Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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England sends many of her orphan
and deserted children to Canada.
Within five years Uruguay will have
100000 olive trees, capable of produc-
ing two million pounds of olives and
fifty thousand gallons of oil.
District after district in China is
raising money toward the endowment
fund OF Hong-Kong University. Cam
ton district has given $4S.750
In eighteen months there will be
direct railway communication between
Buenos Aires and Asuncion, the cap
ital of Paraguay. The railway has al
ready reached the Bolivian frontier.
A Russian bank in Buenos Aires and
direct line of Russian steamers to
South America are projected at St
Petersburg, owing to the continued in
crease of Russian South American
trade
BY a traveller in Italy the Rubicon
The famous river crossed by Julius
Cesar, is described as the mere5t
trickle of stream, in watch it would
be quite impossible for a man TO drown
himself"
Great Britain sent Canada 100,129
immigrants in the twelve months end
ed July, 1909. a decrease OF 25,S09
from 1908 and of 1860 from 1907. it
is the lowest record since 1904. About
three-fourths were English and Scotch,
Only 3,799 were Irish.
Two children, age about six and
eight, wandered into the receiving
ward at a London hospital The elder
handed the doctor in charge the fol-
lowing note from its mother: They
have awful cauf. ] think it is whoop-
ing cauf. You wait a mint and hear
them cauf" She was right
In Alexandra Bisson's new play,
which will be performed at Paris for
the first time next week, an additional
scene has been created in order to in
trodnce two police dogs. They chase
the villain up and down, across and
under the stage, and finally capture
| the bad man. The dogs enter so heart
lily into what they seem to consider a
great lark that the unfortunate villain
has expressed the hope 2st the play
may be short-lived.
The temperance of Aalley's comet
| has revised the old calumny that Pope
Calixtus III launched a bull against
] 81 II
| in this case show that he ordered pub
! lie prayers that, if evils We're impend-
ing, God would turn all upon the
Turks, then fighting the Christian
armies No bull of exorcism is men
| toned against either the comet or the
Turks in authentic documents of the
period. Truth.
1t is expected that aluminium coins
of low value will be in circulation in
France by the end of this year. 1t is
interesting to note, in ynis connection,
| that the adoption of N. Naquets prop
! ostion for an aluminium coinage in
! 1877 would have resulted in a heavy
| loss to the French treasury. Although
experts declared it to be impossible
that the value of the metal should de-
crease, it has now fallen to nearly half
| the price ruling at that time.
Maisie, poor young woman of Lon
don, was being entertained by pa
troness" During tea the girl led the
conversation into personal channels,
rs your husband in work." she asked
her hostess. Yes and raised her
eyebrows. How many children have
you?" Two and an astonished
smile Does your husband drink"
Why, my dear, what put all this into
your head?" Mother said | was to
talk like lady, and that's how they
talk to her"
Cor victs who are sent to the French
penal colony in French Guiana are
punished in exactly inverse ratio to
their crimes. The murderers and the
most dangerous convicts are sent to
the Island of Salvation. where they
lead lazy and healthy lives, but the
men convicted Of lesser offenses work
and die in a terrible climate on the
coast. In the settlement of ST. Jean
de Maroni the mortality is from 40 to
b. per cent. The average life of a
convict is two years.
Princes Patricia of Connaught, who
has been exhibiting some of her arts
tic work at the East Berks art exhibi.
ton. is one of the most versatile OF
Europe's royal ladies', and, besides De
ing a painter of great merit is a
noted sportswoman, being almost
equally proficient In tennis, hockey,
golf and horseriding One of her IA
vorite hobbies is the collection of un-
cut gems, of which she has a magnii-
cent assortment. The princess is very
democratic in her ideas, ard she once
remarked to friend: Mamma saws
that we can forget about the royalty
IL we only remember that we are la.
dies. M A. p.
When British bluejackets could not