Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-17

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Lumber is growing so scarce that I'eary
no doubt expects to make a fortune if
he finds the North Pole.
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Bishop Potter will be remembered as
a man who had the courage of his con-
yictions How the extremists did howl
when he lent his countenance to the
opening of the subway saloon
The daylight bill' before the British
Parliament prompts the remark that the
only legislative body which has tradi-
tional right to monkey with the clock" is
the Congress of the United States when
it cannot adjourn within the legal limits
of its existence.
The railroad wreck in India was ac-
companied by narrowing incidents such
as occur when fire destroys the splintered
coaches which imprison the victims. This
viii be the experience everywhere until
the adoption of steel cars reduces the
amount of kindling in railroad smash
ups.
With the large band of mounted ban
dts capturing towns and robbing peo-
pie generally, and the Yaquis engaged
in their traditional deviltry, Mexico will
have occasion to look after army mat
tiers to the exclusion of the naval con-
siderations which were recently brought
to the front.
A wealthy retired farmer near Daven-
port, Iowa, has just learned that there
are ways to play the gold brick game
without the gold brick as an allurement.
1t is strange that with all the publica-
ton of swindles of this kind that men
and women will fall easy victims of de-
signing sharps.
Warnings sent out by the Postoffice
Department that rural delivery will be
suspended wherever the roads are not
kept in good condition ought to stimu-
late road improvement wherever it is
needed Farmers ought to realize that
whatever expedtes public service is
of value in promoting their own well
fare.
Rear-Admiral Erskine of the British
navy predicts that the Pacific ocean will
be the scene of the next naval war; This
prediction is a comparatively safe one,
as history is to be made on the Pa
cifc. because of the opening of the COM
merc4ai door Of China and the trend of
individual and national enterprise in that
direction.
The Prussian Diet is considering
bill introduced by the government FOR
raising the pay of school teachers. If
this bin becomes a law the pay of male
teachers will range from 1887 to S412
a year, and that of women from $500 TO
1887. Prussia has long been a great
country for education, but it is not much
of country for teachers, SO far as pecu-
MARY compensation is concerned.
A shipwreck at Batavia, in the Dutch
East Indies, is reported to have been at
Particulars are wanting, and the number
of fatalities may be reduced when full
accounts are received. Oriental disasters
usually involve many lives, owing to the
density of the population in many places,
and habit may be responsible for the SEN
sational estimate in this instance.
The new Earl of Derby, it is said, is
organizing a social club whose chief quail
fcation for membership is to be the I'M
disputed possession of a family coat-of-
arms for more than a hundred years
There is good old proverb which says,
Don't Judge of a man by the coat thar
he wears" The old Earl of Derby was
accounted one Of England's great men,
but he was never snobbishly exclusive.
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4 Toxic dispatch announces that sew
eral Japanese emigration companies are
in financial straits as a result of the re-
strietions placed upon the movement of
japanese laborers to the United States,
Canada, and the Hawaiian islands. This
was to have been expected. The Chinese
Six Companies received a hard Jolt
when its business of carrying Cinnamon
across the Pacific under temporary bond
age for the passage money was crushed
by the restriction act.
Mai. Judson is testing concrete Gals
sons of his own invention in the con.
strue;ion of a new breakwater at AL.
gonna, Wisconsin. The caissons are
fioated into position and then filled with
stone and sunk. Their use will obviate
the necessity Of using timber for the
substrueture of the breakwater, and will
therefore effect quite a saving for the
government. IL the concrete caisson inn
beds itself without cracking, it viii be
an indestructible foundation.
The Spanish steamer which sunk after
striking a rock ON the coast of Spain,
drowning one hundred Of her passengers
and crew is described aS an ola t,,h