Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-05
Curious CONVERSATIONS.

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Last year 1900 miles of fencing
were erected by the government in the
Transyaal and a further 1850 miles are
yet to be undertaken.
The production Of oleomargarine in
the year ending June 30 rose to 6S,9SS,-
$50 pounds, an increase Of 15,S42,191
pounds over 1906. The government de-
rived an income of 1887, GAL from its tax
on the article.
Consul ]. A. Howells reports that the
principal exports from Turks islands.
West Indies. during 1906 consisted Of
salt, valued at $69.474; sisal fiber, $27,-
27T: sponges. 81, 767; turtle shell, $S604
and eonchs, S2471.
Ben VanaseK. who five years ago
sold newspapers on the streets of Mil
YANKEE and played a eornet in news
boys band has been awarded the grand
prize for eornet playing by the National
Conservatory of Music at Paris
The Chinese Viceroy at Canton has
given authority for the forming of
commercial company for the working of
The various coal deposits found in the
different parts of the province. Agree
nlents are now being made To organize
this company.
Two years Imprisonment was the
punishment melted cut the other day in
the punjab to d HindoO who had gone
about telling the people that there would
be no plague at all did not the English
poison wells in order to reduce the pop
ulation. He had an accomplish who
helped 10 make his story plausible by
putting balls of flour and other sub
stances into tanks and fountains.
Recent careful surveys on the 18TH
mus of Panama prove that Gatun lake,
the great storage reservoir which win be
formed by the building of the Gatun
dam near Celon. will have an area of
125 square miles The former estimate
was no square miles. The result will
be beneficial To the canal MS the greater
quantity of water stored up will allow of
iifty-siX lockages a day instead of only
twenty-six, the former estimate.
Consul General Alfred T.. Nj. Colt
sehalk Of the City of Mexico. reports
According to the best authority a con-
sentative estimate of the American cap
ital brought into Mexico since 1902 and
invested in mining and smelling ventures
amounts to about S125, 100000 gold, This
figure may materially increase the gem
era estimates OF American investment
in Mexico, which | estimated some little
time ago at $750000,000 gold value"
Queen Victoria of Spain is now to be
added TO the list of Europe's royal au-
thors. She has produced Il play in
French which is TO be acted this summer
by noble amateurs &C the royal villa at
san Sabastinn. The Queen inherits her
iiterady gift from her mother Princess
Beatrice of England, who has written
much. In her childhood the young Queen
was clever little actress, and her fond
ness for the stage has not diminished of
recent years.
New Zealands domestic Workers
union is making Roadway and now en-
braces all the leading cities of the colo
NY within the scope of its organization.
\ working week of siXty-eight hours, Il
graduated scale of wages and variety
of indoor reforms are provided for in its
charter Its members are classified in
this order: Housekeepers, lady helps,
generals, housemaids. nurSemads, kitch-
en maids, laundry maids. cooks. wait
resses and nurses in charge.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the we'll
known English inventor, has home in
holland Park, near London that resem-
hleS strange storehouse of electrical
appliances. He recently was presented
ut court in recognition of the part he
took in the development of the incandes-
cent electric lamp. During his early
years he was associated with a firm of
chemists in New Castle. Sir Joseph has
prided himself on the fact that all his
inventions have been of practical things.
The fre-damp detector of NJ Hardy.
4 Frenchman is an ingenious appica-
tipn Of the microphone. Two pipes of
equal pitch-one in the mine and the
other above grOund-are sounded stimuli
taneously, and the sound waves impinge
ON mlcrophones connected in series with
a telephone. II both pipes are i'm pure
ar clear note is heard in the telephone
II the pipes are in air of different den
sity beats are heard and these give warn
mg OF the presence of fre-damp in the
mine.
The Rhone, ON leaving the Canton OF
Geneva, near Bellegarde. flows under
ground for short distance and then re-
appears on the surface: but this perte Cu
khone. as 1t is termed. is destined itself
TO disappear. An official inquiry is heinr
held on three projects for making a dam
Zi.5 yards and two parallel tunnels OF
aOVO yards, with two central stations for
generating 10000 horsepower during
9Vu DAYS 81 the year The estimated
cost is t1.000,00O.
That the automobile can be used with
great success in determining the couros.s
Of young bulls intended for the bull rim,
mas heen demonstrated by Pedro Fernon
aez Somellera on his San Isidro hacienlo
IN Mexico. The novel experiment. woS
hlauee a rev days ago with 30 .hors,.-
ROVER ear. The experiment proved an
exciting success Several Of The vonn,.
butts charged the machine nj mad snen5
anu u vas only by clever driving thai the
gar anu ITS occupants were kent rlcar ~
The horns of the surprised aud apparently
indignant animals
THAT il is never too late 10 learn ;s
slgnaly illustrated in the case of Miss
Mary h. Van Dyne of poughkeepsie n
A., who. though III wears old has bacn
during the last school year student M
Nassar college. She has been taking a
special course, and has been classified MS
freshman. being supposedly the oldest
freshman in the country. Ii is said thai
Miss Van Dyne was eager in her younc-
er uays TO enter Nassar, but for financial
reasons was unable to do So. Some timn
ago her fortunes improved aud She car
re dout the ambition of her youth
Judge Paul AlhertS OF Rresiau
Germany, has published an article an
the subject of The Oath" In which he
takes strong stand against the prevail.
ing custom Of administering an oafb ~
persons who are called upon Ia testify
IN courts OF justice. The writer tells ~
tue changes which have been made In the
manner OF taking the oath and how in
orded to make the ceremony inpresSive
various methods had to be emplaged fcr
n HHssaNas