The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-09
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Fashionable young ladies in Japan,
when they desire to look attractive,
gild their lips.
A league for the elimination of for
eign words from the French language
has been formed in Paris.
A portion of Wordsworth's library,
three thousand volumes of which were
sold in 1859, will be put up at auction
soon in London.
In Sicily it is devoutly believed that
a scorpion inclosed in bottle or in
some situation from which it cannot
escape will sting itself to death.
Crude rubber is one material that
has not suffered from the worldwide
fall in prices. So much Of it is used
in bicycle tires that the price ranged
higher in 1896 than for some time
Five hundred tons of light steel rails
were recently sent from the Milwaukee
Steel Works to Japan by way of Buff
falo and New York. British experts
say their pull with Japan is lessening.
Prof. Hebra, of Vienna, asserts that
the sun does not produce freckles
They never appear, he says, in chill
dren under the age of six or eight
years, whether exposed to the sun or
not.
A close estimate of the crop of oran-
ges in Southern California this season.,
made by the president of the Southern
California Fruit Exchange, puts it at
5000 car loads, or 100000 boxes. This
is an increase of about 100000 boxes
over last season.
Certain scientists say that Mars is.
like Holland. Its inhabitants appear
to have drained the whole of it's sur
face as measure of protection against
encrOaching waters, which threaten an
invasion when summers heat melts
the polar ice and snow.
There are 1887 students at the Uni
versity of Athens, and the number in
creases yearly. Of these 6O4 are for
eigners. chiefly Greeks who are Turk
ish subjects. The number of profess
siOnal men turned out is far in excess
, of the needs of the country.
: The physician and hygienist Sir B.
: w. Richardson recently expressed his
. decided opinion that if men and wom-
: en- in general properly understood and
steadily obeyed the laws of their being
physical, intellectual and moral
seventy per cent. of them would live to
40.
D Southern newspapers are advocating
the establishment of bicycle factories
in the South. Although as many
wheels in proportion are used South
as North, it is said that only one of
: the more than two hundred bicycle
factories in the country is in any South
ern state.
Rapid progress is being made on the
Great Eastern Canal, which is expect
: ed to irrigate 100000 acres in Nance,
- Platte and Colfax counties, Nebraska
The first five miles have been COM
- pleted. Five grading machines are at
= work on the big canal and fourteen
. scrapers.
n In all countries in Europe a man is
:. not permitted to become naturalized
t until he can show that he is both re-
y spectacle and moral; that he has re-
2 sided in the land of his adoption GER
j. tain number of years and that he is
}. ready to renounce the country of his
h birth-his native land.
= There is a well.attested instance in
q England in which robin formed such
q an attachment to two ladies that he
o was in the habit of accompanying
g them in their country walks. When
they went to reside in another district
he took his departure with them, fly
= ing along by the side of the carriage.
~ Dog farming is carried on extern
l. sively in China. There are thousands
e of large breeding establishments scat
). tered over the northern districts of
o Manchuria and Mongolia and no dog
J. skins in the world can compare with
T. those that come from these parts as
n regards either size, quality or length
u of hair.
,s At a factory in Taunton, Mass.
- there is manufactured what is said to
- be the finest wire in the country, cob
I web of one five-hundredth part of an
~ inch in thickness, finer than human
L. &c