Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-04-22
CONVERSATIONS.

the rwenty-htth anniversary of her serv-
Ice as passenger agent at Ardm0re sta
ton. on the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
From the days Of Joseph down the
only well populated country which had
enough grain To satisfy its own conSum-
ers was Egypt rich beyond the record
of any other soil this side of Paradise.
In Germany 81 cubic feet of timber
per capita is taken annually from her
forests; France is able TO get along with
hut 2o cubic feet; while in this country
the consumption is 30 cubic feet per
capita.
Only old New Workers know that
there used 10 be an island 200 feet of
the battery, and that ii was fortified and
known as Fort Clinton. The island was
connected with the mainland by draw
bridge,
-China'S ministry of the interior has
decided upon the period from the seventh
To the sixteenth year as the age of minor
ity and study. and has decreed that from
l6 to 40 shall be the age of manhood for
Chinese people,
DR.. Lepage the eminent Brussels
surgeon, has sent in his bill for $50. 600.
his fee for the operations performed on
King Leopold a few days before the
Kings death. The operation is said To
have lasted ten minutes,
The ancient pueb0s of Arizona and
New Mexico have been explored and
their rich and varied contents made
known to the world through the contrihu-
tons of Charles +. Lummis, George l..
Cole, George Wharton James and others,
Excellent bricks are made of the soil
of ant hills in Central Africa. The ma
tives tread it with water into Il doughike
substance, which is shaped in rough
Wpnlan rAnlHs 10 thnv, 80, ~.
san, and afterward baked in native kilus.
Steam railways of the United States
carry large number of passengers each
year, but the railways of New York city
carry G6 per cent. more than all of
them combined. During the last year
these lines carried 1.300,OO0.0OO passen-
gers.
1t is reported from Pekin that Tuan-
Fang. Viceroy of Chilli has been So
yereiy censured for causing photographs
to be taken of the funeral of the late
Dowager Empress and for other offenscs
against Feng-chni 1.-THE spirits of the
deadl
Much human hair is sent from
Prague to America. 1t is collected by
hair merchants, regularly licensed. who
make trips through the country. going
from house to house TO induce peasant
women and girls to part with their
tresses.
While Australia is the fifth Of the
great continents of the earth with single
states larger than historic kingdoms and
empires the London Standard notes than
it has fewer inha 5itants than those for
whom the police force of London is re-
sponsible.
LORD Walsingham, whose generous
gift of his wonderful collection of moths
to the natural history museum will be
keenlT appreciated by student and lay
man alike. shares with Lord de Gray the
distinction of being the finest shot in
Great Britain.
In point of commercial value the sill
yer product Of the United States last
year was the smallest since 1871. Mint
bureau figures gave the gold value of the
53.S490O0 ounces fine produced in 1909
as S2S,010, 100. making the price 52.OlG
cents an ounce.
DIR. PonZa, director Of the lunatic
asylum at Allessandria. Italy, has cured
many Of his insane patients by combining
them in rooms of some uniform color.
Patients suffering from acute melancho-
liza have become cheerful after confne
ment in red room.
The last statement Of the interest
bearing debt of the United States makes
the total 1897 253 800. while the gross
bonded Indebtedness Of New York City
at its last statement was S905. 26O, ! Il.
The metropolis is carrying SS,OO6. l25
more than the nation.
1T takes haIf again as long for
freight TO 20 from our Atlantic seaboard
to the west coast of South America, 10y
way Of the lsthmus of Panama fifty to
sixty days-aS for it to go from Flu
rope, by way Of the Straits of Magellan
thirty or forty days.
JrnY,ipo linu,, Ing ,rrnutas, affect
than is commonly believed. As the tenn
perature of the iron may greatly exceed
26G degrees Fahrenheit it has been sug-
gested that the process of ironing may
suffice to sterlize surgical dressings and
hence he of valuable service.
Edward Wisner has obtained control
Of over one million acres of wet lands in
the vicinity of Bayou Lafourche. and has
arranged with Trowbridge d Niver OF
Chicago looking to Il bond issue of 81.
500. 600. to be used in financing the drain
age and in settling the land.
An impresario in quest Of pearls has
just found one in a cotton spinner Of
Lancashire, England. He name is Anie
Beshell. She is lowered with an aston
ishng soprano voice, and gives promise
of having the success Of Sontag, Patti,
or even Jenny Lind.
Turkey has only one university, that
Of Contantinoplc, with faculties Of med
icine, law, theology, science and letters
In this last department the literaturcs
studied are the Turkish Arabic, Persian
and French, In time the study Of Ger
man and English win he added
England, Scotland. Ireland and
Wales are all in the throes Of an cpidem-
ic Of the American roller skating rink.
In Bristol the rink which was estab-
lished under American management in n
large building erected for the purpose,
paid for itself in the first four months
As TO the name Smith. n correspond
aut of the London Chronicle points out
that while there are now about $4,000
members Of the great family in England
alone in Old Testament times. according
to the first book Of Samuel. there was
no Smith throughout the land Of Israel"
When u widow in oklahoma needs
the wages her son Of school age might
earn the state pays the mother tb"
amount and the hoy continues in school
The women Of Oklahoma are now try
ing to have the same law passed for
In the time Of Henry VIII. board
and lodging for servants. labgrerS who
lived with their employers. etc, were val
Ied at cents n day, This was allowed
10 those who elected to live under their
own roofs and feed themselves. The