Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-06-22

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Lieut.. Gen. S. Il. NJ. Young, u. S. A.,
retired, formerly chief Of staff, has been
detailed to duty as superintendent of the
Yellowstone National park as the relief
of Mnj. John Pitcher, Sixth cavalry, who
has been ordered to Washington. The
detail was made at the request OF the
secretary Of the interior, who has juris-
diction over the Yellowstone park.
One Of the consus informs the state
Department that a European inventor
has discovered process of making lead
pencils from potatoes at cost of half
a cent apiece. This will tend to pre-
vent a famine in cedar, and enable peo-
pie who use many pencils TO save some
thing toward paying the enhanced price
of meat.
The inspiration of last Fridays vic
tory on the water at Madison is manifest
in the programme for next season, which
is to include class and fraternity con.
tests under the direction of Coach Ten
Eyes. If the university navy has boats
enough this programme ought to popu-
larize rowing and insure lively times on
The water.
Miss Gurid Laate, n Norwegian girl
who is working her way through the
University OF Minnesota, is probably the
.mly college girl in the country who can
wake her own clothes from the spinning
of the thread and weaving Of the cloth
to the forming Of the fabric into fash
ionable design. Spinning and weaving
she learned in her native country; the
art OF the modiste was acquired since her
arrival in the United States.
The women graduates of Kansas uni
versity, Lawrence, have recently organ
lied branch of the Association of Col
legiate Aumnae 10 cooperate with the
national association in promotion of edR
cational and social ideas. The Kansas
branch has received altogether $500 IN
fellowship from the national association.
The present plans contemplate n home
for working girls in which they will re-
ceiye both educational and social ben
efits.
chemist of Hartford Connecticut, is
reported TO have discovered process for
the manufacture of a gum that will
serve as substitute for rubber and lend
itself more readily to manufacturing
processes. If this he true, the inventor
will become famous as a public benefac-
tor, as rubber is in such demand owing
10 electrical and automobile develop
merts, that fear was felt that eventually
there would be scarcity with cOnse-
quent higher prices,
Percy x. Rockefeller, son OF William
Rockefeller and nephew OF John ID.
Rockefeller, is building country home
in Connecticut which is unlike any other
ever planned. Perhaps the most extra
ordinary feature of it is confined air
space in the walls, forming noncon-
ductor of heat, cold or moisture. The
air space, il is said, will make the house
warmer in winter, cooler in summer,
aud dryer all the year around than any
other mans home, rich or poor.
Mrs. Eliza Fish, aged 81, a wonderful
ly well preserved resident of Beverly,
y. j., has had great deal of fighting
blood in her family. Both her grand
fathers fought in the Revolutionary war,
her father and two brothers were in the
war Of 1872. her husband fought in
Mexico, her three sons went through the
Civil war from start to finish and when
Mckinley issued his call at the outbreak
OF trouble with Spain her grandson
promptly went to the front.
The Biological Survey Of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture is exploiting the
swallow as destroyer of the boil wee.
vii in the cotton fields OF the South. II
Is said that the swallow suhSists almost
entirely ON insects, and is therefore a
friend Of the farmer. The fact that the
once numerous swallows were driven
away from many sections Icy the multi.
plleation Of the puguacious sparrow viii
make many who have been leuient with
the latter bird feel resenttul for its sci.
hshneSs,
Col \. NJ. Hughes If Columbia. Tenn.
the only surviving member of the delesa.
tiou from his state To the Repuhlirap
National convention Of 1850. and who
voted TO give n third term 70 Gen. Grant
proposes that those who survive of the
SoV Grant delegates of that year hold a
reunion IN connection with the ntxt
National Republican convention. Col.
Hughes estimates that there are between
SIXTY and eighty of these Grant laru sur
NNins, and he would like tn SAaNt hands
wits every enc of them
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Capt William Mogg aud a party rep.
r'seutlns the Geological Society Of Lon.
don have sailed from Port Townsend fur
the Arctic sea with the uorlh pole as
their ultimate destination. Peary is sfiu
waiting in New York fer the remainder
OF ;he fund whicb win be- peceSSar,
10 I'll the Roosevelt for another attemnt