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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
Proof of the Earth's Motion.


Any one can prove the rotary motion Of
the earth on its axis by q simple expert!
ment.
Take good sized bowl, fill it nearly
full Of water, and place it upon the floor
of room which is not exposed to shaking
or Earring from the street.
Sprinkle over the surface Of the water a.
coating of lycopodium powder, q white
substance, which is sometimes used for
the purposes of the toilet, and which can
be obtained at almost any apothecary's.
Then, upon the surface of this coating of
powder, make, with powdered charcoal, a
straight, black line, say an inch or two
inches in length.
Having made this little black mark
with the charcoal powder on the surface
of the contents of the bowl, lay down
upon the floor, close to the bowl, stick
or some other straight object, so that it
shall be exactly parallel with the mark,
If the line happens to be parallel with q
crack in the floor, or with any stationary
object in the room, this will serve as well.
Leave the bowl undisturbed for a few
hours, and then observe the position Of
the black mark with reference to the OBJ
ject that it was parallel with.
It will be found to haye moved about,
and to have moved from east to west,
that is to say, in that direction opposite
to that of the movement of the earth on
its axis. ..
The earth, in simply revolving, has
carried the water and everything else in
the bowl around with it, but the powder
on the surface has been left behind a
little. The line will always be found to
have moved from east to west, which is
perfectly good proof that everything else
has moved the other way.-German
Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26

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Of
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
FIGHTING with Bare Knuckles.

You will hear a number of SO called
fighters nowadays talking Of their ability
to fight with bare knuckles, but the truth
is that but few fighters have the courage
to fight with the raw 'uns. 1t requires
great pluck to face determined fighter
and look at the hard, uncovered knuckles
playing carefully in front of you, and
ready at the owners will to be driven into
your face or stomach. Thus men who
will fight with the greatest determination
with even as small as two ounce gloves,
will quail when brought face to face with
a pair of uncovered fists. No amount Of
coaching or training will cure them,
either. The fear of bare fist seems
innate with some men and they can never
conquer this fear, although their pluck
has never been questioned when engaged
in glove contest, no matter how wicked.
This popularity is noticeable mostly
among the Germans, who have a holy
horror of being hit with naked fist.
There have been plucky Germans, who
have fought like tigers with gloves, but
put them up with nothing on their hands
and they are too nervous to do themselves
Justice. Democrat Interview.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
The Evolution Of q Hat.

A Park place dealer in head coverings
displays in his window ''The evolution of
a hat" 1t is q unique exhibition. First
there is a grave and sleepy white rabbit
in cage. Next to his apartment, as q
reminder of his possible fate, is mass of
rabbit fur from the bodies of some Of his
departed fellows. Exhibit in the collec-
ion is long. conical affair about the color
of hornets nest, and scarcely as SYM
metrical in form. 1t is labeled: "Form-
ing the fur into shape The fourth stage
in the evolution is illustrated by an ex-
hibit entitled, shrinking the body"
The large gray cone has been contracted
to half its size, but looks as ungainly and
as little like hat as ever. Exhibit B,
however, looks very like hat. The gray
mass has been dyed black and stiffened,
and but for its frayed edges it would
make very decent headgear. The sixth
sample shows the finished hat, as hand
some derby as ever graced Uranium.
Its edges are bound, its interior uphol-
stored with white silk, and is such a per-
feet hat as would make the sleepy rabbit,
marked Exhibit 1, almost willing to die
to produce such triumph of art.-New
York Evening Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26

Love seems to be the handspring Of
life among the Mexican women, They
adore their husbands in aworshipful man
ner that grieve to say my little woman
doesn't approve of; they love their chill
dren with a brooding tenderness that
finds constant expression in the sweetest
and most loving words, and they love
each other and all the world besides; even
on their animals they bestow the utmost
affection. Their very language lends itself
particularly to the expression of their alb
sorbing mother love, and children are
Precioza, Adorable, Cara, Mia, Cariszimo
and Alma Mia, besides numberless other
caressing titles. And SO the little woman,
tired as she was, found herself rested in
the fullness of the Astounding womanly
sympathy. And afterward she told me
that she adored Mexican women.
On one of our excursions we saw two
young Mexicans, lad and young girl
who had been held captiyes by the Indians
nearly four years when they escaped and
managed to find their way home again,
only to be taken to the grave of the
mother whose heart had broken with
longing and sorrow for them.-Mexican
Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
High Living at Washington.

