Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-14
Items of Interest

cities with more than 100000 people and
with more than 100000 These are,
London, 4,75O,0O0; Paris, 2,703,00O; Ber-
lin, 100000; Vienna. 100000; st. Pc
tersburg, 100000; Moscow, 100000 and
COnstantinOpIe, 100000.
The educational test for pharmacists
in Turkey is not on drugs, chemicals,
etc.: it is on arithmetic, the Turkish and
French languages and general smatter
ing. Still, most Turks go to the native
dry goods or grocery store for their favor
ite remedies-oil, tallow candle plasters.
Iinseed pOultices and stuff for camOmile
teas, etc.
DR.. Carl Webber still practicing in
New York city, performed in 1866 the
first operation for appendicitis. There
was no knowledge of stomach cuttings
at that time. The operation was per-
formed without antiseptics. The instru-
ments and appliances were comparative
ly primitive. fhe patient is alive and
we'll in New York city today.
The untitled tonnage of the United
States Steel Corporation at the close of
1908 amounted to 100000 tons. 1t is
estimated that on December 81, Of this
year, the untitled tonnage will come
close to 6,500.00O. Estimates on the net
earnings for the year Of the corporation
approximate $133,000,o00, gain of s4l,-
000,0C0 over last year.
A would-be author called on Mr.. Fields
one day at his Office in the Old-time BOs
ton publishing house of Ticknor & Fields.
Evidently the young man did not like
Mr.. Fields appearance, for this was the
conversation that took place, "Is this
Mr.. FieIds?" 1T is, SIR "Mr. James
T. Fields?" Il am he." "WelI, then,
I'd like to see Mr.. Ticknor !"
The finest gold yet recorded is from
the Great Boulder mine, Kalgoorlie,
Western Australia. II was derived from
the decomposition of auriferous tellu-
rides and was 999.1 fine small guam
tity of gold from the Pixies Peak mine,
Cripple Creek. showed an assay fine
ness of 999, while much Of the outcrop
gold of Mt. Morgan mine, Queensland,
was 997 fine.
Sir Arthur Wilson, who has been Sc
lected as the next first sea lord of the
British admiralty, in succession to Sir
John Fisher, is one of tie most distin-
guished officers in the navy. He first
saw active service in s45g grimean war,
as MILDLY, and he was prominently en-
gagged in the Chinese war, in the Egypt
ian campaign of 1882, and in the Sudan
in 1884.
Whistler once undertook to get fell
low painters work into the salon. He
succeeded and the picture was hung.
But the painter, going to see his master
piece with Whistler on vanishing day
uttered terrible oath. when he behpld
it. Good gracious" he groaned, "yo re
exhibiting my picture upside down."
"Hush," said Whistler. "The committee
refused it the other way"
Excellent natural pottery is manufac-
turgd by nature in the case Of certain
cactus. Woodpeckers are apt to eXca-
vate nests in the trunk and branches,
and, in order that it nay protect itself
against these incursiOns, the plant eX-
udes sticky juice, which hardens, form
ing a woody lining to the hole made by
the birds. Eventually the cactus dies
and withere, but the wooden bowl re-
mains.
What is a real gentleman is thus de-
fined by an eastern exchange: "a man
that's clean inside and out; who neither
looks up to the rich nor down on the
poor: who can loose without squealing
and who can win without Dragging; who
is cOnsiderate of women. children and
old people, who is too brave to lie, too
generous to cheat, and who takes his
share of the world and lets other people
have theirs"
Mr.. Ure, the lord advocate of Scotland,
is keen golfer, and he has good store
of gOling tales. Playing on a certain
course in Scotland. he remarked inciden-
tally to his caddie: ''By the way, [ play
ed a round with Tom McGTegor the last
time [ was here. Grand player. McGTe-
gor' "Ay," said the caddie, "but ye
could bate McGregor the nOo." Do you
think so.' exclaimed the gratified lord
advocate, being well aware of McGTe-
gOr's powers. "Ay,' said the caddie, "Mc-
GregoI's dead"
The congressional library is rendering
a great service not only TO the other IL
braries Cf this countr., but TO those III
Canada, Europe and Australia, by its
catalogue division, by its compilation OF
rules governing cataiOguing, by its class
ification methods, which are being gen
eraiiy initiated, and by its duplicate
cards that now go to one thousand libra
ries of this country. -Four million cards
have gone during the last year.
New Hall for Odd Fellows