The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-Parisiuns eat 100000 pounds OF
snails daily.
A scheme for carrying railway nj
/ Mount Blanc has been pronounced feasi
BILE by a commission of experts The TO
tai cost of the line i estimated at t1Op,
GOO
In Germany new houses are being
supplied with floors made of compressed
paper. They are soft to step on, ana
having no cracks of any kind harbor no
dust.
Among the 34OJ newspapers printed
in Germany. siXgy-eight are in foreign
languages. including thirty mine Polish,
nineteen Danish and seven French Jour
mails.
-Arbor day is now celebrated in forty
four states Of the Union by the voluntary
planting of trees 10y the people. In Ari-
IONA. Colorado. North Dakota. Wiscon-
sin. Minnesota and Wyoming it is a legal
holiday.
The SiamrSc have So strong 4 super
Stitiou against even numbers that they
will have none of them. The number OF
the rooms in Il house, of windows. on
doors in Il room. even of rings on Il lad
der, must always he odd.
In FIJI there Is a curious sea worm
which arrives in myriads on the coast
on a certain day. The water are 50 full
Of them rs To- resemble vermicelll soap.
After laying their eggs nothing is left
of them but empty skins.
Japan imports 100000 silver dol
lars worth of petroleum from America
and Russia every year. 1t has been
found, however, thar there is much oil
between the HuWaido and Aklto. and
sixty borings have already been made.
Belgian. French and Russian CAPT
talists have formed powerful financial
syndicate, with headquarters at 1itliS,
in the Caucasus. The sole object of the
syndicate Is the establishment of iron
works in the Caucasus and the cNploita
ton of Caucasian ore and coal deposits.
\ curious discovery was recently
made 10y the workmcn who We're repair
ing the steamer Lady of the Lake, which
has run on Lake Memphrcmagug. Vt.
for the last thirty years. \ gold riyet
was found in the steamers bow, which
was placed there 10y the late Sir Hugh
Allen of Montreal, when the boat was
first built. The Tivct was + inches long
and must have cost originally about
5000
Silicon carbide crystals or carlo
rundum, rs it is called. is to a great eX-
tent To- replace diamonds III the produc-
ton If finely graduated scales. Small,
HAT hcXagonal crystals are chosen, from
une-half to one miilmetCr in size. They
are mounted in steel holder by means
Of a drop of shcllac. 1t is stated that
the lines are much more even than those
produced 10y Il diamond. They have been
examined and magniticd fifty times and
found to he still sharply defined.
Prof. Gra>i Of NIilan is convinced
that the theory that malaria is caused
by an organism transferred to the blood
OF human beings by mosquitoes is cor
rect He concludes that the best mode
of combating malaria consists i'll max
ing war on the mosquitoes. destroying
them. and 50 preventing their reproduc-
ton" The marsh waters in malariouS
districts from being Stagnant should be
made to flow. Drainage on large scale
is not needed for this object. 1t would
suffice. III the months during which the
moSqutocS are prolific, to carry out tenn
porary dryings MP or soil desiccation.
This. he says would ''Sav" entire regions
from n terrible. Scpurrp -