Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-21

.
gE1 6s5ATzze>
GRADES I ya52E cogNcILp
~M7rW 500
AS was TO be expected, the men WHO
murdered King Carlos and Prince Loliz
Philippe united the public sentiment of
Portugal in favor of conservatism. The
worst of all ways to try to iiberalize a
government is to begin by committing
murder.
Quite number of people can't help
laughing when they think of those con-
fdent declarations reiterated as recently
as fortnight ago, that the climate OF
the United States had undergone a
change, and there would be no more Wig
crous winters.
The silence of the newspapers in re-
gard to the progress of Rear Admiral
Evans fleet is due to the fact that the
warships are now beyond the range of
wireless telegraphy. When this meth
cd of communication becomes universal,
there will be no such hiatus in advices
from peaceful or warlike expeditions.
The tremendous development of the
small internal combustion engine is re-
yealed in the contract which has been
N,.r.I~ han brill for
the delivery of a motor-boat thirty nine
feet long with guaranteed speed OF
thirty-one miles an hour. The little
craft viii be able to run away from the
big turbine liners.
a fusilade with revolvers among row.
dies gathered at Memphis to witness the
sailing of an airship illustrated the vul-
uerability of such craft. The gasbag
was punctured by flying bullets and
made temporarily worthless Airships
for war service which depend upon gas
bags can he winged by marksmen if
they sail over camps within rifle range
Contention as to the enforcement of
the pure food regulations is revealing
heretofore known. Importers of rice are
complaining because the officers compel
them to note on the bags the fact that
the grain is coated with tale and glucose
to preserve it. Hereafter Iice thus coated
must be marked: Rice coated with tale
and glucose, wash before using" What
neXt2
The Presidents recommendation of the
proposition to establish a pension system
for the members of the United States
life-saying service will have the support
of everybody who has noted the work
of the hardy men who patrol the coasts
and hold themselves in readiness to sue
cor imperilled seamen. The pay of the
life-savers is small, and they are liable
at any time to lose their lives in at
tempts to rescue shpwrecked sailors.
The Navy Department will soon try
the experiment of shipping two subma-
rine boats to the Pacific ocean on the
decks of golfers, to give assurance to
patriots that in emergencies the diving
craft can be hurried to the scenes of oper-
atoms. When the Panama canal is COM
peted the little divers can so to the Pa
cific son their own hook" as it has been
demonstrated that they can make COM
paratively long voyages from bases of
fuel supplies.
Muskrats are said to have become a
serious menace to the new Hennepin
canal They honeycomb the banks when
ever the water drops two feet below the
top of the bank, and when the level OF
the water is again raised there is dis
astrous leakage to surrounding property
As the muskrat's pelt is thing of val
ne, mere announcement of the presence
eff the animals in such numbers as to
fndanger a canal ought TO bring relief in
ne form of trapperg.
Immigration int the United Stc',, IN
December, 1907, fell rwsy to tSJ,574,
which was 1892 be!c.y &, -eeord of
December, 1906, but the totG' * arrivals
of aliens for the year 1907 was the high
est in history $50, 1G6, compared with
l,2l5,6S4 in 1906. The retrograde
movement of immigrants from America
to their foreign homes was also. as is
well known, larger than ever before
but exact statistics ON this subject have
not yet been compiled.
The battleship feet has reached Punta
Arenas, hsi9 way through the Straits
of Mage,lan, and is there preparing 70,
the northward run along the Pacific
coast of South America. The ships are
demonstrating their ability to serve as
world-girdlers. and there will probably
be no mishap during the entire voyag,
due in the slightest degree to unsea.
worthiness. This is worthy of remark
in view of the tremendous weights which
battleships carry on their upper decks.
The statement that if the large tract
IN Door County indicated by The State
Park Commission should be chosen MS q
mark PpSprCatior, Win