The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-11
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The age at which the greatest mum
Der Of Japanese girls marry is between
twenty and twenty-one.
Andrew Carnegie has the best collec-
ton of autographs of crowned heads
and famous persons i'll contemporary
history.
The Tamarack copper mine, in the
Lake Superior region, is said to be the
deepest shaft in the word. 1t is now
down 4,973 feet.
The production of steel ingots in Ha-
vre France. in 1905 was l,S54,620 tons
/ against 1.JGN. 5t3 tons in 1902, an in
crease of 2s6.3l7 tons.
/ Growers of the famous ROCKFORD
1 cantalOupc ut ROCKFORD, Colo, report
/ an average net return Of $50 an Ccre
/ for the season of 1903,
! Or. CccilO Baez, the newly appoint
/ ed minister from Paraguay to the
/ United States, is the first minister that
country has had here in fifteen years
| For new variety Of rhubarb it is
! claimed that ii not only fruits all the
year round. but that its flavor resem-
bles a combination of the raspberry
! and strawberry.
The oldest brewer of lager beer i'll
/ the United States died in New York
recently at the age of eighty-four, He
was Max Schaefcr, and he learned the
! brewers trade in Germany.
In an article on the eating of rats
! and mice the London Medical Press as
serts that, apart from prejudice, there
/ is no particular reason why we should
not feed on our domestic rodents"
| The gold dollar of the United States
| is the monetary standard Of Canada,
/ British Honduras ana Colombia, and it
/ is anticipated that Mexico will attain
/ the gold standard, with the American
dollar rs its unit. nj an early date
DR.. Dawson Burns has published his
! annual analysis of England's drink
! bill The total amount of the eXpcndi
/ ture on spirits, wine and beer during
4 1903 was tl74,445,27l, a decrease of
over 100000 as compared with 1902.
Lake Baihal, the Holy sea-" is, eX-
ceptiug Victoria Nyunza, in Africa,
| the largest lake in the eastern hemi-
! sphere It is 3.lUO feet deep, its bot
tom being 1000 feet below sea level,
! ana in area corresponds to Lake Michi
! gan.
| At Laughton-en-le-M Northern York
shire, live John and Ellen Baxter, sup
] IN, an IA oil .i.,l la,
/ in England. John is ninety-siX years of
| age, and his wife is ninety eight. They
! have been married sever y-tive years
/ and have lived in one cottage over six
! ty years.
Fifty-three women have been regu-
! larIy ordained and are doing the fun
work of ministers. Forty-fvc Of the
/ tifty-tlree are married. although some
/ of them were ordained before mar
/ riage Most Of them have independent
parishes, whore they preach, make
! pastoral visits olliciate at marriages
and ut funerals
Hundreds of boys from the Denver
! Juvenile court will be sent into the
/ sugar beet fields near Longmont, Colo,
! Ia work this summer The boys will be
sent out in parties of twenty five each
4 IN charge of a probation officer and
Will ho equipped With tents ana camp.
1 ing outfits They can earn from $40
I to - per day each
4 Rev IhouuS II Laslic. principal of
1 the public schools Of Owcnsville, Ind.
Z IssHII fFNs. i'm rf4
| Gently he whipped thirty-two boys
ran-in. In age from seven to fourteen
( yclrs MI The boys were in one room.
and the duggngs were administered
only after the principal had been called
10 that room three times to ,uell dis
. turhancrs.
clever smuggling plan has come Ia
light ON the Dutch-Belgian frontier.
whore % farmer had some buildings
pat up, part Of which were in the one
country and part in the other. The
customs officials, hearing strange
sounds. mad" search and discovered
an uuder-r0-hd passage for the lille
sal passing of cattle ana pigs across
The frontier
Al recent examination Of young
men i'm England three Of the answers
q The question what Is the Monroe
doctrine" were The religion of
America Taught by Or Monroe on the
tfaa t-r3r uf SOULS The doe
ri0n Tint people may be- married sew.
er0 rm", Ono That hus to do with
III. vaccination and smallpox: il was
brought our gy Professor Monroe"
The aJuHarHuon OF ana use Of in
l.EN" MATERIALS In the making Of can
4E rn beginning to attract niue JJ
.enttn u England Professor Ooston
Recently legtuged on "saccharoma.
#.~. He expressed the opinion that
Future scientists would place the evils
q sugar -iutpuy on pedestal as con
sH.eaous as the drink question as caus. .
Ing deterioration OF individuals and
Faees.
Fruit growers in California COMPLAIN
loudly Of delays In getting their rr,a.
ue.s 10 the eastern markets ans blame
the railroads for am Insufficient suppry
Of cars Oranges have been So rhr.n /
in The principal oaes Of the east tbqt
There Is some ae,aau whether a more
raHd movement L citrus fruits TO the
Atlantic II aud the NiSSisslppi
N3..s W#a bertpred conditions
feE He growers