Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-07

Almost every little stream in rural
France has wash houses on its banks,
where the women of the neighborhood
wash their clothes. They use a great
deal of soap and chemicals. These so
contamnate the water that the milk of
the cows sometimes is poisoned.
Young Knabenshue displays common
sense in retiring from the balloon bust
ness after exploiting the gas-bag airship
sufficiently to show that further per
formances on his part in such contri-
vances would be on a par with para
chute jumping from balloons at county
fairs
At a pubic meeting in Calcutta to
arrange for welcoming the Prince and
Princess of Wales the first resolution
was offered by Maharajah Bahadur Jo-
tindra Mohun Tagore and the second
by the Hon. Prince Arif Kader Syed
WASH All Nina Bahadoor of Murshi-
dabad.
While some regiments of London vol
unteers We're engaged in a sham fight in
the suburbs the other day a man on
coach passing along a neighborng road
sounded Cease firing" on his bugle. The
call was passed along the lines and the
= battle was suspended till the joke was
discovered.
The mackerel fishery has been prac-
tically extinct in Newfoundland waters
for the last quarter century, owing to
the migration of these fish to the Ameri-
can seaboard. So enormous was the ex-
tent of the fishery in former times that
over 1000 vessels of different nationali-
ties carried on the pursuit there.
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Guanajuato, the ruined city in Mex
leo. which was destroyed by a cloud
burst. furnishes one of the ghastiest
curiosities of the world. In one of the
vaults of the Pantheon are preserved
many mummies which were dug from
the soil. They afford a curious evidence
of the natural embalming properties of
the earth.
4 perpetual Sabbath is being cele-
brated on earth. This is not generally
known. for most people think that the
day they call Sunday is the only one so
celebrated. The Greeks observe Mon
day, the Persians Tuesday, the Assyri-
ans Wednesday, the Egyptians Thurs
day, the Turks Friday, the Hebrews
Saturday and the Christians Sunday.
So really it is Sunday every day to some
one on earth.
Judge Dole. in the United States dis
trict court of Hawaii, has sustained a
protest TO ruling of Collector Stacka-
BILE as to the classification of strings of
Tascmanian sheels great quantities of
which are imported by the Hawaiians.
They are worn like strings of beads. the
shells being beautifully iridescent. The
collector of customs classified them as
jewery. The importers protested and
Judge Dole has held that they are not
jewelry.
The will of Miss Nancy II. Lawrence
of Watseka, \. l., gives the state execu
tive committee of the \. NJ. G. a. OF
Illinois $4,000 to be used in the extern
sion of associations in country towns il
Illinois. This is for the newly organized
county department of the \. Nj. G. y.
which within five years has been estab
lished in thirty-one counties in sixteel
states and provinces. In this new feel,
the Y. NJ. G. \. is reaching out to owe
half the fifteen million young men of til
Ifnited StoteS and Canada,
DIR. O'Reilly, archbishop of Adelaide
South Australia. possesses an unusual nc
complishment. Before he became hish
CD he was the editor of one of the Aus
tralian Catholic journals Ills compost
ors went out on strike end in the emer
gency he helped in the mechanical de
partment. BY the time She difficulty ha,
been adjusted he had pretty well mas
tered the art of type-setting and for tn
rest of his editorial career he did no
write his leading articles. He just wen
into the composing room and set ther
up.
A. German journalist who had occasio
n few weeks ago to attend a lecture civ
en- by Maxim Cork at the Finnish sun
mer resort Kuokola was painfully in
pressed by the famous noveliSt's appear
ance. His chest was hollow. his eve
deep in their sockets and bordered wit
dark blue shadows. His whole appeal
ance was that of an invalid His avn
ward movements and gestures made
lady in the audience eXclaim: Conn
IL est maladroit"' His voice was F.,
weak that it could hardly be heard
the back part of the hall.
Prince Paold Trubetzkoy has near
completed the equestrian statue Of n
Car Alexander Ill, on which lie h,