Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST

The oldest sign of the times in Read
ing, IA, is the divining rod with which
dohn Hartman of this city has located
tluis q mineral deposit in the Berks
hills. and which now indicates Bryan.
precedence over Taft. Hartman passes
the rod over two pieces or paper OF
the hoor, one labeled Bryan and the
other Taft. and it points TO the former
invariably.
Nhile in the vicinity of Diamond
Shoal lghtship the steamer I.isonea,
winch has arrived in Boston. was board
ed Dy living wave, This great sea was
awe with fish IF all kinds which ii had
seooped up and carried along, and i,
deluged the forward deck of the vessel
Win a squirming, shimmering mass.
/ Nhen the sea passed over the sideit left
behind II thousands of fish and the otli-
GERS and the crew saw marvellous
i sight. The crew attacked the mass of
fish With shovels, putting aside food fish
such as cod, hake and pollock. por-
poise { feet long was rolled to the side
and overheard through port which was
openeG
Yes they got it after all ex-
claimed Uncle joe Cannon, as he
gazed ruefully at a light fedora hat in
the corridor of the Bellevue Stratford.
Philadelphia. "Some ole got mine all
| right, he went on. Nope, | don't know
| hat doesn't become me. Does IL now p
he asked as he placed the offending cha
/ peau on his head. do you know" he
| continued, Il had my hat all through
| this campaign. 1t had a way of lifting
| itself off my head whenever | had to
how to an audience. Guess some Demo-
! erat swlped il at one of the meetings
/ last night As he left town Speaker
Cannon said: Il have to go home to fin
| ish up this d-n campaign. | am going
to pitch right into the fight tomorrow"
| People living IN OHIO river villages
are Wild with excitement over the dis
eovery at the government dam at Fern
| Bank of vein of what Is thought to
| be pare gold. Supt William Rathbone
| of the Sheridan-Kirk Contract company,
who Is engaged in building the dam. was
superintending the excavations inside a
cofferdam on the Kentucky side of the
river. when he noticed small lump Of
4 something bright in the pit. Rathbone
! picked up the shiny bit of metal and was
surprised to find that it resembled gold.
After brief search he found several
more of the nuggets and showed them
! to President Sheridan of the contract
company. Sheridan agreed with Rath-
! bone in his belief that the metal was
/
| their belief. Homer Nelson, a laborer,
employed on the works, also found sew
eral small nuggets and had hidden them
| in his tent, but acknowledges the find
when Rathbone's discovery became pub
| lie. Il is impossible to tell at present
whether there is any more of che pre-
cious metal in the pit, but investiga-
| tions will be made to find out. As all
the earth taken out from the pit has
been thrown into the channel of the
| river a great deal of the pocket of gold
may have been lost.
When Mrs. Thomas O'Brien of Ma
| hanoy City, Pa. attempted to drive q
| big rat from a nest of eggs on a poul-
try farm the rodent turned and fought
| savageiy In the battle Mrs. O'Brien
was badly bitten on the hands and had
| to retire. leaving the rat to finish its
feast.
a Chinaman going by the name of
! John Johnson got sassy" in United
States Commissioner Mays court at
Dallas, Tex, and must go back to China
ms Il result United States Attorney At
! wei lasked Johnson How long have
You been in the United States and when
did You cut off your queue?'
Johnson retorted. "Wwhen did you cut
off yours?"
Atwell again asked: How long have
you been in the United States?''
Johnsons contemptuous reply was
"Oh, you makee me tired"'
Then Judge May stopped the proceed
ings and ordered Johnson to be deported
In trying TO put on a refractory collar
Henry G. Hayden, 80 years old. of West
| field Conn, choked himself and died of
an apoplectc shock before physician
could be summoned. He had been Il
well ihan all his life.
a contracting blacksmith of Pitsburg.
| Pa. found large pearl in an oyster.
and Lusky has already refused a $1,000
offer of a Market street ieweler for the
gem, which is more than half an inch in
diameter. Lusky came near swallowing
his treasure; also he came near throwing
it out into the ash pile
Sugar coated strychnine pills. which
older children found upon a shelf and
gave to 2-year-old Margaret Hivner of
Wrightsville, Pa, were so good that the
! child innocently ate enough to partly
destroy their deadliness. Mrs. Olive Hiv.
ner, the child's mother, had left the
room for few minutes, and soon after
her return little Margaret became vio-
! iently ILL., The other children feared pun
| ishnent and it was some time before
they would tell what she had eaten. A
doctor was summoned and her life saved.
| i fraction Of the dose she took would
have killed her instantly.
The New York aquarium has acquired
a sea monster, spotted moray, which
| is d formidable name for Il species Of
eel 1t is eight feet long. as large in
diameter as a fat cat, and resembles an
enormous eel. except that its head. with
a mouth like an undershOt bulldog is
crowned with a ridge Of spikes II came
| from Bermuda. Often the moray has
been taken for a sea serpent by green
fishermen, as it lives near the sr.rface.
and often lies with its head on the rocks,
seeking birds eggs and crabs Supf
Morgan says this moray is not extraordi.
nary large, as they grow to fifteen feet
and often swim with head elevated
above the sea.
William u. Moore of Meriden. Conn.
has written to a PittsbuFg newspaper
telling of the mysterious hiding in the
suburbs Of Paris of 100000 in gold
which was stolen from a wealthy Pitts
burg woman. Moore is confident that he
can show her where TO get her money