Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-05

were asleep, a gang OF burglars mas ad-
vertised the quiet place as haven for
sufferers from insomnia.
In making scapegoats of certain naval
officers, the Russian government is sim
ply compounding it's own offense of send
ing brave men to fight a vigorous and
well-armed enemy in poorly equipped
second-class ships.
The cash influence necessary to over
come James ]. Jeffries' reluctance to re-
enter the pugilistic arena has at last
been guaged He will don the mits"
for the winners share of $4,000
purse.
Sir Thomas Lipton's account of
American prosperity in the London
Weekly Dispatch is as glowing as any
thing that was ever uttered by a per-
fervid Fourth of July orator; and with
al, it is true.
Gov. Guild of Massachusetts is an ex-
pert fencer On his recent visit to the
home of Councillor Wheeler at Orange
he was given a sword that had been
carried by a general in the French army
in the time of Louis XIV.
Principal James NJ. Green of the New
Jersey normal school says that though
still a much underpaid profession, peda-
gogy has been picking up bit the past
fiscal year, and that salaries of teach
ers as a whole show some gain.
For the roll call, the name of the
Junior senator from Massachusetts is
now printed Winthrop NJ. Crane. in
stead of w. Murray Crane as formerly.
Philander Chase Knox usese his full
name, but most of the senators follow
the old custom Of abbreviation.
The Denver skyscraper which fell
upon the spectators when its upper sto-
ries were burned out was evidently not
of the conventional kind. The San
Francisco skyscrapers withstood the
earthquake and the devastating fire that
followed, and have been reclothed and
refurnished for another period of sery-
ice.
New Jersey is said to be preparing to
revise her laws in regard TO corpora
tons, so that her charters may no longer
be like letters of marque permitting
their holders to prey upon commerce. If
she is really bent upon reform in this
regard her sister states will give her all
the moral support she may need for the
task.
There may be holes in the bottom of
the sea, after all. A barge which went
upon reef in between three and four
feet of water at the north end of Lake
George, broke a hole in the bottom
through which soundings reveal depth
of thirty feet. The phenomenon may be
explained by the fact that the break in
graphite mine.
DIR. William II. Brooks, director of
Smith observatory. and professor of as
tronomy at Hobart college, Geneva, has
just received a medal from the Astrono-
mical society of Mexico, for his discover
les of twenty-five comets, which is said
TO be larger number than any other liv-
ing astronomer has found. This is the
eleventh medal that DIR. Brooks has re-
ceived for his astronomical discoveries
DR.. w G. Grace, the famous English
cricketer, has been the recipient of many
gifts from lovers of cricket as tangible
proofs of their admiration of his
prowess. Some of them have been re-
markable in character, but perhaps the
most embarrassing gift he ever received
was one of three young pigs which a
Worcestershire farmer sent to him in
recognition of great batting feat which
he had witnessed.
George Frederick Bodley, the English
architect, is coming to Washington to
design the new Protestant Episcopal ca
thedral. He has long been known as
England's foremost ecclesiastical archi-
tect, and scattered up and down England
are many notable churches he designed.
He hopes TO make the Washington ca
thedral his masterpiece monument
by which he will be remembered by
posterity. Mr.. Bodley is in his eightieth
year.
Commander Robert H. Brown. one of
the heroes of the historic hurricane al
Samoa, who died the other day in a
Washington hospital, was a master OF
seamanship such as was absolutely ne
cessary on the quarter deck in days gone
by, when sails required expert handHna
while the man behind the gun was do
ing his work. Commander Brown car
ried the sloop of war Trenton past the
edge of reef oy sending her crew int,
the rigging and thus forming Twin.
sail
Capt. Nathan Herreshoff America
most distinguished yacht designer. wa
seriously burned by the explosion of ;