The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-16
CURRENT GLEANINGS.
The hog eats fewer plants than any
other herb feeding animal.

The hog eats fewer plants than any
other herb-feeding animal.
Carnivorous animals seldom produce
more than two young at birth.
Astronomers claim that there are
II, 100000 comets in the solar system.
In proportion to numbers Denmark
has more cyclists than any country in
the world.
Aluminium pencils are being manu-
featured in Germany for use as sub
stitutes for slate-pencils.
A coroners jury in London strongly
condemned the practice of riding BIZ
cycles without brakes.
AS late as 1860, 10000 African slaves
were annually transported from the
Dark Continent to Cuba.
Boothbay, Me-, has a man who deals
in live seals, and Ellsworth boasts of
citizen who raises angleworms.
A Chicago tradesman has put the
following sign in his window: "Gen-
uine Neufchatel cheese, made IN New
jersey"
In an Eastbourne, England, paper
"a Baronet's Grandson" offers to give
lessons in bicycle riding at shillings
lesson.
1t is stated that only one-fourth OF
her requirements are now imported by
japan, as against 81 per cent. six years
ago.
There are now 1862, 700 miles OF tele-
graph lines in existence, more than
y half of them, $4,000 miles, being IN
), America.
n An Antarctic iceberg has been seen
that was twenty miles wide, forty
v miles in length and eight hundred feet
S in height.
One-sixth of the negroes of the Unit
ed States live in cities-posslbly be-
cause they find it easier to live there
1t than anywhere else.
IS Of the 10000 species of beetles wide
g " diffused over the earth's surface not
l. one is known to be venomous or armed
10 with a sting.
- A recently opened guano cave IN
-, Georgia was found to be Inhabited by
-. great swarms of white flies with yell
:, low legs and pale pink eyes.
W DIR. Kate G. Homer, of Fender, Neb.,,
e. was recently elected coroner OF the
town. The cowboys call her an angel
he because of her self-sacrifcing life.
:, Some workmen in Gorham, n. H.,
ID carpenter shop have queer pet. 1t IS
~ handsome butterfly, which has stayed
- in the shop all winter and is very tame.
49, A settler at Hay, New South wales,
~ reports that he and his sons destroyed
III. 10000 rabbits in four days, and that on
s. one occasion he poisoned 10000 IN
~ night.
FOR A ten-year-old daughter of Amanda
,re Miner at Rosby Rock, w. Va, was eat
ve, ing candy and a piece lodged in her
of windpipe, choking her to death IN less
than 10 minutes.
lly In Canada no campaign buttons
err ribbons or badges can be worn between
sly nomination and polling day. The car
md rving of flags as party badge is also
ms, forbidden. The penalty is tine o.
i'd 500 or three months in prison, or both
lid.
ary About the largest fish story of tn
ntS season comes from DarCnnouCn' Moss
re- where. It is said, the soup are so plentl
oct. ful that one cannot give them away
en- and parties have let over one hundred
The barrels of fish escape rather than lie
ng- them spoil.
" It is stated that since trees have bee
W. extensively planted in Southern Cal
w, fornia the rainfall of the region ha
~ become much more uniform and fa'
49, orable to agriculture. But there ar
oso other parts of the state in which tn
w. sawmills are wiping out the 1ores'
~ and planting the desert in the mld'
~, of natures bOunties.
e as A child, curiosity in his way, ne
dis ,.., +o,,.o m tho home of the Unite
ing Charities organization, Wilkesbarr
ATTIC D. TT. ;s +brea wears old and weigh
rea' only 1917 pounds. His head is the ST.
um, of baseball and twenty-five Gel
sual piece would cover one hand. The Ii