Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-08-12
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specimen of the apteryX could be seen III
captivity. but eleven very ilne speci-
mems have arrived at the London 100.
Cuba has curious custom Of mixing
literature and cigarmaking. In the Ha-
wanna cigar factories Il reader is paid
from $40 10 500 week To read aloud
three hours daily to the employees.
-Mcxican botanists believe they have
discovered the oldest thing in the world
in cypress of Chepultepec the trunk
Of which is 11S feet in circumference
and the age of which is calculated as
goo years.
An Aberdeen CWash.l inventor
claims to have discovered process
whereby the so-called black sand de-
poSit at Damons point. on North beach,
Gray'S harbor. can he manufactured d.
rect into good tool steel.
The oldest brick buldiu. in Eng
land. except Il Sc built by the Romans.
is said to he - urstmonceauX castle. in
Sussex. whicl, was erected by Detiennes,
treasurer to Henry VI, 1t was disman-
tied about a century ago
The deepest gold mine in the world
is at Bendigo. in Australia. The mine
in question is called the new Chum Rail-
way mine. and its main shaft is sunk
to the depth of 1900 feet. or only 90
India has three and one-third times
as much foreign trade as Japan; three
times as much as China, easily beating
Italy and Austria. also Belgium, and
surprising the Russian empire by -
per cent.
An odd little stick pin has common
house fly for Il head, duplicated in
remarkable manner. The gauze-ike
wings are of thin crystal, the feelers and
hair-lke legs of enameled metal wire:
the eyes and slender body are very rear
istic
One delegate to the Baltimore Chris
tiau Endeavor convention brought along
his wife three small children and a par
rot. the whole party having travelled
100 miles, while another delegate
brought hound attached to him by
chain.
H. Coffin of the Johns Hopkins
Medical school, who has been studying
the mosquito problem has discovered in
the suburbs of Baltimore Il mosquito
which is twice rs large and can bite
twice rs hard as the famous Jersey
product.
Squirrels do not entirely subsist on
nuts as most people suppose. They are
large fruit eaters, and often work havoc
in the orchards in the autumn. They
are also not above stealing partridge
eggs, and are therefore not much loved
hv sportsmcn.
1t has been discovered that the wild
Silkworm produces silk with more us-
ter than does the pampcred worm Of
captivity. Those who are mp on silk
culture claim that the tame worm has
lost most of its power because it is TAX
en- care of 50 well.
1t has been discovered that fowls
can be rendered immune from the raw
ages of cholera by means of vaccination
with cultures of the cholera bacilli. The
discovery will prove great boon to
poultry raisers. who often loose their
entire iocks in few days from cholera.
On landing in Australia, says a
writer in Nature Not.s, orr hive bees
industriously collected quantities of
honey. Finding however. that there
was no winter such as we have in Eng
land, il gave up laying in stores. Its
morals are corrupted. for it is no longer
busy. and leads butterfly life.
Up to 1910 there were no iron
bridges in this country. except suspen-
sion bridges, in which iron links were
used in the cables and suspenders, the
floor system being of wood. The first
bridge III America consisting of iron
throughout was built in 1910 by Earl
Tumbull over the Erie canal, in Frank
fort, y. y.
Postal conditions in the interior of
Turkey are still in Il patriarchal stage of
evolution. When a postman arrives i'll
n village on muieback he distributes the
letters III a public place, giving each his
own, and then putting the undeliyered
ones in the hands of relatives or ac-
Quaintances of those to whom they are
addressed. Yet il is said that 30 per
cent reach their destination.
-Germany is ahead in novelties of Il
charitable nature. In the town of
Haschmann prizes are offered yearly
for the men who will marry the uglicst
and most crippled women. and for the
women over 70 years who have been
lilted nj least twice. The money was
left 10y n big GnanCitr who. realizing
that beauty is an attraction hard To
overcome, made Il provision in his will
TINT out of the income of the fund not
less than $50 shall go with the ugliest
girls IN any years, and the cripple shall
receive $50,
What is probably the most valuable
diadem in existence is the gift of the
women OF Spain to Our Lady del Pillar
whose shrine is situated near SaragoS
Sa. The diadcm is an imperial crown
surrounded by a Gothic wreath. 1t i,
composed of solid gold, but such is tn,
number Of precious stones that hardly
square inch of gold is visible Their,
are 5000 large diamonds. of which tn,
finest is the gift of the quecn-mother
and 5000 smaller ones. The remaining
stones are emeraldS. sapphireS, ruhies
pearls, turquoises. opals. topazes an,
lmcthYStS.
One If the ways for identifying tn
country in the Grand Duchy of Babe
without amy ultimate expense To tn
taxpayer is the planting of fruit tree
among the government highways. Thes
are cherry, apple, pear and in son
places walnut trees. The trees y:
planted - feet apart along each sic
the road, and when the fruit is read
for market it is sold nj public aucti,
ou the trees, the purchaser being ohligt
to harvest il AT his own expense.
certain birds get their names fro
ST. Peter, According To writer a
petrol lin German "PcterSvogel." Peter
hird4. bird that skins the waves.
named after the apostle who walk,
upon the waves of Guhlee bur n
parrot is a less simple ease In Spa
aud in Portugal. as in France. the ,yoi
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