Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-03-09

his own state. 1t would have been just
as easy to locate the garden in one of
the Kansas corn bottoms
The Montreal school which burned
with sixteen innocent children must have
been veritable fire-trap. The authori-
ties Of cities are criminally negligent
when they permit buildings of that char
acter to be used for schools
The rnpidity with which marvellous
couvenicnces become common in the
eyes of those who enjoy them is shown
in the growing of the passengers of the
Scandina vian-American liner HeIig Oav
because several wireless messages were
not received and delivered.
Harvard will play football next fall.
The Presidents recent speech in favor
of the rough sport seems to have decided
the matter. This will please the grdiron
heroes of the East, for football wouldn't
be football with Harvard out of the con-
test for the championship.
If there is any truth in the report from
Rochester that Joe Cans. the champion
lightweight pugilist, has lost all of his
recent big winnings on the gaming table.
the sporting public may soon expect the
dusky athlete to express a willingness to
fight anybody for ANY old purse"
In appauding a suggestion that the
earnings of husbands be divided equally
with their wives the National Woman's
Suffrage Association, in convention at
Chicago, gave the woman movement a
slant toward the almighty dollar that
is inconsistent with the idea of IA pure
enjoyment of woman's rights.
C0nsul-General Michael writes from
Calcutta that both in British India and
IN some of the native states Sir Lauder
Bruntons snake bite lancet is giving a
good account of itself, "A report by one
person is to the effect that within the
last year by the use of one lancet he
has saved the lives of twenty persons
bitten by cobras and karaits."
The nearest surviving relative of Abra-
ham Lincoln in Indiana is Elijah Lin
coin of Fort Branch, cousin, who
strongly resembles the martyred Presi-
dent. He is six feet two inches tall, of
the lank and muscular Lincoln build
and though past the age of scventy-four
he is still vigorous and takes active in
terest in general affairs. Like his fa-
nous cousin, he is unpretcntious to Il
degree.
Hereafter, according 10 legislative en-
actutcnt in that state, the people of Mi
souri, who care TO be accurate will have
To pronounce the nar4e of their state
Missouri giving the short sound of the
final H." and clearly cnunciating the -
instead Of making il ~" This will i'm.
puse verbal difficulty upon the mer
who have been trying to imply former
residence in that section by saying "Miz
z1ura."
The story from the Saskatchewan
country of the freezing to death of
family of five. owing To lack of coal
is Il commentary upon conditions in tn,
woodless regions of the north which
the wooded section of Wisconsin. wher,
there are large areas of good farming
land not yet taken up. No settler il
Northern Wisconsin ever froze TO dealt
because of scarcity of fuel
With Sir Thomas Upton ready, ant
Kenneth NJ. Clark, another prominen
British yachtsman, preparing 10 "hut
in, the outlook for America cup racin!
is particularly interesting, There SHOULD
be no further delay in the arrangements
of the details of measurement reforms
80 that when the challenging begins il
earnest, those who build boats cal
do so with the assurance that the Graf
will be worth something after the rae
ing.
Ezra Hammond of West Woodstock
Conn. is the oldest deacon Of churcl
IN New England. having served the Con
grcgational church of West Woodstocl
ia that capacity for the past half cen
fury. The latter part of this montl
Deacon Hammond will celebrate hi
10lst birthday. He will have as hi
guest that day Benjamin Warner. al
old friend, who also lives in West Wood
stock. who celebrated his 1Olst birthda,
last fall.
The University of Wisconsin boa
crew will not 40 to Pougkeepsie thi
year, uRless the student body contribute
heavily to purse TO cover the expenses
Heretofore the football team has man
aged 10 earn enough To pay the way o
the navy. but things are different now
with the finances of the gridiron aggrt
Eation The reform which has kept TIA
football players at home may also com
pei the oarsmen 10 stay in Madison an,
display their skill To their fellow stu
dents