Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-28
= Miscellaneous Items. =


-fEe output Of porcelain at Seto from
April. 1906. 20 March. 1907, was valued
at S6G112a Of which 33 per cent. went
To The United States.
-Fhe total amount of notes in circnla-
lion Of the Bank of japan OH July Is
last was S1J2 ,000.00O. with specie re-
serve amounting 10 $4,000 600.
OF the entire human race it is esti-
mated that 500000,000 live in houses.
7O0.000.O0O in huts and caves. and 210,-
100000 have virtually no shelter
Scottish bakers in 1883 only earned
from 20 shiliIlgs to % shillings week;
the average wages now stand ut from rs
shillings to 81 shillngs week.
James Delaney, born in 1926, and
said TO he tho oldest letter carrier in
the country. has resigned after fifty
years continuous service in New York.
Ostrich feathers can be taken every
eight months The planes are not, as
some suppose, pulled. but are cut with
a sharp knife. The stumps wither and
fal. orr.
Since July. 1905. new companies
have been formed in Japan, with total
capital of $59S,294, 400, and the in
creased capital of old companies
amounted to $40, S62.365.
The total output of salt in Japan
during the year ended March 81 last
amounted to 1,257. 361 .52S pounds. The
import of foreign salt during the same
year amounted to 3J061 ,392 pounds.
Iron cloth is largely used today by
tailors for making tbs collars Of coats
set properly. II is manufactured by Il
new process from the steel wool aud has
ihe appearance Of having been woven
from hOrsehalr.
AT the beginning of the year The
fa
prohibition in Maine. North Dakota and
Kansas was only 100000 BY the end
of the year Tennessee and Georgia will
nearly have trebled the number
SOME time ago wooden manufacture
or in the north of England succeeded III
making Il fabric from old ropes. He OBJ
tanned a quantity Of old rope aud cord
age, unrayeled them aud wove them by 4
secret process into Il kind of rough cloth.
In regard TO rhe marketing Of Ameri-
can motor ears in Turkey Vice Consul
General William Smith-Lyte advises
that owing to the impossible roads and
streets there are no prospects whateve.'
for business in the ConstantinOple dis
trict.
Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal
secretary of state is said to be one of
the most modern of men. He usually
drives about in his old world coach. and
and can send a rifle bullet through 10.
cont piece at twenty yards.
disappearing paper is a novelty for
use by those whose correspondents for
get to burn the letters after their utli.s
has ceased. II is stesped III snphurie
acid, dried and glazed, tue acid being
partly neutralized by ammonia yaoor.
1t falls to pieces after given time.
The aigreite in Il lady's bonnet il
tltsAf rax nir1.y nf fha1s
The collector seizes the bird while she
Is on her nest. with the young just
Matched, and tears off her plumes and
wings. leaving her to die beside her little
ones who, deprived of her fostering care,
also die. victims to woman's vanity,
Vice Consul ernest Santi Of Milan.
Italy, reports that the city government
has voted TO obtain loan of $13,5i0,-
OOO at / per cent. interest. to be lqui-
dated within fifty years. The money il
to be used in making municipal improve
ments, such as building sewers, public
baths. tramways, electrical plant, new
streets. etc.
Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of TUT
key has hobby for carpentry and cabi-
net work. Before he came TO the throne
and when there seemed little prospect
of his succeeding to the heritage Of us
man he spent good deal of time in the
fairly skillful workman. capable of earn
ing his living anywhere.
The record for multiple weddings
seems to be held by small English vii
iage called Trail. The bridegrooms were
the four sons Of John Sumers Of that viii
lage, and the brides. whose ages ranged
from Is to %. were the daughters of
James llochsteeler a prosperous farmer.
The eight young persons have lived all
their lives within stones throw of each
other
Queen louise of Denmark is ex
tremely wealthy, for she not only in
herited large fortune from her father
but also another from her mother Prime
ess Louise Of the Netherlands, who was
one of the greatest royal heiresseS of the
Nineteenth century. Both the King and
the Queen of Denmark are still very
Young looking, though they celebrated
their silver wedding in 1894.
The creseent-shaped sand dunes
which move in thousands across the
desert of ASlay, near la Joya, Peru.
have been investigated by Astronomer
). |. Bailey. who found the points Of \
crescent to be 100 feet apart. while tbe
convex side measured Al feet and the
greatest width was more than 100 feet
The estimated weight was 5000 tons
vet 1t was carried l2o feet year by the
Prevailing south winds
London now has six tubes" for elec.
TIRE underground service Five more
tubes are under construction ana pro.
Jected, The existing railways of London
underground and surface. it is estimated
carry over d0OO000O0 persons yearly. of
winch the underground lines accoumo.
date 21S,000,000. There are nearly 600
midway stations in Greater London. and
INTO the trunk-line stations alnna t6cr.
pour annually over 3O0,0nutN na>~,n.
gers.
Another new tits" pertainine tn oc.
cupation has appeared Ii is "telephon-
MS The new epidemic has broken ont
recently among girl switchboard onern-
tors III the Bronx, The symptoms are n
lash on the arm used to handle Tho
plugs. followed by partial or completn
helnlessness of the member. II is suc-
gested by physicians that the disorder
NAV be due to mild blood disorder
caused by careless handling Of the pluas
by their metal ends instead Of hy tho
insulated handle
According To the Dominion Rureau
81 Statistics. the MANUFACTURES of glass
IN Canada is "a waning industry In i've