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

NNS0 49,
Red sea.
In the common schools of Swedel
English is studied during four hours
each week.
Uncle Sam employs nearly $500 wo
men in the various departments al
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 1876 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
witch arsenal to signal to the employees
when it is time to leave off work.
Revovers which fire seven shots in
five seconds and can kill at 60 yards
have been served out to the Berlin pO-
lice
AS prccaution against infection
small silver currency is now being dis
infected by the municipal authorities
at st. pptCrsburg.~:
Liverpool, England, is to be provided
with a new kings pipe for the de-
struCtiom of tobacco SWcepii@S from
some new warehouses at the docks.
H. NJ
was out buying some coal from Il man
named Death her child, which was !@ft
at home unattended. received fatal
burns.
The Boston club, which claims to
have founded the Republicans sarty
and to be the oldest dining club IN TIE
country. held it's two thousandth meet
ing recently.
Among the prizes given to the boys
attending a voluntary school in Il Mid
Glamorgan village recently was one
consisting of box of soap, piece of
flannel and 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
of the emperor and empress Of Russia
and the president of the French repub-
lie have been shown in France.
A rich Chindrlan at 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
per cent of Venezuela's exports were
to Germany, and but one-tenth Of l per
cent of her imports come from that
country.
And now Dr. Ehrlish, a German sci
enlist, declares that the skins of half a
pound of cherries contain 100000
harmful bacteria. Their harmfulnesS
must be as infinitesimal as their micro
scopic size, or the small boy is mira
Gle of grace.
The Beckerath collection of original
drawings by old masters, which in
cludes sketches by Leonardo da Vinci,
Crevelli, 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 $4,000 Free Bap-
lists 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 large num-
Der of mountain whites who are great
ly in need of it. Rev. ]. 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 its 292 pages there cannot be far
short of $1,000 to 10000 names of in
diyiduals who have valid claims against
the admiralty. The return goes back
to 1856, the year of the Chinese war,
and the amounts recorded as due vary
from few shillings to ESQ. 4
Paper cogwheels have been satisfac-