Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-04-29
Items of Interest

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Tea is more beneficial if made with
hard water.
Spanish is the official language of %
nations and states.
House rents in Mexico have about dou-
bled in the last 10 years.
/ Rain falls on the eastern coast of Ire
land about 2O8 days in the year.
The average life of a tradesman is
about two-thirds that of farmer.
1t is said by anatOmists that people
| hear better with their mouths open.
Boiled alligator flesh tastes very much
like veal. 1t is much eaten in India.
London, in monetary value, is worth
two and half times as much as Paris.
The city of Durham, South Africa, will
spend 100000 for electric lights and
railways.
An English agricultural society is
raising a fund with which to extermi-
nate the sparrow.
Electric cables with hemp cores to
take up the strain more evenly are
Swedish invention.
Nearly every foreign automobile
builder now casts all the cylinders of his
engine in solid piece.
The sale Of American fruit abroad has
amounted to about $16,OOO,OOO annually
for the last several years.
Electric power is used on 3.288 miles
of street railways in Great Britain to
143 operated by other means.
According to official estimates. the
value of the diamonds yet in the ground
in German South Africa is S25OOOOOOO.
The pike is better provided with teeth
than any other living creature. 1t has
teeth all over its upper and lower jaws
Gas lamps are made on the lines of the
electric lamp, and the deceit is so clev-
erly perpetrated that few suspect the
difference.
ChicOry, used to mix with coffee, is the
oldest known adulterant of food. In
some cheap restaurants the coffee is
often half chicOry.
Mexican poems live chiefly on BEANS
rice, corn, cheap cuts Of meat, coffee,
tOrtillas and peppers. Bread is not used
by those people.
The trees which are used in the gov
eminent work of reforestation are grown
at eight government nurseries in the
western forest reserves.
The fur seal will not breed in captiy-
ity. This does not apply to the hair
seals, which are those so readily trained
for exhibition purposes.
Since 1883 the sea has washed away
419 acres OF the British Isles, but it has
also added 3O,7o2. The land gained,
however, is at present useless.
Twenty years ago the New York post
office issued money orders to the value of
SOL, 334,173, and during the last year
their value was $423,543,86O.
A schooner built in Amesbury, Mass,
in 1905 and used in the war of 1912 as
privateer, still is in active service in the
Maine cOasting trade.
General BOtha, prime minister Of the
Transvaal, says that never before in the
history of South Africa were there such
solid signs of prosperity.
There are more medical schools and
more physicians have received their edu-
cation in Philadelphia than in any other
city in the United States.
A shovel with high, sharp sides and
with hinged blade that lifts away from
the front, has been patented by a New
Jersey resident to cut and lift sOds.
| In Switzerland education is both free
and compulsory, and such ample fOcili-
ties are provided for all classes that illit-
erary is almost unknown.
The steamer duck of South America
loses its power of flight as it natures.
The reason is that its wings do not grow
as the rest OF its body develops.
| There are killed Annually in the cool
mines OF the United States three times
as many men per thousand as in the coal
mines of most European countries.
A French writer predicts that in the
course of 100 years very few persons will
live in the cities. Cities will be used
only for business purposes.
Information of all kinds regarding
possible landing places for aerial craft
is to be issued in the form of a hand
book by the Aerial League, Regent
street, London.