Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-02
items Of Interest


siSt i'll eQuipping and recruiting the
n,0C0 volunteers needed to complete
the London quota of the territorial
army.
There are not enough captains and
lieutenante in the American army. TX
perts now say that the shortage is little
short of alarming. and that a large per
cent of the desertions from the ranks
are due to the constant shifting Of the
officers.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
mOdifes decision against american Fed
Grafton of labor in Bucks Stove and
Range company, holding that only con
spiracy to injure business of complain
ant may be enjoined, but that the boy
colt may be freely discussed.
After an interval of six years English
railroads have achieved the record of
carrying on their operations without
the loss of a single passenger In 1902
six lives were lost; in 1903, twenty-five; {;
in 1904, six; i'll 1905, thirty-nine; in 1906,
fifty-eight, and in 1907, eighteen.
Preliminary work for the construction
of India's large new steel plant, near
Kalimati station, is making good head
way. The plant on the Ramrana man
ganese property has proved to be of the
highest value. A fOrty-fve mile rail
way is already under construction.
Concrete Itself is very old. The con
crete stairs Of Colchester and Rochester
castle still show the marks of the i'll
casing boards; the dome of Agrippa's
Pantheon, which is 142 feet in diameter,
is of concrete, and fragments of concrete
buildings are found in Mexico and Peru.
Artificial eyes were first made use of
by the Egyptians; they were of gold and
silver and subsequently of copper and
ivory. Hundreds of years later. in the
sixteenth century, when they were made
in Europe, porcelain was the substance
used and the maker usually stamped his
address on the white of the eye.
During the year 1903 there were 80
against 435 in 1900 seagOing steam
ships, of an aggregate of 1920 gross
register tonnage, built in German ship
yards; at the close of the year sixty-seven
ocean steamships were in course of con-
representing 187,362 tonnage.
and the shipping trade
have not been prosperous in the last year.
Mrs Mary Mccoy, who was said to be
the oldest postmaster in the country,
has just sent in her resignation, after
having been in Office more than forty
years at Sheaklyyille, Pa. She was APP
pointed by Andrew Johnson as his term
was drawing to close, and for the first
few years of her service brought the
mail from MeadviIle in addition to per-
the other duties Of the office.
Mrs. Mccoy has just passed her eighty
sixth birthday.
The postal authorities Of England
paid high compliment to the stamp
collectors of the world when they pro-
vided special canceling stamp for use
in Manchester on the three days Of the
stamp exposition in that city recently.
The canceling mark was circular in
design and about an inch in diameter,
and around its borders were the words
international Stamp Exposition, Man
chester, 1909" Thus, for once, were
the phiIateIists officially recognized.
Miss Kate Gordon, of New Orleans, as
president Of the Juvenile Court Circle,
is leading movement to establish a
state industrial school providing manual
for boys and girls. She pro-
poses a tax of 75c on every $1,000 to pay
the expenses. The women taxpayers of
louisiana, who have right to vote on
all questions relating TO taxation, have
pretty generally let it be known that
they are willing to pay their share to es-
tabIish the school.
A hard blow at pOliteness on street
cars in Massachusetts was struck by the
supreme court of that state a few days
ago. In a damage suit the court held
that if a passenger on a crowded street
car gets off mOmentarily to permit other
passengers to alight, and in getting on
again is injured by the sudden starting
Of the car, he can not recover from the
street railway company where there is
rule under which passengers ride Oh the
platform at their own risk.
Fishes, especially the larger species,
live very long time. According to
Bacee, eels live fifty years. Carp have
been known to exist at least $50 years,
while dOIphins, surgeons and sharks
live more than century and attain huge
size. A pike caught at KaiserSlattern,
Germany, in 1897, was nineteen feet
long and weighed $50 pounds. 1t bore
in ite gills a copper ring with an in
scripti0n stating that it had been put
in the pond of Lauter by order Of the
Emperor Frederick II-that is, 26i
years before.
FdVOrdbly Impressed