The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-05-14
FACTS III FEW LIES

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A swallow If In hurry travels les
miles an hour
1t is said that Texas alone markets
$00Oe0,00O worth of cattle annually.
Four new lighthouses have been
erected recently on the coasts of the
Red sea.
In the common schools of Sweden
English is studied during four hours
each week.
Uncle Sam employs nearly 1900 wo-
men in the various departments at
Washington.
"Street 5car colds" are principally re-
sponsible for the increased mortality
from pneumonia.
Twenty-six pounds was paid for
pack of German playing cards dated
1868 in London recently.
Sioux Indians, initiating the whites,
are now visiting South Dakota for the
purpose of obtaining divorces.
BY 156 votes to 81 the Italian cham
Der has passed the bill for the munich
palization of the public services.
Semaphores are to be used at Wool
witch arsenal to signal to the employees
when it is time to leave off work.
Revolvers which fire seven shots in
five seconds and can kill at $50 yards
have been served out to the Berlin po-
lice.
AS a precaution against infection
small silver currency is now being dis
infected by the municipal authorities
at st. Petersburg
Liverpool, England, is to be provided
with a new kings pipe" for the de-
structiou of tobacco sweepings from
some new warehouses at the docks.
While Colchester England mother
was out buying some coal from man
named Death her child, which was left
at home unattended. received fatal
burns.
The Boston club, which claims to
have founded the Republican narty
and to be the oldest dining club III the
country, held it's two thousandth meet
ing recently.
Among the prizes given to the boys
attending a voluntary school in a Mid
Glamorgan village recently was one
consisting of a box of soap, a piece of
flannel and a towel.
The growth of the tobacco industry
in South Carolina has been phenome.
nal The Darlington market alone re-
ports sales Of more than 100000
pounds of the 1902 crop.
Apples upon the surface of which are
perfectly reproduced the photographs
of the emperor and empress of Russia
and the president Of the French repub
lie have been shown in France.
A rich Chinaman at Wellington, New
Toaiand. has given 100000 to nav for
.- .
>.l,IE-, Of Chinese ---'. ... ',J- 'eft
Fnsolgh money for sendAns their bodies
home.
Germany's trade with Venezuela is
trifing in amount. The statistics for
ave years show that but one-fifth OF L
per cent Of Venezuela's exports were
to Germany, and but one-tenth of 1 per
cent of her imports come from that
country.
And now Dr Ebrlish. a German SCI
an+ist declares that the skins of half q
Mound of cherries contain $1,000. 600
harmful bacteria. Their harmfulness
must be as intinitesimal as their micro
scopic size. or the small boy is a mira
Gle of grace.
Tho Ractar.+b co,laction Of original
dr.,r;r,e hv old mas+ers which in.
o,,,da. sLo+cbos hv raonardo ia Vinci
Creve,li RotticelIi FiIinno Iippi Fra
Ror+olon,ne Tintoretto and Veronese.
has heen acouired by the ROYAL mu-
scum of Berlin.
Tho twentieth century movement of
the Presbyterian Sunday schools in the
limited States during the past two and
q half wears gathered in more than
400 600 children. but it is said that il
required inst about that number to fill
nm the gan made by those who left the
schools during the same period.
+unna, und.r the Thames for the
accommodation of pedestrians has been
recentlv completed and opened for the
public. 1t is a tube eleven feet in di.
ameter and 1,217 feet long, with the
top thirteen feet below the river bed.
It is accessible by electric elevators
and a spiral iren railway at either end
The managers of the Paris metropol-