The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-25
CURRENT GLEANlNGS.


In Jerusalem there are 1876 places
where liquors are sold.
The Patent Office of Great Britain
does not require models.
The British Lord High Chancellor
draws salary of $4,000 year.
Tobacco seeds are so minute that a
thimbleful will furnish enough plants
for an acre of ground.
Philadelphia has a Salvation Army
cavalry brigade, in which the women
ride as we'll as the men.
The average European woman's life
is shorter than the mans, but over
two-thirds of the centenarians are
women.
Lifts were used 1000 years ago in
the Coliseum at Rome to bring to the
arena the wild beasts from their under
ground dens.
1t is said that the Clutches dialect
spoken by the Indians of Guatemala, is
probably the oldest language-older
even than Sanskrit and Hebrew.
There is shrub in Spain called the
toothpick bishop weed, because the
rays of the main umbel form thorny
toothpicks when dried. A specimen
in Kew Gardens has $1,000 rays.
The Chicago post-office, which cost
the government 100000, has been
sold for $4,000. And the government
was lucky to get it off it's hands before
it tumbled down and killed somebody.
The Labor Commissioner of Maine
has figured out that the cost of living
in that state averages for each indi-
vidual in the average family thirty one
cents day, covering rent, food, fuel
and light.
enburg system, is said to have the
largest death-roll from alcoholism of
any city in the world. Ninety per
; thousand die from excessive use of
intoxicants.
In parts of Austria and Italy there
| is superstition that the human saliva
is cure for blindness. The idea prob
ably originated in the miraculous heal
ing of blind man recorded in one of
the gospels.
There is one Christian minister for
every 900 of the population in Great
Britain; one in every ia, 900 in Japan,
one in $1,000 in India, one in $4,000
in Africa, and one in $4,000 in the
Chinese Empire.
} 1t is reported that recent expert
/ ments have proved that glass bearings
can be successfully used for shafts of
light machinery driven at high speed.
: The glass, it is said, keeps cool and re-
quires but little oil.
Many spirituous drinks are made
from the banana. Banana wine is OBJ
tanned by pressing the fruit through
sieve, after which it is made into cakes,
dried in the sun, and dissolved in water
when wanted for use.
The knife of the guillotine is weight
ed with 120 pounds of lead, and re-
quires just three-quarters of second
to fall from height of nine feet. 1t
cuts through flesh and bone as easily
as it would cut cheese.
3 The flags to be hoisted at one time
/ in signaling at sea never exceed four.
3 It is an interesting arithmetical fact
that, with eighteen various colored
flags, and never more than four at
time, no fewer than 1852 signals can
be given.
A South African millionaire gave
, dinner in London recently, to which
, small party was invited. Every lady
! was presented at dessert with large
uncut diamond from the South African
o mine in which the millionaire was in
! terested.
I Apples grown in Tasmania, Aus
S tralia, and shipped by way of the Suez
Canal to London, and thence to New
4 York, have been offered for sale on
the fruit stands at reasonable prices.
By the route taken, the distance must
;, be more than twenty thousand miles,
: At the University of Wisconsin ex-
: periments have recently been con-
e Quoted which show that the scientific
students exhibited greater accuracy,
: both of observation and memory, than
S the classical students. This proved
o true, even when the examination re-
|, lated to literary information.