The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Rents are falling in Buenos Ayres.

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posed visit vr German university stu
dents to Paris.
People in India are calling for legis
| lation to preserve wild animals from
+ determination.
The Portsmouth England torpedo
school has devised line of torpedoes
to prevent submarine attacks.
The Moorish government has granted
| to France a contract for the coming of
| $4,000, 900 worth Of Moorish money.
The restoration of Peterborough ca
thedral, which has been in progress for
eighteen years, has cost over 100000.
An annual cyclopedia for 1901 places
/ the total gifts and requests in the
United States last year at $1O7, 800, 900.
One result of the Anglo-Japanese al
lance will be the prevention of prohi-
bition Of Japanese in Australia, once
| suggested.
Russia is founding an Independent
bishopric in China, and the bishop elect
Of Charbin and Peking will be at the
head Of it.
The Royal Society of England has
officially decided that women are not
| eligible for the degree of fellow of the
Royal society.
The British Lifeboat association is
considering the establishment of a wire
less service around the coast including
the lighthouses. -#.a
Sydney, the capital of New South
Wales, is working for greater Sydney
through the annexation Of outlying sub
urbs and towns. ..
No municipal tax levy will be made
in Peterborough this year, the first
| time when such an incident was re-
| corded in England.
Russian and other miners are being
| employed in English coal mines, and
an agitation against their employment
| is being considered. "
Camel teams are now being used for
the carriage and distribution of min
ing machinery on the North Coolgardie
goldfelds, Western Australia.
The census of the sexes in Canada
| shows that there are: Single males,
| 1,747,S42: females, 1868, 45O; married
males, 929, 915; females, 905,031.
Among a band of revolutionists
which recently fought with Turkish
troops near Monastir was a woman
dressed as a man. She was killed in the
fighting.
The urban council and school board
| of Kettering, England, being unable to
| agree upon q site for building, play
ed a game Of golf to decide it. The
| councillors won.
Lightning statistics in the United
States last year showed that nine-six-
| teenths Of the persons struck recover
ed. Less than one-fourth were struck
in open ground.
At PIougnastel, a small town in
Brittany, all the weddings of the year
are celebrated on one day. In Febru-
| airy last thirty four couples were mar
ried simultaneously.
| Askal Chin, in Tibet, is the lake
which lies at greater height than any
other in the world. Its level is $4,000
feet. The lowest is the Dead sea; 1920
feet below sea level. 49,.
Pewter making, one Of England's i'm
portant industries seventy years ago,
has almost been abandoned. Cheap
glassware and tinware have driven
pewter from the market.
The Phillips Brooks House, at Cam
| bridge, Mass, now has $50 contribu-
tors, representing not only the United
States, but England, France, Turkey,
Japan, China and South America.
The worlds zinc production in 1901
increased 2s,237 tons over 1900, or 81
per cent. The largest increase was in
the Rhine district of Europe, 1906
tons; the next largest in the United
States, 1892 tons.
Emigration from Ireland has decreas-
ed. Last year there were $3.50 Irish
emigrants, decrease of 1927 as COM
pared with 1000. OF the total 21,527
were females, and over 80 per cent
went to the United States.
Concessions have just been granted
to construct and run twenty-seven'
branch lines of the Swedish railways.
The new lines will cover a distance Of
<CO LILIES Ill oil, duu IL ucduS tudt owe
den will again have occasion to pur-
chase large quantity Of rolling stock.
The value Of the coal mined in ia
pan is almost equal to that of all other
minerals combined. 1t varies from the
hardest anthracite to peat, but the
quality is usually inferior to that of
american coal. Modern machinery and
methods have been introduced in the
operation Of many mines.
A boom in the use of mechanical mo-
tors throughout South Africa will en-
sue Immediately on the termination of
the war. No real development Of its
boundless resources can be accomplish
ed so long as the primitive method Of
transportation by OK wagon in districts
remote from railways is adhered to.
Fencing is a favorite pastime with
Frenchwomen, and it is not only prac-
hced by ladies in the privacy Of fash
lonable schools, but in their own rooms.
Several Of them give public exhibitions
and go on tour around the country, dis
playing their skill in contests with men
before halls packed with connoisseurs.