The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-19

a few hours.
Two sexton beetles will bury a
mole in an hour, feat equivalent
to two men burying a whale in the
same length of time.
Wasps are the most inveterate
enemies of flies. Reaumer says
that he has known one wasp to
kill one thousand flies in day.
In the long Arctic nights there
is constant difficulty in keeping
awake. Greedy had to make very
strict rules to keep his men awake
during the long Arctic night.
Beds we're not allowed to be made
and the men we're compelled to
move about.
London, in the time of Queen
Elizabeth (who reigned from 1868
to 1909, numbered one hundred
and sixty thousand souls. The
rate Of mortality then was eighty
in one thousand, whereas now it
is nineteen. The present popula-
ton Of the capital city of the
British Empire is five million, five
hundred thousand.
To remove tight ring, take a
long thread of silk and put one
end under the ring and draw it
through several inches, holding
it with the thumb in the palm of
the hand. Then wind the long
end of the silk tightly around the
finger down to the nail. Take
hold of the short end of the silk,
and, holding it toward the finger
end, unwind it, and the silk press
ing against the ring will withdraw
it.
All fungi, says Prof. Jelliffe,
are botanical beasts of prey. The
types that live upon the human
body are the germs that produce
cholera, typhoid fever, consump-
ton, etc. Yeast lives upon the
-four and sugar in the process of
breadmaking; moulds upon fruit,
preserves, etc. Toadstools and
mushrooms, the higher fungi, live
upon decayed vegetable and ami
NAL matter.
There is a church in Rome,
called st. Clemente, which is a
very curious building There are
four buildings, one on top of the
other. The uppermost one, the
present church, was built in 11OS.
There is another below this which
was the church Of the early Chris
tians, and first mentioned in 1872.
Below this one are the remains of
an old Roman building Of the time
of the Emperors; and still below
this are great walls belonging to
building Of the time of the Ro-
man republic.
Bees can embalm as successfully
as could the ancient Egyptians.
1t often happens in damp weather
that slug or snail will enter a
beehive. This is, Of course, to
the unprotected slug a caseof sud-
den death. The bees fall upon
him and sting him to death at
once. But what to do with the
carcass becomes vital question.
If left where it is, it will breed
regular pestilence. Now comes
in the cleverness of the insects
They set to work and cover it with
wax, and there you may see it ly-
ing embalmed just as the nations
Of old embalmed their dead.
When it is snail that is the in
truder, he is, of course, impen-
etrable to the sting, so they
calmly cement his shell with wax
to the bottom of the hive-im-
prisonment for life, with no hope
of pardon.
The time of Henry Hudson's
birth is not known. Nor is any
thing known of the early voyages
by which he became famous. In
1907, in the employ of an English
company, he undertook to find the
much-desired route to China by
sailing straight across the north
pole. He failed, of course, though
he got farther north than any
other voyager had done. In the
next year, 1908, he tried to find a
passage to the East Indies by
sailing to the northeast. In the
next year Holland and France
both tried to secure Hudson's
services. It is told in the text
how, in this voyage in the Half