Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-10
NOTES OF INTEREST.


week Carter ate half dozen of I'll,
goose eggs. He liked them, and said 50
Ills family made sport OF him. Their
the neighbors added their taunts Car
ter took II so much to heart he SUED
Harris for damages, claiming humilia.
tioh and nervous shock.
| John McDonough of Carbondale, Pa.
| VINO, It is charged. has stolen rides no.
gregating -, 4S4 miles on the Delaware
- hudson railroad, has been arrested by
detectlYeS of che road and held under
NcOV BAN. Ii Is alleged that for the last
TWO Years McDonough has travelled daily
netWeen Scranton and Carbondale as a
iaborer of the company, although he was
not employed, and 50 impressed the con-
ahctofs that they asked him for neither
pass nor ticket.
Among her Australian experiences,
Anne. Melba can now count that of be-
ing dunned for payment of milk and
outer bill The incident took place just
! before the diva was To sing at Il con-
cert at Ballarat, in Victoria
II appears that the account Of a farm
er Tor dairy produce supplied to Ercil-
uouhe, the squatter'S mansion rented by
Nine Melba during her stay in Aus
j tfaiia' had not been paid by madame's
servants The farmer therefore issued a
summons and had it served on Mime
| Melba by a policeman. Nine. Melha was
Intensely annoyed. as before leaving Err
clldoune she had given explicit instruc-
tiohs that all domestic accounts should
be paid
! She paid the account on the spot. to-
gether with the legal expenses, aud
| crowned the incident by presenting the
puiiceihah VINO served the summons with
TWO tickets for her concert.
!
| Passengers arriving in New York city
on the Patricia, of the Hamburg Ameri-
can line in her last trip, maintained that
the hold of the vessel during the entire
voyage from Hamburg was a compressed
edition of the Bronx Zoo with the Cen
tral Park menagerie thrown in. This was
/ que 10 the odd mixture of live cargo
which it contained. If only the 1000
canary birds had had the hold to them
serves the continuous concert might have
been pleasing. But they had to share
with , stations, 400 cartridges and 100
ehatterlng monkeys, and the result was
not harmonious to the ear. There was a
great deal of rough weather. and seasick-
ness partially quoted the noisy Simians.
| When is the best time to wind M a
wateht This question was discussed at
a recent meeting of the British Watch
and Clock Makers guild, held in London.
and the consensus of opinion among the
| experts was against the generally IRE.
yalent practice of doing the winding Just
before going to bed. Several members Of
! the guild We're of the opinion that the
winding should he done at night, as in
| the morning the mainstring would be
/ colder and more brittle than after the
watch had been carried about in the
| pocket all day. On the other hand the
vice president thought it decided ad-
/ In fIn "a fpb in,
| ing. During the daytime the watch was
| carried about and subjected to all kinds
! OF Irregular conditions, which it was bet
| ter able to Withstand when fully wound
At night the watch was usually laid ON
one side in the horizontal position aud
was at rest. rs it were therefore its
running Gown did not affect it so much.
/ This view of the case was agreed TO
| by the majority of the members of the
trade present.
IN automobile containing two women
and tleir chauffeur crashed through the
| front Oh a frame cottage into the par
the car were Mrs. Karl c. Roebing.
niece of Robert G. Clowry; Miss Emily
Roebling and Chauffeur John Roupp.
| The car belonged 10 the Roebings. and
the party was returning from the sea-
shore. The house that was so uncere-
moniously invaded was that of w ].
J Chinnick The night was very dark,
and the chauffeur failed until the last
moment to notice herd of COWS in front
Of him. The machine was running at a
| high rate of speed when a white COW
| showed up. The ear lodged the white
cow. but hit a black one. wrenching the
steering wheel from the driver The ma.
chine then zigzagged across the road.
smashed through light picket fence.
and did not stop until it had forced its
way into the Chinnick parlor. Although
! the house front was smashed. none of
the party was injured. Mrs Chinnick
was putting her child to bed in a back
room when the crash came. She opened
| the door into the front room, and was
amazed at the sight of the snorting ma
chine containing her Inannounced call
ers The chauffeur helped the women Ia
alight, and mechanics were at once put
to work on the wreck. but il took until
morning to remove the car. The front
of the house will have to be practically
rebuilt. The black COW which was hit
got broken leg and had to be killed
Many residents of south Amboy. "
j., have armed themselves in anticlna
ton of sudden attack by supposed
/ wild cut. which escaped from a Pennsyl-
yanila freight car. The car contained
| lumber consigned TO the South Amboy
/ Lumber and Supply company. 1t came
10 the company's yards from North
Carolina, and was on the way nearly a
week, A. lumber handlers started to
open the car, they heard scratching
noise inside. and when they opened the
door they saw in the shadow two CLEAN
| ing eyes. None of the men wanted to
enter. Finally Edward Let's hit upon
| the happy expedient Of going to the 9th
or side Of the car and banging il with
| a crowbar The others drew away from
| the door to give the animal a chance
to come out. 1t did 1t proved to be
| a wild eat. or southern lynx. and the
lumber handlers say il was about four
feet long, though its rapid exit from the
| lumber yard may have caused an optical
| deIusi0n ia this respect. 1t was seen
| later IN the day drinking from q spring
near the railroad. Later it took TO the
| wo Ids. The lumber company has of
fercd a reward for the cat dead or
alive.
The Denver city council is working
| upOn an ordinance providing fine 0t
so for every dandclion allowed TO bloom
within the city limits. The city council
of Florence. Colo. has passed an ordi
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