Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-04
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

o0O,OO0) is yearly spent by foreign
visitors in Japan
No fewer than 372 different ways of
spelling Ypsilanti have been copied
from envelopes and recorded by post
master.
The African peanut is less delicate
than the American as an article of
food. but it yields more generously in
oil, and is more easily crushed
When vessel is on her trial trip
she runs four times over a measured
mile, twice with and twice against the
tide. Her average speed is thus ar
rived at
Sailing vessels are coming into vogue
again, especially within the last five
years, after having been practically
banished from the ocean by the quicker
and more easily controlled steamships.
Owners of even the smallest toy man
nfacturing establishments in the NJ
remburs district, Germany, cater for
The foreign trade. Factories employ
ing from six to twenty people are no
exception
Doki Indians in Canada are to be
made wealthy by the sale of their pine
lands. The total revenue from the sale
Of the lands will approximate $1,000
600, and some families will receive as
much as $4,000
kilograms from Kiev state that
there is a plague Of caterpillars in
many parts of southwestern Russia. In
some places the railway tracks are
covered. by swarns of the insects and
traffic is being Kindred owing to the
state. of the rails.
China is Il bad place for furniture.
In the summer months it is Sc damp
that furniture put together with glue
falls apart and drawers stick, while in
the dry months furniture goes to the
other extreme and otter exhibits cracks
half an inch or more in width
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt recently in the Congo district. AZ
RIGA. There have been no casualties,
but the natives were panic-stricken.
Many Of them ran for miles and re-
fused 10 return to their villages unless
they received guns and ammunition.
Canada's government has sent out
survey party to lay out the town site of
Fort Churchill, the future metropolis
of Hudson Bay. The only settler who
is now on The proposed site, which is
on tie east side of Churchill river, op.
posite the Hudson Bay post. will be en-
titled to free grant OF 160 acres
The following advertisement recently
appeared: Being aware that it is in
delicate to advertise for a husband,
refrain from so doing; but If any gem
tleman should be inclined to advertise
for wife, / will answer the advertise
ment without delay. / am young, am
domesticated, and considered ladylike.
Apply" te-Philadelphla Gossip.
Some navyies in railway carriage
were once in loud conversation, swear
ing boisterously the while. One Of
them was especially fluent. My
friend" said another passenger in
shocking tones. where did you learn
TO use such language?' Learn =
cried the navy You can't learn it.
guv'nor. It's a gift. that's wot 1t Is"
Dundee Advertiser.
OF the late Langdon Smith, the jour
nalist and author, a Denver reporter
said the other day: Il remember my
first visit TO Washington Smith, big
and handsome and viyaeious. showed
me about From an eminence 4 great
pale dome rose up against the blue sky,
the dome of the Capitol What is
that: said l. That? said Smith, oh,
that's the national gas works.
A process for protecting iron and
steel from rust has been invented and
patented by T. w. Coslett. Of Temple
row, birmingham. England. This con-
sists in immersing the article In hot
phosphorized solution containing an
iron compound The surface of the
iron is converted into a mixture Of
ferrous and ferric phosphates, and pre-
sents a pleasing dull-black appearance.
This process makes the iron highly re-
sistant to corrosion. and is being ap-
piled to all kinds of light engineering
work, such as cycle frames, gun bar
rels, etc
Otto E. Schaar. president Of a club
Of New York walters. said the other
day of a parsimonious young man
HE resembles q chap they tell about
in Bucks county. This chap lived
alone with his father On the old
mans death he would inherit the farm.
Well, finally the old man took sick.
His end drew near. The son sat UP
with him a night or two, expecting him
TO pass away, but he fingered on. On
the fifth or sixth night the son, in
stead of sitting up, put a lamp, turned
very very low. on a table by the bed
and went to his own room with the
caution When you feel that it is all
over with you. father, don't forget to
blow out the lamp