Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-02-24
- Miscellaneous Items. -

An elephant has so delicate sense
of smell that when III a wild state 1t can
scent IN enemy at distance OF lOOO
Yards.
The British Wesleyan Mcthodists
have already sold more than l,oOJuVC
COPIES of the word edition OF Their; new
ltymn book. and more thau 2'0'o0S, Oh
the tune book.
The Third battalion, Rifle brigade.
landed al Devonport,. England. recently
after having been on foreign service nlne-
Teen wears. stationed at Gibraltar, at
.Adon and i'll India
-Insurances recently have been placed
in London t. cover the risk OF war
breaking on, between England and Ger
many during the ensuing twelve months
ag 3 GUineaS per cent.
-TaShi Lama of Tibet during the
recent visit to Calcutta was taken to the
races. He was much impressed. tie
said he had never thought there were
50 many people in the world.
a cold storage trust is one Of the de-
Vcopments promised for the near future
in South Africa. All the ice and cold
storage plants M the "Subcontineut" will
be amalgamuted il the present plans
carry.
-,iermany's cavalry following the eA-
ample of the Russians. carries Swedish
camp kettles covered with nou-c0n-
dHciu" substance 50 that the heat gen
Grated by fire continued for twenty
minutes is sufficient to do the cooking.
Tie London Vegetarian Messenger
cnmmcnds footwear without animal
tint The SocS are made of "BaIata'
which is made Of canvas and rubber;
canvas is used for upperS and bright
American cIo;h' for toecdpS. straps aad
trimmings.
In recent years the construction of
railways proceeded in Germany at the
rate of about G2I.5 miles 1t year. The
entire mileage exceeds nj present 81 1S3
miles. The electiitcatom of railways is
still confined to Il few suburban lines.
where the system works satisfactorily.
KaWasaki dockyard Japan. constant
~ employs $500 hands. -Four gunhoats
for the Chinese government and five tor
pedo-boat deStroyers, four torpedo boats
and one dispatch boat for the Japanese
admiralty are now being built there. The
ward also has orders for eleven merchant
steamers
-Ihe Iouge"t bridge in the world is
that crossing the Danube at Czernavoda.
with length Of l2.101 feet; followed
next 10y the Galveston bav bridge in
Texas. with 1l.197 feet. The Firth Of
Forth bridge, near Queenspring, in Scot
land, ranks eighth, and the Brooklyn
bridge ninth
1t is said that one of the Duke of
Geck'S ancestors, who was charcoal
burner. pointed ont silver mine to a
German Emperor who had been driven
into exile. When the Kaiser regainc,l
his throne with the aid of the wealth
thus ohtaincd he made the charcoal
burner duke
The collection of postals is more of
craze in England than anywhere else.
Germany being second. with France
third. When the English warshipS re-
Gently visited Brest the French postof-
iice proiited by more than $1,000 from
the stamps sold for 9tliXing to pastals for
friends ut home.
Switzerland has adopted mid-Euro-
pean time. the true local time for Bern
being Just half an hour later. The re-
suit Of putting the working hours thirty
minutes earlier III the day has had such
an effect on the consumption Of gas that
the Gas company has been demanding
return to tue old system
The original New England was ON
The Pacific coast. Francis Drake in 1879,
ut the close of a months stay, took pos
session Of the country for his sovereign.
Eiizabeth. and named the new acuuisi-
uon Nouya Albion (New England, be-
cause he thought the white cliffs near
what Is now Point Reyes vescmblcd the
chalk cllttS near Dover