Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-20

1can 1eet at annoy Is pretty Soou an
swer to those who allege that there ex-
lists in China an irreconcilable coldness
toward the United States.
The outcome Of the Morse trial in
New York will have a salutatary in
fluence upon wildcat bankers. He has
been convi tied of frauds for which the
minimum penalty under the national
banking law is seven years.
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The rump that Great Britain will
send out a battleship fleet to encircle the
globe is further evidence that the great
voyage of the American fleet now head
ing for the Indian ocean has deeply
impressed foreign nations.
The flower of the football season is
the chrysanthemum. 1t is a beautiful
flower--not as lovely as the rose, and
scentless withal-but highly decorative,
and it lasts a long time when cut and
placed in a vase. The chrysanthemum
belongs in the list OF gifts for which the
Western world is indebted to Japan
The coal stove with closed draft and
open doors has claimed three victims in
Washington, ID. c., an0 warned house
holders who use stoves to look well to
the tlues when they are checking down
their fires Most of these cases are due
to carelessness in regard to the stove
pipes and the chimneys, which should
always be kept clean.
Yellow fever is said to be creating
havoc among the Yaqui Indians who are
corralled in Yucatan by the Mexican
government, This liability to disease in
the hotter climate Of Yucatan is what
made the Yaquis resist shipment to that
part of the republic The yellow fever
is said to be claiming many victims
among Spanish immigrants.
1t is likely that the United States may
he represented by Dixie II. at the an
nual motor boat regatta on the Mediter-
ranean, at Monaco. The Dixie is the
fastest racing motor boat in the world,
and although she will probably be Amer
ica's only representative, as against two
and three from some Of the foreign coun-
tries, she will be heard from Fin the
running"
The report of the Geological Survey
shows that there five items in the list
of mineral products of the United States
which yield upward of S100,000,000 a
year. They include coal, $614,00o,000,
iron, $529,000,00o; copper, $173,oo0,000,
clay products, $15S,000,000; petroleum,
$120000,000, Every one of these, be it
noted, gives richer returns than gold,
the annual output of which is 100000
900.
The reported success of a French met
allurgist in Welding film of copper onto
steel is of vast Importance to shipbuild-
ers. If a way can be found by which
ships plates can be completely sur
faced with copper, the bottoms of war
and commercial vessels can be made
proof against marine growths which pit
steel plates and rust and coat the bot
toms of ships so thiekly that speed is re-
tarded.
Although the Wrights have the record
for long fights, and doubtless have the
most practical aeroplane yet produced,
Farman, the French aeronaut has cap
tured the honor of the first and longest
flight between two points, which sug-
gests practical use of the flying ma
chane. lie few rom Mourmelon to
Rheims, distance of twenty miles,
keeping his aeroplane at an average
nif-ht NT
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Wilbur Wright's assertion that cross
country trips such as that made by
Henry Farman ars quite useless runs
contrary to the general desire, which
has been to see one of the aeroplanes
demonstrate its ability to get between
distant points, The statement that a
monument is TO be erected at the place
where Farman alighted is evidence that
the French public regard the fight as
evidence of the practical value of the
aeroplane.
The reduction of Fort Hamilton, be-
cause of the disclosures incident to the
Hains-Annis tragedy makes it impossi-
BILE for other officers to be involved in
trouble through too close contact with
the social whirl of a great city. The
army post is sometimes pictured as n
lonely place where men and women are
cooped up and made surly and quarrel
some, but the isolated post is safer than
one where the allurements of society
are too close at hand.
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The dispatch practically giving up ms
lost the Chinese junk Whang- Ho, which
sailed from San Francisco for New York
last January, because she has not been
heard from since the Sth of March last
is followed by the announcement thar
the long-overdue British bark Inyerclyde
has reached the Royal Roads. British
Columbia. one hundred and seventeen
days out from Santos Brazil. Finding
it impossible to round the Horn. the
captain turned tair' and went to the
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