Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-03-18

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The Illinois Legislature is finding il
easier to get into deep trouble than tt
get deep waterways. 1t is apparent thai
all of the people of that state Cannot
be fooled all of the time.
The fact that storks which spend a
portion of The year in Prussia have been
found in the Transvaal, more than five
thousand miles distant from the Kaiser 5
dominions, may explain the innate trav-
cling propensities of folks III general.
The Illinois Legislature showed good
sense in killing the waterway BILL The
legislature of the nation, when the lakes
to-gulf folly calls for appropriations, will
do well to be minded of the prudent
course of Illinois aud to Ego and do like
wise"
The deficit in the federal government s
receipts during the first eight months
of the current fiscal year has been only
S24, 604750. compared with S6S, 16S, $50
during the corresponding period of the
fiscal year 1909. The country is doing
better than it was.
James A. Patten, notorious for his
gambling speculations in the peoples
food. would have shown better taste and
stronger sense by keeping still than by
rushing into print with the statement
true enough though it be--that "Ameri-
Ga is an extravagant nation"
\ bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature providing that after
the first Of January next there shall be
a penalty Of one dollar for every milk
and cream bottle made, used or sold
which does not show in plain letters how
much it contains. This method of doing
away with the short" bottle swindle is
worthy of imitation in every state in the
Union.
The decision in favor of the adoption
OF standards for asphalt pavement, made
by the convention of city officials which
assembled in Chicago last week, is sup
plemented by determination to subject
all material used for street and sidewalk
work TO chemical test. Durable pave
ments will surely result, if contractors
are held rigidly TO fixed standards, and if
the materials which contractors use are
put TO required tests
Harvard's declination of Yale's chal-
lenge for Yacht race at New Lon
don Mt the time of the annual row
ing race in June has caused Yale to
look elsewhere for an opponent. Sail
ing as a university competitive sport
will he novelty, but why should not
the students perfect themselves in the
art of handling sails and boats? There
is commercial value in the art if it is
carried into business life.
The story from San Francisco that the
United States steamer 4 tennessee took a
weather report from Table Bluff, on the
coast of northern California, when she
was five days out from Honolulu on her
way to the Admiralty islands, and 1880
miles distant from the bluff, establishes
record for wireless telegraphy that
may have a depressing influence on the
market for telegraph wire. 1t also gives
the Weather Bureau a wider zone of in
fiuence than it has ever before served
Even without the recent addition of
che great Cullinan diamond, the jewels
at the command of the Queen of England
would form the vastest and costliest col
lection in the world. From the accounts
of the costumes and ornaments worn by
Queen Alexandra and the Princess OF
Wales at the first court ball of the sea
son, Mt Buckingham Palace last night
it would seem that no woman was ever
more regally attired than was hei
British royal highness at last night.
brilliant function.
The United States navy is conduct
ing series of tests to settle the question
whether depth of water affects the spec,
of ships stcaming through il. Thes
tests probably embrace trials over depth
beyond what is classed as ''Shoal water;
for it is well known that steamers ar
'mpeded when they are passing over shal
lows, by the swirling and suction of tn
water under the bottom. Steamers d
not steer readily under such circum
stances, and sailors explain this by say
ing that the ship smells the bottom
The reported merging Of the Intern,
tional Asbestos Company, the Mort
American Asbestos Company, III
Wyoming Consolidated Asbestos Con
pany, the United States Asbestos & Nil
ing Company, and the Amalgamated a
bestos Company, the last mentioned Co
trolling ninety per cent. of the asbest,
autnuf of Cana ia ought to be treDrO,