Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-17
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


1 by an Italian in 1899
Norway has a factory in which "a
900 pounds of haddock can be turned
into fish balls in a day
| Though hydrophobia has been
stamped out of Britain, it is still ram
pant in Germany, where every year
over $500 dogs and cats afflicted with
the disease are destroyed.
When the post office was first opened
at kai-Feng, China, the clerks had
hight with some of the men who bought
stamps and refused to go away until
the stamps were licked and stuck on
their envelopes for them.
In his apartments in the Vatican
the Pope has piano and a pianola
! These are innovations. The violin is
| also favorite instrument of the Pope
| and in his younger days he was con-
sldered master of the bow-The De
! lineator
Queensland and Victoria possess
only small ostrich farms. which have
not produced very encouraging results.
In all there are now about two thou
sand ostriches in Australia The in
Terror feathers are used at home and
| the more valuable ones are exported,
chiefly in Germany.
The French government takes Is per
cent of all the money staked at the
casinos of the seaside and other health
resorts on the little horses and other
| gambling devices For the season of
19OS-09 this percentage amounted to
/ S943,393, the summer season natural
ly contributing the greater part-over
100000.
The duke OF Atholl holds part of his
lands conditionally on his presenting
white rose to his sovereign when
honored with a visit The late Queen
| Victoria and Prince Albert once were
his guests at a time when these flow
ers were out of season and the duke
had much difficulty in obtaining two
/ roses for the occasion.
The court house at Washington, Ma
son County, Kentucky, in which Uncle
Tom of Uncle Toms Cabin" fame was
sold, was struck by lightning and de
stroyed on August 49, The building
was erected in 1894. 1t was the sale
of the aged negro at this place that
gave Harriet Beecher Stowe the basis
for her story.-Green Bag.
One of the main features of the agri-
cultural exhibition at Allahabad, In
dia, next month will be the tillage
field, on which as large as possible a
choice of plows and other implements
of tillage will be regularly at work, so
that visitors can see for themselves
the depth and quality of the filth, and
the weight and draft of the various
implements.
About one million persons in the
working period Of life in the United
States are on the sick list each year.
The cost of their illness is about ST.
0O0, 100000 a year, of which at least
one-half is preventable. Therefore, the
estimate considered low, Of the pre-
ventable loss from disease and death in
this country is $780, 900, 000.-Profes-
sor Irving Fisher
Henrik Ibsen's posthumous works
have just been published in Norway.
They consist of collection of verse,
biographical material and sketches of
the plots and morals of his plays, as
we'll as the text of the plays as first
completed, the last showing the great
Importance Ibsen attributed to careful
planning of his plays in advance and
to thorough revision.
Wilfred Stevens, OF Shakopee, Mimi,
translator in the service of the United
States government, has working
| knowledge of twenty-odd languages
and can converse is as many dialects
of various other tongues as may be
demanded of him. He knows more
diplomatic secrets than any official
of the government, with the possible
exception of the President and the
Secretary of State.
Hookworm can certainly be quickly
conquered, malaria more slowly and
consumption most slowly, but almost
as completely. Consumption is vir-
tually the same great, sweeping de-
stroyer in modern cities of science
that it was a century ago, say, in Lon
don. Indeed. since the great grip cpl
demic Of 1881 consumption seems
, worse than 1t ever was before and the
grip epidemic of twenty years ago did
not make things any better.-New
York Press.
In the British postoffice savings
bank in 1907 there were 1871, 1863 de-
posits, of the value of G44 ,217,2S8, and
last year 1879, 991, representing s44,-
77O.7S2. In 1907, 9,3OS,247 withdraw
ais were made, involving e46,463, 632,
and last year 9,922,169, representing
| e45, 1876, 400. The interest credited to
depositors in 1908 was GS,772, 1856, as
compared with s3,719,975 in 1907, and
the total standing to the credit of de-
,,osit0rs on savings bank account on