Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-08
= Miscellaneous Items. =

Abraham SoHinSki. AZ years OLD, dled
If injuries in the Englewood Union hos
pital. Soninski was struck 10y chi
cago and Erie railroad train.
The baobab trees of Senegambia are
believed to be the oldest living trees ON
earth. Some scientists have put the age
of one Of these trees at G000 years.
New Zealand's scenery is so beauti-
full and so varied that it has been termed
u combination of Switzerland, southern
France Norway, the Tyrol and North
Italy.
The largest white sapphire in the
world is supposed To be now at Berlin,
having been taken there from Brazil a
short time ago by mine owner. 1t
weighs AIS carats.
Again the University of Chicago is
getting a bit of free advertising. This
time one of it's professors has gone to
live in the woods to get away from the
noise of piano players who disturb his
heavy thoughts.
In the mountains of Tyrol it is the
custom of the women and children 10
come out when it is the close of day and
sing. Their husbands. fathers and
brothers answer them from the hills on
their way homeward
Addison Ballard, who settled i'll Chi
cago when it was Il village aud wagons
were abandoned in the mud Of Lake
street and who has long been Il leading
citizen. died at his home from q stroke
of paralysis aged 81.
Berlin has erected huge building
resembling a factory, where the unem-
ployed whole famlies-are received and
provided for. But no one must take adj
vantage Of this hospitality more than five
times in three months.
I'm London is man who has been
hest man. at 300 weddings. The eN-
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siUnarg for many years and IN that time
has hefriended hundreds of young cOu-
lies, helping them to enter the married
state.
The Zunni Indians win not eat bread
that has not been crushed and ground up
by stone implements They say that the
grain by itself denotes goodness and the
stone means truth. so that il is by
meeting Of the two that the fullest bene-
III comes.
Every Japanese barrack has a gym
nasium, and the Japanese soldiers rank
among the best gyumasts III the world
In half Il minute they can scale a l4-foot
wall by simply bounding on each other
shoulders, one man supporting Two or
three others.
An enormous addition will be made
to the chronological collections in the
British museum by the Request of the
late \. Fry to the museum of his coilec-
tion of cOleopterous insects. undoubtedly
the largest collection of the kind in the
United Kingdom.
There are several wooden railways
in Canada and the United States. One
of them is in the province of Quebec and
mamie and trains are run over them
with remarkable smoothness nj the rate
Of - miles an hour.
Prof Stndelman nrinciDol nbvsieiau.
If a great bosnitol i'm Rerfin estimate
that between one-nunrter ond one-third
If the Diseases nfiiictinc workinrmen i'm
The great ana rrowd"d distrirts IN the
prussion conitol orn causad Nv tbe Inn.
uroper use If alcohol.
Poris Is inst NOW infested lrc rats
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was 49'Voo.
a CHROMIUM incaEiescent lamp for
eiectflc lEhtinE has r"en invented IN
Germany Whlch gives much more bril-
laut effects than carbon lamps in COM
ui"a use It's cost lS greater. but tho
saving IN the consumption of electricity
80 ~ the same amount Of light is said
to - very important.
The PENNSYLVANIA roilrnal ba. re-
Gently Installed in H., New Nork ferry
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iu-tbe-slot machine 4 device vends ice
cooled soda water 4 distinctive feoture
of the machine i n tumbler washer Nv
means Of which nach natron ,.on inS,,re
himself = rIean md s,Iitar,, dr;ni,
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Al eAptit on eaSierh alalrs says
t""t Wneu tne war Is over Chlna VIII
Hoou Mahchurla WIN horde OF colon
ISM , anu 80 make a barrier that Russia
VIII forever he unable TO surmount. The
E Mli.er soeS ON TO say lhat II TINS mad
"tei u"ue SUNNI years ago RUSSIA would