In the meantime hear continuous
complaints about the high prices of living
in Washington, and there is no doubt
that a radical change has gone on in this
regard. The rich men who have come
here entertain SO grandly and dispense
their money so freely that, as Senator
Cullom told me the other day, the poor
statesman has hard time to keep within
the limits Of his salary. Senator Cullom
said he has made nothing since he has
been in politics, and that he has lost his
money making sense by working in the
field of craftsmanship.
The days when congressman could
board on 81 a day have long since gone
by, and the man who gets along now on
$40 a week does remarkably well. If he
has his wife and children with him his
bills run well up in the hundreds per
month, and if he has not the chances are
that the allurements of Washington life
will carry him fast along the road to per-
dition.-Carpenter's Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
Society in washington.

There was big ball at the British lie.
cation last night, and the thousand win
dows of the great palace glittered and
glowed. The picture of Victoria, at the
head Of the landing, looked down on the
throng, and looked like old Mother Eng
land pronouncing benediction on her
American children. Sir Lionel Sackvnle
West, the British minister, is one of the
most popular in Washington. He is fond
Of society, and entertains great deal.
Tonight there is to be cabinet dinner
at the White House, and the president
and Mrs. Cleveland will wine and dine
the various ministers. As I write this
the White House gardeners are taking
the plants from the Conservatives and
putting them in the various corridors,
and more than $1,000 worth Of flowers
have been used in decoration. wish I
could describe to you some Of the dishes
which will appear on that White House
table. The terrapin stew would make
your mouth water, and you would feel
like the boy with his nose against the
glass of the candy window, as you read of
the pate de fol gras and other. French
dishes. You will not, however, have the
headaches Of tomorrow, and, as rule,
the man who makes the most out of big
dinner is he who declines the invitation
Carpenters Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
To Keep Plants in Winter.

A new principle for keeping plants
through the winter without artificial heat
was recently shown at Regents park.
London, with the plants grown in them
last winter. The essence of the invention
is that all light and heat shall previously
pass through shallow layer of water.
The water is found to exercise great con-
troll over temperature, protecting plants
entirely from frost in winter and
from excessive direct heat in summer.
The application involves no difficulty. In
the case of garden frame sliding
sswater light" about three inches deep, is
made to fit over the frame containing the
plants, the only difference from glass
light being that it holds water and is al
ways placed in fat position. The depth
of water generally kept IN the tank is
about two inches in summer and winter,
and half the depth in spring and autumn.
Popular Science Monthly.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26

disks, sometimes three inches in diameter
and an inch thick, and made up OF layers
of ice and sand.
''One such sand anger passed near an
engineers camp where I was at work and
carried of tent or two. 1t then grazed
the edge Of a corral near by, cutting away
one angle of an adobe wall, and, sweeping
by the house itself, left every pane OF
glass in the one window as neatly ground
as If done by sand Blast machine.
Passing on. the tents the 'auger' was
carrying off became entangled in the tele-
graph wires running through the valley,
and after dragging down two poles the
cyclone collapsed, leaving beneath, when
it broke up, mound made up of sand,
bits of adobe, some old boots, a sprinkling
of empty tins, part of a bale of hay and a
dog cared poker deck Of cards. The lat
ter were afterward carefully gathered up
by their owner, genius called Slim Jim,
who always deplored the fact that the re-
covered pack was imperfect, there being
but four aces left in it by the sand auger.n
San Francisco Examiner.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
Tho Eoomerang's Curious Flight.

