The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07

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It is claimed that Lake Erie
produces more fish to the square
mile than any other body OF water
in the world.
In the gardens around London
there are more specimens OF the
cedar Of Lebanon than on Mt.
Lebanon itself
The fastest flowing river in the
world is the Sutlej, in British
India, with descent of twelve
thousand feet in $50 miles.
Egypt's population, according
to the census just taken, is 9,lOO,-
900, an increase of 100000 since
1882. or about forty-two per cent.
in fifteen years.
The cowboys Of Cheyenne River,
South Dakota, are speeding their
herds on bicycles instead OF on the
tough little bronchos SO character
istic of the West.
In France, some of the hospitals
for infectious diseases are fur
nished with telephones, so that
the sick may converse with their
friends without danger of COM
municating disease.
The thickest known coal seam
in the world is the Wyoming, near
Twin Creek, in the Green River
coal basin, Wyoming. It is eighty
feet thick, and upwards of three
hundred feet of solid coal under
lie four thousand acres.
The little piano upon which
Wagner first learned music is one
of the relics preserved in the
Richard Wagner Museum at
Elsenach, which has only lately
been opened to the public.
The snail's mouth is one Of the
most extraordinary objects in
nature. By the time the snail has
worn out the last one Of it's 3d.
900 teeth, a new set has been pro-
vided for it to begin all over again.
These teeth are all on the snail's
tongue, which is coiled up in the
back part Of the mouth.
London is in a continual state
of vibration. To demonstrate this
a mirror was recently suspended
by fine thread, so as to throw
point of light upon screen, the
movings of which showed the ex-
tent to which the building was
affected by the traffic taking place
within radius of two or three
miles,
Recent Investigations by DR..
Linden-Kohl have shown that the
principal source of the gulf stream
is not the Florida channel, but the
region between and beside the
islands of the West Indies. At
BiniOni the volume Of this warm
water is sixty times as great as the
combined volume of all the rivers
in the world at their mouths.
On all the new ships of the navy
the American shield has displaced
as figurehead the designs carried
on the older vessels. This is
carved out of solid brass, with the
stars and stripes and the shield
proper fitted close around the
slender bow, while scroll work eX-
tends backward on either side for
a distance of four or five feet. The
New York, the Minneapolis and
the Philadelphia have possibly the
most elaborate designs, some hav-
ing cost $1,000 to $1,000 each.
A case of blindness from teeth
crow(ling has been put on record
by DIR. j. E. Gemmel. A boy
of eleven went to bed one night
with normal vision, but awoke in
the morning quite blind. The
pupils were dilated, fixed, and not
Influenced by light. Investigation
at last revealed the fact that the
teeth were wedged and crowded
together, when two permanent and
four temporary molars were ex-
tracted. Sight returned in few
DAYS without other treatment.
The city Of Breslau recent y
consulted the chemists of the uni
versity respecting some old manu-
scripts of the sixteenth century,
which damp and old age had made
quite illegible in some parts. A
remedy was very easily found. 1t