The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-02-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Australia finds homes for more than
100000 Germans.
Canada has 100000 Indians, the Unit
ed States 10000. - u -. "'5#
A Berliner takes on the average 129
street car rides year. g
Thousands of caribou, or North Amer.
lean reindeer, are to be found in New
foundland. z:
Taking the United States as a whole,
~ ~~-7~--- ah0vs that one person in
every forty has telephone.
u The specimen of the japanese hen in
the Museum of Natural History, New
York, has tail twelve feet long.
Six million persons are expected by
the Japanese to visit the exhibition to
be opened at Osaka, Japan, next March.
The district of st. Etienne, France,
has produced annually for the past five
years over SIT ,0OO, 900 worth of ribbons.
GerInany's latest addition to her navy
is the Chinese torpedo boat Hilung,
which was captured by the Germans
at Taku. SIS IL
The premium of 1000 marks offered
by Germany for the proof of trichinosis
from eating American pork has stood
for two years without claimant.
France seems to be the center of the
pictorial postcard fad. 1t is estimated
that SS,OO0,OO0 are handled by the post
al service of that country annually.
Bangkok, Siam, imported nearly
$150,O0O worth of matches last year
from Japan and exported edible birds
nests to the value Of $115,O00 to China.
Twenty years ago England imported
$4,000 horses annually; now the num-
Der is $4,000, said Sir Walter Gibley
recently at Bishops Stortford, Eng
land. >....r.-> ... 4 /. II
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. Ne - I'm
What is known as an angel shark, an
ugly fish with an eight inch mouth con.
tanning three rows of teeth, has been
caught with hand line at Fehxstowe,
England. ,..,'
More than, seven times the distance
round the earth has been walked by a
Dover England) postman named Eden
Hearn, who has just retired after forty
years service.
In the lower depths of the ocean
some of the fishes go blind, while 9th
ers develop huge eyes. Some are so
Sty. lou
fishes much larger than themselves.
In consequence of the demolition OF
Newgate, London. it has been decided
to renter in Bow cemetery the eighty
two criminals who have suffered the
last penalty of the law at the Old
Bailey.
To get u free passage from the Kon-
go to Europe.a negro slowed himself
away in a cask on board the; Belgian
steamer Philippeville. When the cask
was opened on the voyage home, the
man was found to have been suffocat-
ed.
The French industry of raising flow
ers for the manufacture of perfume
has been greatly Injured by the chem
ical odors and artificial ethereal oils
produced In Germany, as the latter sell
at a lower price and are hardly distin.
guishable from the genuine.
j. E. Barnard has discovered that
luminous bacteria, which live in sea
water, can be grown in ordinary beef
broth gelatin, but the addition of
chlorides of sodium, magnesium and
potassium is necessary to insure the
maximum light giving power.
Nine Currie. in an account of expert
ments In which she has succeeded in
obtaining pure chloride of radium, has
taken the opportunity for determining
the atomic weight of radium and states
definitely that it is 225, within unit.