Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-03
PARAGRAPHS.


among the nations in importation Of tea
The number Of postoffices IN the
United States is nearly the $1,000 mark, |
although thousands have been discon-
tinued since rural free delivery was ia
troduced
B. S. Straus, NJ. T.. has ELECTED from
the home secretary the statement that
i'll 1906 as many as 1929 taXicabs were
licensed 10 ply for hire III the streets OF
London, an increase of 2202 upon 1907.
In considering the speed of steam
ship it must be remembered that a knot,
or nautical mile, is a very different thing
from land mile A mile is $3.50 feet,
while a knot is $3.50 feet and a fraction.
In the national forests of Arizona
and New Mexico the prairie dog has be-
come such a pest that the United States
forest serv zee has decided to carry out
an active campaign for its extermina
ton.
-Alleluia or Hallelujah Victory was
a victory by the Saxons under St. Ter
manus over the PETS and Britons. The
| Christians all shouted 'Alleluia" and 50
| terrified the heather that they took to
| flight
There are twenty-five lepers-half
! Of them whites-in the hospital in New
South Wales. From 1888 when the
lazaret was established, to the end of
| 1907, ia persons have been isolated
there.
Sir Frederick Treyes considers that
we hav, practically reached the thcra-
peutic limitations of the N-rays. the
| high frequency current and the Einsen
| light, but that in radium we still have
uneXplored fields of usefulness.
--Tommaso Salvini has written his
autobiography, which is shortly to APP
pear in a book entitled Infancy and
Youth of Illustrious Contemporary ital-
| ians." Salvini says that lie could act a
part well even when he was boy.
| -Goblets made of ice for use IN her
weather original ed in Holland, where
they are widely used This novelty has
been introduced in the United States
| and is used ut number of soda fOIn-
| tains III the larger cities in the eastern
! states.
Examination by a dentist. catechism
in dental hygiene and public dental in-
| firmaries, as preventative methods of
caring for the teeth of school children,
were urged by DIR. William FL. Potter in
a lecture at the Harvard Medical school
recently.
Just forty years had elapsed on May
10. since the rails of the Union Pacific
! moving westward met the rails of the
| Central Pacific moving eastward to
| Promontory point, near Ogden, Utah,
and the first transc0ntinental railway
was completed.
| All eAteIlSlNe uedIeE III potatoes. IN
Bermuda has shipped to Ayoca, Stuben
county, n. Y, 125 bushels of a choice
variety of this years crop, to be grown
in that locality, the crop to be shipped
back to Bermuda to use as seed for next
seasons planting.
The German Society for the Proven
ton of Noise, which was founded in
1908 by DIR. Theodor Leasing in Berlin,
has i'll preparation lists for distribution
among the people who rent houses and
apartments which will contain informa-
ton as to rest-disturbing noises"
The largest apartment house in the
world is being built on a site covering the
entire block bounded by Eighty-sixth and
Eighty-seventh streets, Broadway and
Amsterdam avenue, Manhattan 1t viii
he twelve stories high, with a court in
the center, and will cost $3,000,000.
--All-steel street cars are being
made for the United Railway company
of St Louis. Steel is to take the place
of wood. not because of the danger of
fire or destruction in collision. but be-
cause the cars can be made lighter in
this way, and will cost less for up
keep.
1t has been reported to the guardi-
ans at Tuam, County Galway, Ireland,
that a man named Hasty, whose age is
alleged TO be 120 years, is living at Gal
low il a cabin which has become UNI
duce the hermit to go into the work
house.
Queen Wilhelmina OF Holland. al
though rich. is not nearly so rich as the
Emperor of Russia or the Emperor of
Austria. and it is doubtful whether she
has SO large a fortune as the King and
Queen of Denmark or the King of the
Belgians, or even the King of the Hell
lenes.
The consumption of oil for fuel pur-
poses has made rapid strides in Ron
mania. Eight years ago the railways
took up the use of it in earnest For the
first year the consumption was 10000
tons. The extension Of it's use has been
wonderful, reaching 14J,000 tons during
the last year.
Compelling oysters to produce pearls
by placing foreign substance, such as
small pebbles, in their shells, has become
an extensive industry, in which the Japa-
nese have specially excelled but the
Chinese can claim distinction in the
often used by them.
The Army and Navy Journal states
that new explosive recently invented is
of such light weight as to be particularly
adapted TO aerial apparatus, and. togeth-
er with the soundless gun and smoke
less pow der, combination could be
made which would be a most subtle
weapon of warfare.
An interesting experiment is being
made in the higher education of women
at Kings college, London. The idea is
that there is just as much educational
value in a careful study of the prine-
Piles of managing the home and young
children as in the course usually read
for the taking of degree.
The United Charities of Chicago and
the city's health department have joined
forces for Il summer campaign to save
the lives Of babies. Maps have been pre-
pared showing where every baby died
last year. and the efforts of 800 workers
who viii be in the field will be especial
ly directed to these districts.
-Spindles at work and in course Of
construction throughout the world num-
her 40, 195. S27 for the former and g.
OF. 1902 for the latter The United
Kingdom has SO, 100000 in use and near
ly 100000 in construction; the United
States nearly 2S.0O0000 in use Ger
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