Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-18
Curious COMBINATIONS.


abuse of opium its sale in French harbor
cities has been forbidden.
One hundred and ffty-fve people are
killed by accidents in the streets or
London in the course of year.
In Madagascar silk is the only fab
rio used in the manufacture Of clothing
Ii is cheaper than linen in Ireland.
The tea gardens of northern India
extend over 100000 acres, and they pro-
duce 10000, 900 pounds OF tea per an
mum at a profit of about 500 an acre.
A new fertilizer made in NorH".
from the nitrogen in the atmosphere is
said to be very nearly as good Tor pants
as Chill saltpeter, while its cost is lower.
Palladium has about the same degree
of hardness as platinum. 1t may be
easily rolled into sheets and it is usually
found in commerce as thin sheets or foil.
-The Chinese will eat anything that
comes out of the sea. All the fishes are
good to their taste and are caught with
great skill. Seaweeds are used to
thicken soups, gravies.
Austria is the only empire in the
world which has never had colonies, or
even transmarine possessions, in any
quarter of the earth. Her ambition has
hitherto been continental.
English artillery volunteers are
armed with obsolete field pieces, but
have done their best toward making
them formidable by painting them the
new greenish-gray color.
Hotel and restaurant prices are
steadily rising in German cities because
of the rapid rise of prices of meats and
vegetables. Cooks and walters also de-
mand much more than formerly.
For many years w. Redmond, one
of the leaders of the Irish party, was
~ r IL E 4
He was only % years old when he was
returned from Wexford in 1888.
Germany is now experimenting with
n new automatic repeating rifle capable
Of firing five shots in ten seconds. If
the tests are successful its adoption by
the army is considered probable.
"A tri-weekly train de luxe" is to
he placed in service over the new Sim
plon route for passengers between Eng
land and Italy, via Calais, Paris, Lau-
same and Milan.
Capt. Alexander Simpson of the Alb
erdeen liner Morayian has just completed
his seventy-ilrst voyage, having ira veleu
100000 miles without a mishap, IA feat
supposed to be unparalleled in British
marine circles.
"A woman at Keighley, England,
summoned for not sending her boy to
school. explained to the bench that when
she attempted to chastise him for not
going he threatened to report her to the
cruelty" inspector.
Korea has matrimonial compiled
tons in high circles. No young women
of the better class can be married till
n consort for the crown prince has been
selected. For not sending lists of elig-
ibles as ordered three governors of prov
Motor boats of all sort are becoming
more and more numerous ON the Veue-
uan canals, threatening to dispace the
old-time gond0la. The gondoliers are
much disturbed. IN dispute between
two OF them and two electric launch men
the latter We're stabbed. one fatelly.
The King of Cambodia, who is visit
champagne the other day at Marseilles,
and through an Interpreter informed the
officers that he swallowed the blood of
10000 little golden dancing devils, but
would like some more.
1t is calculated that if all the bluing
used by the washerwomen and laundries
of the world on Monday, April 30, 1906.
were to be poured into Lake Superior at
the same time, white fish would be
worth $1.32 a pound and blue fish 80
cents each.-Chicago Tribune.
Several trained Scotch collios have
been used by the Germans in their south
west Africa campaign. but. according to
reports received ut Berlin, they proved
an utter failure. Apparently the ami
mails lose their sense or smell after they
have been in the tropics for time.
All the efforts made by Liverpool
firm 10 promote the cultivation of cotton
in Palestine have been fruitless, even
though labor costs only % cents n day
and land is one-tenth the price of Egyp-
tian land The chief cause of the failure
is said to be the incapacity and laziness
of the natives.
A laborer in New Jersey. in excayat-
ing for monument in a cemetery dug
up a meteor fragment weighing -
pounds. 1t seemed to be composed eff
fused minerals, glass. stone and steel.
1t also contained mixture of various
colored stones intermiugled through the
otherwise gray mass.
Several trained Scotch collies have
been used by the Germans in their
Southwest African campaign, but, ac-
cording to reports received in Berlin.
the dogs have proved an utter failure.
Apparently the animals lose their sense
of smell after they have been in the
tropics for any length of time.
-Manchuria is described by Consul
General Summons as good farming
country, to China proper Il sort of Ameri-
can "out West" and as fertile in lis
extensive agricultural areas as the gar.
den state of Iowa, supporting million,
ct Chinese, who have come from the
overcrowded adjoining provinces.
Recent regulations in Turkey aim f.
abolish completely the sale within IN,
empire of foreign lottery tickets AM
receiver. seller, buyer or holder of for
elgn lottery ticket is now liable TO prose
cution, mourning a fine of SI.40 /,
$500 for the first otfcuse and Sl3.2t
to Sl4 for Il second conviction.
DR. Douglas Hyde, the famous Gel
tic scholar, in the course of a recen
address nj the University of California
claimed. on the authority of emineu
German and Italian scholars. thot IRE
land taught Europe the art Of rhymins.
lie said further: The earliest recordv,
rhymes in Europe ara those i'm Latn
written hy Augustine lie compose
them while surrounded lay u Geld,
speaking people in the south of eau
In the year 100 4 u. we find the Iris
people making perfect and claborat
rhymes. II WAS not done in other coul
ed e.