Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-18

where she loves to work for hours IN
large garden.
LADY Durand, wife of the British am
bassador TO this country, has Dickens
room" in her Washington home.
Rev. Father Hagen of Washington,
p. c., is at work this summer in the
Vatican observatory, and the Jesuts at
Villa Cecchina have loaned him their
6nest instruments
Farmer John Emery Of Columbia coun-
", Pa, has just got in his seventy-sev-
enth harvest. He began farm work at
10, and he's still at it-an active and ro-
bust veteran-at 90.
Col. Theodore \. Dodge, U. S. A., re-
tired, has finished a military history Of
Napoleon Bonaparte on which he began
work thirty years ago. 1t will be pub
lished in four volumes
The Rockford, Illinois, physician who
objects to being called 'John D., after
Mr.. Rockefeller, who he is said to re-
semble, evidently doesn't want the name
without the game.
The father at Mount Clemens, Mich
igan, who rocked a boat ''for fun" and
drowned himself and his S-year-old son
is beyond the reach Of the fool-killer.
Fate was kind to him, under the cir
cumstances.
Come but not forgotten; Come and
done it. Perhaps these will do as sug-
gestions to paragraphers obliged to con-
struct something pertinent to the an
nouncement that Maude Come has pro-
cured a decree of separation.
The Canned Goods Exchange at Bal
timore has decided to abolish the use
of cooring matter in canned tomatoes
If it persists in this determination it
will have the good we'll Of consumers,
who prefer to purchase paint at the reg
ular paint shops.
A death at Minneapolis, from an UNI
brella stab in the eye, during a quarrel,
is not the first fatality resulting from
the use of the umbrella as a weapon.
The steel rod Of the modern umbrella is
as effective as rapier if it strikes vul-
nerable places.
Prof. Boerniel, the favorite sculptor of
the Kaiser, will submit to the mayor of
San Francisco a plan for the erection, at
various points in the city, OF water
towers fed from the sea, securing the
city from repetition Of its great fire.
Under the leadership of its general
counsellor, Prof. E. II. Strobel, formerly
of the Harvard Law school, the govern
ment of Siam has made a systematic cru
SADIE against gambling, which has long
VIGOROUSLY fourished in the kingdom.
Rev. Angus Johnson, a PRESBYTERIAN
minister, 90 years of age, and the Oldest
active preacher in the world, has been
conducting n protracted meeting at
Woods chapel, at Maloney, Tex. For
over seventy years he has been actively
engaged in ministerial work.
Howard f. Mayhem, rich and - years
old, is working as a mil hand in New
Bedford, Conn, his obs" being to ac-
quire a thorough kr of cotton
spinning. He tolls for hit hours n
week and generally pa 50 his evenings
in the New Bedford Textile school
Practically every iDhabitant of the
county of Letcher. Ky, containing 49,
coo, is related directly or indirectly to
one family. This family is named Webb,
descended from the famous Daniel
Boone and prominent in the affairs of
the county for more than a century.
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The officials Of the pension Office think
they have discovered in Lyston d. Howe
of Streator. ILL.,, the youngest volunteer
of the Civil war. He enlisted first in
1S6l, when only 10 years and 8 months
old and again in 1862, when II years
and months old, and served until the
end Of the war.
The report that the parsians are dis
cussmg the ACCESSIBILITY of taking down
the Eiifel Tower when it becomes the
property Of the municipality mingles
with the echoes Of the crash of the
dynamited Ferris wheel Modern won
ders wear in popular estimation when
they become protitlcss financially.
John David Rade0er, \. NJ, Phi. -.
has accepted the chair of German and
French in Roanoke college. Prof. Radef
fer is now connected with the library OF
Congress at Washington. He succeed.
DIR. +. V. \. Painter. who is transferred
TO the new department of education JUS
established at Roanoke conese.
After a period Of dfty-three years spen
i'll the service OF the Jews free school
Bell Lane SpitalhcldS, England. l.. L
Ahrahams, the head MASTER viii shortl.