Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06

a story. the FEencl- arc distinctly up to
date with their nicotineless tobacco.
The Kaiser is said TO have made a
descent into the sea on a submarine.
If this be true he has placed himself
alongside Of President Roosevelt as a
naval inspector.
A case Of lockjaw in Kenosha, as re-
suit of a toy pistol wound, is a warning
10 parents to keep the child-slaying toy
out of the hands of their children.
f. c. Whtbee, of Surrey, Me-, has a
sea chest which his great-great-gran
father carried with him in the flagship
Of Paul Jones, under whom he fought
John f. Timmons, a blind man of
Cadiz, o., has achieved reputation as
naturalist which is not entirely local.
A close student of nature, he is able to
distinguish through sound many things
missed by those with sight.
Nine independent breweries OF ST.
Louis have combined with a capital
stock of $S.O00,OO0. This does not i'm
ply that beer is to 80 up in the Missouri
metropolis: presumably it will go down
in the conventional way.
At Muskegon two young men WHO
rocked boat to scare the girls over
turned the craft and drowned themselves
as well as their companions. If the girls
could escape in instances like this, there
would be small cause for regret.
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Massachusetts is trying to arouse her
public school pupils to interest in fores-
Try, and the State Forester, +. W. Rane,
las sent out to every school superintend-
ent in the State a circular letter setting
forth the desirability of further educat-
ing the children in caring for trees.
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The Prince of Wales has had one more
added to his long list of academic hon
ors. the University of Glasgow having
conferred upon him the degree of LII. ID.
The Prince probably possesses the right
10 wear a larger assortment of univer-
sity hoods and gowns than any other
Englishman of our time.
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The first diving accident of the swinr=
ming season is reported from Utica, New
York, where 15-year-oid boy broke his
back by diving in shallow water and died
in a short time. Casualties Of this kind
occur with remarkable regularity despite
the warning which each one gives to
thoughtless swimmers.
The proposed International memorial,
10 Whistler, which is to be executed by
Robin. is to be erected on Cheyne Walk.
Chelsea embankment, near Whistlers old
home. This site was recently decided
upon by the London county council. The
cost of the memorial is to be $4,000,
Of which the International Society of
Sculptors and Gravers contributes $500
out of the proceeds of the recent Whistler
memorial exhibition
Benjamin Warner, probably the Oldest
man III Connecticut, died at Woodstock
few weeks ago. He would have been
1O2 years old July -. He was born in
Providence and was married in 1882 10
Sarah Gagley, who was born in 1910.
Two children We're born to the couple.
MIR. and Mrs. Warner celebrated their
seventeen wedding anniversary in 1902
and Mrs. Warner died in that year.
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Representative Cyrus Sulloway of
New Hampshire is still the talest men,
Der of Congress, although he has some
thing Of a competitor in Dan" An
1hony, the newly.elected congressman
from Kansas who is TO fill the place left
vacant by Senator Curtis. Anthony
stands six feet four inches in his shoes.
hut according TO accepted belief Mr..
Sulloway stands six feet six inches in
his socks, and thth onor of New Hamp-
shire is still safe.
Gen. Howard Carroll has been chosen
president of the Joseph jefferson Me
moral association at meeting of the
executive committee held in New York.
a letter was also read from Frederick
Macmonnies. the sculptor. accepting the
terms fer designing the statue and an
nouncinc that he would come from Paris
shortly TO confer with the committee.
The monument is 10 cost $4,000 and
Is 10 he of bronze.
The retirement Of Mrs. AdcHa An
toinette Field Johnston from active serv-
ice ON the faculty Of Oberln college is
an event Of great moment in the history
OF the college; for her membership in the
faculty dates back to 1870. and she has
thus completed term of service eleven
years longer than that of auyoue els,
now connected with the Institution aud
eQualled only live times in the past-hy
Profs Morgan, Dancomb. and Churchill,
and Presidents Finney and Fairchiid.
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Georgia has earned distinction by Sc
lectiEg as her TWO sons most worthy To
he represented Ivy statues in Stayuarv
hall in the capitol at Washington. two
men who were neither soldiers nor states
men. The first of the two chosen il IN,