Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27
NOTES OF INTEREST

AA"ih LAY 10 udN some article OF Wearlns
! apparel, such rs lingerie, gloves. hand
kerchiets. hosiery, wells OF slippers A,
each article is deposited the girl, sighin.
softly, hopes that within year he
| VIII pop the question and her fondest
dreams be realized. Two girls one in
Aorth college avenue, and the other il
Walnut street started hope boxes" a
Few days ago, and already have received
proposals of marriage One of them, il
| Is sand. accepted immediately and the
other promised an answer in Il few DAYS
Another society girl started hope
box, and before she got il half filled re-
celNed letter from young man matri.
mohlaHy inclined As a consequence her
srl friends are all in tlutter of excite
meht over the pretty romance.
T. h. Creigg, aged A. fell from a fish,
sss schooner opposite Pensacola, Fla.
| and when his comrades lowered \ hoat
anu neared him they saw a shark seize
ana drag Gregg out of sight. saw the
water redden as the body was torn and
made affidavit To support their state
ment that the shark devoured him. This
Is the first time in twenty years a shark
| Is known to have attacked a human be-
ing in Pensacola bay.
Several weeks ago a bear roamed into
Fort Plain, in the Mohawk valley \,
&. town of 400 people, and was killed
within mile of the poStotiice The 9th.
er day another bear was captured alive
/ by Emil Rehill, "A House of Representa-
lves door keeper who is spending his
vacation at Fort Plain. Rebil and his
| wlfe were driving about a mile from the
| village when the bear appeared in the
roadway, greatly frightening their horse.
Reblll attacked the bear and finely Sc
cured him with halter, dragging il
into town from the rear of the wagon.
while Mrs. Rebill did the driving. Re
| blll says he will take the bear back to
| Washington with him.
Sitting in the shade of a tree outside
| Mongenland church. in Lonhill township.
near Allentown, Pa, was John Keinert.
/ the oldest tramp in the world. He would
not enter, but preferred to sit outside
and listen to the sermon and the music,
which he could hear quite wen. despite
! the fact that he is 100 years and q
months old. After the service was over
"0ld John arose and walked away with
n swinging gait.
"Old John" keinert has an interesting
| history, and rs tramp by preferences
! Over seventy-tye years ago he came
! from Germany and settled i'll ST. Louis
where for half a century he was r,-
spected citizen, being engaged in vari-
GUS business pursuits. He raised a large
/ family, and now has twelve sons in ST
Louis and a daughter in Philadelphia
all of whom are well-t0-do. Any of
| them would be glad to have the old man
/ live with them but since he became a
| tramp any four walls make prison for
| him.
| Despite his great age, Keinert says he
can average twelves miles day on his
/ travels. His sight and hearing are good
! Ia fss IrtA md 4,
/ ages to beg enough ON Saturday to carry
him over Sunday, for he will not beg on
| Sunday He is "on the road" all through
! the summer and usually manages to FIND
a berth in some almshOuse each winter
| He is well known in this section and q
number of persons familiar with hi,
history vouch for his age He has 8
! brother now living who is lOl years and
3 months old.
After thirty years as IA Commercial
traveller Thomas Il. Creede of Eas
! Orange, n. j., who is about to retire
says he is convinced that 80 per cent
Of the people he has met are homes
enough to have passed muster with Dio
genes.
u was in Omaha n year ago, sale
! Creede by way of illustration, land
stopped at the Paxton hotel Just be
fore leaving | went to the cashiers desb
and asked to have a So bin changed
! Just then a friend came up and | walked
| off without my change.
Two weeks ago, when went into tn,
! Paxton hotel again, the young woman
cashier saw me, aud, calling me to the
! desk, said she had So which | had left
| behind the last time | was in the no
tel. She had locked the money up, wait
! ing for me to return
A sleepy little kitten held up the Peril
| Amboy IN j. local for about five min
! Ites a few hundred yards south of the
station of the Pennsylvania railroad
The tracks enter Elizabeth from the
south in ii wide curve, and the engineer
| looking out of his cab, saw a dark spot
on the rail as he started to slow up
He made it out to be kitten, curled NJ
| Oh the rail. and he stopped his engine
few feet from it, The fireman gOt
out and picked the kitten mp. { was
fast asleep. Passengers cranlng then
| necks out of the windows, saw the fire
man turn the kitten over to the cOnduc
tor, who told the story, The womer
passengers made simultaneous quest
for the animal and one offered a dollar
The other raised her to two, and they
bid against each other until the kittel
was passed over for 50 bill, which
the conductor handed to the engineer
Coming over on an ocean liner an ole
lady complained to the captain that sh'
had seen a rat in her stateroom. 'keeI
it there, madam" said the captain
Why. do you like ratsW asked the Ole
lady. well, madam, I've got "A nes
in my cabin was the answer. "an'
though I'm not supersttiuus, when th'
rats leave the ship l do
4 13-year-old son Of S. f. Webb o
| Wichita. Kan, will, after being suitabl!
nOurished and strengthened as much a
possible for the ordeal. undergo n sur
gcal operation for the removal of
single nail that has been lmbedded II
his right lung for six years Seyera
physicians said they could DO NOTHING
for the lad because they did not know
what allied him. and others diagnosed
the case as consumption. 4 few day
ago an X-ray photograph was made il
the hopes that the trouble might be 10
Gated, and the picture developed a darl
object about ] inch long in the lowe
part Of the lung. A little more thai
six years ago the boy in jumping f
reach an object above his head swaI
lowed a shingle nail he had in his mouth
He choked and coughed badly, but sooi
got over it, and the father believed Tia
nail had found its way to the stomach
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