Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-29
Items of Interest

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to province it's expenditure has in
creased rapidly. Its balance sheet
last year was 6. 900, 600 taels on the
wrong side.
A Swede has constructed an aerial
torpedo which is claimed to be cap
able of destroying fortifcation or
the biggest battleship afoat. It
weighs % pounds.
The submarine cables of the world
cover a total of 27S, 2O8 miles, distri-
buted among 2,053 cables. Three
fourtns uf this total mileage is owned
by private companies.
Rio de Janeiro, with population
of 900. 900, spent more money for pub
lie improvements this year than any
city in the United States excepting
New York.
The sdaptaoility of electrical en-
ergy is only limited by human imagi-
nation tc devise new ways to put it
to work. New methods of applying
it are adopted every day.
Platinum. used extensively in cleo
tri"al work, is only mined in Californ-
la and Oregon this country, the form
e. supplying 85 per cent of the Amer
lean product.
An electric glue heater has been
put in the market, and Is said to
keep melted glue at a temperature of
$50 degrees for several hours after
the current has been shut off.
On account of the notable success
of the wireless system as installed
on vessels, an effort is being made
to get a lower insurance rate on
vessels thus equipped.
A Maryland railroad is experiment
ing with lighting trains with natui al
gas, which is compressed in storage
tanks under each car in sufficient
quantities to last through it's run.
Germany used 200, 900 horsepower
developed from water: Franco, $780,
900; Italy, 464, 600; Switzerland, $50,
coo. Over 5, ,25O. 600 horsepower from
water is now developed in the United
States.
An instrument that enables the
user to gaze into the human stomach
and watch the digestive processes at
work, was explained at the British
Medical association meeting in Bel
fast.
There is nothing to substatiate the
contention that the human body emits
radiatlons which aft ct the photo-
graphic plate. The French academy
Of science has investigated the
matter.
Tin plate making was introduced
into England from Saxony in 1865,
and the hrst tin plate factory in
France, was established in 17'4. The
plates were first made on commercial
basis in the United States at Pitts.
burg in 1872.
The old lady had very severe ILL.,
ness, and she was relating it's visciss-
itudes to a friend Or two IN the
grocer's shop when the minister came
in. "It's only by the Lords mercy,
she piously declared, "that I'm not
in heaven tonight
One of the most interesting parade
sights during ths convention of the
Elks at Los Angeles, CAL, was the
delegation from Santa Ana. Orange
county. in its paper machine marching
costume. Each huge orange contain
ed full grown man.
Public watering troughs for horses
were condemned as dissiminators of
disease by state veterinarian of Miss
ouri, DR.. F. d. Luckey, and by DR..
Schoenleben. of Kansas, at the $685.
ion of the Interstate association of
Live Stock Sanitary Board in Chicago.
Miss Helen Gould entertained 500
tenement mothers with their children
at her country hume the other day.
The party was taken to Miss Gould 8
estate by the Volunteers of America,
who supplied the transportation and
lunches besides gathering and caring
for the visitors.
. The latest improved life preserver
is hollow belt OF rubber to which
is sttached a cyIinder filled with liquid
carbon diOXide On turning tan