Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-07-07
- Notes of Interest. II

There are now about JUUO motor cars
and over 1850 motor cycles III London.
The lord chancellor of Ireland re-
coives salary Of $4,000 Il year.
In Romc's cemetery over G,0O0,O0l
seople are buried.
The Cape Colony authorities have
been petitioned to set apart poets
corner" in the cathedral at Cape Town.
Mrs. Louisa " Bullard has given
the Harvard medical school $4,000 to
establish chair of neurOpathOlosy.
The Welsh National Eisteddfod Is
the biggest Opcn-air concert in the world.
At least 10000 people attend it every
year.
1t is estimated that the value Of the
presents which Prince Arthur of Con-
naught brought home from Japan is no
less than 100000.
In Mexico the law against smoking
in theaters is so strictly enforced that
recently the entire personnel of a theat-
rical company were arrested and fined
for smoking in one act of a performance
Of "Zaza."
John II. Long, eX-secretary of the
navy. is much opposed to the proposed
new system of spelling. He says: To
spell well is the distinguishing mark of
"A scholar, as much as good manners are
of a gentleman"
Recent efforts TO measure the dura-
ton of flashes of lightning seem to show
that it is often as brief as one-forty-
thousandth part of a second \ flash
lasting the tiftieth part Of a second is
considered about the extreme duration.
-Japan's mortuary list in the late
war numbers S0.73S. made up of AZ. 152
killed in action. II ,424 died from wounds
and u SOP from sickness. The total in
cluded 2l3 officers. 16.90S n0n-cOmmis
stoned officers and men, and 1867 non
combatants.
Exactly 100 lives were lost in fires
which occurred in London last year.
Fortysix of the victims were under s
years old and II were over 90. In al
most every instance the fire was due to
carelessness and the lack of ordinary
precautions.
The Hon William pinckncy WhYte
of Maryland, who recently became Unit
ed States senator for the third time, is
the only man living who was member
of that body and voted against negro
suffrage when the fifteenth amendment
10 the constitution was passed by it.
The Children's hospital, Bristol, Eng
land. has three dogs which collect for
it. They have been trained TO catch i'll
their teeth coins thrown to them and
drop them into n box they carry. They
are very successful collectors and the
Hospital has given their trainer medal
The Queen of Greece probably dis
pcnscs more &c what may bee described
aS official kisses" than any one else Oh
earth. Every lady presented to her with
whom she is on intimate terms She kisses
on the cheek: others who have not the
honor of knowing her we'll she kisses on
The forehead.
There is being built on the Minnesota
state fair grounds in Minneapolis the
LARGEST amphitheater in the world. at a
cost of 100000 Although the building
is designed wholly for fair purposes ii
will be available mt other times in the
-sslA-AH conventions or gatherings re-
curing a large seating capacity.
1t has been proved beyond Il doubt
that incuhators We're in successful oper-
alton among the ancient Egyptians.
These original Matching machines were
about feet high. and We're arranged
with galleries for holding the eggs,
which were heated from ii central oven.
About 400 incubators have been discov-
cred in Europe.
Says writer in the Cape Times of
tapt Town. "Stuurman. an old buShtnau
who lives on the top of a hill at SutW-
mans huts, in the PrcSka district of the
Cape Colony, claims 10 he the eldest man
in the world. He is said to be llu yenrs
old and his vife-his sccond-ovcr 100.
II is known for certain that siXty-lyp
years ago he WAS Il very old man and
t'at his SON Is more than 80 years old"