The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-27

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A block of steel four feet square
would be reduced to a cube Of lit
tie more than nine inches if it
could be taken to the center of the
earth.
Photographs of PERKINS, comet,
which was visible during the last
winter, show that it had two tails,
one straight and the other curved
sharply backward.
Marseilles is running Lyons
close for the place of second city of
France. The new census shows
that Lyons has 467 900 inhabitants.
and Marseilles not quite 100000.
The river Jordan makes the
greatest descent in the shortest dis
lance Of any stream. During it's
course of 12O miles it has twenty
seven falls and descends 1900 feet
A household curiosity is the as
bestos towel, which never needs
washing When soiled, it is
cleansed by throwing it in the fire,
and in a few minutes it may be
taken out fresh and clean.
The construction Of the Madras
electric tramway is making prog
ress, the third section having Just
been completed and opened for
traffic. This section of the line is
on the overhead conductor system.
To render liquid glue insoluble,.
add to it about one-fiftieth of it's
weight of formalin. stir we'll and
then expose to strong sunlight for
about ten minutes. The action of
the light on glue or gelatine so.
treated is to render it insoluble.
The human system can endure
heat of 2l2 degrees, the boiling
point of water, because the skin is
a bad conductor, and because the
perspiration cools the body. Men
have withstood without injury
heat of 800 degrees for several
minutes.
Scientists predict that the chem
list will dominate coming inven-
tons, and that all fuel will pres
emily be furnished in the form Of
gas. The next generation may
wonder why man was ever such a
fool as to carry coal into his house
and burn it.
Prof. Elihu Thompson declared,
in a lecture recently delivered by
him, that much higher speeds than
can be obtained with steam loco
motives are to be expected by
means of electricity, and he con-
siders from 100 to even $50 miles
an hour possible.
Only one of the thirteen trees.
planted on Washington Heights
by Alexander Hamilton more than
century ago to commemorate the
thirteen original States of the
Union, is in flourishing condition.
All of the others are either dead or
dying.
Every year a layer Of the sea
fourteen feet thick is taken up in
to the clouds. The winds bear
their burden over the land and the.
water comes down in rain onto the
fields to nourish and revivify, while
the surplus wends it's way back to-
the ocean through the rivers.
One of the most eccentric church
spires is that of the parish church
(All Saints) of Chesterfield, with
it's curious. spire, 228 feet high,
and sixty-four feet off the perpen-
dicular. Whichever way the OBJ
server looks at this curious spire it
appears to bulge out in that direc-
ton.
A noted physician says that in
stead of colds coming from atmos-
pheric changes, as people generally
suppose, they generally originate
by breathing impure air. Ninety
nine per cent. of what are termed
colds are nothing more or less than
the poisoning of the mucous men,
brane by the bad air.
A curious fact connected with
deaths by lightning has recently
been noticed in Europe. AS COM
pared with the country, towns, and
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