Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-13
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Before they had finished their supper
Frederick II. Wetmore and David H
Roberts, two well known residents of
Ansonia, Conn, fell from their chairs
aud expired. The men had been together
during the afternoon and seemed to be
in the best Of health They We're each
more thai. 10 years old.
Thomas Cat. his good wife Maria. and
all the little cats will have to take ont
licenses if they remain in Passaic. n. J.
The Monday Afternoon club, composed
OF worthy men and women whose sum-
berS have been shattered by back yard
oratoros, have prepared an ordinance
providing that every cat shall wear a
municipal medal.
There are more cats in Passaic than
IN any other city in the country" said
one of the members. ''Two-thirds of the
people sleep with rocks or bootiacks in
their hands and everybody is in the last
stages of insomnia
Passaic pussies are justly indignant
over the attempt to class them with dogs.
Indignation meetings were held ON every
back fence the other night.
They're not going to have this thing
all their own way" said black cat
I've lodged too many bricks to let
them bluff me. Where would | get
money to buy licenses for my 700 chill
L
ing to get one for myself"
The telephones have been removed
from the midshipmen's quarters at the
Naval academy at Annapolis, Md, be-
cause young women call them up so
frequently.
Because he cut scriptural passages
ON the windows of his boarding place
with diamond-pointed instrument
Evangelist Layfeld, who has just closed
meetings at Neponset, H., will be sent
bill for new panes by Mrs. Morse,
his landlady The evangelist sought
permission to cut passages on the post
office windows, but was refused by
Postmaster Carpenter. Mrs. Morse pro-
tested against the damage to her prop
erty, but the evangelist insisted he had
done good.
Forty young women of the First Bap-
fist church. East st. Louis, have re-
FUSED TO contribute to the salary of their
new pastor, Rev Liston d. Bass. )e
cause he said it is not proper for girls
TO work in offices or public places where
they are brought into contact with men
and that the bride should go to the altar
unkissed.
Through constant counting of nickcls
Miss Mabel Heating, 10 years old, as
slstant treasurer in a Broadway, New
York, variety theate became almost
totally blind. She is under treatment in
me Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital In
the last year many thousands of dollars
IN small coin have passed through Miss
heating's hands. Until a week ago she
did not notice any i'll effects. Then she
was stricken blind for a few minutes
She worked most of the time under an
electric light.
One of the best known professional
beauties of Paris succeeded in creating
a sensation in the Boulevard Hauss-
mann by means of a tiny poodle. This
was not due to the fact that the latter's
collar was ornamented with a score of
golden coins, nor TO the fur coat with a
pocket from which a small lace handker-
chief was visible, nor to the india-rubber
shoes the dog wore, but to two pairs of
diamond earrings tina, glittered, one at
the top and the other at the end of the
poodle's ears.
Leap year is stern reality to C. w.
Terry. president of the State and Trust
bank at Edwardsville, Iii. Six bona fide
proposals of marriage have been made
to him by as many girls. Mr.. Terry,
who also is attorney for the Mckinley
syndicate and is good-looking and we'll
to-do, was selected as the object of the
unattached affections of the group. and
each girl wrote a letter calculated to
stir his heart. Terry's professional in
stinct asserting itself, he asked for a
continuance, and was given until the
next meeting of the girls club to reply
de then sent poem, which concluded:
And think can say
That two weeks from today
I'll tFy TO make harpy lass
I'll announce my selection
OF candid perfection
And apply for the benedicts class
Now the girls are wondering whether
he really will do t,
Rather than pay the fine imposed upon
him for violating the compulsory school
attendance law by not sending his child
to school. Christian Hartner of Plum
stead Pa. is going to the Pucks county
Jail to serve two days. When arrested
he declared he never would pay the fine.
When told by the justice that he would
have TO 20 to jail if he did not. Hartner
exclaimed: "All right. IN go to Jail,
but you'll never get the money for such
a fool law, and when l get out IN move
out of the state
\ bevy of fayorites in the younger
society set at Springfield Mass. is
greatly discounted hy the knowledge that
an vaudeville entertainment in the Wopl-
ans club building was witnessed by two
men disguised as women The intruderS
who live IN Long Meadow and belong
to the man about town class, have been
stricken from the calling list OF every
participant in the affair. The costumes
of the young women. it is stated, were
the pink of propriety though unfamif-
iarity with the fine points of masculine
attire led some of the characters to ap-
pear in suits that we've either too rooms
or snug TO the point of bursting. An in
cident not on the programme caused the
youths 20 flee. The mastery perform
ance of The Whirlwind JuggierS" was
initiated by fair clowns, who introduced
lemons instead of the regulation spheres.
aud finally in disdain threw the fruit
into the audience The first lemon
brought up agains. the nose of the "by
jove' youth. and the next struck his
companion. The masqueraders then ss-
capped.
Edward Spendlove, timber expert OF
st. John, New Brunswick, while making