The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-08-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A copyright law has been promul-
gated in Siam.
Basel has the only geological garden
In Switzerland.
Lacemaking is declining as, an in
austry in Belgium.
Antwerp is about to spend $1,4O0.000
Dn the construction of new docks.
Several cab drivers have been fined
In Johannesburg for driving coolies as
fares
In meridinal Russia people gain a
remunerative living by fishing for
leeches.
o. ]. Bodley of Richmond lays claim
to the title of champion cornhusker Of
Kansas.
The sonokoto, board, bridges and
strings. is the representative instru-
ment of Japan.
Snowstorms and hail have ruined the
crops in many of the agricultural dis
tricts in France.
Because of a disagreement with his
congregation, Denmark's chief rabbi
has resigned his charge.
Bubonic plague has appeared among
the kangaroos in the geological gar
dens at Sydney, N. s. w.
"If you can't raise 10 cents, raise
whiskers," is sign in barber shop
in certain Indiana town.
A portion of the cone of Mount vesu-
vius has fallen in, and precautions
are being taken against possible land
slides.
President Loubet granted pardons to
or reduced the sentences of 22O French
criminals in honor of his recent visit
to Russia.
It is estimated that more than a mil
lion pineapples are used every year in
this country by confeetioners and can
dy makers.
Automobile stage lines have been es.
tablished, or are to be established, in
many states, according to information
in the Motor Age.
The famous Angel hotel, Islington,
London, is being demolished and will
be replaced by an up to date structure
with granite front.
Canadian boards of trade and manu-,
facturers are sending resolutions to
the Dominion government requesting
revision of the tariff.
The steady Increase in the price of
the necessities of life has become a
very serious matter to the poorer citi-
Gems of Sydney. n. s. W.
A storm recently tore down the
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pert OF ReMe, fer q lsnssh Of e09efeet
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the Danish state railways, which have
hitherto gone to Germany, will this
year probably be given to English
firms, says the Tendon Daily Mail.
Abraham Eisler, recently admitted
into the Budapest workhouse (alms-
house,, has for fifty-four years carried
a. bullet in his head which he received
while fighting in the Austrian rebellion.
Because Manchester England cotton
operatives have decreased 20 per cent
in number within the last few years,
while men engaged have trebled in
number, Manchester is no longer
known as Cottonopolis.
Some one has calculated that if a
man made $500 every day beginning
with the year l and continuing to the
present day, consuming none Of his
earnings, he would just about have as
much as Mr.. Rockefeller has today.
The London Chronicle says that the
word "loafer" came from Spanish
word and that we got it via Mexico,
as we did "galoot;;", but the Century
Dictionary says it comes from the
German and originally meant per-
son who wandered.
Cats have been known to mother
chickens, but it is somewhat rare to
find a, dog displaying similar tenden-
| cies. Fritz, an intelligent terrier in a
suburban family, was observed to
adopt half grown brood of chickens
that had been left to scratch for them
selves by the mother hen.
There are said to be thousands of
people who make comfortable livings
in London by buying or manufacturing
articles which are later pledged with
pawnbrokers, who advance more than
| the goods are worth. 1t is hard to be-
lieve a pawnbroker so green, but Pear
sons Weekly vouches for the fact
About twenty pickpockets,s some of
them with London experience, have
managed to make their way to Jo-
hannesburg, says the London Daily
Mail. London experience has about
it an air of superciliousness that will
jar on the sensibilities of the cracks,
men on this side of the big wetness.
The United States department of ag-
riculture now has well equipped labo-
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