Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-04
Items of Interest

Fabrics looking like silk are made
from wood.
This cauntr, has 900 trade journals.
Women constitute 90 per cent of the
convicts in American prisons.
Factories ia England use more than
one-fifth Of the coal produced.
At the age of 10 years, man has con-
sumed 95 tons of food.
Warships require 1000 to 1.45O feet
clear space to swing around in tidal har-
bors
TIL kingdom of Prussia gets out of it's
cultivated forests over $24,Oo ,OOOa year.
The importation of precious stone into
India amounts annually 70 about 4,9CO.-
600.
The government will take entire
charge of the telephone system of Great
Britain in 1911.
Australia will borrow 100000, for
railway construction, rolling stocA, de-
yelopment of the gold fields, etc.
Tit more fami lar species of fl,ing
fish are denizens of the tropital oceans.
Fresh water species, however, are known.
A man has just been arrested in Chi
cago who has been making his living by
writing sacred songs and stealing
horses.
A new house has just been completed
at Shaffrrd. England, and it is said t. be
the fist one built there in so years.
The German empire consists of four
Kingdoms and some 20 grand duchiee,
duchies. Drincipa tiles and free cities.
The first American book printed in the
colonies was lhe Bay Psalm Book. 1t
was printed at Cambridge, Mass, in
1910.
The government Of Guatemala has
placed bronze bust of Robert Fulton
in one IF the parks of the city of Gauta-
maia.
here are three times as many Bud
dhists, Brahmans, Mohammedans and
pagans in the world as there are Chris
tians.
The three weathiest nations: United
States, 81 o. 5000 .'O0; Great Britain
and Ireland, $62 300 5000; France, $42,-
8 O,OOnNO,
There are about 10000 oil producing
wei iii the United States, representing
directly and indirectly an outlay of
about $1,000 600.
A bottle Of milk, containing Il two
inch minnow WAS recently delivered 10y
a Pittsfeld (Mass.) miIkman to one f
his customers.
New York man who ate so buck
wheat cakes and two pounds of sausage
said he would have done better if he had
bee. hungry.
In proper ion to it's pop lation, more
people earn livelihood for seafaring in
Norway than in any other country.
Britain comes next.
The average yield of wood an acre Of
forests was raised in Germany from 20
cubic feet in 1890 to Is cubic feet in
1903.
A young oak grows three feet in three
years, in the same time an elm grows
eight feet hree inches, and willow
nine feet three inches.
Measu ements made in London schools
prove that the children Of the weIl-tO-dO
are better grown for their age than the
children Of the poor.
Our oil exports to China increased
from 100000 gallons in 1899 to $1,000
O 0 in 1909 and nearly 104,U 5000 in
1908, having thus quadr'pled in ten
years.
The subscriptions for the portraits of
Grover Cleveland, to be placed in the
executive chamber at Albany, have now
reached the sufficient amount of $1,000.
OF the 2,100 foreigners whose names
appear on the tax lists of Yokohama,
1879 who are not lease holders are at
present declining to pay municipal
taxes.
One Scotch casualty insurance COM
pany is offering policies to aviatOrs,
while another will extend all future pol
icies to cover the risks OF aviatOrs and
ball0oning.
The practice of cutting the claws OF
the moe feroclolls animals If the L n
uon zootOgiral g rdens has recently been
greatly facilitated by chloroforming the
animals.
>anto Domingo, according to an Eng
iish mineraiogist who explored it, is a
ge"l gica curiosity shop, containing
scattered samples of nearly every we'll
known mineral.
France is buying many locomotives in
Germany. The latest order is for 80 for
one line. For years French railroads
have regularly ordered locomotives in
Germany.
Most # the cotton produced in China
is grown on small farms Of five to seven
acres. The whole family engages in the
cultivation and works as many as twelve
hours day.
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