The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

PulGuA the national upple or Mexico,
looks like buttermilk and Is sold for
cents quart
During the past year the night shell.
ters Of Paris received 67,293 men, 2,0o6
women and 3SS children.
Submarines are built Of sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to
depth Of 100 feet If necessary, but OF
course they seldom go 80 far beneath
| the surface
| Germany Is probably the most dense
~ wooded country in Europe. Over
| Is per cent of the area of the empire ia
covered with forest.
Twenty-one and half columns Of
the forthcoming Oxford English Die
tonary are devoted to the specific APP
pIisations Of the adjective red.
The Brooklyn bridge has 139 feet OF
clcar Roadway under the center Of the
bridge at high water. The towers ex-
tend 27S feet above high water.
Alcoholism is extremely rare in the
italian army. In 1901, the latest year
| for which figures are available, only
| twenty-five cases Were admitted to the
hospitals.
The raising Of asparagus for export
as well as for domestic use Is an in
dustry Of considerable Importance in
parts Of Germany. 1t Is confined
chiefly to certain localities Of north
| Germany and parts OF Baden.
There are many log cabins in the
Adirondacks that cost their owners
over 100000 apiece. Even interior
furnishings of some are Of logs. One
has piano of log design, the whole
frame being made Of seasoned birch
logs.
An irrigation canal nearly forty
seven miles in length will be the first
step In the plans to reclaim $4,000 acres
Of land west of Grand Junction Colo,
and reaching to the Utah line. The
million dollars.
1t il estimated that nearly $15,0OO,-
600 has been spent in Great Britain
upon rolling stock for the two new
South African colonies since the Brit
ish occupation and that from $2,5OO,.
600 to 100000 per annum will be
spent for some years to come.
AS result Of an offer by T. F. Tay-
lor Of firm OF wooden manufacturers
In an English city of sovereign to
each man, woman, boy and girl who
would give up smoking for twelve
months, $500 has been distributed to
al men and boys and 519 women and
girls.
Massachusetts, scientists are making
collections of rain water for testing
purposes. The plan is to analyze the
rain that falls in any part of the state
and then compare it with the spring
water. This shows whether there is
anything in the soil that contaminate
the supply.
Honeymoon. the new treaty port of
China, is on the West river, Sunui dis
trict, in the province of Kwangtung.
and by the river route is upward of
sixty miles distant from Canton. Its
population within the walled city Is
about 30OG0 Including the suburbs,
It's population reaches 100000. There
are no foreign residents either in Kong
moon or its immediate vicinity.
The Lapland limited is perhaps the
most curious Of through express trains
In that it carries fewer passengers and
runs over longer distance than any
other train. This Aier leaves Stock
holm. Sweden, once a week during the
summer months aud runs straight
through to Narvik, Norwegian harbor
within the arctic zone. The distance is
1896 miles.
the undoubted cause Of tissue fatigue.
1t is said that it probably does not
much matter whether these waste
products are our own or other peoples.
The material giving rise to the sensa-
ton OF fatigue may be derived from
our own tissues by internal respiration
or it may be brea thed in with foul air
from the tissues of others.
The Cinnamon, Japs and cholos CNex-
lean laborers) in southern California
nre happy when olive picking time
comes and they leave the cities and
towns for the olive orchards. Picking
Is large item in the cost OF the olive
industry in California. and the aver
age price paid for picking olives for
making oil is $3.50 a ton, and for
picking purposes from SIS TO $50
ton.
Experiments conducted by the ag-i-
cultural department Of the University
of Missouri have demonstrated that
the diseased chinch bugs sent out by
the United States department Of aCri-
culture to Kill the chinch bugs by infec-
ton are entirely ineffective. The dis
eased bugs not only DO not transfer
their disease TO the healthy bugs. but
soon after liberation completely recover
and DO as much damage as the others.
TGlicquGh. which used to lie noted
Oh tie maps Of al Old Biographies as
the capital of the InGlan Territory. is q
town now Of about 2.5G0 people. u,.l
the majority OF its papllau ion are Chez.