Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-04
NOTES OF INTEREST.

NOTES OF INTEREST.
For several years crickets have paid
kuShYllle, Ind, IN annual visit. PLAYING
one-Hlght engagement in large mum
berS. and with a full chorus, but never
before. IN the memory of the oldest iu-
habltant, was there such number of
the chirping, hopping black insects as
reported the other night The sidewalks
were literally covered, and many of the
stores We're obliged to close an hour ear
'a:' ON account of tile pest. One OF the
moving picture shows had to turn n
crowd out of the building. being unahlc
to exhibit because the crieketS climbed
gu over the motion picture machine be,
ing attracted by the strong light. The
effect of the film was compiler Fly tie
stroyed.
@ u Earl left Washington. ID. c..
satisfied that he had s,lved his fortune
of $4,000, He buried the money in The
earth in 1904 and recently discovered
that the tin pail in which the bills were
placed had rusted and %orn away Earl.
who had an aversion To banks, began To
have an aversion TO everything else when
he beheld his $4,000 looking like a LOT
of withered and broken leaves. He
gathered the fragments and with Lloyd
Rainwater, cashier of the Bank of Nor
rlllton, Ark, went TO Washington with
an affidavit as to how the bills became
damaged. He learned that his visit was
unnecessary, as the treasury is con.
Stantly receiving mutilated bills from all
parts of the country for REDEMPTION.
Mrs. 4. h. Brown. the veteran redeem
er. who is handling Earl'S money. has
managed SO far 10 account for more than
@en of the bills.
Henry Q. Flippen, an American archae-
ologist who has been exploring the Si-
ezra MadreS IN the remote western part
OF Mexico, in search of homes of cliff
dwellerS, has made some important dis.
eoveries- He found one house on Cara
hato creek, Il tributary of the Rio Chico,
containing eighty-two rooms. He also
found two of three on the Rio Chico
and two near GuaynOpa He saws they
are typical cliff dwellings, very similar
TO those in the United States. Mr.. Flip
per says the most remarkable thing he
noticed about these buildings WAS the
Snaliness of practically all the rooms.
about 5x5 feet, with doors abonf ii
inches high by II inches wide. These
facts lead him to the conclusion that
the cliff dwellers were very small
people.
II there is any virtue in experience,
John Henry Porter of Red Bank. Ia
IS well qualified to hold the office of
grand master of the army of the unem-
ployed The story of John Henry's pur-
SUIT OF the elusive job, as related by
himself to the sympathetic dwellers If
Pontiac. Ill, reads like the romance Of
the will-o'- th-wisp or the fairy tale Of
the pot of gold at the end of the rain.
bow. Iured onward and onward IN
never-dying hope. John Henry accom-.
panied by his wife, a 10-year-ola son
and a baby 10 months old. has tludped
every inch of the weary way from Red
Bank in the old Quaker state TO Pontiac
ILL.,, distance of over 1000 miles on
the trail of the fitting job. but ever II
has eluded him and he is still on the
trail
Believing that he discovered loot If
robbers when he found thirteen boxes Of
Jewelry next to big oak tree in n
wheat field, j. NJ. Yommt a farmer.
west OF kalamazoo. Mich. put n hair
dozen men on guard while he hurried 10
a telephone and called the sheriff. Re-
turning Namunt would not allow any
one TO so near the tree until the officers
arrived. Sheriff Shean took the thirteen
boxes which contained upwards of 800
pieces of Jewelry to his office The sher-
IN believed at first he had found the
booty which had been taken from the
Dearcy store in this city and from n
number of other iewelry stores i'm this
section Of the state Jewellers were
called N. and they declared the stuff To-
be ''phony. evidently left under the
tree by persons who tired of Juggling il
around. Iommt struck the boxes while
on his harvesting machine
The management of the Leghorn
Opera house in Florence. italy, refused
10 allow claquers to enter the house the
other night when Mascagni was con
ducting "Mascheri" The claqners. how
ever, purchased tickets and avenged
themselves by pelting Mascagni with
fruit and vegetables Mascagni perse-
yered with his baton until the soprano
was hit with IN onion, whereupon he
quit, declaring he would not remain in n
theafer where "Onions were thrown ut a
lady"
Amanda Talmage. widow GO years
old. was burned TO death in Jackson
Mich, under Il wardrobe Carrying n
lamp, she attempted to reach a
bonnet which was on the top shelf Of
the wardrobe by means of stool She
evidently lost her balance. and while
trying to steady herself pulled the ward
robe on top of herself The ire from the
lamp set her clothing aire.
The heads Of animals carved in stone
which form the gargoyles along the cor
nice of the new elephant house at the
Bronx park 400 IN New York. are used
10y wild birds which build their nests in
the park. One pair chose their nest
site on the top of n rhinoceros head near
the south end Of the building. Another
nest Is under construction on the top Of
one Of the carved elephants heads. The
are arranging the dried grass
stems between the elephants trunk and
the forehead
Jaek' Burgess Of Riyerbead. one Of
the best known hotel keepers on Long
island, has on exhibition Il 24-pound lob
sted that was caught in a big ocean trap
net off Montauk point Old lobster fish
ernen say the monster is one Vt the larg-
est ever seen here. and Il must be 100
years old. IT has huge claws. and meas
ures more than twenty inches from nos@
70 tail Tuthill brought il 80 Riyerhead
and presented il to Burgess II is still
alive. but many of Rurgpss' friends ex.