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

In Mexico city hop Lee auVer-
tises an American restaurant.
It is stated that there are one
million blind people in the world
or one to every 1900 inhabitants.
The Duke Of Fife is said to keep
twelve suits going at the same time
and never wears the same clothes
twice in the same week.
In a recent lecture Prof. Berg
mann of Berlin stated that in fifty
cases of perforating the skull for
epilepsy he knew of only one per-
manent cure.
lightning rods may be valuable
if large enough, and insulated suf-
fciently to carry away a bolt of
lightning The common lightning
rod is not Of much use.
The winter Of Sitka is milder
than that of many European cap
itals. Berlin, Vienna or Copen-
hagen. The mild climate of the
southern portion of Alaska is due
TO the japanese current.
During a temperance revival at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a young man
who was converted confessed that
he was guilty of a robbery for
which another man has been i'm
prisoned since last fall The con-
fessor was arrested.
It is strange fact, while the
teeth of the negro on the old plan
tations were remarkable for their
whiteness. those of the freed negro
of the present day are in an inf
nitely worse condition than those
of his white brother This is
owing entirely to the change Of
diet, and the colored mans weak
ness for sweetmeats.
The largest single structure in
the world for audience and spec
tacular purposes is the Coliseum
at Rome. It is in the form of an
ellipse: its long diameter is 6l5
feet, it's short $40, the height Of
the outer wall 1874 The arena is
21S feet long by 176 broad. The
tiers or seats accommodate one
hundred thousand spectators.
The course of Archbishop Cleary
of Kingston. Canada, in forbidding
Roman Catholics to attend we'd
dings or funerals in Protestant
churches is not likely to be imi-
tated by American prelates. The
Boston Pilot says that Protestant
weddings and funerals are regarded
by the Catholic church as partly
social functions.
Not third of all the vast wealth
which Americans took out Of Cali
fornla in the twenty years after
1919 remains in America, and not
more than ten per cent of it. with
what it bought counted in. can be
located now upon its native soil.
What is left in coinage probably
bears more British mint stamps
than any other, Great Britain be-
ing the one creditor nation.
French statistics show that there
are now 2150 women in France
who earn their living as authors,
or writing for newspapers, while
there are only seven hundred
painters and soul ptors Of that sex.
Among the writer's are one thous-
and novelists. two hundred lyric
poets and $50 who publish chill
dren's stories and educational
works
The mosquito has prevented or
hindered the settlement of ten
million to eleven million square
miles of fruitful territories. In a
mosquito map of the world"
Popular Science News shows the
distribution of this enormous in
sect reservation. which is almost
uninhabitable by man, and CON-
prises the whole of western Africa,
from the great desert to Fish
River. half the Sunda Islands, all
the vast tundras of northern Sibe-
ria, much Of British North Amer
lea, lowlands in the United States,
eastern Mexico, eastern Guatemala
and Honduras, with about two
fhir1c Of South A,,,or;oo