Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
Kansas farmers will get seed wheat

NURKEN 1OelCS.
Kansas farmers will get seed wheat
from Turkey.
A steel ship carries one-ffth more
cargo than an iron one.
~ Nail plant at Belfont, Pa, costing
$4,000, sold as Junk for $6,375.
Leipzig, in Germany, sells 10000
tons weight of books in one year.
The kiale, or household fox, is a
favorite pet among Chinese women.
English people drink yearly, on an
average, eight ounces of cocoa head.
Insurance companies will now take
risks for limited amounts on football
players.
Powdered charcoal, if laid thicllly
on burn, almost instantly allays
the pain.
Henry Labouchere, M. p, editor of
Truth, completed the Goth year Of his
life recently.
Buffaloes are found at the height
of $4,000 feet on the African mount
Over $1,OOO,OOO worth Of diamonds
are stolen every year from the South
African diamond mines.
More than half of the 81, 921 900 gold
imported into this country during
March came from Canada.
The Indian name Of the Charles
river at Boston was Mis-sha-um,
which meant great highway.
Thirteen million cubic yards of
earth were removed in making the
canal across the isthmus Of Corinth.
Three hundred Negroes from va
rious parts of the south will leave
Birmin CHAM, Ala, in January for Lii
IBERIA.
New Scotland Yard is the largest
police station in the world. 1t is
capable of accommodating 5000 police
officers.
According to Mint Director Rob-
erts' estimate, the output of gold for
1901 will exceed $1,OOO,00O day,
1865, 100000 for the year.
Switzerland complains that the
cheese trade is a little dull, and yet
during 1899 that country exported
$S,O0O,0OO worth of cheese.
The king of Siam owns an army
corps of 500 elephants, all well
trained for military purposes and
under command of a general.
Watches are tested as to correct
ness of time in heat and cold, eight
hours at 40 degrees Fahrenheit and
eight hours at freezing point.
r. j. Reynolds, has given $4,000,
half the sum needed, for the con-
struction and operation of a Negro
hospital at Winston-Salem, n. C.
The American District Telegraph
Co., of New York, will put in little
telephones at it's call boxes, and thus
have telephone company of it's own.
Moscow has the largest hospital in
Europe. with 1000 beds. There are 96
physicians and 900 nurses, and about
$1,000 patients are cared for annually.
The greatest steel structure in the
world, so far as railroad work is con-
cerned, is just about completed in
Pennsylvania. 1t is the wonderful
bridge of the Erie railroad across the
Kinzua valley in Mexican county.
The bishop of Chester Or. Jayne)
has issued letter on licensing re-
form, urging the adoption OF the
method of placing the public house
in public hands, that it may be man
aged as public trust with a single
eye to the public welfare.
The Siberian railway will cross al
together thirty miles of bridges, and
of these the line to Irkutsk required
large number, including such i'm
portant ones as those over the Irtysh
at Omsk, 700 yards; over the Yenis-
sci at Mimi Udinsll, $50 yards.
The common hen lays about 500 or
600 eggs in 10 years. In the first
year the number is only from 10 to
70; in the second, third and fourth
years from 100 to 1875 each, and there
after it rapidly diminishes. In the
tenth year the ordinary hen lays but
10 to IL eggs.
A Boston China house received
two interesting orders recently One
was from Cecil Rhodes, to be- sent
to his residence in Cape Town, South
Africa, and the other was from
Mrs Rudyard Kipling, to be sent to