Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-19
items Of interest

attack and destroy airships. is under
construction at Berlin for the German
army. 1t will carry rapid fire gun and
a crew of four men.
The recent discovery of human remains
in Swiss cave has led a German sayant
to declare that man lived there before
the last glacial epoch, at least 100000
years age.
Two Cornell University students, John
c. Burkhart and Oscar Frolicht, have in
vented heayier-than-air flying machine
which has made several successful
flights,
Within the ten years that Christmas
Island. in the Indian ocean, has been in
habited. the native rats have been exter-
minated by the brown rats introduced
from Europe.
The German colonial authorities are
considering the establishment of forest
reserve in the CamerOOns in order that
the rare fauna of the tropics may be pre-
served from extinction.
The first steel ingOt ever produced in
Denmark, cast recently at Copenhagen,
will be used as pedestal for a bust of
q. A. Hagemann, director of that city's
polytechnic school
An automobile street sweeper in use
IN Paris, which sprays water on the
pavement ahead of a revolving broom,
uses but gallon Of water to each 1000
square feet Of surface.
To save time in restaurants. a Phila-
delphian has patented spjgOt for coffee
and tea urns which opens valve and
allows the contents to run out when a
cup is pressed up against it.
A scientist has succeeded in perfecting
a camera so rapid that it not only photo
graphs flying bullets but the waves of
condensed air in front of them and the
rarefed air behind them.
In Denmark artificial butter is made
by stirring little salt ana sugar into
cOcOanut fat, then kneading it with milk
containing Tactic acid bacteria, yOlk of
egg and cOlOring substance.
Recent discoveries in Louisiana Of In
dian remains and of haIt-burned human
bones verified the charges that the At
takapas Indians, who once inhabited
that country, were cannibals.
A Chicago man has been granted a
patent on an electric light attachment
for clock which switches OH the cur
rent by pressing button under the pill
low, to save the user getting ont of bed.
The nations production of fine pIati
mum decreased from ,439 ounces, valued
at $40, ,189, in 1906, to 357 ounces, valued
at $1O5S9, in 1907. Of this 300 Onnces
came from California and 81 from Ore
gOn.
A recent German invention is an auto
matte life belt which is inflated by car
bOnic gas generated by the action of
water on carbonate Of soda and tartartG
acid, which are contained inside the
belt.
A virgin territory, rich in gold, silver,
copper, iron and mahogany, will bG tap
ped by railroad from Truxile to Te-
guigalpa, Honduras, for which cOnces-
sion has been granted to an American
company.
According to a Massachusetts doctor
who recently returned from an African
trip, the monkeys and gray squirrels of
the dark continent use a blue clay which
contains cre0sOte to kill nerves in de-
cayed teeth.
A Great Lakes steamship company
which operates feet Of vessels in the
ore carrying trade is experimenting with
concrete floors for them on the plea that
they are more durable, therefore more
economical.
AS 7.3per cent Of the gross earnings Of
the railroads Of the United States is spent
each year for fuel, officials OF forty Of
the principal lines have formed an asso-
citation to discuss economies in this line.
The United States produced $50 tons Of
chrome ore in 1897, while 1889 tons
were imported from other countries,
chiefly Asiatic, Turkey and New Gale
donia, to supply the demand for making
ferro-chrOme alloys and hardening steel.
l. ho
100 miles away, painted steel steamer
which recently arrived at Philadelphia,
dull red, the PARTICLES adhering so
tightly to the metal that they were re-