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

1t is said that Texas alone markets
$SO,OO0.G00 worth of cattle annually.
Four new lighthouses have been
erected recently on the coasts of the
Red sea.
In the common schools of Sweden
English is studied during four hours
each week.
Uncle Sam employs nearly $500 wo-
men in the various departments at
Washington.
"Street car colds are principally re-
sponsible for the increased mortality
from pneumonia.
Twenty-six pounds was paid for a
pack of German playing cards dated
1868 in London recently.
Sioux Indians. initiating the whites,
are now visiting South Dakota for the
purpose of obtaining divorces.
BY 1856 votes to 81 the Italian cham
Der has passed the bill for the munich
paliZatiOn of the public services.
Semaphores are to be used at Wool
wich arsenal to signal to the employees
when it is time to leave off work.
RevOlverS which fire seven shots in
five seconds and can kill ut $50 yards
have been served out to the Berlin pc
lice.
AS Il prrcaution against infection
small silver currency is now being dis
infected by the municipal Authorities
at st. Petersburg.
Liverpool. England, is to he provided
with a new "kimg'S pirr' for the &C.
struclion Of tobacco SWtypii.~& tyu.H
some new warehouses ut thr COCKS,
Willie Il Colchester (Eu>,iuNl mother
was out buying som" coal from Il man
named Death her child, which Was !.'tt
at homr unattended. received tHtHi
burns.
The Boston club, which claims, to
have founded the Republicans % :;rty
and to be the oldest dining clue - t!.p
country. held its two thOusandth meet
ing recently.
Among the prizes given to the boys
attending IL voluntary school in Il Mid
Glamorgan village recently was one
consisting Of box of soap, a piece of
flannel and a towel.
The growth of the tobacco industry
in South Carolina las been phenome-
nal. The Darlington market alone re-
ports sales of more than 100000
pounds of the 1902 crop.
Apples upon the surface of which are
perfectly reproduced the photographs
of the emperor and empress of Russia
and the president of the French repub-
lie have been shown in France.
A rc!3 "Linlrian ut Wellington, New
Zealand, has given $4,000 to pay for
the transportation to China of 5000
bodies of Chinese who had not left
enough money for sending their bodies
home.
Germany's trade with Venezuela is
trifiing in amount. The statistics for
five years show that but one-fifth of 1 |
per cent of Venezuela's exports were !
to Germany. and but onetenth of l per J
cent of her imports come from that |
country.
And now Dr. Ehrlish. German sci
enlist, declares that the skins of half a !
pound of cherries contain 100000 |
harmful bacteria. Their harmfulnesS |
must be as infnitesimal as their micro |
scopic size, or the small boy is a mira
Gle of grace.
The Beckerath collection of original |
drawings by old masters, which in |
cludes sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, !
Creveli, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Fra |
Bartolomme, Tintoretto and Veronese, ,
has been acquired by the Royal mu
scum of Berlin.
The twentieth century movement Of |
the Presbyterian Sunday schools in the |
United States during the past two and |
a half years gathered in more than |
100000 children, but it is said that it |
required just about that number to fill |
up the gap made by those who left the |
schools during the same period.
A tunnel under the Thames for the |
accommodation of pedestrians has been |
recently completed and opened for the |
public. 1t is tube eleven feet in di- |
ameter and 1,217 feet long, with the |
top thirteen feet below the river bed. |
1t is accessible by electric elevators !
and a spira! iron railway at either end
The managers of the Paris metrOpol-
itan underground railroad have been
persuaded by lovers of dogs to consider |
the question of providing special cars
on their trains in which dogs and their
owners can travel together instead of
the dogs being separated from their
masters or mistresses, as at present is
necessary.
There are about 10000 Free Bap-
fists in the south. The mountain edu-
catiOnal commission has purchased 800
acres of land at Unicoi, Tenn, for the
purpose of erecting educational build
ings for the instruction of a large num-
Der of mountain whites who are great
Iy in need of it. Rev. J. W. Lucas,
who has had large experience as an
educator. will direct the enterprise.
A curious return has just been issued
of the names of British sailors who
have neglected to "lift' their prize
money There is no abstract with it, |
but in it's 1872 pages there cannot be far
short of $1,000 to 10000 names of in
diyiduals who have valid claims against