Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-17

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At the present rate of increase in
travel it is estimated that the rail-
ways of Manhattan and the Bronx will
carry 1,700,00O,000 passengers in 1920
According to a statement by the
German colonial secretary. the value
of the diamondiferous deposits in Ger
man Southwest Africa amounts to
$3.50 100000.
Ancient Egyptians to save their eyes
decorated their eyellds with beautiful
black velvety anthony paint. which
protected from glare and Egyptian
sore eyes, The paint went back near
the ear to end in a symbol
The way in which some taiors give
credit" said Judge Rentoul, at the city
of London court, is awful The idea
| of giving man credit for $3.50 worth
of clothes Firms who give such credit
must charge enormous prices"
For many years the observatory of
the vatican has been divided, a por-
ton being on the vatican hill, some
little distance from the square of st.
Peters, but by a recent Encouragement
the entire establishment viii be moved
TO the top of the hill.
The men of AZ, the California pio-
neers, are rapidly dwindling. There
are now only seven members of the
| Sacramento Society of California Pho,
| neers. The eighth member recently
died, and the survivors acted as pail.
bearers and mourners
The researches of Professor Flinders
Petrie at Memphis have resulted in the
unearthing OF the palace Of King
| Apries, the Pharaoh Hophra of the
Scriptures and contemporary OF Jere.
miah. Armor and bronze figures OF
gods were found in the ruins.
The Austrian Alpine Club has recent
ly come into possession OF a fine build.
ing, the gif: of the city of Munich.
The new building is excellently situat.
ed on the banks Of the river Isar.
The club has great quantity of in
teresting material pertaining to the
Alpine district and II is proposed to
start an Alpine museum in its new
home.
A new use for convicts has been
found In Missouri, where a number
were taken out of the penitentiary at
Jefferson City and put to work on the
Galloway bottoms helping the farm.
ers save their wheat from the ad,
vancing waters OF the Missouri river.
The prisoners worked we'll en1oyed
their outing and would welcome an.
other chance to get outside the walls.
And now the southern corn "pone"
and Johnny cake" are in danger.
story comes up from Durham, n. c..
that there are some serious cases OF
pellagra under treatment In that dis
trict. Pellagra Is a disease of the
skin somewhat resembling leprosy. It's
appearance has caused many families
to give up the use of cornmeal as food,
It being held that the disease finds its
causatiou in maize
The sign of the times is that homi.
eide Is going TO stop short and stay
stopped here better than in any place
the world has ever known, the Golden
Age of Imperial Rome and England
not excepted Time may yet come
when a child at midnight with a bun
die of long green may go through New
York's streets and no thief dare modest.
There are places IN the United States
where even stealing a chicken is IN.
known, and no door needs lock or bar.
New York Press.
CASTOR BONNER affirms that the abil.
ity Of bees to fly straight to their YES
from a distance as great as two miles
IS not due, as some have believed. to
either sight or smell, bu. to a special
sense of direction possessed by bees.
Monsieur BONNER bases his relief In
the existence of this strange sense.
which would be extremely useful TO |
man also, on a series OF experiments
with homing bees. He does not know
in what organ the sense is seated, but
he says that, at any rate, 1t is not in |
the antennR.
The Turkish empire has a popula |
ton Of 6.130000 in Europe and 1880.
900 in Asia Minor. Constantinople has |
a: least 1900 900 people, including 200. |
900 Greeks, 10000 Germans, 1900 Aus |
TRANS and French. 5000 Italians, 1000
and possibly 300 Americans |
The natives are Of all degrees Of Turk. |
ish and Arab origin. Thousands OF
them are well-to-do or wealthy, broad. |
and ready for the awakening |
TO which the nation and Constantine. /
pie in particular are rapidly advanc.
ing. There Is now a great future for /
trade in Turkey. Oficial notices al
ready issued cover g number Of large
aid important public works-Consular