Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-17
NOTES OF INTEREST.


-Europe's demand Tor American APP
pies is Increasing.
One ton of apples will usually yield
$50 gallons of cider.
The United Kingdom manufactures
100000 tons of soap yearly
Prince Edward islands annual catch
of Holsters amounts to 20,OOOOOO.
during the first seven months of this
year over 10000 people left the United
kingdom for British North America.
london annually makes use of t.,
O0NOOO,0O umbrellas, onefourth of
which are imported
Although the steamship is a century
old there are still more than 66,ouO sail
ing vessels on the high seas.
In Berlin the walters association is
considering the plan of making tips ohhg-
atory aud according to n fixed table.
Health Commissioner Richie of Bos-
ton declares that pneumonia is now the
most fatal disease in his jurisdiction.
pr. Bethmann-Hollweg may claim
this unique distinction, that he is the first
German chancellor to wear beard
What is supposed to be the fullest
tlagpole in the world is now in Battery
mark. New York. 1t is 165 feet high,
The greatest cotton crop in the Unit
ed States was that of 1905. which, on
the farm. was valued at ST22,ooOWO
The installation of a wireless tcle-
graph apparatus is Illegal in England
without the consent of the postottice de
partment.
When dusnng or cleaning the new
Tungsten lamps the lamp should he
burning TO prevent accidents To the deli
cate Glament.
One hundred leading London chefs
are to celebrate soon the professional
jubilee of NJ Escohier, the Napoleon of
the kitchen
The province of British Columbia is
now receiving the attention of inves,nrS
from Eastern Canada, the United States
and England
Within five years Uruguay will have
10000 olive trees, capable of producing
100000 pounds of olives and 10000
gallons of oil.
Cats are subject to a form of iniiu-
on2a which is communicable to human
beings. and they can catch II from man
just as readily.
Poison from mushrooms Is frequent
ly reported. but only ignorance and prey
udice prevent them from being an article
| of everyday food.
-Iapau's principal mineral produc-
tons are, in order of Importance as
named, copper, sulphur, silver iron, coal
petroleum and gold.
There are two Pasteur institutes in
India In the last year the one ut
Coonor treated $40 eases, only two re
Sulting unfavorably.
Cigar boxes of glass are coming more
| and more into use. They are cheaper
| than the wooden boxes and keep the eli
CARS fresh a longer time.
Because the demand for machinery
| is exceeding the product in the domestic
/ "a y 10 fry vii
soon be buying foreign machinery.
| Two blind girls from the Royal Nor
NAL College for the Blind have given
| some remarkable exhibitions of roller
! skating, including a waltz on skates
A British gunboat returning from
| Bering sea reports new changes in the
| Bogoslov islands, which were created off
| the Alaskan coast five years ago by a
! volcanic upheaval
The Institute of Marine Engineers in
| London recently discussed the subject
and III. 4. Mayor of Glasgow said that
! the prospect for electric propulsion for
ships is very hopeful.
The amount of blast furnace gas
| power lost each year approximate 1000
! 600 horsepower, although this is being
reduced by the installation Of gas Ell
| gines to utilize the power.
The turbine derives its power not
| from the expansive pressure of steam, as
! in "A cylinder engine, but from its mo-
| mentum, impinging at high velocity OH
vanes attached to the revolving shaft.
Prince Edward Of Wales, the oldest
son Of the Crown Prince Of Wales, has
| just entered the Royal Naval college at
| Dartmouth MS a cadet, after having com
pleted his training course at Osborne
For train dspatching the Canadian
| Pacific railroad has found the telephone
so serviceable that the present system Of
about 800 miles of telephone lines will
be extended to 1000 miles within year.
-Britain's Antarctic expedition now
| in course of preparation, VIII carry wire
less teegraphic equipment sufficient TO
enable messages to be sent to New
Zealand from the ship and from stations
established at bases of supplies on land
or ice.
DR.. Amy Tanner formerly a profes-
! sOr at Wilson college, has been chosen
| to supervise the work of measuring and
testing defective children at the institu-
ton for child study which has just
been opened at Clark university, Worces
ter. Mass.
There has been much dispute as tC
| whether whales can utter any sounds. \
writer in Kosmos says that he and fOrty
other persons who witnessed the throw
ing of harpOOn at whale off the Bra
lillian coast heard a distinct groan whef
the animal expired.
Boston university, according to is
new year book, has an attendance 81
! 1914 in all it's departments. or these
9G2 are men and SOP are women. Tn,
chief increases are in the College Of Lib
eral Arts, the courses for teachers anG
the School Of Theology.
--Whalebone cost only 30 cents
pound half a century ago. Today il
costs about 50 a pound. The total prod
uct landed from the American hsherie.
during the Nineteenth century eXceede,
90OOO,OOO pounds \ single whale may
yield mp 10 1000 pounds.
Brazil has some corking tariff duue;
I-penknives, 291 per cent; screws, %
per cent: iron racks, 40 per cent; irot
bits, J2G per cent. school chalk. 5J2 pei
cent: key rings $50 per cent. American
Teamed vegetables pay duties Of $40 pc
cent. canned fruits, IlG; onions, GIG.
No creature is more apt 10 become
hopeless dipsomaniac than the honey bee
The flowers deliberately trade on th
weakness and make their honey int0x
icating simply 70 give the bee an irresist
| al. t.ef. Frr IL and induce fine GGlud %