Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15

600 feet of gas is to be tried for the
first time at North Adams, Massachu-
sets, on Friday. If size counts for any
thing in ballooning, the aeronauts of
America may be relied upon to lead
their foreign brethren.
Certain old-time sharpers who protted
from the value Of farm signatures win
prick their ears like old race horses at
the sound of the bell, when they see the
bulletin Of State Fire Marshall Purtell
recommending the erection of lightning
rods as a precaution against IRE.
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Fourth Of July preparations are in
progress at various points, where pub
lie celebrations are contemplated. All
heads of municipalities should be as fore
handed in warning dealers Of the exist
ence of ordinances which admonish them
to forego the sale of certain explosives.
The principle that railway charges
shall have some relation to the cost of
the service and the volume Of traffic re-
ceiyed further support when the supreme
court of North Dakota declared uncon-
stitutional the law requiring railroad
companies to furnish 1000-miIe family
books at $50 fat.
The explosions in the engine rooms Of
the American battleship Missouri and
British battleship Britannia illustrate
the danger of service in the depths of
fighting ships when the powerful ma
a. I, J..x eel
are liable to scald to death all hands
at work in engine rooms and stokehods.
A woman was dangerously wounded
by stray bullet on Thursday last
while picking wild flowers in the woods
near New York city. As the warm
spring days tempt the boy who owns
gun to so hunting in the woods for small
birds, people who gather wild flowers
ara in danger of stopping stray missiles
Two men We're compelled to leap for
their lives from a burning naptha
launch ON the Hudson, and the yacht
was converted into a mere shell in a
comparatively short time This is an
incident of power yachting that will be
quite frequent until builders contriye 10
so place the gasoline tank that it win
be less liable to explode
SO far as the risks of collision are
concerned. night manoeuvering by war
ships is as dangerous during peace as
in war. The British torpedo boat de-
stroyer which was cut in two with the
81 60 in, thn II
not have Jared worse had the ship been
lodging an enemy or trying to get an
opportunity to destroy her.
The board Of food and drug inspection
having decided that the term Mocha"
shall be restricted to the coffee grown
in the part of Arabia known as Yeman,
there viii be less Mocha on the market,
and thousands of pounds of varieties
which have heretofore been sold as
Mocha must be given new name. But
good coffee, like the rose, will be sweet
under any name.
Congress will agree to the construc-
ton of only two battleships of the
Dreadnaught type, But two ships of
this kind are Il formidable addition 10
the fleet; and perhaps by the time they
are ahoat something better may be de-
yeloped, and the United States win be
in position to adopt the improvement at
once for the two ships whose construc-
ton must be postponed
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The discovery that mail bag disap-
peared in New York with a trihe of
$4,000 worth of property is giving the
postal authorities in that city n
period of anxiety. But the British pos
tai authorities who report the loss of the
bag were recently guilty of sending
bag of New York mail to the Orient. by
mistake. Something of this kind may
have happened TO the missing consign-
ment.
The announcement that Miss Jean
Reid, the daughter Of Ambassador
whitelaw Reid. is TO marry an English
nobleman. overstates the case. Her be-
trothed is the Hon. John Hubert Ward,