Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST

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The Missouri state board of agrical-
ture has written to Ernest KellerstraxS.
the poultry fancier asking him for 4
portrait of Peg, the famous $1,000 hen.
ihls portrait is to be hung in the Mis-
souri, agricultural college Peg is the
| 3el Anne. Paderewski recently offered
hellerStrass $1,000 for, which nrice IL
refused, but sold her five chickens
Matched from her eggs for $500 apiece.
heileFstraSs Is now looking for por-
"a" painter who can properly handle
artist. ''>o"''
magistrate Frank ]. Brady of Fits
oHrg' has held Julia Kahn in $500 hail
"a await the result of the Injuries NJ
Joseph Johnston, whom she shot in Tho
right foot. Mrs. Kain owns a pooJle
a1d Mrs. Matte Williams bulldn,
ne other night the poodle rushed NJ
,ne bulldog and the bulldog caught the
poodle 10y the nose. Mrs. Kahn baord
her pet yelping. and when he was 80 NV
ny trounced she got revolver and tr,.d
three times. The first shot missed. tbe
! SECOND entered the body of the suffnrincy
uoS' ana the third struck Johnston.
After having unsucceSsfully attemutad
| 70 use the strength of the ocean tide and
a"ui teams OF horses TO remove the de-
~ is pody OF an enormous whale that
n"u washed up ON the beach in front ~
ine city hail at Seaside. Ore, Marshal
| i;ihSiey tried dynamite. Instead "f
oioWIng the great bulk out to sea Tho
explosion distributed the carcass over
Iae city and in the end the offensive
pieces OF flesh We're buried piecemeal
ohe large piece of the corpse fell ON the
sa.att \
chimney and rear of building and scot.
tered II all over the yard
Miss Nettie Parsons of Pittsburg.
VINO Is visiting relatives near parker7s
4 1leu. Pike county, Pa, caught twenty
i aouI weighing over half pound apiece
III me brook which runs through her
aunts place. Miss Parsons accidentally
i dropped 4 little yellow and white cot
1 ton Easter chick in the brook while
crossing bridge. The water there Is
sun The chick hadn't been on the sur
| Iace second before trout leaped out
ot the water and the cotton chick had
disappeared. Miss Parsons went 70 tbe
houSe and returned with rod. reel and
me, and baited her hook with one OF
tle lhch-long cotton chicks. Every imi-
talon chick got bite and every bite
| booked trout which was landed by
| Miss Parsons.
Larger than any clock in the world
IS ,he one which arrived in New York
city from waterbury, Conn. to be placed
IN the tower of the Colgate building at
Hudson and Grand streets. The min
ute hand, which is 20 feet long and
weighs one-third of a ton, and the hour
hand, which Is II feet long, occupying
4 Hat ear The works are coming In n
boy car. The dial is already in place
The clock weights. which will he sus-
pended in an elevator shaft in the Col
gate building, weigh more than a ton.
The dial OF the clock is 40 feet in diam
eter, surprising by Is feet the diam
eter of the dial of the second largest
clock in the world-that on the philn-
Idelphia City Hall-and almost doubling
the diameter of the third largest clock,
big Ben, in the clock tower of the
House Of Parliament, in London.
Dean Gessner of ST. Patrick's church,
Elizabeth. y. j.. went through the
4 church hall while big euchre party was
IN progress last night and requested all
!, Nonlen Ill short sleeved garments ID
leave. Several women and their escorts
had left the hall ut the deans request.
| when sick call came in for the priest.
He had to hurry away without com.
plotting his task.
Surgeons in Johns Hopkins hospital.
ut Baltimore. during an autopsy on the
body of Judge John T.. Religion of
st. Louis, were astonished to discover
that instead Of the internal organs he
ing arranged III the usual way. they
were scattered about in almost unbelev-
able ways. The judges heart was
turned in 4 position the reverse Of
normal. his kidneys were united by a
ligament in the shape of horseshoe.
and the liver was upside down, with
the gall bladder on top Many of the
smaller organs were chaos of en-
tangling cords and fatty substances.
How Judge Mckeighon lived with such
strange transpositon OF che organs
puzzles surgeons The judge lived to be
66 years old. and was considered one
Of the ablest lawyers OF st. Louis.
The library steward of the White
Star liner Republic prides himself on
being too wise for practical jokes. but
on the ships last trip his shipmates en-
tered into Il conspiracy 10 make him n
victim, and the chance came at Palermo
where the librarian bought some cana
ries. The plotters placed a sugar-coated
almond in the cage and the steward was
delighted, thinking 1t an egg. This
made the i0kers keener TO keep up the
fun. After leaving Palermo no more
>
barber shaped eggs out of soap and one
each day was placed in the cage until
four appeared TO have been laid. The
librarian installed an electric heater in
his berth to keep them at the right tenn
perature. Looking into the nest II few
mornings later he found the cock canary
eating the sugar and almond. His as
constituent was great when he cut into
the other Easter emblems and found
them made of soap. The staff and even
the passengers bad been watching for
the denouement. He who had always
been proof against tricks finally laughed
with the rest and admitted that he had
got his at last.
a merry widow hat saved a puppy's
life near Port Jervis, \. T.. the other
afternoon. Miss Gillette Of Newark,
guest OF friends at Sparrowbush, \. Y,
La western suburb. dropped the pup into
the Della ware river. The current carried
il downstream to a rock, upon which the
dog crawed Miss Gillette took Der hat
off removed it's trimmings. and tying a
strong string TO the brim let il font down
fB The rock Then ghp C0aYpd the MILDLY