Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-07
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


cubic miles of salt.
operations In the work of assembling
4 watch.
II has recently been shown that an
automobile can make the trip to Cal
cutta from the extreme northern part
Of India without n hitch
The top of the Philadelphia city hall
tower, which is over $50 feet above
the street, probably will be utilized
as wireless telegraph station, to be
controlled by the municipality.
About 600 patents are granted each
year to British women upon inventions
ranging from articles distinctly femin-
Inc in nature TO motors, railroad cars,
flying machines and wireless telegra-
ply.
In New York city last year the fire
loss amounted to ST,250,OOO, while the
maintenance of the fire department
cost 100000. In ST. Louis these
figures were respectively, $1,29S,O0o
and $1,01S,OOO. In the case Of Rome,
Italy, where the fire losses last year
were $4,000, the cost of the fire de-
partment was $4,000.
lively" hours, with two hours rest,
Is the legal laboring day at Odessa,
Russia. Workers under seventeen
must so to school for three hours
daily. Christians are not required to
work on Sundays or feast days, nor
Hebrews and Mohammedans on their
religious holidays. Those vino have to
work on Sundays have the next day
for rest
Wagner's little admonition to the mu-
sicians was most characteristic and
worthy to be noted by many an orches-
ira of this day. Gentlemen" he said,
Il beg of you not to take my FORTS.
simo too seriously! Where you see 'f
make a ftp of it, and for piano play
pianissimo. Remember how many OF
you there are down there against the
one poor single human throat up here
alone on the stage. "-Neumann Per
sonal Recollections."
AS the result of special efforts in the
hatchery work during the year the
output of fish and eggs in 1908 was
greater than ever before In the history
Of the national bureau, reaching q to-
tai of 2,S71, 456, 2SO OF this number
2,413,SO9, 225 were young fish distribut-
ed for the stocking and restocking OF
public and private waters, and the re-
manning 457 ,647, O55 were eggs deliv-
cred to state and foreign hatcheries.
The output of young fish exceeds the
greatest previous record for any one
year by 376,0OO,OOO.
B. S. Straus, NJ. p, has elected
from the Home Secretary the state
ment that In 1908 as many of 1925
taxicabs were licensed to ply for hire
in the streets of London, an increase
months the number of hanson cabs
licensed decreased by 1905. Hansoms
have in a few years declined by 1852,
while in the same time motor cabs
have increased by 1924 More strik-
ing still, nearly the whole Of the
change has been accomplished in the
last three years.-London News.
DR.. Philip Schidrowitz, analytical
chemist, London, said in answer to DR..
Adeney that there was a general idea
that the word brandy was derived
from the German. The English word,
however, was as old as its Continental
equivalents. 1t was formerly spelled
"brandywine" and then brand wine"
The prefix, which was common to all
the Teutonic words for brandy, meant
a thing burning or that had been burnt.
Therefore the word meant burnt
wine" Taking it as an English word,
brandy hight be defined as a spirit de-
rived by distillation of the fermented
juice Of any fruit.-London Post.
The ancient silver mines at Fret
berg, Saxony, where a number of the
older mining engineers Of this country
were trained in practical work while
students at technical institutions in
Germany, will be permanently closed
in April. These mines have a history
going back upward of 1000 years. The
first thalers, from which came the
word dollar, were coined from silver
from these ancient Saxon mines, and
for centuries the German traders,
called easterlings, from whose mer-
chants and bankers in England the
word sterling as applied TO pounds
sterling came into use, derived their
bar and coined silver for trading at
the fairs of all parts of Europe from
these Saxon mines. Many a war was
fought in order to get control of the
silver mines at Freiberg.
1 think myself that what, as much
as anything else, laid the foundation
Of the American voice, was the ner-
vous illhealth, lasting over three or
four generations, Of the American wo-
men. Up to the middle of the nine
teenth century, and even beyond, for
eigners were surprised when they
came across a healthy looking woman.
The isolation of frontier life, the gen
eral tension of the American climate,
malaria, bad diet and worse sanitat ton,
combined to turn one-half the nation
into semi-invalids and the thin, sharp,
slovenly tones of the American women
were as often as not the result Of phys
icaI and nervous depression. l do
not say that i'll health was the sole
cause, but it is undoubtedly the fact
that as the health Of Americans has
improved so have their voices.-Lon-