Some German scientists, seeking to dis
cover the secret Of the boomerang's curl.
Gus fight, caused party of Australian
natives to give an exhibition of BOOM
erang throwing at Munster. The instru-
ments used were of two sizes, the larger
being slender crescent about two feet
long, two and n quarter inches wide and a
quarter of an inch thick, made of an ex-
traordinary heavy Australian iron wood.
This boomerang was jerked up into the
air about 100 yards, when it flew straight
away, then turned to the left and re-
turned in n curved line back to the
thrower, whirling around constantly and
whizzing unplcasantly. One badly d.
Jected projcctile fell through q spectators
hat with cut is clean as that of razor.
A Weimar manufacturer, who has made
some 11.000 toy boomerangs, believes that
the mystery of shape lies in the sharper
curvature in the middle, with unequal
length of the two arms, which must be
made of equal weight by unequal thick
ness. The popularity of motion is due to
the difference in the length of the arms,
which diyerges the curve of rotation from
the circuiar.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26

One of the most popular amusements is
kite flying. At certain seasons old and
young, rich and poor make unto them
selves kites and HE them to the hills.
You will sometimes see several thousand
people gathered together to watch the
sport or to take part. The kites are often
large and fly very high. Some have gro
tesque paintings, Others Eolian harps, a
few are of odd shapes. The lines are
wound upon reels and are generally busted
with powdered glass, 80 that if you man
age to foul your line with that of some
one else it may cut his line and his kite
be lost, while yours still scars The more
kites you cut loose the bigger feather in
your cap. In this lively amusement Miss
Yum Yum takes her full share. -Tokio
Cor. New York Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
The Idols of India.

idols usually occupy little shedlike
structure at the entrance to the villages.
Every little village or hamlet one passes
through south of Agra seems 1audably de-
termined to own god of some sort; those
whose finances fail to justify them in
sporting q nice red painted god with gilt
trimmings, sometimes console themselves
with an humble little two dollar soapstone
deity, that looks as IL he has been rudely
Clipped into shape by seme unskillful
"'prentice hand" God making is highly
respectable and lucrative profession in In
dia, but only those able to afford it can
expect the luxury of q nice painted and
vanished deity right to their hand every
day. OF course people cannot expect
first class deity for couple of rupees; al.
though the best of everything is generally
understood to be the cheapest in the end,
it takes money to buy marble, red paint
and gold af.-Thomas Stevens in Outing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26

One of the modest cards among those
of public men is that of Gen. Beale, who
was, it will be remembered, such an init
mate friend of Gen. Grant, and who is
one of the most cultured gentlemen in
Washington. The family cards in which
father. mother and daughter call with
one presentation, are well represented in
that of Mr.. and Mrs. Marshal Wilson,
whose day is Friday, and who live on G
street. Washington Mclean, the veteran
editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer, though
an old man, still goes out in society, and
his card is as fashionable as that of q
dude. Mrs. Stanley Matthews has a
neatly engraved piece of pasteboard, and
Mrs Senator Stockbridge's lightly lettered
card looks very simple beside the heavy
black letters on that Of Mrs. Mahone.-
Carpenters Washington Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26

heard the other day of clerk in a dry
goods store who was smart and quick, a
splendid manager and all that. He had
an exalted opinion of himself, and fire.
auently made himself disagreeable by re-
marking to his associates that the concern
could not possibly get along without him,
This came to the ears of the senior part
ner, and the old gentleman called the
clerk into the private office and said: "Mr.
Jenkins, you have been very efficient and
we appreciate your services, but I hear
that you have repeatedly asserted that if
you were to die the concern couldn't pos
sibly survive it, and this has worried both
myself and partner very much, for you,
like all men, are liable to die very un--
expectedly, We have, therefore, con-
cluded to experiment while we are in
health and see if the concern will survive
your absence. You will, therefore, con-
slider yourself dead for one year, and we
will make an effort to so consider you for
that length of time. Globe Democrat.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
Dakota Fditor,s Comn,aint.,

