Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-08-05
- Miscellaneous Items. -

There are said to be nearly fifty diff
ferput rural telephone lines in Crawford
county. Kan, owned by farmers.
America alone during the present
era of prosperity. consumes more cham
payne than is produced in all France.
The principality Of Liechtenstein.
situated between Austria and Switzer-
land. is the only country III Europe
without an army.
In Germany Protestants form G2.5
per cent. of the population. Roman
Catholics with adherents Of the Greek
church. 3G.1 per cent.
1t is estimated that to collect one
pound of honey from cluver, 62,OUO,OO0
heads Of clover must he deprived of nee
tar and 3,T50000 visits from the bees
must be made.
The japanese government is printing
a complete record of the war. The doe
umeut will be made public at the close
of hOStilities. Ii will be issued in Eng
fish ard French. as well rs japanese.
An English island free from English
law is an anomaly, yet such is the sit
uation Of the Isle of Man, which has
a code Of laws entirely its own 1t has
never been ruled by the laws of Eng
land.
Every Russian minister receives a
salary of about $4,000 Il year, and the
minister OF lie interior ana Illdlltt TO
ceive large additional sums. The salary
is for lite, even if the minister is only
in office for n few months.
1t has been found that a pale green
light used in the clock faces of the tower
of the English houses of Parliament
shows the figures and the hands on the
dials much more distinctly than the
whitish light hitherto used.
Clothes washing by electricity with
ont soap is the idea. of Hungarian.
The stream of electrified water is claimed
TO remove all spots and dirt and the 300
garments held by the machine are
washed in less than fifteen minutes.
An inventor who devised folding
bicycle. but never could make CONNER
cial success Of it while the bicycle craze
was mt its height. is now selling quite Il
few of them TO owners of touring cars
They are carried on back or top of the
car. and provide for the emergency Of
being stalled on a lonely country road
With the bicycle the chauffeur can 20
quickly for supplies or help. whichever
is needed
A London dentist named White.
house is the inventor of Il scheme for
overcoming the motion of vessel on
the sea, which was recently given Il
trial on one of the boats making regular
trips across the English channel. Many
tl Aiit Wi W = IIbSl NiHlINEulSilGl SCltll-
lists and inventors have taken Il trial at
this problem without success, but the
present inventor says that il was never
possible until electricity became avail
able.
By the recent dinner of the London
Association of Correctors of the Press.
over which Anthony Hope presided, at
tention was called to queer custom of
the old time. Printers used To chain
copies of their books outside their Of
fees and if any passing scholar detected
an error he was rewarded according to
its magnitude--a cup of wine for brok-
en- letter, n cup of wine and plate Of
beef for a turned letter. and the like.
What is called in Canada the Twelve
Children act Of the late MERCER govern
ment, whereby farm Of government
land was given to every father of n
family of that number, has developed
the interesting fact that the French Ca
nadians are far more prolific than any
of the other races of the dominion,
though even with them the number who
are qualified to take claim under the
law is small. Only about 6 per cent. of
those henefiting by the act are of Eng
fish, Scotch or Irish descent.