Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-21
Items of interest

r Fruit growers of California make plea
0 for increased tariff.
Olive Logan, the American author
actress and lecturer, died a pauper.
The mortality under chlOrOf0rm
averages one person in 10000,
Thirty-One story hotel, the taIlest i'll
the world, will be built in New York.
About 10000 tourists visited Cuba
during the last winter season to March |.
, Edmund c. Tarbell, Boston artist, is
awarded first prize by the Carnegie In
stitute of Pittsburg.
Chancellor David LlOyd-GeOrge pro-
poses increase in income and Inheritance
taxes to meet British deficit.
Dividing the moons surface into 125
parts, seventy-twO Of them are visible
from the earth.
Mrs. Margaret Grippen, cousin of
General Lew Wallace, is mysteriOusly
murdered in her home at WinnebagO, Ill.
The annual emigration from Europe
amounts to 100000. A small percentage
of these persons return after few years.
The worlds entire supply of the oil of
bergamOt comes from a small section of
Dalabria, fronting on the Straits of
Messina.
! When a hen attains her third year
her laying capacity is at its best. She
will lay, oD an average, from 300 to 500
eggs in her lifetime.
Authoritative opinions hold that the
number of sheep in all countries III the
world decreased from 400, 100000, in 1873,
to 3O0,O0O,000 in 1906.
According to Cornell university pro-
| fessOr, insect pests cost the farmers OF
the country over $7OO,OOO,00O year.
The exports of dolls and toys from
Coburg to the United States during 1908
amounted to $1,920,965, as compared
with $2,862, ,446 i'll 1907, a decrease of
$9H ,4S1.
Germany has spent S150,000,000 in the
and improvement of inland waterways.
AS a result the empire has now 6,27S
miles Of navigable streams and canals.
There are twenty two lepers-half OF
them whites-in the hOspiDal in New
South Wales. From 1888, when the
lazaret was established, to the end Of
1907, ia persons have been isolated
there.
The netroleum production of the United
States in 1908 has been estimated at be-
tween l75, 100000 and 100000 barrels,
an increase Of to 8 per cent. as com
pared with the production Of 166,OOO,OOO
barrels in 1907.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Noble, of Mansfield,
Mass, whose will has just been made
public. left $4,000 to the Midnight Mis-
sion of New York and the same amount
to build drinking fountains for horses
and dogs in the streets of New York.
Concrete itself is very old. The con-
crete stairs of Colchester and ROcheStra
castles still show the marks Of the in
casing boards; the dome Of Agrippa's
Pantheon, which is 142 feet IN diameter,
is of concrete, and fragments of concrete
buildings are found in Mexico and Peru.
Voters in Minnesota who smoke ciga-
rets will have a hard time getting
even" at the next election. A Repub-
lican legislature has passed bill which
''makes it amisdemeanOr to manufacture,
sell or give away cigarets or cigaret pa
pprs." and Governor Johnson, Demo
crat. has signed it.
In the railway mail service in 1888,
before it was brought into the classified
service under the law there was one
error in distribution of mail matter for
every 300 pieces correctly handled; III
1897, some years after the new system
became operative, there were 1900
pieces accurately sorted for every one
that went astray.
At meeting Of the academy of sci
ences in Paris it was established re-
Gently that ultraviolet rays passed Ihru
milk will completely steriIize the liquid
and effectualIy rid it Of all microbes
The fluid is sterilized without heating
or the use of chemicals, and, what is
most important of all, without the loss
of any essential character Of the milk.
According to a French writer, Chris
tianity has about 477O000CO followers,
with the Oriental creeds ranking next
in the following order: Confucianism
and ancestor worship, 256,OOO,OO0; Hin
duism, 19O,OO0,COO; Mohammedanism,
III, 100000, and Buddhism, 147,0O0OOO.
The Christian total includes 231, 100000
Roman Catholics, 100000 Protest
ants, and 98,OoO,OOO Orthodox Greeks.
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