The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-12-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Oklahoma has $3.50, 100000 Of taxable
property, and Its public institutions
are valued at $12,OOO,O0O.
Malaria continues to be a greater
scourge Of the British army in India
than any other fatal cause.
The department of fisheries is intro
ducing in Nova Scotia waters the rain
bow trout from British Columbia.
Arrests for drunkenness in 129 cities
Of the United States are said to aggre-
gate 312, 900 during the last fiscal year.
Vine culture and the production of
wines has in recent years become an
important industry in the republic Of
Chile.
Later census returns from remote
districts will increase the population of
the Dominion Of Canada to about
100000.
Throughout Africa the cows horn is
favorite instrument, being used in
connection with others on all festival
occasions.
Cockfighting is no longer a legalized
form of sport in Manila, the civil au-
thorities having issued an order pro-
hibiting it.
Manila is becoming a popular OBJ
| jective point for tourists from Austria
liza, distinction which it could not
gain under Spanish rule.
The city of Spokane, Wash, has paid
in recent years thousands of dollars for
damage suits resulting in injuries re-
ceived on defective sidewalks.
Russia's Asiatic possessions are three
times as large as the British, but have
only 25,0OO,0OO people as compared
with 297, 100000 under British rule.
Mortality among the colored people
of Baltimore during 1900 was three
times greater than among the whites.
tuberculosis caused one-tenth of the
deaths.
It has been found that acetylene
gives at least four times the amount
of lampblack that oil gas does is free
from tar compounds and is well adapt
ed for printing.
In ten Irish counties there are ad
vertised 667, 900 acres of shootings. and
the rental asked is f7,SS5, or a trifie
over pa pence per acre. In most cases,
too, there are mansions attached.
New Guinea is just now suffering
from a visitation of whooping cough.
This is the first time that the malady
| has occurred there, and as usual in
such cases it is spreading like wildtire.
Strong lights with basins of petrO-
leum below them, are now used in
France to destroy night flying insects
that injure vineyards. AS many as
4,S6S insects have been caught in a
basin in one night.
Most people think that France is the
glovemaking country par excellence.
Germany, however. has the largest
number of concerns engaged in the
making of leather gloves Of any coun-
try in Europe, the number being over
LOO.
German physicians are, applying a
new remedy, lecithine, to the cure of
diseases which require treatment of
the nerves and nutrition. Lecithine
and it's compounds are said to have
tendency to increase weight and
growth.
With $40. 7S2 inhabitants San Fran
cisco has 21,324 telephones. In other
words, she has a telephone for ever
16 inhabitants. Boston comes next.
She has 100000 inhabitants and $3.50
telephones, or a telephone for every "A
inha bitants.
In Germany there are 100000 plants
for the production of acetylene gas, and
thirty-two cities light their streets with
this gas The production of calcium
carbide is growing continually, the
amount manufactured last year being
10000 metric tons.
Columbia, S. c., has been following
the example of several California cities
by sprinkling certain Of it's streets with
oil. 1t has been found by actual prac-
tice that it costs about $50 per block
and that it not only settles the dust.
but makes a better road.
Between 10000 and $4,000 women
pass annually through the prisons OF
England and Wales. Taking the figures
for last year, it appears that y per
cent had been previously convicted, AZ
per cent five times and more and Is
per cent, about 1000 women, twenty
times or more.
Owing to the depredations of the ma
tive sportsmen the hare bids fair to be-
come extinct in France. The passen-
ger boats from Folkestone take over
daily supplies to Boulogne to make
good the shortage of native animals.
This is the first season that hares have
been imported from England.
It is curious to note that sixteen out
Of the twenty-one English coronations
that occurred between William Rufus
and Elizabeth, both inclusive, were
held on Sunday. For each Of the ex-
ceptions there was special reason.
After the days Of Elizabeth not sim
gle coronation took place on SUNDAY.