Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-07
April comes,

muddy creek to broad lake spreads
W here Swart cat-tails raise their heads
Bringing hint of summer joys.
! Tome brown laughing barefoot boys.
Tes-tops, Kites bruised toes and thumbs,-
April comes
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BRIEF NOTES OF s
& GENERAL INTEREST )
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Some of the screws used in the works
of watch are so small that 3O7 900 of
! them are required to make Il pound
The locomotive engineer of Germany
receives 5000 and gold watch for every
ten years served without an accident.
There is in Il man of $50 pounds weight
| enough IRON to make Sledgc hammer
ana enough phosphorus to make 100000
matches.
! At meeting in Somerset. England,
| it was stated that. although illegal. the
custom still prevails of giving cider in
lieu of wages.
Kate Livingstone IS years old. of
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! because of modification over a whipping
administered to her at school.
! DIR. Whiting, one of the most prom-
! inent physicians of Seattle. Wash. is to
| have his appendix removed without the
! Application OF an anaesthctic in order
! that he can direct the operation.
| Within an hour after she had mailed
/ n nd "
party, little Edith Ridge of McKeesport,
Pa, died of heart disease, brought on.
| the physicians say, by the excitement of
| the occasion.
| The largest consignment Of silver ever
taken to England, weighing seventy
tons. was landed ut Southampton from
| the American liner New York. The metal
was in 9I2 bars, enclosed in 3G3 boxes
and its value is f2J0000.
In an interview ut Reading. Pa. Rev
! George W. Brownback suggested that
all political candidates invite all hands
up to the bar to take drink He said
that to rob Il man of the right to treat
is to deprive him of liberty.
The Swiss federal engineers. it is said,
have succeeded with great difficulty in
arreSting the movement of two miles of
debris, which threatened to destroy the
villages of Gruquay and Chamoson, sit
uated in the canton of Nalais.
Leon Piper, aged -. applied for a spe-
cial permit at the Manitowoc CWis)
county judges office to marry a 12year-
old Cato girl Piper was refused the il
cense first at the clerks office. He
said he would wait two years, then APP
ply again. The girl was willing to be
married, it is said
Because she was afraid the excitement
attending an cutlery would kill her in
valided father, 20-year-old Ellen Hurff,
daughter of farmer living near Mari
ton, n. J.. captured a burglar single
handed and locked him in the cellar un-
til morning, mounting guard with
huge pistol clutched in each hand.
Yard Conductor H. A. Sloane or the
Pennsylvania railroad walked into the
police station at Lima, o., and asked to
be locked up. He stated that in Novem-
Der, 1897, he and two other men held
up and robbed an express train of $50
600 at Galena, H., on the Chicago &
NOrth-W estern railway. Sloane was held
and inquiry has been made concerning
his story. He is believed to be mentally
unbalanced.
When Joe Transfer. an old offender,
was brought before Police Judge Herr
at Bennington on the charge of having
been intoxicated the judge fined him 81
and ordered that he be confined to his
bed for week. Marshal Horath took
Transfer home and put him to bed. The
Culprit's family was instructed to notify
the court if Transfer showed Il DISPOSE
ton to leave bed before the week was
out
If Mary {. Morgan, il. of New York.
has married George f. Banks salesman
for a New York neeckwear house. she
will lose her interest OF $4,000 in her
grandmother'S estate. &. NJ. Wald. II
private detective. and Mrs. Anna Payne,
both of New York, have been searching
Waterbury. Conn. for several days try
ing TO locate the missing pair. Her
grandmother's will provides that She
shall lose her legacy if she marrics be
fore She is IS.
While Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
has discarded many old-fashioned things,
she clings to the side-saddle and will ride
no other kind. This fact was discovered
by Buffalo Bill Cody when he wrote
her, asking her style of saddle, lust be
fore she was married. Her answer was
SLOW III coming. ncnce IniS wedding pres
cut was bclated. As soon as Col Cody
heard from her he ordered one of the
finest sidc-Saddles ever made in America
and sent it to her.
I'm a lady, III have you understand.
just as much as you're a gentleman"
shouted Mrs. Isaac Winst0ne in court at
Derby, Conn. Lawyer Charles G, Root
had Just addressed the court, IF you
please, your honor, this woman is testi-
flying To- and got 10 further for
Mrs Winstone took the floor. Before
quiet was restored the court was in an
uproar. Judge Cowell then ruled: a
woman is just as eStimable and refined
as lady. In fact. many prefer to be
called woman" We'll. III never come
10 court again, 50 now. replied the-er-
lady.
PERVERTED PROVERBS.