Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-09

Charity KIND work.
Last nights shower shows that the
combination by which rain is produced
las not been lost. What little moisture
fell was grateful to the thirsty earth
and now all nature yearns for more.
The harbor master at New York has
graphically denominated the autoboat as
the sea skunk This term is more
picturesque as well as more expressive
then smell buggy" the name some one
has given the automobile.
The fast American motor-boat Dixie,
which recently captured the Harms
worth cup for international racing, has
taken the American championship in the
carnival on the Hudson. She made the
course of thirty miles at the rate of
1896 miles an hour. This is great speed
for little motor-boat.
The Grand Trunk railway is now
operating its Canadian transc0ntinental
line from Winnipeg to Battle River,
distance of 666 miles, and will eventually
reach Edmonton, 334 miles farther on.
Railroad development is conspicuous III
Canada, and it is contributing largely
toward the rapid settlement of a fertile
country.
Surgeon General Wyman's early pre-
cautions in regard to the approach of
the cholera through Russia will quiet
considerable alarm, as the disease could
spread westward quite rapidly along the
routes Of fast transit. 1t may be ex-
pected that quarantine will be estab-
lished at the Atlantic seaports the mo-
ment such measure becomes necessary.
The son Of a Methodist clergyman
was shot seriously by his father while
hunting for deer in the Adirondacks. The
hunters separated after sighting a deer,
and the elder shot ut something moving
in the brush. This is the old, old story Of
the deer woods" which adlnonishes
hunters not to shoot until they are abso-
lutely sure of the character of their
mark.
The Chicago Tribune puts plain
the lovers of fresh fish owe something
10 cold storage, but that when the sys-
TEN takes a whitefsh out of Lake Michi-
gan and holds that fish in reserve a
year and half it is OVERRIDING the bust
ness" Yes, and the same line of argu-
ment would hold good as TO chickens and
as to eggs.
1t is said that investigation for the
United States Geological survey has re-
vealed the fact that the available sup
ply Of iron ore in the deposits thus far
located in Utah aggregates 40,000000
tons. This amount equals one prosper
Gus years shipments down the lakes
from the Lake Superior mines The iron
uncovered in Utah is only patch OF
The area that viii be revealed as pros
pecting continues in the west.
The fatal gasoline explosion Mt Mare
Island navy ward, where two hundred
and fifty gallons of gasoline "let go,
recommends great care wherever the
fluid is in storage for use ON motor boats
and automobiles. More lives would
have been lost at Mare island had not
those who were within the radius OF
the blast promptly jumped overheard
Gasoline is as dangerous as powder
when handled in large quantities.
Galveston has had terrible gull
storm which piled the water up and test.
ed her sea wall and newly-elevated area,
A heavy attendant rain flooded the
streets TO the depth of several inches and
caused many to imagine that the waters
of the galf were again overlooking the
city. But Galveston is now hurricane
proof, so far as inundation is concerned
and the millions she has spent in safe
guarding her people is good invest.
ment.
The man who has grated the tomato
onto the potato and raised crops both
above and below the soil has been out
done by farmer in Pennsylvania, who
is reported to be raising buttered pota-
toes ON a plant produced by crossing
the white potato with the butter bean
But until more is heard from the source
of this story the butter makers should
not worry as to the future of their in
Sustry. Another Mulhattan is now in.
venting startling ''yarnA"
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Should the cruiser Yankee prove 20 be
total loss on the rocks at the entrance
of Buzzards bay the United States navy
viii not suffer in efficiency. The Yankee
is a former merchantmen which was con,
verified to naval uses during the emer.
Eency of 1898, when ships were required
20 blockade Cuban ports. Most of these
ships have since been discarded. and in
the course of short time all will be out
of service except the Gloucester and a
few other converted yachts which can
toe utilized as gunboats.
State Geologist Clarke of New York
reports as the result of recent investiga-
tions that there is not less than GOO oo0,-
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