The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-31

The house fly makes 3IO strokes
"a second with it's wings; the bee
1870.
Over five hundred tornadoes oc-
eurred during the twelve years
from 1871 to 1888 in the United
States.
Lord Kelvin, noted authority
rejects the views of Ball, Langley
,et al. and declares that the world
is one hundred million years old.
The slowest breeders of all
known animals, pair Of elephants
would become the progenitors OF
19,O00,OOO elephants in TO years,
If death did not interfere.
The proportion of blood to the
total body weight is about one to
ten. In the infant the relative
quantity of blood is less than in
the adult. and is diminished in old
age.
The blood flows almost as freely
through the bones as through
the flesh Of very young children,
but as age comes on, the blood
vessels in the bones are almost
filled by the disposition Of matter.
\ religious sect at Orissa, in
the Bengal Presidency, worship
Queen Victoria as their chief di-
vinity. It has been discovered
that she is also an object of wor-
ship in one of the temples at
Toomloong, in Tibet
The exact length of time it takes
the moon to complete one revolu-
ton around the earth is twenty
seven days seven hours forty three
minutes and 11.545 seconds Tie
second figure of the fraction is
known to be absolutely correct
1t would seem that the influence
of climate upon national character
has been greatly exaggerated, says
a recent writer. Assyria, Baby
lonia, Egypt and Carthage, stu
ated in hot ATTITUDES. were among
the most material nations of an
tiquity,
If by any means bird attained
the lightness Of balloon it could
not fly. A balloon drifts with ev-
cry gust: steering is impossible,
the wind chooses it's course. The
bird balloon. as light as the wind
and as strong as iron. is Pigment
of the imagination.
W. III. Dali. returning from his
examination of the coal fields Of
Alaska, has brought back with him
to Washington pieces of fat of a
mammoth preserved in the ice,
this being the first discovery of a
mammoth in the flesh on the
American continent.
Among the recent discoveries
made by means of the ROentgen
rays reported from Berlin are sew
eral relating to diseases of the
heart. 1t has also been observed
in cases Of asthma that the right
half of the diaphragm stops work
during the attack, and the left
half is compelled to bear all the
eXertlOn.
A gigantic cuttlefish, new to sci
ence. was taken by the Prince Of
Monaco near the Azores, from the
stomach of sperm whale. Two
specimens were found, each about
two metres in length. The stom-
ach of the whale also contained
another cutie. the skin of which
enclosed photogenic or luminous
bodies. Mingled with the partly
digested cuttles were teeth and
pens of other individuals.
Attempts have been made to
utilize the suns heat to do useful
mechanical work, and Ericsson,
the Swedish inventor, devised a
form Of engine in which the rays
were reflected from and concen-
trated by curved mirror upon a
small pipe filled with water, steam
being thereby generated, which
was utilized to drive a steam en-
CINE, furnishing power to run
printing press of two-horse power
capacity.
When a soil that is not irri-
gated is covered with plants, it
evaporates, according to Prof.
Wollney, far greater quantity of