The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-08-13

half in height, are grown by Chin
csc gardeners They take root IN
thimbles.
The northern hemisphere IS
nearer to the sun on Dec. II than
on June 81, but it is turned from
the sun in December and toward
it in June.
All men of genius are said to
have eyes clear, slow moving and
bright. This is the eye which in
dicates mental ability of some
kind. it does not matter what.
According to the most careful
computation, only one person IN
100000 of both sexes attains the
age of one hundred years, and
only six to seven in one hundred
the age of sixty.
A large aerolite recently ex-
ploded above the city Of Madrid
at9:3O A. NJ. "There was a vivid
glare of light and loud report, "
saws Science. Buildings were
shaken and many windows were
shattered. According to the otfl-
Gals of the Madrid Observatory,
the explosion occurred twenty
miles above the earth"
The total population of the earth
is estimated at about l,2OO, OOO,OOO
souls, of whom 32,214,OO die an
nually-i. e., an average of 90, o4o
a day. 1920 an hour and sixty-seven
a minute. The annual number OF
births, on the other hand, is esti-
mated at 36,792,OOO-i. e., an aver
age of 100000 a day, 1920 an hour
and seventy minute.
The seventy-two races inhabit-
ing the world communicate with
each other in 1904 different tongues
and confess to about 1000 reli-
gions. The number Of men and
women is very nearly equal, the
average longevity of both sexes
being only thirty eightyears, about
one-third Of the population dying
before the age of seventeen.
The bobolink builds her nest il
little depression in meadow
and as bird, eggs and house are al
of the same notified brown, anC
we'll hidden by the grass, she il
not often molested Some birds
excavate cup shaped hole anc
line it. The night-hawk and thu
whippoorwil deposit their egg
on the bare ground, where the.
are only protected by their incon
spicuous coloring
By actual count, naturalist tool
two thousand tiny feathers from
the lining of single birds nest
while in the construction of an
other 4S2 twigs we're found t
have been employed. In building
the bird works from the inside
sitting among the material an
twisting and weaving it into shape
The mother bird assumes the re
sponsibility for the nest, the fathe
following her about and helpin
when she will permit it.
Birds have been classified, az
cording to their different method
of building. as weavers, baske
makers. felters, masons, miner
and carpenters. The orioles, rec
winged blackbirds and Gimme
swifts are mentioned as among tt
best examples Of the basket-mal
ers; the humming birds, who wol
their materials into a firm, sol
mass, as felters; the swallows
masons, the kingfishers and bal
swallows as miners, and the WOO
peckers as carpenters.
Among the current invention
recorded in the scientific papers
that of an instrument by an En-
lish inventor for accurately mea
uring the quantity Of light Civ
out by a star, stars being dc
ignated as of the first down to t.
twentieth magnitude, according
the intensity of the light frc
them. By this new device t
rough designation Of magnitude
represented by numbers, viii
give the exact ratio of one star
another in light-giving power; t
star Arcturus, for example, bel
estimated by this means to 81
seventy-fve and three-quart,
times the light of Regulus. L
amount of light which reaches
earth from the stars varies acco1