Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-19

THE English Of Shakespeare, has died,
leaving unfinished a glossary of the
Shakespeare vocabulary ION colossal
scale"
John Brown, the liberator, was once
engaged in the wool business in Spring
field, and the safe that he used at that
time has lately come into the possession
of the Connecticut Valley Historical as
ISOLATION.
Horatio g. Smith, the oldest photog-
rapher in Boston. has very large col
lection of negatives of old Bostonians,
going back for fifty years. Up to a
year ago these were in his rooms in the
Studio building recently burned.
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Gen. Bingham's new deputy commits
sioner of police in New York city, Fred
erick Bugher, is a stepson of Rear Ad-
mral Ludlow, a nephew John r. Nc
Lean and of the wife of Admiral Dewey,
a veteran of the Spanish war, clubman
and a millionaire.
The cost of additions to the nayies
of the future, if the rage for larger
ships continues, may be estimated in
measure from the report that the cost of
the engines for two new British ships
which are now in course of construction
will be between 81 $4,000 and 81, AGO.
600.
Miss Jean l.. Clemens, the daughter of
Mark Twain, who is now living in Kato-
nah, \. Y, has taken up the work of
protecting he songbirds in their fight
southwark. At that place large gangs Of
Italian workmen are employed in reser-
voir work, and these people have been
slaughtering the birds to eat them.
According to present indications, the
universities of the big nine" athletic
conference will adhere to the fve-game
football schedule for another year. BY
that time pigskin kickers will probably
be sufficiently well drilled in reform
methods to be trusted to undertake a
seven-game season.
Great Britain will set an example in
naval retrenchment during times of
peace by sending eleven armored vessels
into temporary retirement. Eleven isn't
large number in comparison with her
total of fighting vessels, but they con-
stitute an object lesson for other ma
tions, nevertheless.
George Frisbie Uoar was one of the
founders of the Church of the Unity in
Worcester, Mass, and ever since that
time the family name has been upon the
church committee. Since the death of
lockwood Hoar there has been no male
member of the family in town and tie
newly elected committee is void of the
name.
Now ii is announced that Kaiser Will
helm has ordered the construction of a
battleship that shall be bigger and more
powerful than either the Dreadnought
or the Satsuma, the British and Japan
csc battlcships which are SO much talkee
of in naval circles. The race in thi:
case is for the holder of the bigges
purse.
The Episcopal church in East Hamp
ton, l.. l., recently paid $4,000 for th'
property upon which stands the old cot
tage immortalized by John Howard
Payne in his song of Home, Swee
Home" The church plans to tear dow
the building. and there has followe
plenty of protest, but nobody willing {
pay $1,000 to stay the destruction.
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Rev. DIR. William Rice Newhall, VII
resigned last summer as principal |
Wesleyan academy at Wilbraham, Mass
but consented to remain for time nj II
urgent request of the trustees, who M
been unable at the opening OF the Ia
term to decide upon his successor, w
be relieved on April !, the trustees ha
ing within a few days elected Rev.
Charles NJ. Melden, pastor of the NJ
thewson Street Methodist church
Providence. II. L.. to the principalship.
Business men of Washington are pl
noting an anti-treating movement
signing pledges to refrain from treati
during the year 1907 under pena
of $40 for each violation, to be paid II
the treasury of the Anti-Treating CIR
Sobriety would be greatly increas
among habitual drinkers We're the M
treating policy generally observed,
most of the drinking at bars, in grou
is induced by the social habit of inyit
everybody to take something"
Mrs. Carrot A. Hobart of Paters
y. j.. widow of Vice President Hob;
has just awarded the contract for In
and modern log camp TO be built I
winter on the shore of Lake Mooselo
meguntic, and near Senator William
Frye's camp, where the last season
Hobarts were his guests for sevt
weeks. Mrs. Hobart was impressed v
the beautiful scenery and the inyigo