Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-01

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own eyes. he says. and. as other chick
ems have disappeared mysteriouSly this
spring, Is now convinced that they went
the same way. To save the rest of the
chicks he Is raising Tor broiIerS for
| summer boarderS, who will soon be ar
irving IN Norfolk Thompson will erect
aerial Snares along. the riverside hor-
dering his poultry yards. The chickens
ne thinks, viii not get caught in the
traps.
The PittSburg and Lake Erie Rail
ROAD. owned and operated By the VAN
aerhilt system, viii be the first railroad
IN the country TO attempt To carry out
the recent order of the Interstate Conn
merce commission which demands that
All railroads compile, print and make
puhhc rate sheet showing the fare
from every station on its line to every
point ia the United States. The Pitts
burg and Lake Erie is only 100 miles
IN length. Five clerks were placed nj
work last week, and il is estimated that
with the cooperation of the railroads
these lye clerks will be able to complete
the task in five years. Railroad mem
declare that the big railroads, with their
thousands of miles of tracks will be ut.
terry unable to accomplish the task.
In the neighborhood of Grenoble there
is manufactory which EMPLOYS the
water held III n reservoir situated some
1000 feet up on the mountain. The
water is brought 10 the manufactory hy
Il vertical pipe of this length and some
what less than an inch in diameter. the
force OF the falling jet being employed
to drive turbine, If, now. by means of
a lateral pipe, the jet be allowed to es-
cape, II spurts up with such force into
the air, owing TO the velocity impaired
to 1t by its long previous fall. that n
STRONG man armed with sword may
hack ut ii until he is exhausted or splint-
efS his weapon into fragments, without
making the slightest impression upon it.
The weapon is checked as effectualy as
II u had struck against II bar of iron.
Ana yet this jet OF water which il so
lhVuinerable to the keen-edgea steel is
but OF the thickness of a mans thumb
The speed at which the jet moves. more
over, IS, relatively speaking. by no means
great; IT does not much exceed 100 yards
Ia second-that is to say about the tenth
of the speed of Il cannon ball
When Theodore Petersen Stole. n
young Norwegian, asked Inspector Al
Russell, the gateman at the Ellis Island
ferry New York, the shortest route TO
Norway, the inspector referred him TO
Il steamship company and thought no
that Stole was trying to solve the prob
lem himself. and with the result that he
Is now under restraint to settle the
question of his sanity. He is about -
years old, and says he is an inmate of
sailors home in Brooklyn. Policeman
Joseph Mury, coming through Battery
park. noticed n crowd about an excited
man at the edge of the sea wall. 1t was
Stole taking his clothing off aud an
nouncing to the crowd that he was not
satisfied with this country and was go
ing to swim to Norway Il tank [ go
home. he said To the policeman, all the
while preparing for his swim across the
Atlantic. injury forced him back into
Battery park, and he was later removed
dent to the steamship United States had
something to do with the mans condi-
ton, for he declared to the policeman
| that since the United States WAS ont of
| business Cor the present, the only way
| for him to get to his native hand was
| TO swim there.
| Bum, a pet dove at the railroad sta
| tion ut New Haven, Conn, has a wood
| en- leg, made by u depot employee TO re-
| place the limb severed by an express
Grain. The dove has been hopping on
one leg.
W illlt tllE ubHSHHblu EDthlN ".
Franklin Miller of Bedminster Pa, had
a unique experience. Having his wagon
loaded to its utmost capacity, he found
standing room on a barrel His horses
became frightened "a little later at some
object lying along the roadway aud
threw the barrel, with Miller in it, 70
the ground He rolled distance of
self. Beyond II few bruises he was not
seriously injured.
Montville, the Colonial home of Patrick
Henry. one of the most historic places in
Virginia, is to be burned TO the ground
by its owners, the great-grandchldreu Of
the famous Nirginian, because the place
has become overrun with bats. Since the
warm weather began there N no living
in or near the place. Bats by the thou
sands hang about the grand parlors and
spacious bedrooms of the colossal man
sion. Attempts 10 exterminnte them by
poison and with club have failed. They
are in every room. They hang IN long
strings from the furniture. from the cell
ing, from the walls and they are in such
numbers that they form Gu ms before
the windows, darkening the ,,;;se during
the day. The house has become unin-
habitabie because Of the presence of the
creatures.
A small dog belonging to A. l.. Case
Of Dayton, Wyo., was dragged into
Tongue river by q trout and drowned,
The dog accompanied Cases little son on
a fishing trip. The boy hooked "a fish
large enough to jerk the cane pole into
the water He sent the dog after il,
but the trout hauled the dog and pole
about until the dog was carried down
the rapids and drowned in sight Of his
master. The boy recovered the pole sind
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