Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-01
Items of Interest


members.
The rock of Gibralter raises ,43g feet
from the sea.
st. Peters, in Rome, will accommodate
$4,000 persons.
The German mile is four times longer
than the English.
The lungs of an adult human being
have 175,000.0O0 cells.
Only 10 per cent of the flowers of Eu-
rope have perfume.
Metal shavings and concrete constitute
a new paving material.
Hindoos are displacing the japanese in
some California orchards.
France sends great quantities of cheap
jeweIry all over the world.
| A 400-p0und halibut was recently dis
played in London.
| A galvanic cell has been invented
which generates an alternating current.
Great Britain, in 1908, sold $2O0,O00,O00
worth of coal to foreign nations.
During the year 1908 the telephone was
adopted on 1857 miles of railroad.
Farm hands for harvesting the grain
and fruit crops Of California are scarcer
! than ever.
The chief ownership Of the electric
lines in Buenes Ayres is in the United
States.
steam collier built entirely of ce-
ment is being constructed by the Italian
government.
Efforts to utilize the spiders web for
practical purposes were made as early as
ITO in France.
A blind and rich farmer is in Pitts
burg seeking a wife, who, he insists.
must be pretty"
Stealing electricity in Colorado is pun
ishable by fine of $50 and imprison
ment for 80 days.
In order to construct the Manchester
ship canal over 100000 cubic yards
had to be eXcavated.
At a recent exhibition of Womens
work in London there were exhibited
five safety razOrs invented by women.
The city of Buda-Pesth operates bread
bakery which will soon have capacity
Of $4,000 loaveS day.
SinglerOOm dwellings for the use Of
the poor are being experimental with by
the city of Newcastle, England.
The electric lighting industry is rep
resented in the United States by 5,264
companies and municipal plants.
Among the 4,OO2 public schools for
girls in Prussia there are 354 in which
no instruction in gymnastics is given.
In order to give the London policemen
a day Of rest each week it has been nee
essary to add 800 men to the force.
1t is said that 6,784 out of the 100000
working girls in New York get vacations
through churches, social settlements and
societies.
1t is proposed to transform the motor
iOus Blackwells island in the East river,
New York. into the greatest tuberculosis
hospital in the world.
Two million American made cigarets
in boxes and tins and 10000 pounds of
tobacco in tins and plug were imported
into Bangkok last year.
A company of Greeks is establishing in
California dairy and factory at which
the milk Of 5000 sheep is to be made into
a special kind of cheese.
The longest telephone span in the
world crosses Lake Wallenstadt, it Swift
zerland, the steel towers supporting the
wire being nearly 5000 feet apart.
The pack of Columbia river salmon
shows 20 per cent shrinkage from last
year. The season has been about 25 per
cent short Of preceding seasons in dura
tiOn.
Experiments in abrasion conducted at
French mint have proved that alumni
mum COINS will be less rapidly worn by
use than coins made Of gold, silver or
even bronze.
The smallest tree that grows in Great
Britain may be seen on the very top of
Ben LomOnd. 1t is the dwarf willow,
which at maturity reaches height of
only two inches.
In his first years in America Caruso
would not eat chickens and ducks from
the butcher shop, but 5tall-fed and fat
tened Italian fowls in the basement Of
his residence.
The success of the electrically illumi
mated baseball grounds at Cincinnati. O..
has been so pronounced that it is now
proposed to have football games as well
on the Illuminated field.
wisconsin Inventors