The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-04-23
FACTS IN FEW LINES

there are 24,3Uo.
Britain has % battleships, "a armor'
ed cruisers, l04 protected cruisers, 10
unprotected cruisers. 23l torpedo craft
and submarine.
The value of the cotton crop will
surely amount to $500 100000 next year
If nothing untoward happens and the
increase keeps on at its present rate.
The ice harvest in Maine, now over,
is one of the smallest ever gathered,
but the quality is good. The crop is
4S5,O 900 tons. Last winter it was IOO,-
600 tons.
The German emperor has more serv-
ants in lis employ than any other mon
arch. Altogether they number more
than 5000 about two-thirds of them
being women.
An authority on the subject declares
that many cases of defective eyesight
are caused by. wearing tight collars,
which interfere with the circulation of
blood to the head.
In over 2.000 major operations in
Egypt upon natives only three cases of
appendicitis were met with. This Is
attributed to vegetarian diet, light
clothing and moderate living.
In Fuchau, China, with its million
of people, there is not single pump,
windlass or other mechanical appli-
ance for raising water from wells or
bringing it from the river to supply
the city.
Mrs. Hannah Jones of Conwl Elfed,
WaicS, has given birth to two pairs of
twins in one year. \ boy and girl
were born on Feb. 3, 1903, and two
girls. twins, arrived on Dec. -, 1908.
All four babies are doing well.
1t will be news TO Maine people TO
learn that they are still under English
domain. A text book used in an Eng
lish school says in speaking OF Canada.
"The chief states at present are Que
bee. Maine and New Brunswick"
British self insurance societies Lave
clearly established the fact that total
abstainers live longer than moderate
drinkers" and deserve a lower insur-
special department for tcetotalers.
A Bath (MeJ cat bears the distinc-
ton of chewing a needle, n yard of
thread ana large fish bone ut the
same time and living. The various ar
ticleS were taken from the throat by
one of the young girls in tha family.
y conSumptives' camp was institut-
ed last July in Rhode Island near Dan
ielson, Conn Fifty-nine patients have
been treated. with the following re
suits: -Four cured; improved, II; disease
arrested, IS unimproved I; dead .
The German emperor proposes to
have castle at Posen TO "conciliate
the Poles 1t viii be his fiftytiith
castle In addition he owns ninety
three landed estates, but they bring
him a little money, whereas the castles
are costly.
The Austrian minister of the interior
has recently called the attention of
medical practitioners to the serious
evils caused by illegible prescriptions.
He insists that every prescription
must he clearly and legibIy written in
all its parts
japan has navy of 1913 vessels,
many of them first class fighting craft.
Up to 1868 she never owned a war
ship and apparently did not know what
q navy was. She took her first lesson
by getting some of her boys trained
at Annapolis, Md
The authorities In Edinburgh IN or
der 10 induce people 10 be vaCcinated
offered half crown go cents to every
person who would submit to the opera
ton There was a great rush upon
the vaccination depots. with great
rush on the saloons a little later.
Three Partisan "apaches," or hooli-
gans, recently set on a man who was
taking his wife home after "A perform
ance at the Odeon. 1t CHANGED that the
man was a professor of savate hand
and foot boxing the roughs
were lnsensDle when the police took
them away.
a man with a genius for figures has
counted and calculated the number of
grains in a buShel of wheat ana makes
out the number to be 800, 120 The size
of wheat grains differs. of course, but
fair conception of what a million
means can be had by thinking of the
grains IN thirty seven quarts Of wheat
A report from Madrid states that at
the village Of Toregano, in the province
of Segoyia, four wolves came down
from the mountains and getting into
the school premises. killed and devOur-
ed five children. besides wounding seven
others very seriously. The villagers
succeeded in killing only two Of the
wolves
James Perkins. dependent upon the
town of Rochester, \. H., died about
year ago leaving a curious collection
Of rgzyr,. which the oyerseers Of the
poor placed on sale In the annual re
port. recently issued it appears that
/ the town treasury was enriched SlG7.2s
from the sale Of the oh razors found
in the trunks OF the deceased.
Canadian exporters an" year by year
I gaining a stronger position 10 the
Scotch market. About half " ihe ap-
plies Imported now are from W" 10
4 minion The system Of Inspection az
I Canadian ports and at British ports.
whereby the quality Of the fruit ia
a measure guaranteed has proved use