The Sauk Centre herald., 1902-12-11
FACTS aA FEW LINES
Paris has 1876 factories.

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A diet Of garlic is wonderful aid to
the complexion. 4.
The czar Of Russia has established a
ten hour working day.
A man should weigh twenty-six
pounds for every foot of his height.
The most valuable byproduct pro-
duced on the farm is the skimmilk.
Whitewash made of quicklime and
wood ashes will destroy moss on tiles.
The number of laborers required to
cultivate the tea crop of India is &c.,
600.
Two roots and the trunk of a fossil
tree have just been unearthed at Brad
ford, England.
The standard of height in the British
army is greater than in any other
army in the world.
There are sixty-fve steamers on the
Swiss lakes. The largest can trans
port 1000 passengers.
The median age of the white popula-
ton in the last census year was 23.4
and of the colored 1877 years.
During the last ten years 275 acci-
dents, involving 301 deaths, have oc-
CURED to people climbing the Alps.
The income of the Suez canal last
year was $19,45O,O0O, being dues from
5000 vessels which passed through it.
Fifty thousand Christmas postcards
designed and printed in London have
been ordered for sale on the continent.
Twenty-Five survivors Of the eruption
at st. Pierre. Martinique, are adver-
tised as an attraction at circus in
Berlin.
The motto "Dieu ct Mon Droit'' was
first assumed by Edward III. of Eng
land when he took the title Of king of
France.
DR.. Heinz, professor of therapeutics
Of the University of Erslangen, advises
long. deep and quick breathing for cur
ing seasickness.
>Cleburne, town in Texas, possesses
q gray brindle tomcat that is thirty
years old. The animal has no teeth and
is unable to new.
twenty-five thousand black silk
handkerchiefs have been ordered by
the British admiralty for the navy
from q Macclesfield firm.
The whole number Of Seminole Indi-
ans, as shown by census just taken,
is but 339. Nearly all Of them are in
the Florida everglades.
The greatest number of complete Bi-
bles ever issued in one year-viz, $780,
706-was sent out in 1901 by the Brit,
ish Foreign Bible society.
There are $500 window glass pots in
the country, but owing to the limited
number Of skilled workmen it is only
possible to operate $500 pots.
A Spanish ducat belonging to the o.
riod of Philip w. of Spain. 1921 to
1926, has been found by a Mashona,
land volunteer near Mafeking.
A portable seat for messenger boys
has been invented. A tired lad carries
it concealed beneath his coat when not
in use, but it will usually be in use.
Germany sold Russia nearly $700,oOC
worth of plows last year. The plow in
use in that country has wheels at the
beam tip, so it does not have to be held
Since June Z more than $4,000 British
officers and men have left South Afri
ca This is believed to constitute a
worlds record in the transport OF
troops.
The agricultural returns of Great
Britain for 1902 show that the total
under crops and grass was 32,3S7, ,765
acres, a decrease of 29,4S0 compared
with 1901.
AS q thanks offering for his good
health Pope Leo XIII. proposes to
erect home for the aged poor in his
native town of Carpineto, Perugia, at
a cost of 100000.
Judge M. NJ. Sheldon of Macon, Mo.
married a young couple recently and
left out the word "obey'' in the cere
mony. In order to make sure that
both parties should be aware Of the
omission he called attention to it
Great Britain is still the greatest tea
drinking country. The consumption is
five pounds per head Of the popula
ton. In Switzerland it is estimated al
one and half pounds per head and in
the United States about one pound pei
head. So X
Practical measures are now in prog
ress with view to exploiting the vari
Gus coalfields existing in Egypt and
elsewhere on the direct eastern route
The Egyptian government has granted
concessions for this purpose to Edward
Nichols. an Englishman.
Siberian merchants are loudly com.
planning that Manchuria and ports in
Siberia, are flooded with American
German, japanese and other foreign
goods and that Russian trade is dis,
appearing. Energetic measures are de,
manded, particularly frontier guard
sufficient to prevent smuggling.
A newspaper in Norway recently
contained the following advertisement
Il, the undersigned. declare that
through regrettable mistake, cir.
culated the rumor that the coffee house
keeper, Jorgen Henriksen, had drunk a
glass of beer. l humbly apologize to
Mr.. Henriksen for this unfounded i'm
putation. Olaf F. Lien"
A child discovered wandering in the
streets of Paris recently was found to
have had her finger nails torn out.
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