The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-15
CURIOUS FACTS.
Red hats were first worn by car
dinals in the year 1915.


dinals in the year 1915.
About twice as much power is
required to stop an express train
as to start one.
Some of the spiders of the East
Indies are so large that they de-
YOUR small birds.
Taking it year in and year out,
the coolest hour of each twenty
four is five o'clock in the morning.
4 newly discovered West Afri-
can butterfly spins a cocoon which
resembles a mask made for hu-
man face.
There are only nine different
tones in the human voice; but
there are 1882, 1876, O44.415 differ
emit sounds.
The people of the United States
read and support as many news
papers as England, France and
Germany combined.
Some naturalists are of the
opinion that the whale was once
a land animal. and that it was
forced to take to water as means
OF protection.
Calcutta is one of the greatest
educational centers in the world.
1t has twenty colleges with 5000
students, and forty high schools
with 10000 students.
Queen Victoria is said to pos
sess two of the oldest watches in
the world: both have silver dials,
and are about as large as a half
crown. One is blind mans
watch and the other is repeater.
In the first daily newspaper
started in London in 1903, the ed
itor announced that he would not
bother his readers with editorial
notes, because his readers were
wise enough to make their own
reflections.
Cats can smell even during
sleep. When piece of meat is
placed Immediately in front of
sleeping cats nose the nostrils be-
gin to work as the scent is re-
ceived and an instant later the
cat will wake up.
Fruit-eating bats eat fruit only
and are confined to Asia. the ISL
ands Of the last Indian Archipel-
ago being one Of their principal
habitats. They cover the trees in
daytime in vast multitudes, look
ing like huge flock Of crows.
The air is so clear in the Arctic
regions that conversation can be
carried on easily by persons two
miles apart It has also been as
serted on good authority that at
Gibraltar the human voice has
been distinctly heard at distance
Of ten miles
In the present state of scien-
tific knowledg e it can only be said
that the pigment of the negro's
hair is not different from the dark
pigment found in the hair of the
white races, and that the pigment
of the black skin differs only in
amount,
Mathematical calculations show
that an iron ship weighs twenty
seven per cent. less than a wooden
one and will carry 1l6 tons of
cargo for every one hundred tons
carried by wooden ship of the
same dimensions and both loaded
to the same drauoht of water.
A gentleman travelling in Persia
says he has been in a town where
the bells ring for prayers five
times day, and business men
rush out Of their Offices to the
churches, leaving their places of
business alone and unlocked, and
nobody ever has a thing stolen.
The United States leads all the
world, except the British empire,
IN the total of all kinds of sailing
craft, but is closely pressed by
Norway, the figures being: United
States, 1886 vessels, Of 1929, 266
tons, and Norway, 1884 vessels Of
1,142,9S4 tons.
Among the Egyptians, engage
ment rings were always of iron,
indicating the mutual sacrifice of
Gbort,1 0na Of tho 90 ,liact oronac