The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-23
FACTS IN FEW LINES
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Natives Of central Africa make but
ter out Of the nut Of the butter tree.
Pulque, the national tipple Of Mexico,
looks like buttermilk and 10 sold for
/ B cents quart
/ During the past year the night shet
ters Of Paris received G7,2S3 men, 2,oOo
women and 1888 children.
Submarines are built Of sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to 4
depth Of 100 feet II necessary, but OF
course they seldom 90 30 far beneath
the surface.
Germany Is probably the most dense
iy wooded country In Europe. Over
% per cent Of the area Of the empire Ia
covered with forest.
Twcnty-one and half columns Of
the forthcoming oxford English Die
tlorRry are devoted tn the specific ap-
pucations Of the adjective red.
The Brooklyn bridge has 1873 feet OF
clear Roadway under the center Of thu
bridge at high water. Tho 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 cases were admitted to the
hospitals.
The raising OF asparagus for export
as well rs 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
AdironGacks that cost their owners
over 100000 apiece. Even interior
furnishings of some are of logs. One
has Il piano of log design, the whols
frame being made Of seasoned birch
logs.
An irrigation canal nearly forty.
seven miles in length will be the frs,
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 q
million dollars.
1t ia 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 be
spent for some years to come.
AS result Of an offer by r. r. Tay-
lor Of a 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, $1,000 has been distributed to
14l men and boys and $40 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 it with the spring
water This shows whether there 10
anything In the soil that communicates
the supply.
Honeymoon, the new treaty port Of
China. is on the West river, Sunui dis
trCt, IN the province Of Kwangtung.
and by the river route Is upward o.
sixty miles distant from Canton. Ita
population within the walled city IL
about 10000. Including the suburbs.
It's population reaches 100000. There
are no foreign residents either in Kong,
moon or It's immediate vicinity.
The Lapland limited Is perhaps the
most curious Of through express trains
In that 1t carries fewer passengers and
runs over n longer distance than any
other train. This fler leaves Stock.
holm, Sweden, once Il week during the
summer months and runs straight
through to NaryIk. q Norwegian harbor
within the arctic zone. The distance in
1886 miles.
Accumulation OF waste products Is
the undouhted cause OF tissue fatigue
II Is said that ii 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 1t may be hreathed in with foul air
from the tissues of others.
The Cinnamon. Jnps and cholos Mex.
tcan lahorcrsl in southern California
are hnppy 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.
axe price paid for picking olives for
making oil is $3.50 Il ton. and for
picking purposes from SIS TO $50 3
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.
,ulture 10 XII the chinch bugs by lsfec~
ton are entirely ineffective. The dis,
.aSed bugs not only do not transfer
their disease TO the healthy bugs, but
coon after liberation completely recover
aud do as much damage as the others
fah!rquah. which used to be noted
on the maps OF all old Biographies II,
the .yHr.tgi OF tho India Inrr{tN-y &c .