The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-11

The annual dew fall of Great
Britain is equal to z1,1o1, 1927 1852
tons.
In some Of the Hindoo temples
of south India the collection is
taken up by an elephant that goes
around with basket Everybody
contributes.
Two miles from Milan, Italy, is
the most remarkable echo in the
world. 1t is at the castle of Sim
onetta. and repeats the shot OF a
pistol sixty times.
1t is estimated that ssthe present
wealth of the United States ex-
ceeds the wealth of the whole
world at any period prior to the
middle of the eighteenth century.
A scientist declares that ''the
elements entering into the corn
stalk can be made to produce al
cohol, cellulose, paper, mating,
smokeless powder and condition
powders for CATTLE"
It is worth remembering, espe-
cialiy when staying at hotels, that
if the bed clothing is not suffi-
GENTLY warm, two or three news
papers spread between the blan-
kets will insure a comfortable
night.
Some Chinese, after having la
bored for years in foreign coun-
tries to amass an independence,
will gamble the whole away during
the first few days of their home
ward voyage. and have to work
their passage back in the next ship.
The experiment of making pa
per stockings and gloves has been
going for some time, and stockings
to sell at three cents a pair are
proposed. Solidity and durability
are given the texture by sizing
bath Of potato starch and tallow,
and when finished it's appearance
Is SIlllldI W IdUI1C SOOttS.
In the neighborhood of Bour-
gogne, France, meat is eaten but
once a year. The peasants of Nor
van eat meat but twice year: the
peasants Of Sarthe but once a
year; the peasants of Auyergne,
five or six times year: the Bre-
tons never, except rich farmers
who eat flesh on feast days.
A Calais man. who has ! been
drinking a glass Of cold water be-
fore each meal for three months,
because his physician said itwould
make him thin, met a thin man
the other morning. who has been
trying the same plan six months
on the advice Of another physi-
clan, who told him it would, make
him fat
The following simple experiment
may interest some of our readers
Take a tumbler and tie over it's
mouth a piece of cheese cloth or
other open fabric: immerse it in
water. and when partly or entirely
full. invert it. and lift it carefully
out of the water bottom upwards.
The water will not run out, but
will remain suspended in the tum-
bier.
The shelless limpet pulls 1854
times its own weight when in the
air. and about double when meas
ured in the water. Fleas pull 1893
times their own dead weight. The
Mediterranean cookie, Venus YER
rucosa. can exert a pulling power
equal to 2O7l times it's own weight
So great is the power possessed by
the oyster that to open it force
equal to 1888 times the weight of
its shelless body is required. II
the human being possessed power
as great in proportion as that OF
these shell fish the average man
would be able to lift the enormous
weight Of 2,976,0OO pounds. pull
ing III the same degree as the linn
pet. And if the man pulled in
the same proportionate degree as
the cookie he would sustain a
weight of no less than 3.1OS,5OC
pounds. - - - ~..a.aa., ..s-..
? An ingenious French statistician
l.