Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


- AAAA SAAS AZ a WI
kissing and shaking hands are rare
y practieed in Japan.
Japanese dead are buried in
'quatting posture, chin upon knees.
There is record of wheat growing
N China as far back as 5000 B. c.
The first recorded Thanksgiving was
he Hebrew feast of the tabernacles.
Turkey has a government tannery
or such products as are needed in the
army.
AT twenty-one, Alexander stood at
he head of his army on the plains of
Thessaly, Wherefore entered parlia-
nent. and Tasso had begun his i'm
Mortal poem, Jerusalem Delivered"
which took ten years to complete.
Oyster production in Canadian wa.
eFs is steadily decreasing. The yield
e1 from S1,757 barrels in 1903 to ~
's' barct]s in 1907 Canada imported
S27l,760 worth OF American oysters in
1908 out Of i total export of 1868. SS2
worth.
To check New Jerseys destructive
orest fires, the State has ordered the
'ailroads rayersing its pine forests to
lear the ground for fifty feet on each
ice of the tracks and pillow up and
E's74a ten-foot strips to prevent the
sr0"ta Of brush again
AT twenty. Tintoretto was one Of
he most prolific and popular painters
n Italy; Schelling had grappled with
he philosophy OF Kant; Calico had
discovered the use of the pendulum:
Lafayette was a major general, and
Garrison voiced emancipation for the
slave
AT twenty-five Paul Potter painted
The Young Bull" now in the mu-
ieum at The Hague, said to be one of
he finest animal pictures on canvas;
am 2bell wrote his Pleasures of
.nlH,' on which his fame as poet
'1SSs, Earquhar had made for himself
laa,in8 name as a dramatist, and
Condo was the most famous military
general Of his time
The ceremony of electing a mayor
a 9elfry was performed Yesterday
according to ancient custom in the
parish church of Brightlingsea, when
Arthur Lucas was chosen in success
sion to the Rev. Arthur Petwee, vicar
If Brightlingsea, and six mariners who
lad married Brightlingsea women
we're admitted freemen of the port ON
'ayment of eleven pennies into the
Teasury.- Standard.
The United States and the British
empire produce S2,7 per cent OF the
worlds gold supply Germany and
France, which produce no gold, and
Russia, which produces only some
S27000,000 worth a year, feel compel
ed TO hoard vast amounts OF II to be
prepared for emergencies, such as
'EddFl war. This is the reason why
,he banks OF these countries begin
process of boarding gold whenever
here is any likelihood of trouble.
Japan, the country that is not
pound by traditions in her search for
he best manner of doing things, has
ried our national bank plan, and,
hiding 1t not at all satisfactory, has
adopted the European plan of the cen
raj bank The Bank of Japan is
capitalized at Sl5,000,000 It's circula-
i+A at present is more than $780,
;00,dGo. and its deposits exceed $780,
100000. 1t issues all the notes Of the
country and thus controls the cur
enc" situation. Besides the Bank of
IapaE there are other semi-official
banks filling various specific functions
or the government.
The chairman of the Imperial To-
oacco Company of Canada was asked,
1T Montreal, If the report was correct
hat they had bought the Ontario to-
oacco crop. His answer was that to-
oacco grown in Canada to-day was SUI
'erior to the American-grown leaf
rom the same type of seed, for the
reason that the soil in the United
States has been used for a number OF
Fears and the Canadian soil is prac.
Ideally virgin soil for tobacco grow
:ag purposes. and therefore produced
4 better quality. The proof of this is
hat the consumption is constantly in
easing.-Consular Reports
Professor Ranke some time ago
brought out a new fact concerning
he brain Of man as compared with
hat OF other animals. 1t has long
oeen known that the brain OF man
ioes not weigh as much as that OF a
whale, or an elephant. and that there
Ire birds and apes whose brains are
heavier than mans in proportion 10
lac weight of their bodies Bnt fro
lessor Ranke showed that the way to
reveal the actual superiority of the
human brain is to compare its weight
With that Of the spinal cord Meas
aled in this way. mans brain Is pro
far heavier than that OF
any of the lower animals. Harpers
Weekly.