The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-23
CURRENT GLEANINGS.
In Siberia the Russian greyhound is
used for tracking fugitives.

In siberia Cno russian greyhound is
used for tracking fugitives.
The first telephone wire was stretched
between Boston and Somerville, dis
lance of three miles, in 1877.
The oldest painted windows now in
England are in the choir of Canter-
bury Cathedral, which dates from 1774.
The first church building erected es-
pecially for that purpose in Boston
and used for no other was put up in
1882.
Sir Thomas More thought of his
beard at the time of his execution, and
moved it out of the way of the heads
mans ak.
The first newspaper is said to have
been the Boston NeaCs Letter, first is
sued in 1904 1t was a half sheet, IL
by IS inches.
The first geography printed in this
country was compiled by Jedilah Moss,
and published in 1889 for the use of
the schools.
China is going to establish an I'M
perial Bank under the control of the
Revenue Board and with capital of
100000 taels.
Life-savers are now experimenting
with sheet-iron kite, designed to en-
able distressed ships to communicate
with the shore.
The only covered, four-footed
member of the animal kingdom which
lays eggs like a fowl is the native
beaver of Australia.
In Holland and Belgium to kill
stork is considered one Of the greatest
misfortunes that can happen to man.
Ill fortune is certain to follow him
through life.
Efforts are being made to establish
cooperative windowglass factories to
afford employment for the 5000 men
made idle by the shutting down of the
trust factories.
Hansen, the Norwegian ski runner,
is going to the New Siberian Islands to
inspect the depots of provisions left
there for Nansen and to search for
traces of the expedition.
A daguerreotype portrait of the first
gorilla ever brought alive to Europe.
taken in 1866, while the animal was
with WOmbwell's Circus, has just been
presented to the London Geological
Society.
A census of the Partisan cafe chan
tants has been taken. There are fifty
five of some pretensions and 219
small ones: the number of variety per-
formers employed in them runs into
the thousands.
Japans population at the close OF
1894 was 100000, to which must be
added the 100000 in Formosa. That
puts her sixth in the list Of countries
according to population, China, India,
Russia, the United States and Ger
many SURPRISING her.
All Berlin turned out for the Whit
Sunday holidays, but part of it must
have gone hungry, as eight thousand
parcels were left in the cars of the cir
cular railroad on the three days, most
of them wraps, coats and umbrellas,
but two thousand containing eatables.
; The English courts have ruled that
striker cannot seek to prevent others
; from taking his place. Although "pick--
citing" has been the principal weapon
of strikers in Great Britain for twenty
five wears, the courts have discovered
7 law that prevents one man persuad-
, ing another.
, Buenos Ayres is going to erect a
monument to Garibaldi. 1t will be-
appropriate, as Garibaldi spent twelve
years of his life in fighting for South
American freedom, but is probably
thought of on account of the large
proportion of Italians in the popula-
ton of the city.
t The tin plate industry in Great Brit
ain is in bad condition. The wages
l have been recently reduced in some
/ plants as much as fifteen per cent. At
!: places where the employees refused to
S accept the reduction the works have
/. been closed, throwing two thousand;
Q men out of employment.
a The wettest region on the earth's
s surface is at Cherra Punt, in the Khasi
Hills, in Assam. The records for that
j. place of phenomenal rainfall go back
}. to 1882, but prior to 1871 they were IT.
l. regularly kept. Since the latter date,
e however, enough has been learned to