Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-26
items Of interest

England investigates American meat
and may complain to Washington.
In each 225 lunar months there are %
eclipses of the moon and Al Of the sun.
Works at Hiogo have just completed
the first modern locomotive ever built in
Japan.
Income tax bin is passed by the French
chamber of deputies and an elaborate
plan Of raising revenue is arranged in
the measure.
New census bill providing for appoint
ments under modified merit system is
likely to be passed at the special session
of congress.
European inventors are successfully
endeayoring to produce moving pictures
which can be seen clearly without dark
ening the hall.
Kingdom Gould, 22-year-oId son of
George j. Gould, is elected a director of
the Missouri Pacific railroad, being
slated to succeed to his fathers work.
The are villages i'll the Alps and Py-
renees where electric power is so cheap
that 1t does not pay to turn off the lights
on leaving the room.
People of Mombasa, British East AZ
rlca, are preparing hearty welcome for
Theodore Roosevelt and settlers report
seeing thirty-two lions in one group.
A prominent French manufacturer of
glace fruits admits that the cherries of
California are at least as good in quality
as the French varieties.
President Taft at his first cabinet
meeting asks members of his official
family to leave to him the giving out of
such information as it seems best to
make public.
Yalu river timber is to be exploited by
a Chin6se-Japanese company, with two
managers, one of whom, and all laborers
employed, must be Chinese.
Eustace Miles got damages at West
minister UOndon) against electricians
who sold him an electric pad which, in
stead of warming the bed, set it on fire.
Willis L. Moore replies IN anger to
"hysterical abuse" by newspaper critics
of his Inauguration day prophecy and
says he will promise fair weather again
under similar conditions.
A single dealer in Madrid sells aunu-
ally 10000 larks, fnches and other small
birds for food, and the total number thus
consumed is estimated at million in
that city alone.
Missouri supreme court Overrules the
motions for a rehGaring in the custer
suit against the Standard Oil company
of Indiana and the Republic Oil company
Of Ohio and decides the order stands.
India's accumulated boards of wealth
locked up i'll strong iron boxes and Sc
creted, amounts to $1.5C000000O, and
this vast sum is being Augmented annu-
ally to the amount Of $55,O90,O00.
A combined Danish and French Scien-
tific expedition will visit the Danish
West Indies in an endeavOr to determine
the part played by bloOd-sucking insects
in the spreading of leprosy.
The island of Maurititius has a new
industry-the manufacturing Of oil from
pisacchiO nuts. 1t sells for 33 cents a
quart and is useful as substitute for
lard and inferior olive oil.
The first medal for artistic photo
graphs of children at the Kansas state
photographers convention was awarded
to Mrs Helen /, Francis. About half
the competitors for the prize were men.
Russia has bought an aerOplane which
has not yet flown. The inventor is one
of the founders of the AeropIane club,
Catpain Windham, kings messenger,
with whom is Joined Captain Gammin.
For two centuries London has been
the leading port of the world For many
years little money has been expended on
harbOr improvements, but vast sums will
soon be used in bettering its facilities.
Austria has had an abundant wheat
crop this season. Owing to the high
prices in the worlds markets, shipments
of the grain are being hurried forward
in steamships instead of, as usual, by
sailing vessels.
The rise Of banking in London may be
laid to date from 1872, when the king
confscated the amounts outstanding at
the credit Of the wealthy gOldsmiths,
said Charles WeIch recently, speaking at
the London institution.
Walter Wellman says combination
has been formed in the senate to put
through high protection measure and
that President Taft will be forced to veto
it or submit to the passage of tariff
bill which does not carry out party prom
iSeS.