Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-14

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c. NJ. Davis, Republican candidate for
mayor of Kent. o., is the heaviest can
didate in the Buckeye state. He weighs
$50 pounds.
The I6-year-old Princess Dagmar of
Denmark who has just published lit
tie book on the subject Of "Wild Flowers
Of Scandinavia" has added her name to
the list Of royal ladies who have dis
tinguished themselves by their pen.
Thomas Nelson Page, the Virginia
writer, has, it is announced, decided to 80
into the raising of mules on an extensive
scale on 1000 acre plantation near
Beaver Dam, Pa. The mule business
will not interfere with his literary eff
forts.
Walter Scott Hale of Brookline, Mass,
commandments of the Spanish War
Veterans, has been appointed an aide-de-
succeeding Col Charles Hayden, APP
pointed chief Of the pay department Of
the state militia.
At the express invitation of the Queen
of Roumania, j. w. Lawson, blind
man, 30 years old, living in Leeds, Eng
land, is going to Bucharest to act as in
structor, in cabinet making in the settle
ment for the blind which the good Queen
is establishing there.
Sir Thomas Upton believes IN fresh
air, and to avoid sleeping in town will
often drive ten miles at l o'clock in the
morning to Osidge, his place at Old
Southgate, in Middlesex. He is now a
keen gardener, and has of late been
heard Of as an orchid fancier.
West Bristol, Me-, claims a couple of
the smartest people for their years to be
found in Maine. Mr.. Albert Cloudy is
80 years of age. Mrs. Cloudy is SO. Not
long ago she walked half mile to a
neighbours to a quilting, and worked on
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Carmen Sylvia, the Queen of Roumania,
who is the author of many poems, stories,
fairy tales and Dramas and in addition
TO being a Queen is also a member Of the
Academy of Sciences Of Bucharest, has
established home for the blind, which
is known By the poetic name of Hearth
of Light"
The last student to register in the
graduate department at Johns Hopkins
is Mordecai Bassan, native Of Pales-
tine. He has a native command of He
brew and Arabic. He comes from the
University Of Berlin, and will study
oriental history and Sansxrit under Prof
Paul Haupt and Maurice Bloomfield.
Miss Alma Johansson of Helsingfors,
Finland has been sent to the United
States by that city to study our system of
education. Miss Johansson is a teacher
and with her sister and another teacher
took an active part in the last years
campaign that resulted in the granting of
full national suffrage to the women of
Finland.
Andre Tardieu of Paris, foreign editor
of the semi-ofiicial Temps and an au.,
thority ON international politics, whose
book and articles in the Temps over the
signature of Frederic Villiers" are well
known throughout Europe, has been Sc
lected as the Cercle Francois lecturer at
Harvard His subject will be '"The Mod
ern and Foreign Politics of France and
Europe"
Mrs. Kenward, wSose appointment as
postmistress at the quaint old postoflice
at Wivelsheld, near Hayward's Heath,
England, dates back to 1916, celebrated
her SSth birthday recently. Despite her
years Mrs. Kenward attends to her own
household duties, and is great reader
of the newspapers She believes herself
10 be the oldest postmistress in the
country, Her father was a farmer at
Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells. Mrs.
kenward hopes to become centenarian
and to die in harness
President Diaz of Mexico, who is past
a, literally takes upon himself a very
extensive portion of the administrative
work of his government. He is an early
riser, and his day is Systematically ar
ranged. Few public men are more kind
iy and agreeable in private life than the
President of Mexico, and he has behind
an habitual gravity of manner a very
keen sense of humor. He never frets or
worries over petty matters, and is always
calm and in perfect mental poise in
times of crisis and emergency.
Five dead at Waterbury, Connecticut.
attest the eyer-present danger of COLI.
sion at crossings of street and steam rail
roads that are made ut grade. 1t seems
that the conductors of the street ears
were required to go ahead and examine
the track before crossing, but this pre,
caution was not taken probably because
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