Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-14
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


| ty-f1ve pounds but that of a horse is
about half that amount.
! 1t is anticipated that the anti-opfum
crusade in China will be the means of
opening up a new market for Ameri-
| can tobacco.
! On Jan. 1 Canada was sheItering s.
25S Orientals. including 1929 Chinese,
Canada has made British subjects of
| 7,442 Orientals,
| An automatic burglar alarm has just
/ been invented in Russia by Lieutenant
Colonel Tufaev and a Mr.. Domanov-
! sky The signal consists OF 200 shots
| fired automatically.
! In q recent lecture delivered before
| the Royal Society of Arts, Leon Caster
advances the opinion that ultraviolet
rays from indoor electric lamps are in
| furious to health. He advises the use
| of bulbs which obstruct these rays.
| A new test for ascertaining the hard
ness Of metals has been proposed by
| W. I. Ballentine. A disk of metal is
/
weight, which falls on an anvil. The
anvil carries pin on its upper side,
which rests in contact with the piece
of metal to be tested. The diminution
in thickness Of the disk is the measure
/ Of hardness.
| Some citizens of Buffalo have pro
| posed a new branch of the municipal
! government, a sort Of boom bureau"
] to Go in an official way work which
! the Chamber of Commerce now does.
A bill offered in the Legislature by Sen
| ator Hill of Erie County to carry into
effect the suggestion would establish a
municipal department of commerce and
industry One Of the schemes to boost
the city if the bill becomes a law is to
expend 100000 in five equal annual
installments in advertising the special
advantages of Buffalo.
King Alfonso is perhaps, the young
est monarch who was ever selected to
arbitrate on an international dispute,
which in the present case is the differ
ence between England and Germany
/
| tory The late King of Sweden-by
reason of his age, his philosophic mind
and his aloofness from the wrangle of
| international pOlitics-WaS repeatedly
called upon to act as arbitrator, but it
was his majesty's jurists who did the
judicial work for him. No one expects
King Alfonso himself to study the
question now submitted to him with q
pot Of strong tea at his side and cold
/ bandages round his head.
'On recent Sunday morning 1 con-
Quoted service in an asylum. On my
way to the institution l wondered
whether my fluffy, fearless chorister Of
last winter, a robin, would attend. l
| had missed him hitherto. and feared
some mischance had befallen. To my
! delight, there he was on the upper bar
of the window sash, just a little down
/ from the top; and as we began to sing
down he darted to the floor in front
Of the reading desk and poured forth
his silver treble with throbbing joy.
| On the giving out Of the text he re-
turned to his perch, and remained 81
lent till the parting paraphrase brought
| him back once more to render with full
heart his gladstone song."-The Scots
man.
One of the most curious instances
! of longevity is found in Miss Louisa
Coutenay's "Notes Of an Octogenarian."
A witness in a will case in which Bel
lenden-Ker. the great English convey
ANGER. was engaged. was asked if he
! had any brothers or sisters. He re-
piled that he had had one brother who
died 100 years ago. The court eX-
pressed incredultv, and documentary
evidence was produced in support of
| the statement. This showed that the
witness father, who married first at
| the age of 10. had son who died in
| infancy. The father married again at
| the age of 70, and had a son who lived
! to appear in the witness box at the
| age of 81, and made the above start
| ling statement.
An alluring invitation is given for
| this summer to the tenement jewellers
/ VI ShIScSo W t1S oASoS "O1Au VI OuI
of DOORS" 1t comes through the hos
pitality Of the Mccormick branch of
| the Interna tional Harvester Company
and q board of enthusiastic assistants,
| and takes the form Of q "city farm"
| laid out and ready for planting and
scientific tending by those who other
wise might spend their time over wash
tubs Ninety acres have just been Civ
en- for the purpose by the harvester
company on the recommendation of
| their social welfare adviser, C. w.
Price. The ground lies between 18th
and 18th streets. 1t will make the
largest farm Of the sort in the United
| States.
! An expedition left L1andudno De-
ganwy, and Penmaenmawr yesterday
afternoon with the object of tracing,
| if possible, the submerged palace of
| Llys Helig. a Welsh cheftain Of the
sixth century. The palace is said to
be visible at very low tides at a point
midway between Penmaenmawr and
Great Ormes Head, but it cannot be
said that yesterdays search established
its existence. The exploring party was
divided into two sections, one Of which
laid bare what looked like an old wall.
| while the other claimed to have traced