Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-30
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may be traced back for 2000 years.
The actual valuation of all tobacco
produced and manufactured in Cuba last
year was at least $45,00o,000.
A number of Chinese students of
mining have been recently graduated ut
American and Belgian schools.
Wireless telephony installed on bat
tleships works successfully in some cases,
but is unsatisfactory in others.
The official figures relative to peni-
Tertiary conditions in Chile show
great decrease in the number of crimes.
Foreign business firms in China in
creased by I5S in 1907. OF this number
677 are japanese, 40 German and 30
Spanish.
New Zealand's population Decom-
Der 81, 1908, was 1,0l2OO0, Consisting
of 100000 Europeans, 10000 Maoris and
1900 Cook Islanders.
"A monument to the negro poet, Paul
Laurence Dunbar, is to be unveiled in
Woodlawn cemetery, Dayton, o., on
Sunday, June 26 his Birthday.
Canada Denmark, France, Ger
many. England, Russia, Sweden and the
United States were in 1908, represented
among the twelve expeditions which
were struggling toward the pole.
of the worlds islands Borneo and
New Guinea are accounted the two
largest As their areas have not been
accurately ascertained, it is uncertain
which is the larger of the two.
Custom DEGREES that q gold coin, or
at the very least, silver, shall be put
under the mainmast of each new ship
launched. The coin bears the date of
the year when the vessel is completed.
Eugene Henard. who attained fame
with his palace of Illusions at the Paris
exposition in 1900, has just completed
similar. but larger piece of eccentric
architecture for exhibition in that city.
An instrument is being used in one
of the South African mines which auto
matically keeps a record Of the cage or
skip journey as well as the signals Civ
en- in the shaft and in the engine room.
American shooting men are much
exercised over "A story that a sporting
farmed named KNITTED, who lives neal
Brounsburg, ST. Louis, has succeeded
in teaching a pig to point game, and
shoots over il.
In the early days of the British
museum century or more ago the place
was open for only six hours daily on
five days a week in the summer and
four hours daily during the rest of the
year
France is considering an enormous
hydro-electric undertaking. The plan is
to dam the Rhone, below the rapids,
some thirteen miles from the Swiss
frontier, and utilize the water in fall
of go feet.
japanese are employed in many Chi
nese schools as teachers Of western mu-
sic Graduates in a girls school in
Shanghai recently surprised the Ameri-
can guests with their proficiency on the
violin and piano
The oldest living graduate Of Yale
university is Chester button, 50 years
old. who was graduated from New Ha-
ven in the class of 1888, and is now iiv-
ing at Riverside homestead, eight miles
from COncOrdia, Kan.
"A Photographic plate, coupled with
a telescope, discovers millions Of stars
whose light the retina Of the eye could
the inaudible tread Of a fly sound like the
tramp Of cavalrymen.
DIR. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson,
mayor Of Aldeburg, England, gave din
ner recently 10 forty councillors and other
guests She was the only woman pres
ent. and she wore a black dress, with a
widows cap and diamonds.
The distance overland from Pekin to
Mukden is about 100 miles. The tray
eled route passes through kalgan and
Dolon Nor and thence generally eastward
through southeastern Mongolia 70 the
center Of southern Manchuria.
The Nelson river may be described as
one Of the greatest rivers Of the world
as regards the actual volume Of water
discharged into the Hudson bay. Its to-
tai length il approximately 400 miles
and the drainage area is tremendous.
-Cattaro, the Austrian sea gate Of
Montenegro, which was recently believed
To be threatened By Prince Nicholas
guns. was held by Montenegro once for
little time Montenegro acquired If in
1913 with the aid u a British squadron.
-Kerguelen. or the Island Of Des0la-
zion. may be the scene Of the next gold
rush. Situated midway between the
Cape u Good Hope and Australia, IL is
one Of the ireariest and most forbid
dlnz spots on the surface Of the globe.
For nearly thirty years of its exist
.nee the Social Democratic Federation
IF England can make but scanty show.
.nz At the last general election IL polled
naazer tota! Of % SO votes and &c..
cured the return Of only one representa-.
tive Il Parliament.