Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-09
Items of Interest

South America had newspapers as long
| ago as 1894.
Uncle Sans cattle eat 100000
worth of hay annually.
Ronmania has a prison for women
Which Is managed by women.
| Heidelberg is to have a special insti-
tute for experiments with radium in
treating diseases.
Australia has more unemployed area in
proportion to the population than any
| other country.
New York girl, weighing 600 pounds,
sues railway company for $4,000 for 200
pounds she lost in alleged accident.
Philippine planters, finding hemp cul-
| t1VatlOn not as profitable as in former
| years, are beginning to till their lands
for other crops.
| Rhode Island received it's name from
| what was supposed to be resemblance
in contour to the Island of Rhodes in the
Mediterranean.
Albert Richardson, of Eskridge, Kan,
| died last week at the age of 10. He was
SO old at the time OF the civil war that
his enlistment was refused.
During the year 1908 no fewer than 9,
2o4 different books were published in the
United States. This number is 366 less
than during the preceding year.
There are LOO Congregational church
es in the fourteen states and territories
between line drawn north and south at
Kansas City and the eastern line Of Cali
fornia.
Wheather reports by wireless telegraph
Ior fIIr fuhn D,.,+ -, L L
in the Atlantic. The ocean has been di-
vlded into numbered areas, SO as to locate
all reports.
The management of the Alaska-Y Yukon
Pacific exposition has invited mothers of
babies born in Seattle during the month
of June to have the babies christened at
the exposition grounds in July,
At the beginning of the present year
Japan had 3,308 telegraph offices and the
lines were 5,387 miles long, with total
length of wire 92,227 miles. Nearly 5000,
600 kilograms were handled last year.
The wealth of the United States in 1850
was S7,OoO,O0O,000, speaking in round
terms; in 1860, S16,0OO.000, 900; in 1870,
0,000,O00,000; in $780, $43,5OO,OOO,
in 1890, $65 100000; in 1900, $88,5OO,
100000, and in 1904, s107, 0OO,OOO,OOO.
The only ostrich farm in Europe is at
Nice. 1t is said to be profitable. Incu-
batOrs have to be used to hatch the eggs,
the sun in the Riviera not being hot
enough to do this work, as 1t does in
Africa.
At the close of the fiscal year 1908 the
railroad mileage of the United States
was 10000, as compared with 1876, 1888 in
nd HIn r,of
italizatiOn is Sl3,OOO,OO7, O12, an increase
of 80. s per cent over the figures of 1898.
Among the 100000 working women
in this country there are nearly million
widows and nearly 100000 married
women whose husbands have failed to
provide for them. Nearly 100000 di-
vOrced women are among the wage
earners.
The new Chinese government arsenal
at Canton now turns out rifles and quick
firing guns according to the latest pat
terms, which are almost as good as those
impOrtei from foreign countries with re-
gard to make and finish.
There are in Germany about $500 hos
pitfalls in which 200, 900 patients are an
nually treated. Adding to these the in
mates of private sanatOria and patients
treated at home it is estimated that at
all times one person in sixty of the popu-
lation is seriously i'll.
At a little town in Arkansas the Meth
0dist and Presbyterian churches are To-
Gated near to each other. One Sunday
morning the Presbyterlans were heard
singing. will There Be Any Stars in
My CTown?" The next Sunday morning
the echo came from the Methodists, mo,
Not One"