Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-03
Items of Interest

| Theatres In London and all over Eng
land are complaining of small receipts
and lay the trouble to the moving picture
shows, which are very popular and range
from black lined tent to the theatre in
Piccadllly where there are music end tea.
Boston university, according to its new
| year book, has an attendance Of 1,514 in
all its departments. OF these 962 are
men and 552 are women. The Liberal
Arts, the courses for teachers and the
School of Theology.
! BOOmerangs are now made of cellulOid
and hard rubber Cellul0id is better than
cardboard because it is waterproof, light,
very hard to break and can be worked
into the peculiar curve and twist so nee
essary to give the boomerang its singular
properties.
An Inventor Of moving picture appli-
ances and machinery has devised a new
screen which gets rid of the annoyance
of darkness in the room. With his pat
ent screen, large mirroW with a chemi-
cally frosted surface, pictures are as
plain in the light as in darkness, thus
doing away with the danger of panic in
the dark.
Captain ROald Ammundsen's 75-foOt
sIOOp Gjoa, in which he made the north
west passage through the Arctic ocean
from the north Atlantic to the Behring
sea is now the property of the city of San
Francisco. The famous vessel is to be
placed in a conspicuous position at the
extreme western confines of Golden Gate
park.
| The largest room in tue world under
one roof and unbr0ken by pillars is in st
Petersburg 1t is $50 feet long by $50
! feet in breadth. By daylight il is used
| for military displays, and whole bat
talon cGl completely maneuver in it.
By night 10000 wax tapers give it a
beautiful appearance. The roof is a sim
gle arch of iron.
Simply because Benjamin Franklin as
sOciated electricity with lightning, and
that most people are more or less afraid
Of lightning, electricity is believed to be
a dangerous factor in fire hazards. This
is not true, for it has been proved time
fires than number of the other things
about the house or Office.
Government of the federated states Of
Germany are considering the intrOduc
tiOn of land tax Of the "unearned in
crement." The measure is expected to
raise $5,000,O0O annually. 1t is held that
such tax w0ulu rest heavily on specu-
lators and land owners in cities, but
lightly on country districts, where values
increase very slowly if at all.
For train dispatching the Canadian
Pacific railroad has found the telephone
so serviceable that the present system of
about 500 miles Of telephone lines will
be extended to 1000 miles within year.
The company states that about so per
cent more traffic can be handled now
than was possible under the old ;ele
graph system of dispatching.
"Pajamas" means "leg garments"
They were eagerly adopted by the Euro
peans in India from the MOhammedans,
probably by the Portuguese in the first
place. Earlier Anglo-Indian generations
knew them as long drawers" or mos
quito drawers" and still earlier genera
ti0nS as "mOgul breeches," under which
name they are referred to by Beaumont
and Fletcher.
Miss Amy F. Ching of China, has en-
tered Wellesley college to equip herself
to be te icher in her native land. She
is pointed out by her friends as a self
made girl. She supported herself while
taking a course in the normal school at
Honolulu and from two years work as
teacher she saved enough to take her
through Oahu college, from which she
was graduated last summer.
Even royalty has no protection from
Foote, the famous English playwright;
for when the Duke Of Cumberland (the
foolish duke, as he was called came into
the green room of the Haymarket, one
night, and pleasantly remarked, "Well
Foote, here am, ready as usual to swal
low your good things" the irreverent
wit retorted, Upon my soul, your royal
highness must have a most excellent
digestion, for [ never hear that you bring
any up again.
ConsuI-General Richard Guenther, of
Frankfurt, reports that new automatic
station announcer is about to be tested
on the PrusSian state railways with
view to its adoption. The apparatus.
which is of the size of an ordinary cigar
box, is easily installed in each car and
compartment. All Of them are connect
ed with the baggage car, from where the
device is operated. By closing of a con-
tact all of the aDnOuncers respond at
once and make the name of the next sta
tiOn appear.
Officers Elected
At the annual meeting of Hook and
Ladder Co., No. l, held Wednesday even