The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-07-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

There Is now made an opera glass
which folds to the thickness Of half an
Inch and needs no case.
London is to have at Hackney it's
first Yiddish theater. Besides plays
the managers intend to give grand OPP
era in Yiddish.
DR.. FOntan, q surgeon OF Toulon, re-
ports that he has recently preserved
the life of soldier who was stabbed
through the heart.
Automobiles across the Caucasus for
carrying the Russian mail are to sup
plant the present transport post horses,
with changes every ten miles.
The town Of Loanhead. in Midlothi-
an, Scotland, has refused to adopt the
libraries acts and consequently loses
Mr.. Carnegie's gift of f12.OOO.
The wholesale price of pair of
shoes represents about % per cent in
wages, 65 per cent material and 13 per
cent minor expenses and profits.
New Zealand hopes in twelve months
time to be able to supply it's state rail
ways with coal from government
mines near Greymouth. South island.
At Malta 80 per cent of the parents
have chosen English as the language
o. instruction for their children as
against Is per cent in favor of Italian.
At the Home For Lost and Starving
Dogs in Battersea. England, more than
quarter CT million animals have
been received during the last ten years.
The work of widening London bridge
has commenced. When completed. the
width of the bridge will he seventy
six feet, or eleven feet wider than that
of the present time.
Robinson Crusoe's island. Juan Fer
nandez. lying COO miles vest OF Val
paraiso. is to be given Il civil govern
ment by Chile on account of its lob
ster canning industry.
Making paper from wood. method
discovered by DR.. Hill.of Augusta. Me-,
has in few years become one of the
most important industries in the coun-
try. He got his idea from hornet.
Every Russian going to theater or
other public entertainment is required
to pay something toward the support
of an institution established by the
government for the benefit of the poor.
Military spectators present at the re-
view Of the Argentine army a-e re-
ported to have stated that the evolu-
tons and appearance of the troops
were worthy of the best organized
armies of Europe.
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 caus-
tic sods and bleaching powder.
Genuine diamonds varying in weight
from one-half carat to carat have
been found in placer deposits on tribu-
taries of Golovin bay, forty miles east
of Cape Nome. Miners found the dia-
monds while washing out gold.
Glasgow university shows an in
crease of 1913 students over last year.
Edinburgh of 102, st. Andrews of 26,
while at Aberdeen there is decrease
Of 10. 1t is impossible to make out
yet what influence Mr.. Carnegie's gift
has had on these numbers.
The views which Cecil Rhodes enter
tanned of death were extremely sim
ple The thought of it gave him little
or no emotion. when am dead" he
once said. 'let there be no fuss. Lay
i'm, tIn frnoH down tho r.f n
and pass on. shall have done my
work.
The Wilson endowment fund of
100000 for Washington and Lee uni
versity, Virginia. having been made up.
Herbert Welsh Of Philadelphia. who
was largely instrumental in raising
it, now recommends that fund Of
100000 be raised to endow a scientific
and technical school to be associated
with the university.
Crematory companies would do well
to note the statement of chemist who
has determined by painstakiRg analy-
sis that human body of average size
pounds 13 ounces of calcium
The current quotation of calcium is
$500 an ounce. which would give US
each value in the retort of SIS, 300, or
one-forrth our weight in gold.
Owing to the numerous losses of re-
vOlyers and small arms occurring in
the service Secretary of War Root di-
reefs that officers responsible for this
exercise greater care in pre-
venting such losses. They will be held
pecuniarily responsible for the same in
all cases in which it cannot be shown
clearly that every possible precaution
was taken.
Immense areas Of cattle range have
been destroyed by too much crowding
md by sheep. Sheep in large punches
nip the grass so close and so cut its
sod with their hoofs that it dies. The
railways of the northwest have COM
oined to find the grass most suitable
'or stock and to this end will divide
10000 acres of land into thirty subdi-
visions, each of which will be planted
with different kind of grass.
There are more Slavonic males under
twenty -one years of age in New York
city than Of any other foreign people.
They outnumber the Latins under
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