Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-03
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a speed of 43A miles an hour, which
would reduce the passage through to
about II minutes.
-Rudyard Kipling, it is said. prefers
the night hours for work, frequently SIT
ting up until or 3 o'clock. lie IS most
elaborate in his methods and pron0unceS
aloud every word that he writes III order
20 test its fitness.
London has five regularly built open
mir paints from which there is preaching
and the results have been so good that
other churches are considering the ."eS-
ton of having such pulpits built upon
tile outside of their editices
Women whose jewel baskets meta
phurically run over with precious gems
may Weld to the fashion, which Is re-
ported to have caught society's fancy Ill
Paris. of studding the heels OF dainty
slippers with cleaning stones.
Rev. Thomas g. Wright, retired
Baptist clergyman, and his wife recently
celebrated at Hartford. Conn, the six
tieth anniversary of their marriage. lie
is graduate Of Colby college in the
class of 1912, and began his ministry Ill
1915.
The St. bernard monks drove one
of their new powerful motor cars, spe-
cially constructed to transport heavy
luggage, from Martigny to the hospice
few days ago, and next summer they
will start a regular automobile service
for tourists To the h0splce.
The geological survey estimates that
the output in 1905 of sheet mica in the
SIX producing states-North Carolina,
Colorado. New Hampshire, Georgia,
South Dakota and New Mexico
amounts To $1,000 pounds, with total
value Of $1S5.900 North Carolina led
- e. ,,itXs,f
Probably the heaviest man in Europe
was the late Hans Fromm Of Wilen-
berg. in Eastern Prussia, a hotel keep
err He weighed 525 pounds. A show
man i'm Paris once offered him Il large
sum. and he was willing to accept ii.
but he could not enter any passenger
car and refused to travel in a freight
car.
by his will a rich land owner named
hlelau. who has died in Leonnewitz, Sax
ony, leaves Il large property 10 the mill
tary authorities. which, i'll case OF war,
is to be sold and two-thrds of the money
given to the soldiers who capture the
first standard from the enemy, and the
third part to the first soldier who cap
lures gun.
Three hundred British firms have
contributed to an exhibit of goods which
is displayed on the lower decks of for
from London to different ports of Can
ada. the West Indies, South America.
South Africa, lnula, China, Japan and
Australia. The voyage is expected to
last twelve months.
State monopOlies are more than ever
in favor in France as a means of rails
ing revenue TO the prejudice of private
enterprise. 4 committee of the Cham-
her of Deputies has been appointed, with
iVtp Of nI,a
To collect information on the possible
working of monopolies of sugar and pc
tr0leum refining, the rectiication of al
coho and insurance.
For long it puzzled me- Sir Doug
las Brooke writes in Country Life, ito
know what Irish poachers did with the
birds they shot in July. There is no
cold storage in the north of Ireland,
but they have discovered an excellent
substitute. The birds are buried four
or five feet deep in dry peat, and, | am
told, come out perfectly fresh at the end
of two or three weeks"
A new branch of science heralds it's
appearance in Paris. 1t is named Dolor-
mety. and its function is the measure.
ment" of the dynamics of pain by ma
terial means. The dolormeter shows that
the dynamic force of n sharp cut with an
ordinary carriers whip is equal to about
% pounds, but that Il vigorous jerk AT
the reins puts a pressure Of about 301
pounds ON the horses head.
The cOuntenance of the Emperor of
China, the Son of Heaven, is not often
gaZed on by Europeans. One of the
favored few says he has a melancholy.
frightened look His face is pale, and
though it is distinguished 10y refinement
and quiet dignity. it has none of the
force IF his martial ancestors nothing
commanding or imperial, but is alto
"ethoy mild delicate and kind
Charles Astor Bristed is the latest
man of wealth to seek an elective po-
Sition in the government of the town of
Stockhridge. Mass Mr. Bristed now is
making 4 vigorous campaign for mem
herslHp of the board Of Selectmen. The
exclusive summer colony at LennoX nj
ready is represented on the board bv
Eustace Jaques. and upon the board of
assessors 10y DIR. John c. Greenleaf.
The Japanese House of Representa-
tlveS consists of 300 members elected bv
ballot, each member receiving a salary
us House OF Peers consists of members
of the royal family, princes and mar.
pniSeS, counts VlscountS and baronS.
elected as representatives of the several
orders. and persons elected for seven
years hy aud from the fifteen highest
taxpayers IN each city and prefecture
The progress of Egypts commercial
development in the last twenty years
has been most marked The cotton crop
alone in that time has more than
doubled. In spite of the large rcduc-
tons of taxation the revenue last year
was the largest ever collected in one
year. The great wealth of Egypt lies
III hcr agricultural resources cotton, oil
seeds. sugar and other crops. These
IA turn. derende upon the Nile Hood
Nlth the Nile regulated and under CON
trol by the immense system of reservoirs
and dams, with fellaheen freed from
excessive taxation, and with a net wort
OF night railways. rendering the produc,
Of the country accessible 10 foreign mar
ketS, the prospect of Egypt is placed oI
y more solid basis than in the past
Consular Reports.
-Miehand finds steady fall in tn,
BIRTH rate of men of talent from NeV
England westward. In New England
CUT of every 100000 births ffty-four ar
thuse Of men of talent: in New Nor
that number falls to thirty four, in Obi
to nineteen. in Indiana to eleven, in Hi
no.S 10 ten. in Missouri To six, in Kan
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