Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-25
NOTES OF INTEREST.

ing considerable progress.
The outside walls of many of the
houses in Mexico are from 3 to 10 teet
thick TO withstand earthquake shocks
Every inhabitant of London eats LIB
hounds of potatoes iii a year. \ ParIslnn
consumes on an average only - POUNDS
year.
A man at Geneva, Switzerland,
claims 10 have remained in the water for
one month He used a rubber suit Of his
own invention.
Thirty young women recently left
England in troopship to become mar
rcd. each being engaged to soldier
serving in India.
The total length Of The Russian rail-
way system on January IA was 3I,J1l12
miles. In 1904 there We're thrown open
To- traffic go miles
The worker in a Massachusetts fac
tory gets 81 per cent. Of what he pro-
duccs. while the laborer in South Caro-
lima gees only 10 per cent.
Russian eXilcs in London rejoiced
over the news of the fall of Port Arthur,
seeing in it the beginning of the end
Of the tyranny of Russia
Morris Caspcrson, u coaclman en-
ployed by Mrs Potter Palmer, was in
iured when one of the Palmer carriages
colided with heavy truck.
A Toxic dispatch says that Japan is
grave over the report that 100000 re-
serves are to be called to the colors. Rus
sa must feel about the same.
OF the 720.00O000 acres of land
making UP the total area of Argentina,
24.O0O.0O are arabic. The principal
crops are corn, wheat and flax.
The stroke Of a lions paw is the
third strongest force III the animal world
The first is the blow of n whales tail and
The second the kick of a giraffe.
An immense coal field has been dis
covered in Ronmania. IT properly eX
plotted this field, it is said. could well sup
ply the demand for all the Balkan states.
The annual consumption of salt in
England is 40 pounds. Russia Is pounds,
Austria rs pounds, Prussia IA pounds,
Spain y pounds and Switzerland S
pounds.
Australia is now shipping many
crates of eggs to Ireland. and the keen
Irish merchants are quickly reShipping
them to England, where they sell as
fresh Irish eggs.
The invasion of Tibet by British
force was mission" The army Of
$3.50 men now being sent into the Nyam-
Nyam country, Central Africa, is Off
cially patrol"
When his wagon was overturned ia
cob Simon suffered injuries which may
result fatally. Simon was taken to his
home by the police and it is said he is
injured internally.
The ink plant of Colombo is curl
dSity. The juice of it can he used as
INK without any preparation. At first
the writing is red but after few hours
II changes to black.
A former army officer plays a hand
organ on the streets of Sheffield and be-
tween times lectures ON the methods of
the British war office, which, he says.
reduced him to penury.
Infant mortality is reported TO be
eav;Tt~r n 7 'gysssSf4 t.7rfsffI n gffs country
except Russia, The death the first wear
are to I per cent. in Sweden, Is in
France and 23.6 in Prussia
Fox hunting seems to he on the wane
III England. Some attribute this to the
lnroadS of the automobile and others 10
hard times and THE loss of many hunting
men during the South African war"
Pilgrims to the number of $500
from all parts of Islam reached Mecca
last year Five thousand are known TO
have died ON the way, and 10000, who
started bnt did not arrive, are unaccount-
ed for.
Col Bill Sapp. the chairman of the
Kansas state Democratic committee. Is
the direct descendant of a French ducal
house. One of his grandfathers was n
teacher Of Napoleon ut one of the mill
tary schools.
Mrs. Olga NJ. Steele. wife of Cant
Oliver ID. Steele died at her husbands
residence, OF heart disease Mrs. Steele
organized the Ladies' Auxiliary Spanish
War Veterans. which met the returning
First illinois infantry at Montauk Point.
Having taken dislike to his daugh
Ter and her husband. Louis Rung of
Basic. Switzerland. poisoned 800 anple
trees in their orchard with arsenic. The
next time they made pie those who
ate il nearly died, Rung confessed and
was sentenced 10 five years imprison-
ment.
The authorities of the Congo Free
State are endeavoring to popularize travel
through their territory, and ii has lust
been officially announced that the Congo
railway has reduced the rate for first
class fares to t. fer journey of 30
miles; This is great reduction on for
mer fares, and is the lowest rate in West
Africa.
The manufacture Of motor cars and
their accessories has become one Of the
most important French industries. From
" total OF 1900 automobiles in 1898 val
ned at Sl,602,0OO. the output in 1904.
according to the Chamber Syndicate de
Automobile de France, has grown To
1000 ears, of an estimated value of
$34,000,000.
Rio Grande do Sol, the most southern
state in Brazil, adjoinS Uruguay ON thr
south. and has about .4U0.0OO popula
tion 100000 of whom are Germans or
of German descent The principal prnd-
net of the state Is cattle. of which il
produces more than amy other three
states of Brazil The climate is very
line ana the country rolling.
\ silver tobacco pipe with stem
ten inches long is used by the Empre>s
OF Japan The bowl is >malI-in fact.
only a quantity of tobacco sufficient to
Eve the smoker two or three whinS can
be put into IT, Then the ashes ,rn
shocked out. aud the pipe is carefully
cleaned before it is rthlled-a process
gone through many times in the course
of an afternoon.
According to the laws of good soc;o,.
III china Young widows should Nor re-
marry. Nidowhood is. therefore. held in
highest esteem. and the older the widow
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