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


der mwagmaatschappij.
In the Vatican library there is
treatise ON dragons manuscript ~
single roll 800 feet long and a foot VIDE
Only one person in fifteen has per-
feet eyes the largest percentage Of de-
fects prevailing among far headed peo-
pie.
Since 1892 no newspapers have been
printed on Sunday in Norway, and since
1895 no bread has been baked on that
day.
While Germany has 100000 wonl-
on who earn their own living, Italy. with
only one-half the population, has 3,230,-
400.
Initial steps are already being taken
nj Antwerp for the organization Of q
universal exhibition to be held there III
1913.
"A London curio dealer las in his
window a placard reading; Several
bits Of armor for sale-suitable for mo-
toriSts
A statuette Of Isis. declared TO be Of
ancient Egyptian origin, has been found
buried under the foundations of the
Paris bastile.
The latest count against the automo
bile is that it is helping to spread the
pestiferous gypsy moth beyond its pres
ent abiding places in Massachusetts.
There is Il technical school for mill
ers in Dppoldiswale, Germany. 1t was
founded as a private school in 1891, and
in 1890 was taken over by the munich
pality.
1t is estimated that 800 motor omni-
buses will he running in London Il year
hence Drivers Of horse-drawn omui-
buses are being trained for the new
work.
An iusage of the Virgin Nary in
church ut Autipolo. in the Philippine IS
lands, has jewels valued al $1.500.0O0,
which have been given it by tie devout
women natives.
While chasing a mouse the other day
Nine Delatour Of Paris broke through
the floor of her room ANA found in the
hole brass box containing gold coins
of the value Of $1,000.
Lions in captivity are affected by
bad weather Just as human beings are.
A rainy day Will make them limp and
li>tless, while a glimpse of sunshine re-
stores their spirits wonderfully.
One of the most energetic nest build
crs IS the marsh wren; in fact, he has
tie habit To snch { :gree that he can
not stop with one nest, but goes Oh build
ing four or five in rapid succession
-"Ye Ode Cheshire Cheese" IA
nous London hOstclry. among whose
customers in hygone days were Gold
smith Johnston, Boswell, Thackery and
Dickens, is to come into the market
Conductors on the German state
railways are to he discharged unless they
pass an examination in the English and
French language, though some of them
have been twenty years in the service
Hearing that an old man named
kuss had been buried at Egregy. in
Hungary, with his fortune of SIT 800 in
his coffin his relatives exhumed the
corpse and divided the money among
them.
The cost of feeding the animals ia
the London zoo last year was Sl7,115
The principal items of food were POI
horses, 270 goats, 3I,921 pounds of fish.
25.l96 eggs $500 quarts Of milk and
1871 loads hay.
Berlin has erected huge building
rest milling IA factory, where the unem-
ployed-wh0le families-are received and
provided for. But no one must take ad,
vantage Of this hospitality more than five
times in three months.
Chicago did not get place on the
map until 1910, when its population was
4470. To-day it is the fourth city in the
world in point of population and wealth
The only towns which lead ii are Lon
don, New York and Paris.
Students NJ Japanese universities and
commercial schools are not obliged to
serve in the army In Germany it has
often happened that the universities were
closed because all the students and pro-
fessors had joined the army.
AT the ordinary price of cents a
pound for rice the Chinese ice farmers
make money ON about the same scale rs
would American farmers in the MiSsis-
sippi valley producing wheat on a basis
Of 50 cents n bushel in Chicago.
The total number of all known vare
ties of postage stamps used by all the
governments uf the world up To date is
1922. Salvador the smallest of the
Central American republics, has issued
$50 different kinds; more than amy other
country.
There are three great Mohammedan
universities, al Cairo. Tuuis and Fee, all
African, and another is being built up az
Khartoum. Until very lately they have
all been devoted to Mohammedan law
and religion, and have fallen into icnor-
ancc and decadence.
Compressed tea is common enough in
Siberia. but an unknown commodity in
this country. II is an ordinary black
tea. which is very widely used by the
Brulats Of the trans Baikal region. 10y
whom the herb thus prepared is drunk.
favored with salt and sour cream.
-Germapy is ahead IN novelties Of
charitable nature. In Haschmam
prizes are offered yearly for the men
who win marry the ugieSt and most
crippled women, and for women over 40
Years who haye been Tilted at least
twice, Tie money was left by big
6paucler
-onc of the funniest consequences OF
Young Alfonsos visit TO England is the
birth Of tire "llidalgo" hM. modified
>puni>h turbau with which motlish Eng
l>hmen are tegtuum to deck THEN
heads. Although distinctly more suita
Die for winter. it makes gallant ap
pearauco.
DR.. Wolfgaug Weichardt Of Berlin
has discovered the essence of strength
Icy which the power of any animal. ever
a man. may be nearly doubled: an anti
toxin which may prove OF immense valut
TO athletes aud iucalculahle good IN
cases Of nervous exhaustion and in CON
valesceuce Of serious i'll persons.
Articles OF dress are now being OK
teusiveiy made of glass y N,uetia,
manufactures is turning out bouuctS h,
the thousand. the glass cloth of which
they ar composed having thu sam
simmer aud brilliGncy Of color as sin,
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