Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-10
Items of Interest


The first horse railroad was built in
1926
Coal was first used as an illuminant
in 1926
The folding envelope was first used in
1889
The velucipede was invented by Drais
in 1917.
Advertisements first appeared in news
papers in 1862.
The period of deepest sleep varies from
o'clock to 5.
Roumania has 6,5O0,cOO inhabitants,
of whom 300 0 aro blind.
The first school for the blind was es-
tablished in 1871 in Liverpool.
The only self-supporting territory of
the United States is Alaska.
Only five and half per cent of the
total area Of the world is tillabIe.
The mines of Butte, Mont, have COM
bined pay roll of $3.OOO.O0O year.
The British WeIsbach company has be-
gun manufacturing electric lights
Coolies in BOrneo are indentured at
$1S to $50 year, with board and cloth
ing.
The Chilean government has under
contract 69S miles of railroads at an es-
timated cost of s24,2O7,66O.
The Argentine legislature is consider
! ing the construction of underground
railways in Bune0s Ayres.
Duluth, at the head of Lake Superior
has the greatest mineral tonnage of any
port in the world.
Arranged in traight line, the rail-
wa,s of the world would reach to the
moon and back again.
1t is just being realized that the Trans
Siberian railroad was poor job from an
engineering standpoint.
The observed rate for the sound of "a"
in great" is 420, and for the sound of
"a" in mat" 40 waves a second
Pupils in the Philadelphia public
schools are Feing taught TO board and
alight from street cars in a safe manner
| Heads of PhiIadelphia's police depart
ment plan to equip each patrolman with
pocket electric searchlight.
| A patent on horseshoe designed to
prevent the stumbling of horses Was
granted in Panama four years ago.
In the year 1908 there were 1900
wells drilled in the United States. at a
cost of about $30O0O,OOO.
Ten years ago the Standard Oil COM
pany refined 80 per cent of the oil pro-
duced; now it refnes only 80 per cent.
Forty thousand yards of bunting were
used recently on the Madison Square
garden during the annual electrical
show.
New York has followed the example Of
Philadelphia and established a free per-
manent exhibition of building nate
rials.
The telephone and telegraph wires Of
the United States would encircle the
earth at the equator more than 900 times.
Near Hamburg. Germany, a patch of
dwarf birch trees is closely guarded at
government erpense as rare survivor
of pOst-glaciat 1Ora.
A chimney Of concrete block was re-
Gently buit III Germany without the use
of scaffoIGing, which represents grea%
economy in the cost.
Billiards and pool on shipboard are
now possible thr; ugh the recent inven-
tion Of seIf-Ieveiing table which ac-
commodities itself to every movement Of
the vessel.
Leyantine newspapers report that
Turkey has granted a conditional con-
cession t. an American syndicate for a
1,243 milp railroad through Asia Minor.
Notwithstanding the duty of 10 per
cent per barrel, large quantities of
apples from Or gon, Washington and
other states are consumed in western
Canada.
In 1881, 1885,, ,331 persons were engae ed
in agriculture in the United Kingdom.
Ten years later the number had decreas-
ed to ,249, ,756; while in 1871 il was 2.1O9,
SIP
Queen Maud NORWAY, can ri e
across country at regular breakneck
speed. and ste is said to have beaten the
record of the late empress of Austria in
the hunting field
lection Of 0HCarC