The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Vaccination In z new cure for drunk.

1 NDness
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 is sold for
8 cents a quart
| During the past year the night shek
ters Of Paris received G7,2S3 men, 2,OO0
women and 3SS children.
Submarines are built Of sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to
depth Of 100 feet II necessary but OF
course they seldom go so far beneath
| the surface.
| Germany Is probably the most dense
| ly wooded country in Europe. Over
Is per cent Of the area Of the empire is
covered with forest.
| Twenty-one and a half columns OF
the forthcoming Oxford English Die
tiorary are devoted tn the specific APP
! plieGtions Of the adjective red.
The Brooklyn bridge has 1913 feet Of
clear Roadway under the center of the
/ bridge at high water. The towers e1.
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 We're 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 n 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
900 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.
/ 900 to 100000 per annuu Will be
spent for some years to come.
I AS a result OF an offer by Il. II. Tay.
lor Of a firm of wooden manufacturers
/ IN an English city Of a sovereign to
each man, woman, boy and girl who
I would give up smoking for twelve
months, $1,000 has been distributed to
! lil men and boys and 80 women and
1 girls.
Massachusetts scientists are making
collections of rain water for testing
purposes. The plan is to analyHe 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
triCt, in the province of kwangtung
and by the river route is upward o.
sixty miles distant from Canton. Its
population within the walled city Is
about 10000. Including the suburbs.
It's 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
In that 1t carries fewer passengers and
runs over a longer distance than any
other train. This hier leaves Stock.
holm, Sweden, once a week during The
summer months and runs straight
through to Narvik, n Norwegian harbor
within the arctic zone. The distance is
1886 miles
Accumulation OF waste products Is
the undoubted cause of tissue fatigue.
1t Is said that ii probably does not
much matter whether these waste
products are our own or other peoples,
The material giving rise 10 the sensa-
ton OF fatigue may be derived from
our own tissues by internal respiration
or it may be hreathcd In with foul air
from the tissues Of others.
The Cinnamon. laps and choloS Mex
are happy when olive picking time
comes and they leave the cities ana
towns for the olive orchards. Picking
is Il 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 ton. and for
picking purposes from SIS 10 $50 .
ton
Experiments conducted by the agrl
cultural department OF the University
OF Missouri have demonstrated that
the diseased Chnch bugs sent out by
the United States department of ugri-
culture 10 XIII the chinch bugs by irtec-
ton are entirely ineffective. The dis,
eased bugs not only do not transfer
hclr disease TO the healthy bugs, but
soon after liberation completely recove,
and do rs much damage as the others.
rahleQuah. which used 10 be noted
on the maps OF all old biographies AZ