The Sauk Centre herald., 1901-11-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

England alone Of all European coun-
tries allows bicycles to be imported
free of duty.
During tho first. half Of this year 3d.
600 tons of vegetables were shipped
east from California.
Tobacco cultivation and manufactur
ing in the Atlantic states is greatly
hampered for want Of workers.
South Carolina stands next to Mas
sachusetts as a cotton goods manufac-
turing state. Georgia stands third.
Electric cab service in Paris has
proved very improbable. 1t is said
that the loss SO far represents 100000.
There are more Chinese Q07,0OO) in
the United States than Dutch 81, ,OOW
and almost as many as French Q13,-
0OO.
Water will be supplied the Charles
ton exposition by three artesian wells
over 400 feet deep. A salt water sys-
TEN is provided for fire protection.
A mixture of sawdust and phosphate
of lime with a binder has been used as
a material for taking casts of sculp-
lures and has been called ''similibois."
United States Judge Estee has decid-
ed that all Chinese born in the Hawaii
an Islands are American citizens no
matter under what government they
were born.
The building material Of the near fu-
ture. NJ. Jules Henrivaux predicts, will
be glass. The foundations and walls of
the houses will be of the lately invent
ed "stone glass"
The iron industry at Chicago dates
from 1857, when Captain E. B. Ward
of Detroit built the Chicago rolling mill
'Just outside of the city" This mill
was built to reroll iron rails.
1t is said that automobiles have so
cheapened the cost of harvesting grain
in the immense California fields that
wheat can be raised there at less actu-
al cost than in the Argentine Republic.
The total emigration of Swedes to
America during the last fifH years has
exceeded $4,000, while about 10000
Swedes have gone to other countries.
OF the emigrants to the United States
only per cent have returned to their
native country.
Organized labor has been successful
thus far in keeping out of the govern
ment printing office typesetting ma
chimes and'other contrivances that COM
pete with hand labor except steam
printing presses and a few machines
used in the bindery.
According to DR.. Ramsay, the first
iron works in South Carolina were
erected by Mr.. Burlington in 1878, but
they were destroyed by the Tories dur
ing the Revolution. Other iron enter
prises were undertaken in that state
after the Revolution.
T. G. Martin, an authority upon the
subject, finds that 100000 people are
employed in telegraphy, 26,0OO by the
telephone companies, 150, 900 in electric
lighting plants, 10000 on street rail-
ways operated by electricity and 15O,-
900 in electrical factories.
More than $10,OOO,OOO will be raised
by direct taxation in the city of New
York to pay what are known as county
charges, the maintenance of the coun-
ty offices in the four counties making
up the city, and for the expenses of
each toward the state tax.
The year Of the French revolutionary
calendar began Sept. %, 1892. 1t has
twelve months of thirty days each and
five days at the end. The months were
divided into three equal decades. There
was four year period called a Fran
ciade," with a six days feast at the
end.
Three gunboats Of twelve knot speed
constitute the invincible navy of Uru-
quay, force which would have hard
time with the mobilized feet of Siam,
which has two 800 ton corvets, six
gunboats, a $500 ton deck protected
cruiser armed with fourteen guns and
q $50 ton cruiser.
In England the average yield of
wheat is over thirty bushels the acre,
but in this country it is below fifteen
bushels, the difference being mainly
due to the fact that in Great Britain
highly productive varieties of the grain
have been secured through a long pc
riod of selection and breeding.
What is probably the most extraor-
binary plant ever discovered has now
been found by e. A. Suverkrop Of
Philadelphia in South America. 1t is
an orchid that takes drink whenever
it feels thirsty by letting down tube
into the water, the tube, when not in
use, being coiled up on the plant Mr..
Suverkrop came across the plant by
the side of lagoon on the Rio de la
Plata.
The humming bird, of which there
are thousand varieties, is found only
in America and the adjacent islands.
The only food that will be of any avail
in the proposed attempt to convey
some of these birds to Europe is hon
ey. 1t is not very difficult to keep
humming birds alive in cages for a
few weeks in summer, but it is al
most impossible to get them through
the winter.
Nearly half a century ago the expert
ence Of putting horse meat on the mar
ket was made for the first time in Aus
tria. The government decree of April
20, 1854, gave legal permission to cut
up and sell horse meat as an article Of