Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-11
II Miscellaneous Items. u

road lines under contract of construction
at the present time in the United States
Doctors coachmen in Berlin wear
white hats so that a physicians carriage
may be easily recognized III case OF
necessity.
An association has been formed for
the purpose of supplying, under certain
conditions, spectacles to children IN
London elementary schools.
in Russia an extensive domestic in
dustrv consists of the manufacture OF
wooden spoons, of which as many as ~
100000 are made annually. They are
nearly all of birch wood.
Having supported himself as a ped
der for seventy-fye years, James
O'Dwyer of Kilmihil, Ireland VINO is
now 1O2 years old. has, for the first time
in his life. been compelled to ask for re-
lief from the Kilrush Board Of Guard
ians.
A citizen Of Salisbury, Mo-, who
manufactures poisoned wheat for ro-
dents. was awakened one night recently
nv n mouse biting him on the ear, The
local paper says the rodent read his
pOisoned wheat advertisement and bit
him for revenge
Fifteen or twenty lions suddenly
raided the town of Ch0rumo. in British
Central Africa. the other evening at
DUSK ana kllibu ana dlc titNtn ItlSoiiS'
The other inhabitants fled in their
canoes and the lions prowled through de-
serted streets.
Bertha Fowler, a 12-year-old girl of
Lewiston. Me. has been astonishing pa
irons of the fair grounds there by driv-
ing a big Hambletonian PAGER i'll some
thing under 2:30 on half-mile track.
She began handling the reins when she
was half her present age.
A Pekin correspondent says: 1T is
no uncommon sight to see twelve or
thirteen enormous fat pigs with their
legs tied huddled close together having
a ride i'm a Chinese cart with some sight
of light cargo on top of them and man
sitting on the cargo.
A new steamship line has been es
tablished by the Netherland and Rotter-
dam Lloyd Steamship Navigation com
panies between the Dutch East Indies
and British India, from Java to Cal
cutta, via Singapore, SObang and Ran
Coon.
The evidence before the British Army
Stores commissioners, as to graft during
the BoCr war. shows that there was only
one regiment the contractors were unable
TO cheat. That proud distinction belongs
to the Seventh IIussars. They weighed
everything and checked the quality OF ey-
erything supplied them
1t is asserted by high authorities
that neither great heat nor long main
tenance of the requisite temperature is
required to steriiZe milk suspected of
containing the germs of diseases, such
as tuberculosis. The bacilli of that ter
rible disease are destroyed by tenn
perature of l45 degrees in five minutes.
Count Tolstoi lately added bookbind-
ing to the numerous skilled trades which
no a randp nTapfiopS TIn aOaDt tbn fret
half Of last winter in binding in leather
a library of 400 paper bound volumes,
doing everything, from the making of
the covers to the gliding and lettering,
with his own hands
A great California industry is the
manufacture of salt from sea water. In
Alameda county 100000 tons were pro-
duced last year. Only few years ago
the state imported all its salt. Now it
produces enough for its own use-whch
is enormous. owing to the fisheries and
packing houses-and exports large guam
titles as well.
The Prince Of Monaco, acknowledged
to Ice the greatest living authority ON
Oceangraphy has decided to establish in
Paris an institution for scaled research.
and will endow il with something like
$l,OO0,000. lie has spent a great deal
of money in searching out the secrets of
the sea. His splendid yacht Princess
Alice is fitted up with fine laboratories
and Photographic rooms.
The young Duke Of SaNe-W eimar,
heir prcsumptive to the throne of Hol-
land, is immensely wealthy and has
more money invested in private bust
ness enterprises than any other royalty
living. He has a million sterling in the
Imperial bank, several other royalties
being shareholders, and is interested in
lot of other paying concerns
A meteorologist has undertaken the
laborlous task of measuring the dimen-
sions of raindrops. He finds that the
largest are about oue-SiNth of an inch
aud the smallest lIOOth of an inch in
diameter. They are larger in summer
than in winter aud larger in hot than in
cold climates. The size of the drop when
1t reaches the earth depends ON the
height from which it has fallen.
1t is said by some students of the
origin Of the great iron and steel industry
that the Japanese many generations ago
used to make steel in a curious manner
which is not wholly understood, They
forged IRON into the shape desired and
then buried it for eight or ten years i'm
marshy ground. Through some process
Of nature, which may have been due to
the presence of peculiar chemicals in the
soil. il came out steel.
V.
Ii is believed To date from the sixteenth
century, and at that time it was known
in Florence. The Romans did not know
Insurance. The nearest they came to
II was the practice of company sup
plying the army TO require guarantee
from the state against the loss of ships.
But this was soon abandoned because
damages had been collected for suukeu
ships too worthless To float.
The enormous salt deposit I'm Kan
SaS beginning in Ellsworth and Saline
counties, extends south through The
counties of Rice. Mcpherson. Spdawick
Harper and Sumner. Salt wells are
found outside Of this district. bur II /.
believed that their water Is made salt
10y coming in contact with the salt he'd
within the counties named 4 few wears
ago IT was estimated thar Kansas had
twenty trillon barrels of salt and cnllj
alone supply the demand of the United
States Tor more than "a million years.
The l1rgpSf salt ulapv 10, r}., !