Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-28
Items of Interest
London has a trackless trolly.


have trebIed in five years.
Western Canada, last year, produced
100,000,000 bushels of wheat.
At Freiburg, Germany, is a rose bush
bearing ten thousand buds.
Snails boiled in barley water we're
popular once as cure for cough.
Half Of the worlds production Of
nickel comes from the United States.
Blue, pink and aquamarine diamonds
were recently exhibited in London.
1t has been estimated that there are
twenty thousand tons of radium in the
sea.
In certain parts Of Germany it is re-
garded as d death warning to hear
cricket's cry.
The public debt Of Germany is now
S113,837, 800, made up mostly of B and 373
per cent bonds.
Gas lighting has recently been doomed
in japan, and some ten new companies
are to be f10ated.
Nearly ten thousand beds in London
hospitals are daily occupied by the sick
and MANNED poor.
There are in Argentina four broad
guage railroads, three narrow guage and
two English guage.
At the Royal Normal college for the
blind in London 80 per cent of the stu
dents are seIf-supporting.
In the United Kingdom 100000 tons
of coal and 60,00o,0OO gallons of oil are
used annually in gas making.
An experiment by an Ohio company Of
curing tobacco by heat from natural gas
stoves has proven successful.
The production Of mercury at the Al
MAIDEN mines Spain, was 1,017,023 kil0s,
or 29,472 TASKS, in 1908. At MicareS it
was 50,685 kilos
Honduras now permits free transpor-
tatiOn Of fence wire and staples to help
the agriculturaland cattle raising inter
ests Of the country.
The city council OF Cincinnati is plan
.iIg subway to connect the business
section of the city with the OutIaying
residential sections.
Ghe United States annually exports
more Oilcake and oilcake meal ihan any
other country in the wOrld-2,063,0 ,000,-
.090 out Of 4,913,00000O pounds.
Cuba is vigorously enforcing cOllec-
ton Of duties on the personal effects Of
passengers landing at any port of the
island. This is pointer for tourists to
Cuba.
The development Of the water powers
in California has helped boom the state
by bringing in new industries and help
ing old industries with plenty Of cheap
electric power available.
Oil we'll machinery and supplies dis
tributed from Los Angeles, large
amount Of it being manufactured there,
reaches the sum Of over one million dol
lars a month.
The province Of Ontario has ordered
100000 pounds Of half inch aluminium
wire for the electric power line from
Niagara Falls. The order, worth $780,
600, goes to Pittsburg firm.
Plassava fiber at one time brought up
to 1896 ton in Liberia. Competition in
other African countries and in South
America has forced this price down at
times to as low as s48 ton.
GuglielmO Marconi went a few days
ago to Stockholm 10 receive the Nobel
prize for physics, the value of which is
$4,000. The prize originally was worth
double that sum, but this year it was
divided
In ten years the cost of bread all over
Europe has increased by an average of
% per cent. In Sweden the increase has
been 81 per cent. Of this higher cost 21
per cent has happened since 1905.
Textiles may be rendered freproof, ac-
cording to the Paris board Of fire COM
m1ssioners, by sleeping them in 10 per
cent solution of phosphate of ammonia,
then drying them in the open air.
The new orange district, several miles
out of Phoenix, Ariz , is proving all that
was promised. The oranges are unusu-
ally thin skinned and are sweet, even
though just beginning to color up.
The Guatemalam government now has
direct supervision of all electrical enter
prizes in That country and supplies can
be imported only on written permission
granted by the war department. upon ap-
plication.
By the Old methods of salvage the rents
and breaks in the hull Of the vessel were
closed and the water pumped out. By
the latest system the ship is rid of water
by pumping air into the holds, which
| floats the vessel.
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