Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-13
Items of Interest

A human heing breathes about twenty
times minute.
A man can live in excellent style in
Japan for 500 month.
Seventy-fve per cent of the meat con-
sumed in Great Britain is imported.
Some authorities claim that diet of
goats milk makes one immune from
tuberculosis.
Three hundred thousand c0ncre., cress
ties have been ordered for the Italian
state railways.
1t is likely that a mOnOrail system
will be experimental with in the upper
part of New York city.
In proportion to the number of inhab-
itants, France is considered the wealth
lest country in the world.
The largest pin factory in the world is
at Birmingham. England. II turns out
100000 pins every day.
There is growing demand for Ameri-
can pearls. Those taken from the west
ern waters last season were valued at
s5OOOOO.
Gift Of $1,C00OOO to build sanitary
tenement houses in New York for per-
sons afflicted with tuberculosis is made
by Mrs. ". K. Vanderbilt, Sr.
The number Of telephones in the whole
world is estimated at 100000, of which
10000 are said to be in use in America
and 100000 in Europe.
William E. Curtis quotes Hannibal
Hamlin as saying that Andrew johnson
was intoxicated when he took the oath
of vice president Of the United States.
United States supreme court uphoIds
the validity Of the Arkansas antitrust
law under which the Hammond Packing
company was Ousted from the state.
Europeans are beginning to realize
the hygienic value of high buildings,
with elevators which lift people into the
dust-free. sunlit, higher regions.
leading German electrical company
has in contemplation the erection of a
new plant for the exclusive manufacture
of airsbips and aeroplanes.
1t has been shown in Switzerland,
where 1000 persons annually die of can
Ger, that the tendency to that disease is
less in regions free from goitre.
In 1907 Great Britain furnished 10000
bicycles to Japan, and in addition $780,
COO worth of parts, while the United
States furnished 3,218 bicycles and $178,-
900 worth of parts.
Brazil, being anxious to have japanese
immigrants, one steamship company has
promised 1900 within the next two years,
the state paying about $40 for each indi-
vidual over twelve years of age.
Large quantities of cherries sent from
Europe to this country, simply preserved
in brine, to escape the high duty on
fruits preserved in sugar. They are then
made into "Maraschino" cherries.
The japanese government is making
all energetic fight to prevent the plague.
In Toxic alone between 1000 and 1900
rats are killed and examined every day
in the search for possible source of in
fectiOn.
Experiments on the Resolution of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sui
ph0nic Acid" is the title of one of the
papers mentioned i'll the agenda for the
Chemical Society's meeting at Burling-
ton house, London.
Asbestos is found in the island Of Cy-
prus, and company organized in 1906,
obtaining a concession in the island, be-
gan to open a mine early in 1907. Up to
the end of that year 1000 tons Of ashes
tOs were mined.
A scientific periodical calls attention
to the fact that not only water color but
oil paintings of the last half century
seemed doomed to fade, entirely, and
that typewriter documents will ulti-
mately be blank paper.