The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-11

miles.
One hundred new words are annu-
ally added to the English language.
| Postage stamps to the number of
1000, 100000 are annually used by the
people in the United States.
The sacred Bo tree of Ceylon is said
to have sprung from slip of the tree
under which Buddha was born.
More than half of the vapor in
the atmosphere is within six thousand
feet of the surface of the earth
A dealer says there is more steel used
in the manufacture of pens than in all
the sword and gun factories in the
world.
The Saxon village of Eisleben, ia
nous as the birthplace of Luther. is
falling into decay as the result of
continued earthquake shocks. which
began in 1892.
Florida is noted for its rivers and
lakes. The St. Johns river is nearly
four hundred miles long. The Indian
river is salt water lagoon, 1855 miles
long and from one to six miles wide,
and the region is famous for it's oranges
and pineapples.
1t is stated that the Salem museum
Massachusetts,, has in its possession a
cherrystone containing dozen silver
spoons. The stone is of the ordinary
, size, the spoons being so small that
their shape and finish can be distin-
> guished only by the microscope.
: Burmese humanity to animals goes
so far as to provide buffaloes kept in
stables with mosquito netting. The
mosquitoes are as annoying to cattle
l as to human beings, but when left out
of doors the buffalo can protect him.
self by rolling in the mud and letting
it cake upon him.
An army surgeon suggests that where
fear of the seemingly dead being bur
led alive exists, bottle of chlOroform
/. be buried with the corpse, in order that
consciousness and realizing sense of
S the horrors of being immured in cot
: fin beneath the ground.
6 While Frenchmen grumble that they
still have to pay taxes in order to make
up the war indemnity exacted by Prus-
= STA twenty-five years ago, the town OF
f Koenigsberg in Prussia has only this
2 year paid the last installment of the
= loan contracted to meet the war con-
+ tribution imposed on it by Napoleon |.
>, 1t costs more to send ton OF goods
o from London to the west Of Ireland
- than to Japan. A ton of wooden goods
can be forwarded from London to New
; York for 81: to Chicago, one thousand
miles inland, for 81, and to Japan for
~ $40. The same goods sent from Derry
:, to London cost S14, and from Gwee-
dore seventy miles inland, S24.
- According to a prominent London
!. physician, the dangerous habit OF
y smoking green-tea cigarettes is rapidly
&c growing and becoming more in use
le with the women of England. many of
4 whom it is now claimed smoke their
u five o'clock tea instead of drinking it,
o. The effect of the abuse of the cigarettes
upon their nervous systems is said to
L be extremely bad.
Is Lord Kelvin has been making ex-
g. periments to discover what the effect
m of cannonade of quick-firing guns
n. would be on board the vessel firing and
n the ship subject to the fire. He finds
IN that after fifteen minutes firing the
at survivors of the crews of both vessels
d. would be reduced to state of mental
IN if not physical incapacity, owing to
So the conclusion of the projecti!es on the
an sides Of the vessel and the noise of the
lis guns.
st The speed of railway train in miles
he per hour can, it is claimed, be found
re by counting the number of rails over
IS, which a car wheel passes in 2O.3 sec
ry onds, because 2O3 seconds bears the
ht same ratio to an hour that thirty feet
of the length Of rail, bears to mile. The
e. fish-plates or the thumps may be count
tie ed. Thus, supposing that thirty mine
he thumps are made by wheel in 2O.3 sec
at onds, the train is then running at thu
Oh rate of thirty-nine miles an hour.
he
les A woman in French hospital ha(
ng hiccough which had resisted all treat
j." ment for four days. She was asked t.
IN show her tongue, and it was noticed
he that with the putting out of the tongu