Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

year exceeded 42UUO.OOO, weighed H.
100000 pounds and were valued at Sl5-
100000.
Japan has thirty-two timepiece fac
| tories, which turn out annually goods
valued ut nearly $S0O,00O; the latest fig
ureS being 209,792 standing clocks. AL
100 hanging clocks and 25.36O watches.
Belgium has Il Sunday postage stamp
I issued for those who do hot wish TO
have their mail delivered on Sunday
All mail bearing the Sunday stamp is
held over by the carriers for delivery
Monday
The Yellowstone National Park. com
priSinS 93.312 square miles. was set
apart by act of Congress in 1872 as a
rational park to preserve from destrnc-
tive moleStation the most wonderful
group of natural features and phenonI-
ena known within the boundaries of the
United States
After fifteen years of labor, Professor
Brown, of Yale University. has com
pleted Il series OF many thousands OF
minute observations by means of which
he hopes TO determine the exact posi-
ton of the moon. He is about to re
tire to his house in Maine to begin the
work of calculation, which he estimates
Will occupy at least ten years.
The tantalum lamp is very desirable
from the fact that ii is Of high ctlicien-
cy, but it is not adapted for many OF
the fixtures at present in use, for the
reason that it must hang vertically.
whereas more often than not, the lamps
in the existing fixtures hang at an an
gle. An adapter has been recently
invented by which this discrepancy is
overcome
Kipling is a town which has just
blossomed out in Canada, where there
is only one town of Shakespeare There
is Shakespeare in KOsciusko County,
Indiana. However, the great English
dramatiSt was never popular among the
llew-tOwn manners in North America. al
though there are in the United States
thirty Millions, three GoldSmiths, fOur
DiCkenses, thirty-odd SCOTS, twenty
'SAp tNp L tliiig SttlS anu Ollt 1 iluNh-
cray. But there is no Browning on tile
American map.
Every precocious boy does not he
come brilliant man. but some brilliant
men have been preCoCiOus in childhood.
John Ruskin, the great English csSayist
and critic on art was such child At
the age of he wrote verses in rhyme
| and kept journal or diary. This jour
nal was really record of trips through
England that he took with his father
His interest in the old cathedrals and
in the bits of scenery that he saw dur
ing these journeys betrayed the tastes
that i'll later years decided his career.
I'VE Two" send the following to the
London Express: I'VE are young cou-
! pie and at the present rate of salaries
for bank clerks it will be eight, or even
! ten years before we can marry. AS this
| is too far ahead to think of, and we
| have f2O0 ($1 ,OOO) between us, we are
| determined to strike out for ourselves.
and at the thousands Of breakfast ta-
| bleS all over England where the Ex-
! press is daily read we would, with Your
| kind permission appeal for ideas as to
| the best way Of making a good start"
With the recent return of the yacht
| Galllee, at San Francisco, the ocean
magnetic survey work is closed for the
present, until the construction of a yes
sci specially adapted for the work has
, been completed. Plans for the new yes
! sci are now being prepared by Henry J.
| GielOw, naval architect and engineer.
! The Galilee was chartered by the Car
negie Institution, of Washington, and
| under the command Of w. ]. Peters, she
was away nearly three years. The to-
| tai length of the cruises traverSed In
| the Pacific ocean during this period is
about $1,000 miles
The passing of the windmill in En-
| gland, antiquated by such recent power
| producers as the gas engine and cleo
| trio motor, has given life to new In
| dustry-Windmill wrecking. The old
windmill builders understood their bus
mess and meant their handiwOrk to
structures is no simple task. Many Of
the old mills stood 100 feet high and
had eight or nine floors, fitted with four
runs of stones, ard contained tons upon
| tons of brick Often these huge mills
! stand close to other buildings, and, says
| Popular Mechanics, accidents would be
inevita BILE if the wreckers did not have
experience.
In the northern part of India sheep
are put to use unthought Of in Euro
| pean or American countries They are
made to serve as beasts Of burden, be-
cause they are more sure-footed than
larger beasts, and the mountain paths
among the foothills of the Himalayas
are steep and difficult. The load for
each sheep is from sixteen to twenty
pounds. The sheep are driven from vii
lage to village with the wool still grow
ing and in each town the farmer shears
as much wool as he can sell there and
loads the sheep with the grain which he
| receives in exchange. After his flock
has been sheared he turns it homeward,
each sheep having on its back small
bag containing the purchased grain.
Several anchors have recently been
made at the maynard at Charlestown,
Mass, which are the largest ever made
for any purpose. -Four anchors are used