Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-16

chestnut trees of the nation does not at
tack and exterminate the jokes of the
same species.
Football casualties are remarkably nu-
merous while yet the squads are only
half filled and engaged in preliminary
practice. 1t is evident that the game
has the same old dangers, despite the
Opening" it has received by the
changes made in the rules two years
ago.
There will be no popular dissent from
the decision of the acting chief of the
Signal Service to give the Wrjghts fur
Their time for the test of their aeroplane.
The American people are proud Of the
success Of the Dayton boys, and are
sgmpathetically willing to yield the time
that may be necessary to enable them
10 demonstrate the efficiency of their air
ship.
Wilbur Wright's flight of nearly an
hour, at lie Mans, France, with the
wind blowing at the rate of eighteen
miles an hour, is an achievement of far
more significance than his longer fights
during the prevalence of Gains. The di-
rigible balloon has thus far been unable
to stem winds of that strength, and the
aefoplane has demonstrated its superior
ity in this regard.
The Denver man who says the admin
istration's benefcient forestry service is
alt -, 81.
been disappointed in a timber deal OF
some kind. Timber spectators have
been responsible for great deal Of al
most criminal deforestation, and the pol
icy of saving forests on lands which can
not be used for agriculture viii be en-
dorsed by posterity.
To what lengths the insane spirit IF
class rivalry in high schools may go,
when not checked betimes, was illus
trated at Delphi, Indiana, yesterday,
when q member of the senior class shot
a member of the junior class for remov-
ing a flag from the roof of the school,
the double-barreled shotgun used in the
assault being handed to the young man
who used it by one of the senior girls.
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The narrow escape Of two German
army balloonists, whose gasbag burst
when it had reached height of more
than mile should make aeronauts more
particulars as to the character of the
material of which their balloons are
made. There have been comparatively
few accidents Of this particular nature,
but the boom in aeronautics is pushing
balloonmakers TO the utmost, and ma
terial may not be inspected with the
necessary care.
The Chicago school authorities who are
fighting the high school "frats" have
discovered the case of a young girl
whose application for membership in a
sorority was rejected because her mother
was a telegraph operator, and who felt
so hurt when she learned the facts that
she left school. Undoubtedly secret So
eieties in high schools make for snoh-
berry. Undoubtedly the Chicago public
school authorities are right in trying TO
root them out.
The Egyptians worshiped cats The
Japanese respect them. The hospital
authorities of the Mikado's empire say
that the most effective way Of eradicat-
ing the bubonic plague is 70 turn loose as
many cats as can be procured, for they
wage war on rats and chipmunks, the
mediums by which the plague is propa-
gated. II may be that an export de-
mand for cats will soon put price upon
even the common domestic variety in the
Pacific coast cities of the United States.
Something for Americans to put in
their pipes for smoking is found in the
report brought across the Atlantic by a
member of the New York Yachc Club,
that Sir Thomas Lipton's new Shamrock
has won three-fourths of the prizes for
which she sailed during the season now
drawing 70 a close. Instead of causing
opposition TO further racing with Sir
Thomas in the near future, this ought
10 inspire New York yachtsmen with
desire to coax the persistent sportsman
over for another defeat.
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Secretary Metcalf's instructions To
Rear Admiral Sperry relative to the stay
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has gained a foothold, affords evidence
that the authorities of the United States
are alert, and that the march of the
cholera eastward and westward will be
opposed by every sanitary means within
the power of the government. Had Rus
STA been prompt and timely in her pre-
cautions she would not now be fighting
an epidemic in her capital. and Europe
would not be menaced by the cholera.
The announcement that two Homo
lulu physicians claim to have cured a
leper by using formula discovered by
the director of the Imperial Medical
School at Constantinople win cause
general desire that the process, which is
now secret, shall be published to the |
world. In the meantime it should moi
be forgotten that physicians at the |
louisiana home for lepers claim TO have