Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-02

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Harvard was joking after all She
will retain athletics with certain reforms
of management and appear on the field,
the diamond, and the gridiron, as usual.
Harvard without athletic teams would
he like the play of Hamlet sans the mel
ancholy Dane.
Prof. Z. II. Forbush for the Massa-
chusetts state board Of agriculture is
to bring before the Legislature the need
of further protection of game birds. The
board will also ask for $1,000 to be
spent in distributing information about
useful birds.
Competition is now open for the place
of oldest train baggage master III Il
country, William Merrick Of New Jer-
sey having died at the age Of 80. He
fought in the Mexican and Civil wars
n
Lchigh Valley railroad
Michigan's game warden is 10 make
test of the wolf hound as Il means of
reducing the number of wolves which
prey upon the deer. If he can induce
certain residents of the north woods
10 substitute wolf hounds for deer
hounds. the hunting may he, preserved
for an indefinite period.
The London directory weighs thirteen
pounds, this year, and contains the
names Of William Shakespeare, John
Bunyan, John Milton and William
Blake. Mr. Shakespeare teaches singing;
Mr. Bunyan is a green grocer; one Mr.
Milton is a ship chandler and one is Il
chiropodist; and Mr. William Blake
sells beer.
Quartermaster General Humphrey is
credited with having the army better and
more comfortably clothed at this time
than ever before. The army shoe remains
the most difficult problem to solve and
an effort is still being made to please a
majority of the wearers. Tie pigskin
leggin is to be replaced by the lighter
and more comfortable canvas article.
Lyman Abbott, Bishop Potter, Felix
Adler. Samuel NJ. Clemens and many
Others of note are actively interested in
the Peoples institute in New York. One
of their objects is to supply opportuni |
ties to those in reduced circumstances !
TO see high class drama at the better |
theaters of the city at reduced prices. |
Such arrangements have been made with |
many playhouses throughout the city.
Mrs. Lew Wallace, devoted to the |
memory of her distinguished husband,
has kept everything in the library where !
he wrote in exactly the condition in |
which he left it. Even the book which |
he was last reading lies open at the page
as he laid it down. The library is large |
building which the author had put up in |
the middle of the garden, with every |
for writing and with |
shelves for his thousands of books.
Maj Hersey believes the proposed |
Wellman balloon flight toward the pole
will occupy comparatively brief space
Of time. Milwaukeeans who heard Com
Peary describe the sharp
in Arctic temperature and the
consequent precipitations of sleet and
snow, will be inclined to agree upon
this point. From the Peary point OF
view, the aerial journey will be extreme
~ perilous.
Trinity church, Newport, II. l., will
ne without a rector by February /, Rev.
Walter Lowrie having accepted a call
TO the rectorship of the American church
Mt Rome, ST Paul's Within the-Walls
His nomination was confirmed by Bishop
Potter, Mr.. Lowrie has taught in the
American School of Classical Studies
at Rome, is an author of several re-
ligious works and is considered an au-
thority ON the history of the Bible. His
salary at his new post is about $1,000.
From my pile of autographs l take
one of statesman, well known, and lay
it side by side with the autographs of a
great author and Il great ecclesiastic,'
writes British publcist. An three are
very small, exquisitely neat, very little
SloDtnd ahsnlutplv lppihlp Well rs |