Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-25
Items of Interest

In Ireland, owing to lack of sunlight
and heat, peaches, grapes and tomatoes
must be grown and rippned under glass.
Tue prices are consequently almost pro-
hibitOry.
At one of the most important groceries
in Hamburg they think they are doing
we'll to dispose of 80 or 10 pounds a
month of sweet p ,tatoes to resident
Americans.
A new windmill appara tus for gener-
ating electricity for farm use has been
perfected in England, A storage battery
lsupplies the current when the wind is
not blowing.
At Lisbon, Byron performed a more
perilous, though less celebrated feat than
sw mining the HellespOnt. That was
when he swan across the Tagus from
Old Lisbon to Belem castle.
Difficulty is being experienced by Jap
anese banks in finding employment for
their deposits The First Bank is said
to have S,6OO,00O yen ls4.3OO,O0O lying
idle and the Mitsui Bank 100000 yen
($3,6OO,OOO).
The first trust in the United States to
pass the $1OO,OOo,OC0 mark in capitaliza-
tion was the United States Leather com
pany, organized in 1893. Its capital
stock combined with an issue of bonds
amounted to $138,0O0,O00.
According to the Pekin Daily News,
the Chinese ministry of the interior in
tends to make Investigations concerning
the prohibition of early marriage, which
suits. The age is to be fixed at twenty.
Excellent bricks are made Of the soil
and hills in Centra Africa. The natives
tread it with wafer into dOughllke
substance, which is shaped in rough
wooden molds. 1t is then dried in the
sun, and afterward baked in native
kilns.
In point of commercial value, the sill
YER product of the United States last
year was the smallest since 1871. Mint
bureau figures give the gold value OF
the 53,849,o00 ounces fine produced in
1909 as S28,O10,1O0, making the price
52,Ol6 cents an ounce.
Miss Elizabeth Moore, a Vassar gradu-
ate, has entered the agricultural depart
ment Of the University Of Missouri at
Columbia and has announced her inten-
ton of becoming an expert farmer. She
is member of several clubs in St. Louis.
A German machine manufacturer has
invented a new means of power trans
mission by the use of steel wire. 1t is
asserted that the system is equal in every
way to leather belts, steel bands and
chains and is much cheaper. The wires
are thin and endless.
Since introducing the ''pdy within"
cars in Philadelphia, the number of acci-
dents to persons has decreased "A per
cent. This is attributed to the arrange
ment of the closed doors and steps, max
ing it impossible for passengers to get
on or off when the cars are moving.
Turkey has only ont university, that Of
Constantinople, with faculties OF mcdi-
cine, law, theology, science and letters.
In this last department the literatures
studied are the Turkish, Arabic, Persian
and French. In time the study of Ger
man and English will be added.
The two savings bank departments
with insurance features for working
men, established in BrOcktOn and Whit
man, Mass, in accordance with the law
passed in that state wear ago, have
paid dividend of 13 per cent. on the
first years premiums or investments.
At one one-time British election, a
candidate won by means of an umbrella.
Sheer absence of mind caused him to
leave the CAMP behind at every house at
which he called to canvas, and, of course,
when it was returned by the voter, a
sovereign was only suitable reward for
honesty.
A serious attempt is to be made to
develop Russian mercantile marine. The
ministry of trade has laid before the
donna of the empire proposal to allow
iron built ships to be imported to Russia
free of import duty for the next ten
years, and also to grant government sub
sides to merchant vessels built in
Russia.
This advertisement appears in Ba-
varian journal: "Man wanted to sweep
sn w at FriedhOf. Tie post is excellent,
but am compelled to resign because
find that it is getting too much for me.
as already hold the office of town clerk,
schoOimaster and organist. No candi-
dates without shovels of their own need
apply"