Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-08-10
Curious COMBINATIONS,

per cent. " ~ ~
The town of Orson, Sweden. is vi,,
out taxes. The necessary reyeuua. al
derived from forest reservation ''e
The average weight of a pair ~ H.
plant tusks is $50 pounds, but <jn,.Io
| tusk has been known to weigh 80
pounds. ~
The percentage of females emnIorsa
in four Branches of labor in France ~.
Agriculture, 2S; commerce, 50: dome
tic purposes, Il; and learned professions
"A company has been formed to PRO.
| duce alcohol from currants in Gre.
The spirit has proved of great use a. a.,
| illuminant for heating and for drIvi9,
small engines. ''s
Lii Lehman, the composer of "The
Persian Garden is the granddauctt.,
of Robert Chambers, the Scotch ppf.-
Usher. Her father was Rudolph Lei
mann, portrait painter.
England added last year over three.
quarters of million tons to its Registers
| of steamers and sailing vessels and ev-
perts are wondering whether this is no,
more than trade conditions warrant
Mime. Emma Calve, as proprietress ~
the chateau de CARRIERS in the depart
ment af Aveyron, France, has received
q gold medal at the Rodez Agricultural
show for model farming.
San Marine is the smallest repuhIic
| in the world. 1t mas but % square
miles. but has a population of $500
Its annual revenues are $4,000 It's
army has 900 soldiers and $50 officers
The greatest ride on horseback ever
| done up to his time was done by Cow
per Thornhill, II untinglonshire. England
April 20, 1745, who rode 213 miles in n
hours and IL minutes to win a wager Of
| 500 guineas.
in sending his yearly subscription to
one of the Winnipeg newspapers Man
| itOba farmer wrote: Dear Sir-If Won
see any women that want to get married
| send them this way; | want wife my
self and a good many more"
One hundred years ago the West
Indies supplied about one-half the
worlds sugar, but the industry is on the
decline. The worlds crop of beet sugar
is now about six million eight hundred
| thousand tons
The latest secret fraternity move
ment began at the Ohio State University
where students recently organized a
| Delta Theta Sigma Society to stand
strictly for advancement in agriculture
and extend its Development
The use of coffee in England was
first known in 1857. The first public
| place in london where it was sold was.s
| thus advertised: 'Made and sold in St'T
MichaePs alley in Cornhill by Pasqua
Rosee. at the sign of his own head"
-Glassless goggles for drivers of mo-
| tor vehicles have thin steel plates IN
| place of the usual lenses. There is moth
! ing brittle to break endangerinT the eyes
and three ingeniOusly arranged Sits ELL
able the wearer to see everything in front
! of him.
The District Of Columbia has the
greatest population a square mile of any
section of this country. The Figures are
| slightly more than 1889. IN ALASKA
there is only one person to 10 square
miles. Rhode Island is second to Wash
| ington, with 407 persons Il square mile.
The popularity of all kinds of sports
in South Africa, emphasized by the re
cent successful visit of the Springb05
| football team to England, is in Itself
| abundant evidence of the large market
| open for further development by enter
| prising importers of suitable clothing and
accessories.
The Boston Alaskan, a monthly deyot-
ed to the interests of Alaska, says that
| copper mine on La TOuche island,
Prince William Sound, was recently sod
for $5,000,000 to the Rothschilds. AID
the United States paid for Alaska's Goo
| 600 square miles was S7,2O0000 and
many thought it dear at that price,
Austria has passed a law by which
| its citizens not only receive a vote hut
are compelled under penalty TO use It.
! About 10000 are to be called up and
| fined for neglecting their duty. This s
a revival of the exquisite simplicity #
the Athenian legislators. who literally
rOped in the citizens with a red3ened
rope. The man who had a reA mark
was fined.
| bn / 40 81 l0+ +1..
| tai value of the exports of Australasia
| in the period from 1906 to 1910, iuciu-
| sive, apart from any further expansion
! after the end of 1907 will amount %
! about S1,S13,O00,0OO, or, if no drought
! probably more than $2.000,000noH
contrast be only $S05,000,000 in the four
| years from 1886 to 1890, a growth I'D
only twenty ears of from 100 to IN
| per cent.
1t is stated that along the Lincoln
shire coast the sand dunes which there
fringe the shore are moving steadily H.
| land. This, says the London Globe Is
due to the wind from the face If ne
hills over to the back. At MahletuoElt
| it is said that two acres of the properly
of one individual have thus been buried
| in sand. And at Anderby what uStu
to be a field behind the dunes is now
sandy waste 40 yards in front.
Edward r. Thomas Of New leFS
probably has achieved more than aI!
other American millionaire as young -
he. When only "a he was a member o..
the stock exchange and a bank preslde9.
at 2S. Las. year with several futlN,
he put up S2,000,000 to finance 4,'1"N
bale cotton pool, the largest pool ever
| formed in cotton speculation. III Ws
| horse racing, motor racing and antoine
bile world he is particularly active aus
daring.
A strangely pathetic tragedy a3s
been revealed by the death Of d man 31
| the casual ward of the Tunbridee "oTA
| house. The man arrived there 20 US
prosecution of his search for his VIZ
| from whom he separated many Fe'
ago, and he died through breasn- p. -
/ blood vessel. He told his story 70 H
workhouse master, who made iatll'
and ascertained that on the same Cd.
woman had died from prec.SeF ''-i.
| lar cause in the same workH s-..
was the missing wife. Both h't-'
| buried in one grave.
A few miles from Stella. 49,
novel live stock establishment
| ing about in perfect cantentn,.-. 5.s-
/ door norl- iS q herd of hp1HL'- @E-