Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-24
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A steel chimney 26O feet high was
recently successfully completed in South
Wales. 1t is the tallest of its kind i'll
the world.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has ac-
cepted the office Of honorary vice presi-
dent of the State Mothers assembly OF
New York
king Edward of England has a pc
culiar habit of passing his finger back
ward and forward under his chin when
in meditation
iand sea of Japan that they are, sold
in the restaurants Of that country for .
cents per dozen.
Magnetic compasses are 10 be sup
piled in future to all British and native
cavalry regiments in India at the rate OF
four Il squadron.
Pet dogs in sunbonnets and blue
glass spectacles may be seen following
their owners through the streets OF Der
lin in hot weather.
Congressman Olmstcd of pennsylva-
mia expressed this opinion: ut takes
man about four terms TO famiHariZe
himself with his Office
DR. William Henry DrummOnd. the
poet Of the French Canadians, has given
up his medical practice and gone into
copper mining in the dominion.
The Japanese imperial library at
Toxic has on its shelves something like
2OOO written and printed mathematical
works. extending as far back as 1895.
1t has been decided by the municipal
authorities Of Berlin To establish public
sun and light baths" ut which first
second and third class fees will be
charged
According TO Ii Iribuna di Roma
one of the CATERS Worn by Garibaldi
when he was wounded in the battle of
Aspromontc, August Is, 1862. has been
presented to the mayor of Rome.
Chinese students in Japan now mum.
her more than 5000, engaged in all the
studies available at American high
schools. colleges, universities. profess
Sional, technical and trade schools
The tallest building in the world is
being erected in New York by life in
surance company 1t will be $50 feet
high, or five feet higher than the Wash
ington monument and IS feet higher than
An amateur society has been formed
for tho diffusion of the cult Of the bag
pipe not only in Scotland, but in Eng
land. \ set of pipes costs from so To
$3.50, according to finish and embellish-
meuts.
recently realized Il long cherished ambi-
ton by paying visit to Paris While
there she enjoyed the felicity of having
her allowance increased from $4,000 to
$4,000.
The largest industry in Japan is tex
tile. there being some 1J31 factories of
various sizes engaged in this trade the
majority being centored in and around
Osaka. These are mostly worked by
steam power.
There is a horse that catches rats
and mice in Manchester. England If
rat or mouse runs across his manager,
he will grab Mt it and, if successful iii
getting it, will drop il into the bucket
of water'which is always left with him.
The Japanese jinrikishas were es-
tablished in Shanghai as public vehicles
less. than two years ago, and their in.
production in various other parts of
China is being pushed with characteristic
japanese energy.
According to information supplied by
the Institute of Tropical Research re-
Gently founded in connection with Liver
pool university Ceylon has. in the last
season, shipped 100000 pounds of rub
Der, all produced from the island PLAN
tationS.
The coffee crop of Sumatra has he
come almost equal to that of Java. The
latter island is smaller but much more
populous and it had a long start in cof-
fee before the plantations in Sumatra
began to cut any figure in the worlds
supply.
Northern California has lost it's prin-
cipal antique. The oldest house in that
part of the state, built by Mayor +. Is.
Reading in the remote period of lS44
and known therefore as historical
structure" has been destroyed by wind
aud flood
The British committee ON naval de-
signs has recommended that no more
small protected cruisers he built. The
war fleet of the future is to consist of
battleships and armored cruisers. the
torpedo tlotillaS and submarines forming
separate self-contaned forces,