Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-07
- Notes Of Interest. -

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three of the congregations are almost
two hundred years old.
The city of Vienna recently built an
electric fountain in one of its NEarks. 1t
is very large and is capable OF 20 diff
ferent effects Of illumination.
Consul l.. T. Dudley Of Vancouver
calls attention to the opening afforded
for the establishment of n plat to utilize
the waste offal Of fish in the manufac-
lure of guano in British Columbia.
a monument has been erected to
Anna Hotel in the SchIOssgarten ut
Mannheim. Germany. She was the wife
of Il carpenter who in 1874 saved the
poet Schiller from "A debtors prison.
According to historians the first
striking clock was imported into Europe
by the Pcrsians about 800 \. ID. 1t was
bought as a present to Charcmagne,
from Ahdella. king of Persia. by two
monks Of Jerusalem.
--Gulls are recommended in place of
carrier pigeons in consequence of expert
mentS made in France, which showed
them to have superior intelligence and
to be able to brave stormy weather much
better than pigeons.
-EX-Presdent Morales Of Santo Do
mingo, who was virtually forced out OF
power last year by Caceres, is now
homeless wanderer. and in leaving New
York for Porto Rico was interested to
learn the second class passage rate.
The only law passed at the recent
session of the Manx Legislature which
has received the royal assent has been
proclaimed at Tynwald Hill. in accord.
ancc with the custom for 1000 years.
The law nbOlshes the compulsory view
ing of bodies 10y coroncrs' iurics.
- Roumania is afflicted at present with
about lOO.WD eases of pclagra, skin
disease which il making rapid progress
in Southern TyrOl Prof Babesch of
Bucharest announces the discovery of
remedy therefor. which resembles the
atoNil used against sleeping sickness.
The cutters Of Rio dc .Iancrio ran
with beer for several days recently The
municipal laboratory. having discovered
that practically every beer in the local
market contained dangerous amount
of sulphuric acid, the authorities pro
cccdcd To destroy all stocks on hand.
After having worn male attire for
forty years in an attempt to get other
women to do likewise Mrs Thomas
Rijon of Jersey City publicly admits that
her campaign is Il lamentablc failure.
and now, in her siXticth year, she re-
sumes the conventional garb of her sex.
In the manufacture of tinfoil n pine
is made of pure tin and this is filled with
lead. The whole is then beaten out in
the same manner as gold leaf is beaten.
the tin coating spreading with the lead
core. The three sheets are sometimes
reduced To thickness of .0O0l of an
inch.
1t is believed that the oldest charity
fund. apart from hospitals, which is still
maintained iii the royal maternity char
lty with Headquarters in London, which
wdS founded in 1907 and has just Ccle-
bratcd it's third jubilee. Its finances
were reported satisfactory except for its
debts.
The costlieSt lot Of land in Boston
was taken the other day by the Boston
Transit commission to provide entrance
and exit for the new Washington street
tunnel The lot. which contains 1859
square feet, Is located at Winter and
Washington streets. and the price paid
was S2Iu foot.
In the kingdom of Baroda. India.
favorite sport is Il ti~ttiee+t in which the
fighters wear steel ccstuS which has
formidable claws. The comhatapts, who
have been cruzed with a drink of liquid
opium mixed with nm infusion Of hemp.
enter the arena singing one of them il
certain To he killed
The idea of teaching children 10 rrod
phrase by phrase or sentence hy sentence
at the outset instead of the old-fash
Toned alphabet method or the present
T w., system, Is advanced by Director
ne lroN OF the Brussels institute of
Spt'Ni instruction, according 10 trans
'ati"n Tor the Literary Digest
-'lune 21, 1876, at the Centennial cx-
hhition IN Philadelphia. the telephone
was for the first time exhibited 10 the
public. \ few months before Alexander
Graham Bell had perfected his inyen-
ton, but 1t was not until Il month after
the opening Of the Centennial that il oc-
CURED 10 Nun to exhibit the wonder
"oIhli~ device at the great lam
10 keep iron and steel goods from
rust. states the Mechanical World. dis
solve hall an ounce of camphor IN one
pound OF no. $ lard: take off the scum
my as much black lead as will give the
mixture &R IRON color. Iron aud steel
goods ra"hed over with this mixture aad
~ WI" IL '4' '""hN-t"ur hours, aud
,''" orc" WIZ Hhrh 'i"jh, VIII keep
''t"H Io' mouths.
Lord John Russell when ON a visit
10 Queen Victoria AT Balmoral. asked
her majcst}'S own piper 10 have, SOM,
I'm. ,,l., q, :.