Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-27
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

feet at Oxton, nine miles from Noting
ham, England, thick seam of hard
coal has been found. Steps are being
taken to develop the field.
1t has been said that IF the whole Of
the power from Niagara We're utilized IT
would only give three times the horse
power that is thrown away by the blast
furnaces of the United States alone"
-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.
-Berlin's notion that Nicholas Long
worth is to be the next American am
bassador in the Kaiser's capital may
have substance to it. The Kaiser has
long had a diplomatic fondness for Mrs.
Longworth who christened his yacht for
him some years ago.
Boston is the greatest telephone user
in the world according TO the annual
report of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph company. Every day in
New England there is an average Of
935, S5S telephone conversations. In Bos-
ton there is a phone for every eleven
persons.
-Knud Rasmussen of Copenhagen,
who has been studying ethnology at I'm
manak. North Greenlands has started
for Smiths Sound TO find an Eskimo
tribe which is reputed to have never
come in contact with civilization. His
aim is eventually to reach the Canadian
mainland some time in 1908.
old home week has been a popular
success in Baltimore, Notwithstanding
that Baltimore is "A large city. There
were $4,000 visitors. The Kentucky old
home week year ago was highly sue
cessful. The south seems to take kind
ly to the idea, but the south always was
"A honey kind of place.
During the year of 1906 eighty-nine
mining concessions were granted by
the Greek government. A glance
at the list of these conces-
Sions reveals the richness and va
riety of the mineral deposits Of
Greece, as they include copper, lead,
zinc, iron, manganese, cobalt, nickel,
coal, antimony, iron pyrites, gypsum and
asbestos.
"A complete score of new opera by
Verdi the existence of which has hither-
TO been unknown, has been discovered
in Paris in an old chest full Of manu-
scripts and other papers which formerly
belonged to the famous musician. 1t was
the composition of this opera which oc-
Nerdis life.
Princess Fedora Of Schleswig- Hol-
stein. the youngest sister of the German
Empress. is the author of a novel re-
Gently published in Germany entitled,
Hahn Berta. She has Il romantic his
tory, having declined all offers of mar
riage since the tragic death of her tiance,
Duke Frederick of Mecklenburg-Schwe
in, who, while in command of torpedo
boat, persisted in the Baltic with the en-
tire crew.
"A plan for the construction of a
tramway line at Picking, elaborated by a
Japanese. has been presented to the
bureau OF foreign affairs by the Jap
anese minister at Picking. He demands
monopoly of ten years. after which the
concern may be bought by China.
The French war department is en-
gagged in making out lists of motor vehi-
Giles which may be regarded as available
IL case of war. The automobiles are di-
vided into three classes, according 10 the
carrying capacity. The census includes
the puhlic-service vehicles.
The crescent-shaped sand dunes
which move in thousands across the
desert of lslay, near La Joya, Peru
have been investigated by Astronomer
). L. Bailey, who found the points of a
crescent to he 100 feet apart, while the
convex side measured Az feet and tho
greatest width was more than 100 feet
The estimated weight was 5000 tons
vet it was carried l25 feet a year bS
the prevailing south winds.
-NatuNl soap baths are not an un
mixed blessing. The curious soap sprins
that forms a wonder of village il
Timor, East Indian islands, consists of 1
small elevated mud cone from which
bubbles up water heavily charged Will
alkali and radium, the discharge givins
the appearance of a miniature volcano
Is that vegetation is ruined for mile,
around.
The Duke of Wellington. who recent
~ celebrated his fifty-seventh birthday
is Prince of Waterloo in the Netherlands
He is Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo and .
grandee of the first class in Spain, anC
Duke of Vittoria, Marques of Torres
Nedras and Count Nimiero in Portugal
also Earl of Mornington and Viscount
Wellesley of Dangan castle, in the lrisl
peerage.
Street car lines leading out of San
Francisco demonstrated the effects of the
recent earthquake in peculiar way
Photographs Of the line show the track
apparently undisturbed except that in
spots the rails are twisted or huckled
longitudinally. 1t was as if each rail
had been pushed s.Gs 'ther toward the
middle from the end M the result that
the steel rails bent as If they had been
mere wire in the hands of man. The
bucklmg ON this line occurred in spots
over distance of three miles