Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-07

-Rrazil's chamber of commerce has
offered Il prize of $200O,OO0 To the physI-
elan who shall discover a permanent cure
for cancer.
Prominent railway manag gers predict
that within a few years passenger trains
will be very largely drawn 10y electric
locomotives.
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin is
one of the closest students of Shakes
peare in the Senate and the only yege-
tartan in that body.
British Columbia promises to become
n dangerous rival of Oregon ms an apple
growing region. During last season coo
600 trees were planted.
-Chinchillas have been so much i'll
request for furs in the last few years
that the species is in danger of extinc-
tion in Chile and BOLIVIA.
For swinging monkey round his
head by its tail George Brown, show
man. was sentenced to twenty-eight
DAYS Imprisonment in Liverpool
The population of Morocco can only
be guessed No census has ever been
raker. The best authorities estimate the
inhabitants TO number about 100000.
The Nippon Yusen-Kaisha 0apan
Steamship company has inaugurated
monthly service between Japan. China,
the Philippines and the antipOdes by yes
sells of 1000 to OOUO tons.
A ball was given in the Mechanics
pavilion. San Francisco, recently, for
the widows and orphans aid fund of the
police department, and realized S2l,OOo
net.
-patnconian llamas live for years
without tasting water. and breed of
cows near Loscrc France, and noted for
the richness of the milk, takes 1t very
rarely.
For a collection of 5G4 boollplates,
mostly bv Chippendale, $40 was given
nj Sotheby's, London, the other day.
when the late ]. II. Browns collection OF
nearly 10000 plates was sold for S29lo.
1t is scarcely fifty years since she
first friction matches we're invented
| They were merely splinters or Shaylu&S
of wood tipped with sulphur. The sui
phur burst into flame on being dipped
into a bottle Of phosphorus.
The manufacturers Of gloves say
they make Il No q woman's glove larger
than they did five years ago. Women
have become more athletic and thin
| hands have grown larger, but they insist
on wearing the same number OF gloves.
When the parliamentary writ for the
| recent elections arrived at Dover the
other day it was saluted with three
blasts from the ancient ''burghmote'
| horn. Why? Because such writs have
had that reception at Dover for 800
years.
Twelve million six hundred thousand
is the estimate of the number of the ia
! nous Rocky Ford cantaloupeS shipped
from the Rocky Ford district in Colorado
! last season. Seven hundred cars were
sent out, as against J92 carloads the pre-
yious year.
Prince Chun, the brother of the En-
/ peror of China, has a son, who is the
| Emperor's nearest relative in the sue
| cCeding generation and may eventually
| stated, "best0ws upon the infant the
name Of Pu"
A drcdger built of oak. sixty-eight
| feet long. twenty-one feet wide and draw
ing seven feet six inches of water, is
been in use in the same place for over
100 years and It's engine is said to have
been built by James Watt.
-FuSan, Korea, will soon be port
of call for the regular liners plying be-
tween San Francisco and the Orient.
| FuSan is coming port on the ASatic
coast being now the terminus of the
new Korean railway soon to be connect
ed at Liaoyang with China Eastern and
the Siberian system.
Consul Johnston of Algiers writes
that the aduteraton of olive oil with
| COttonSeed oil has caused Il law to be
! promulgated there requiring all admiX-
| lures to he so marked, plainly. and with
! the proportions of adulteration. Any
! deception in its sale will be punished ac-
cording to law.