Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
Items of Interest

OF the 110 tons of sausage offered foI
sale at recent fair in Paris, nine tous
were made of horse meat and II Of mule
or donkey meat
With the completion of the Benguella
railway, from the Zambest to the Congo
border, Rhodesia will have a service of
$500 miles of railroad.
A dental college has been added to the
University Of Madrid, whose graduates
will be allowed to practice in Spain with
out further examination
Electricity has replaced mules as the
motive power on the street railways of
Santos, the Brazilian city from which so
much coffee is exported.
Two blind girls from the ROYAL normal
college for the blind have given some
marvellous exhibitions of roller skating,
including waltz of skates.
In the absence of any form of census
the population of Morocco is estimated
as between 100000 and 100000. The
great majority live in the interior.
Mrs. Russell Sage gave $4,000 to SYRIA
cuse university on her last birthday.
The money is to be used as an endow-
ment fund for the teachers college.
Because the demand for machinery is
exceeding the product in the domestic
market, it is likely that this country
will soon be buying foreign machinery.
In 1883 there were Is labor co-opera-
tive societies in the United Kingdom; in
1908 there were 112, and their profits in
trade of S20,510, SO amounted to $685.
929.
Sunfl0Wer seeds are usOd as food by
Russian peasants; the bulk Of the crop is
used for feeding animals. The crop for
1903 amounted to $4,000 tons The sun
flower seed oil is used for cooking.
Chile annually takes imports to the
valae Of about $100,0OO,OOO United States
gold, of which more than 90 per cent is
in manufactured articles, and of which
the United States is supplying less than
s9,OO0,OOO.
The government of Brazil has deter
mined to develop iron smelling and the
iron and steel industry generally, and
thus make use of the vast deposits of
iron ore which exist in several portions
of the country.
The beauties of suburban life in New
Jersey seem to appeal to many persons
having plentitude of this worlds goods,
and in Norris county it is the boost of
the inhabitants that Is millionaires now
make their homes there.
The foreign population of Morocco is
divided into the following classes. in or
der of their preponderance: Spanish
speaking, including Jews, $4,000; French
speaking, 10000; English speaking, 5000;
German speaking, 1000; others, 1000.
Italy levies graduated income tax as
well as direct tax on land and houses.
Small incomes are exempt from taxa
tion. The minister Of finance estimates
that the income tax for this year will
amount to about $49,600.0O0, while the
land tax will bring in $36 OOOCOO
Daring the last eight years Canadian
immigration has been 1,336,65O. Of this
number 540,421 came from the United
Kingdom. 425,4 ,412 from the United States
ana 400,617 from other countries. The
total population Of Canada is now esti-
mated to be about seven millions.
The Olympic and Titanic, of the White
Star line, are to be $50 feet in length, 92
feet in beam and GA in depth. From the
keel to the roof of the pilot house they
will have height of 105 feet. The free
board at the bow will be so feet, height
that would seem sufficient to overtOp
the spray of the largest waves.
In Berlin the walters association is
considering the plan of making tips OBJ
ligatOry and according to fixed table.
In the cheaper places they propose that
the customer shall pay to the waiter IL
per cent of the amount of his bill. and
in the larger establishments the atten-
tive "kellner" will be satisfied with
per cent.
Nearly 10000 coin cards have been
sent out this year by the young peoples
department of the Methodist
Episcopal boards of home and foreign
in furtherance of the plan to
promote in the Sunday schools such reg
ularity in giving as shall insure a mill
lion dollars annually for missions from
these schools.
A young girl of IA was taking a trip
ON Lake Michigan in a small steamer,
says Life. fhe lake was somewhat
rough and many were seasick. The girl
sat in the bow and was unusually quiet
for her. care you feeling sick, daugh-
ter ?" inquired her father. ''No. [ don't
think Pm sick, but I should hate to
yawn."
The highest garden in the world is
that situated at a height of 5000 feet Oh
the Petit St. Bernard, in the Alps. 1t
was started on small scale nearly Is
years ago, and under the patronage of
Queen Margherita it has grown to gar
l0,, of En