The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
Current GIeanineS.

In Cuba since the beginning of the
rebellion.
Burmese children of both sexes be-
! gin to smoke almost as soon as they
can speak
William Ford has just won a wages
of $4,000 by walking from Vanconver's
Island to New York.
Of the 1916 miles of street,raiIwav
IN the United States, only 1850 are still
operated by horse power.
Abe Bolts, of GOodland. Kan. has
only four toes on each foot. but. as his
new baby has six, the family average
is all right 80
There are at present in China ONLY
1922 citizens of the United States. near
~ half OF whom are women: 3Oe ara
missionaries.
a New York Justice has decided thai
1t is lawful to sell cooked food nnop
Sunday, the Blue Laws to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Ihere is but one factory in Japan
where leather shoes are made. The
natives, except about the court. Wea
sandals of straw or wood.
The Maine Central Railroad RECENTLY
received sum of money from cor
sclence-stricken sinner. who had ridden
without paying his fare.
Corn is being used as fuel in Contra.
IOWA. the farmers claiming that the
prevailing price would not repay the
cost of husking and marketing.
y Chesterville, Me-, couple recently
celebrated their golden wedding in th3
very house into which they moved on
their wedding day, so years before.
For hiring negro to kill his wife. ia
order that he might marry another
woman, Lee Hawthorne, of Augusta
MISS was sentenced to death with the
assassin.
An enormous flight OF carrier ~
geons was recently held in Paris. sixtv
thousand birds having been set loose
III one morning from the neighborhood
OF the Eiffel Tower.
1t is said that in the city of Warsaw
there are $1,000 persons BELONGING f.
the hereditary nobility and 5000 MOBILES
VINO became such by personal seryice
to their country.
There is movement on foot for the
establishment of industrial schools for
the training and education of the Rus
sian cOnVlctS children in the peDa;
settlements of Siberia.
The Paris jeWeler Salts. who was re-
Gently charged with replacing with
paste the jewels of Nine de Rute
which had been temporarily entrusted
to HIM, has been sentenced to i
months Imprisonment.
One of the inmates of the Door housa
in Cleveland, O., has a mania for in
haling the fumes of gasoline. which
produce species Of intoxication. He
is constantly i'll the habit of making
raids on the lamps Of the institution.
a Jackson, Mich glue factory IS
paying from - cents to $3.50 per Gag.
cass for horses A tannery in Mas
SachusettS has contracted to take al;
the hides. Old horses are going there
at the rate of 100 week from al area
Of so miles.
An experiment is to be tried this
winter IN the streets of Paris in pro
Vldlng warmth and shelter for the
poor. In all but the richer quarters
here are to be awnings, under which
enormous braZiers will be kept coz
'tantly burning.
General LOngstreet, the Confederate
eader. whose patriotic utterances al
he Chickamauga dedication brought
llm into enviable prominence. is keep
ng hotel at Gainesville, Ga. He says
he business is less exciting than war
nut vastly safer.
The shoemaker of BrOckton, Mass.
Who started out to make pair Of shoes
or each Governor in the United
states, has been obliged to stop work
IN account Of illness. The autograph
etters have already been received frorn
Governors who have been the recipient
f his unique gift.
\ noted college football player r9.
emily sent an order to press clip
lngS bureau for all newspaper refer
nces to himself. The charge for the
lippingS was ) cents apiece. At the
nd of two weeks the famous YOUTH
Ountermanded his order in a note,
tating that he had no idea of the ex-
emit of his fame, and had discoveries
nat his glory exceeded his income.
In the Calumet and Hecla copper
line are over 20 miles of drifts in
listing all of the many places under-
round. There is vein which has been
Orked for two miles on its trend. and
some of the shafts the 55th level has
cen reached, these levels being gene--
ly 10 feet apart, or ''thick," as gen
ally described. Aside from the drift
lere are twelve shafts in the lode.
An old-time cart of a kind that is
ow very rare, even in the remoter
'uthern districts, was driven into
le market place at Lynchburg the
her day. 1t was home made. Of
'urse. The wheels were solid blocks
wood, shaped round or nearly so.
he body of the cart was four feet
gh. "A diminutive red steer was
llling the wagon, wizened old darky
as driving it, and it contained the
Jrky's little crop of tobacco.
Montana papers are telling of two
ar-old child in that state that smokes
CARS with as much apparent pleasure
a seasoned old smoker. The child is
e son of a man named Stairs, who