eve greatly dislike to find fault with
any of the customs of our beautiful little
city," says Dakota editor, "but we must
nevertheless insist that people keep, their
swine out from under the Office Of this
paper. While engaged at our desk writ
ing our leader on 'The Stability of Our
Territorial Institutions for our paper
this week, one of Senator McBride's razor
backed hogs bumped up its spine and be-
gan scratching its back on thes beams
under the floor, Earring the whole build
ing and making it necessary for. us to stop
our work on the editorial, crawl under
our Office, and welt the critter along the
side with column rule. This interrupted
our train of thought, and the editorial l.
not what we could wish" =,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
CURIOUS WIND PHENOMENA.
The "Sand Augers'' Of the Plains-Tricls
of Baby Cyclones-A Collapse.

The ''Sand Augers'' Of the Plains-Triclks
of Baby Cyclones-A Collapse.
"a curious phenomenon, said Pro-
fessor F. E. Clarke to reporter, '.is some
times observed on wide plains where the
forming of miniature cyclones, or rotary
storms, which, when occurring on a grand
scale, as they do in the western states, are
known as tornadoes.
"When the Union Pacific railway was
being constructed the workmen had fire.
quent opportunities of witnessing the
formation and progress of such whirl-
winds, which, on account Of the peculiar
action they had on dry soil, were called
sand augers.' They were especially fire.
quent in Lodge Pole Creek valley, through
which the railway, leaving the Platte
river, runs northerly to near the base of
the Black hills, This valley is quite mar
row-averaging about mile in width
and is bounded on either side by a range
of low, uneven hills.
''The first indication of the approach of
one of these sand augers' would be the
formation, here and there in the valley,
of little whirligigs of dusty winds, picking
up bits of straw, paper and other uncon-
sidered trif1es, sometimes waltZing into
camp and flirting with the canvas tents or
scattering the embers and ashes of out
door cooking places.
"These baby cyclones would increase in
number quite rapidly, and then be whisked
away by strong currents Of air, coming
from no one knew where, but all drawing
across the valley toward the eastern
range of hills, over which would then be
seen advancing a funnel shaped cloud,
like that seen over waterspouts forming
at sea.
"From the under surface Of this low
lying cloud swaying tongue of lead
colored vapor would prolong itself toward
the earth, from which, to meet it, would
rise cloud of dirt and sand. This earth
column would rise higher and higher,
with whirling motion, becoming more
compact all the while, until the blue
black vapor and the brown mass from
below would unite above, and the COM
pleted, swiftly whirling column commence
moving slowly down from above on its
way across the valley.
while its forward progress was usually
slow, its rotary motion about its vertical
axis would lie very rapid; and 80 dense
would be the mass of sand gathered up by
it that when the column touched the earth
it would scoop out shallow channel like
the dry bed of small stream. Hence its
name Of sand anger.
''The diameter of these augers seldom
exceeded fifteen or twenty feet at the
ground, but their bulk increased with
their height until they were merged into
the broad surface Of the thick, murky
vapor from the cloud above, from which
electric flashes frequently played, When
this occurred large hailstones would be
formed, which would be thrown, by cen-
trifugal force, apparently out from the re-
yolving storm. They would be found to
be, almost Invariably, IN the share Of fat
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-26
pesoLATloN.

Alone sit ia gorgeous state,
And view my gathered treasures rare.
Which seem to mock my cruel fate
My lonely lot, so bleak and bare.
Within is wealth and warmth and light,
Close curtained from the whistlng wind,
That sweeps and swirls with reckless might,
Whose breath brings death to human kind
But the cold wind Of her deep scorn
Has blighted all my JOY Of life;
Within my soul no hope is born
No rest or peace or savage strife.
And what care for pride or fame,
Since love from out my heart is driveni
All, all is but an empty name
Ashes the prize for which I've striven.
Dead ashes from q deep despair,
A heart burned out by passions fire.
o Godl she was so false, so fair,
And blind was with fond desire.
loved with love that ne'er grows old;
My worship followed where she led;
But weary Of tale oft told,
She left me!-and the world is dead.
Martha NJ. Ross in Times Democrat.