Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

laborer the japanese has
ID o figure in the future of Mexican
ino~---y
A telephone line is being constructed
in the Alps which will hold the record
for height.
Among the latest innovations in
trade schools in Belgium is school for
cigar making
Great Brtain's coal output in 1908
shows a decrease of 2.25 per cent. or
6,306,473 tons.
About 5000 trespassers are killed ev-
cry year on the railroads, and 5000 more
are seriously injured
-Angleworms may live fully ten years,
as has been shown by experiments made
in Marburg, Germany.
There is not Il port in Europe, and
few if any, in the world where the mat
ter of tides is of no consequence.
Plans for the new Grand Central
station in New York have been COM
pleted. 1t will cost about $2O,000,0O0.
in Germany dealers are not allowed
to mix so-called dessert wines with white
wines of an entirely different character.
All employees in the Netherlands who
are boarding with their employers are
entitled to medical treatment for at least
six weeks.
Official estimates state that in Brit
ish Columbia there is an area of forest
and wood land aggregating 2S5.554
square miles.
The depression in the Dundee whale
fishing is so acute that there is danger
Of the industry disappearing from the
British isles.
Every now and then some one tries
to write a national anthem for Canada,
but, in the opinion of the Victoria Colo
mist, every effort is failure.
One of the most famous bells in the
world is the first great bell of Moscow,
which now stands in the middle of a
square in that city and is used as a
chapel.
I'm South America the dream of
fnanciers and railroad builders is that.
at some future time. travellers may land
at POrnambuco and be taken across the
continent to Valparaiso in less than four
days, and without change of carriage.
According to Argentine newspapers
the naval and military plans cover the
building of two battleships of 10000 tons
each, besides several destroyers and the
renewal of the field artillery, at an eX-
pense of between $50 100000 and $780,
100000
The women school teachers through
out the country are looking longingly to-
ward Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
since the equal suffragists brought out
the ldCb ludL III IucSt SIdltS NOlltll
teachers receive the same salaries as
the men.
Charles Dawson of Pennington.
Devon, England, who celebrated his
ninety-second birthday recently, neither
reads nor writes and has never seen the
sea nor travelled in Il railway train. He
has worked on the same farm for forty
seven years.
Liverpool shipping returns for 1907.
In aFtts e
vessels of S127 40 tons, do not list
single American ship, unless maybe some
little odd one is included in other for
eign nationalties,' four vessels aggre-
eating 6314 tons.
-Andreas DIPPED. the tenor. was born
in Cassel in 1866. He was originally
| connected with Il banking firm in CaSSel,
but studied music in Berlin. Milan ana
| Vienna and made his first appearance il
| 1887 in Bremen as the Pilot in THE
| Flying Dutchman'
There has Gied in the worbhouse at
| Dorchester; England. a woman named
| Harriet Hammett. native of Tolpud-
| die. who was admitted to the wOrkhouSe
| in 1874. AS her age at death was 90,
| she must have donned workhouse garb
| when years old
Ten thousand electric fatirons are to
be lent to reliable customers of the Chi
cago Edison company for Il period of
six months. The object of this is to pop
ularize the use of electricity in the house
hold and lead to the Introduction of 9TH
err electric utensils.
The number of boxes of matches
| produced in the federal district of Rio
| de Jane;ro. Brazil, in 1907 was 202, OIL
| 400. of which 1S9 $4,000 were wood
| and II, 4S2 900 wax matches. The stamp
revenue was S1,21S,oo4, or about six
| tenths of cent box.
Census returns in India show some
remarkably candid statements. In ALA
habad thirty-tive citizens described them.
| selves as men who rob with threats of
violence" There We're twenty-five he
reditary thieves" There were n.ne pro
| fessional false witnesses"
The dolcette. which is probably one
of the newest musical Instruments placed
| on the market, is Il harp played on a
keyboard similar to that of a piano. The
lower half of the instrument somewhat
resembles the piano and the upper por-
ton is like an Italian harp.
The prison ship martyrs, forgotten
victims of the Revolutionary war; are to
be commemorated after more than a hun
bred years Of neglect. 4 monument 10
the memory of these 1880 victims of
the Waliabout prison ships is being
erected on Fort Green Hill in Brooklyn.
The deepest metal mines are still il
the Lake superior copper EGNiuu. mere
the Red Jacket shaft Of the Calumet
and Hecla mine is 1920 feet vertical;
while the Tamarack has two shafts over
5000 feet deep, namely No y which IS
$50 feet, and No. :, which is 523O feet
vertical.
DIR. Matilda Evans of Columbia. :,
c., is the first negro woman TO practice
medicine in South Carolina. When -
She entered the school for negro children
AT Aiken. =. e. From there she went
to Oberlin college and later 70 the Wom-
ans Medical college in Philadelphia,
where she graduated.