The Springdale news., 1905-02-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. looks like buttermilk and is sold for 3 cents quart.
 During the past year the night shel- ters of Paris received 67.2S3 men, 2.OO6 women and 3SS children. Submarines are built of sufficient strength to permit them to sink to a depth of 100 feet if necessary, but of course they seldom go so far beneath the surface
 Germany is probably the most dense ly wooded country In Europe. Over 25 per cent of the area of the empire is covered with forest
 Twenty -one and a half columns of the forthcoming Oxford English Die tionary are devoted to the specific ap- plications of the adjective red.
 The Brooklyn bridge has 135 feet O. clear headway under the center of the bridge at high water. The towers ex- tend PTS 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 we'll as for domestic use is an in dustry of considerable importance in parts of Germany. It 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 s1O0.00o 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 25,0o0 acres of land west of Grand Junction. Colo, and reaching to the Utah line. The work laid out will cost over half million dollars.
 It is estimated that nearly S15,0O0,- GOO has been spent in Great Britain upon rolling stock for the two new South African colonies since the Brit ish occupation and that from S2.500,- GOO to S4.0O00O0 per annum will be spent for some years to come.
 As a result of an offer by T. r. Fay Tor of firm of woolen manufacturers in an English city of a sovereign to each man. woman. boy and girl who would give up smoking for twelve months, s, 300 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 1t with the spring water. This shows whether there is anything in the soil that contaminates the supply.
 Honeymoon, the new treaty port of ] China, is on the West river Sunui dis l trict, in the province of Kwangtung, and by the river route is upward of sixty miles distant from Canton It's l population within the walled city is l about 30,000 Including the suburbs. 1 its 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 l in that 1t carries fewer passengers and runs over a longer distance than any other train. This fiier leaves Stock holm, Sweden, once a week during the summer months and runs straight ] fbranvh to Naryil \nptrnuiar, har knr within the arctic zone. The distance is 1886 miles.
 Accumulation of waste products is the undoubted cause of tissue fatigue. It is said that 1t probably does not much matter whether these waste products are our own or other peoples. The material giving rise to the sensa- tion of fatigue may be derived from our own tissues by internal respiration or it may be breathed in with foul air from the tissues of others.
 The Chinamen, Japs and cholos (Mex- ican laborers) in southern California are happy when olive picking time towns for the olive orchards. Picking 1 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 $7.50 ton, and for pickling purposes from SIS to s20 ton.
 Experiments conducted by the agri- cultural department of the University of Missouri have demonstrated that the diseased chinch bugs sent out by the United States department of agri- 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.
 Tahlequah. which used to be noted on the maps of all old geographies as the capital of the Indian Territory, is town now of about 2,JOO people, and the majority of it's population are Cher. okee Indians. The Cherokees are of all shades and complexions. Some coal l bl ntr st oF 6A;p