The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-06-01

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Pulque, the national tpple Of Mexico.
looks like buttermilk and is sold for
. cents quart.
During the past year the night shek
tiers OF Paris received 67,2SS men. zoos
women and 888 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
% per cent Of the area Of the empire Ia
covered with forest.
Twenty-one and half columns Of
Che forthcoming Oxford English Die
totary are devoted to the specific ap-
pueations Of the adjective red
The Brooklyn bridge has 1888 feet o:
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
Itallah army. In 1901, the latest year
for which figures are available, only
twenty-five cases We're admitted to the
| hospitals.
The raising OF asparagus for expor,
| as we'll as for domestic use Is an In
dustry Of considerable Importance In
parts OF Germany. 1t Is confined
chiefly to certain localities OF north
| nd Of
| 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 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 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 is estimated that nearly Sl5,O0O,.
900 has been spent in Great Britain
|
South African colonies since the Brit.
ish occupation and that from $500.
900 to 100000 per annum Will be
spent for some years to come.
AS result OF an offer by 7. II. Tay
lor Of a firm Of WOODEN manufacturers
In an English city OF sovereign &c
each man. woman, boy and girl who
would give up smoking for twelve
months, $1,000 has been distributed tc
I l41 men and boys and 519 women and
girls.
I Massachusetts scientists arc making
7 collections Of rain water for testing
purposes. The plan Is to nnalyze tn,
rain that falls in any part Of the state
ind then compare 1t with the spring
water. This shows whether there 1.
anything in the soil that contaminated
the supply.
! Honeymoon, the new treaty port o.
China. is on the West river, Sunui dis
trict, in the province Of Kwangtung
and by the river route is upward O.
sixty miles distant from Canton. III
population within the walled city II
about 10000. Including the suburbs
Its population reaches 100000. There
arc no foreign residents either In Kong
moon or its immediate vicinity.
! The Lapland limited is perhaps the
most curious Of through express trains
/ In that 1t carries fewer passengers and
runs over longer distance than any
y other train. This fiier leaves Stock.
holm, Sweden, once a week during the
summer months and runs straight
through to Narvik. a Norwegian harbor
within the arctic zone. The distance IL
1886 miles.
Accumulation of waste products Is
the undoubted cause Of tissue fatigue.
1t = said that 1t probablJ 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 breathed in with foul air
from the tissues Of others.
The Cinnamon, 5aps and cholos (MeN
lean laborers) In southern California
are happy when olive picking time
comes and they leave the cities and
towns for the olive orchards. Picking
ia a large item In the cost OF the olive
industry In California. and the aver
age price paid for picking olives for
making oil is $3.50 ton, and for
picking purposes from SIS to $50 .
ton
Experiments conducted by the agri
cultural department Of the University
Of Missouri have demonstrated thai
the diseased chinch bugs sent out by
tho United States department Of agri
culture to kill the chinch bugs by infec
ton are entirely ineffective. The dis
sased bugs not only do not transfer
their disease to the healthy bugs, but
coon after liberation completely recover
.nd do as much damage as the others
Tahiequah, which used to be noted
On the maps OF all old Biographies al
the capital OF the Indian Territory, is 3
town now OF about $500 people. anc
the majority OF It's population are Cher
r. M nban q ~ oil