Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-07

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-Four generations live under one roof
in Reading, Pa. The oldest person,
Thomas j. Wilson, is rs years, and the
youngest is a girl aged IS months.
With $4,000 as their profits for the
football season of 1907, the Yale grid
iron experts can figure neat return on
every successful kick at the inflated rig
skin.
William Stoll, once a famous clarinet
soloist. who played with Jenny Lind,
Rubenstein. Ole Bull and other great
musicians. died on Sunday in Philadel-
phia, aged 81.
Mayor J. M. Grace of Mascot, Neb.,
who is the father of twelve children,
all Of whom are living, is the manager
Of baseball team, and thinks of start
ing out next season with a nine of his
own.
Within a radius Of six miles, taking
Hopkins Mills, r. l., as a center, there
live in the township of Foster six peO-
pie whose combined ages make a total
OF 56S years. OF these the oldest is
Mrs. Laura Hopkins, aged 90, and the
youngest, Mrs. Eliza Bancroft, is 81.
Mrs. Margaret Ash of the miscellan-
eous division of the bureau of engraving
and printing at Washington, recently
celebrated the forty-fourth anniversary
of her entering the service of the govern
ment. During the Civil war Mrs. Ash
was appointed printers assistant in the
bureau.
A New Jersey man is said to be a
claimant for a share of the estate of the
Duke of Portland. When Americans
want foreign money they generally seek
1t through the channels of the probate
courts. When foreigner wants Ameri-
can money he usually seeks an American
heiress.
ISOLATION has appointed committee on
the purchase and preservation of the
Tapping Reeve Law school, the first law
school in America. The school was
bought recently by ID. G. Kilburn, clerk
Of the superior court, who feared it
would fall into other hands.
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now visiting her mother, Mrs. o. III. p.
Belmont. will sell candy at charity
bSlaar next Saturday at Harbor Hill
Roslyn, L. l., the Clarence Maekay
place. Mrs Mackay, who was then
Miss Florence Duer was a bridesmaid
at the wedding of the duchess.
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A famous English violinist who died
recently at the age of Sc was G. II.
Swornsbourne, who lived at Cambridge
and was affectionately known there as
"White-haired Bob" The bob" is of
obscure origin, but for the epithet he did
not have to wait for old age; he was an
albino, with white hair and eyebrows
and pink eyes.
Venerable Ira Haworth of Kansas
City recently exhibited to friends who
came to congratulate him on his Goth
birthday black walnut cane, whitfield
out and presented to him by Abraham
Lincoln in 1860. "The cane,'' said Lin
soln to its recipient, sis to use when you
get old. | know you will live to be old,
because the good die young
1t is announced from Vienna that
by experiment in the Imperial Academy
of Sciences nearly three grams of radium
have been extracted from 10000 kilos
Of pitchblend at one-third the cost of
previous production. AS the cost for
raidum has been about $3,000,00o an
ounce, the success of the Vienna expert
nlents will not invite orders in ton lots.
DIR. Leonard Atwood, of the geological
survey, has returned from a nine months
stay in Alaska. He visited and inspected
twenty coal deposits in southeastern
Alaska, in the vicinity of Nome and in
the Tanana district. He reports that
they are all of the best quality for steam
ing purposes, and will urge that large
expedition be sent by the government to
Alaska next year to exploit all sections
of the territory.
Eugene D'Albert recently celebrated
the twenty-fifth anniversary Of his first
public appearance as pianist. He was
born in Glasgow, studied with List, and
has become an out-and-out German
After writing number of unsuccessful
operas he has Mt last won a big success
with his "Tiefand" In Berlin, Cologne
and Frankfort this opera has been 50
much appauded that number of other
theaters have put it into rehearsal.
Rev. DIR. Edwin +. Hellenbeek N
Binghamton has accepted the post of as
eociate pastor of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church, New York, and will
take active part in the evangelistic cam
paign recently begun by Rev. DR.. j