The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-07-03

The nrst Tagalog English and Eng.
lish-Tagalog dictionary has just been
completed. 1t is the work of DR.. Stem:
pie Of New York, who worked on a
Tagalog grammar before our war with
Spain.
The recent census returns show that
the population of Belgium now stands
at 6,C93.S1O. having doubled during the
last siXty-nine years. Belgium is now
the most densely populated country in
Europe.
The oldest piece of writing in the
world is on a fragment of a vase found
at Nippur: 1t is an inscription in pic
ture writing and dates $500 years be-
fore Christ. The University of Penn
sylvania has secured it. "
Recent storms have done much dam
age to the beautiful South Carolina
monument on the Chickamauga battle
field, but it is not beyond repair. The
monument consists of a large bronze
palmetto tree on marble base. ~.
A London firm has issued a cata-
logue Of the goods it keeps for sale. 1t
is an encyclopedia work in two hand
some volumes of $50 pages, Sc in col
ors. size 10 by II inches and two
inches in thickness. Its publication
cost 100000.
Bolivia produces one-twelfth of the
worlds tin and is rich in copper and
placer gold. Yet it has only 200 miles
of railroad for it's 100000 square miles
Of territory. The almost entire lack
of transportation facilities has kept
back its development.
The negroes from the Tuskegee in
stitute who were engaged in 1900 by
the German government to teach the
natives of Togoland. German West At
RIGA, how to grow cotton have succeed
ed in producing cotton which is graded
above American middling.
The British government has just
completed the survey of the English
section of Lake Victoria Nyanza, in
central Africa, for the establishment
of a steamer service on the lake in con-
nection with the Uganda railway.
which has recently been completed.
Mounted Oh jet black chargers, Will
snow leopard skins on their saddles,
they are one of the smartest troops in
India" writes correspondent describ-
ing the Imperial Cadet corps, organized
in India by Lord Curzon for the sons of
native princes.
In Lisbon, Portugal, a peculiar fea-
ture of an ordinance regarding splitting
in public conVeyances is that the fine
is to be imposed on the conductor, who
is held responsible unless he can prove
that he has informed the police of the
infraction of the rule.
The Spanish Society of Dramatic and
Musical Authors has intimated to the
Spanish government that it will not
allow any of it's plays or dramas to be
performed at Madrid unless the gov
eminent grants subsidy to the new
national theater now in course of con-
StructiOn.
No hurtful microbes were found in
the air of the house of commons when
it was analysed. The fact was estab-
lished, however, that the atmosphere
of the chamber was too rarefed and
dead. These defects, due to the meth
DDS of filtration and ventilation, are to
be remedied.
The Paris Academic des Sciences Is
examining remarkable theory to the
effect that the key to human stature
lies in the gland situated in the throat
under the larynX. By artifcially slim
ulating this gland it is claimed that
any child can be made to grow to maxi
mum height.
Boston is o shade more foreign than
Chicago. 1t has 35.1 per cent Of for
eign born. while Chicago has only 34.6
per cent. But New York is more for
eign than either. The percentage of
foreign born is 81 per cent. These
three run close race for the lead. San
Francisco comes in with 31.2 per cent.
A device invented by Karl Froscheck
for preventing people being run over
when knocked down by an electric
and found satisfactory. By means of
a revolving cylinder in front Of the car
the person knocked down is gently
pushed aside without injury or bruis-
ing.
At the present time many valuable
species of big game in South Africa
are threatened with extinction. 1t is
proposed to establish regulations for
their preservation, and it is suggested
that camps should be set apart for the
purpose of breeding certain species in
order that the country may be re-
stocked with game. ..
There is just now an observable
tendency on the part of our foreign
population to distribute itself by ma
tionalities to a certain extent. Two
thirds of the Irish remain in the east.
Two-thirds of the Germans go west.
OF 100000 Scandinavians $4,000 are
in the west and northwest. The Rus
slams, Poles, Hungarians and Italians
are chiefly found in New England,
New York and Pennsylvania. The
Bohemians and Hollandass settle in