Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
Items of interest


600 members.
Ecuador exports about 10000 tons OF
vegetable ivory annually.
There are organizations in England to
fight rats and sparrOws.
English is rapidly becoming the com
mercial language of China.
The Nile valley is all there is of Egypt
from productive point of view.
A cork carried 200 feet below the sur
face of the water will not rise again.
The Salvation Army of Europe has an
anti-tobaccO league CT $4,000 persons.
Last year 500 American motor cars
crossed the frontiers Of Germany in tour.
A whole bunch of bananas can be
bought in Colombia for from 20 to 25
cents.
The worlds stock of gold money is
practically 70 per cent more than de-
cade ago.
One-third of all the tonnage under the
American flag is employed on the great
lakes.
Electric lights, fed by storage batter
les, have been installed in new London
ambulance.
BuenOs Ayres is to have an interna-
tiOnal railway and TRANSFORMATION expo
sitiOn in 1910.
AustriaHungary has prohibited the
importation of bran adulterated with
mineral substances.
More than 100000 pounds of human
hair are exported from HOng-KOng to
this country annually.
Leaf and twig diseases, difficult to
combat, are gradually IeSsening India's
annual production of coffee.
In China, even in the modern Shang-
hal, the motor still continues to be the
cOolie, hire to 10 cents day.
Submarine cables cost $4,000 mile
to lay, and the length Of their life is be-
tween thirty and forty years.
The total continental area Of the
United States, including Alaska, is about
equal to that of all Europe.
An alloy of iron and thOrium, when
lightly struck like flint, gives off very
bright sparks which set shayings afire.
Three pounds of maple sugar to a tree
is considered good yield. This years
yield in Canada was below the average.
The worlds stock of gold has decreased
about One-half in the last decade, and
doubled in the last quarter of century.
The per capita consumption Of tabacco
is lower in Italy than in any other Euro
pean country, being trifle over pound.
OF the $15,COO,OOO paid last year by
Egypt for the whole line Of machinery
and metals, only 100000 went to the
United States.
What the automobile is to the United
States the motor boat is to Canada, es-
pecially along the ST. Lawrence and in
British Columbia.
1t is said that the negligence of the
railroad management is responsible for
only about One-ffth of the losses of
freight in shipment.
From July to December 81, 1908, a.,
500 persons entered Mexico. Of these
1000 were Americans and 300 were
homecoming Mexicans.
Of the 1928 fires which occurred in
London in 1908, electricity is said to
have been the cause Of 1O1, and 355 were
attributable to gas.
The Canadian government is offering
free passage to commercial travellers who
are intent on furthering Canadian eX-
port trade TO South Africa.
Europe has 10000 newspapers, of
which Germany possesses the largest
number. England, however, has the
greatest number of daily newspapers.
Professor Herkomer maintains that
the leading trait among modern painters
is no longer love of their art, but pride
at the price paid for their pictures.
The death records of the railroads have
been lessened materially recently as a
result of the compulsory adoption of
safety devices and systems.
Italy has seventeen tobacco factories.
Ninety per cent Of the operatives are
women, who are paid Oh piece system
and earn from As to So cents a day.
While the seeds of the dOrrOwa, an East
African leguminous tree, are extensively
used for food, the pods and leaves fornI
an excellent cement when mixed with
crushed stone.
We seem to be as busy as boy rob-
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