Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
Items of Interest

London eats 10000 tons of fish each
| year.
A watch is composed of ninety-eight
pieces.
Siberia has sixty days of rain each
year, on the average.
The horses of the Soudan wear socks
Of camels hair.
Sicily lost sixty thousand inhabitants
by earthquake in 1893.
The average weight of the heart is
from nine to eleven ounces.
The Chinese pupil reciting his lesson
turns his back to the teacher.
Tulane university realized an endow-
ment fund of $l,00O,00O last year.
The prizes now being contested for by
avlators number thirty-eight and are
valued at $4,000.
The bark of the dog is an acquired
habit. In his wild state he never barks,
but whines and howls.
A trcakless trolley in the streets of
Vienna nearly a mile and half long
operates with success.
Two-thirds of the native population of
Uganda has been wiped out by the sleep
ing sickness in seven years.
A new machine automatically weighs
or measures medicine and fills eight
capsules while one is filled by hand.
The total number of immigrants COM
ing into the United States since 1920,
the year of earliest record, exceeds 26,-
100000.
Cha0 Ping-chun, vice president of the
Chinese ministry of interior, has been
ordered to retire. owing to his opium
habits.
If a human being continued to grow
at the same rate as he does in his first
year he would be sixty-eight feet tall at
the age of ten.
The United States government main
tains fifty-seven wireless telegraph sta
tiOns and has niRety-six vessels fitted
out with such facilities.
Up to few months ago the guayule
plant in Mexico was considered worth
less. Then the plant was discovered to
contain rubber, and now its market price
is 500 ton.
The census bureau statistics of cleo
trio lighting, electric traction and tele-
phone companies shows a gross income
for the three industries in the United
States Of s79O,COOOOO in 1907.
Water tanks of white pine psed an
railway work, states the Engineering
Record, have in the past had a maximum
life of twenty years, while the maximum
life OF cypress is twenty-five years.
The king Of Siam does not cOnfne his
relationship to mother earth. He claims
to be Brother of the Moon, Half Brother
of the Sum- as we'll as Sovereign Arbi-
traitor of the FluX and Refux"
The government tests at Washington
samples of the chain to be used on the
gear of the Panama canal locks with
stood tensile tests Of 10000 pounds to
the square inch before the metal parted.
Brigades of exceptionally tall girls
practically rule hospitality all over the
country, declares the English Lady's Pic
torial. They need not be pretty or intel
ligent. for they are expected to do moth
ing except be tall.
The sweetest town in the world is
Grasse, in the foothills back of Fannes,
on the French Riviera. All through the
year Grasse is really one big bubbling
cauidrOn where are distilled gallons,
barrels, h0gsheads of perfumes.
| The petroleum area of the United
States at present known are set down at
| $3.50 square miles, or somewhat larger
than the state Of Massachusetts; and the
gas area at 10,055 square miles, or
slightly more in area than the state of
| Vermont.
Boston University, according to it's
new year book, has an attendance of
1,514 in all its departments. Of these
962 are men and 552 are women. The
chief increases are in the college of lib
eral arts, the courses for teachers and
| the school Of theology.