The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-06-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES


During the past year the night shef
tiers OF Paris received 672S3 men. 1000
women and SSS children.
Submarines are built Of sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to a
depth Of 100 feet II necessary, but OF
course they seldom so 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.
Twcnty-one and a half columns OF
the forthcoming oxford English Die
tioh,ry are devoted ia the specific APP
pllrations of the adjective rcd.
The Brooklyn bridge has 1853 feet OF
clear Roadway under the center Of the
bridge at high water. The towers cx.
tend 2IS feet above high water.
Alcoholism Is extremely rare in tho
italian army. In 1901, the latest year
Tor 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 II 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
work laid out will cost over half
million dollars.
1t is estimated that nearly $4,000.
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 $4,000.
600 to 100000 per annum will DO
spent for some years to come.
AS a result of an offer by r. +. 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, S.. 800 has been distributed to
Iii men and boys and 5l0 women and
girls.
Massachusetts scientists are making
collections of rain water for testing
PURPOSES. The plan Ia to aualyZe 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 contaminates
the supply.
Honeymoon, the new treaty port OF
China. is on the West river, Sunui dis
trlct, in the province of Kwaugtung,
and by the river route Is upward OF
sixty miles distant from Canton. Its
population within the walled city Is
about 10000. Including the suburbs
its population reaches 100000. There
are no foreign residents either In Kong
moon or Its immediate vicinity.
The Lapland limited Is perhaps tho
most curious of through express trains
In that 1t carries fewer passengers and
runs over longer distance than any
other train This nIer leaves Stock
holm, Sweden, once II week during the
summer months and runs straight
through to Naryik. n Norwegian harbor
l.. a T.,
1896 miles.
Accumulation OF waste products Is
the undoubted cause Of tissue fatigue,
1t 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.
ton Of fatigue may be derived from
our own tissues by internal respiration
or it may be breathod In with foul air
from the tissues of others.
The Cinnamon, Japs and cholOs Mex
lean laborcrs) 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 In California. and the aver.
age price paid for picking olives for
making oil Is $50 n ton. and for
pickling purposes from sls to $50
ton.
Experiments conducted by the Ggri
cultural department Of the University
Of Missouri have demonstrated that
the diseased chinch bugs sent ont 10y
the United Suites department Of ngrl
culture to kin the chinch bugs BY inlec
ton a~e entirely ineffective. The dis
eascd bugs not only do not transfer
their disease to the healthy bugs, but
soon after liberation completely recover
and do as much damage MS the others
rahlequnh, which used to be noted
on the maps OF all old Biographies as
the capital Of the Indian Territory, IS
town now Of about $500 people and
the majority Of its population are Cher.
okoe Indians. The CherOkees are OF all
shades and complcxions. Some coal
black negroes boast Of being Cherokee
indians. but the pre- yailing color Is
dllsky brown, little darker than that
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