Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-22
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

justices OF. the Illinois supreme court
VIII hereafter wear a uniform dress coat
on the' bench The new coats have al
ready arrived, and. have been put to use.
They are Prince Albent'' in cut, some
what long and. with silk-faced lapels.
Mayor Dunno of Chicago has refused
10 accede to the requests, of a committee
from the Chicago Health Progressive
club to Danish cnspidOEs, from the city
hall on the ground that it was degrading
to be asked. to- clean one. The mayor
SAID the request was, unreasonable, as
cuspidors were a necessity.
Prince BOrghese of Rome has discov-
cred in the cellar of lis palace certain
marble fragments which put together
proved to be an ancient Roman sar-
cophagus. 1t bears fgures representing
one of the. early myths of Rome, the
marriage of Aeneas to Lavinia, daugh-
ter OF LatimIs, King of the Latini.
During revival meetings at Neponset.
ILL.,, 100 farmers are nightly reached by
telephones. Evangelist Hicks breaches
INTO Il huge megaphOne at the church.
which is connected with the wires to
farmhousesS I'M all the surrounding coun-
try. While the sermon is; being delivered
the line is busy to every ONE except the
evangelist.
The Ft. Wayne, Ind. school board has
adopted a resolution that hereafter all
principals of ward schools shall be men.
Women have been holding principalShips
and theifrsalaries' lave been growing UNI
til now they are getting nearly as much
as the men. Supt Study holds that
male principals are the better principals,
and as vacancies occur men will be APP
pointed.
Because she had been contestant in
Il fat womans race at the annual picnic
of the miners of the keystone Coal and
Coke. company, Mrs Nellie Stapleton OF
GreenSburg. Pa, lost her suit for $4,000
damages against street railway COM
pany Mrs. Stapleton sued because OF
Injuries received i'm aIightiug from car.
The jury decides that her injuries prob
ably were received in the race and not
when she alighteG from the street car.
BY kissing his son on the forehead
Prof Edward V. Bemis, superintendent
of the Cleveland water works and for
merly a member of the faculty of the
University of Chicago, has contracted
diphtheria, and was said by his physi-
clan to be in Il serious condition. Be
fore leaving for New York the other day,
Prof. Bemis entered the bedroom of his
little son. Lloyd, who was then supposed
TO ne sun tEluS lEbIu lDuSl1illS, anu klH7Eu
the boy goodbye.
The man who got away with a red
hot stoya, is put to shame by some per
son with unlimited nerve, who has just
cut from the poles and safely got away
with one and one-half miles of copper
trolley wire leading from the Indiana
MON Traction company's Alexandria
Upton. line, near Orestes, Ind, to a
gravel pit The trolley carried the full
current of 800 volts and miscue at the
| first contact would have meant instant
death The wire is worth several hun
bred dollars.
Emperor William regards good cook
ing as being necessary to tie content
ment of the people While inspecting the
| kitchen of a convent school at Obern-
Sirchen, Germany, on the occasion of his
| visit to Prince Won Schaumburg-L ippe
| he. saw the pupils busily engaged in
! cooking, and remarked IF the cooking
was everywhere as good as it is here
| the feeling of the country would be bet
| ter. Cooking and food are of great inn
! portance Good cooking helps to inn
| prove general contentment."
Mrs. Martha Hurt. claiming to be 10J
! years of age. applied through her at
/ t0rney at Calina, Kan. recently for di-
vorce from John Hurt, her third hus-
/ band.
! Mrs. Hurt claims that her husband
| left her in 1898, after she had Kicked
| him out" of the house. She asks for an
absolute divorce and that the name of
! her second husband be restored. and that
! she be given the title to all her property.
| Mrs. Hurt was so feeble that she could
not climb the stairs leading TO the office
of the district court. and the clerk came
| downstairs TO swear her.
Underground Wires Expensive.
Putting MP telegraph wires on poles
| costs $50 Il mile. Laying the same
| wine unlarcrnm1l will cost morn tham