Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-03
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


! Cotton plants require little care in
( Honduras, They produce cotton in
luxuriant abundance during nine
months of the year
Somebody has invented a combined
electric lamp and shaving mirror in
which the reflector can be arranged to
throw the light only upon the face
below the eyes, no light falling upon
the mirror or the eyes.
Simply because Benjamin Franklin
associated electricity with lightning,
! and that most people are more or less
afraid of lightning, electricity is be-
/ lieved to be a dangerous factor in fire
hazards. This is not true. for 1t has
been proved time and again that cleo
] tricity causes fewer fires than a num-
/ Der of other things about the house or
Office.
! Governments of the federated states
of Germany are considering the intro
+ duction of land tax of the "unearned
/ increment" The measure is expect
ed to raise 100000 annually It is
! held that such a tax would rest heavi-
ly on spectators and landowners in
cities, but lightly on country districts,
where values increase very slowly If
I at all
'Pajcmas" means leg garments"
They were eagerly adopted by Euro
peans in India from the Mohamme-
dams, probably by the Portuguese in
! the first place. Earlier Anglo-Indian
generations knew them as long
| drawers" or mosquito drawers" and
still earlier generations as "mogul
breeches." under which name they are
referred to by Beaumont and Fletcher.
A dressmaking establishment in Bos-
ton almost entirely operated by cleo
| tricity has an electric cutter capable
| of cutting out $50 thicknesses of cloth
at once, a button sewing machine
| which puts on 5000 buttons a day, a
buttonhole machine making 400 an
hour, sleeve sewers, tucking machines,
waist and skirt machines making 800
to $500 stitches a minute-Chicago
| Journal
Cool Off is an Americanism which
has invaded England but by no means
| the only one The London Chronicle
remarks: In many shops one finds
the word candy being used Familiarity,
| and it no longer means the jaw-break-
| ing but wholly delicious sugar candy
of ones youth. 1t is the same with
| cracker, which used to convey to the
| English child's mind only something
! that belonged to Christmas time and
could be pulled. The one surprise of
to-day is that Weekend which ought
to be an Americanism, is really good
old North Englandism."
1t was Halley's comet which ap-
peared in 1866 at the time of the in
vasion of William the Conqueror and
again in 1456 when Constantinople
was besieged by the Turks and the
crescent shaped tail was a mighty
omen. Halleys comet duly appeared
in 1859, somewhat retarded by the at
traction of Jupiter and Saturn, it's per-
! turbations having been accurately cal
Culated by the French astronomer,
| Clairaut. 1t appeared again in 1885,
and is now once more rapidly ap-
| preaching the earth and the sun, hav-
ing passed the orbit of Jupiter in
April last.-Popular Science Monthly
for November.
Among the photographs in the col
| lection made by an American tourist
who recently returned from the Orient
| is one showing a mammoth olive tree
| in the garden of Gethsemane The
trunk is divided near the ground, Civ
ing it the appearance of two trees. In
| order to protect it from the assaults
| of vandals a stone wall about three
| feet high has been built around 1t,
and the spot has become favorite one
for Photographic groups. The tree is
looked upon with awe by the natives,
who assure the tourists that It is at
least thousand years old. The pic
ture in question shows four bicycles
IN the foreground.
Americas orange crop can almost
! supply the world. Florida comes in
the market with more oranges than
| she ever had since the great freeze,
| 100000 boxes. Louisiana comes next
| in the market, the first time in many
years, with 100000 boxes The crop
| in Porto Rico is unusually large, and
| New York has been getting Porto
Rican oranges for several years. Ari.
| iona has a full crop OF irrigation
oranges, eighty to the Dox, forty
to the half box, finest ir the world.
perhaps, except the Bahian Mexico
and Cuba are appealing with surfeit
Of oranges. California, it seems sad to
mention, has raised her regular crop.
| Where will they go?-New York Press.
Reviewing China" by Mortimer
Menpes and Sir Henry Arthur Blake, a
writer says: The root fallacy of the
Chinese political idea, which alone is
| responsible for the low place to which
the country has sunk in the scale Of