Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-25

Augusta and Nelson Dingley in Lewiston
and Hannibal Hamlin and Charles y
Boutelle in Bangor.
The young crown princess OF Germany
who is very popular, has set new Gus
tom. that of carrying a stick while walk
ing. Her royal highness has a large col
lection of sticks, from which she is abb
% select one to suit any costume tina
she may he wearing.
Rev. Dr. Robert NJ. Russell has ac
cepted the presidency Of Westmiustc
college, New Wilmington. Pa, at sal
airy Of $1,000 a year giving up his pas
torate of the Sixth United Presbyterian
church, Pittsburg, which paid him exact
ly twice as much.
Prince Charles of Denmark. who has
been elected King of Norway, is undoubt
edly enyied by all oGlce-holders who
would like to hold onto their Jobs in.
definitely. There is nothing like being
elected to a kingship, except perhaps
sentence to prison for life
Columbia university last year received
money gifts amounting to 81 $4,000 and
had an enrolment Of 1881 students. ac-
cording to the annual report of President
Nicholas Murray Butler. OF the total
enrolment 1873 We're graduates of other
colleges either in America or in Europe.
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When Lord Minto who is to succeed
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degree at Cambridge his students gown
covered a Jockeys outfit. At the conclu-
sion of the ceremony he mounted horse,
galloped ten miles and reached his desti-
nation just in time to win the university
steeplechase.
Every now and then William Dean
Howells drops into the little country
town of jefferson, o.. and into the Office
of the Sentinel, where he began his
notable career at a printers case, and
rolls up his sleeves takes printer
stick in hand and sets a few paragraphs
how.
Lillian Mary Small is marine OBJ
server at Truro light, Cape Cod. Her
father had managed the station for forty
years, when on her graduation from
school she took up the work. Her OBJ
servations of coastwise craft from sun
rise to dark are compiled half hourly,
and telegraphed to the Boston chamber
of commerce.
A Liverpool firm of timber merchants,
Seth Bennett & Co., are engaged in cut
ting pitch pine timber to be exported
under contract with the United States
authorities to their dock yards at New
port News. The transaction is unprece-
denied in the history of the timber trade
at Liverpool or any other port in the
British islands.
Prof. John Bassett Moore, one of the
most popular men on the faculty of Co
lumbia university. is known in university
circles the world over because of the POI
sition he has attained through his lee
lures and writings on international law
and diplomacy. He has written the only
history and digest OF international ar
bitrauon in existence.
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James Stillman, the New York banker.
has established II new record rs a patron
of opera, having obtained for the coming
season two parterre boxes for total of
101 performances, which, at the rate OF
$l00 performance, makes total out
put on the part of the banker of $1,000
for the pleasure of witnessing grand
Mr. Carnegie never smokes No one
dares light a cigarette in Skibo castle.
Mr.. Carnegie does not play cricket: is
not devoted to riding; never followed the
hounds in his life, and does not shoot.
Golf Mr.. Carnegie plays in moderation,
and lac is fond of trout aud salmon fish
ms. He loves to potter about his gar.
den. Skibo castle is TO him a great
0pcn-air toy with which he is never tired
OF playing. He is always planting here
diverting stream there, making a new
road or mendiug a bridge.
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When Elihu Root now secretary OF
state, was at college his classmates re-
helled against their German professor
and withdrew in body. They re-
manned out for two months. durins
which time Root went on with his stud
les. When they returned, convinced tha,
they had been in error, they gave Eliln
The nickname Of "SGuml Root" vbi,l
stuck 70 him for many 81 day. The rp
fusal to desert work has been one IF hi
distinguishing characteristics all THRONE,
life.
Or Jarrett of the New York board d
educations stan, is fearful of the pbvs
cal well being of the college girl ~
Jarrett says that per cent of III
young women graduates who come to h,
for the physical examination now p