Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


each inhabitant of New York City
Five Chinese government schools are
teaching railway engineering, and
sixth probably will establish & course
The five largest Office buildings in
New York contain $500 miles of tele.
phone wire and almos. 10000 tele
phones
When busting or cleaning the new
tungsten lamps the lamp should be
burning TO prevent accidents TO the
delicate filament
The average person does not expert.
snce any sensation from an electrical
current until the pressure reaches
about thirty-tive volts
Since Manchuria was converted into
a province its expenditure has increas,
ed rapidly. Its balance sheet last year
was six million taels on the wrong
side
Rio Janeiro. with population OF
100000, spent more money for public
improvements last year than any city
in the United States. excepting New
York
Public watering troughs for horses
were condemned as disseminatoIs Of
disease by the State veterinarian OF
Missouri DR. f. D. Luckey, and BY DR..
Schoenlehen, of Kansas, at The session
d the Interstate A. ISOLATION Of live
Stock Sanitary Board in Chicago
Mrs. Wyman. age 10. OF Plttsheld.
Mass, recently broke all records n her
pie-making career. she made seventy
two pies of nine different varieties as
! follows: Custard apple, cocoanut,
prune, raisin. squash, chocolate, blue
Derry and lemon Mrs WyIaan did the
work alone ald had it finished by
noon
A she'll which will hit Two marks
viii be tested this fall. The solid steel
head of the shell contains charge OF
nigh explosive which is detonated on
impact. Back Of ,his IS the shrapnei
chamber, containing 20 bullets and a
sharge of high explosive The shrap-
lel portion can Be timed to explode
above body OF troops. leaving the
solid head OF the shell to pass on and
strike elsewhere
A woman in Worcester, Mass was
surprised at receiving extra large bills
Tor gas used the last two months and
~ investigating tho matter found that
ner new maid was keeping teakettls
jinging on the gas stove all day long.
II answer to her query as TO the reG
so2 the maid informed her that she
.eit more like working while the kettle
was singing. The maid now works
without accompaniment.
Japan can boast % the most luxuri-
ous prison in the world, Il is about
fifteen miles from Tokyo. In the
midst OF gardens, whore flourish med
airs and cherry trees, encircled with
ponds bearing fine crops of water Ill
.es, rises the mass Of spacious and airy
cells. Lighting throughout is by cleo
tricity. Among other features are
bathrooms with marble baths, hot and
cold water. dressing rooms and read
,ng rooms.
Henry Savage Lander, the English
explorer, who will soon make an at
.empt to reach the south pole, is Of the
opinion that Lieutenant Shackleton
'ailed through having 81 cumbersome
md unnecessarily large expedition. Mr.
Landor's theory Is that z small cara
5an OF trusted and hardy men. lightly
/ IA Is, ,rrl,
Asia and Africa, is best MIR Ian
doris activity in aeronautic investiga-
ions gives color TO the rumor that an
,irship will be used by him in his ex-
petition.
He was citizen of Aberdeen. Scot
and, who had gone to spend a few
lays in London with his son After
heir first greetings at the station, the
Young fellow remarked: "Feyther you
are not lookin' well IS there anything
me matter?" The old man replied
Aye. lad, l have had quite an acct
dent" What was that, feyther?"
Mon" he said, "on this Journey frae
bonnie Scotland lost my luggage
Dear, dear that's too bad 90 did it
nappen?' Aweel," replied The Aber-
aonian, the cork cam oot
In olden times thumbscrews were
ased to torture prisoners into eonfes-
sion, and thus gain from them secrets
that only intense bodily pain would
bring forth; but this, with many other
6endish means Of torture, vas left be
hind by advancing civilization. Now.
however, it has made Its appearance
again, but. as a means Of self-inficted
torture, says Popular Mechanics II is
The newest aidto-beauty FAD OF Eu-
rope, and its EMISSION Is 10 squeeze the
lips of the fingers until they change
rom fat and pudgy to long and taper
.ng
Negotiations were recently conclud.
ID whereby a European syndicate
axes control Of the sixteen best gem
mines In Ceylon These mines, I'D TO
he present. have been under the man.