Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-06-24
Il Miscellaneous Items. II

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are protected
Berlin. the home of the automatic
restaurant gives that institution Il prof
table support, and their number is con-
stantly increasing.
A league has been formed in Swift
erand to preserve picturesque spots
throughout the little republic from COM
me. cial vandalism.
A dog trained for war purposes and
attached to a German regiment, has de
serted" 1t made its way into France,
where il was arrested.
The sheep that has no wool comes
from Barbados. How it got there no
body knows, but it is supposed TO have
come from Africa originally.
An asphalt lake of considerable eX-
tent has been discovered in Asia Minor.
An English company is being organized
in London for its exploitation.
On the hundredth anniversary Of
Schiller's death 1000 copies of spe
cial edition of his poems will be given
t. the school children Of Berlin.
Il man who used glue to thicken the
gravy in the meat pies he sold at Old
Lam. England. is now serving Il three
months sentence in the Jail there.
Trials are now being made in the
German army as to whether the blue
and dark uniforms Of tie infantry had
better lie exchanged for gray clothes.
Many of the hot-,s of the country
towns of England are managed by WON
eu. and it is claimed that they do it far
letter than men in the same position.
Rev. DR.. Charles T. Crane of BGs-
ton. after careful inquiry. has come 70
tie conclusion that there are about 14O
different kinds Of religion III that city.
The extent of China's coal fields has
been put at 100000 square miles-mOre
than seventy times the aggregate extent
of all the coal fields of Great Britain
The lifeboats OF the government sta
toned along our coasts were launched
ga times last year to go to wrecks
They We're the means of saving $40 lives
An institute for the treatment of suf-
fererS from chest complaints. neuralgia.
catarrh and other maladies, by means
Of opium smoking, has been opened by
London physicians.
beneath the floor Of a Roman dwell
ing which Il peasant has discovered at
Meude LoZcre, in the south of France,
was found n casket containing coins dat
ed in the Third century.
-Chilliwick. little town on the
Fraser river, holds the curious record of
having performed a play in which no
fewer than 1000 individuals took part.
Al the characters were red men.
DIR. \. $. Hopkins forest insect in
vestigator. department of agriculture.
says the annual loss from insects which
prey on forest trees and their crude and
finished products is SlO00OO00O.
Dean Leroy, speaking at Norwich
England, the other day. said he yielded
10 no man in his loyalty to the Book OF
Common Prayer, bat il was not always
adapted to the people. 1t was too state
~.
1t is noticed in England as q curious
fact that most of the Jewish soldiers who
died in the Boer war, and in whose
memory tablet was erected recently in
London synagogue belonged to Scottish
regiments.
Tie keeper of the only saloon al
Bellport, Me, was Il candidate for jus
tice of the peace. lie pledged himself
if elected, to close his saloon and 20 ont
of business. He was defeated by al
overwhelming majority.
Cold storage of fruit in the United
States has grown to enormous proper
tions. nearly 100000 barrels Of apple
having been stored last year. 1t is found
that. If properly packed and handled, the
fruit does not much deterioratc
-Skyscrapers are forbidden in Berlin
but the architect, Prof Siegmund Mul
Ter, after his recent trip to America. de
hvered Il lecture in Berlin, in which n,
spoke strongly in their favor. decarns
that they offered great business adj
vantages and were safer in case of fir,
than any other buildings.
--Cocoanuts. being lighter than water
are transported along waterways in IN,
same manner that timber is iioated
Thousands Of them are thrown Together
and the whole mass surrounded bv Ions
strands of bark fiber. One native chi
tow n number of such RATS and the 6hel
is tough enough to stand considerable,
rough treatment
n II
crow Indian agency, says that lis ward
are making rapid advancement alou.
material lines. During the last year thel
have erected over 100 new and comforT1
HE homes, planted around them 1O0t
shade trees and built good barns for thei
stock. This year the Crows have nj
ready planted 1000 acres of wheat nm,
1000 acres Of oats
Maj. Mclaughlin now is on his wa,
To Washington with unique memorial
10 the government. bearing in lien a
Signatures the imprint of the thumbs o
'''i4 Sioux Indians. The petition ask
the DIVISION of 100000 acres of land a
me standing Rock agency, and in Orde
that the willy red man may not trick hi
trusting white father the unique sigma
lures were insisted upon by Mai. Nc
Laughhn.
Robert Rogers. one of the two r.
naming Boer prisoners in Ceylon. lef
'I ii"Iiauu laSt month, having bee
Tour and half years on the island. Til
british government has warned him tina
ttiS permission does not imply that tn
prohibition of bis return to Africa wi
he cancelled. as he has not vet taken III
path Of allegiance. Rogers departr
from Ceylon leaves only one Roer pri
oner. man named Engelbrecht. in II
custody OF Great Britain. Engelhrecl
Is still in Ccylon.
Frozen Through.
NJ the boarding house on Morris,
street they We're discussing climate, III