Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-12

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In baseball the first good catch OF
the season has been achieved by Presl-
dent O'Bricn of the American Assocla-
tjou in a reelection for term of three
years with big raise in salary.
After inventive genius has contributed
a bottle that cannot be reflled, it should
turn its attention to the gun which IS
supposed to be unchanged and try to
prevent thoughtless people from pulling
the trigger lust for fun"
Time must rest heavily upon the
American Modern Language Association
at New Haven, Connecticut 1t has been
discussing the question whether Eve
gave Adam an apple or a lemon. If the
temptation had been in the vicinity of
Boston the fruit might have been a bean.
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defended the America cup in 1897, is
offered for sale as cruising yacht.
Who ever heard of later-day freak de-
fender offered for sale as a cruiser, or
for any purpose whatever except for
scrap metal?
Carrie Nations dictum that dancing
is hugging is hardly consistent with her
view that the welding of a hatchet is
merely an oratorical expression. To be
in harmony with a Carrie Nation ges-
ture. Nation hug ought to be rib
crusher.
The purses which are now pat up by
the fight-promoters of Nevada are big
enough to give the loser ample balm for
the wounds incident TO defeat. This is
probably the explanation of the willing
ness of Bob Fitzsimmons to meet
James J. Jeffries in another fight for the
heavyweight championship of the world.
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Mr.. Cans of Baltimore took another
big step upward as a histrionic attrac-
ton by destroying the hopes of Mr.. Her
man of Chicago with a well-delivered
blow during the eighth round of fight
at Tonopah THE stage" be it known,
has usurped the functions of the dime
museum.
Rev. I. W. Hodgson of West Hart
ford, Conn, suspended all his parish serv-
ices one week, including the weekly pray
er meeting, in order that his people
might make social calls upon one an
other He announced his plan from the
pulpit and assigned certain people in GER
tain sections to remain at home on stated
afternoons and evenings.
The fatal rear-end collision in Scot
and was due to the mistake of placing
entire reliance on automatic signals,
from working properly by heavy fall
of snow. 1t isn't safe to leave every
thing to either an automatic mechanism
or human watchfulness. One must sup
plement the other under all circNm-
stances.
\. Il. Hansen, explorer for the depart
ment of agriculture, has arrived from
China with many new plants and trees
which he is sure will flourish in this
country, especially on the arid plains of
the great northwest. He paid special
attention to forage plants which would
stand drouth, and he thinks that the
specimens he brought over viii reduce
the area of the deserts.
There is a British peer with the title
of Zetland and another named Zouche,
hut nobody can recall a member of the
House of Commons whose name began
with the last letter of the alphabet. At
the other end of the world, however,
there has always been an NJ. F. whose
surname started in this singular fashion.
During the last half century Australia
has had parliamentarians named Zeal
ZOX, Zincke and Zevenboom.
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A tablet which Miss Rhoda A. Thomp.
son, of Connecticut, has given to the
Washington Memorial chapel, at Valley
Forge, in memory of her father, who
served through the Revolution as a drum
mer boy and bombardier will be shipped
to Valley Forge at once. Arrangement
are being made to unveil the tablet OF
December 10, the 10th anniversary o
the encampment of Washington's arm,
at Valley Forge. Mr.. Thompson wa
then a member of the army.
The fact that James Alexander CamI
haIl who uaS ConSarva tiva member "a