Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-14
Items of Interest

The annual whaling catch at presen
is about 150
! A divers suit is weighted with 16t
pounds Of lead.
The first sleeping car was started over
the tracks in 1858.
Three million needles is the daily con
sumption of the world.
The annual consumption of sugar fol-
jam making is $4,000 tons.
Bank notes worth about farthing
each arc circulated in Paraguay,
Hawaiis output of pineapples in 1905
was nearly 100000 cans.
One Amsterdam factory alone cuts A..
J 100000 diamonds every year.
The fastest race horse travels at the
rate of forty miles an hour.
Notwithstanding its thickness, the
elephants skin is very sensitive.
The famous MaeIstrom whirlpool is
four geographical miles in diameter.
Japanese dead are buried in a squat
ting posture, chin upon knees.
A purchase in German tobacco shop
entities YOU to one telephone call.
Jewish players have retained the chess
championship for the last fortytwo years.
Holland has few dependent paupers,
Work is provided for all who apply for
relief.
The Korean tailor pastes his seams to-
gether.
1t has been found that good paper can
be made from the lalang grass of Malay
sia. s.
Sixty years ago the use of flint and
steel to produce O. fire was not wholly
unknown.
The boilers of the turbiner Mauretania,
placed end 70 end, would measure SAT
feet it length.
More than 100000 square miles of
the worlds surface is taken up by the
Pacific ocean.
Between 100000 and 100000 years is
said by experts TO be the age of the
human race.
Although it is sixty miles from the
sea, Hamburg is the greatest seaport of
continental Europe.
Living in London is 40 per cent
cheaper than in any of the large cities
of the United States.
OF 1000 parts of the moon. SIC are
visible to us on the earth; 424 parts re-
main hidden to mans eye.
The brain of the male begins to lose
weight at forty, while that of the fe-
male starts ten years earlier.
The wear and tear on the worlds cur
rency is estimated at two tons of gold
and 100 Of silver annually.
Pennsylvania leads all the states in
the amount of personal property within
the states borders subject to taxation.
Postoffice inspector in New York gives
bail for release Of clergyman, who con-
verted him years ago and who was held
on petty larceny charge.
Canada's representative at the Detroit
conference on trade relations declares
the United States must take the next
step toward reciprocity.
Sea anemOnes can live for three or
four years without any nOurishment
other than that which they extract from
the water.
Modern motor steam plows are being
introduced into India. One of them.
made in London, can plow ten to fifteen
acres of ordinary ground day.
A meteorite that weighs 682 pounds
has just been brought from Cripple
Creek, ColO. and placed in the American
| Museum of Natural History in New York
City.
Thirty thousand feet is the greatest
depth of the Pacific ocean; 1886 feet
of the Atlantic; Southern ocean, 25,200
feet; Indian ocean, 1852 feet; Arctic
ocean, 5000 feet.
| The Sahara is not such barren place,
after all. Some time ago there were g.
100000 sheep in the Algerian Sahara
alone, 100000 goats and 100000 camels.
1t is estimated that the Oases of this
desert contain 100000 date palms.