Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-15
NOTES OF INTEREST.

tlat their average income amounts 10
about 81 100000 a year.
Twenty thousand frogs a year are
used for dissection ana experimental
purposes in the University of Penusyl-
vania medical laboratories.
Tile Baltimore Il Ohio was the first
American road 10 organize on an extern
sive system Begun in 1928, ii had In
1885 a track mileage of 113.
y AXE Biwa is the only large sheet of
fresh water in apan worthy Of men
ton. 1t is thirty-six miles long. twelve
miles wide, and its greatest depth about
300 feet.
The Bessemer process Of steel max
ing was invented iii 1856, and ii was not
until 1876 that open-hearth steel. which
caused such revolution il boiler max
ing, was introduced.
A well educated Partisan named
George Teyron earns a comfortable live
lhood by figuring as the fourteenth
guest at dinner parties which otherwise
would be attended by only thirteen per-
sons.
king Edward is said to have worn
shoes of his own manufacture. Queen
Victoria and the Prince ConsOrt believed
IN their sons being taught a trade. and
the King learned boot and shoe making
when he was boy.
A London policeman earns. as long
as he remains n patrolman. from S5.S4
TO $7.19 a week. He may lodge in a
section house for only ~ cents a week,
and get his board for S1.70. His uni
form is supplied free.
Australia has found a new use for
discarded tramcarS Sydney ladies' have
them painted green and white, hang
them with baskets of flowers. train
crecpers over the roof and then utilize
them as afternoon tear0oms.
The sum spent for Intoxicating
liquors in Great Britain and Ireland in
1904 was SSH 000,0O in round numbers.
This is a decrease from the total of 1903
In fact, for several years the national
drink bill has been decreasing.
The two sides of Il persons face are
never alike. The eyes are ont Of line in
two cases out of five. and one eye is
stronger than the other III seven per-
sons out Of ten. The right eye is also
as a rule higher than the left.
Since March IA, 1900 when the ma
tiOnal banking act was 50 amended as to
permit the organization of national
banks with a minimum capital of $4,000
instead of $4,000. 2411 banks, with
S139, $4,000 capital, have been organ
lied.
In support of her contention that an
unlicensed dog, ON account of which she
had been summoned, was not 6 months
old. a woman of East Grinstead. Eng
land produced in court the dogs birth
certificate, signed by Il veterinary sur
geon.
Chinese newspapers, owing to the
cheap quality of paper used and to the
low price of labor. both literary and
mechanical. are issued at an extremely
small figure. The price of the ordinary
Shanghai journal is cash or about Is
of cent.
A rubber film glove. the feature of
which is aatiseptic qualities. has been
devised for surgeons. The idea consists
of immersing the hands in weak solu-
ton of gutta percha in benzlne or acetone
or applying the solution TO the skin of
he patient
Plans To build electric street car lines
in Pekin have aroused a great protest
fl ON the natives. who say the cars would
he very harmful to the poor, as large
numbers of coolies now make a living by
hauling paSSen gers in rickShawS or on
wheelbarrOws.
Once the late bishop of London was
ordered by his physician to spend the
winter in Algiers. The bishop said it
was impossible; he had so many engage
ments. We'll. my Lord Bishop" said
the specialist 1T either means Algiers
Bishop. I'm go to Algiers."
italian railroads are busy. The Ad-
riatic Railway company viii expend
S3,2J0.00O for new locomotives go and
passenger and freight cars: the Medter-
ranean Railway company will expend
81 GtN.OO for 50 locomotives and 200
passenger ears. and the Sicilian railways
S3G5. 900 for 400 cold storage cars
Russia has probably the most GU
rious tax i'll the world. 1t is called the
amusement tax" and was instituted
year ago to found IN institution for the
poor, under the title of the"EmpreSs Ma
RE Foundation" 'Nhe tax is laid upon
| every amusement ticket sold. and the
| managers increase the price accordingly.
The Target station in the world for
wireless telegraphy is being erected near
Pisa Italy. On its completion, by the
end of the year. il is expected to afford
| direct communication with all countries
of Europe, as well as the United States
and Canada, and with all vessels on the
! Mediterranean. Indian and Atlantic
/ oceans.
| Samuel Bowles, banker. will es-
/ tabliSh a school of modelling ia Rutland.
! Vt. which he will endow with sum
sufficient to pay its running expenses.
! His purpose is to educate American chill
/ dren in the art of sculpture in order that
/ it may not he necessary for Vermont
marble manufacturers 10 secure foreign
| w0rkmen.
Tie Simplon is the longest tunnel in
the world. and has been finished i'm the
face of tremendous difficulties. most OF
which Were entirely unexpected and
many of which presented new problems
for engineers. II extends from Bripg in
Switzerland 10 lselie ia Italy. the total
length being little over l2l4 miles-2l. =
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