Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-15
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--Masons receive the highest wages
paid to workmen in Berlin, receiving
81 90 to S2.14 day for piece work.
-"Forbidden' is familiar word
abroad. In Italy it is ''vietato.' in Ger
many .vcrboten" or more politely ''un-
fersagt" and in France "defedu.'
The squirrel iish is brilliant red in
colar. which makes il conspicuous M
hahitaut Of the sea as 1t darts here ana
there with alert movements. Ihe hodE
If The squirrel fish shows a few stripes
aud IS wen covered with sharp spines.
The late Russell Sage was mem
nor Of Congress from New York III. the
Hhirty-thiri Congress. taking his seat
December :, 1853. He was Il member OF
he committee on ways and means and
chairman Of the committee on invalid
pensions.
A single bank in Naples receives
half n million dollars a year sent out Of
the United States by temporary Italian
residents The same bank has received
from Italians in Argentina and Brazil
SS2S 900 and $4,000, respectively, in
one year.
Both men and women in Lapland
dress precisely alike. They wear tunicS
belted loosely at the waist, tight
breeches wrinklcd leather stockings and
pointed shoes: their whole appearance,
in short, is Identical, at least TO the
casual observer
"A bank note that passed through the
Chicago fire is one of the curios pre-
served in the Bank of England. The
paper was consumed, but the ashes held
together and the printing is quite legi-
BILE and it is kept under glass. The
bank paid the note.
-N0rWegians have Il primitive way of
breaking up old, WORKOUT wooden ships.
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of the coast. and after anchoring them,
leave the breakers of the next storm to
smash them to pieces. After the storm
the floating fragments are picked up
and sold for firewood.
The longest bridge in the world is at
Sangong, China. and is called the Lion
bridge. 1t extended five and one-Quarter
miles over an arm of the Yellow sea.
and is supported by 300 huge stone
arches The roadway is feet above
the water, and is enclosed in an iron
network,
The tossing of q coin settled con
troyergy over the division of n large
tract of land lett by the late Bart Smith
son Of California. The land was divided
into four parts and the four heirs, with
the head and tale of Il half dollar made
successive selections. much to the cha
grin Of the legal fraternity.
The new Queen of Spain has been
baptized three times, once as an infant
when she was taken into the Presby-
terrain church, a second time when she
was made member of the Church of
England and lastly, a few weeks ago.
when she was baptized as a member of
the Roman Catholic church.
The municipal electric plant of Oril,
liza, Canada. is Il success, according to n
report from Consul Wakefield. The
power is developed twenty miles distant
mt Ragged Rapids, and is sold to the
factories at SIG per horsepower per an.
mum and cents per week per 16-candle-
power lamp for incandescent lights.
The statue of the Angel of the Res.
direction, one of the two statues for the
chapel of Our Lady, in the Cathedral of
st. John the Divine. New York. thar
caused the worldwide religious discus
sion last fall about the sex of angels.
tOppled from its niche recently and was
smashed to pieces on the ground 50 feet
below.
An artist named H. Costa, known
MS THE Man with the Revolving Head "
has been examined at a meeting of the
German Medical society at Prague. He
turned his head around naturally as far
as the shoulder. and then twisted it far
Their with his hands until he looked di-
rectly backward, with his chin above
the line of the spine.
The London Commercial Intelli.
gence reports that there are at present
100000 spindles engaged in the Ger.
man cotton industry. which shows IN
increase of 1905, Cos during the five
years since 1901 There are 2.731. 911
in Kline province and Westphala The
number of looms is ut present 231 100
or 1881 more than in 1901.
On December II, 1909. it will he 500
years since the University OF LeipSic was
organlzed by the secession of several
thousand German students from the Uni
versity of Prague Arrangements are
already being made to celebrate Ais
semi-millenuium 10y the publication Of =
massive work on the history of the citv
and tue University Of Ieipsic.
Under the provisions of n new Bel
GUM law Sunday labor in that country
will hereafter be forbidden in nil com
mercial and Industrial enterprises oxcept
sea, canal aud river transport. fishing
and hawking and peddiIng Only mem
hers OF an employers family living with
MN or his domeStlcs. may work more
than >lA days per week. and the weekly
DAY at rest is 10 lac sunday
1t was not long ago discovered that
10y means OF simple chemical treat
meul ordinary gelatine can Ice solidified
Ia ihiS form IL resembles ccluloid bu
II IS not iulammahlc and is therefor,
.'''~ AfttArf-AbttN ~ nNllNlts as ttliuinlH Is
II can be- colorcd, spotted cor strealed n,
desired. as To imilntc tortoise shell
coral. mother of pearl and other natura
products.
a curious custom is still in force a
Norwich, in virtue of which, on tbre,
days in the year. any one can claim ,
substantial meal for nothing. The oul,
qualification is that the applicant shat
repeat aloud in ST. Giles church Il prave
for the sovcrcgn's health Afterwar,
they partake of Il meal of broth. bee
and bread. finished off with q liberal al
lowance of beer.
Educators and the public IA scucr,
are showing much interest i'm tine rccrr
opening of the Dread School Of Agricn
ture. Manufactures ana Commerce
which occupies 1000 acres of land son
Is miles from Baltimore. Md. /
founder and head is Henry u. Pork
From each state two students win /
admitted 10 work their w;ly thrnugh IA,