Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-20
Items of Interest

ian monarch.
The first bicycle with pedals was made
about 1910.
Reading aloud is one of the most
wholesome exercises.
The railroads of the world are valued
at $27, 7,775, ,OOO,0OJ.
The house fly becomes full grown in
! about four weeks.
| The English workmen spends three
fifths of his wages for food.
South American ants have been known
to construct tunnel three miles long.
WhOOping cough kills more children
under five years Of age than scarlet
fever.
In France and Austria provision of
rescue work in mines is made compul-
sorry.
A shOal of herrings is sometimes five
or six miles long and two or three miles
broad
Japan has the largest volcano crater
in the world. 1t measures fourteen by
ten miles.
Bodies buried for $50 years have been
found in Siberia in a perfect state of
preservation.
The estimated population of England
and Wales is 35,35O,OOO, as against 81
$4,000 ten years ago.
Nearly two million dollars worth of
tea was exported from Shanghai to the
United States in 1908.
In this country about Is per cent of
the divorces are granted after three or
four years of married life.
The record Of bone yield from single
whale was 5000 pounds, which at the
time was worth nearly $4,000.
Algiers also seems to have Burbank.
A plant expert in Orleansville has sue
ceeded in raising date without stone.
OF the 4,OO0,OOO,OOO gallons of wine
lhdLiul 1obui0u III bll6 ClflllZtu WOTlu
every year, about 100000 are made in
the United States.
The University of Bonn, Germany. for
the first time, this summer reached and
passed the 1000 mark in the number of
students.
The largest coral reef in the world is
to be found at the northern part of Aus
tralia. 1t is one thousand miles long
and thirty miles in width. ~.
During the fiscal years 1905, 1906 and
1907 the number Of immigrants arriving
in the United States averaged more than
one million per annum.
The London Lancet says six hundred
children of leperOus parents are being
educated by the Mission of Lepers, and
the children show no signs of leprosy.
According to the statement by the Ger
man colonial secretary, the value of the
diamOndiferOus deposits in German
Southwest Africa amounts to $250,OOO,-
600.
By the will of Mrs. Mary E. Jones of
Knoxville, ILL.,, $250,OOO has been left to
that city for the erection and mainten-
ance of home for aged women.
According to the latest figures, the
water power development of this cOun-
try is reported at 5,357OOO horsepower
and the number of wheels which it turns
at 52,827.
Full Of zeal, the country convert in
his first prayer meeting remarks offered
himself for service. 81 am ready to do
anything the Lord asks Of me-" said he,
80 long as it's honorable" ea
The seaweed known as Irish moss is
used to some extent as food by the
peasantry along the coasts, also as a
jelly for invalids, and as stiffening for
calico in the printing process.
In the United States of Colombia 81 in
gold is worth s1.02 of the national paper
currency. The Colombian export duty
on cows has been reduced from S612 cur
rency (S6 gold to 102 Isl gold.
Chimneys were first used in Europe in
the fourteenth century. None OF the
Roman ruins shows chimneys like ours.
The wealthy Romans used carefully dried
wood, which would burn in the room
without SCOT.
The wealth Of the United States in
1850 was $7OOC,OO),OO0, speaking in
round terms; in 1860. $l6.OOOO 100000; in
1870, $3O,OOO,OOO,C in 1880, S43,5O0,-
100000; in 1890, So, ,OIO,OO0,OOO; in 1900,
S88, 8,5OO,00O.0O0, and in 1904, $107,000,0O0,-'
900.
DR.. Roberts suggestion in 1881 Of sew
ing wounds of the heart was received as
Joke. DR.. Rein, Of Germany, in 1897,
got the first recovery from heart wound.
Altogether there have been sixteen such
operations, with seven amasing recov
cries.