The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-06-24

Scientists say many perfumes
aid health by destroying disease
microbes. Thyme, lemon, mint,
lavender, eucalyptus and otto OF
roses are the most useful.
In Germany when the vote of
the jury stands six against six the
prisoner is acquitted. A vote of
seven against five leaves the decis-
ion to the court, and in vote of
eight against four the prisoner is
convicted.
On the state railways in Ger
many the carriages are painted
according to the colors of the tick
cts of their respective classes.
First class carriages are painted
yellow, second green and third
class white.
The most curiously decorated
graves in the world are the negro
graves in South America. Some
of these mounds are garnished
with the bottles of medicine used
by the departed in their final ILL
ness, and the duration of the NAL
ady is easily guessed by the num-
Der of bottles.
It is said that forks are fully
nine hundred years old. In 995
A. D. son of a Venetian Doge,
Pietro Orsolo, was married to the
Princess Argilla, who used at the
wedding breakfast a silver fork
and gold spoon. This set the
fashion for these indispensable
articles and their use soon spread
all over Europe.
DIR. Charles Frederick Wuilgohs,
the oldest physician in Ohio, still
keeps up his practice, despite his
ninety three years, and his name.
He says every member of his fam
lily for the past three hundred
years has lived over one hundred
years, and his grandfather, at the
age of LOG, cradled wheat for three
days IN succession.
The English laws in old times
were very severe against small
crimes. A man could be hanged
for stealing bread to satisfy his
hunger Many people sentenced
to death for small offenses were
pardoned on condition of their
going to the colonies. In Amer
lea convicts we're sold for seven
years. In 1919, the year that the
Great Charter reached Virginia,
there came Dutch ship into the
James river, which sold nineteen
negroes to the planters. They
were the first slaves in America.
Sir Edwin Arnold, writing upon
the sixty years reign of Queen
Victoria, recalls going to the cor
onation and seeing singular nov
city peddled on the street This
was the lucifer match, sold at a
half-penny each, which being
lighted, caused intense amazement
to the passers-by. The years be-
tween have seen more marvellous
inventions, perhaps, but nothing
of more practical value to man
kind than the embarrassing of
''that creature comfort, fire." by
the Introduction of the lucifer
match
Some years ago, on one of the
Prussian railways. a barrel, which
should have contained silver coin,
was found on arrival at it's desti-
nation, to have been emptied of
its precious contents and filled
with sand. Prof. Ehrenberg, be-
ing consulted on the subject, sent
for samples of sand from all the
stations along the different lines
of railway through which the spe-
Gle had passed, and by means of
his microscope identified the sta
ton from which the interpolated
sand must have been taken. The
station once fixed upon, it was not
difficult to hit upon the culprit
among the small number of en-
ployees on duty there.
Although Pennsylvania was the
last colony settled except Georgia,
it soon became one of the most
populous and one of the richest.
Before the Revolution, Philadel-
phia had become the largest town
in the thirteen colonies. This was
chiefly owing to the very free gov
eminent that William Penn estab-
lished in his colony. Not only