Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-23
Items of Interest

OV'lS VI SotuNNp q NGdI.
By the use of liquid air a soup bubble
may be frozen solid.
New York city has added 100000 to
its population in the last century.
The first submarine. boat was tried in
Plymouth harb0r. England, in 1774.
John ". Kern is held defender of
gambling in Indiana by former ATTORNEY
General Miller.
New York city is consuming glass
and half of beer now to each glass con-
sumed four years ago.
Newfoundland's fishery outlook this
season is unfavOrable. Many schooners
have returned because of poor fishing.
Owing to long dOuth September proved
Improbable month to fire insurance
companies, losses being $1O,OO0,OOO
above average.
In New York city considerably more
than One-half of all the people, or about
2,SOO,OOO persons, have deposits in the
savings banks.
Ethel Barrymore in an interview at
st. Louis says American elite society Is
composed of useless, braiuless, selfish
and purposeless beings.
New York clty'S Bronx Geological
Garden has more additions to its collec-
tion of animals by birth than any other
such garden in the world.
Two masked men committed a daring
series of rObberies at Slater, Iowa, and
one is captured and cOnfesses, saying
the other got away with nearly all the
loot.
The carrot grows spontaneously
throughout Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia,
northern China, Abyssinia, northern
Africa, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
A New York tradesman of long expert,
ence says that the hardest persons to
collect bills from are those who have no
money and those who have a great deal
of money.
The largest town clock in the world
is in the tower of Glasgow University.
The hammer weighs 120 pounds, the
pendulum 300 pounds, and the whole
clock about ton and half.
One great factor in the high prices of
provisions in New York city is the nece-
ssity of supporting an increasing army
of middlemen who stand between the
producer and the consumer.
Winnepeg is trying to lessen the city's
supply of sewer gas by leading pipes
from the sewers through the street
lamps, which, when lighted, destroy vast
quantities of the nOxiOus gas each night.
Under the name of licOnite, a COM
pound of bitumen and certain oil is be-
ing manufactured in Holland, which has
all the properties Of rubber without any
of that material entering into its COM
position
From one days observation of five
points Of greatest vehicle congestion on
Manhattan island it was learned that
there are siXty-three hOrse-drawn and
thirtyseven pOwerdriyen vehicles in
each one hundred,
That America is the lead in the world
war on tuberculosis is admitted by for
eign delegates to the international con
gress in Washington, and New YOrk's
work is given special praise.
The largest lump Of anthracite coal
ever mined recently was taken from
mine in the Panther creek valley of
Pennsylvania. 1t weighs seven tons,
and will be placed in a museum, either
In Philadelphia or Boston.
A representative of the French gov
ernment has been investigating the
clothing manufacturing industry of the
United States. He says America excGls
in the art, and particularly in the ready
made branch.
Weaving the wires for a great SuS-
pension bridge is slow work that re-
quires Che utmost care. This work for
the new Manhattan bridge has just been
begun and nearly year will be consumed
in completing it.
A combination Of lump of soap Of
the size Of hickory nut, pint Of boil
ing water and four tablespO0nfuls of
turpentine IS the familiar solution used
to transfer newspaper cuts to another
piece Of paper or to cloth.
Partnership for mutual advantage was
observed on Friday afternoon, when two
One-legged men went into Broadway
automatic shOe-shining shop and each
had his one shoe shined for the same
nickel dropped in the slot.
A cheap yet durable pavement has
been laid by the city Of ManketO Mich,
consisting of mixture Of crushed fine
stone, gravel and tar, tOpdressed with
cement and sand. 1t cost only 80 cents
a linaar foot thirty foot wide