Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-03-11
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


York hotels at one time.
The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 100 feet to $50 feet high, and
spread from 10000 to 100000 square
feet of canvas
1t requires many hands to clothe
he New York women and some women
outside of the city, for there are 90, 1872
employees in the metropolis working
On women's clothing and their yearly
output is valued at $26l O49,2S7
A junior league of the New York
State Association opposed to Woman
Suffrage has been formed at Albany
with Mrs. ~ H. Henry as president
The membership is said to have reach
ed already the neighborhOod of one
hundred and to include young women
Of every social grade in Albany
Germanys first complete fiotllla of
turbine torpedo boats was commissions
ed last month. 1t consists of II YES
sells of the newest type built in Vienna,
Germania and Schichau yards. Those
built in the two first-named establish
ments have attained a speed of over
"a knots Besides Parsons turbines,
three types of German turbines are
represented in the fotilla
In the Complies Rendus of the Bio
logical Society of Paris, NJ. Picard
gives an account of a useful wasp
found in Senegal and Nigeria. II is
one of the burrowing wasps. and feeds
its larvae on a species of tsetse fly,
IN view of the part played by many
species of the latter in spreading dis
| ease, this wasp might prove a useful
ally to those who are fighting malaria
in tropical countries.
China now possesses $500 miles OF
railways, of which only $3.50 are man
! aged by the Chinese. The management
of the remaining 4,370 miles is divided
among six foreign powers, as follows:
/ Russians manage 1917 miles. Belgians
! 903 miles, Japanese 702 miles, Ger
mans ga miles. English COS miles,
and Frenchmen 400 miles. When the
/ railways now being laid down IN China
! are finished, the total length of China's
railway system viii amount to 5000
miles.
! Il is perhaps worth recalling that
! the art of baking loayes came 10 Eu-
/ rope quite late in history Flat cakes
/ We're baked even in the earliest times,
! but as late as the beginning of the
! nineteenth century loaf bread was com
! Daratiyely unknown in many parts of
/ the continent In 1872. for instance,
when an English capital ordered
/ loayes to the value of So in Gothenburg
the baker stipulated for payment in ad
vance on the ground that he would
never be able to sell them in the city
if they vert left on his hands, Lon
don Chronicle.
Petroleum has been introduced into
medicine with beneficial results. and
if Paris contemporary be not mis-
informed the properties of petrol are
limitless. 1t is claimed, says the Lon
don Globe. that from the residuals Of
crude petrol chemist has succeeded
in extracting butter II is said that
| butter can be made from a base OF
nitrogen and carbon, but that the resi-
iuais of petroleum produce these ele-
ments In greater proportions even than
milk II is further claimed that this
artificial butter is better than the mar
| ul'al. The color Is said to be a little
| darker than that of dairy butter
Fulwood's Rents. the little Holboru
court leading into Gray's Inn gardens,
which will be largely rebuilt, former
ly possessed the privilege of 'sanctE
ary," ana hence became a notorious
resort for fraudulent debtors and still
| more unpleasant characters Yet this
| dingy dive" can boast of many glor-
| ious memories Francis Bacon lived
here in "Fulwood's House" and val
ued his furniture at $50, a huge price
for that period Here the Wing Club
and Melbourne and Oates Club met in
the reign of Charles II, and here stood
Squire's coffee house from which sew
! eral numbers of the Spectator were
dated Westminster Gazette
A part of the Nobel prize which
was awarded to Selma Lagerlof. win
be applied" says the Times OF stock
! holm. to the purchase Of a house on
the Marbacka estate. where she was
| born This is situated beautifully near
| the banks Of the River Mellanfrykan.
/ its main building being the old home
| stead. which is severely plain in archi-
| lecture, but large and comfortable It
| came into the hands of the family
| through her grandfather. who was a
| regimental clerk. AT his death it was
| inherited by Eric. whose children were
born there Through reyerses the es-
tate passed into the hands Of strangers
from whom the Nobel prize winner
| will rescue il, and her Joy at being
able TO do so - shared by her country
men
The demolition is now being pro
ceeded with Of Nos. 50. Sc and 81 Fet
tel lane, three old gabled buildings
I which we're originally part of the
Barnards inn. which was founded in
the fifteenth century Fetter lane is