Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-19
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peared in China in 174S
-Hindoos are dispiacing japanese in
some California orchards.
The Arctic air is very favorable for
| the transmission of sound
A New Yorker earning SO a week
is sued for 500 a week alimony.
Great Britain, in 1908, sold S20OO0O.-
600 worth Of coal To foreign nations.
A steam collier built entirely of ce-
D!eat is being constructed by the Italian
| government
An American firm has established
large fig packing house at Nazl, the
chief producing center Of Asia Minor.
In England one person in every hun
dred is unable to read and write; in
France, two in every hundred.
The production of a white straw
berry which bears all the year round, in
stead of ut certain seasons only. is
claimed by Hugo II. Iilienthal, Ber
kelley horticulturist
The German Empress has started
many philanthropiC organizations il Ber-
lin and one of the latest and most useful
Is known as the Central Association of
German Actresses.
AT a place called Kotron. on the
French ivory coast of Africa, the natives
believe that to eat or destroy Il turtle
would mean death to the guilty one or
sickness in his family.
While the seeds of the dorowa, an
East African legumiuuuS tree. are eN-
tensively used for food the pods and
leaves form an excellent cement when
mixed with crushed stone.
A prize of $4,000 has been offered
by King Leopold of Belgium for the best
paper presented describing The Prog
ress of Aerial Navigation and the Best
Means of Encouraging 1t"
In a big Atlantic liner there are over
1000 tons of piping of various kinds. The
boiler tubes, if placed end to end. would
stretch about ten miles, and condenser
tubes over twenty-five miles.
Sir William Pfolkes has been elect
ed president Of the Kings Lynn Sons of
Reflley, England, most exclusive So
cial society. which has been in existence
for nearly a century and a half
The mineral sources of Liberia are
practically unknown. Prospecting in that
part of Africa is matter of extreme
difficulty, owing to the density of the for,
ests and the countvy's disturbed state.
More than 100000 children of school
age are annually laid PROSTATE by the
three preventable diseases of diphthern,
tuberculosis and scarlet fever, and 20
600 of these illnesses terminate fatally.
Ten years ago the st. Paul building,
at Ann street and Broadway, was the
tallest in New York. and its 30S feet of
altitude was looked on with wonder.
Now 1t attracts no particular attention.
Lillian Russell is near As and Annie
Russell close to 45. Eleanor Robson,
who may soon be Mrs. August Belmont,
was graduated from st. Peters acad-
envy, Staten island, in 1897. Nazimova
is 80.
1t will be a great satisfaction to
those who are fighting for the preserva-
ton Of the Adirondack forests to learn
that the first two of the Oil-burning loco
motives to be used have proved signal
successes.
In nine cases out of ten sunstroke or
heat stroke simply means fainting,
caused by sun or air heat acting on one
whose resistance has been lowered by
disease. drunkenness or fashionable
dressing.
In compliance with the new Cana
dian regulations American fishermen
must now obtain licenses, and the rule
limiting the days catch to eight black
bass to a fisherman will be vigorously
enforced.
i'm raising the displacement of its bat.
tleship to 10000 tons the United States
government has produced ship which
far exceeds the largest contemporary
battleships built or building of any for
egn navy.
A blind travellers defense association
has been organized in Manchester. Eng
land. Its object is to fight recent order
of the British railways prohibiting blind
persons from travelling on their lines
without an attendant
Emile OReith for years Barnum's
India rubber man. has been sent up for
eight years in France. Emile was n
clever clown, bareback rider and aero
bat, but lately has turned his talents
to climbing walls and picking c0mplicat-
ed locks.
-Cecie Caricu. aged 10 years, living
Mt Molene, France, is in an awkward pre-
dicament. On going to the marie TO
have her marriage banns published she
was told that legally she has no exist
ence. Her parents had forgotten to have
her inscribed at her birth.
As to a memorial to his son Oscar,
who died recently, Baron Albert de
Rothschld of Vienna gave to the jew
ish community of that city 10000 kronen
and like sum to the municipal govern
ment. the amounts to be applied to char
table work. He gave also 100000
State Health Commissioner Porter
of New York says that unless prompt
and radical measures are taken the 5000
Indians still existing in that state viii
rapidly dwindle in numbers, on account
germ diseases, and the race ere long be-
come extinct.
Caroline Lady Sage and Sele, who
has died in Hereford, where she had re-
sided since her marriage in 1857, with
the sixteenth Lord Sage and Sele. canon
Of Hereford cathedral, was the third
daughter Of the first Lord Leigh and sis
ter of the dean Of Hereford and the
late Lord Leigh.
"A note in knowledge calls attention
to an estimate Of comparative geological
time made by Dr. II. Schmidt Of Jena.
Assuming that the whole Of geological
time is comprised Of 100000, 900 years
then it is estimated that 100000. or
rather more than half. would be required
for e-Cambrian times
People Of fresh air habits and dis
cernment almost instantly and uncon-
sciously are able to tell the presence Of
deleterious aud injurious agents in the
air, although these give no sign of warn
ing TO the senses On this account an
Indian has an unbcarable sense Of OPP
preston in n closed room.
AT the Rockefeller institute Floxner
and Carrel proved that visible death is
not true somatic death; they grew into
live animals organs and tissues Of ami