The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-08-15
= FACTS IN FEW LINES


by f4OO0,OO0 during the last IL months.
Nearly 10 per cent of. the recipients
of the Victoria cross are military doc
tors.
The crop bulletin for Manitoba shows
that 100000 acres have been sown
with wheat. The conditions are favor
able 0
Labor in the south is in great de-
mand. and the negroes are better paid
than they have ever been in their lives
before.
While the United States is spending
$114.965,625 year for literature of all
kinds. 1t is drinking $1,249, 191, 553
worth of alcoholic liquors.
!. British farmers and dairymen are to-
day milking 100000 cows and produc-
ing annually in their diaries f32 900. 900
worth of milk, butter and cheese
An automobile company has been
: awarded the contract for carrying the
mails between the Pan-American expo
sltion grounds and the Buffalo postof-
flee.
demonstrating with policemen. cab
drivers and street car conductors is a
serious offense in Austria, as all those
personages are rated as public officers,
to insult whom means Imprisonment
and fine.
1t may surprise some to hear that
Florida stands tenth as a fish produc-
ing state. 1t has a coast line. including
islands, of $500 miles. The annual
catch is about 36,000,0OO pounds, with a
total value to the fishermen of about
100000.
Belgian capital to the amount Of &c.,
100000 has found investment in Rus
sian enterprise. That means an amount
of IA per head in Belgium. France
though largely interested in Russian
loans, etc, reaches the amount Of only
f24, 100000.
The wholesale mineral water manu-
facturers Of Liverpool and district have
increased the price Of their beverage
threepence per dozen owing to the in
creased cost of sugar. and the retailers
have put on halfpenny per bottle to
the consumer.
An interesting feature of the expense
bill incurred by New York's committee
of fifteen is that devoted to losses in
gambling houses. Detectives who go
after evidence travel in pairs and play
the plungers' game. Very seldom do
the detectives win.
New rules have been adopted by the
big transatlantic steamship lines re-
garding the admission of visitors to de-
parting vessels. The great crush is
partly responsible for the change. Wis
itors must hereafter procure passes
from the booking offices.
The churches of the borough of Man.
haitian. New York city, will send about
10000 boys and girls and mothers to
the country this summer. OF the vari-
GUS churches the Episcopal sends by
far the greatest number Of children,
Trinity alone sending 1000.
A correspondent has discovered a
number of oddly named persons in
Georgia counties. Among these names
we have Sorrowful Williams, Increase
Thomas, Merciful jenkins. Angel Jones,
Salvation White, Happiness johnson.
Purity Scott and Paradise Lee.
Mr.. Baldwin has shipped 40 balloons
to Tromso for use in the north pole ex-
petition. These balloons are not in
tended to carry passengers. but each
will have ten message buoyS attached
which will be liberated automatically,
thus recording the route northward.
At the Buffalo exposition is exhibit
ed the smallest steam railroad in the
world. The rails are foot apart each
of the ten cars holds two passengers,
the line is mile long, and the engineer
sits on the tender, for there is just
room enough in the cab for his feet.
A Philadelphia firm of auctioneers re-
Gently offered at one of their sales Rob-
inSon Crusoe's musket. 1t was a fine
old tiintlock. 1t was in the possession
of a grandniece of Alexander Selkirk,
and its pedigree is much more uncloud-
ed than is usually the case with objects
of this kind.
The women of Canea, in Crete, have
formed a society to oppose the lux
uriousness of dress. The members of
the society wear only the simplest of
costumes and anathematize jewelry
and ornaments. The Cretan govern
ment is to be petitioned to Introduce
a bill to make the wearing of extrava-
CANT clothes penal - Ai
A dispatch from Angouleme. France,
reports that an invasion Of locusts has
taken place throughout the department
of the Charente. more especially in
the canton Of Bouillac. where they are
so numerous and so voracious as to
constitute a veritable scourge. Enors
nous fields Of beans and beets have
been devastated In a few hours.
E. "A. Martel, the French explorer of
caverns. whose discoveries under
ground have attracted much attention,
reports that he has found In theSde-
partment of Hautes Alpes a cavity in
the form Of a natural well' whose
depth exceeds that of any other known.
He has sounded it to the depth of about
1,027 feet, but the actual bottom has
not been reached.
Phenix. A. T., the-center Of Salt
river valley, was a few years ago a
sagebrush desert. 1t has now 25,0OO
Inhabitants, with an assessed property