The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-01-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES

brings from $l0 TO $oO.
Kansas wants 100 acres of st. Louis
fair space for an alfalfa exhibit.
An American desk factory is about
to commence operations in London.
Steam dredges costing $25O,OOO 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
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 S., GAS, $50 in a
single year, and the total now is
$50, 195, 1856.
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 24,0O0,000
bags, with a demand for only 10000
900 bags, and they do not know what
| to do.
| Sweden spends $15,OOO,OOO a year in
| coal and mas 100000 to 1900, 900 cleo
trical horsepower going to waste. The
| government is thinking about utilizing
some of it.
| 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
| denzen of the Barren Grounds" and
the arctic region of Canada, has taken
! fhe place of that of the extinct buff
Ha,o for sleigh robes. 1t varies in price
-rom $50 to as low as S. for poor ar
| tl:le.
The industrial depression in Germany
is reaching serious proportions. EN-
| ployment agencies are deluged with ap-
| plcants. From the mining regions
come 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 100000 horsepower
electrically generated. Engineers est
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 a room adjoining hitherto used by
the lord in waiting. This will enable
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added to the hundred thousand yalu-
able works now on the shelves.
So great has become the demand fol
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 q
pamphlet in which he tries to prove
that the Adriatic has for more than q
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 Ia
COON.
1t is reported from the City Of Mex
leo that Senior 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 16,292,360 with a total valua-
ton of $514, S12, LOG.
The beaver, the staple fur of tie
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 positive
market value, as it is dressed, clipped
and dyed 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 its