Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-12-09
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

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Good paper can be made from the hops
thrown out as refuse from the breWerles.
The thinne.t and. comparatively speak
ing the toughest Of ali feathers is frog
skin.
The Alsatian city of Maihausen not
ouN provides free baths for its school
children, out free medical inspection and
dental treatment.
Floating islands, the largest being
ahout three-uuarters of q mile in area,
form an interesting feature OF iake III
Mindanuo.
London has fewer suicides than any
other great capital While Paris has
400 suicides for each 100000 year
London has only so.
The most elevated river in the world
Il the Desaguader0, in Bolivia The av-
erage elevation above the level of the
sea is about 1900 feet.
Stockholm has the largest death rate
from the use of alcohol in any city in
the world The number Of deaths from
this cause is 30 in 1000
The message stick" is sort of flag
OF truce used by The natives of Western
Australia when travelling beyond the
boundaries of their own tribe.
For saying that the Kaiser had an
ugly face" Matthias Rohrmann of
Ihaisbourg. AIsace-L Lorraine, has been
sent to prison for two months.
The strike on the Russian railways
stopped 10000 geese from making their
trip to Germany; that is the monthly
export TO the neighborng empire.
About 1000 vessels of all kinds disap-
pear IN the sea every year carrying
down 1900 human beings and involving
a loss ol about SlO0,00O,0O9 in property
Many Chinese Christians have given
up their work al home in order to 80 to
the TrauSvaal to labor as eyangelists
Among the 10000 Chinese coolies there.
Missionaries Of the American Metho-
dist church speak 10 fewer than thirty
seven languages There are 5000 Of
these workers and 10000 Christians
under them.
The capacity Of air for holding moist
urc is twice as great at ~ degrees as at
-, and four times as great at l. degrees
rs at the freezing point of watcr-:}2 de-
greCs Fahrenheit
The usc of the blue uniform faced with
W,lte, which originated with tie British
navy hut which has been widely copied
was suggested by "a riding habit worn by
the Duchess of Bedford
The dead bodies of prospcctors are
found day after day in Death Valley,
y
tunates have discarded all their clothin.
in the agonieS Of heat and thirst.
Sheetron can now be rolled so thin
that il takes $1,000 sheets to make
single inch IN thickness. Light shines
AS clearly through one of these sheets
as through ordinary tissue paper
According to German scientists fish de-
Stroy many annoying insects. especially
mosquitoes. In Germany the common
e
are considered the best MISUNDERSTANDING
fish.
On seis.nograph at Simla, India.
presented to the meteorological depart
ment by Prof. Ormori, the Japanese
earthquake expert. the shock caused by
the blowing up of the steamship Chat
ham. in the Suez canal. 300 miles away,
was recorded.
The Nelson centennial has called Mt
tention to the age of Nelson's captains
ut Trafalgar. 1t averaged not quite 40.
Nelson's flag captain was Sc One of
the commanders was only 20. The com
mander Of one of the finest battleships
WAS 81.
Japanese children have the most won
dcrful dolls houses IN the world. These
are most completely furnished. have lit
tie cages for clIirruuiug insects instead
OF birds, and even Tiny bookcases filed
with dolls poetry books about the size
OF an ordinary postage stamp.
English inhabitants of the Transvaal
are much worried over the increase in
the Asiatic elements in the population.
Already iii Natal the Asiatics outnumber
the Europeans. In Natal too, the white
retail trade has been almost eliminated
as result of Asiatic competition.
The British ship William Mitchell took
recently thrW-hVe days to make the