The Sauk Centre herald., 1903-02-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES

averages 1& cents pound.
The sale of postage stamps in Mexico
last year amounted to $2,049,6SO
More than $50 books on the war in
South Africa have been published.
Four new pnd rich tin mines are be-
ing developed in North Queensland.
Women are fast taking places for
merly filled by men in banks in the
west.
1t is becoming-quite usual for girls to
take part in the bullfghts in Spanish
cities
The sale of postage stamps in the
United Kingdom amounts to f14,50O-
600 yearly.
Puerto Cabello has fine harbor and
La Guayra an open roadstead, with a
costly breakwater.
Glasgow corporation has refused to
allow blind men to travel free on the
municipal tramway cars.
Except school taxes there is no state
tax levied in New Jersey other than
that derived from corporations.
1t is estimated that about 5000 wo-
men and girls are employed in flower
selling in the streets of London.
Exemption from military service on
payment of sum of money is to be
abolished by the new Spanish ministry.
The bulk of the cranberries of this
country come from the part of eastern
Massachusetts which lies near Cape
Cod.
The international historical congress,
which had to be postponed last year,
will open it's sittings in Rome on
April 2.
At the present time fifty German
warships and one torpedo boat have
been fitted with wireless telegraphy
apparatus.
Hugo Jones, chemist in the city lab
oratory of Chicago, has devised bat
terry for the production of electricity di-
rectly from coal.
Its u protnses to employ all criminals
sentenced to penal servitude in the rec
lamation of the malaria stricken re-
gions of the country.
Big prices were obtained for Chodo-
weeks tiny engravings in Leipsic re-
Gently, 800, 400 and 500 marks being
paid for single pictures.
In view of the approaching CEN
tenary of Douglas Jerrold, Mr.. Brimley
Johnson announces a new edition of
the immortal Mrs. Caudle."
Great Britain buys over 1900 tons
Of German toys annually, while the
United States ranks next with an i'm
portation of about 5000 tons.
Malta is the most thickly populated
island in the world. 1t has 1850 peO-
pie to the square mile. Barbados has
1864 people to the square mile.
Lord Balfour of Burleigh states that
there are 400 prisoners per 100000 of
the population in Scotland, compared
with 700 in Ireland and 500 in Eng
land.
That wheat was grown in Alaska a
century ago is proved by the discovery
jects of the czar, in the southern part
of the territory.
The city OF Cleveland is to get rid of
it's 1874 grade crossings at a cost of $10,-
100000. Half of this expense will be
borne by the seven railroads interested
and half by the city.
The distance from La Guayra to Ca
racas is six miles over a mountain and
twenty-four miles around it by rail.
To lombard the capital shots must
curve 5000 feet in six miles.
Miss Lola Leonard, nineteen years Of
age, of Caryl, N. Y, fell under the
wheels Of a train. Not able to speak,
she signaled for paper and wrote: RI
am Lola Leonard. l live at Caryl."
Then she died.
A hitherto unknown portrait of Mar
tin Luther, painted by Lucas Cranach,
the celebrated artist and burgomaster
of Wittenberg, has been uncovered in
the town church of Wittenberg. 1t is
pronounced to be the best portrait OF
Martin Luther in existence.
A curious Yankee has tested the new
British cable line around the world by
telegraphing himself from west to east
and found that he got his words back
none the worse for wear in forty hours.
Still Puck's boasted performance of
girdling the globe in forty minutes is
without a rival.
Rev. John L. Scudder, the Jersey City
Congregational preacher, still continues
to run a boxing class in the basement
of his church and has now started a
skating rink in a big tent. The rev
erend gentleman strongly advocates the
idea that the mission of the church iD-
cludes the cultivation of muscle as we'll
as morals.
An electric fire pump is in use in
Rouen. The idea is to obtain a current
for operating the motors from adjacent
electric tram cables. The whole ma
chine can be placed on q handcart OF
ON a little two wheeled wagon drawn
by one horse. Its total weight, with
accessories and two men Oh the seat, is
about ton.
Geneva has granted permission to a
number of Spanish literary and po-
litical men to erect monument in that
city to Michael Servetus, the Spanish
theologian who was burned as Uni
tartan hereto by order of the magis-
trates of Geneva at the instigatiOn of
John Calvin. The monument is to be