The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-03-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Vaccination u q new curS for drunk

Natives Of central Africa make but
Der out Of the nut OF the butter tree.
Pulque, the national tipple Of Mexico,
looks like buttermilk and Is sold for
cents quart.
During the past year the night shell
ters Of Paris received G7 .2S3 men, 2,o09
women and 3SS 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 go SO far beneath
the surface.
Germany Is probably the most dense
iy wooded country in Europe. Over
D. per cent of the area of the empire ia
covered with forest.
Twenty-one and half columns Of
the forthcoming oxford English Die
tiotAry are devoted ia the specific APP
plieations Of the adjective red.
The Brooklyn bridge has 13s 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
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
Adlrondacks that cost their owners
over 100000 apiece. Even interior
furnishings Of some are Of logs. One
has a 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 a
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 $500
600 to 100000 per annum will be
spent for some years to come.
AS result OF an offer by T. +. Tay-
lor of firm Of wooden manufacturers
in an English city of q sovereign to
each man, woman, boy and girl who
would give up smoking for twelve
months, $500 has been distributed to
Ill men and boys and 80 women and
girls.
Massachusetts scientists are making
collections of rain water for testing
purposes. The plan Is to nnaly1e 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
trct, in the province of wangtung
and by the river route is upward o.
sixty miles distant from Canton. 1t,
population within the walled city /,
about 10000. Including the suburbs
It's population reaches 200 600 Their,
are no foreign residents either In Kong
moon or its immediate vicinity.
The Lapland limited Is perhaps thu
% In,
In that 1t carries fewer passengers ant
runs over Il longer distance than any
other train. This tlier leaves Stock
holm, Sweden, once week during The
summer months and runs straigh
through to NarVjk, II Norwegian harbo
within the arctic zone. The distance i.
1,&3G miles.
Accumulation of waste products il
the undoubtcd cause Of tissue fatigue
1t is said that 1t probably does no
much matter whether these waste
products are our own or other people S
The material giving rise to the scns0
ton OF fatigue may be derived from
our own tissues by Internal respiration
or IL may be hreathcd in with foul nj
from the tissues Of others.
The cinnamon. JapS ana cholos Mex
lean lahorcrSp in southern Californj;
nre happy whea olive picking tim
comes ANA they leave the cities an,
towns for the olive orchards Pickju!
is a large item in the cost of the div
industry in California. and the aver