Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-10-08
Items of Interest

1t ut tempera ture of 15U degrees for
several hours after the current Is
turned off.
The human body is a machine cf
such wonderful efficiency that one
fifth Of the energy expended by it can
be utilized as work, as shown py the
recent experiments Of Professors At
water and Genediut.
In the seven years 1901 to 1908
| China's pustai service expanded re-
markably. The postal routes now
cover $4,000 miles and the postoffices
number 3, 492, as against 176 in 1901,
an increase of 3.3l7 in seven years.
Experiments and Investigations
made both in Europe and in America
indicate that fully one-half of the
deaths from consumption occur among
people who are compelled TO breathe
dust in its various forms.
Salt is becoming one of the most
important minor industries of the
state Of South Australia. The output
this year is estimated at 10000 tons.
Over 1,00U tuns is exported weekly to
other Australian states and to New
Zealand.
Brazilian exports in the first three
munths uf 1909 totaled a value of
S79. 702, 900, an increase of $24, 800, 600
over the same months of 1908. Coffee
and rubber enjoy 80 per cent of the
increase. Imports decreased IA. 45
per cent.
During the recent Joan of Arc fetes
at Rheims, polychrome statue of the
heroine was erected in the cathedral.
This starue is composition of silver
bronze, ivory marble and precious
stones is the work of P. d'Epinay.
The advance In stumpage dues on
lumber cut on crown lands in Quebec
province. Canada, for export is ex-
peeted to occur in September, 1910.
and will, says our council at Sher-
brook practIcslly prohibit the shipp-
ing Of pulp wood to the United States.
In Paris, owing to the increasing
length OF women's hat pins and the
list of accidents, such as eyes put out,
ears, noses and cheeks torn. the police
officials propose to place some re-
striction on wearing hat pins IN omni-
buses. railway cars theatres and other
public places.
Germany has firm IF match manu-
factures which has hit on a means
whereby the public will have to pay
only half the present heavy statutory
tax on matches. The method is to
have the combustible properties at
each end of the match, by which one
box goes as far as Two.
More than so. 0O0 children were en-
abled by the authorities of Berlin to
spend this summer on land Within
easy reach of the city limits. They
were assigned plots where they could
play and cultivate gardens with the
help of their families and the advice
of public instructors.
Wild horses a1e found roaming in
bands on the plains of New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada and California. Of
so horses captured by rangers in the
Modoc national forest, abuut half
proved to be branded stock which had
grown wild, the others being horses
that had never known the ownership
of man.
In a quicksilver mine near the town
of Konia. in Asia Minor, which is
now being worked by an English
company, here were found not long
ago, tire skeletons of so men, victims
of an accident which, as writer in
Engineering and Mining points out,
must have occurred some 5000 years
ago.
The Gunnison tunnel. which is
part of great irrigation project III
western Colorado, is rapidly approach
ing completion and will be the largest
underground waterway in the world.
It is six miles in length and will
carry 1,3OO cubic feet Of water a
second. It's cost will be over 81, 5OO,-
900.
Mayor Arthur, Of McKeesport,
Pa, has decided that men convicted
of intoxication must sign paper
permitting their wives to draw their
no