Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-27
Items of Interest

pIldlS Ill WHICH, l,zuJ,OtU patients art
annually treated. adding TO these The
!; inmates of private sanatoria and patients
treated at home, it is estimated that a
all times one person in sixty of the pOpu
lati0n is seriously i'll.
Louisiana and Kansas are planning
II broad education in matters of public
health and hygiene. The president OF
the Louisiana state board of health will
visit every parish and lecture on health
tquestions. Kansas will spend $4,000 a
year in the same direction.
The men of fOrty-nine, the California
pioneers, are rapidly dwindling. There
are now only seven members of the Sac
rament0 Society of California pioneers
! The eighth member recently died, and
the survivors acted as pallbearers and
mourners.
By way of eXpediring the transmission
of letters, the Belgium postal authorities
have recommended that all letters in
tended for Brussels should be inclosed in
red envelopes, those for other Belgian
points in yellow, and foreign letters in
green envelopes.
DR.. WurtZen has had great results in
many cases of smallpox, quick cures and
no pitting. He keeps the patient in
total darkness, and finds Finsens red
light treatment uncertain. No white
light is allowed even for a second but
red light lamps are momentarily used to
examine patients.
There are 1890 Young Mems Christian
Associations in Germany-only | ,939 in
America; yet, where the German associa-
tions have but 117,OOO members, the
American have 100000. And German
association property holdings have
value of $2,400,00O, contrasted with
value of S40,000,000 in America.
1t has been reported that the disease
known as trachoma, or granular eyeids,
has been spreading rapidly among the
Indians. To check this trouble congress
appropriated $4,000, placing it in the
hands OF the commissioner of Indian
affairs, for the immediate investigation
and treatment of the disease and to
check its spread.
A new use for cOnvicts has been found
In Missouri, where a number were taken
out of the penitentiarv at Jefferson CITY
and put to work on the Galloway bottoms
helping the farmers save their wheat
from the advancing waters of the Mis-,
S0drl river. The prisoners WORKED wen
enjoyed their outing and would welcome
another chance to get outside the walls
While on active service, French
soldier was informed by the mayor of
his village that his father had recently
died. In acknowledgement he wrote
as follows: Monsieur le maire, heart
lily thank you for my fathers death.
1t is little accident that often happens
in families. AS for myself | am in the
hospital minus one leg, with which |
have the honor to salute you"
discoveries of copper, gold and silver
are reported to have been made on the
FIJI Islands and western Australia
inning men are at Suva. Viii Levu,
awaiting the publication by the local
government of regulations under which
mining may be carried on, after which
the new discoveries will be thoroughly
exploited. No mining on a commercial
scale has ever been done on these islands.
No fewer than 1,5OO towns and villages
IN Germany still Own and have owned,
down from the middle ages, so much
common land that their inhabitants nav
neither rates nor taxes. Five hundred
| of these townships and villages derive so
| great rental from their lands that thev
are able, in addition, to pay every citizen,
on New Years day, bonus Of from S25
to 500 as his share of the surplus reve-
nues.
Devil fish weighing up to 200 pounds
are sometimes caught in Japan. These
fish are amphibious; they are often seen
WObbllng Oh their tentacles like giant
spiders in search of patches of sweet
| potatoes. The natives kill them with
clubs. In the water they are caught in
| Jars lowered to the bottom, which the
octopus enters thinking them a good re-
treat from which to catch it's food
| Biscuit" was until the eighteenth
century spelled 'bisket' as still prOnOunc-
ed. the current spelling being merely
senseless adoption Of the modern French
spelling without its pronunciation.
"Bisket" originally meant a twice-b baked
bread of the kid alluded 30 by Shakes
peare in As You Like 1t, where the mel
anchoiy Jacques informs the duke that
| his brain is as drie as the remainder
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