth the.
weighs -. G49.3u0,O00 tons. The volume
of the earth is 259, $50 100000 cub,
miles. The weight of the world withod
It's atmosphere is G.666.25O. 0oo. COO OCQ.
ooo.0o0 tons. If we add 10 this liz
weight Of the atmosphere given abov
we get a grand total--G, 6GG, 2J5, $4,000
cVO,OuQ,QO0 tons.
Fish. because cf its tendency rap.Gl
70 decompose, holds a peculiar position
among foods. In England it is the sut
ject of special act of Parliament :
long ago as 1893 men knew the eva lol
sequences resulting from eating mackert
Of uncertain post-mortem age, SO tie
passed an act providing tha, except On,
ing the hours of divine service This f>
could be sold on sunday THAI a.t .a
never been repealed.
VIII Japan's new island ta; arpsar,
recently from the depths of tile sea en-
dureE Scientists have besg ASKING thi
question. Graham island popped up i
much the same way in lie Medi.u
ranean sea in 1881 aU1 was AZ oac
decorated with an English flag. Bur al
action of the waves demolished the 3.
land in a short time. On tile other hand
~ the Island Of BogosIoff. in the Behrin