Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

put together.
The temperature of flowers is al
ways slightly higher than that of the
surrounding atmosphere.
Lignous cement is coming into gen.
eral use for routing of houses in the
vicinity of Lyon, France.
One of he high est trees in the
world is the Australian gum, whic
often exceed height of 4U0 feet.
Mure than 5000 persons are burned
to death in the United States each
year, according to government figures.
Of the 65. 44l, ,275 gallons of alcohol
msnufac ctured in France last wear,
more than 80, 900, ,0J0 were made from
beets.
The japanese government plans tc
introduce d bill in the coming diet
providing for a national monopoly of
medicines
Japan is about to make her first
real census. Heretofore the popula-
tion has been estimated on the birth
and death returns.
For the United states to investi-
gate its water resources as thorough
~ as does Switzerland, would cost
S11O, 900, 900 year.
More than 100000 acres Of the
best agricultural lands in the United
States are uDproductive because they
need drainage.
Every industrial country in the
world except the United States re-
vokes patents if not WORKED III the
country granting them.
The United States take almost ali
of Nc tn China's wool, ore of the
most important exports from that seq
tion of the empire.
The United States expurts oranges
worth $780,, 900 year, mainly to
Canada. most Of the few that go to
Europe being shipped to England
patent has been granted to Ten
nessee mCn for an attachment to a
cradle that waves a fan over the oc-
cupant as the cradle is rocked.
The latest thing in the electric
light line is mercury vapor lamp
with quartz tube IN glass globe,
rated at 5000 candle power.
Experiments have been under way
for the past six years in Paris and
Lyons with Davenents composed of
asphalt and rubber, with good results.
Ancient inscriptions. recently
foud in Egypt, show that the use of
the bellows for blowing fires was
known fifteen centuries Fefore hrist.
The inventor of absiathe sold his
secret tor a trifie to a man who dis
posed of it for $50, 200 TO a third
party who made millions by it.
Applications for patens on electri-
cal novelties pour into the patent
office at Washington in far greater
numbers than for any other form vf
invention.
A French inventor has produced a
horseshoe of leather which is secured
to the hoof with a mixture of cement
and asphalt, to avoid the use of nails.
The secret formula for making the
paper for the bank of England notes
is owned by family TO whom 1t has
brought an enormous fortune in two
generations.
Swedish match manufacturers have
almost completely denuded that coun-
try of trees suitable fur match sticks
and are rapidly reducing Kussia's g
available supply.
The Geological survey h5s issued
for the use of colleges and schools a
profuseiy illustrated book, giving
thorough instructions in the interper-
tation of Topographic maps.
+, Although the average annual dam
age by floods in the Uuted States has
never been accurately determined, a
recent government estimate placed the
figures at 800. 600, 600.
The process of distillng the dye
from which the brilliant rUbes of the
Catholic cardinals are made, has been
tept secret in Protestant French
family fur many generations.