Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-05-04
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Mrs. Lewis Rossiter, BIB Pencil
street. Philadelphia, received letter
from Chicago lncioSng five $50 bills and
a note saying:
n told gou I'd repay you literally if
ever got Il chance Ii thiS money does
You haH as much good as those things
did me that morning. I'm satisfied"
Mrs. Rossiter found tramp nj her
door one day three years ago who asked
aid. She gave him coat, Il shirt. pair
0f SOCKS, and % cents. She thinks Il =
fl00 came from the man.
FOR the one hundred and first time
Willie BlOunt. II years old. has run
away from his home at Bayonne. Y. J.
IL was only week ago that he was
picked up by the police after he had
rounded out century of runaways. The
next day he was brought before Acting
Recorder Mara, who let him 90 on his
promise that he would never repeat the
offense. Some months ago the boy was
arraigned before Recorder Lazarus as
runaway. and the boys mother gave him
whipping in court with polceman's
belt, borrowed for the occasion.
Probably the most extraordinary band
on earth is that which is stationed in the
IMPERIAL palace ut Moscow, says Tit Bits.
y famous composer was recently taken
into darkened room to hear one of
ms new compositions played by this
band. The composer was mystiied until
the lights were raised. when 200 soldiers
We're revealed, each with horn or trum-
pet in his hand varying in size from one
and one-halt inches TO 20 feet. Each in
'trument and each performer produced
My single note but the playing was
so perfect that the sound was just as if
from one grand instrument payed -upna
by master hand.
The baby" of the newly elected Com
mOnwealth Parliament is BENJAMIN
Watkins, one of the labor representatives
returned by Tasmania. He was 30 last
July; but. young as he is, he has had
one previous electoral experience. for he
was a defeated candidate last March for
a seat in the local state Legislature He
is Il writer on the staff of the Tasmanan
Labor Weekly Journal. whose editor is
also an NJ. Z. Most of the Australian
journalists. Before the advent Of MIR.
Watkins T. ]. Seldom. son Of the late
premier of New Zealand, was the Young
est NJ. p, in the southern hemisphere.
He is 23 and budding barrister. He
succeeded to his fathers seat
Fixing price of So on kiss. Miss
"a
of Columbus. o.. asked for the arrest of
DIR. II. b. Cochraue, dentist. SheI
claims that she went TO Cochraue's otiiceI
to have set of false teeth made and
fitted in her mouth, and that while the|
dentist was performing his duty he madel
love 10 her and helped himself to three|
kisses.
She could offer no resistance, she says.
us she was in the dentists chair and bel
tnl, II IA -,
instruments into her mouth.
DR. Cochrane made the false teeth and
Miss Wilson made part payment on
them, giving him 81. His bill was $40.
\ week later she says, he called her to
his office by telephone and demanded the
remaining SO.
She refused to pay him, claiming that.
as he had stolen three kisses, they were
square. Then. she claims, he took the
false teeth from her mouth by force.
Miss Wilson described each kiss in detail
to the police today. and DIR. Cochrane
denied having kissed her even once.
Sir james Colquhoun's desire to he
buried in full evening dress costame re-
calls. says the London Evening Standard,
curious last wishes of other testat0rS
George Herring directed that his re-
mains should lie beneath a sundial mt the|
Haven of Rest. Maidenhead; Queen Vic
toria planed the entire programme for
her funeral. even choosing the music to
be played. the anthems to be sung.
A couple of months ago Il young lady
who died at Regiate on the eve of her
wedding was buried i'll her bridal dress,
the friends who were to have been her
bridesmaids attending the funeral in the
gowns which they should have worn att
the wedding and carrying in place of
the wedding bouquets.
More singular was the funeral of Mai
Gen. Algernon Stewart at Hascombe.
Surrey, eighteen months ago. The coffin
was drawn to the grave 10y the dead
man,s $ horse. The mourners walked and
the bearers wore old fashioned smocks.
each with its collar adorned with text.
The same men appeared in their mourn
ing garments at the church service on