Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-11
- Miscellaneous Items. Il


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The unusual sight of the lion and the
lamb lying down together may now be
seen in a menagerie in Paris.
-Sawdust is now used by some Paris
restaurants. The Gaulois says. as dress
ing for outlets, instead Of bread crumbs.
1t costs only 30 cents a sack
Missouri has more live stock farmers
than any other state in the Union, and
the live stock on its farms is valued at
over 100000 600.
Out of 1913 persons inoculated
against the plague at Habli. India, only
81 per cent died. while of those who
refused to be inoculated 26.G per cent.
died.
A general movement is on foot At
New York to increase the wages of
washer women to $3.50 a day and car
fare. Now the women get S1.25 for Il
days work away from home.
A band of robbers succeeded in steal
ing quantity of valuable gold quartz
from mine at Bendigs, New South
Wales. though they had to climb 1000
feet of ladders to accomplish the theft.
The sentries on the Siberian railway
complain that the engine drivers, who
probably have alIt-imperial Sympathes.
take delight in opening steam valve
just rs the engine is passing and giving
them Il soaking.
In France there are 100000 smok
crs and of every Is there are : who
smoke pipe, , who smoke cigars. and
only . who use cigarettes. Still the
French consume more than 500, 100000
cigarettes year.
The city of Cashe County Tip
perary, WAS Illuminated on December -
TO celebrate the arrival Of the first rail
road train \ railway from Cnshell to
Dublin was authorized by Parliament in
1914, but it has only just been built.
Probably the most costly tree in the
world is the plane tree which grows in
Wood street in the city of London. 1t
occupies space which would bring in
rental of $3.50 a year, and this capital
lied at thirty years purchase gives a
value of S37 800.
Colorado burroa are being purchased
in large numbers by the United States
government for use in the Philippine
islands. Two carloads of these Rocky
mountain canares' were recently
shipped from Trinidad Colo. to San
Francisco, for transportation to the is
lands.
Belgium. where public libraries are
almost unknown. enjoys 10000 public
houses. That means one public house for
~ inhabitants, or one public house for
II men above II years Of age. During
the last 30 years the population has in
creased % per cent; the number Of pub
lie houses 2oS per cent.
The women OF Venice are absolute
~ free from the rule which Dame Fash
ion exercises over their sisters elsewhere
They care nothing for modes With
them the length of the skirt remains al
ways the same, neither short nor long
and they always wear plainly made dark
dresses, black stockings and the heeless
slippers of the east. Hats are unknown.
During the year 1874 w. Alfred
Green, business man, walked dis
lance of 5205 miles, I'M ayergae of 14N
miles day. Writing Of this in the Feb
ruary Outing Mr.. Green says: AT the
beginning of my walk my weight was 192
pounds in street clothes, while at the end
CT il my weight was as pounds This
loss of ~ pounds was in every way ac-
rcptablc."
There is need in North Carolina of
more folks, This state has a population
OF only 30 people to the square mile, and
the average value Of it's land is only 81
an acre. Ohio has n population of 102
10 the square mile and the average value
of its land is S3i an acre Indiana has
population of 30 to the square mile and
the average value of its land is over $50
an acre.
One of the least self-advertised of
scientific authorities is Prof. Roentgen.
lie has never been interviewed. has never
been hanQueted. and is even said to have
refused immense sums of money offered
him by American publishers for book
on what he himself modestly STYLED "a
new kind of ray" Like many other in
veStigators of his race. he carries his
years CALAMITY. though 60.
More than 100000 copies of Dickens
various books We're sold in England dur
ing the month of December last. which
would seem to Indicate that the novelist
holds his popularity well. Another sign
of his popularity is the starting in Lon
don Of Il new magazine. The Dickensan.
to be edited by Il. W. Matz. and pub
lshed by The Dickens Fellow ship"--a
society which now numbers more than
5000 members
Ten years ago a French missionary
started the systematic rearing OF two
kinds of spiders for their web, and The
Board OF Trade Journal states that n Spi-
der web factory is now in successful OPP
GRAFTON at Chalais- Meudon, near Paris
where ropes are made of spider web in
tended for balloons for the French mill
tary acronautic section. The spiders are
arranged in groups Of twelve above a
reel. upon which the threads are wound.