The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES


The worlds population is increasing
about 5OO,OOO,OOO century.
Three thousand men are employed in
the Aberdeenshire granite quarries.
Alsace-Lorraine is one of the best re-
cruiting grounds for the German army.
False teeth were among the prizes
ratified for at a recent bazaar in Mont
rose.
Windsor castle has been provided
with an electric carpet beating ma
chine.
Tottenham, England, is to be provid-
ed with a motor fire engine costing
$37,5OO.
Consumption causes the death of four
times as many negroes as whites in
New Orleans.
Berlin is to be provided with a statue
of General Won Room, who reorganized
the German army.
Large numbers of swans from Russia
and north Germany are now wintering
on the Swiss lakes.
Near Tiverton, Devonshire, there is
to be seen a blackbird with a white
head and speckled back.
Granite laden trolleys are being used
to test the stability of the new footway
extensions at London bridge.
Strong protests are being raised in
India against the abandonment of the
dumdum bullet for frontier lighting.
Part of the name of the charger rid
den by the Duke of Wellington at the
battle of Waterloo has been sold in
London.
One hundred and fifty steel wagons,
each of $4,000 pounds capacity, have
been ordered in Leeds, England, for
South Africa.
Some of the employees on Sir Red
vers Buffers Devonshire (Englan0 es-
tate have been in the same service for
over fifty years.
To pay for the reorganization of the
Korean army the government has de-
cided to put an additional tax of $50
per acre on land.
Fifty dollars is to be given every
Russian soldier and sailor now on the
active list who served in the Russo
Turkish war twenty five years ago.
About Al per cent of the men an
nually enlisted pass into the British
reserve after three years service and
about 40 per cent after seven years
service.
1t has been decided by the Belgian
To tho or 70 H0al
mines in the Campine district, but b
increase the taxation payable by the
c0iiieTy companies.
Bandmaster Landfried, who has died
at Hove, England, aged sixty-eight,
was one of the trumpeters of the Sew
enteenth lancers who sounded the
charge at Balaklava.
On being brought into court at Biz
mingham, England, a prisoner COM
planned that he could not have any
breakfast because the police had taken
possession of his false teeth.
Because Hungarians were attacked
in certain passages Of his book an au-
thor has been sentenced in Hungary TO
eight months Imprisonment and or
dered to pay about $500 in fine and
costs.
the disastrous effects of the drought
in New South Wales may be judged
from the fact that meat preserving
company at Albury has purchased 12O,-
900 sheep at from siXpence to shll-
ling per head.
Before the tomb of the late Cecil
Rhodes, in the Matoppo hills, Rhodesia,
was sealed up several pieces of granite
were taken as relics from the walls OF
the chamber One of these has just ar
rived in London.
AS they are dangerous and mischiev-
Gus crea lures, accustomed to sting man
kind" no one has right to keep bees
in unreasonable numbers or in an i'm
proper place, so the Dublin kings
bench has decided.
1t is estimated that the Eskimo pop
ulation of Alaska, Labrador and Green
land has declined from 10000 in 1880
to $4,000 at the present time owing to
the thinning out of the seal, walrus,
polar bear and other sources of food
supply.
The Royal academy was 124 years
old on Dec. 10, having been founded in
176S by King George I'LL, who nemi-
mated thirty-six academicians and ap-
pointed Joshua Reynolds, who was
knighted on the occasion, to be the first
president. Sir e. J. Poynter is but the
tenth holder of his distinguished posi-
ton.
Electricity is taking the place Of gas
and ether in dental extraction. The
current, which is of the form called
high frequency, is applied to the jaw
where the operator desires to render it
insensible by means of heat appara-
tus, and the patient feels nothing more
than a slight heating Of the affected
part. This method is much safer than
gas, cocaine and other anasthetics.
A boot scraping and cleaning ma
chine is one of the contrivances for en-
abling us to do without the servant
girl. There are scrapers for taking off
the cakes of mud that stick to ones
footgear and a rotating brush for fin
ishing the process. The bristles of the
brush touch rod as they go round, so
that they come back to the boot quite
clear Of dust. The machine is easily