The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-01-02

has been the guest of Miss Hazel Full
Ter during the past week.
Chinatown in San Francisco, accord
ing to the president Of the board of
health, should be burned. AS it Is at
present it cannot be rendered sanitary
except by total obliteration.
The Prince and Princess Of Wales are
to have residence on Deeside and
have selected Craigowan, near Balmo-
raj, which has hitherto been the resi-
dence of the kings commissioner.
The telephone has been government
monopoly in France since 1899. The
development outside Of Paris has been
slight. There are more telephones in
New York than in the whole of France.
Paris now has automobile fire en-
gines which measure to 10 feet,
weigh 21a tons or when fully equipped
$3.50 pounds. They start to work in
stantly. The pump delivers twenty gal.
Ions minute.
In 1890 the area Of the national do
main occupied by the Indians aggregat;
ed 116,OOO,OOO acres. Today it aggre-
gates 100000 acres, which is about
as much land as we have in the states
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
There seems to be no longer any
doubt that Italy will within a few
years turn from sugar importing to
sugar exporting country. The past two
seasons have witnessed a remarkable
development of the beet sugar indus
try.
When the first Bible society in this
country was organized, the English
language was spoken by only 2O,OOO,-
600 people. Now 12O,OO0,OOO people
speak it. Then the Bible was printed in
so languages; now it is printed in 420
languages.
Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of German
East Africa, which seven years ago
was village inhabited by hundred
natives, is now town with 300 Euro
pean and $1,000 native inhabitants. 1t
has three hotels, several hundred
stores and newspaper.
1t is estimated that the value Of land
along rural delivery routes has increas-
ed from So to IS an acre. Then, too.
there is an educational value in the ru-
raj free delivery in that thousands more
magazines and periodicals are finding
their way to peoples homes.
Large quantities Of dried inkbags of
the cuttlefsh and squid are received by
artists colormen for manufacture into
sepia. 1t has been suggested that the
Newfoundland fishermen, who annual
~ destroy large number of these mol
luscs, might make a considerable reve-
nue. by saving and selling their inkbags.
Soonerville is the name Of the new
est town on record. 1t is located six
teen miles north of Rice Lake, Wis,
and the town site company owns 10000
acres of land. No one was allowed
to locate until Oct Is, but the president
of the town was elected beforehand
and police appointed, who now rule the
place with an iron hand.
Another bird believed to have be-
come extinct is the California condor,
twice as large as the condor of the An
des Its length was feet, weight %
pounds and spread of wings II feet.
An egg of this bird is worth $4,000 to
collectors. but none has been found for
seventeen years. Eggs of the golden
eagle sell in San Francisco for $32
each.
During the last century the popula-
ton of the territory which now con-
stitutes the German empire has very
nearly trebled. Notwithstanding the
enormous emigration. 1t has increased
from 2O,O000OO to nearly 6O,OOO,OOO
souls, and at the present rate of in
crease Germany will have popula-
ton of 1O0,0OOOOO before the close Of /
this century.
Hoboken. for its area. is the most
densely populated city in the United
States today. About 10000 people are
distributed within the limits of the
city, which is about one mile square.
The city surveyor will tell you that of
the 720 acres within the limits 400 are
marshland and 27O upland. There is
only 1876 square feet Of ground for ev-
cry resident.
New York city's average daily sup
ply of water for the three boroughs OF
Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx
is 40,00O, 900 gallons, and the consump-
ton Of Queens and Richmond brings
up the total to 35O,OOO.OOO gallons, a
larger quantity than is used by any
other city in the world and nearly as
much as is used by any other two