Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
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India's gold output in 1908 was
worth Sf2,0o0,0O0, or about an eighth
Iof that in the United States.
Pekin has had British, French. Ger
man and japanese banks since 1862,
and is now likely to have an American
bank, also.
The British Protectorate of northern
Nigeria, Africa. has an area of 100000
square miles, and population of at
least 100000. Railways are being
built there.
Consul Charles NJ. Freeman of Du-
range City, Mexico, writes that nearly
all of the engineers, conductors, master
mechanics, station agents and chief
officers of Mexican railroads are Amer
leans. Few openings exist, though, for
Americans in the mercantile line.
Trade of the United States with the
| Republic of Panama in the last five
years amounted to about 100000 900.
lOf this total, S6,00000O, speaking in
lround terms. represented the value Of
the imports from Panama, and SG00ea
900, still speaking in round terms, was
the value of merchandise exported to
Panama.
The District of Columbia comprises
an area of 69245 square miles, The
government consists of two civilian
commissioners appointed by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate, and
one army engineer officer detailed 10y
the secretary of war; the three consti.
tuting the board of commissioners for
three years.
Turkey is to have a lew national
bank on the credit foncier system, with
Headquarters at Constantinople rs
starting capital Is to be S15,000,000,
with the right to increase to $4,000
900. The capital. SIS 100000 of the
present Credit Foncier, may be in
creased to S100,O00,O00. The concession
for the new bank is for ninety
years, and 1t will have branches in all
the large cities Of the empire.--Con-
sular Reports,
i, Some queer advertisements appear in
the Australian papers. Here is one
from Il recent issue of the sydney
/, Morning Herald: Wanted-Some
kind person to adopt young gentleman
absolutely homeless and deserted pres
ent boarding house just sold out guar
. anteed harmless Please be quick" 1t
reads like joke, but people. as rule,
! do not pay advertisement rates for the
publication Of their pleasantries. Lon
don Chronicle.
{ Brazil grows several kinds Of Eng
{ lish potatoes as well as the sweet po-
] tato. Our English potatoes are of va
{ rious colors, red, white, violet and
h yellow. The violet colored potato is
! the most nutritious, but the white 20.
tato, which contains large quantity
5 of starchy matter, is best for the man.
/ lufacture of starch and for the fatten-
{ Ing of pigs. When the raising of pigs
( is more developed the cultivation of the
sweet potato will also be greatly in
d creased. L Etoile du Sud Rio Janeiro.
When knights were clad In complete
( armor from top to toe ii was essential
that they should bear some sign by
which their followers could distinguish
$ them in battle. and this was the func-
4 ton of their armorial bearings.
s knights who omitted to wear their own
{ arms ran considerable risk, and it Is
{ related that at the battle of Bannock-
: burn the last of the Declares owed his
4 death TO his omission to wear his bear
ings He was slain uurecognized.
whereas had he been known he would
{ have been held prisoner for the sake
of ransom or as a hostage THE Eng.
! lshman,
The Bureau Of Statistics announces
: that In 1873 the number Of pairs Of
{ boots and shoes exported from the
{ United states was but 351 600; in 1888,
! 5G4 600; in 1893, ,3O7 900, and In 1908,
{ G,552, 600, The value Of these exporta-
I lions In 1878 was $46S,0OO; in 1888,
$655,OOO, in 1893 S1,S170O0, and in
; 1903, 81 100000. The United King
dom sends abroad more shoes than the
{ United States, the number of pairs hav-
ing reached 9,442, 296 during the last
{ fiscal year; but they had value of
{ only $0,93o,356, or S1.O5 per pair, while
5 those exported from this country aver
{ aged S1.s4 per pair.
In the year TIA one Daniel Gabriel
{ Fahrenheit brought to the chancellor
of the University Of Halle two Their
mometers which agreed so perfectly
in registering temperatures that they
were considered maryels. All scientists
were amazed. His method is now one
Of the three accepted standards Fab.
renheit was by birth n Prusslan, but
after his fifteenth year he lived long
{ life In Amsterdam. His great skill In
: working IN glass enabled him to carry
out his ideas. He was an original
{ thinker, but for commercial reasons
/. kept secret his methods Of manufac
ture for eighteen years.