Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-28
PARAGRAPHS.

The new management of the Metro
politan Opera house, New York city, is
talking of introducing grand opera in
English.
The largest clock in the world is at
st. Rombold's Cathedral. Machlin, Bel
GUM, if the size of the dial is the
criterion.
A letter addressed to "The man
who wears he tallest hat in Bristol
has been correctly delivered in that Eng
lish city.
The public schools of Cleveland may
be equipped with book holders, which
enabled the scholars to sit erect while
studying.
1T is estimated that the Kaffirs in
the diamond mines at Kimberley South
monds in a year.
John Merrill Goodwin. 81 years old
Of Newbury, is the only surviving sol
der in Vermont of the Mexican war
He is in vigorous health.
Herr Mauser has invented what he
considers an Improvement on his well
known rifle by which it reloads itself
automatically from Il cartridge chamber
The. gem known as the Florentine is
now owned by the Emperor of Austria.
Ii formerly belonged to Charles the
the battlefield. Subsequently it came
into the possession of Pope Julian III,
who presented it 20 the Emperor of
Austria.
Photographic communication is being
rapidly opened up along the Sudan part
Of the "Cape-to-Cairo' steam railway
route. khartum has direct connection
with Egypt. There are now more than
1000 miles of telegraph working wires in
the Sudan, and last year more than 230.-
900 private kilograms were sent over
them.
Mark Twain was talking about a
play that had failed. NO wonder it
failed" he said. It's author was a
greenhorn. He knew more of statecraft
than young Tom Bowling of Harvard
knew of sailoring when he shipped be-
fore the mast. The lad. being told to GO
aloft one dark, wet night started up
the rigging with IA lantern and an UNI
breila"
With the mterment of the body of
Miss RoSina Parmentier a vault in Il
Roman Catholic church, Brooklyn. built
by Cornelius Henney, a partner of John
Jacob Astor, in 1910, was sealed up for
all time. Miss Parmentier was the last
person who had a right to be inferred
in the vaults of st. Pauls, which con.
rains the bodies of pioneers in establish
ing the Catholic faith ON Long Island
Hugh Tighe of Hennessey, Okla,
was bitten by dog. Without saying
anything about Hughs name the incident
does not lose interest with this explana-
ton in The Press Democrat: THE boy
was clad in red bearskin cloth can,
cloak and leggings, and it is probable
the dog did not recognize that lie was a
child, hence made the attack with the
above results
The school managers OF the New
Shoreham council schools have had
brought to their notice the fact that a
scholar in the girls department has
neither been absent nor late on a single
occasion in eight years. The managers
considered this n most remarkable rec
ord, and it was resolved to ask the edu-
cation committee to grant the scholar
special award.
The pearl is nothing but carbonate
of lime, and vinegar or amy other acid
will eat away the polished surface in Il
few moments. As for the opal, hot wa
ter is fatal TO it, destroying its fire, and
sometimes causing it to crack, Soap is
a deadly enemy to the turquoise. If n
turquoise ring il kept ON the hand while
washing, in short time the blue stones
will turn to dingy green.
English capitalists and japanese man
utaeturers have organized a trust to con-
troll the Japanese match output. The
trust which will be capitalized at be
tween $2,500,000 and $5,000,O00, to be
equally subscribed by the japanese and
the English, will also include the small
err factories. One of the aims of the
trust will be to extend the market for
Japanese matches into Europe and
Australia.
There lives on a Yorkshire moor in
England an old lady who remembers
Charlotte Bronte i'll youth. She was a
servant in family to which Charlotte
was governess. Miss Bronte was mob
but the governess," she says But
what was Miss Bronte likey' she was
asked. for she wrote some famous
stories" En- replies the old lady, Il
never heerd tell as she'd done owt to
max folk talk; she wor nobbut The gov
erness."