The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-11-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Phiiadelphian has q reservoir and force
feed by means Of which the putty is
supplied as it is needed for use.
Americans are the most excessive
coffee drinkers In the world. Over a
billion pounds of coffee are imported
into the United States each year.
Sachs, who was both an alblno and
q scientist demonstrated that the hair
Of alDinos contains less iron than that
Of normally constituted individuals.
The male human needs more food
than the female. TIE man tends to
eXpend energy and the woman to store
It up in the form of fat. He burns the
faster.
Some of the inhabitants of Cam
bridge, England, are trusting to the
presence Of goat to protect tcem and
their houses from the infection Of
smallpox.
DR.. Koulapye, Russian surgeon,
has succeeded in restoring circulation
In the human heart after apparent
death. This is done by treatment with
saline solutions. u
Anybody may practice medicine In
China. No license or special course Of
study is required. Many Of the ply
sicians are students who have failed
to pass the government examinations.
Owing to great losses Of cattle by the
rinderpest in Egypt, the large planta-
tions and farmers there are about to
Introduce steam plows and automobile
machines for the cultivation of grain
and cotton.
A hotel keeper in the City of Mexico
has been condemned to a years imprls
onment aud has been fined $3.50 for
stealing from the electric light compa-
ny the current with which his hotel
was lighted.
IndorSed by Queen Alexandra, rouge
Is used as openly In Nngland nowadays
as in the unregenerate period Of Louis
XIV. After the wicked French days
paint fell into discredit, and Victorian
responsibility placed a ban on rouge.
Plants SO highly charged with essen
tial oil that fragments Of their leaves
move about on water in mysterious
fashion, owing to capillary action due
to the spreading Of the oil on the sur
face, are described by NJ. Virgile Bran
dicourt.
Ancient timekeeping has received
new light from two remarkable stones
lately unearthed by the German ex-
plorers on the site Of the old Ionic port
of Miletus. These stones are the re-
mains Of calendars, Of which one is
shown to date from 100 A. D.
A species Of natural soap tree is
found In Japan, China and India. By
using water of alcohol the sapona-
eeous Ingredient Of the fruit Is extract
cd. The soap, possessing no alkaline
qualities. is claimed to be superior to
the ordinary soap Of commerce.
A cows horn is a combination Of
phosphate of lime, gelatin and albu-
min. Inside the horn IS core, which
Is bone. To get it out the horn is
soaked in water for several weeks, and
when the core comes out it is ground
up and made into crucibles which are
used for melting gold and silver in.
The Quagga, South African animal
Of the horse family resembling the ze-
bra, which was hunted out of existence
by the Beers for its hide appears to
have become extinct in Cape Colony
about the year 1885, while the last SUI
vivor Of its kind, as far as Is known,
died in the London geological gardens
IN 1872.
The typhoid bacillus is rapidly de
stroyed by cold and heat. Rapidly,
however, docs not mean instantly at
q freezing temperature. as n typhoid
germ may survive when frozen in ice
for a considerable length of time, al
though the number OF living organisms
is rapidly diminished. They are much
more sensitive to heat.
Mine owners Of South Africa are en-
te1ng into contracts with Chinese la
borers to work In the mines Of that
country. The coolies are to be trans
ported free Of oil charge, with rea
sonabie supply Of baggage. and are to
be housed, fed and have medical at
tendance, and in case of death their re-
mains are to be sent TO China.
The government tried to import oxen
from China and Java into the Philip
pines and to furnish them to the farm
ers at reasonable prices, but did not
secure favorable results, as most Of the
animals died en- route. The native OK
Is very peculiar and susceptible ami
NAL, suffering even from transpnrta-
ton from one Island to another.
How readily Americans move" La
shown by the fact that hardly two
thirds of the representatives and only
about half The senators in congress
were born In the states which they
now serve. No member of either house
from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Da-
kotds, ashington or Wyoming Is
native Of the state he represents.
Herr Axel Hambers Of the Univer-
siy OF Stockholm has, with the help
OF Herr Linderoth, a Swedish clock
meker, constructed registering me-
feorograph, which has been installed
on the Sarjektjokko. one Of the Alps
OF Swedish Lapland. 1t registers the
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