The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-06-10

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old have been taken from the
grave of child in the course Of
some excavations at Rheinhessen,
Germany.
In Silesia there has just been
bored the deepest hole in the
world. It passes through eighty
three separate beds of coal and is
$500 feet deep.
In Zululand, when the moon is
at the full, objects are distinctly
visible at as great distance as
seven miles. By starlight one can
see to read print with ease.
In the short reign of Edward
VI. of. England, the Protestant
book of common prayer was estab-
1ished, and a Protestant confess
sion was prepared and imposed
upon the church by authority.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell
is now busily engaged in perfect
ING an instrument which carries
words on the rays Of light He
has already succeeded in telephon-
ing by this means for a single
mile.
A man who claims to know some
thing about dogs advises any one
wishing to pick out good puppy
from a litter, to let the mother
choose for him. He says that in
moving her pups, the mother dog
always picks up the best one last.
A medical contemporary men,
tions, on the authority of Dr.
Alexander, that the planting Of
osiers on a large scale in north
western India has been useful in
stamping out malaria in a notori-
ously unhealthy valley covered
with stagnant pools.
Thomas Jefferson was averse to
titles Of honor, and maintained in
official station and at home a Sc
we're republican simplicity. The
later years of his life were devoted
in a great measure, to the estab-
lishment of the University of Vir-
ginia, an institution in which he
took a great and just pride.
The geological fault of the Jor-
dan Arabian Valley has a length
of 27O miles or more from the
Gulf of Akabah to the base of
Hermon. and is undoubtedly much
longer. Another great line of
fracture is now reported from
southern Afghanistan, where Capt.
A. II. McMahon has traced a re-
markable trench for 100 miles in
a north-northeast and south-south-
west direction, finding it to be
clearly fault line
According to statement in
Cosmos, the fishermen of Holland
take the precaution of killing all
fish caught as soon as they are
landed while French fishermen,
on the contrary. allow the fish to
die from asphyxiation. It is urged
that the Dutch custom should be
universally followed, not only
from considerations of mercy, but
because fish that are promptly
killed are in much better condi-
ton for the table.
Tie string about a yard long
to common door key and take
the string in your right hand,
holding it SO the string will clear
the floor four or five inches. If
you hold the string steady enough
the key will begin to swing back
and forth in a line. Let another
person take your left hand in his
and the motion of the key will
change from the pendulum-like
swing to a circular swing If
third person will join hands with
the second person, the key will
stop.
AS far as we know the air is
quite transparent and absolutely
colorless. The blue color comes
from reflected light. Air is never
pure. We could not live in it if
it were. Countless millions of
tiny particles, chiefly of water, are
always suspended, and these ar
rest the free passage of light.
Each has double reflection; one
internal, the other external-and
SO the reflected rays suffer the
usual result of what is called Gin
reference" and show color. You
will notice that the sky appears
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