The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-09-04

IWeQCy-elSnC Isle OF NAH Wears
have stipends of but $3.50 year. What
the curates get Is not mentioned by
the authority quoted.
Working taiiors are SO scarce in Dur
ban, Australia, that merchants. it is
said, find great difficulty in coping
with the work on hand.
Should the pope live till 1903 he will
celebrate his diamond jubilee as a
bishop. his golden jubilee as cardinal
and his silver jubilee as pope.
The dairy schools of Russia have
brought that country to the front as
one Of the foremost producers of but
ter, cheese and milk in the world.
The London court Of appeals is all
upset over a trial ia which a mummy,
supposed to be the remains Of prin-
cess of Peru, plays the principal role.
IF you buy on Sunday, you commit
a crime against 10000 shop assistants.
Support Sunday rest" This placard
has been posted on all the blank walls
in Vienna.
The extraordinary development of
the German mania for picture post
cards is attested by the total number
of cards which passed through the
post in 1900, ne fewer than 1876, 100000.
AS many as 1881 men have been
elected to the national house since the
American congress, began. The number
does not include those who have occu-
pied seats and been thrown out on con-
tests.
An act to provide for a commission
to investigate the nature and value of
vaccination, antitoxin, seropathy and
other alleged lprophyhctics will be. in
trodueed into the next session of the
New York. legislature.
A New York dealer ripens pineap-
Piles for the market by, artificial proc
ess. He puts them in a room heated
to 10 degrees, and ordinarily three
and half or four days are required TO
thoroughly ripen the fruit.
ALI the employees of the Barnum &
Bailey circus, now travelling in Europe,
are total abstainers, to which fact is at
tributed the militarylike precision with
which the great organization is han
died and the small percentage of acct
dents.
The old stone chimney which stands
on the lands of. the Niagara Falls Pow
er company is to be removed. 1t was
built by the French in 1850 and was
the first stone structure erected in the
Niagara locality.
Some eighty French soldiers are al
legged to have deserted to the Chinese
during the recent campaign in the far
east. Some were made officers in the
Chinese army, but returned later to
their regiments and were let off with
nominal punishments.
At the time of the Roman occupation
Of Britain five distinct species of dogs
were there, most Of which can with
certainty be identified with those of
the present day. There were the house
dog, the greyhound, the bulldog, the
terrier and the slowhound.
In 1901 there were completed in
Tokyo, Japan, buildings costing $780,
coo to be used as a university exclu-
sively for women. This university now
has $50 pupils and forty-six professors
and instructors. Departments Of Jap
anese and English literature and do
nestle science are included in the cur
riculum.
With the completion Of work on the
western division the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railway company will
have practically a new double track
main line through Iowa. For several
years an enormous work has been go
ing on, and millions of dollars have
been expended in reducing grades, TAX
ing out curves, building double tracks
and putting in new steel bridges.
BY the accession of the new Earl of
Chichester six British secular peerdges
are now held by clergymen. They sare
the Marquis Of Normandy, the Earls
of Chichester, Devon and STAFFORD,
Baron Ponsonby, who is also Irish
Earl'of Bessborough, and Baron Scars
dale, the father of Lord Curzon, vice
roy Of India. Another Irish peer, Wis
count Molesworth. is also clergyman.
The Earl of Devon. ninety-one years of
age, is the second oldest peer in Eng
land.