The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-12-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES

tn out Of the nut OF the butter tree.
PulquA the national tipple OF Mexico,
looks like huttermilk and Is sold for
3 cents quart
During the past year the night shell
tiers Of Paris received e7 2S3 men, zoos
women and 1893 children.
Submarines are built of sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to
depth Of 100 feet IL necessary, but Of
course they seldom go SO far beneath
the surface.
Germany is probably the most dense
~ wooded country In Europe. Over
Is per cent Of the area Of the empire Is
covered with forest.
Twenty-one and half columns of
the forthcoming Oxford English Die
tonary are devoted tn the specific APP
plieations Of the adjective red.
The Brooklyn bridge has 1:s feet OF
clear 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
az 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
a -
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 q plano Of log design, the whole
frame being made Of seasoned birch
logs.
An irrigation canal nearly forty
seven miles in length will be tho first
step in the plans to reclaim $4,000 acres
Of land west Of Grand Junction, Colo,
and reaching to the Utah line. Ths
work laid out will cost over half
million dollars.
1t is estimated that nearly S15,000,-
600 has been spent In Great Britain
upon rolling stock for the two new
South African colonies since tho Brit
ish occupation and that from $780,.
600 to $40O0,0OO per annum will be
spent for some years to come.
AS result Of an offer by T. f. Tay-
Ior Of firm Of wooden manufacturers
in an English city of a sovereign to
each man, woman, boy and girl who
would give up smoking for twelve
months, $1,000 has been distributed to
141 men and boys and $40 women and
girls.
Massachusetts scientists are making
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 ahows whether there is
anything In tho soil that cpntamlnatss
the supply.
Honeymoon. the new treaty port Of
China, ia 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 $4,000 Including the suburbs,
its population reaches 100000 There
are no foreign residents either in Kong
loon or Its immediate vicinity.
The Lapland limited is perhaps the
most curious OF through express trains
III that II carries fewer passengers and
runs over longer distance than any
holm. Sweden. once Il week during the
summer months and runs straight
through to Narvik, q Norwegian harbor
within the arctic zone The distance IL
1886 miles.
Accumulation OF waste products is
the undoubted cause Of tissue fatigue.
1t ia said that it probably does not
much matter whether these waste
products are our own or other peoples.
The material giving rise to the sepsa-
|. ton OF fatigue may be derived from
our own tissues by internal respiration
a It may be breathed in with foul air
from the tissues of others.
Vhs Cinnamon, Japs and chclos Mex
| lean laborsrs) in southern California
are 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 ia California, and the aver
age price paid for picking olives for
! making oil is $50 ton. and for
! pNk!lng purposes from SIS to $40 a
ton.
Experiments conducted BY the agri-
cultural department OF the University
OF Missouri have demonstrated that
/ the diseased chlnch bugs sent out by
the United States department of agri-
culture to kill the chinch bugs by infec-
/ ton are entirely Ineffective. The dis
| aascd bugs not only do not transfer
Their disease to the healthy bugs, but
koon after liberation completely recover
and do as much damage as the others.
TahleQuah. which used to be noted
| OF TIE maps OF all old Biographies as
/ the capital Of the Indian Territory, is g
town now OF about 2.5G0 people, and
! the majority of its population are Cher.