Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-11-12

Nicholas Leblanc, French chemist, in
1901.
"A young Kansan writes to a side
talk editor to know upon which side of
the girl the man should sit when buggy
riding"
London women, stimulated by the
Olympic games of last summer. have
taken to the foils, and fencing is now
the fashion.
After working for Heathcoat & Co.,
lace manufacturers of Tiverton, England,
for seventy-one years, William Huxtable
has just retired.
"A speed of forty-six miles an hour is
claimed for a Detroit motorboat, to
winch additional propulsion is given by
an aerial propeller.
When a hen attains her third year
her laying capacity is at its best. She
will lay, on an average, from 300 to 500
eggs in ner lifetime.
An electric heater for thawing ex-
plosiveS is used at the Roosevelt drain
age tunnel in Cripple Creek, Colo. 1t is
in successful operation.
oil has been struck $50 miles south
of SueZ, on the Red sea coast. the gush-
er giving increasing quantities daily. and
indicating large reserves.
Ecuador exports about 10000 tons
Of vegetable ivory annually. of which
Germany takes about one-half and the
United States one-fourth
Bolivia is famous for its silver, but
! also possesses considerable quantities of
gold, which, however, cannot be extract
ed without great expense.
When the llama is too heavily load
ed, about 125 pounds. the wise beast lies
down right then and there and goes on
| strike and refuses to bulge.
staff Surgeon Oswald Rees of the
| British navy says the Negroes color gives
him an advantage over the white man
in the stokehold as well as in the sun.
A big commission house is expert
menting with kilograms instead of let
| tiers, and says the members can tend to
business correspondence best with short
messages.
While the seeds of the dorowa. an
| East African leguminous tree. are extern
sively used for food, the pods and leaves
! form an excellent cement when mixed
with crushed stone.
Social clubs to take the place of high
school fraternities, which the Chicago
| board of education is determined to abol-
ish. are planned by the president and su-
| perintendent of the board.
M. Marcel Provost has been elected
| to the Academic Franchise in succession
! to Nictorien Sardou. There were four
ballots, at each of which NJ Provost Sc
cured the largest number of votes
The Prussian Parliament has de-
| creed that henceforth a tax of $2400 is
| to be levied in case of the bestowal of
| the ducal rank. A new prince pays
$500, count 5000, a baron 5000.
/ The largest tobacco manufacturing
center in the world is st. Louis. Its an
nual sales aggregate $40, 100000, which
| is equal to Is per cent. of the total to-
bacco output of the United States.
Germany has spent S15O,OOOOOO in
| the last twenty years in the DEVELOPMENT
end improvement of inland waterways.
| As result the empire has now S27S
miles of navigable streams and canals.
The government tests at Washington
| of samples of the chain to be used on
| the gear of the Panama canal locks with
| stood tensile tests of $4,000 pounds to
the square inch before the metal parted
Olive trees live 1000 years. Some
| trees on Mount Olivet are 5000 years old.
| The largest olive ranch in the world is
| in Los Angeles, Cal, ten times bigger
/ than any in Spain. Olive groves in
| California were planted by Spanish ia.
| theirs several hundred years ago.
| An experiment from which much
may be learned is being tried in Hun
gary. 1t is embodied in the new lauG
bill which is now coming into operation
| The proposal is TO break up 24.0OO acres
| into settlements, which settlements will
be subdivided into plots of seven acres
each.
Although in most of the mines in
| Japan the various operations are car
rled out by the ordinary labor of men
and cattle, il seems from a reuort ON the
mining industry in Hokkaido thar NJ
three coal mines and at one gold ana
| silver mine, electrical machinery is en-
ployed.
Recently the authorities of Carlsbad
were much concerned over a decrease in
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