Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-05-06
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


he most valuable leather belt ever
made sold for $4,000, 1t is 243 feet
long, u inches wide, and three-ply.
/ Any child over Z can be prosecuted
as criminal in England, but in Ger
many 2 is the limit OF responsibility.
Asparagus has been cultivated for
! more than 1000 years from wild va
rieties found in Natal Siberia and
Persia.
J For the second year in succession
/ the Rhodes scholarship for Manitoba
has been won by youth of Icelandic
parentage. Joseph T. Thorson is the
name of the latest winner.
Announcement that airship commu-
nication will be started in May be-
/ tween Munich and Oberammergau in
/ Germany recalls the fact that propos-
ais for an aerial service from Paris to
! Lyons were made in 1884, within a
! year of the first balloon ascent.
Victor Hugo was a good business
man. One of his biographers describes
/ him as the keenest hand imaginable
at bargain, past master in the art
of drawing up contracts and the only
author on record who made a fortune
out of his books while his publishers
lost on them"
NJ. Edmond Blanc is looked upon as
/ the real ruler of Monaco. He pays
S350,000 a year for the gambling con-
cession he holds and thus provides the
greater part of the revenue of the
| principality. In one respect NJ. Blanc
Is a disappointed man He can not
gain admission to the French Jockey
Club.
AS a result, it is said, of the in
creased spirit duties under the British
budget the police have noticed in re-
mote districts of Ireland indications of
Il revival of Illicit distillation of IL
fuor There has also been consid
cradle increase, it Is reported in ne
-, consumption of spirits of ether as
beverage since the price of whtskey
was raised.
In Italy the supply of machine guns
Is still in its infancy. BY the END of
| The year, however every infantry reg
Iment and every Alpine battalion is
to have one gun for training the men.
In the fall of 1910 a beginning is to
be made to give every infantry and
cavalry regiment one battery of four
and every Alpine battalion one bat
terry of two such guns
Men of former ages, unless they
lived near the sea or river, had great
difficulties in gratifying their taste for
fish. The great houses had their fish
ponds or stews, but sea fish. such as
cod, Dream. sturgeon herring and
sprats were sailed, and the excessive
consumption of highly sailed fish in
the middle ages Is said to have pro-
duced leprosy. Fish was also baked
great distances.
A piece of railroad construction was
recently completed by which the Is
land of Japan now has a system run
ming throughout the full length of the
empire The total length of the line
is 1850 miles and the distance from
north to south of the island can now
be covered in five days and nights At
the close of the fiscal year 1903, 4452
miles of state railroad had been
opened for traffic and ass miles of rail
way were controlled by private inter
ests.
An orange yender, intent on forcing
trade has been doing a novel business
in the residential part of the city for
the last few days He rings the bell
and tells the servant who answers that
he has a box of oranges to deliver
The box is properly addressed and is
said to have come from California
| The express charges are usually about
$3.50 or $4, and an amount FAR in ex-
cess of the value of the fruit which
the box contains. A number of credu-
lous people have been vl@'inized 49,
New York Tribune.
The Pekin Gazette of recent date
gives two rescripts in connection with
criminals who ''on account OF mad
| ness" have killed their father and
grandfather, respectively. The words
are always added in such cases, for
| the crime Oh pdIElCiue Is 50 ueIDCu5
that strictly speaking the whole popu-
lation Of the city is responsible the
city walls have to be RACED and a new
site found elsewhere. In SzechInn
province there is a deserted city, Wis
ible to travellers from the river where
this law was once strictly carried ont
One or two developments Of the po-
lice traffic rules in this city is a
change in the manner of loading carts
of vegetable and fruit hucksters. The
rules compel vehicles coming 10 a stop
TO do so with their right hand or of
wheels next the curb. The peddlcrs
obey the rule, but the leftsides Of their
wagons are built high above the body,
so that a tempting array OF wares is
spread out, sloping toward the win
dows Of the houses on that side Of tn
street. The men who run the cars say
the new plan increases sales-Nsw