The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-06-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES

hussid 10 NEAT W tue United Stdlt
as grain producing country.
British India now employs over | 900,
600 people In its cotton Industries.
The United States has twenty -thre
times as many factories as Russia.
A man named Oliver Twist was fine,
the other day In London court 70
being drunk and disorderly.
The guns Of the artillery service o
japan used to be purchased abroad
but are now chiefly manufactured II
Osaka.
A toothbrush Is to be provided foi
each Of the children in the Hampstead
workhouse, and they are to be traiue,
to use ii In class drill.
Brooklyn has Y. W. G. A. for col
ored women. The membership has al
ready reached over 100 Most Of til,
members are servant girls.
The ravages OF drink In Edinburgh
have, 1t appears. reached the worst
proportion ever known in the expert
ence of the Edinburgh Lunatic asylum
1t Is now the style In England Il
bob courtesy to royalty. The low
sweeping salute has gone out; also one
says ''ma'am," not madam" to the
queen.
Fashoda has ceased to exist Here
OF that name will be known as Upper
Nile province, Kodok and Dalwar re
spectively.
A drinking cup pronounced by the
British museum to be 5000 years old
has been found In a field at Stoning
fe.u, Essex. 1t Is now In the Chelms
ford museum.
The number OF bills discounted by
the Bank of France and its branches
In 1903 was ls.435,93s. The number of
notes In circulation on Jan %, 1904.
was 35.0U.244.
Port Arthur was named after Lieu
tenant Commander Arthur of the Brit.
ish navy, who anchored his ship In the
bay one day about fifty years ago. His
was the first foreign ship that had Wis
tied the bay
The British admiralty Is about to try
the experiment Of giving a premium TO
the workmen In its service who finish a
job In the quickest time Those who
do work In the ordinary time will re
celye the ordinary wages
The Advance states that in Britnlns
Indian empire there are 1913 languages
spoken by 100000 people. which
have not yet been given the Bible In
the Philippines there are hfty or more
languages without Bibles
Anthrac cite coal has been discovered
In the vicinity of Cumberland, British
Columbia. and the mine IL being de
veloped. Samples contain SO per cent
carbon and 5.75 per cent ash The
coal IL compact and lustrous in ap
penrance.
Among the ancient treasures OF ia
pan which the mikado has poured into
the military chest are gold coins issued
three centuries ago. They are of large
size and OF almost pure metal and
worth much more than their intrinsic
value. of course.
Hitherto cantaloupe raising In Colo
famous ROCKFORD district In the Ar
kansas valley, but the farmers OF
northern Colorado have now deter
mined to enter that very profitable
field Of horticulture.
The London Daily News wants to
know whether the Napoleon statue IN
Washington will represent the torsi
can In his uniform as a general OF the
republic or In the uniform he designed
for himself when "the pear was ripe
and he overturned the republic In lSol
A Swiss newspaper contains an al
yertIscment OF which this is trnnSla-
ton: The report having been spread
that +. q. ---- has appeared to us since
his death, we hereby declare that tins
IL quite untrue and warn all persons
against spreading the report under pain
OF prosecution"
According to Paris newspapers, the
surgeons are now dressing wounds
with silver leaf. The silver is simply
placed on the wound or ulcer, and M II
sticks closely to the surface ltuc
cotton soaked In collodion is suthclent
to keep II In place, The effects of this
sheet OF silver are said 10 be very re-
markable.
Sunlight. fresh air food and exercise
are the great necessaries or HE. says
Or. J. W. Seayer. the Yale director OF
physical education And so many a
man In business heartily believes; but,
being unable TO get his fair share Of
the other three, he makes up for the
lack by consuming thrice the amount
OF food he needs.
There are more John Browns than
any other name in the new city direct.
DRY of Philadelphia, but they lead the
John Smiths by only one. Among tue
100000 names recorded are l.2Hp
Whites, 450 Blacks, o Greens. Red,
II Blues and Layenders In the bird
line there are Canary, Robin, Eagle
Crow. Hawk. Sparrow. BuZzard, Pea
cock aud Bantam.
Tie experts Of the agricultural de
eartment have theory that the de,
generation OF the modern culture has
been based upon seed originally I'M
ported from Arabia and that by get
ting back to the Wild coffee plant the
habitat OF which is the province or
kafa, west Africa, new variety may
be created the value OF which VIII he
incalculabio. A supply of kafia coffee
Ia to be secured through King Menelek
The British Twenty third regiment
known as the Welsh fusilcers always
Inns gont as mascot, The goat that