The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
Current GIeaninSS.

in Chicago.
Tailors in Spain earn $3.50 a week, ii.
Italy 81, in England $40.
The British postal telegraph is rue
at an annual net loss Of S13,OOO0OO
President Jackson was always az
gresslve, uncOmpromlslng. serious.
Emperor William consumes an ex
traordinary number of cigarettes daily
"Perforated bed clothing" is now rec
commended as Il specific against rheu
matlSm.
The Police Board of Jersey City il
retiring patrolmen. because they are
getting too fat
When d man has money to burn Il,
isn't very difficult to kinde dame in
the feminine heart.
The Mendicity Society of London
has made a collection of the fake
devices employed by beggars.
There are more than seventy halls III
Paris devoted to fencing, each presided
over by a fencing master more or less
famous.
Siberian peasants clean, stretch ami
dry the skin of the turbot for leather
bags and as a substitute for glass Win
dow panes.
Philadelphia has one saloon to every
81 inhabitants. Boston one to everv
300, Chicago one to PIP and Dayton
one to every l12.
Mrs. Burt Johnson. of Franklin
Ind, white woman, IS now II years
Old has been married two wears ana
has healthy daughter
\ copy of "Esmond'' presented b?
Mr. Thackeray TO Charlotte Bronte ana
bearing an inscription. has recently
been purchased for go.
Christmas Day was once called lis
France the day Of new clothes. Ii
was the custom to give Court officials
new cloaks on that day.
Hereafter telephone charges IL
France are to be ) cents for three nil;
utes within ii radius of - miles. ialk
must he cheap in that country
What is probably the longest stretcj
OF unsupported telephone wire Is tina
which crosses Wallenstadt Lake, IT.
Switzerland Il distance of mile and /
/ half
; The Fifty eight Infantry Reglment
! of the German army has had but tW@:
/ band masters in 100 years. The pres
ent one. Goldschmidt. has held tha
position since 1894.
! In Bulgaria the proprietor of med
/ cine who announces it as certain t.
! cure specified disease is liable to bf
imprisoned if the drug fails to accom-.
plsli what he promised.
. The best burylar-proot safes ara
made of alternate layers OF hard anfi
| soft metal, which are welded toSetheE
! This combination Will not yield t:
either drill or sledgehammer.
Roumania is the highest taxed coui>
try in the world Every bottle OF
foreign wine has to- pay u shilling dnt%
\ case Of Whiskey went from the Army
and Navy stores the other day. The
transport tax stamps and other duties
amounted To more than the price o.
the whiskey.
\ phenomenon in the recent sever
drought in Maine, which caused wells
never before known to fan. to dry ulf
completely. was that repnted bottom.
less pond at Fort Fairfield, was l.
inches higher at the severest period o.
the drought than it had ever before
been known to be-
There is great excitement at lie!
iuoldsburg, Ohio. over the discovery AZ
r. the craWs Of ducks brought to mafkef
from a nei9hboring farm OF tine .goiG
nuggets. 1t is supposed that the ducks
Scooped them mp III the bottom OF q
small stream near by. The people are
5 doing placer mining there in sma-<
| way now. but SO far without success.
The late Count Taatle mad the dis
tinction of being about the u9liest MAJ
p in Europe. and always attracted the
amazed attention of strangers who saw
him in the streets Of Vienna. He wore
: am extraordinary hat, showed far baci1
: on his queer shaped head. HIS HAIR
| / was long. black and straight. He was
the ONLY man not Il member OF the
/ roval family whom the Emperor a0-
: dressed with the familiar "du.
T. There is no building material so du~
II rable AS well made bricks. In the i'rlt-
e ish Museum are bricks taken from the
q buildings in \neveh and BaDyloi.
:, which show no sign Of decay or dlsln-
u tepration although the ancients did
/. not burn or bake them. but dried them
C in the sun. The baths of Caracalla
d and of Titus. in Rome. and the
Il ThermH of Diocittlan. nave endured
the ravages of time far better than the
stone of the Colosseum.
y The latest story of a wondrous gold
/ find in Alaska is of a lake whose BED
2 is literally paved deep with geld dust.
" The lake is 1000 yards long. ioO yards
n wide and $50 feet deep. 1t is fed by
water from glacier. and its only out
I let is little stream two feet deep, but
r of incredible sWiftneSs. The assay or
e. the sand which sea captain brought
!. to Seattle recently showed SIS to so a
cubic yard. and on this basis man
could alone take out $4,000 year
% Ligonier, Ind, claims to have living
there the largest and the smallest man
n in that state. George Washington
y Walker is rs years old. weighs $50
A. pounds, and his weight is steadily IN
49, creasino. He is ; feet 10 inches tall.