Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-18
Items of Interest

ohlo0l VI tio LoHu"u county COuucil
has just issued a report in which he says
that an outbreak OF cases of scarlet
fever has been traced, beyond question
to the milk of one dairy.
The women Of Allingtown, Conn have
organized for the protection of their vii
lage from fire. They are to hold coun.
try fair. the proceeds of which will be
used to buy apparatus. They will also
form woman's brigade Of the fire de.
apartment.
The editor was dying says an exchange
but when the doctor bent over, placing
his ear on his breast, and said "POOr
man, circulation almost gone," the dy-
ing editor sat up and shouted: "'Tis not
so, we have the largest circulation in
the country"
1t is stated in a cOunsu!ar report that
provincial Persia is practically uncivil-
lied, and that even the greater mob les
have no special bedrooms, while all sleep
on mattresses on the ground. Beds are
ornaments, purchased occasionally and
placed in the drawing room.
To get rid of the flu tering effect of
moving pictures an invet tor has applied
the principles of the stereJscOpe, the pic
ture being thrown on the screen by two
lenses, in front of which shutters open
and close alternately 50 rapidly that
there is no break in the series.
A German inventor has brought out a
new process for lacquering brass tubing
by revolving it in lathe and applying
the lacquer while the tubing is heated
electrically. Formerly the heating had
to be done in ovens with ii separate 0per-
alton for every coat of lacquer.
Sir Thomas Browne, author of the Re-
iigio Medlci, believed in witches. He
wrote: For my part, [ have ever be-
lieved, aud do now kn Nv, that there are
witches. They that doubt of these do
not only deny them, but spirits and are
Obliquely, and upon consequence a sort
not of infidels, but atheists.
Arrangements will shortly be made by
the Austrian government for the public
sale of radium for medical and expert
mental purposes. The total quantity Of
radium which has been thus far recover
ed for scientific use throughout the world
is estimated not to exceed quarter of a
pound,
Marcel Provost has written an article
for Paris publicati IL en The subject OF
Fashions of the Period" in which he
discusses at length the methods employ
ed by women to grow thin. He de-
n0unces them as injurious to body and
mind, with the one exception rational
exercise.
Mrs. David E. Lucas and Mrs. Mary E.
married cOnvicts at work on farms and
to apply their earning to the support of
their families. Mrs. Lucas has offered a
tract of 1000 acres of land in Colorado
for the use of convicts for five years.
ChicagO's mounted policemen are
pleased with new "anti-skidding" ap-
pliance they are now using on their
horses to prevent slipping on the icy
streets. The device is Of leather and
fits over the hOOf like boot. On the
bottom is chain, which insures more
certain footing for the hlgh-spirited
animals.
The technical committee Of the Royal
Automobile club of Great Britain, has
been asked to consider The expediency of
undertaking test Of motor horns on
similar lines to those adopted in the re-
cent head lamp trials, in order that mo-
torists may gain information as to the
most effective and least Objectionable
form of warning instruments for gene
raj use.'
Equipment of IA three-chair dental
clinic in the city hail for the free care
of schoo children's teeth, the erection Of
a series Of illuminated corner signs
along Broad street. reading, Danger,
run Slow" to keep automobile speeders
in bounds, the abolition of all horses on
the clty's hospital ambnlances are few
Of the reforms now before the Philadel-
lphia councils finance committee.
Tacoma, Wash, has fight on against
the billboard abOminatia, and through
a decision of the cit. attorney it may
win, to the envy of mans another place.
The city's legal adviser holds that bill
boards are common nuisances and has
advised the building inspector that he
may legally refuse permits to erect them.
What the courts will do with the ques-
tion remains to be seen.
Consul-General Robert R. Skinner, in
a report on the manufacture of Tactic
acid in Germany, says that 1000 to 5000
tons of the product were exported to the
United States in 1903, mostly via ROtter-
dam. This acid is chiefly used by the
American dyeing establishments, fOrmic
acid having taken its place TO cOnsid-
cradle extent in the tanning industry.
The Am Tican consul. John H. GrOut,
at Odessa. quotes from Russian beet
sugar journal, which PAGES the yield Of
beet roots for 1869 in the Odessa district
at 1868, ,066 short tons, all Of which was
successfully collected without frost dam
age. Factory operations indicate an
average result of l4.44 per cent sugar
from the weight of the roots estimated