Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



ble-yolked.
Neither boiling water nor cold 200
/ 1esreeS below zero kills the sprout in
some seeds. Professor Becquerel found
tnree seeds eighty-seven years old that
iprouted.
work Is going on steadily To deep
en- and widen the Suez canal. and ere
long the biggest merchant vessels
with depth of twelve meters will be-
able to use it.
F. S. Weinhold. of Brookside. Pa.
! last season raised on twenty-five acres
lbout three thousand bushels of ear
lorn. Many of the ears were over six
! Teen inches in length.
For a number OF years Washington
has been far and away the largest
| lumber producing State in the Union.
and 1t still IS ahead; but last year
Louisiana nearly caught up with It.
Helen. aged 6, was telling Mary age
I. Of her plans for the future I'm
going to be married" she announced.
and have eighteen children" oh"
gasped Mary, her eyes wide with
amazement you mercenary wretch"
The population of Germany. art
| from immigration and emigration. in
creased by 8S2.624 last year. In En-
gland, the births exceeded the deaths
by 393,S2t; in Italy, by 35717S: in
Belgium, by Tits; in Holland, by
GS.l56; in France. by 46,411.
In old Holland, when a couple ap,
oiled for divorce, they were locked
up in one-room, trying -out-cabin,
with one dish and one spoon If. after
a month, they had not come to liner
lex they got the writ which was sell
dom asked for after this bundling.
A professor of English history was
| telling his young men Of the impress
Sionable age about the Elizabethan
era, when suddenly turning to one OF
the young men who seemed to be in a
dream, with PARKWAY gaze, he said:
And how old was Elizabeth, Mr..
Case?' Eighteen last birthday" came
he instant reply.-Tit-Bits
Horses seldom suffer from decayed
| teeth, but because of the upper teeth
closing on the lower ones little on
the outside, points are sometimes
found which lacerate the cheek or
penetrate the gums, creating tender
ness that prevents the proper mastica-
ton OF food, annoying the horse so
much that he falls away very rapidly.
The sign read children Under Five
Years of Age Free" The conductor
looked at it mournfully. You r1ay
not believe It," said he, but a wom-
an with five children, all hers, got on
the car the other day and convinced
me that none of them was old enough
to pay. Somehow, l can't believe it
yet. New York Sun.
A news item stating that Guatemala
Is considering putting her monetary
system on gold basis recalls a poker
story about four players with $1,000
900 (Gautemalan) in the pot, which
the winner exchanged for $500 (Ameri
can gold), but it took him four days
to do it, as 500 gold was all the
money changer would part with at a
time.
The fleet of the Graham & Morton
Company, operating on the southern
part of Lake Michigan, is being equip
ped with wireless telegraph instru-
ments There will be an operator on
each boat and also one at each of the
stations to be established at Chicago.
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vice is available for passengers and
also for emergency.
In oVerhauling the seven submarine
cables between Italy and Messina sew
eral Of them were found to be badly
damaged by heat, the sheathing and
layers of rubber being burned and in
some cases the copper conductors
fused Owing to a great change in the
floor" of the strait of Messina. one
of the cables was so deeply buried that
it was necessary to abandon it.
One of the greatest works performed
by Americans in Korea was the max
ing of the Korean-Engllsh dictionary.
This was done by DR.. j. S. Gale, a
Presbyterian missionary. He began 1t
in 1892, after four years residence
in the country, and completed 1t with
In five years. Prior to that there was
no means of intercommunication be-
tween the foreigners and the natives
except through the Chinese language.
There Is rumor that Hartford,
Conn. intends to make a bid for fame
by establishing an asylum for the
treatment of automobiles that have
been worn out in the service, and that
a society for the prevention of cruelty
TO automobiles Is also under considera-
ton. A speed antitoXin and method
Of injecting common sense into chauf-
feurs might lessen the labors of the
proposed institutions.-New York
Tribune.
What this town ought to have"
said the man just back from London,
SIS a watercress market. Greatest
cure for all kinds of stomach troubles
YOU ever saw. Over there they have a
regular place where they sell water
cress early in the morning. I've seen
all kinds of people buy portions OF
watercress and eat it with a bit Of
bread right on the spot. They say 1t
is an infallible cure for any stomach
silment. New York Sun.
DR.. Doche (French army says that
spawning is really the cause Of some
oyster poison in summer. Spawning