The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-19
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hemp, rubber and tobacco.
Tugboat owners on the Rhine have
combined to raise towage rates.
Wales has practically doubled its
population in the last sixty years.
Uranium is a metal used in the glass
and pottery business and costs $50
pound.
1t costs 2 cents to cook a breakfast
b. electricity and 10 cents to cook a
dinner.
India rubber and gutta percha trees
have been discovered in German New
Guinea.
One in four of the G5O,00O immi-
grants who arrived last year could not
read or write.
1t has recently been discovered that
Handel composed the "Halleluiah
Chorls' on Sunday.
A New York boy recently died after
being inocalated by fly with the vi
rus Of an infected sheep.
The hunting of birch saplings suita-
BILE for barrel hoops in the Maine
woods occupies 1000 men.
Three manuscript poems in the
handwriting of Charles Lamb were
sold for 1910 recently in London.
There are 1855 counties in the Unit
ed States. Texas has the largest num-
Der and Delaware the smallest num-
Der, three.
After fourteen years study of the
monkey race Professor Garner has
come to the conclusion that their vo-
cabulary is rot large enough to hurt.
Despite laws against adulteration
"olive OIL is secured from the cotton
plant. marmalade from the turnip and
cherry jelly from the foot of a calf.
By gnawing into some cases contain
ing matches rats caused a fire which
resulted in considerable damage Icing
done at Bainbridge, Yorkshire, Eng
land
NJ. Camille Flammarion, the French
astronomer, has given practical dem
onstration by means Of an immense
pendulum Of the fact that the earth
moves.
Sixteen children have been rescued
from drowning this season by Walter
Turrell, Il Yarmouth (EnslanO ferry
man, who has saved twenty-nine lives
altogether.
Wages Of the working people of the
United Kingdom, according to official
statistics, showed a decrease of ST.
100000 last year compared with the
preceding year,
The head and antlers Of magniti-
cert specimen of the extinct great Irish
ueCi ni, ( b@rn iUu4!r Il Il h1.r, .I.sil
Limerick. sThe horns measure feet
inches from tip to tip. and the mead Is
the finest ever discovered.
More than $4,000 acres Of land n
the Indian possessions of Great Brit
ain are devoted to the cultivation of
tea, nine-tenths Of the area being In
Assam and Bengal. Production is off.
cially estimated at 1911 ,25O, 900 pounds.
1t is estimated by the bureau Of for
estry i'm the department Of agriculture
that sixty lives ON an average are lost
every year In this country in conse-
uuence of forest fires. The loss Of tim
Der is put at sos, 100000, and the in
jury to young forest growth is reckoned
at $75,0OO,O00 in addition
The number of unidentified dead
taken to New York city's morgues will
average a little more than one day,
and less than half of them are identi-
fed. The number Of people reported
as missing to New York's officials and
whose temperance is never reported
averages nearly 800 each year.
The present average yield Of lima
beans in southern California is 22,-
100000 pounds which is about three
fourths of the total production of the
world. One ranch in the beam country
covers 1900 acres. This is the largest
beanfield in the world, and it requires
forty tons of seed beans to plant it
A geological survey report on Crater
lake, in Oregon, proclaims as untrue
the assertion commonly made that this
remarkable body of water is bottom
less. It took a line 1000 feet long.
however, to reach the bottom in the
deepest part. making this probably the
deepest fresh water in the United
States.
A hydraulic cartridge" is being IN
troduced in English mines to bring
down coal in place Of dynamite or pow
der. The cartridge is twenty inches
long. 1t is inserted in drilled hole
and by means of the we'll known by
draulic press principle a pressure OF
three tons to the square inch is brought
to bear on the coal which after little
time quietly gives way.
For the amount Of meat used the
sausage is the luost profitable legacy
of the hog Fully fifty different kinds
of this suspected article are manufac-
tured to suit the taste Of many peo-
ples-for Italians, with dominating
measure Of garlic; for Germans. hard
and fatty; for Frenchmen. dry and
well larded; for Americans, wen spiced
| and all Of these in several grades.
The people Of Formosa have just be
come up to date enough to have a rail-
road of their own. and detailed re-
port Of it's construction has been for
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