The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19

for their workhouse (almshouse).
Ninety thousand pounds of snails
reach Paris daily. They come from
Burgundy and Provence principally.
Within three and a half years eighty
two trusts have been formed, having
an aggregate capital of $4,31S,OO5, GAG.
Porto Rico is to have a revenue cut
ter to coast around the island and care
-, for her harbors, as is done in this coun-
try.
| Seattle's exports to Japan are now
tbout $5,000,O00 per annum, which is
eleven times what they We're six years
ago.
The district of St. Etienne, France,
has produced annually for the past
i've years over S17.OO0,OOO worth of
ribbons.
Several attempts have been made
during the last year by English and
American capitalists to form trust of
the breweries in Mexico.
A French statistician estimates the
humber of cows in the civilized world
hs 63,SS0,G00 and the amount of butter
they yield at 2,64O,OOO tons year.
After leaving Calcutta practically at
the same time five large vessels carry
ing close on 10000 bales of jute re-
| Gently arrived together at Dundee.
According to the United States con-
sui general in Montreal, Germany
makes the best lead pencils. but the
United States the best rubber erasers.
Nearly all the shoes sold in Russia
are manufactured by one firm in st.
Petersburg, which is one of the most
prosperous stock companies in the
| world.
Two monster vegetables, turnip
weighing twenty-three pounds and a
cabbage weighing fifteen pounds. have
been grown at Foulmere, Cambridge
shire, England.
Although the author of a book Oh
the finances of Turkey has been deco
rated by the sultan for his work, the
Turkish press censor has prohibited
the sale of the volume in Turkey.
Four immense steamers are to be
built by the Hartman railroad inter
ests to ply between Portland, Ore, and
oriental ports. They are to cost be-
tween 100000 and 100000 each. J.
1t is reported from Coburg, Germany,
that cheap substitute has been found
for celluloid. 1t has been derived by
dissoSing sixteen parts of glacial ace
tic add, 1.S parts of the bitter cellulois
and adding five parts of gelatin.
California ranks sixth as an onion
producing state, according to the cen
sus reports, having 2,207 acres that
yielded 514,S59 bushels, worth $780,
GIL. New York takes first place. with
an acreage of 6.O33, producing 2.177,-
271 bushels.
Haiphong is a city of 10000 inhab-
itants, the first port and the second
| city of TonQuin. The population of
Tonquin is about 6.SOO.OOO. among
whom are $500 Europeans. The CAPT
tai of Tonquin. Hanoi. has popula-
ton of 10000.
Officials of the census office say it Is
probable that force of 600 employees
will be retained in that Office until after
the manufacturers census is taken in
1905. The act of congress creating the
permanent census provides that the
cotton statistics shall be gathered each
year.
At Tunis the average commercial
value Of green almonds in good sized
lots is Is francs $500 per 100 kilo-
grams (22O46 pounds; the value of dry
almonds is about four times as great,
and the decorticated fruit brings 205
francs ($39.5O) per 100 Kilograms. The
stock OH hand from the preceding har-
vest is insignificant - approximately
2.OOo Kilograms 4, 1902 pounds).
Artificial freezing is device much
| rcsUrted to for sinking pit shafts
| through aqueous strata, holding the
earth in compress of ice to ward off
| a sudden thrush of water. The system
was first applied in 1852 by mining
engineer named Micaux and after a
long struggle against difficulties and
imperfections is only just beginning to
approach security and gertrude.
Tile shortage of doctors in Russia is
| the subject of an article in st. Peters
burg journal which publishes statis-
tics of the proportion of doctors in
other European countries per 100000
inhabitants. Great Britain heads the
list with $50, Switzerland has 50, Ger
many 80 and Russia 8. In order to
bring the percentage to the same level
as Great Britain Russia will have to
have 10000 doctors. At present there
areionly about 1900.
Al few. months ago the minister OF
| foreign affairs Of France sent a letter
| to the French consuls in different quar-
| tiers of the world instructing them to
report on the amount Of money invest
ed by Frenchmen in their various con-
sular districts. France has always had
the reputation Of being an investing
country. dividend receiving country,
q nation OF almost inexhaustfble re
! sources The result Of the consular in
vestigations fully sustains this reputa-
don. showing that the foreign invest
lments OF France aggregate in round
numbers nearly 10000. 000. 900 francs
elose to 5000 00o,0 900.