Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-23
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Electric heating devices are success
fully employed for branding cigar
boxes
1t is estimated that there are 2,00o,-
400 horsepower in unused water powers
N the State of Wisconsin.
1t is figured that a successful physi-
ian must have clientele of 100 fam
lies, or about 100 persons.
BY a vote of 81 to n the Oregon
legislature has refused TO abolish the
Whipping post for wife-beaters.
More than one-quarter of the to-
oaceo consumed by the Spanish nation
comes from the United States.
German women are talking up boxing
and there are number of schools
where the art of self-defense is taught
Eighteen men were tied to the whip
ping post in one day recently at VIII
nington, Del, and given total of 255
ashes This beats all previous records
Belgium has been Offering reduced
Gates under certain conditions for tray
Il on Its passenger trains and the
enange has resulted in enormously IN.
2re0sed business and revenues.
In fifteen months Alice Roosevelt at,
ended 40S dinners, 27l receptions, I'll
oalls, ESQ teas and shook hands with
$1,000 people After this strenuous
season she was compelled to go to bed
m.
The steerage business of the Atlantic
steamship lines is one Of their prime
sources of profit They have been hard
hit by the lull in the immigration tide
Turing the last year. The decrease in
he number Of immigrants carried in
1908 was $4,000, compared with 1907
The average cost of third-class pas,
sage being $50, this made n shortage
In the revenues of the steamship CON-
panies aggregating the enormous sum
IF $17,49O.000
Siberia has the coolest weather
Known anywhere in the world. At
Nerkhoyaonsk, Siberia. 9O.4 degrees be
low zero was observed in January,
lSSS which goes below anything ever
known in the world before or since.
At that point the average temperature
for January is nearly GA degrees below
zero, This town is $50 feet above the
level Of the sea- and during the entire
winter the weather is calm and clear
London Globe.
One of the most polished and pains
taking of English authors regarded cor
rect spelling as a totally unnecessary
accomplishment In his introduction
to II. l.. Stevenson's letters, Sidney Col
vim writes: Il have not held myself
bound to reproduce all the authors
minor eccentricities of spelling and the
like. AS all his friends are aware
to spell In quite accurate and grown
up manner was "A thing which this mas
ter Of English letters was never able to
learn"
1t Is one of the many marvels OF
wireless tclegraphy that the ether
waves which carry its messages, unlike
light waves, suffer no absorption in
mist or fog. Quite the opposite, in
Tact, Is the case, for the effect on them
Of clear sunlight is so marked that they
Fan be sent with equal initial power
only less than half the distance by
aay as by night For this reason press
dispatches and long-distance messages
sent by wireless telegraphy are wher-
ever possible, committed to the ether
waves after unset.-Dundee Adyertls-
er.
Miss Wiuifred Gibbs of the Asso-
citation for Improving the Condition of
the Poor Of New York reports that
she has had unusual success in intro
aucing the freess cooker among the
women Of the East Side Miss Gibbs
makes fireless cooker ut cost OF
only few cents Her materials con.
gist Of II butter tub, bag Of sawdust,
tin pain with q closely fitting Top
ana two yards Of denim. She is said
10 have more than doZeE going full
blast among the tenement families that
she teaches.
When King Edward travels In Eu-
rope he occupies his own cars Except
when in actual use the Kings railway
carriages are stored in Brussels and
Gent to Cherbourg, Calais or Fluching,
according 10 the royal destination.
Handsome and comfortable as the Eng
fish Kings private train Is. the Ger.
man Emperors train SO far exceeds It
In magniflcance that It's eleven ca
riages. furnished with real Gobelin
tapestry and marble statuary. took
three years to build and cost 5000, 600
Mrs. Gibson Arnold OF New York is
eredited with being the originator Of
he movement to teach mothers to care
for their babies Believing that no
baby need die If II Is properly taken
are Of a number Of New York women
met with Mrs. Arnold recently for the
purpose OF deylsIng means to estab-
!sh an infant science academy a com
nittee was appointed to look into the