Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-05-12
= Miscellaneous Items. #


Cincinnati, through the civic improve
mcnt department Of her Woman's club,
started the first playground in Ohio.
Twenty hundred million bush
els Of wheat are required annually by
the 5l7W0,OO0 breadeaters Of the world.
Representing about thirty schools.
nearly 1000 public school volunteers were
engaged the other day at Aldersh0t Eng
land, in field operations.
Visiting cards of iron are popular
on the continent Of Europe, the name be
ing printed in silver. The thickness Of
the cards is one four-hnudredth Of an
inch.
a soldier stationed at Constantine.
Algeria, who had stolen three belts from
his comrades, threw himself over 200
foot precipice to escape military punish
ment.
The last surviving member Of the
family Of Mozart. the composer. carpa
his living by drawing beer in a railway
station restaurant ut Augsburg, Ger
many.
Tile gods are getting bath" is the
comment reported by Dr Brown when
She Chinese governor ccansed temple
IN Paoting Fu and threw the idols in
the river
The name ri California first az.
pcared ia au anonymous Spanish ru-
mauce published in 1910. 1t told Of an
Amazon queen, C0lafa. whose I'm was
called California
Sir Patrick Keith Murray has pre-
scented to the British nation an old cush-
ion on which the crown of Scotland
rested. and It has been placed in the
jewel room in Edinburgh castle.
Miss Florence !. Nicholson. secretary
Of a London children's dinner fund. said
the other day: 1T is q common thing IN
the slums of Bethna Green to see
baby sucking wbclk stepped in gin"
jacquard, The inventor Of the famous
loom, might have become millionaire
This unscliish Frenchman, though. gave
his invention to the government. aud all
he got IN return was a pension of $1,000
ycar,
Three German battalions ut Metz
are 10 experiment with gray and gray
green uniforms. the metal parts being Of
duh brown The Kaiser IL not yet sat
isfed as 70 the comparative iuyisibility Of
the two shades.
In Australian gold mines It is con
sidered that ventilation becomes bad
when the proportion Of oxygen falls be-
low 20 per cent or less than 70 cubic
feet of mir minute Is supplied for every
man working in mine.
The discovery has been made that
recent great bush fires in New south
Wales aud Victoria were caused hv pbos-
phorus paste laid out 10 Nil rabbits As
soon rs the mixture dried the sun X rays
set fire To il.
On the beach of Norwich. England.
the children enjoy one Of the finest sports
possible tobogganing down steep sand
hill, The sand bluff is 100 feet high Of
soft sand, and the coasters slide down
by hundreds.
Samuel l.. Clemens NIark Twain
has purchased summer home in Red
ding, Conn. Deeds have been passed
conveying to Mr.. Clemens the Noah Bon-
ton farm of ~ acres OH the west side
OF the town, close to the homes of Soy
crai Wcll-known literary men who spend
their summers there
Fifty members are already enrolled
IN the PoCahoutAs society. recently
formed in Washington Members must
prove their descent from the Indian
maiden and her English husband There
is to Ice "Pocahuntns day" AT me
jamestown exposition. when the society
viii hold first place.
The Emperor McupHk of Abys4inia
is the Empress fifth husband. No. /
was a general under King Theodore.
who put him in prison, where he disap-
pcArcd; No. > got a divorce. No. & was
also Imprisoned hy Mencliks predeces.
sor, No ! was in possession when the
lady took Mcuvik's fancy. hut when
"nll obstacles had been removed" Meme
Ills married her.
"A novelty IN Faster eggs is one Of
glass that is electrically lighted Such
eggs are made in white, of frosted glass
ANA M various color~. 60 glow when the
light is turned on in them They are
hEhi"d 10y means oI flexible conductor
WHEN maN lee attached TO any electric
hGhl fixture aud which is made Ion.