Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-11-04
WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN,.
WATERFOWL, WIS.
e Curious CONVERSATIONS. .es

No circle can be squared, because
3.1416, which is the ratio of the circum-
ference to the diameter. is not square.
The forty-ive national banks of New
York city hold from 0O,OOO,OOO to
$500, 100000 deposits of other banks.
Already this year America has
shipped $4,000 tons Of agricultural ilnple-
nenIs into Russia.
Over 100000 pieces Of mail mat
ter, covering $4S,64 in money and ST.
493, 900 checks and drafts, reached the
dead-lette1 office during the year.
The number of insane in California
in 1860 was 1 to 1000, and in 1870 to
800. At present the registered insane
number 1 to 269 of the general popula-
ton.
The Atlantic Transport line recently
had four similar ships built-two in Bel
fast and two in Philadelphia. The Amer
lean built ships cost 81 1915 600, while the
Belfast ones cost 81 100000
The third of the manufacturing estab-
lishments in Indiana which are incorpor-
ated pay an average wage of S2.43 to
skilled labor. $1.33 to unskilled, II cents
to boys and 50 cents to women and girls
With $50 pounds of smokeIess pow
der the new 40-caliber, 12-inch gun will
send an S50-pound armor-piercing shell
through 10 $40 inches of Harveyized
nickel steel armor at distance Of a
mile and half.
In the opinion Of the editor Of The
Mirror, a paper printed in English in
British India, American womanhood is
admirably the finest, the very best, ply
sically and intellectually, of all the wom-
anhood of the world
-Indisputable evidence that the Eng
lish race has deteriorated seriously in
physique is found in comparison of the
measurements of the men selected for the
army in ten years, as shown by the re-
port of the director general.
The Canadian Pacific railway sold
uast year from its subsidy land nearly
than 81 an acre. In the previous year it
sold less than 100000 acres az a price
averaging little over SD an acre.
The coal-handling machinery at a
Boston wharf recently lowered the
worlds record by raising coal from a
steamer 80 feet to storage pockets at
the rate of $40 tons an hour. The ca
pacity of the shovel was two tons.
In sixty years the annual per capita
consumption of whisky has gradually de-
creased from two and a half to one and
a fourth gallons. In forty years the con-
sumption of beer has increased from less
than two to more than seventeen gal
Ions per capita.
The authorized capitalization of
street car lines IN the United States in
1902 amounted to $3.50, 629,316, while
the gross earnings from operations We're
$247 ,553, 999. and the net income, after
deducting all expenses, both operating
and fixed charges, was $3O,695,917.
Grants by the British and Foreign
Bible society to DR.. Morrison and his
assistants for producing the first Chinese
Bible totaled $4,000, while to DR.. Will
liam Carey and his associates in the
various Serampore versions the grants
Of money and material exceeded $4,000.
In four lines-cotton goods, kerosene
lumber and hOur-American goods will
be met in Manchuria. Russia has every
advantage in -four and lumber and will
soon be our most active rival in these
lines in the general trade Of China
Kerosene Russia can produce cheaper
and sell cheaper. although the product is
inferior in quality, but this is not so
serious a drawback for the Chinese
trade. In cotton goods, while her trade
is growing, it is handicapped by inabili-
ty to meet American prices.