The Sauk Centre herald., 1902-02-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES


cost from $500 to $500 an acre.
The appropriation for the care Of
Grants tomb for 1902 is $4,000.
Paper twine stockings at cents q
pair are the latest thing in hosiery.
There were 3.5l6 immigrants refused
admission to the United States last
year.
OF all the newspapers published in
the world 6S per cent are in the Eng
lish language.
Russia will throw open the peninsula
extending into the Siberian sea to pros
pect for gold in April.
Rock salt is mined and prepared for
use in the states of New York, Kansas,
Louisiana and California.
The per capita consumption Of spirits
in the United States is smaller than in
any other Of the great natioDA
+ Europe has five reigning princes who
are over eighty years old and nine 9th
ers who are more than seventy.
A Kansas man has celebrated two
silver weddings, having lived twenty
five years with each of his two wives.
A sugar company in Hawaii will get
an average of five tons of sugar per
acre for it's whole tract of 1900 acres.
By the use of process invented at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, wooden doors are
being electroplated with copper or
brass.
The Yucatan mahogany and logwood
forests are to be exploited by COM
pany which will build 275 miles of
railway.
Russia has planned a deep canal
from Riga, on the Baltic, to Kherson,
on the Black sea, near the mouth Of
the Dnieper.
Isaac s. Taylor of St. Louis proposes
to make midair observations in bal
loon Of the construction work on the
worlds fair site in that city.
A wine cask which holds $1,000 gal
Ions and is the largest ever built may
be seen at Maltermoro, Cal. The steel
hoops around it weigh 10000 pounds.
The increase in population in Venice
has been not less than $4,000 during
the last twenty-five years. During the
last ten years it has been nearly 1900.
When Johns Hopkins left his great
fortune in Baltimore and Ohio stocks
for the university that bears his name,
the stock was worth almost $500 a
share. 1t afterward fell to about SIS.
France, with upward of 10000, 900 Of
population. has but one really large
city, Paris, with 2,715,OOO inhabitants.
The two next largest are Marseilles,
with 4,769, and Lyons. with 453, ,245
Inhabitants.
In a recent book Of travels In China
special point Is made Of the general
honesty Of the people, as illustrated by
the numerous stalls and shops that are
left to look after themselves without
danger of theft.
California leads the country In the
development Of electrical power from
water. She has the three largest pow
er transmission lines in the world.
The first successful experiment inythat
line in this country was made I'M Po-
mona in 1891.
Hungary hopes to- be able to raise
cotton. although the warm season is
only five months long and the plant
requires seven months to ripen. The
difficulty is to be, overcome by special
Of the seed and by adding
certain ingredients to the sofl.
Since its doors were thrown open ON |
Oct. i, 1891. there has been q daily av-
,rage ,of 200 visitors to the Congress
'ional library, making an aggregate |
with the omission Of Sundayssand Sec
liar holidayS of '676, 900 persons from
III parts of the country whose feet
lave trod its tessellated, corridors.
1t is said that in France S&OO0,O 600
'icture postcards pass through the |
,ostofices annually. That country |
axes the lead Of all others, Austria
hungary; coming next, with 81 ,O00,O0Ot |
'he total in circulation thrpugheut the
world in one year is said by experts
0 be 2,360OOO,OO0.
st. Louis has q peculiar sect fn the 4
hape of community Of sand eaters, 4
of seventy-five men and wo- !
nen. The sand eaters take every day
spoonful of sand. They believe that 2
rit is necessary in every animal and i
hat many stomach troubles are due /
o the absence Of grit in the stomach.
At Hanlon's heading, on the Colorado
iver, just above the international line,
N the California side of the river, q
,eadgate is about to be constructed
which will make possible the irriga-
ion of 100000 acres in California and
|OO, 900 acres in Lower California. 1t
8 expected that within two wears this
whole area, which is now desert, will
,e brought into cultivation.
The Berlin electric tramway conduct
ors, or '.wattmen," as they are called
on the continent, are subject to special
ailments. One is an ophthalmia caused
by the air current, another is an In
OF the knee due to ringing
the alarm bell, and a summer disease
Is kind Of sunburn, with blisters on
tho hands, owing to their exposure to
the sun in controlling the car.
Experiments which have been In
progress in Russia for FIVE years to as