The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-03-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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The electrical power transmitted 200
miles from Yuba, Cal, has proved per-
fectly reliable
The new ameer Of Afghanistan has
declared against the admission Of mis-
sionaries to his country.
Halifax policemen have each been
provided with a packet of salt with
which to sprinkle ice slides.
Nearly 100000 was contributed by
states and territories for special eX-
hibits at the Chicago Worlds fair.
Frozen turkeys, geese, ducks and
fowls are being sent in increasing
quantities to London from Victoria.
A Danish military commission has
arrived in London to study the organi-
cation work of British military bands.
The English soldiers pay is $3.50
month. The soldier Of no other country
except the United States gets so much.
The dedication and cpnsecration of
the new Roman Catholic cathedral at
Westminster will take place in corona
ton week.
In London there are six Paradise
streets, ten New streets, eleven Duke
Streets twelve Church streets and
tWenty-three High streets.
The total exports Of animals and
their products during last year were in
value $25O,00O,OOO, not including the
mules sent to South Africa.
Dr. Paul GARNER, the French sta
tistician, says juvenile criminality is
relatively increasing, and he attributes
the evil to alcoholic heredity.
A factory in Magdeburg for making
fodder for cattle by drying the leaves
heretofore wasted by beet sugar max
ers has proved a financial success.
At Marburg Professor Ostmanp ex-
amined 1857 school children and found
that 2S.4 per cent had a defective sense
Of hearing-the boys 80 per cent and
the girls 26.S.
Italian statistics show that the emf
grafton to America has reached the
figure Of 10000 annually. About half
of these return eventually to Italy, the
rest remaining in the United States.
An experiment in marketing Jersey
sweet potatoes in London is made by a
New Jersey grower, who has shipped
three lots, one in sawdust, one in fancy
wrappers and one loose in the barrels.
The number of persons to the section
of land is: In Great Britain, $40; ia
pan, 800; Italy, PIG; Germany, 27O;
Austria, 225; France, 1877; Hungary,
154 Spain, 90; United States, %; Rus
STA, Is.
Three local papers have been perma-
nenty suspended by the Russian au-
thorities in Finland, while the publica-
ton of seven other journals has been
stopped for periods varying from three
to five months.
The Chinese loan was covered TWEEN
ty-four times over in France. The town
of Paris furnished 1876, 663, 12O francs
and the country districts 1866, 1857
francs. The finance ministry will re-
turn 80 per cent of the sums paid by
the investors.
The center of criminal population in
y
the largest number of arrests-varies
each year. 1t has followed the line of
Broadway, steadily moving up town,
since the time when the Sixth ward
was by common consent the wickedest
precinct in town.
The speediest long distance delivery
of mail ever accomplished in the world
was that of the consignment which left
Sydney, Australia, Oct. Is, for London
by the American route. A distance of
1926 miles was covered in thirty-one
days, saving of four days over the
Suez canal route.
The great soap factories of France,
the largest being at Marseilles, have
been forced to seek cheaper vegetable
oil than that from the cotton seed, be-
cause the demand for cotton oil by re-
fners who make it foodstuff has adj
vanced it's price to a point at which it
cannot prOfitably be made into soap.
Most of the clerks of J. P. Morgan &
Co. are compelled to work after closing
hours when big reorganiZations, mer-
gers or combinations are on the forge
in the Morgan shop. Every man who
works after hours gets supper money"
to buy his dinner if he gets home too
late for it. Supper money is dollar a
man to all alike.
1t appears that between Nov. 1, 1900,
and Sept. 80, 1901, the Sevres manu-
factory delivered 11,O45 pieces of por-
celain of a total value of f33 $40. The
number of pieces sold to the public was
2563 for f9,717. The remainder were
utilized for furnishing palaces and
public buildings, presents to charita-
BILE lotteries and to diplomats.
The minister who in 1901 claimed the
record with reference to the grand to-
tai of marriages and funerals connect
ed with long minister's life is Rev.
]. M. Haughey of Mason City, thirty
miles south of Peking, Ill. During his
career as preacher, period of some
forty years, he has married 1857 cou-
pies and conducted 1900 funerals.
Although there are no doubt many
persons none too well off in Johannes
burg, there is considerable feeling of
independence. One laundress has tried
in every direction to get help, offering
from s shillings to Is. Cd. day, but