Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-03
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


In France and Austria provision Of
rescue work in mines is made com
pulsory.
The price of a gondola ride in
Venice has been increased from a
franc to franc and a half.
The London Lancet says six hun
dred children of leprous parents are
being educated by the Mission OF
Lepers, and the children show no signs
of leprosy.
For the year ended March 81. 1908,
the municipal gas department of Bir-
mingham, England, was able to con-
tribute S347,754 TO the reduction of
city taxation.
Death from fright in the first stages
of ether and chloroform before con-
seriousness is lost is best avoided by
letting the patient hold and inhale the
stuff himself
The seaweed known as Irish moss
Is used TO some extent as food by
the peasantry along the coasts. also
! as jelly for invalids, and as stiffen-
ing for calico in the printing process.
Bermuda producers are beginning to
find 1t more profitable to meet the
wants of the increasing influx of Wis
! itors than to compete with the Gulf
and South Atlantic truck farmers in
/ the New York markets
Dr.. Roberts suggestion in 1881 of
! sewing wounds Of the heart was re-
| ceiyed as a joke. DIR. REIN, of Ger
many, in 1897 got the first recovery
/ from heart wound. Altogether there
| have been sixteen such operations,
with seven amazing recoveries.
IN answer TO the question, What
passages in holy scripture bear upon
| cruelty 10 animals?" one boy said:
Cruel people often cut dogs tails and
ears but the Bible says, Those whom
Goo hath Joined together let no man
put asunder.' christian Register
Dr.. Wurtzen has had great results
in many cases of smallpox, quick cures
! and no pitting. He keeps the patient
in total darkness. and finds Finsen's
red light treatment uncertain. Nc
white light is allowed even for a sec
ond, but red light lamps are momen-
tarily used to examine patients
There are 1890 Young Mems Chris
tan Associations in Germany-only
1889 in America; yet, where the Ger
man associations have but $4,000
members, the American have 446 900.
And German association property
| holdings have a value OF s24O0000.
! cOntrasted with a value of $40 1000 600
! in America
Although the young oriental under
stood ordinary methods and occur
rences very we'll IN his new California
abiding place, he occasionally found a
puzzle. Japanese boy pretty smart
when he can speak American IN
year." he said, but Missouri boy he
speak good after he has been here
| only six months"
In commenting on and g1oating over
the ocean breeZes which tear IL from
| the eastward over Massachusetts, Bay
| a Boston paper rubs it in by saying:
Cincinnati EnQuirer's vivid account of
the general suffocation in the Ohio
and Miami valleys, and then call for
an extra blanket and go to sieep!"
Devil fish weighing up 10 200
pounds are sometimes caught IN Japan
These fish are amphibious; they are
often seer webbing on their tentacles
like giant spiders in search of patches
of sweet potatoes. The natives kill
them with clubs. IN the water they
are caught in jars lowered 20 the bot
! TOM which the octopus enters. think
Ing them good retreat from which
to catch It's food.
The wooden front corsets Of George
II. time were commonly worn by
handles, as shown in Hogarths por-
traits. The doughty warriors Of Gus
tavus Adolphus wore corsets 20 man.
Catherine de Medici loved small waists
knd poison. She introduced the ruff
and thirteen-inch waist This mon
Bter inFented a steel corset 20 wonder
the portraits Of that day look so sol
emn.-New York Press
Whalebone was first used by Queen
Bess. James, after her, compelled al
men and women courtiers to have
wasp waists. Terence, 16G 3. c..
speaks of town ladies who saddle
their backs and straight lace their
waists to make them well shaped"
May "a, 1865, Item: For nine ellis,
Paris measure, for summer robes.
corsets, and cloaks for the same" from
diary of Eleanor, countess Of Laices-
ter First mention of corsets.
This is story told by commercial
traveller after trip through southern
Canada: Being impatient to get out
of a sleepy little town l hurried to
the station. After a while an object
slowly emerged from the distance and
skunk up alongside. l boarded the
solitary coach, and, after a tedious
wait, the engine began to gasp feebly,
the old coach creaked little, but the
train did not move. / was about 10
get out to see what was the matter
when the forward door Of the coach
was suddenly flung open and head
popped IN. Hey, you said the en-
gineer, leering at me, climb off till l
get start, will YEP"
A poor foreign musician was logged
" wrestling with his trombone out