Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27
CONVERSATIONS.

during the last winter SedSoH 10 March
| first.
| One of the latest forms of feminine
| commercial enterprises in Paris is
school where smiling is taught.
| In New York city last year the fire
| loss amounted to S7,250,000, while the
maintenance of the fire department cost
100000.
1T has recently been shown that an
automobile can make the trip to Cal
cutta from the extreme northern part of
India without a hitch.
There is a shortage of school teach
ers in the Canadian provinces of Alberta
and Saskatchewan. Each will want $50
more after midsummer.
"A Broadway New York; druggist
/ estimates that the people of the city
spend $2,9S0,000 each year for patent
medicine.
Japan is now competing actively
with the United States and Great Brit
ain for China's trade in pianos, piano
players and organs.
One can ride eleven hours al an auto
mobile, with chauffeur and porter, in
Toxic for $12. or $3.50 for half a day
and $50 for single hour.
--Gorgaz, a town of 800 inhabitants,
has been selected as the future federal
capital of Brazil. Owing to its alti-
tude, it enjoys a pleasant climate.
Eighteen men were tied to the whip
ping post in one day recently at Viii
mington, Del, and given a total of 2o5
lashes. This beats all previous records.
1t is one OF the many marvels of
wireless telegraphy that the ether waves
which carry its messages, unlike light
waves, suffer no absorption in mist or
fog.
Sir Richard Wilmington, the Dick
of the nursery tale who went to London
to seek his fortune and found it by the
help of his cat, survives in fact as well
as fiction.
Capital formerly invested in build
ings at Messina is calculated at about
$160O0O0O, at Reggie at Sl0ooo,Ooo.
The greatest portion of tins Is rfeVo-
cably lost.
More than 40 per cent. of the ties
that have been purchased by the rail
roads OF the country, according to the,
statistics of the United States forest
service, are oak.
The prince regent has proposed to
release all the slaves in the employ OF
the princes, dukes and others forever
and prohibit the employment OF SUCH
slaves in China.
There are 100 Congregational
churches in the fourteen states and ter
ritories between line drawn north and
south at Kansas City and the eastern
line of California.
According to the report for 1907-0S.
of the London county council education
committee there were in the schools SS2,-
S34 elementary scholars-a decrease on
the year of 1853.
-Polygamy is the rule among all the
tribes of southern Nigeria, the reason
given by the natives being that it is i'm
possible for one woman to do all the
work of the house.
The Union Steamship company of
New Zealand is prepared to establish
a service of vessels with speed OF Is
knots between Vancouver, New Zealand
and Australian ports.
Belgium has been offering reduced
rates undev certain conditions for travel
on its passenger trains and the change
has resulted in enormously increased
business and revenues.
A single dealer in Madrid sells an
nually 10000 larks finches and other
small birds for food, and the total num-
Der thus consumed is estimated at mil
lion in that city alone.
New York state now has forty-seveD
cities. The latest addition to the list
is Lackawanna, up in Erie county, near
Buffalo, whose first charter Gov. Hughes
signed few days ago.
The facts regarding the improve
ment in gunnery in the British navy
are readily ascertainable, thanks to the
government practice of regularly pub
fishing this information.
About 600 patents are granted each
year to British women upon inventions
ranging from articles distinctly feminine
in nature to motors, railroad cars, flying
machines and wireless telegraphy.
The government tests at Washington
of samples of the chain to be used on
the gear of the Panama canal locks with
stood tensile tests of $4,000 pounds to
the square inch before the metal parted
Race horses are the best risk for
horse insurance companies 1t isn't that
they never die; they do. But they wait
until their racing days are over and the
policies on their lives have been can
celed.
France is about to amend its present
law to provide that patent shall lapse
if its holder shall fail TO exercise his
right in France or in the colonies of
France for a period of three years from
its granting.
The United States produces annually
about $4,000 automobiles Italy $4,000.
and France 10000. Germany and Eng
land are also builders, but to a less eX-
tent than the two European countries
specified.
1t is announced that with the re-
moval of a row of frame buildings not
4 AdF lEUH bldckITlaTS DTluEP Ine itLNt
wooden buildings within the metropol-
tan district of London will shortly dis
| apUear.
The state of Sac Paulo, Brazil,
| agrees with the japanese government 10
| pay from $40 to $40 according to age
| toward the passage money of 5000 Japa'
nese immigrants arriving within two
| years.
Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for
| Ireland is quoted from Bristol, England,
aS expressing the belief that President
! Taft, in his inaugural address. pro
nounced the doom of the hope for the
! disarmament of nations.
! Chill is a yearly market for manu-
! featured articles TO the value of Si0O-
/ 100000 United States gold. All the
| United States got of it in 1908 was So
373.911. though Chill got S12.494. I'D Of
] American money.
San Francisco. according to the Ar
gonaut. has a larger percentage of peo-