Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-12
= Notes Of Interest. =

Three hundred iron railroad cars lof
Roumania have been ordered in Russia.
The Danes seem most addicted to
suicide. Their average is 256 self-mur-
derers per 100000 persons per year.
New York city's surface, elevated
and subway railroad system receives a
daily average of IA cents from each in
habitant of the city.
There are now within thirty miles
of New York city about S540 new dwell
ings under construction, in which resi-
dents of the city will live on their COM
pletion-
India has 4,S35, 94T acres of irrigated
land in the Punjab, an increase of 453,-
SCI acres in one year. The crops are
mainly wheat sugar cane, grain and
winter oilseeds
Luther o.. Emerson, whose music
has been sung in about every Protestant
church in the country, has passed his
S7th birthday, but still deyotes most of
his time to composition.
--Homesteading has about run its
course in Missouri, Kansas and Okla
homa. In the last three months only
about 1900 persons made homestead en-
tries on public land there.
Electricity is being applied more and
more to machinery used in British coal
mines. Some mines are now so fully
equipped that nothing workable by cleo
tric energy is otherwise operated.
The advance in prices abroad seems
TO have been largely restricted to manu-
featured goods. Foodstuffs have re-
manned stationary as rule and in
some cases have declined in value.
Commissioners Bowers of the United
States bureau of fisheries who has just
made tour of inspection up the New
England coast, says that the supply of
Holsters is practically inexhaustible.
DR. Ware. late heddmasteP of Elton
college has been presented with an al
bum containing the signed photographs
of nearly every master and boy who was
at Elton at the time of his resignation.
The ministry or agriculture works
and commerce has granted permission
to Chinese syndicate, headed by a
wealthy Chill merchant named Sun, to
develop the gold deposits of Tehpinkou.
in Ieho territory.
Capt. Spelterni, the Swiss aeronaut,
has just finished a wonderful achieve
ment. namely, the crossing of the Alps
in balloon This was his a39th ascent
and his notebook does not record single
accident in any of them.
Consul w $. Hollis of Lourenco
Marquee sends an illustrated copy of the
first report of the engineer-director Of the
Swaziland railway, operating in Portu-
guese East Africa, which is filed for
public reference at the bureau Of manu-
features.
"A German botanist, @. kuntze. has
pointed out that certain specimen of tax
odium at Oaxada, Mexico, which hereto
fore has been regarded as the biggest
Tree in the world, having q diameter of
eleven meters, consists in reality of three
trees which grew into one.
When English capitalists were trying
to establish Angora goat raising in South
A ftta flnrfK
for goats, to induce the Turkish owners
of fine stocks TO risk the severe penalties
of the Sultan's laws forbidding the expor-
tation of Angoras.
"A creamy substance called 'miracu-
lum," the invention of an Australian, is
being tested in this country in repairing
punctured pneumatic tires. The sub
stance is applied to the interior of a
tube and it is claimed, automatically
seals a puncture the instant it is caused.
Where the trouble is physical, such as
failure OF an organ, indigestion, conges-
tion of the liver and so on, strong, firm
martial music will give best results, ac-
cording to DIR. Latson, editor OF Health
Culture. For this class of treatment the
key of c major is particularly recon-
mended.
Argentina now seems fixed at the
top of the list in exports of wheat to
Great Britain. 1t has held that post for
three years, with steadily increasing fig
ures, while the British imports from
every other country have either declined
or fluctuated. The United States is Sec
ond at present,
-Australasian wool exports this sea-
son will reach 2,0O0O00O bales, an in
crease of 100000 bales over last season,
and breaking all records. At $40 bale
this means $15.000,000 cash for Austral-
asia Shipments in the United States
will total 100000 bales, n gain of 10000
bales over last year
Peru is considering the feasibility of
building G5-mile railway from the rich
rubber districts of the purns TO 4 point
ON the Ucayali river. which would turn
the immense rubber traffic to lquitos, At
present these products go through Bra
iii. which thus gets the benefit of export
duties on a strictly Peruvian article.
One of the curious figures of Paris
boulevards is the street poet, who sings
or reciteS in front of cafes or in the
public squares illusions which he has
composed on monuments, public affairs
or the visit TO the city of some important
parsonage, such as reigning sovereign
Having given his audience this sample
of his wares he tries to sell cheap print
ed copies of them.
x mother living on n homestead IN
the bush near Louth New South Wales,
lost her little girl. then two and a hall
years old about four years ago. The
child had wandered in search of flowers
and ne trace could be found of her. New.
came lately that a little white child haC
been found in blacks camp in South
west Queensland. Photographs of tn,
girl We're forwarded, which, in spite Of
the change that time and nomadic lf,
had made, the mother recognized anG
her child has now been restored to hev
Miss Helen NJ. Gould is the hithert,
unknown philanthropist who purchased
100000 acres of land near Greeley, Colo
mt cost of S350000. to be subdivide,
for homes for poor persons from New
York tenements. Another 100000 will
be spent for farm implements. seed ant
fencing. Beneficiaries will be allowed +
make easy payments, if they are diHcent
but the shftless will be weeded on,
There will be corps Of agricultural an,
sanitary instructors, library and read
ing room and pleasure grounds Their
will be no requirements as to religion
Dairying and poultry raising win receiv
most attention at the start, and generg
farming and fruit will follow