Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-16
Items of Interest


yet commercially practical.
The people of the United States are thu
greatest users of the telephone.
The driving wheels of a locomotive
average 20 feet in circumference.
! 1t is estimated that the earthquakes
speed is from 40 to $50 feet a second.
The newest department store in New
York will have bank of fifty elevators.
Napoleon said, ne matter how raving
or raging. he never dared to let himself
get angry above the throat.
A Scotchman has invented a new life
saving apparatus which is capable OF
throwing a line half mile.
1t is said that in the last five years the
membership of the temperance societies
in Germany has more than doubled.
The resistance to traction in dry
weather is smallest on brick pavements
and in wet weather OH bitulithic pave
mentS.
Silk and mixed cotton and silk indus
tries in France are said to employ alto
gether upward of half million workers.
The tidal movement in the PetitcOdiac
river at Amherst, n. S., represents three
million horse power day. A proposition
is being considered to harness 1t.
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appetite for imported drugs. In Beirut,
a city where soft drinks are in great de-
mand, there is not a single soda foun
tain.
The largest movable bridge vet built
in Asia is double leaf roller lift affair
with an opening two hundred feet wide,
erected by Chicago company for a rail
road in Burma.
Tests show that the wind movement
of fifteen miles an hour against the side
Of building will force 1856 cubic feet of
air through a One-sixteenth-lnch crevlce
in an hour.
"The Ragman Rolls were a series of
documents recording the progress of
Edward | through Scotland in 1896, with
the names of the mobiles and others who
did homage to him.
Octave Chanute, for whom Chahute
Kas., was named, is now an inventor of
aerOplanes, and Chanute people are say
ing that their town was the first high
flyer" that he designed.
The freak photograph is the popular
fad in Pabis at present. Several photo
graphers are making it speciality and
turn out the humorous, grOtesque and
grewsome in large quantities.
Prince Edward of Wales, the oldest
son Of the crown prince of Wales, has
Just entered the Royal Naval college at
Dartmouth as a cadet, after having com
pleted his training course at Osborne.
The WOman's Sabbath Alliance Of New
York. has addressed circular letter to
women prominent socially asking them
to refrain from giving entertainments
that deprive their servants Of rest on
Sundays.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, of the
British army, celebrated his golden we'd
ding anniversary last month. So pOpu-
lar is "Bobs" that the event assumed
something of the character of au imper-
ial festival.
Ghee is used in India as is butter in
America and European countries, and in
fact is butter, so prepared that it never
grows stale, instances being known OF
its preservation for as long as two hun
dred years.
Life of only the every lowest order"
exists on Mars, if life exists there at all,
according to Professor Simon NewcOmb,
whose opinion will probably carry great
er weight than that Of any living Ameri
astronomer.
The Canadian minister of the interior
has submitted figures showing that there
are still available for hGmesteads in the
province Of Manitoba 1926, ,0O0 acres; in
Saskatchewan, 1O4,878.OOO acres; and in
Alberta 117,269,OOO acres.
The Apaches, who for many years were
the scourge of Arizona and New Mexico,
probably never numbered more than TO-,
OOO The present number is about 5000,
and most of them live in the White
Mountain reservation, Arizona.
China has three crops Of tea-the spring
crop in April, the second in May and the
"even flower" crop about the first of July.
The export season is throughout the
year. Three crops of rice are harvested;
export of this products is prohibited.
Accidents at sea are costly. Damages
to the amount of over $128,000 were
claimed by the owners of the st. Paul, in
collision with which the British Giadi-
atOr was sunk last wear. The British ad-
miralty registrar awarded about S95, 790