Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-25

- Notes of Interest.


The diamond, in sufficient heat will
burn like a piece of charcoal.
A London justice a short time ago
made an order for the distribution Of an
estate that had been in the court OF
chancery for 100 years, during Whlch
time If had increased in value threeioid
Frank T. Bulen. the writer, is on Il
Iecturing tour iii Australia. 1t was 10
Australia that ne made his first voyage
10 boy. He remembers landing IN
Melbourne on the Queens birthday, lSt2.
Bans Of marriage that had been pub
lished twice were published for the tiuFd
time by the parish clerks daughter at
Ellington, England, on Il recent Sunday
morning The vicar was away on non
dav. and for some unknown reason no
other clergyman came.
1t is said that the Gar Of Russia
receives from his subjects through the
most no fewer than 100 petitions every
lay of his life. The majority of these
documents before reaching the monarch
hands are examined by a confidential
secretary.
At n recent meeting of the Royal
Society If British Artists. Alfred East
was elected president. This is the ola
art society which flashed into such nrll-
liant but brief nOtoriety under WhlS-
Sir Wylte Bayiss.
Quill toothpicks come from France.
The largest factory in the world is near
Paris. where there is an annual product
of 2O,O00,000 Quills. The factory was
started to make quill pens. but when
these went ont of general use 1t was con-
verified into a toothpick mill.
Lieut. George W. Kellogg has
retired from the Metropolitan museum
e.. va nf CqrVipp u n
pointed in 1882, he then required only
two assistants. So great has been the
extension Of the valuable contents that
nearly 100 were needed this year.
The ever-increasing dimensions of
war vessels has led the German govern
ment to conclude to widen the KEEL canal
from 60 to 100 feet, and the width at
the surface from 100 feet to $50 feet.
The proposed improvements il is esti-
mated. will cost nearly S5O0OO,00O.
The Winnipeg Commercial says that
the wheat crop in the Canadian North
west this year will be about 97,000,0 900
bushels. which it estimates will sell at
60 cents a bushel The population is
about 100000, and the amount to be re-
ceived from the wheat alone will be
500, 100000.
In German East Africa the natives
who can indulge in the luxury of drink
ing soda water take it directly from the
hottie instead Of pouring il iuto a glass
The government has forbidden this pruc'
tice. Cd pain Of severe punishment les
White men may happen to get the same
bottles reiilled.
The city council of Birmingham.
England. has increased the number Of
women health inspectors from four to
twenty because of the excellent results
achieved in the homes of the poor and
in the factories. In the same city the
policemen have been taught the princi-
pies of first aid"
A letter has just been received in
Montpelier, VT, which was posted in Ire
land fifty-two years ago. The letter has
been in the dead letter Office ut Washing
TON all the time and the party who sent
the letter has died aud the ADDRESSED has
died and her children have grown up,
married and reared families.
According TO Al preliminary report
Of the interstate commerce commission
the gross earnings of the railroads Of
the United States, covering approx
mately 219,000 miles of road, will prob
ably show for the fiscal year ended June
80 all increase Of 10 per cent over the
50 .073, 100000 earned in 1908.
Owing to the difference in gauge be-
tween the Prussian aud the Russian
railways ilUti NtiUA mas HitHPIlb btti
involved i'm the unloading and reload
ing of goods for transshipmcnt across
the frontier According to announce
ments in the German press an attempt
is being made to meet this difficulty by
The Irish language is spoken in the
Bahamas among the mixed descendants
of the lIibcrnian patriots banished long
ago by Cromwell TO the West Indies.
One can occasionally hear negro sailors
in the East end of London who cannot
speak n word of English talking Irish
to the old Irish apple women who gather
round the docks,
The gold output in the Rand district
Of South Africa has steadily increased
since the end of the Boer war, and is
now welt above the highest volume
reached before the war; nevertheless, the
market price of Rand mine shares have
fallen over oue-haN, or 10y some $61O.-
100000. No satisfactory explanation Of
this anomaly has been offered,
Consul Harris Of Mannheim says
that thousands of American agricultural
implements have been sold in Southwest
Germany, and yet two-thirdS of the hay
and grain is harvested by hand. The SUI
perority of American sewing machines,
cash registers, typewriters, shoes, office
furniture and many other articles. has
helped TO make their introduction all but
universal