Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-11
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Der Of aged persons in proportion to the
population.
Some of the screws made for the use
OF Watchmakers are SO tiny 100000
could be placed in an ordinary thimblc.
There is an average OF seven car col
lisions DAY on the steam, subway. ele-
waited and surface railways of New
York
During the summer season the Dor
ough of Richmond, New York City. dou-
bies its population on every pleasant
Sunday, but only for that one day.
The newspaper was invented by
Paris physician. who, finding his visits
welcome whenever he brought any news
OF gossip, applied to Cardinal Richelieu
for patent to- publish the Paris Ga
8ette in leo
For the last fourteen years 4 brood
Of tomtitS has been reared each spring
in the letter box at UttoXeter work
house. Since the parent birds first took
possession OF the box they have Matched
200 eggs.-London Standard.
Several German firms Gin Eibenstock
and HwickauD have purchased large
forest sections in the vicinity of Chiojd-
al, Roumania. where they propose to
erect Sawmills and ship from there au-
nually about 10000 cubic meters Of
lumber to Italy, France and Germany.
Negotiations among the German man
ufacturerS OF wall paper have finally
led to the organization of Il trust. The
seven leading manufacturers who have
already Joined have combined annual
production OF about $2,62O,00O. The
total output Of wall paper in Germany
is estimated at $70O0.0OO per annum
Miss Jean Gordon, who has won Il
national reputation by her work in be
half of women and children, done as
factory inspector in Louisiana, is not
to be reelected to her office 1t is as
serted that she has incurred the cnmity
of the manufacturers and the politi-
clans and in spite of the protests Of the
women OF the State she will be turned
out of office.
The blood of the rhinoceros is very
highly esteemed by Burmese and Chi
nese as a medicine for all kinds of all
ments. Whenever party of hunters
are successful in shooting a rhinocerOs
they are less numerous than they
used to be-the native beaters carefully
draw off the blood and bring it to Ran
COON stored in hollow bambOos The
precious liquid is worth its weight in
slver.-LOndon Standard.
The sheath skirt Is not new in Bur
nah, where the women wear garment
split to the waist, now concealing, now
revealing The men wear the same
sarong, unsplit. In Cochin and Travan-
core, India, the reputable native wom-
en- wear nothing above the waist except
nosertngs and earrings; the Syrian
Christians wear a jacket and a comicaI
little Cochin tail" something like the
obi of Nippon. on their skirts.-New
York Press.
Pear-shaped balloons are the fashion
in Belgium. The point is upward, the
base of the balloon is spherical. 1t is
claimed that balloons Of this shape
pierce the air vertically with far great
er speed than the ordinary spherical
balloon. Consequently they are stead
Ter. Also the upper pointed end pre-
vents the accumulation OF moisture or
snow on the surface, which frequently
weighs q balloon down and destroys its
power to rise
Though Russia has much coal and
iron, her Industries are quite undevel-
Oped. Her industrial backwardness may
be gagged from the fact that with a
territory and a population twice as
large as those of the United States,
Russia produces only One-tenth of the
quantity of iron produced in the Uni
ted States, and that she raises only
one-twentieth Of the quantity Of coal.
Alphabetically and industrially, Russia
is medieval country.-New York
Evening Post.
DIR. II. c. Stevens, of Seattle, reports
recent experiments which show that
objects seen by indirect vision ordi-
narily appear larger in the right half
of the field of vision than in the left.
With a smaller number of persons this
is reversed. From these facts ne de-
duces a possible origin Of right and
left-handedness. Right-handedness, or
it's reverse, develops at about the age
of seven months. DR.. Stevens suggests
that they may be due to the phenomena
Of vision just described BY a reflex
effect the infant reaches after the OBJ
iect best seen with the arm nearest to
them.
Miss Martins Van Rensselaer,, super
visor of the reading course for farmers
wives conducted by the Agricultural
College Of Cornell University, believes
that there should be woman Judge IN
juvenile courts where girls are tried.
She bases her opinion on personal OBJ
servation of various juvenile courts,
notably those in New York city. She
believes that there are many questions
which girls would answer truthfully IL
there was a woman on the bench, but
which they now invariably lie about
when questioned by a man. This is
one of the very few instances in which
Miss Van Rensselaer, believes segrega-
ton Of the two sexes would be beDef-
cial
In the total number Of mammals,