Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-27
= Miscellaneous Items. -

Stockholm has slot machines which
for copper yield glass Of warm mix.
A girl isn't poem merely because
slic is averse to 2 poet
1t Is stated that for the first time in
living memory every Turkish official was
Iunctually paid his full salary on April !.
The Sultan of Turkey has decided to
Introduce Il Japanese room into his PAL
ace at ConstantinopIe. All the fittings
viii come from Toxic.
DR.. W. c. Farabec of the anthropo-
logical department of Harvard univer-
~ity will conduct an expedition 10 lee
land during the present summer.
Trinidad las the largest sugar estate
in the British West Indies, the. Made
leine with capacity for crushing L.
u01 tons of cane daily and producing 10
tons Of sugar
Military charts the size Of mans
palm. from reduced photographs of ord
nance maps, are to be issued. fitted with
powerful pocket lenses, to officers of the
German army.
The Catholics of Belgium have de-
ciled 70 present to the Pope new
church in Rome. 1t will be built in the
San Lorenzo quarter and designed by
the Pope himself.
Sir Edward Elgar. the celebrated
English composer of 0ratorio. and his
wife will visit this country in June.
They will he the guests of Prof. Samuel
:. Sanford of Yale.
1t is calculated that $30.0000O0
year is spent on golf There are SD
golf clubs in England. 100 in America,
CD in Scotland and 134 in Ireland, num-
bering altogether 100000 players.
The amount of rice produced in Siam
has Increased enormously of late years
Siam amounted to 21I, 600 tons. as com
pared with 100000 tons in 1908
The parish priest of Carpineto, Italy.
dropped dead in church after drinking
the sucramental wine during the celehra-
ton Of mass The wine was found to
have been mixed with strychnine.
Tile Swiss-S Spanish commercial treaty
expires August 81. 1908. If il is not
renewed American cheap watches alarm
clocks and similar products may win
back the leading place they formerly held
in the Barcelona market.
In the case of an old man named
Sheehan of Tralee. Ireland. who had APP
piled for relief, one of the guardians of
the poor remarked: The poor man
should have some relief. Sure, he has
no hclclothes but his goat"
Students at japanese universities
and commercial schools are not obliged
10 serve III the army. IN beflnanN II
has often happened that the universities
We're closed because all the students and
professors had joined the army,
John Il. Guyton of Missouri signed
contract at Seattle the other day with
Japanese officials, agreeing to deliver
100000 horses for the japanese army.
The Northern Pacific railroad will trans
port them to Seattle and care for them
there
The drink bin of Ireland is reputed
to reach El4000,000 per annum. The
Irish Times suggests that by reducing
the consumption to the extent of a penny
in the shilling the Irish Roman Catholics
would provide moro than II 900 00O for
Il university to their own liking.
Children born between September
ana February are, some authorities
state, not so tall as those born in the
summer and spring months. and the
growth of children is much more rapid
from March till August, The eXtremities
grow rapidly up to the sixteenth year.
then there is slow growth until ne
thirteth year. The legs chiefly grow be-
tween the tenth and seventeenth years.
Bavaria in particular has done much
60 attain perfection in its customs staff
for not only has this state for years past
made the proof of having collegiate edu.
cations obligatory before accepting can
dldates for the customs service but also
10 further their efficiency in administer
ing the new tariff, the government has
established a chemical laboratory for the
practical education Of its customs officers
at an expense of Sal 400