Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-26
Items of Interest

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industry.
One ton of apples will usually yield
| $50 gallons of cider.
Natives of the Upper Congo eat certain
kinds OF catterplllars.
The use of barges in the coastwise
trade is increasing enormously.
Nitrogen iOdide is so sensitive that
the touch of fly's foot would explode it..
AS rule two productive acres of land
are required for each inhabitant Of a
country.
Last year more than $1,000 children
were taught to swim at the London pub
lie schools.
| Farming in some parts of Nigeria has
been rendered Improbable by the raids
| of balloons.
The first books had pages printed on
one side only, the sheets being pasted
back to back.
The PROJECT of the Cape Cod canal, now
under construction, antedates the revO-
lutiOnary war.
A Chinese rescued from drowning is
compelled to support his rescuer the rest
of his life.
Although the steamship is century
old there are still more than $1,000 sail
ing vessels on the high seas.
The distribution of hot springs in the
United States comedies very closely with
that Of our mountain uplifts.
Barth college, England, which was
founded in 1877, is to be closed at Christ
mas and the company wound up.
During the first seven months of this
year over 10000 people left the United
Kingdom for British North America.
The installation of wireless tele-
graph apparatus is illegal in England
without the consent Of the pOstOffice de-
partmeDt.
| The first process of making soda on an
extensive scale was discovered by Nicho.
las Leblanc, French chemist, in 1871.
Cotton plants require little care in
Honduras. They produce cotton in lux
uriant abundance during nine months of
the year.
There is one mill in Minneapolis which
turns out between 1900 and 1900 bar
rels of -four each day.
To encourage saving among the people,
the Spanish government has established
postal savings bank under guaranty of
the state.
| Great Britain's foreign trade in nine
months of the present year has increased
AZ per cent. Imports have risen $4,000
600 and exports $5,899,tOO.
Ghe new terminal station of the Penn
| sylvania railroad in New York has six
teen miles of tracks, including twenty
one standing stations.
| An eight-track swing bridge across
the main channel of the Chicago drain
age canal near Thirty-frst street, will be
| operated by electricity.
| There are three women among the
nominees for the next Norwegian parlia-
ment One was chosen by the Liberals
and two by the Socialists.
More than 10000 school children of
Chicago are forced by reason Of made
quate seating accommodations, to cut
their attendance to half day session.
Glass water pipes covered with asphalt
have been in use for long time in some
parts of Germany with success. They
give thorough protection against the en-
trance OF gasses and acids.
Somebody has invented a combined
electric lamp and shaving mirror in
which the reflector can be arranged to
throw light only on the face below the
eyes, no light falling upon the mirror or
they eyes.
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, although
blind, was an interested spectator" of
the flights Of the Wright brothers, near
Washington. He complained that he
was unable to watch the flights as sue
cessfully as game Of ball.
Official statistics for the first six
months Of 1909 show a continued decline
in the population of Frau &c. The mar
riages decreased 6,201 as compared with
1903, divorces increased by SAB, births de-
creased 1862 and deaths increased by
25,010.