Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-03-02
x Miscellaneous Items. 4

A missionary in the Hudson Bay
territory travels in a box whicli is
strapped 10 the back Of 4 hardy native.
Less than ) per cent. of the cN-
peuses of the thirtyfour Strengthening
ana meat packing establishment OF Chi
cago is for wages.
The Me hodist Episcopal mission in
Japan Is erecting at NagaSah splendid
brick structure for college building.
capable of accommodating 4tD students.
In France land and grass are usually
too valuable to he given over to sheep
grazing hence most of the sheep con
Sumed are imported. Alglers supplies
over million a year
The highest bridge i'll the world will
be built across the Colorado river near
Canon City. Colo, over Il Vertcal-Slded
canyon 1000 feet above the river. The
new electric railway line from Canon
City to Florence will cross this bridge.
-lceland's first theater was founded
only in S91 and there is only one in the
iSland--at Reyki avik--but it has taken
firm root. The dramatic season opens
in October and closes at the end of
April when a large part of the inhabi-
tants 20 fishing.
Pew people probably suspect the cX-
tent 10 which Switzerland figures among
the silk producing countries Of the world
which, so far as Europe is concerned,
have always been supposed TO be France
and Italy. But Switzerland exports an.
nually silk to the value of about
S20.OO0,0OO. nearly all going to Euro
pcan countries.
AT Dresden new bath for dogs has
been opened for the convenience of busy
people who have not the time TO look
after the cleanliness of their own pets
Dogs are left mt the bath by men on
their way to business and during the
day they are kept in kennels. cared for.
given wash and Il good rub down.
clipped if necessary. and returned to
their masters when the days work is
done.
~ novel hot water kettle which is
guaranteed cannot boil over under any
circumstances embodicS a steam cham
Der into which the water when ii rises
in violent ebulition is made to pass
through slots and then to fail back into
the main body of the kettle The spout
comes from the steam chamber and is
haffled and connected only indirectly.
The steam chest Of this kettle is utilized
for cooking as we'll as providing pure
boiling water for tea making.
The American tramp must look out
for his laurelS in the matter Of stealing
rides. \ ROumanion recently succeeded
in lodging himself on the pipes under
meath q dining ear of the Orient eN.
press at Costanza. on the Black Sea
these pipes aifording Il sort Of shelf
about 20 inches wide He left his bed
in Paris hfty-three hours later 1t is
remarked that nj the end of the journey
he was very dusty. hungry and thirsty
and possessed Il capital amounting To :
cents.
"Sculs" and skulls" are really one
word in origin. and both at various
times have been spelled capriciously with
''c'' or "A *" Pepys, the diarist. tells
how he went on the Thames. ut one time
I'm scull,' at another in ''skuller."
The origin of the word is "skulle." or
''sculle," a bowl or n goblet. While the
Uranium was obviously bowlike in shape
II distant resemblance to bowl was
also detected in the scooped-out blade of
81 ''scull'' rs opposed to the Hat blade
of an oar proper.
Nearly ouc-half of the shipping traf-
tic to and from Antwerp is carried On
under the British and American flags.
and this has made Antwerp almost an
EnglIsh-speaking port. Free night schools
for exclusive classes in English, organ
lied 10y the city authorities. are attended
by thousands of pupils, while special nj
tcntion is paid TO the study of English
in all the grades of the day schools. pub
lie rs we'll rs private. This desire to
popularize the English language is not
confined Ia Belgium, but has extended to
Germany as WELL where schools of in
struction have already been established
at Munich and Nuremberg by the Ger
man government.