Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
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Last years output of coal in Eng
land showed decrease of over six
million tons.
0ne-third of all the tonnage under the
American flag is employed on the
Great Lakes.
More than 100000 pounds of human
hair a.e exported from Hong Kong to
this country annually.
An alloy OF iron and thorium. when
/ lightly struck like flint. gives off
very bright sparks which set shayings
afre
The worlds stock of sold has de-
creased about one-half in the last
decade. and doubled in the last quarter
of century.
From July l TO Dec 81. 1908. 24.5O0
persons entered Mexico. or these IL
600 were Americans aad 800 were
homecoming MeXicans
Of the 3,23S fires which occurred in
London in 1908, electricity is said to
have been the cause of 1Ol. ana $50
were attributable to gas.
The death records Of the railroads
have been lesseaed materially recently
as result of the compulsory adoption
Of safety devices and systems.
There is union of hatmakers al ,.e
Mans, France, in which the Offices Of
president, vice president. secretary and
treasurer are held by one man.
The current year book Of the Carna-
gle institution shows that during the
last year $636.3OO was distributed
among nearly three hundred persons
engaged in conducting scientific re-
| search.
On the shores of Cape Cod there
were, during a period of twenty years
| following 1881, as many as one thou
sand wrecks of vessels carrying pre-
cious cargoes of human beings and Of
| freight.
The first matriculation of women
! students at the universities in Prus-
STA has resulted III the admission of
663 students, including forty-three
! from America and seven from the
The negroes of this country formed
in 1900 1888 per cent of the popula-
| ton; in 1910, 1903 per cent; in 1850.
1858 per cent; in 1860 1412 per cent;
in 1880, 1911 per cent; in 1890 1892
per cent, and in 1900, 1859 per cent
AS against the II 900 motor vehicles
all told in Germany there are more
| than 100000 automobiles in the United
| States, or twice the number in use
! throughout all Europe. In New York
! State alone there are about 10000 cars
| registered.
The most spectacular fire ever wit
messed In the oil industry was at one
| of the Dos Bocas wells in Mexico
| About sixty thousand barrels of oil
were burned up daily for nearly two
months. The flames rose to heights of
500 to 1,400 feet.
/ Whalebone cost only Is cents a
| pound half q century ago To-day it
costs about s. a pound. The total
| product landed from the American fish
| cries during the nineteenth century
exceeded ninety million pounds A
single whale may yield up to three
thousand pounds.
The story is an old one of the party
of tired travellers who entered a house
! decorated by a peculiar sign and de-
manded oysters This is not a res
| taurant," said the courteous gentle
man who met them; 81 am an aurist."
isn't that an oyster hung outside the
door," asked one. ''No, gentleman, it
is an ear"
Neck boils come with the sweaty
season. Many people have large hair
pores on the back of the neck. The
sweaty starched collar rim is good
culture soil for boil and carbuncle
germs, which get rubbed into the large
hair follicles or sacks producing a
painful, sometimes dangerous spread
ing crop.
An iceberg described as two and one
half miles long and 500 feet high
| presumably not so high for the whole
two and one-half miles-was passed
about twelve hundred miles from New
York on Monday last by the French
line freighter Mexico 1t was in lati-
tude 1920, longitude 46:70.-New York
Sun.
Benjamin Franklin, premier printer
and philosopher, when 16 read Tom
Tryon's vegetable vagary, became a
convert and thought fishing murder.
but a nosey curiosity showed him lit
tie fish in the stomach of big fish.
Franklin said if big fish eat little
ones, 1t seems not wrong to eat big
fish, also philosophical how convent
ent was reason, for 1t provides a good
excuse and a reason for anything you
want to do-New York Press
More than 1000 New York jewelers..
opticians optometrists and lens grind
ers have been registered by the Board
of Regents and have exemption" GER
tificates from the University of the
State Of New York, which are hard for
the public to tell from medical diplo-
mas. The head men say that of all
who had thus far been examined by
the Board of Regents only sixteen were
able to pass the examination in optom-
etry.
The Gauschaufel is simply an open
air sanitarium for healthy people open
ed last year by the municipality of