The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1904-11-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES


miles.
There are 24o women doctors in
Great Britain.
London bridge is crossed every day
by 220, GOO people.
Russia has 10000 miles of coast line,
half of 1t icebound.
Clockwork submarines are the favor
lite toys in Europe at present
Russia is two and one-half times as
large as the United States and Alaska.
Education costs $l65,000 and rcli-
gious sacrifices $lS6,0O0 II year in 10
rea.
Gold is the great mineral wealth OF
Korea, nearly 100000 worth being
exported annually.
The United States has fifty three
times as many miles of telegraph and
sends fifteen times as much mail as
Russia.
In the wintry weather in Sweden
and Norway trusses 0f straw and hay
are tied to the lamp posts for the benc-
fit of the birds.
Port Arthur has but one docking
basin, and when the Japanese made
their famous attack it had not been
used or even cleaned out for years.
The production of copper ore and
prccipitate has greatly decreased in
England. Forty years ago it was 2l0.-
600 tons. In 1902 it was only 6,112
tons.
Coal has been found in Siberia, so
that on part Of the Transsiberian rail-
way-namely, between Irkutsk and
Cheliabinsk-the locomotives burn coa
instead of wood.
The increased production of coal in
Great Britain last year led to the en-
ployment of 1925 more persons than
in 1902, the total number engaged IN
1909 being $40, 2,0G6 and in 1902 S24, 791.
Berlin has about thousand tele
phone girls. They must be on enter.
ing service over eighteen and under
thirty, healthy and well educated
Their minimum salary is 30 cents 4
day, the maximum 1915 a 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 n wife as
muscular and agile rs himself war has
no terrors for him.
Fourteen women weighing more than
300 pounds each responded to an ad-
vertiscment for the "fattcst barrel
shaped woman in New York; to serve
as Il model at the dreSSmakcrS' con
vention A girl from Staten Island
weighing 80 pounds was chosen, and
she was promptly nodded into shape,
A man who lives on the little island
of Trenton off the Maine coast bought
fine collection of rare foxes last year
and started Il fox farm. He trusted to
the sea TO keep the animals on the is
land, but during the winter It froze be-
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 gutter at each side 1t Is pro-
posed to build concaye roads with
gutter in the middle.
A curious sight on the coast Of Java
l.. .t..I. ,L,Ny lgt ttH..
ty-nine miles in length where the sand
Is filed with particles Of magnetic
iron. In some places it Is said that the
surface sand contains 80 per cent Of
iron. 1t can be smclted, and COM
pany has been formed to exploit the
deposits
A new form of looping the loop Is
promised the Parisians. A French en-
glneer says he will make motor car
run down a slope to chasm In the
track, at the end of which 1t will mount
springboard and turn complete
somersault, coming down on the other
side Of the chasm and on contnua-
ton of the track.
Two prizes Of $l25 each have been
offered by en- agricultural society In
Germany for a new pigment for tattoo
ing black cared pigs. The tattooing OF
white cared pigs Is well known and
successful, but a dark color Is useless
for dark ears. An additional 80" T."
given for every year the tattoo ieG:.
beyond the first re1r.