Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
Items of interest

North America supplies more than
three fifths of the worlds copper.
Ten persons perished in an early
morning fire in New York tenement.
A ton of Dead Sea water will yield 1877
pounds of salt when evaporated.
In London there are about 1900 chari-
ties, dispensing S5o,OOO00O annually.
Headquarters Of gang of Long
| Island Sound pirates" are raided and S3,-
coo loot seized.
New Jersey supreme court declares
proposed consolidation of big leather
companies illegal.
The smallest coin in use is coined by
| the Portuguese government. 1t is worth
3-l0o of cent.
New York City Gas Company begins to
pay out $l2,000,000 in rebates as ordered
by the supreme court.
Growth of imports at New York is more
than $l8,000,0OO in February, is cited
MS indication of good times.
Employment will be given to $4,000
men if England's plan is carried out of
refOresting 10000 acres year.
Mexican men pay from 81 to $50 for
hat, depending on the amount of en-
5rOidery in silver or gold thereon.
Australia covers twenty-six times as
much area as the British Isles, but its
population is less than that of London.
Case involving the Sackville peerage
and estates claimed by the son of a dancer
opens in Madrid and sensational evidence
is produced.
New Mexico produced nearly 100000
tons of coal last year, with full quota
Of miners for the first time in several
years.
An electric organ has been invented. A
series of Vibrators take the place Of the
reeds. Switches and magnets operate
the mechanism.
The best masts are made of the Nor
wegian fir. The next best i'll order are
spruce, fir, American white pine and
Scotch pine.
The Spanish cabinet has accepted the
British bid Of s4O,0OO,O 900 for the construc-
tion of the new Spanish squadron, sub
ject to some notifications of plans on
the part of Spain.
Sixty-fve thousand hungarian part
ridges, bird about twice the size of our
quail, have been imported and liberated
during the last two years by the Connect
icut game commission.
Russia is rich in asbestos and is stead
lily increasing its production. The latest
figures relate to 1906, when there were
twenty-five miles in operation with an
output of nearly 16,000,0000 tons.
The electric furnace is capable of at
tanning heat of 1920 degrees. This is.
a temperature that will melt almost
every solid known. In comparison with
this heat red-hOt bar Of iron would be
called cold.
Whitefsh fry, hatched in the United
States hatchery at Kingston, n. Y, when
liberated, almost invariably expatriate
themselves Immediately by swimming to
their natural feeding ground along the
northern shore of Lake Ontario.
The Independent, a newspaper OF Shef-
field, England, announces that manu-
featuring firm of that city is now placing
on the market a steel which has from
three to seven times the cutting power of
existing high-grade steels, and which
can be hardened in water, oil or blast,
M. Jusserand, who is French ambassa-
dor at Washington, had hoped one day
to bring his literary history of the Eng
lish people down to modern times. His
life as dlplomatist is now, however, so
busy that he has had to abandon the
idea of carrying the work further than
Shakespeare's death.
Mrs. Helen g. TalbOy, Of Sioux City,
who was graduated last year from Drake
University at the head of law class of
thirty-eight, is now in Des MOineS taking
a pOst-graduate course and preparing a
book on real estate law. After cOmplet-
ing her course Mrs. TalbOy intends to en-
ter upon the active practice of law.
Among some African tribes, when a
man processes his love for woman and
asks her in marriage, she invariably re-
fuses him at first, lest it should appear
that she had been thinking Of him and
was eager to become his wife. By so do
ing she maintains the mOdesty of her sex,
as we'll as tests the love and aliases the
pride of her lover.
Mrs. E. s. Fiske, Mrs. II. COlOy Smith
and Mrs. Fl. g. Pickett recently appeared
before the local government officials in
St. John, New Brunswick, and asked that
the franchise in provincial affairs be
given to women on the same terms on
which they now have it in the munich
pal elections. The government officials
took the matter under advisement.
The bill passed in the Belgian parlia-
ment giving women the right to vote for
the members Of the COnsells des Prud-
hommes also gives them the right to
serve on these councils, requiring that