Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST

OF GENERAL INTEREST
Miss Fora Inman of Benton Harbor,
Mich. j IS just completed a continuous
attend1D e of fourteen years at school
without beng absent or tardy. At the
commencement exercises this year the
board Of education presented her with a
silver medal in recognition of her attain
ments.
A needle which has been travelling
| through the body of Mrs William McIn-
| tyre of Housatonic, Mass, for several
years was taken ont of her side by a
surgeon this week. The needle, which
Mrs. Mcintyre swallowed, worked
through the peritoneal wall and appeared
in the skin. 1t finally caused her so
much pain that an operation was per-
formed at midnight.
| As the result of an accident Council
man Fernando Jones of AiilIvale, n j.
| was horribly burned about the head
neck and back while at work in q glass
factory. Jones was sitting down gath
ering when a tending boy dropped a
hot milling" on his head. The glass,
| heated to white heat, encircled his neck
and then dropped down his back. His
| shrieks of pain brought assistance and
his, clothing. was quickly torn from his
body 70 enable the molten glass to be re-
moved. While Jones' burns are serious
1t IS believed he will recover.
| That Gustav Drexel's anguish as a re-
suit Of the disappearance of his daugh-
| ter, Emma, from pittsburg, Pa, is al
| most mbounded is attested by the fact
| tnat his hair has turned quite white dur
| ing the last few nights Mr.. Drexel is
| almost heartbroken from grief and he
| looked the part last night. Pointing to his
| luxurious growth of hair, he said This,
in way, indicates what / have gone
| through. My hair has turned gray since
| Emma was drowned. On Tuesday night
my hair was black. but look at it now"
| Their greedy eyes eagerly fixed on two
| plump little pickaninnies, the crocodiles
and alligators in the New York Zoologi-
| cal garden were decoyed the other day
/ from their winter quarters in the reptile
/ house to the cool and shady tank lust
| outside the building. 1t was the keeper 5
| idea to bait the saurians with pickanin-
| MES So as two small colored children
| happened to drift through the reptile
! house among the throng ,of visitors he
| pressed them into service. The two
| crocodiles and all bur four of the TWEEN
| ty-fve alligators wobbled out az quick as
| they could after the ebony mites, who
| darted around the tank just as the pur-
suing monsters fell with grunts Of cha
grin into the water, disappointed of their
prey.
| a side light on what women wear in
| their hair when it comes to dressing it
| la mode for the Merry Widow hat
came out in Boston when the steamer
| Seneca, from China steamed into port.
| In the cargo was a ton of Chinamens
pigtails, 1t was consigned to a promi-
! nent Boston hair dealer, who will use it
| in making rats" and switches and puffs.
| According to the steamer officials, the
| importation of human hair from China
| is a thriving industry. No good China
man will part with his pigtail in life, but
| when he is dead it is different. He usu-
ally has a good supply, and his relatives
will let it 90 cheap. Hair from dead
people does not make up into extra fine
switches, but it will do in the cheaper
| grade. There is nothing better than the
| heavy, coarse, strong, straight hair of
| the Chinaman, dead or alive, for stylish
puffs and rats. 1t never loses its shape,
| it stands all sorts of knocking about,
and as long as the girl does not know
what she is wearing there is no trouble.
Charlie Taft, the ubiquitous 10-year-old
son of the Republican presidential nonli-
nee, is a great deyotee of the roller skat-
| ing fad He wears his skates at any
and all times. Shortly before his faith
| er's nomination he skated down to the
war department in Washington on an
| errand.
Entering the elevator with his
| skates still in place, he had himself
hoisted 10 the floor ON which his fathers
office is located, and then was off down
| the long tiled corridor with roar and
rattle that brought the clerks to the
doors and startled generals and aid de
camps
Capt. Poole of the engineer corps
who has charge of the state, war and
navy buildings, happened to be proceed
| ing along the corridor ahead of Charlie
de grabbed the athletic youngster and
brought him to a standstill by yisor-
! Gus pull on his shirt waist.
who are you, and what are yOu
doing heret he wrathfully inquired
I'm Charlie, Taft, and I'm doing a
little job of skating" said the young
man with some show OF defiance.
Well, you report to your father and
tell him skating is not allowed in this
building" said Capt. Poole.
Charlie skated forthwith into his faith
later creSttallen and with his skates
under his arm.
After holding a mans leg as hostage
for four years, Chairman Sargent of the
poor committee of the city of Crookston.
Mimi, forwarded the leg to Chicago to
Emil Johnson the owner, who. in the
meantime has been getting along the
best he could with only one peg. Four
years age, when c. f. Misner. now Of
Pasadena. Cal, was chairman of the
poor COMMITTEES. johnson dropped into
Crookston from Winnipeg. He had lust
lost leg in a railway accident. aud had
purchased u $3.50 artificial limb He
reached CroOkston broke and wanted the
city 10 give him fare to duluth. Mis-
ner was obdurate. and said he would
send him back across the Canadian bor
der where he belonged. johnson lid NOT
want to so that way. and olIered to
leave his leg here as a hostage till the
money for the fare 10 Duluth was re-
funded. Mfsuer agreed. and the leg
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