The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-09-11
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been traced to tame pigeons in Cincin-
natl.
Gray has been decided on by the
kaiser as the color of the German ar
my war uniform.
The Detroit river is the outlet Of the
greatest bodies of fresh water in the
world. aggregating $4,000 square miles
OF lake surface.
AJaccio, in Corsica, the birthplace of
Napoleon, has a new telephone serv-
ice. At present it's subscribers are
three in number.
The population of the entire Austria
liam commonwealth is but a few thou
sand greater than that of New York
city-viz, 3,775, 1913.
The electrical police ambulance aft
er a severe test has been placed in reg
ular service by the police commission
ers of Hartford, Conn.
During a recent cyclone at Karachi,
British India, trains were stopped by
the force of the wind, wlSch blew at
the rate of 100 miles an hour.
Singapore possesses a curiosity in
the shape Of a Chinese dwarf who is
barely forty inches in height and is en-
dowed with fine gray beard.
Enough coal was produced in the
United States last year to give three
and half tons to every one of the
100000 men, women and children
in the country.
The great fleet Of sailing vessels
which for more than a century has
been going out from Gloucester, Mass,
is destined to give place to steam
propelled fishing boats.
A. L. Rotch, who has been studying
the German scientific methods of OBJ
servatiOns in the upper air, says that
everywhere he found the Blue hill kite
had been adopted by the German OBJ
servers.
One Of the most important industries
attaching to the cheap power now pro
duced by Niagara is the electrical tear
ing apart of the molecule of common
salt, resulting in the formation of
caustic soda and blea ching powder.
On the Pacific coast are found nu
merous little shells of sea snails of a
species called the "olivella" because OF
their resemblance to olives, out of
which the Indians used to cut disks
that were extensively used for coins.
OF the silks used in the United States
$2600O,O0O worth are imported and
$107, 100000 worth homemade. The do
meStic silk industry employs 24.OOU
men, $4,000 women and 5000 children
in 463 mills, with 100000 capital.
Many steampiDe explosions are due
to water hammer action. A plug of
water only six inches long propelled
only TWO feet under pressure. of tif-
teen pounds can exert pressure OF
6,400 pounds on being suddenly stop
ped.
Colorado is a great honey producing
state. One Colorado apiarist keeps his
bees busy collecting honey all the yeal
round by turning them loose in his
alfalfa fields in the summer and i'll
winter, shipping them to plantation
in Florida.
4 peasant woman at Salcine-des-Sus,
ROumaria, has just died at the age OF
131 years, the figures being fully sub,
stantiated by documents in the pos
session of her family. For the past ten
years she had lived entirely on milk,
being tOOthless.
The leading swine raising states are
in their order Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
Nebraska, Indiana and Kansas. Iowa,
with 9,723,791, has 1871 per cent of all
the hogs in the United States, and they
constitute nearly cne-fifth of the
wealth of the state.
Garrick's villa, at Hampton, is to be
demolished to make way for a tram
way extension. The granite posts at
the entrance to the house, where Da
vid Garrick, the actor, resided for
years, were originally part of the four
dations of old London bridge.
A Kansas City woman who made
some shirts for her husband a few days
ago made a discovery that was Curl
Gus to her. In a wOman's waist the
right half of the front buttons over
the left half. In mans shirt, open
in front, the left half buttons over the
right half.
A petition of Berlin land and house
owners against the new elevated cleo
trio railway on the ground that its
clatter deprecated their property by
driving away tenants has found no ia
vor with the president of police. He
says that Berliners will get accus-
toned to the innovation.
The flag that was first raised over
Fort DonelSon, Tenn, after its surren-
der to General Grant on Feb. 16, 1862.
has been presented to the state of Col
orado as an addition to the collection
Of war relics in the capitol. 1t is made
of bunting, 8 by 10 feet in size. and
shows the effects Of much use.
Belgian cities are liable for all dam
age done to private property by riot
ers, and Brussels has accordingly been
ordered by the court to pay $4,000 for
windows smashed during the riots of
$780, The rioting last spring was
much more serious and a larger bill
will have to be met by the city.
A New York firm recently sent a
man to Manila to build a furnitur
factory to employ about 400 hands.
The agent became disguised with the
Filipino workmen and has gone to