The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-04-16
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Because 1t was raining and
dreary outdoors, Roy Reagan ask
ed to be sent to jail when he was
tried for a minor offense In Musk
ogee, Okla. Judge r. L. Williams
obliged him.
A. s. Spencer, Of Memphis, took
a shot at a man in his hen coop
The next morning he checked up
on his flock and found dozen
strange hens.
Mrs. Eliza Wilson of Milwaukee
observed her Tooth birthday by
soaring for more than an hour over
her old home and it's environs on
her first airplane ride.
Helen Stephens Of Fulton, Mo-,
now holds the women's world rec
ord in the Olympic games for the
100-meter dash. She went the dis
lance in 11.6 seconds, breaking the
old world record by Stella Walsh.
Edgar M. Taunton Of Berkeley,
CAL, is believed to be the only stu
dent in the world working his way
through school by means of pup
peteering. He gave his first Punch
and Judy show at the age Of 10.
Marjorie Earey, 1s-year-old Lon
don blonde, has been chosen queen
of spring in the Providencia, San
tiago, and Is the first foreign-born
giN to triumph in the national
spring festival
Miss Aleene Clark, Of Prairie
Point, Miss, recently was adjudged
a winner in short story contest
sponsored by The Writer'S Digest.
Bees, unlike human beings, do
not have the power to recover lost
vitality.
Seven-month-old Walter Win
chell, Jr., is the worlds youngest
colonel. He was recently appointed
colonel and aide-de-camp to Cover
nof Noe Of Louisiana.
Testifying that her husband put
wasps in her bed, Mrs. Edith Shell
Ter, Of Chicago, was granted a di-
vorce.
Jack L. Holder, Ventura, Calf,
schoolboy, claims the worlds rec
ord for the largest known stretch
Of the hand on the piano keyboard,
reaching Is notes.
Residents Of the District Of Col
umbia have no vote and no repre-
sentative in congress.
Every clergyman who breaches
in st. Paups Cathedral, London, Is
presented with a bottle Of sherry
wine.
The sweet pea is a native Of Sic
lily.
|, A rattlesnake coiled like a gar
den hose cannot strike.
In 1885 the Forest Service plant
ed on national forest lands nearly
a quarter of million acres in
trees.
There are 1920 different species
of birds in the United States and
Canada.
Each year the rubber industry
consumes between five and ten per
cent of the worlds cotton crop.
Eighty-five out of every 100
farms in this country have no cleo
tricity of any kind.
The first whole Bible printed in
English, known as the ''Cloverdale
Bible" was finished in October,
1885.
Peter LORE wrecked his expen-
sive automobile at Hollywood, Cal,
to avoid striking mongrel pup
that darted in front of the car.
A child was born to Mrs. j. c.
Crofen, of Chicago, on a street car
while returning from a shopping
trip.
Two men and a woman escaped
from London asylum by means Of
bedsheets made into a 4O-foot rope.
Gas from ordinary moth balls is
deadly in grubs Of the Japanese
beetle in the soil.
Each sheep has in its fleece six
to eight different qualities Of wool.
Forgotten Is a normal process,
according to DR.. Ira s. Vile, of
New York.
John Harden. confined in a Liv-
erpool Jail, stole q dress from the
jailors wife and escaped In female
disguise.
Andrew Senault was embraced by
strange woman at a Paris rail-
road station and later missed an
envelope containing $4,000.