The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

OllOlS are piCNChIANO oAu oAeSA
times cure for malarial fever.
U. S. Jackson of Boston has invented
a device to secure privacy on the tele-
phone.
The Brazilian coast city Of Bahia has
about 100000 inhabitants, who live in
1900 houses.
Since the art Of abbreviation is per
fected in America dealers in pineapples
call 'em pines.
Lead deposits have been found in
Sinking valley, Lycoming county, Pa,
and will be developed.
The Netherlands rank in Importance
second only to Great Britain as mar
ket for American flour.
Philadelphia now boasts Wayfar-
ers' lodge, where the hungry may get
food in exchange for work.
Chicago city council is contemplating
the establishing of nine small parks for
the benefit of the 'no-rOOm- to-live"
poor.
The Bulletin des Halles of Paris es-
Inmates the number of horses in the
world at 74,6OO,OOO and the number of
mules and asses at II, 100000.
A philanthropic society in Philadel-
phia peddles ice In the summer to the
poor at cent for several pounds and
pure sterilized milk at a cent bottle.
A church is to be erected at Alder
shot, England, in memory of the Ro-
man Catholic soldiers-mainly Irish
men-who lost their lives in South At
RIGA.
Telephone wires have been strung
through the San Gabriel forest reserve,
California, for the purpose Of warning
the rangers of the presence of forest
fires.
From the census Of 1890 the United
States department of agriculture esti-
mated that we had within our Dor
ders 100000 trotting bred or roadster
horses.
If one were to swallow a bee or
wasp while eating fruit and the little
beastie were to sting one in the throat,
decidedly the best thing to do is to eat
small onion.
The Midland Counties England
Trades federation has voiced it's opin-
ion that if works were started with
the money that would in the usual way
be spent in strikes there would be no
strikes to spend money on.
The cereals (wheat, corn, oats, rye
and barley raised in the United States
during the past five years represent a
value to the farmer of $6,25o,000,00
or an increase of nearly $1,000, 100000
over the preceding five years.
Intemperance in anything brings it's
own punishment by lessening the
pleasure that thing can afford. One
practical lesson appears to be this: If
a favorite odor or flavor is no longer
fully appreciated, it should be foregone
altogether for period.
Mounted on jet black chargers, with
snow leopard skins on their saddles,
they are one of the smartest troops in
India" writes a correspondent describ-
ing the Imperial Cadet corps, organized
in India by Lord Curzon for the sons of
native princes.
In Lisbon, Portugal, peculiar fea-
ture of an ordinance regarding splitting
in public congeyances 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 its 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 raretied and
dead. These defects, due to the meth
DDS of filtration and ventilation, are to
be remedied.
The Paris Academic des Sciences is
examining a remarkable theory to the
effect that the key to human stature
lies in the gland situated in the throat
under the larynx. By artificially slim
ulating this gland it is claimed that
any child can be made to grow to maxi
mum height.
Boston is a 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 a 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
tramway car has been tested in Berlin
and found satisfactory. By means of
n 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. It 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-