Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-28
Items of Interest

Magnesium is now being employed
as deoxidlzer in brass manufacture,
having that advantage over phosphorus
that an excess may be- used without
harm.
Steam trawlers, similar to those
used in the northern waters of Europe,
are TO be introduced IN the fishing
industry of the coast of British Col
umbia.
In the centers of population alone,
rats damage property worth $40, 600, :
OO0 a year in the United States,
according to Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson.
AS excavations at Herculaneum do
not promise important results, the
Italian Archaeological commission has
recommended that the government
Continue the work at Ponpeii instead.
Alright steel cylinders, having a
combined lifting force of $50 tons,
were used to refoat the British cruiser
Gladiator, sunk in collision with the
American liner st. Paul.
A big fortune awaits the man who
discovers the lost art of the Saracens.
who made sword blades so keen that
they could cut in two the best Sheffield
blades of the present day.
An estimate by the Geological Sur
vey places the country's production of
Portland cement in 1908 at 40. 600, 900
barrels, decrease from the 1907 out
put of nearly 20 per cent.
Paper making from peat on COM
mercial scale has begun in Sweden
where a million dollar company is
turning out wrapping paper and paste
board.
The first bacteria ever seen by man
were discovered by Dutch philos-
opher who was examining under his
microscope scraping from his own
teeth.
Horns with adjustable bells which
control the volume of sound and throw
it in any desired direction, are a
novelty in the musical instrument line.
Experiments are under way in Ger
many. with more than 80 different
processes for removing iron from
drinking water, most of them forms
of filtration.
The longest tunnel in the world,
having length of over fourteen miles,
will pierce the Caucasus mountains on
the line of the Russian railroad from
Mzchet to Valdikavkas, work upon
which will soon begin.
A recent discovery in the chemical
world was liquid preparation to pre-
vent the bottom of ships from rusting
or gathering marine growths. AL
though the secret was known to the
Romans, it was lost about 800 years
ago.
There is not one-twentlteh as much
Mocha coffee sold in New York city,
according to the label, as there was
before We had pure food law. Now
coffee sellers must tell the truth about
their wares, and only coffee grown in
Yeman, in the southern part Of Arab
ia, can be called "Mocha.''
Makers OF artificial flowers in New
York city are receiving an unusual
number of orders from all parts of
the country for the fall and winter
trade. Most OF the supply for the
nation comes from New York, where
more money is spent for the manu-
facture of imitation flowers than in
any other city in the world.
A pamphlet recently issued by
Andrew Murray gives brief survey
of missions south of the Zambesi.
There are 81 different missionary
organizations at work, ministering to
over 10. 900, 900 people. The student
volunteer movement in South Africa
has put 48 young missionaries in the
field since 1896.
Siam has recently passed law Civ
ing women the right to vote in certain
cases. While this may seem an ex
traordinary step for an Oriental people
the Siamese women themselves ex-
plain that il ia the teaching of