Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15


| The wreath of tobacco smoke he would
/ nave given forth might have been mis-
taken by Marian astronomers as on-
other ring around the earth Il decided
| z week ago that smoking was plumb
| foolish, the old man told a reporter.
and the longer | 20 without that old
/ lhpe OF mine the more find il is true
| 1t used TO cost me nickel every Mon
| day morning for a new box of matches.
| too. | save that now" Then he re-
| dected, Well, maybe | don't feel so
much better in the body as | said | did,
pqt ! feel better N my mind, anyhow.
Ihey say the mind has a lot 10 do with
the body nowadays, SO | guess sou might
say | feel better in the body"
In compliance with a request which
he had frequently made the body of
Juan lie DioS Tejada was cremated ut
East Orange, \. j.. with an overcoat
he had used twelve years ago to shield
his wife and children from exposure
when they were shipwrecked. The ashes
OF the body and the coat ultimately will
be consigned TO the sea. Mr. Tejada
often said that he valued the overcoat
more than his life and that he wanted
1T cremated with him. He and his fam
lily were sailing from New York for
Santo Domingo when the ship was
wrecked when two days out. Mr.. and
Mrs. Tejada and their four children with
the captain and men to man the boat.
embarked in Il lifeboat so hurriedly that
they took only some biscuits for pro-
visions. They suffered severely from
cold and exposure and the lack of water
and one by one the children died and
their bodies We're consigned to the sea-
The crew also persisted and ON the
seventh day only MIR. and Mrs. Teiada
AID the captain were left, Wrapped in
the overcoat the wife died too and her
body was also east overheard. The
next day sailing vessel picked up the
two survivors. Mr.. Tejada died from
heart disease, from which he had suf-
fered for several years. He frequently
said that as his entire family had been
buried at sea he too wished his ashes
cast into the ocean. Mr.. Teiada was
born III Cuba forty -one years ago and
was mechanical engineer and an in.
ycntor.
The body of white fox terrier dog.
the property of III. Il. kingsland of New
York. reached Long Branch from St
Augustine, Fla, and was buried with
ceremony IN the kingsland dog GENE
terry, near Elberon. The kingsland dog
was sent south last winter for It's health
Upon its arrival at ST Augustine 1t was
treated by specialist. For time il
improved, but finally died The body
of the dog was prepared for burial, and
afterward laid to rest in cedar casket
MIR. kingsland decided to bring the body
of his dog to Long Branch a few weeks
ago. Accordingly the body of the
canine was exhumed. re-embalmed and
shipped to Long Branch. Ii was met in
New York by Mr.. and Mrs. Kingsland.
who accompanied it to the kingsland
estate. where the interment took place.
Already two headstones have been
reared to two dogs which died several
years ago,
One of the passengers ON the White
Star liner Cedric on her last trip 20 New
York was man who completed ON that
passage five round trips. On nine of
the ten voyages he had been violently
seasick and he looked forward To his
return in the stormy season with fear
and trembling until he met at Mentone
| a physician who said he had Il cure for
seasickness. The doctor told the Amer
lean to make no preparation for the
| journey as to diet, but to eat and drink
| nationally. to begin to walk on deck AS
soon as the ship sailed. to be in the air
as much as possible and to take wine
glassful of the medicine, of which hs
gave him liberal quantity, four times
/ daily. The directions were followed
and for the first time the traveller en-,
! joyed an ocean voyage although the
medicine gave out n day before landing
! The same steamer brought Il note from
| the physician to a mutual friend in New
York in which he writes: Il hope --
had good voyage. | gave him some
thing to cure seasckness. Tell him il
was only Mentone water. with just
enough vinegar and yermouth to give
| it taste. If he was sick, it was no good
| if he was not--well, he knows" Now
the man asks, WAS II prevention or
cure?'
Residents Of Hayeock township, near
| Haycock mountain, Pa, in the upper
end of Bucks county, are terr0rized 10y
the periodical appearance of a mysterious
! hermit-like parsonage whose only crime
up TO this time has been vagrancy, hut
whose actions have intimidated women
and children in the isolated farmhouses.
| One day he suddenly appears to the resi-
| dents of one neighborhoOd, and then ne
calls Mt a lonesome farmhouse several
miles distant and asks for something to
eat. Recently he appeared to one lone
woman whose husband only comes home
| once week, and after asking for lunch.
requested TO stay all night. II can't
| give you permission until my husband
comes home" she replied. whereupon the
ibHk-uaiFt1l INDIVIDUAL replied: 'Oh,
know about that. lie only comes home
Saturday nights Constables, it is said.
are afraid to serve warrants, rs it is re-
ported he is an expert with a revolver,
and ii Is impossible 10 organize posses.
Embedded in the soft mud in the bot
tom Of the Mississippi river, about 30
feet below the bed of the river, bridge
crews engaged in sinking huge caissOn
which is 70 form a pier for the support
of the new Chicago x North Western
railroad bridge at Clinton, Ia. found a
huge bowlder, nearly as big as street
car, with a hole drilled in its center
10 a depth of q feet The mystery was
| explained when it was learned that sew
eral years ago North Western engineers
| sounded for bedrock for the proposed
| new bridge and struck what they thought
| to be- the solid rock foundation 30 feet
| below the surface, making a report that
| the bedrock lay at that depth, after Dor
/ ing halfway through the big rock
| Like the proverbial cat, Joseph Sc.
grast, waiter at the Pabst cafe. san
| dusky, seemingly has nine lives. Of
which he spent the fourth at an early
hour the other morning He was bluvu