Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-25
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

A ready speaker will utter about
1900 words an hour in making an adj
dress
large Baptist church st Santa
Rosa, Cal, was built from the wood Of
a single California redwood tree.
Fireworks were originated in the
thirteenth century by the Florentines,
and later were popularized in Rome.
The estimated worlds production OF
lead in 1907 was 964,91O metric tons.
as compared with 96S,174 tons in 1906.
The 350,0OOOOO-odd tons of coal min
ed in the United States each year if
piled together, would make a cube hav-
ing sides IA yards long.
Tobacco was successfully grown I'M
| der government supervision in Ireland
last year; but as the crop has not vet
been marketed. the financial result will
not be known for some time
louisiana man has invented a ma
chine for measuring and recording the
measurements Of lumber. Planks pass
to a registering device on the side.
French scientists are studying a pc
culiar movement Of the sands along
the northern coasts of France, Bel
GUM and Holland A fine sand orig
| mating on the coast Of Normandy has
been found as far away as Denmark.
After lying buried for three centu-
ries, a tirkin containing one hundred
weight of butter has been dug up in
| Fallagherane bog, County Tyrone, Ire
land, by Il farmer. The hoops and
slaves of the firkin, which was twelve
feet under ground, collapsed when lift
ed up, but the butter. of pale yellow
color, is in a perfect state of preserva-
| ton.
About three hundred specimens Of
| the steinbok are under protection on
the southern slope Of Monte Rosa, but,
apart from that. the animal is nearly
extinct in the Alps. 1t breeds slowly,
and the efforts of the government in
its behalf have helped little. In two
| places private herds have lately been
established, and It is hoped thus to
prevent the extinction of the stefnbok
Many excellent voices are ruined,
according to n communication which
DR.. Weiss has made to the French
Academic de Medicine, by practicing
in too small q room. A public singer
must throw every intonation of his
voice Il distance of thirty or forty
| yards, he says, but a student practicing
in small room is only able to throw
it a yard or two, and the consequence
is that the voice, instead of expanding,
becomes telescoped.
Labiche the French dramatist, was
once asked to support as a candidate
for the academy a certain literary
mendicant, but he hesitated for a long
time, and yielded only when he was
told that if the ambitious author
should fail to be elected he would die
of it. Failure, nevertheless, did come,
and the following year, when a sec
| Ond vacancy occurred, Labiche's vote
was once more solicited in the mans be-
half mo" shouted Labiche in vehe-
ment Indignation, II will not vote for
man who does not keep his word He
did not die"
| William Redmond, the Irish leader
| in the British House of Commons, re-
Gently in a genial mood and in play
| full allusion to the titles of nobility
and knighthoOd recently conferred, ask
convenience and in order that honor
able members might know how to adj
dress their colleagues with becoming
respect, it could be arranged that hon
orable gentlemen who had joined TIE
titled classes should wear rosettes for
| at least one month after the confer
ment of the title" No minister was
bold enough to answer.
Australia, the land of odditis, ami
NAL vegetable and mineral, has few
more curious creatures than the giant
cranes-often five and six feet In
height, with beautiful blue-gray plum
age-which are called native cOmpan-
ions. These huge birds mate for life
| anu, DIS uldICS, al Z sung uldIlJ anu
| touchingly devoted to one another
| Among their practices, that of dancing
! together, is the most remarkable. To
and fro and up and down, beneath a
scraggy tree near a creek or water
hole, a pair of these curious birds may
! be seen in the hour of dawn footing it
! gravely in a sort of grOtesque minuet.
The death OF Ira D. Sankey recalls
| the story told by him to a Tribune re-
| porter many years ago to illustrate the
! the fact that some people are beyond
| the power of the evangelist and remain
unmoved in the presence OF the great
! est demonstration. "a newspaper man
told me-" Sankey said, that he had
| sneaked In at the great WOmen's meet
! ing which we held In Madison Square
! Garden, from which we endeavOred to
! exclude all men. He got into the top
| gallery, and from there looked down,
! and was enthusiastic in his description
| of the ten thousand women singing ard
waving handkerchiefs in unison. l
asked him what impressed him most