Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-05

blind Is taught by tie use IF fine
collection of stuffed al mails, which
the pupils learn to recognize by the
touch.
A black fox with pslt worth $500,
driven fir m the hills by the extrems
old, was killed in tie str cts OF
Nome. Alaska. recently. The ami
NAL was chased by hundreds of Nome
citizens and finally It's rich pelt fell
to tenderfUot prospector, who made
wild slam at the fox with a club
and killed it.
Cedar wooc constitutes the casing
of the average lead pencil. The
price of the wood has risen rapidly in
the past few years. A German
chemist has produced a substitute In
which ingredient is the common pota
to. A German factory is now max
ing 1900 potato pencils day. They
are more easilysssharpened than wooden
pencils, but are a trif1e heavier.
| John Boyes, the white king of the
kakykus, will. it i said, pilot Pres
ldent Roos4 velt in his great hultin
"trip through British East Africa.
Boyes has lived in British East Africa
for ten years, after having been ship
wrecked. He was made king of
large tribe, and his authority is re-
cognized by the British government.
| He is Yorkshireman by birth.
A New York doctor has new idea.
He practices at night only. He
found that so many night cases coming
on the top of his office bours and Wis
its wore him out, so he determined to
ave his energy for the night work,
which paid best anyway. He says
he finds patients prefer having doc
tor who is fresh and wide awake in
stead of or who is tired out after
days work.
The Congo Free State in mid Africa,
has 900. 900 square miles Of territory.
At present its imports amount to
only about $4,000, 900 a year consist
ing mainly of cotton piece goods,
liquors and beers, canned meats.
vegetables and other food products.
steamers and bUats, machinery, cloth
ing, arms and ammunition, hardware
and metals. The chief products of
the country are rubber, ivory, gum
copal, palm kernels and palm oil.
A scientist has made q calculation
about the time it will take to fill
the world with all the people it will
hold. lie present population of the
globe is supposed to be about ], 4S7,-
900, 900, and he estimates that tae
maximum of the inhabitants that esr
be sustained On the earth entire la..d
surface. of. the earth is $3.50, OO0, Coz,
End this 6gurs Will be res.cked a. D.
2O72, or in about 100 years, at the
present rate Gf Increase. Uhich is
per cent dacaaa.
At the Jnivsxs;ty OF Pennsylvania
mustachas have LGaIn coEle Tito
ety.e, according to the Pbilcasl:1Ais,
Hscor&. "Yea, fe..ov lea's ia It
tl.a winser without a nius3aaae,S
.siH a vrasiSy asn,or. "I0u sae, 4
Sieat many of the boys we2s ovnr in
GysrCps las BuraIler, and tue hirsate
gf1I1ns@rt is al th,s rage among the
swolls iii t!,a ot.yer side just aow. Of
en.'rse, tie coliegga boys have to keep
IL tsla swim, 90 Chst 10 Why you see
}all sa.s CT -outilg dowa on the cam
aIs.''
Tie hIghess Hei5 workiagvemen in
France ere said t. bo sc cutters
of preeior5 atcas. They receive
about sl.fJ q day. Tae loaagt wage
is 80 e9Ets dag aad l. PAID to
oregaInake4g. EheFs ara $4,000, 900
women in Trance scd the majority
eccn their cyn liyinC. The move
mena Ca Foot to secure for them the
ballot is carried on with the object of |
gaming for. them a formal recognition !
in Industry ID the hope of increasing
their wages and winning for them
eq1ai pay for equal work with men.
AeuGt tae government and private
F2ilHays c. Japan carried 126, COO. 900 |
p@ s2s-c'2ers last year, the deaths from
accident Numbered only nineteen and |
the I'M .zies Gully 3lS, or fifteen IN
Ice, Coo 5s@rt3 and twenty-five in TO-
600, 00D, accidents. Not single IA
talicg occurred IN the government
lines, E.1ergh 1860. coo people were
csFzieC. This record contrasts favor
ar.y wiki that o; tla United States,
wleEe tRe desths from railway acct
Ge1ss weLa oae out of each two and a
thsrc millions carried, says Canadian
Trsf.e Commissioner Preston, Of Yoko-
hama.
Fur traders and the mission schools
have had q marked effect upon the
Ontario Indians. The women manage
to keep step with their lords in the
i1arsE toward civilized appearances.
81 hs7s seen mocasined feet peeplng
from beensath the folds of velvet
gowns Of royal PURPLE says writer.
On the bank of the hainy river l came
Upan & community of wigwams and
faracl khnut opop G-a