Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-22
OF GENERAL INTEREST

OF It's death. Fred prageman of AIerideD
Conn found Il wedding ring which his
vic lost nearly twenty-five years ago.
| MIS-. Irageman now believes that She
| iost the Jewel while playing with her
| Daby IN a swing suspended from an ample
/ Tree on their farm in Naleylle. SAYS the
1lhclhnau Enquirer. The tree has since
been cut down, and this spring Mr.
i frageman ploughed the ground Tor the
hTst time. The duck that died fed with
/ otIeFS IN the loose earth, and was prob
ABLY attracted by the ring, which was
still bright.
Eight horses attached to circus wag-
on with 8 lippopotamuS in it. became
frightened during a parade in Cleveland.
o., the other day and ran away They
dashed down Scranton road hin NJ tor
ritc speed. The driver tried in vain IA
check them, but could not. He threw on
the brakes, but the weight Of the wagon
was so great that the brakes broke. The
CROWD, panlc-Stricken, scattered in terror
as the great wagon, weighing tons. ca.
reened back and forth across the street,
threatening to upset at any moment.
The hlppopOtamuS SnOrted loudly in IT'S
fright adding TO the confusion There
were many narrow escapes from death.
the wheels OF the gilded car narrowly
missing several persons in its path Fl
nally two of the front horses broke loose
the whithetree snapped and the last two
horses were entangled IN the harness
Both fell. The great wheels rolled ever
them and they We're instantly crushed Ia
death. The back wheels caught on the
bodies of the horses, however, and the
chariot came To a stop. The terrific,
animal inside jammed himself against
his cage and endeavQred to break loose
put the keepers Quoted him.
ANVQlyaniutr In +b.,f,.
hlngerstown. Pa, with flames licking
the bed they occupied. William Rother-
mel and wife fed for their lives. but OUT
doors remembered that Nellie an infant.
was IN her crib upstairs. Rothermel was
about 10 rush into the building when
the roof fell just as the baby. black
from smoke. appeared through the front
door, having crawled down Il long fight
Of stairs.
DR.. George c. wilkins performed an
operation ON Raymond. the 2-year-old
son of Mr., and Mrs. Herbert Martin of
South Dunbarton, \. H., TO remove two
yellow eyed beans which lodged in the
chlldS nose two months ago. He dis
covered that the beans had sprouts more
than a half inch long. The baby had
suffered severely since he placed the
beans in his nose, while at play.
One of the most unusual blowouts that
ever occurred in the Humble, Tex, oil
held happened when n well drilled by
Harry X. Decker blew out and brought
from the depth of 200 feet below the
surface of the earth a whole tree. Pieces
of the tree were collected and are now
being kept for verihcation of the remark
able occurrence. The wood is in good
state of preservation. Notwithstanding its
many years in the earth. The well that
ont fc Aha Nt,at c.,..,
this experience in this tract of land.
The pressure here seems to be much
greater than in any other part of the oil
bearing territory.
Elder Joseph Halls son Leonard. IL
years old. and Mrs. Sarah Profits daugh-
ter Annie. l years old, were married
at Upper Rock House Creek. Ky. The
ceremony, performed by Elder Hall vino
is pillar in the Hardshell Baptist
church, was witnessed by many rea-
lives The boy and girl fell in love and
did their counting while attending the
district school and determined TO wed.
Their parents looked on the match MS a
| s'calf love- attachment and tried in ev-
ery way TO persuade the youngsters to
wait until they attained their majority.
Just before the ceremony was performed
the bride was found by her mother
dressing several of her dolls which she
had played with since she was a baby.
The girl almost broke down as she
kissed the dolls goodbye, The young
husband has been offered position in
a local store and saws he will support
his Young wife to the best of his ability.
Ills faJher, while not rich, is comfort
ably well to do, and says he will sac
that the Young couple do not find the
matrimonial sea too rough at the start.
Applications Of very hot alcohol and
water" were recommended strongly to
John Barreuther of Winsted, Conn,
who suffered so with rheumatism he
could scarcely move. Barreuther put "a
basin containing about nine parts of al
cohol to one of water on a gas stove the
other night, After awhile. without turn
ing out the flame, he dipped a big piece
Of flannel in the basin. As he lifted out
the flannel a tall and beautifully vivid
blush flame shot up. Mr.. Barreuther
dropped the flannel. 1t set fire to some
newspapers ON the floor; they ignted the
hanging on the mantelplece and from
that the mans nightie caught. by the
time he put out the fire BaFreuther was
not even limping. He says that the
treatment is rather heroic. but there is
Nothing like very hot alcohol and water
for rheumatism.
A gray-bearded wharf rat at the Aiken
lumber yard, Perth Amboy, \. j., chews
tobacco like any old bo'swan. Ed
Tompson, Waterman at the yard. uses
plug that reeks with licorice and mo-
asses. Tompson left his plug on a pile
Of boards one day; he saw the rat take
a good chew Of the tobacco. After that
TOmpson, who is not selfish, and who
is lonesome at the yard. left a chew of
tobacco for the rat every day and they
became fast friends. Now the rat has
the habit and comes to the Waterman
for its chew Tompsou declares the rat
does not swallow the tobncco. but chews
it like any human and seemingly greatly
anjoys the flavor.
Miss Caroline Tibbetts aged %, Of To
lpdo, o.. overcome with the loneliness IF
he desert station Of DANNY. Cal, where
she was recently assigned 10 duty as rail-
road telegraph operator, committed sui
eide by shooting herself through the
head. Miss Tibbetts who had been IN,
was unused to the quiet of the desert,
and for several days had been in
restless frame Of mind declaring repent
edly that it was better to be dead out
right than buried alive. The body has
been sent to Toledo, where her parents
d "a. well I'm Otru