The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-29

over the grave OF COCCOn MdIIleT
in Copp's Hill cemetery (near
Bunker Hill, Boston, is weeping
willow tree which was grown from
a cutting Of the willow tree that
shaded the grave of Napoleon at
st. Helena.
Digestion proceeds more rap
idly in the horse with active exer-
else than when eating is followed
by period of rest, according to
the experiments of DIR. Tango Of
Budapest. In the dog and in man
the opposite is true, which shows
how unsafe it is to infer results in
one animal from observations on
another.
Napoleon was married to jose
phine by civil form, alone allowed
in France, on Mar. 9, 1896. There
were witnesses to the ceremony.
He was divorced from Josephine
in December, 1909, by the Senate
of the empire, and married Maria
Louisa in March, 1910. The Car
dinals whom Napoleon had in
vited to France with the Pope,
were all present at the civil GER
emory, but were absent from the
religious ceremony.
The scheme of covering the Sa-
hara with forest is pronounced by
Prof. Deschenel utterly impracti-
cable, the arid plateaus being
hopeless desert. On a limited
scale, however, the valleys-most
of which are favored with a small
amount af waterway be success
fully planted with tamarish. aca-
cha, eucalyptus and poplar the
last-named tree having unexpect-
eddy proven the most suitable. In
forest shelter vegetables and fruit
trees may be grown.
It is reported that an English
officer has discovered in India
working telephone between the
two temples of Paul about mile
apart The system has been in
operation at Paul over two thou
sand years. In this connection
we may observe that Egyptol-
ogists have found unmistakable
evidence of wire communications
between some Of the temples Of
the earlier Egyptian dynasties but
whether these served telegraphic,
telephone or other purpose is not
stated.
In the Nashville Exposition
building hangs a bell, battered,
cracked and rusted with age. It
was cast in the year 1919 and is
undoubtedly the oldest bell on the
American continent, being 34S
years old. Its birthplace was the
city Of Grande Quivera, n. NJ, the
remains Of this city, which was
1ourishing before Santa Fe had
an existence, betokening a pop
ulation of twenty thousand people.
The Spanish priest Father Guerra
superintendent the casting of the
bell, the metal being taken from
the Ritade Cobre mines, and to
this native metal were added gold
and silver coins and jewelry, con-
tributed by the devout people of
the city. The bell was hung in
the belfry of the church of San
Miguel which was destroyed by
the Indians in 1906, but was soon
rebuilt and the bell was hung in
the repaired church which stands
to this day.
The popular notion in Europe
is that any white army, once
landed in Asia or Africa, can 90
anywhere and do anything; that it
can cut through a colored army as
knife cuts through cheese; that,
in truth, the colored races, when
seriously tackled, have no perma-
nent resisting power. The white
men have struggled to subjugate
their darker brethren" for four
thousand years, and up to the
middle of the last century had eff
fected absolutely nothing beyond
a small Judgment on the nearly |
uninhabited extremity of southern
Africa The dark men, after a
short period of humiliation, de-
feated or absorbed the Greeks.
They first stopped and then con-
quered the Romans, and in the
wonderful protracted battle which
we call the Crusades, and which
lasted ITO years, they defeated
the picked chivalry Of Europe,
sustained thonUh the white men