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

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ONE YEAR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~i'o'
lanes A. Garland of New York, has
Dufchased a big farmhouse on Prudence
island. in Narragansett bay, where he
will establish a hospital for crippled
children
Kate Douglass Wiggin. the authoress,
has Just concluded a visit to the VICE
Regal Lodge, Dublin. as the guest of
tn,ir eXcclencies, the Earl and Countess
Of Aberdeen.
DR.. Joseph Il. Bryant who has been
elected president of the American Med
zeal association. is an eminent surgeon.
tnd was recently president Of the New
Work State Medical society.
A ouack doctor in Paris who used
tjgar ashes as a 'cure-all' with great
success, combined pleasure with bust
ness. and thus avoided the labor of
ineading dough for bread pills
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The Toledo icemen who have received
Vrison sentences for conspiring to make
undue profits from consumers will have
an opportunity TO cool down to a tenn
perate view of business strategy.
Photographers say there is no man in
public life more difficult to photograph
satisfactorily than Elihu Root the secre-
tary of state. There is in his eye fas-
chatting light, penetrating CLEAN which
few Of his pictures bring out.
The Duke of Devonshire possesses
Claude Lorraine'S Book of Truth" 1t
is worth six times as much as the Ma
zarin" Bible. the most valuable book in
the British museum. The late duke re
fused an offer Of 100000 for it,
The average age of the nine justices of
the supreme court Of the United States
is 4 fraction over G6L years, two being
73, one 20, one 90, one IS, one Go, one
G3, one 81 and the junior 81. Justice
Brown rctires at 20. If Taft succeeds
him ut 40, the average age will be some
what reduced, but it viii be made up in
ayoirdupois.
Gov. Guilds class of Harvard, 1881,
is to present President Eliot with a
100000 fund to spend for the college
as he sees fit Prominent members of
the class are Senator Penrose of Penn
sylyania; Prof. Rolfe of the University
of Pennsylvania and Henry Norman,
NJ. Z.
During a recent race of New York
yachts the old cup-defender Vigilant
made a display of speed that excited
warm admiration. She is a centerboard
craft that is in no sense a racing ma
chine, and the fact that she is still
racing while the more recent cup
defenders are high and dry on the docks
because of their uselessness for cruising
is significant commentary on the folly
Of building racing machines.
At the final examination for honors
ut the school of English literature a
West Virginian Rhodesian scholar, c. +.
Tucker Brooks of St. Johns college, Ok
ford. obtained first class. He was fine
only connection to obtain this high dis
tinction. J. A. Brown. n Now Hamn-
shire RhoJcsion scholar of Now ColIcpe
Oxford. won certificate of merit for
research in physics and obtained a de-
gree.
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The Western University of Pennsyl-
wanna OF Pittsburg has conferred the hon
orary degree OF doctor OF science on Will
liam L. Hornaday in recognition of his
work III developing the New York Zoo
logical park. On account of a recent
surgical operation DIR. Hornaday was
unable to receive the degree i'll person
ON Monday and he was represented at
the college exercises by DIR. w. j. IIol-
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4 silk United States Hac. highly val