Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-07
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Japan.
AT the beginning of the present year
there were 16S,20S telephones in use
in London.
1000. 000-ton hill in Cincinnati is
being moved three miles to make a
railroad fill
The wood of a tree growing on the
coast of Lake Tchad, in Africa. has
even less specific gravity than cork.
Extraordinary traffic on roads in
England is only permitted, nominally,
after those conducting 1t have agreed
to pay for the injury caused.
All of the food served to guest at
a japanese banquet and not consumed
by him at the time is taken to his
home by the servants of his host.
The figures of this country's wheat
crop indicate not only larger home
consumption as a result OF increased
population, but also a larger consump-
ton per capita
Portrait of George Washington on
the first half of the reply postal card.
Portrait of Martha Washington on the
second half Thus the lady has the
! last world Boston Transcript
For hundreds of years the people of
SaXony have used stoves made of fire
/ brick covered With glazed tiles, which
retain and gradually radiate the heat
for hours after the fire has gone out.
One of the greatest civic and eco
nomic problems confronting the au-
| thorities and public servants in the
federal district of Rio Janeiro is that
of providing homes for the working
| classes.
Saying that he was born in 1910, a
man named Lacey, who was summoned
at Norwich. England, for picking
flower in public garden, pleaded alb
| sent-mindedness and the case was dis
missed
The production of sand and gravel
in the United States in 1908 was ST.
216,044 short tons, valued at s13,270.-
032, a decrease of 4,635,S74 tons in
quantity and of st,222 ,O37 in value
over 1907.
North Queensland diocese has an
area of 1870 Coo square miles and a pop
ulat'on of 10000, but Urlv fifteen cler-
gymen, said the bishop of London in
a missionary appeal at the church
house, Westminster.
One theatrical manager in New
York reserves a box In his house for
| clergymen and their families one night
every week. The rents are shaded,
the manager and his treasurer and 20
the clergyman.
In the borough q, Manhattan APP
proximately 5000 passenger elevators
and 10000 freight elevators are en-
gagged in the daily transportation o.
| 6,500,000 people. In the six yeSre.
1903-190S, more than 1000 OF these ma
chimes were installed.
DR.. Rose Ringgold is the only WON.
an contract surgeon in the United
States army When on duty she wears
a divided skirt and a uniform coat
She is especially interested in the hos
pital problem Of an army in the field
and has made study of the work of
the Japanese hospital corps in the war
with Russia.
English ship owners and Argentine
cattle raisers have organized a com
pany to ship regular weekly supplies
| 81 ob;lIad y,,oo+ from, tba pj,,ar T,lo+o
to London and Manchester Work has
begun on nine new fifteen-knot refrig-
Grafton steamers to be added to the
vessels already at the disposal of the
ship owners.
The pay of officers in active service
in the army is: Lieutenant general,
900 a year; major general $4,000;
brigadier general, $4,000; colonel. $4-
! 000 lieutenant colo=el, $500; major,
/ $4,000; captain, 81 400; first lieutenant,
$4,000 and second lieutenant, $1,700
From colonel down the payment is in
creased every fwe years.
The so-called treasure Of ST. Peter
+ at St Peters in Rome, hitherto not
7 atNtSSlbiE ~ tlAE StAEI a. pubRANs " IA
hereafter be exposed to view on the
payment Of a small fee. Il consists Of
/ several old church vestments, among
/ them the dalmatic worn by Charlie
magne at his coronation. The collec-
/ ton of vestments is the most complete
/ in the world and every kind Of en-
/ broidery is represented.
In Vienna a student can board for
I $4,000 a month; in other Austrian
/ towns for $24.36 Rates in Russia run
from $3.50 to $52t1 in St Petel,.
/ burg. and this includes service, heat
/ ing and light; in Moscow the cost is
! 1861; outside Of Moscow. $2702;
Odessa, $52.11; Mexico, including wash.
/ ing, $3.50; Argentina, without wash
! ing, $500; Uruguay, board and lodg-
( ing. S29.15 to $31OS The Paris Stu
dent Association schedules New York,
without luncheon and washing. at from