The Sauk Centre herald., 1901-11-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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fair space for an alfalfa exhibit.
An American desk factory is about
to commence operations in London.
Steam dredges costing $25O,0O0 are
being introduced in Alaskan gold re-
gions.
Vast forests of rich yellow and sug-
ar pine are being opened up in eastern
Washington.
The first fire engine used in this
country was brought from England to
New York in 1871.
To commend anarchist crime in
public place is a punishable offense
according to French law.
The New Zealand government Is
raising the wages of it's railway en-
ployees to the extent of 100000.
The Belgian government is drawing
up bill providing for the total sup
preston Of Sunday newspapers.
The assessed valuation of the state
of Idaho has increased $4,649,5S0 in a
$50, 195, ,4S6.
The government agricultural experts
are hard at work trying to evolve an
orange tree that will prosper under
cold weather.
The ink of the Greeks and Romans
was merely lampblack mingled with
gum in the proportion Of three parts of
the former to one of the latter.
Dundee, Scotland, has started an
electric street sweeper and watering
machine. 1t is worked by a trolley
arm which runs on the tramway wire.
Coffee merchants figure out a worlds
supply of coffee this year of 100000
bags. with a demand for only 15,OOO,-
600 bags, and they do not know what
to do.
Sweden spends $15,OOO,O0o year in
coal and has 100000 to 100000 elec-
trical horsepower going to waste. The
government is thinking about utilizing
some of it.
California's state flower is the golden
poppy, and one of the professors at
Stanford university has published a
book devoted exclusively to the flower
and its legendary history.
The skin of the musk OK, which is a
denizen of the Barren Grounds" and
the arctic region of Canada, has taken
the place of that of the extinct buff
falo for sleigh robes. 1t varies in price
from $50 to as low as S. for a poor ar
ticle.
The industrial depression in Germany
is reaching serious proportions. En-
ployment agencies are deluged with ap-
plicants. From the mining regions
cone reports of numerous dismissals
and reduced work. The same is true
in iron and steel work.
Gigantic water power developments
are projected in the Alps. There are
now in the French Alps forty-eight fac
tories supplied by 25O,OOO horsepower,
electrically generated. Engineers esti-
mate that 100000 horsepower is now
running to waste in the Alps.
The royal library at Windsor castle
is about to be enlarged by the inclusion
of room adjoining hitherto used by
the lord in waiting. This will enable
many thousands more volumes to be
added to the hundred thousand valu-
able works now on the shelves.
So great has become the demand for
American coal in Europe that it has
been decided to build an immense re-
ceiving station for unloading, screening
and grading coal in northern France.
Rates have been made on French roads
which will drive German coal out of
central Europe.
DR.. Bizarre of Corr has published a
pamphlet in which he tries to prove
that the Adriatic has for more than a
thousand years been rising and en-
croaching on it's shores. The lowest
parts of Triest are experiencing trou-
BILE already, and in course of time Ven
ice will be buried in the mud of the la
gOOn.
1t is reported from the City Of Mex
leo that Senor Sabine Osuna has in
vented an ingenious and yet seemingly
very simple affair styled the "Contador
Rapido Siglo XXX twentieth century
rapid calculator). The apparatus. which
resembles the ancient Chinese counting
machine, is for the purpose Of rapid
computation.
New York state has more COWS than
Pennsylvania and New Jersey COM
bined and more than any other one
state in the Union, Iowa being second,
Illinois third and Wisconsin fourth.
The entire number Of COWS in the states
and territories in the exact census fig
ures is 1922, 800, with a total valua-
ton of $514, 4,S12, 1O6.
The beaver, the staple fur of the
French regime, is now becoming scarce
and it's price varies greatly according
to fashion. Even the skin of the in
offensive rabbit has now a positive
market value, as it is dressed, clipped
and dyed a deep brown, almost black,
and then becomes what is called "elec-
trio SEAL" much in vogue for ladies'
jackets.
The trees now growing on the farm
near Franklin, N. H, where Daniel
Webster was born are to be cut up
into friction matches, a manufacturing
company having paid $1,000 for the
standing timber upon it. The legisla-
ture of New Hampshire refused at it's
loc+ Socc;op to nav 60 OOO fo, tbo an