Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-08

] IN operation IN the Philippines with
S,4oS depositors and $4,000 on de-
| posit. Filipino depositors number
a,591 and Americans 1875.
/ The German government has on
Lake Constance a nineteen knot, $50
horse power boat for raising kites in
weather observations. The results are
daily telegraphed to the chief forecast
ing Offices
a patent fastener FOR wool bales, to
take the place OF Irvine, has been in.
troduced in Australia. 1t is claimed
that it prevents any vegetable fiber
from the outer covering adhering to
the fleece
EX-President Castro's decree cancel
Ing the contracts of the National
Match Mandatory and the "vene
zuelan Salt Monopoly, Limited" has
been annulled BY the federal and cas-
sation court Of Venezuela.
TO celebrate the advance OF the
printers art particularly its increase
in speed Caxton memorial Bible
was wholly printed and bound in
twelve hours in 1877 Only one hun
dred copies were struck off.
in the annual report of the Russo
Chinese Bank it is stated that the clos
ing OF the free port in Yladivostok
mas led to commercial crisis in the
! Far East. Before the closure took
place goods were imported in such
large quantities that Cor long time
new Import sales viii be dlficult
English yegetarians are aweully sore
Oh the Japs for proving traitors 10
snelr old vegetarian mode OF living
anG are predicting endless calamity.
even ruin, saying: When relocating
peoples take up meat the result is al
| ways disastrous to their health" Japs
| know what to eat and are TOO wise to
liste1. tc any British sdviee intended
20 weaken them as warriors.-New
/ York Press.
The Gcrnara are developing their
nigh schoo! at Kiao-chau. China, with
their usual thorougnness. It's scope is
! even larger than the proposed Hong
Kong UNIVERSITY Except a grant Of
$4,000 from the Chinese Government.
! The whole cost is paid by the German
Government German textbook and
other works are translated into Chi
nese IN department OF the school
says the Loadon Times
The industrial census of Germany
for 1907 Gust published By the Ger
! man imperial bureau OF statistics
gives 1925 591 Industrial concerns
employing 14,248.3S9 persons of whom
3,5l0,466 wsre women. The increase
IN twelve years Is A,079,l20-a ratio
| about four times as great as that Of
| the employing concerns. These figures
do not include railroad. postal. tele
| graph and telephone employees.
Adventures" is a word. once highly
respectable. that has degenerated with
the lapse Of time 1t was once com
pliment To call a gentleman an adven.
.Crer, and the Merchant Venturers OF
Bristol, England, are still respected
The Hudsons Bay Company dates
back from May 2 1870. In the roval
charter it was described as the Gov
ernor and Company of Adventures OF
England Trading in Hudson's Bay"
Alcohol is really the Arabic "al.
kohl'--''ai" being the definite article
as in algebra (the reduction) and
'alkali'' (the soda ashes), and kohl"
the black powder wherewlth the east.
ern beauties stained their eyelids. But
alcohol came to be used for auv
finely triturated or sublimated pow
der, and then for sublimated liouids.
Alcohol of wine" being the most in
teresting Of these, it gradually took
the name entirely to itself.
Horse fairs. held almost continn-
ously, have helped to make Belgium
the greatest horse breeding country Of
its size in the world. The fairs are
largely attended by foreign buyers
especially Germans, who purchase
$4,000 horses a year at these exbibi.
tions. 1t is estimated that there are
now 100000 horses in Belgium, a cou1.
try not quite as large as the State of
Maryland. which has just about half
that number of horses.
Use Of the fork is comparatively
modern, The original fork was two
pronged, and its adoption was held to
betoken an unusual degree of elegance
and refinement The taste for clean
illness has preserved the use of steel
forks with two prongs, writes LADY
Newdigate. (She spoke to the closing
years Of the eighteenth century
With regard to little bits of meat
which cannot 50 well lie taken hold Of
with the two-pronged forks, recourse
is had to the knife, which is broad
and round at the extremity" Peas at