Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-03
Items of Interest

In India there are nearly 26,OO0,OC0
widows.
A full grown cat has 80 teeth, while a
dog has AZ.
The earliest telegraph records were
four or five words a minute.
Some authorities say the founder is
only a Goldfish with fattened head.
About 10000 beds are required to hold
LOndon's sick and manned.
A nursery for the children of patrons
is connected with Glasgow theatre.
Out of total of IS south pole expedi-
tiOns nine have been British.
Nearly 2OO,0O0,e00 people of India are
dependent on the soil for existence,
In the last ten years $4,000 persons
have emigrated from England to the
farms of Canada.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of rose
leaves were imported during the decade
ending 1908.
Lake Superior is the largest mass of
fresh water in the world, being equal to
Ireland in area.
At rose competition in Paris recent
ly, SO entirely new varieties of roses
were exhibited.
Australian bOOmerangs and noiseless
guns are both now seen in the same New
York shop window
Germany, Great Britain and the United
States produce four-ffths of the worlds
supply of pig iron.
Frederick the Great had tender feet
and used to have an old double who
broke in new boots for him.
French theatres receiving government
subsidy are obliged to give free per-
formance every year.
Canada produces nearly one-half the
worlds supply of maple sugar, about 49,
100000 pounds annually.
The longest pipeline in the world is
that which extends from the Oklahoma
oil wells to New York harbor.
Havana has 400 different kinds of food
fish, while England all around has only
80 sorts of food fish.
Illinois has more rural routes than
any other state i'll the union. Ohio
Iowa and Indiana follow in the order
uamed.
To build tunnel under the English
channel, according to present project,
would entail an expenditure of $4,000
900.
More than 100000 Worth Of birds were
imported into this country during the
year 1908. They were largely parrots
and canaries.
Three billion herring are caught every
year out of the North sea and Atlantic
alone, to say nothing of the rest Of the
world.
In 1907 no fewer than 444, ,l2l pounds
of crude opium for medicinal purposes)
and 1895 pounds of smoking opium
were imported into this country.
The death records of the railroads have
been leSsened materially recently as
result of the compulsory adoption of
safety devices and systems.
About sixty miles from Melbourne,
Australia there have been discovered on
government lands deposits of some 90
100000 tons of good black coal.
A movement has been set on foot at
Calcutta to erect statue to Lord Kitch
ener, in cOmmemOratiOn Of his tenure of
office as cOmmander-in-ch in India.
Germany, Austria and Hungary have
established museums in Constantinople
for the display Of samples of various
manufacturers that interest the Turks
No fewer than 206 persons lost their
lives in the mines of Lancashire Eng
land, last year, as against an average an
nual mortality of 140 in recent years.
The capture of bluefish from New Jer-
sey to MOnOmOy during season is ,000,-
600, averaging six pounds. Bluefishing
on the New England coast lasts 12O days.
Exports of manufacturers from New
York city are increasing rapidly, and at
the present rate the total exports of this
year will not be less than S700,0GO,C00 in
yalup