The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

4u0 area OF Aofea Is SLUUO square
miles.
There are 2A9 women doctors in
Great Britain.
London bridge is crossed every day
by 10000 people.
Russia has 10000 miles Of coast line,
half Of 1t icebound.
Clockwork submarines are the favor
lte toys in Europe at present.
Russia Is two and one half times "a
large as the United States and Alaska.
Education costs $l65.OOO and reli-
gious saorifices $4,000 a year in Ko-
rea.
Cold is the great mineral wealth OF
Korea, nearly eS,OO0,OOO worth being
exported annually.
The United States has fifty-three
times as many miles Of telegraph and
sends fifteen times 40 much mail a
Russia.
In the wintry weather in Sweden
ana Norway trusses Of straw and hay
are tied to the lamp posts for the bene.
at Of the birds.
Port Arthur has but one docking
basin, and when the Japanese made
their famous attack 1t had not been
used or even cleaned out for years.
The produ y OF copper ore and
precipitate aci'NCo 'ly decreased in
Ensland. ,iay ain rs ago it was 21o,-
600 tons. ek anp9 ap it was only a'12
tohA. jo~
Coal has been found in Siberia, so
that on part Of the Transsiberian rail
way-namely, between Irkutsk and
Chellabinsk-the locomotives burn coal
Instead Of wood.
The increased production ol coal in
Great Britain last year led to the em.
ployment Of 1925 more persons than
In 1902, the total number engaged in
1903 bslng 842,O68 and in 1902 1924, ,791.
Berlin has about a thousand tele
phone grin They must be on enter
ing service over eighteen and under
thirty, healthy and well educated
Their minimum salary is So cents a
day, the maximum 1916 year.
The japanese women are as active
and strong as the men. An English
writer on physical culture suggests
that this may account for the Jap's
courage in war. After he has settled
his domestic problems with a wife a.
muscular and agile as himself war has
20 terrOrs for him.
Fourteen women weighing more than
300 pounds each responded to an ad.
vertisement for the "fattest barrel
shaped woman in New York" to serve
As 4 model Mt the drcssmakers' con
vention. A girl from Staten Island
weighing $40 pounds was chosen, and
she was promptly nodded into shape.
A man who lives on the little island
Of Trenton, OF the Maine coast, bought
q fine collection Of rare foxes last yeaI
and started a fox farm. He trusted to
the sea to keep the animals on the is
land, but during the winter 1t froze b.
tween the island and the coast and the
foxes decamped.
They are discussing In England a
new system Of road building which
would save a large percentage In the
cost Of construction. Instead Of the
present method of convex surfaces
with n gutter at each side 1t IL pro-
posed to build concave roads with n
gutter in the middle.
A curious sight on the coast Of Java
is q long stretch Of shore about twen-
iy-nine miles in length where the SAND
is filed with particles Of magnetic
iron. In some places 1t is said that the
surface sand contains 50 per cent OF
iron. 1t can be smelted, and com.
pnny has been formed to exploit the
deposits.
A new form OF looping the loop is
promised the Parisians. A French en-
gIneer says he Will make motor car
run down q slope to a chasm In the
track. at the end Of which it will mount
4 springboard and turn complete
somersault, coming down on the other
side Of the chasm and on coninua.
ton of the track.
Two prizes Of $125 each have been
offered by an agricultural society in
Germany for a new pigment for tattoo
ing black cared pigs. Tho tattooing Of
white cared pigs IL well known aud
successful. but q dark color is useless
for dark eurs. An additional s2H -
giren for every y"Ar the tattoo issss
bevond the fir,t ~svs,-