Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-03
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Ooo men and between $3,O00,00O AMI
s3,5O0.000 is paid in monthly wages
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
in time of war have been tested in the
Russian army. Their speed is four
times as great as that of carrier pip-
cons
II the real estate of Manhattan
Island were divided equally between
It's Inhabitants each Individual would
own 5000 worth, according to the as
sessed value.
Prof. Carl Won Noorlen, addressing a
number of prominent scientists at
Vienna on the srbject of Food and
Nourishment," declared that the reason
so many men begin to get fat immedi-
ately after they have married is be-
cause their wives give them their favor
lite dishes on every possible occasion
London Standard
Vegetable milk" is used in Japan.
1t is made from the sofa bean. The
liquid is exactly like cows milk in ap-
pearance, and in taste can hardly be
distinguished from it. To make it the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
in water. Some sugar and phosphate
Of potassium are added. and it is boiled
down till it has the consistency of con-
densed milk.
| Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison Parkman, of EN-
poria. Mr.. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing in Chile. He brought the seed
to America, and in the late seventies
he went to Empcria to live. He sowed
| alfalfa in a farm which he bought and
the plant prospered 1t was slow In
| gaining popularity In Kansas, but is
now one of the States most important
forage crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
BY law to take a weekly half-holiday,
and there must be no Sinking the obli-
! CATION. The Grand Hotel, Auckland,
was recently crowded with guests, and
several walters, instead of obeying the
| law and taking their prescribed weekly
| half-holiday, remained at work On the
promise of extra pay. But the authori-
ties came to hear of it and the proprie-
tor of the hotel had to appear In court,
where he was convicted and punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals of the Confederate army They
are Gen. A. P. Stewart. ranking lieu
te1ant-general of the Confederacy of
Biloxi, Miss, and Gen Simon Bolivar
Buckner, of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
anniversary on October last. Cen
eral Buckner was a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer in 1896. He was
eighty-fve on April 1 last
The German Emperor has a we'll
equipped pottery which brings him in
$4,000 year. The King of Wurtem-
berg owns two large hotels which yield
him yearly income of some $4,000.
The King of Saxony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Meissen, and the
Regent of Lippe Detmoid runs a large
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk and eggs. The King of Servia
is said to own a barber shop AID an
apothecary shop, in addition to which
heholds an agency for mtotor cars
once had a cat that did a rather
remarkable rafting feat He stalked
two young rats on the caves of a low
fiat stable roof, and caught one IN the
usual way. The other jumped on to an
elderberry tree Just below Bob, how
ever, not satisfied with the one, grasped
it firmly in his mouth, and then jumped
headlong for the other Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
in his mouth and the other in his paws,
and promptly killed them both.-The
Scotsman.
Instances of desertion from the army
in Mexico are very rare and for the
best of reasons" said Senior Jose de
Minaldez, of Nueva Leon. THE reason
lies in the almost sure capture of the
fugitive and the certainty that he will
get not one but numerous fioggings on
his bare back. These lashings are done
in the presence of the comrades of the
deserter, and when the men see how
great is the suffering Of the miserable
wretch who tried in vain to quit his
military obligations, they are forced
to conclude that it is better to stick to
the army than undergo such a terrible
ordeal baltimore American.
The earliest mention of corn in Kan
sas is found in the account of COron-
ADDS expedition in 1541-'42. Prof. Will
liston found charred corn in the ruins
Of prehistoric Indian pueblos in Scott
County, estimated by him to be at least
two and a half centuries old. In some
OF the rooms there was found charred
corn to depth of five or six inches.
The first mention of growing corn in
Kansas of which there is any record is
in the narrative of the expedition Of
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