Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST

| There is n bitterly disappointed thief
| in Alton, ILL.,. this Christmas, because
| twenty-four shoes he stole from the Chi
cago * Alton starion are all made for
the left fooJ and each is of a different
size. On reporting the theft to the police
| the salesman TO whom the shoes belonged
declared he would willingly give the price
of the goods for the privilege of seeing
| the thief'S face when he tries some OF
those shoes on his right foot.
| The highest priced sandals that have
ever been made, it is believed. have iusf
been completed by Lynn, Mass. shoe
firm for the use of a Boston Masonic
lodge in ritualistic work.
The sandals are valued at $500 and
are marvels IN the art of shoemaking. In
shape they are like the ordinary sandals,
but they are made entirely of gold leaf,
hundreds of thousands and probably mil
lions of pieces of gold leaf going into
the making.
Gold leaf was used TO make them as
pliahle as possible. The buckles are of
solid gold The sandals weigh little
less than punches each.
Goetlieb Graul was 1906 years old
Christmas day Mrs Minnie Marks,
who also resides in Cincinnati, was 102,
Each celebrated the anniversary by re-
cetving friends and attending. dinner.
I'm getting too old This will be my
last Christmas" said Mr. Grau at the
Altenheim. He was up at Z o'clock in
the morning and received as a present
cake set with 100 candles.
Mrs. Marks predicted that she would
see twenty-three more Christmas days.
She has five children living and is in
good health.
Jackson Silly. 30 years old. promi-
nent resident of West Eliza beth, near
Pittsburg, while trying to escape the
eyes OF the younger members of the
family ari hide Christmas presents, fell
down stairs and broke his neck. He
had hidden the presents SO successfully.
however, that they have not been
found yet.
Priceless pig case is the title that
has been given an unusual legal action
that has been in the Rush county und.)
courts for considerable time. Twice
the ease has been tried, aud both times
the jury has disagreed.
The costs of the action have already
been run to $500, while a third trial is
pending, and the value of the property
in question, pig. was never placed at
more than 10 cents,
The pig weighed 20 pounds when the
suit was first begun between William
Ewing. white, and Almond Watkins, Il
negro.
Ewing claims the pig is his, and that
il strayed from his farm TO that of Wat
kins, On the other nand, Watkins claims
he bought the pig at public sale FOR
70 cents
The case was first tried in the court of
a justice of the peace, and then taken
TO the circuit court.
"If the brethren have no objections, j
would rather not take these five double
eagles. They are new money and very
pretty. but lack the sacred motto which
my mother taught me TO look for on all
of our country's coins.
With this little speech Rev. w. A.
Jones, pastor of the Knoxville Presby-
terian church of Pittsburg, turned back
to the DONORS 500 of $500 purse his
congregation had given him as n Christ
mas resent
! The purse was made up in gold, and
| the five Objectionable $50 pieces happened
to be of the new issue, which does not
bear the I'm God We Trust" motto. The
! trustees, who had presented the purse,
took back the money and will exchange
| 1t for gold coin OF the old issue.
A Christmas gift of peek at his face
lunshrouded by whiskers for the first time
| in fifty-three years was the donation of
Martin Overs of Lodi, o., to his wife
and grown children. lie had the whisl-
ers, 3D. feet long, in which he had dis
played great pride for years, shaved off
and went home with great muller
wrapped about his cOuntenance to guard
against the cold. Mrs. Overs, though
she had united with her sons and daugh-
ter in bcseeching her 70-year-old husband
| TO bare his face that she and their chill
| dren might see it for the first time, al
most collapsed from fright as he strobe
| into the house. She did not recognize
| him till he spoke.
"Well, don't you like me, uowI' he
asked il his gruif voice.
Overs shaved for two years as a youth,
but no razor had touched his cheek since
he was II years old. The whiskers COW
cred his face when he met, woocd, and
won his wife. She often expressed u
| curiosity to see his face in the curly
days, but later, realizing his pride in
| the hirsute adornment, the marvel or the
village, she ceased her beseeching Their
children were born and reared, two were
married and brought "a new son aud a
new daughter to the family, and still
Overs face never had been seen. They
joined in teasing plea to him to bare
his chin, and after ten days of this
he capitulated. Neighbors did not know
him in the street. His cheek. though he
is 20, is smooth and fair as young
mans. incongruous with his white hair
and bent form.
Frank Warner, one of the largest men
| in Missouri, was married at Montgomery.
| Mo, 30 Miss Susie Profit Warner is
considerably over g feet tall, and while
he weighs 300 pounds is not fat man
| by any means. lie comes Of a large
| family, the four members Of which weigh
| 1900 pounds. As the mother detracts
| somewhat from the average, IL viii be
seen that Warmers father aud brother
are even larger than he
DIR. William ID. Gentry OF Chicago
has looked at his watch again, aud de-
cided that the world is not coming TO
| an end until next year. at the enriest.
| Until he looked az his watch the last
| time, be mad dreadful pfemonitions that
| something was going 20 happen to the
| whole race Of man because a larger
| proportion Of them were not his follow
| ers. but he was afraid that the world
would not make good on the destruesi4n
| plan, SO he has put it off. He mentions
! January as the day when something