Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-25
PARAGRAPHS.

The more familiar species of flying
fish are deniZens of the tropical oceans
Fresh water species, however. are
known
Freight rates in Cuba are legally sub
lect to discriminating rebates on com
modities such as sugar, tobacco, coal and
fertilizers.
Queen Marghcrita has a weakness for
the books of Ameri AN and English nov
elists. She also reads English and Amer
lean magazines
The ant eater puts up its big bushy
tail for an umbrella. The vanity of the
peacock is fed by the beauty of its tail,
Dumb Animals.
a translation Of the scriptures int0
modern, idiomatic Spanish is being pre-
pared for use in Puerto Rico. Cuba.
Mexico and South America
Voting in Spain is held to be a duty
To the community, not merely & privilege
of the individual, and neglect of civic
obligations carries lis own penalty.
An Australian, who has just arrived
in London, says that the people in the
antipodeS We're much more upset by the
magnetic storm last September than has
been realized over here.
A portrait bust. heroic in size ana
erected on an artistic pedestal, of Ma
RE Wilt in the part of Norma, was I'M
yelled recently in the foyer of the Royal
Opera house at Vienna.
Queen Maud of Norway can ride
across country at Il regular breakncck
speed. and she is said To have beaten
the record of the late Empress of Aus
tria in the hunting field.
Railroad people do not 50 much dread
strikes as they dread the effect upon mel
earnings of granting merely such de
mands for higher pay as they privately
believe to he reasonable,
The Rittenhouse charts show for
Greater New York, from 1887 to 1907 Il
fall in deaths from consumption from
thirty-tiyc i'll every 10000 Of population
to twenty-one and a fraction
Great Britain is heavy buyer of
wood-S1 45,0O0000 worth in 1908. Nor
way and Sweden supplied SAL ,000,00o
worth. Russia the same amount, and the
United States sd 100000 worth.
DR. Charles A. Raymond. the new
president of Union university, has start
I'D movement to erect at Union Il suit.
able memorial to John Howard Payne
| author of Home. Sweet Home
To prevent the alteration of checks
or other valuable papers an inventive
genius has brought out an electric APP
paratus which burns tiny holes in the
paper as the inscription is written.
liverpool il at present experiment
| u
! lamps for street lighting \ row of
| flaming ares is set on posts in the mid
die of one of the principal streets.
Textiles may he rendered firepruof
according to the Paris board of fire com
| missionerS, by STEPPING them in u ten
| per cent solution of phosphate of am
/ monia, then drying them in the open air.
| The raccoou catches crabS-with its tail
| Everyone knows how the monkeys Jour
T.s-s
! from tree to tree while the fishes steer
/ their way through the water Ivy their tai;
] fins.
| There is no such thing as Il forest Of
/ mahogany. The mahogany tree lives by
| and for itself alone. 1t stands solitary
| of its species surrounded by the smaller
/ trees and dense underground of the trop-
/ ical forest.
No volcano Is better staged than the
peak Of Tcnerife. Fortunately for the
| islanders this 12.0o0-foot high monster
usually employs the centuries in sleep.
and his present furious ouburStS may Zoe
nothing hut a drowsy yawn.
-BrewerieS aud tanperies and priating
/ ink factories confer exemption from ru-
| herculosiS, and employees in turPentiue
/ factories never have rheumatiSm Cop
per mining excludes the possibility of
/ typhoid among the workers.
Cork metal has been SHOWN as a
| substitute for aluminium in tie construc-
/ ton of airShips Ii is said q Ice 10 per
| cent lighter than aluminium. and to have
numerous other properties which should
make it a rival Of the later
-Subterrantan streams of water hav,
been detected by sound lN n French in
Strumcut known as the ,acouStele." with
which the Belgian Society If Geology,
PalcontaloCy and UyFolagy IS said TO
have made extensive Experiments.