Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-15
Items of Interest

| tHc iiE 81 tsItAG HI ICUGOD III 1914.
At the beginning of the year there
were 164. I0S telephones in London.
Salt, pet,oIcum, matches, playing
cards are state nunUpolies in Greece.
At one time among the Greeks the
wearing of bree ches indicated
slavery.
Whooping cough kills more child
rem under FIVE years Of age than
scarlet fever.
There are now ever 80, 600 men
employed in government dockyards
in Eng land.
Deaths from hydrophobla in Europe
average only small fraction over one
u year.
Dragon flies can catch insects when
flying at the rate of 90 or SO miles an
hour.
BuenUs Ayres has the finest opera
hou9e in the western hemisphere.
1t cost $40, 600, 600.
Russia has 89G convents, with a
total of 65, 24O inmates. Of these,
AZ, 429 are nuns, 1851 monks.
Refrigerated beef, grown and
killed in Argenlna. will probably
soon be shipped TO New York.
Greg as served in the British navy
consists of a mixture of three parts
water and one part rum.
it is estimated that in two years
tine there will be two Germans for
every Frenchman in tha world.
The five largest Office buildings in
New York contain 1900 miles of
telephone wire and almost 10000
telephones.
Statistics just compiled shuw that
the average is Is car rides a year for
each inhsbitant of New York city.
Five Chinese government schools
are teaching railway engineering.
and sixth probably viii establish a
course.
One of the to observatories On the
summit of Mont Blanc as been given
up because of the violence OF the
storms.
When dusting or cleaning the new
Tungsten lamps the lamp should be
burning to prevent accidents to the
delicate flament.
An Italian journal says that Adelina
Patti has sold her throat for $l0O, 600 |
to an American, who will exhibit it
after her death.
Liverpool ia the third city in the
world in tte manufacture of flour,
being exct eded by only Minneapolis
and Budspes h.
Electric Iaundries are being in
stalled ON the big ocean liners where
all the washing, drying and ironing
are dune by electricity.
Filipino prisoners in Bilibid both
men and women, are now allowed a |
certain number of cigarettes day at |
government expense
The average person does not ex-
perience any sensation from an elec-
trical current until the pressure re-
aches about volts.
Rhode Island received It's name
from what is supposed to be re-
semblance IN contour to the island of
Rhodes in the Mediterranean.
The largest electric sign in the
south advertises the CITY Of Montgom-
cry, Ala. The sign is 75x85 feet and
contains about 2, 500 lights.
DIR. Mary Walker. in an address the
other day at Utica N. Y, said there
was only one cause for tuberculosis,
and that was tobacco smoke.
Seven 325-ton locomotives, each
25 tons heavier than the largest built,
are nearing completion at Philadel-
phia for the Hartman lines.
Iowa ships approximately l, 900, 900.
600 pounds of butter outside of it's
borders every year, the surplus pro-
duct over and above the home con-
sumption.
An ingenious machine recently pat
ented by an Iowan, takes a piece of
wire, cuts 1T the right length. bends
it and fastens it around hose TO hold
coupling.
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