Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-10

NOTES OF INTEREST.
| Although the police of the eastern dis
trict an Fail River. Mass. have received
aIlhe>t all sorts eft breezy complaints.
from The carrying Oft of stationary en-
glhes 10 the kidnapping of "a herd of COWS.
| the] were just a little aStouished a day
u IN" az" when a man rushed into the
Sutton house AND complained thar most
oi house which he had been engaged
~ tearing down had been stolen between
snuHet of the night before aud the ar
rival OF ms WurEmCn on the following
morning Investigation showed that the
complainant and his men had detached
ihfee sections of Il good sized building
IN the Flint section. leaving the fourth
ana last section standing on the founda-
Don When the workmcn arrived the
next morning not Il veStige of the mate
rlai that had been looSeucd from the
Foundation remained.
Mrs. r. y. rilliughasI. wife of Il pros
| porous farmer living two miles outside
| OF Greeuport, y. Y, was attacked by a
/ COW the other day. She was knocked
/ down and WAS being trampled upon
when her pet dog came To the res
leue, He sprang at the COWS throat,
/ where he held on until the animal ran
away with him. The injured woman
| VIII recover
Lemuel Starkweather who conducts
4 summer boarding house in North Cald-
We'll \. j.. has solved the problem of
keeping his lawn trimmed and entertain
ing the summer sojourners 10y perfecting
q combination lawn mower and music
1 box, says the Buffalo News. The story
/ 81 TIE invention came out when the own
1 er took the machine to blacksmith shop
/ e. have it Sharpened for the third time
IN two weeks. Up to a few weeks ago the
] StarkWeather lawn was uulempt and
/ the boarders suffered from ennui in the
quiet evenings, as the only music the
house afforded was from Il parlur or
/ gan. Mr.. StarkWeather. who is ingc-
nous. adapted the mechanism Of "A music
| box to the lawn mower, and the men
/ hoarderS, us well as two women WISH
/ tors, became eager TO take turns at run
! ming the contrivance up aud down the
| lawn in the cool of the evening. The
neighbOrS soon learned of the, harmn-
NOUS lawn mower and wanted to Dor
1 row it. The demand became so great
! that Mr.. Starkweather says he now
| charges a fee for its use. With the mon.
| ey thus derived he expects to purchase
several new records that will bring the
machine up Ia date in musical way.
Cam a hen be fooled 10y q trick Of the
/ Imagination into laying three eggs in
| stead Of one every twenty-four hours 2
/ This is the question which several farm
| ers near Ringtown, Pa, propose to test,
/ 1euS are to be kept in absolute darkness
tor several hours to represent the night,
then brilliant electric light is to he
turned on at intervals to represent day.
! light. Chicken fanciers declare that
hens carry large numbers of embryo
i eggs, which are never laid because of
the long established habit of laying but
one every day. They theorize that If
this habit can be broken up and the
hens given additional nutriment the sup
Ipy OF eggs can he greatly increased,
The Virginia supreme court of ap-
peaI>, now sitting AT Wythevllla. va.
has refused Il writ of error in the ease of
the Richmond Traction company and
William Northrup and Henry T. Wick
ham. receivers. against Edith Austin
! Martin. thus setting a specific value
uroh human toes, The litigaticn is the
lresult of an accident which occurred
two years ago when Edith Martin, then
10 baby OF 4 years, was run over by .
street car, losing all the toes from one
hsaf and the great toe from the other.
\ jury IN the circuit court awarded the
child a verdict of $500 and the refusal
ot the appellate court TO grant a writ of
error means that this quotation #
S4l66i per human toe will stand.
Il. X. Gentry while digging well ON
his claim, eight miles south of Tucmr
earl. III Quay county, n. NJ, eNcavatcd
| Il genuine diamond IN bucket of dirt
which he took from the well. Ills -
lear-old daughter. who was playing HtaT
the well. discovered the span kler when
the dirt was dumped from the bucket.
Mr. Gentry sent the stone To ST. Louis
Jewaler. who pronounced it genuine and
offered him $500 for il. -Four carat aui
"a half diamonds Were cut from it,
Declaring that he had been tcatcn
upon the head and face with a human
Skull. James Hesshan appeurcd before
Mayor kniffeu in Wilkes Barre, Pa, and
Iuaue complaint against Frank Cnrp1L
WhDm he charged with assault CarpHl
haG found the skull in the cellar Of the
Ioid courthouse which is being torn down.
II was the skull of some forgotten muir
dered man and was once uspl in trial
tarpal decided to take It home. On the
way he and llcSshan quarreled and he
used the skull rs weapon. Finding
each man at fault the mayor IiSmi sscd
/ tlt case.
Clinging To the step of yestilulc
coach while his train was going sixty
mile clip through LnheId, Edwin II.
Price. E pottstown. Pa, planning mill
proprietor. Was almost exhausted when
the engineer of a Reading railway eN-
press, looking back. noticed his perilou7
position. The train was stopped and n
brakeman rescued him. Mr.. Price had
boarded the car soon after it had started.
and while he was trying TO summon the
brakeman to unlock the vestibule door
the train got going so fast that he was
afraid to jump off a coal train nearly
brushed him off AT one stage Of his rl,
citing fivemie ride.
\ difficult undertaking aud one which
required the work Of SIX men for nearly
two weeks was recently accomplished in
California, when two thirty-fOot palms
wer@ moved from the abandoned resi-
dence Of II. +. Huntington, on the tor
Of Mob Hill, San Francisco. and trans
ported a distance Of 800 miles to his new
residence at Los R0blcs, near San Ga
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