Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-07
Items of Interest

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heat as coal.
The incubator was invented by an
cient Egyptians.
Snow never falls on about two-thirds
Of the earth's surface.
Illinois Manufacturers association
scores railroads for watering stock and
blames them for panic.
India's rice crop is failure. Burma
rice is going there weekly in shipments
of 1900 tons.
The hide of COW weighs about thirty
five pounds, but that of a horse is about
hBlf that amount.
| Illinois senate committee agreed on
plan Of industrial insurance for the men
who dig the deep waterway.
Since their incorporation the Kimber-
ley mines have produced twelve tons of
diamonds, valued at $5,C0O,000,0OO.
The warship without tunnels has come
in the British interchangeable, which will
be propelled by internal combustion en-
gines.
Message in a bottle washed ashore at
Oakland, Cal, appeals for aid for girl
declared to have been kidnapped and car
ried out to sea.
1t is anticipated that the anti-opium
crusade in China will be the means of
opening up new market for American
| tobacco. a-
Protection afforded to the seal and the
salmon has for the time being made
serious deficiency in the value of the
fish product of Canada.
An automatic burglar alarm has just
been invented in Russia by lieutenant
Colonel Tufaev and Mr.. DomanOvsky.
The signal consists of 200 shots fired au-
tomatically.
The University of California is about
to try to experiment of raising grapefruit
from trees imported from Annoy, China, |
and said to produce the best fruit of the
kind in the world.
AS a substitute for the baby carriage
French inventor has brought out port
able hammock by which an infant can
be carried between two prisons by straps
from their shoulders,
In some years the total of coffee, tea
and cocoa imports into this country is
considerably more than $10o 100000.
Coffee imports alone have on certain Oc-
casions, apprOximated $1OO,OOO,OOO in
value. ..f.--
BY signing treaty on March IL at
Bangkok, Siam, 1900 square miles OF
territory have been added to the British
empire. Under the treaty British capital
to the extent of $2OO,OCO,OOO will be fur
nished for the construction of railroads
south from Bangkok.
Friedrich Thell, a peasant of Rauda, in
SaXOny, whose leisure hours have been
devoted to the study of Greek, Latin, He
brew, Sanscrit, Arabic and Gaelic, is sew
enty-6ve years old. He is beginning to
study the English language Thell is in
correspondence with some of the leading
philologists of the day.
The council of the Royal College of
Surgeons of England decided at a recent
meeting that steps should be taken at
once to admit women to the examinations
for the diploma in public health, and
also that women should be admitted on
the same footing as men to examinations
for Ii enses to practice dental surgery.
Representative John K. Tener, of
Pennsylvania, is the talest member Of
the new congress. Mr.. fener is a Sc
date banker and only a few Old-time
baseball enthusiasts recognized in him.
when he came to Washington, Jack Te-
uer, a famous pitcher.
Jose Gaudaloupe Al'itd, of JaIcsti-
tian, state Of Jatisco, Mexico, is said to
0e the oldest man III the world The re-
.0rd uf his birth, as contained in the
archives Of the parish oh 1rch, show that
he WAS born in t770, which makes him
l39 wears - Il. He is in good physical
condition.
| For ali German naval guns, even the
| eleven-inch, the charges are in meta!
cas- or cartridges. shower Of sparks
into a German magazine or down ali
ammunition h i8t would. theoretically
At least, be harmless. The cartridges
for the new e.eveninch guns are very
heavy and picked men have to be
employed to handle them.