The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-11-18
Facts Worth Knowing.

The deepest river bed is said to
be the Niagara's, under the sus-
pension bridge.
More than 100000 acres of the
earths surface are devoted to the
cultivation of tobacco.
A captive bee striving to escape
has been made to record as many
as I5.54O wing strokes per minute
in a recent test.
The remarkable echo at Eagles
Nest on the banks of the Killar-
ney. Ireland, repeats a bugle call
100 times. each clear and distinct.
There are three varieties of the
dog that never bark-the Austria
liam dog, the Egyptian shepherd
dog and the ''lion-headed' dog OF
Thibet.
The Island of Malta has Ian
guage Of its own, derived from the
Carthaginian and Arabian tongues.
The nobility of the island speak
italian.
A California lady owns useful
pigeon. Every morning, Just after
breakfast, the bird flies to the
postoffice and carries home the
letters for the whole family.
The most northern lighthouse
in Great Britain, the northwest
tower Oh the coast Of Shetland, is
built on rock two hundred feet
high, the summit of which barely
affords room for the necessary
buildings. The rock itself has the
appearance Of gigantic iceberg.
Of grasses it is estimated that
there are nearly four thousand dis
tinct species. Of these, fifteen are
used for lawn purposes. For hay
there have been counted as many
as forty five: for soiling. nine; for
pasture, twenty-nine. For soil
binders or soil builders, mention
has been made Of sixteen.
Heat holidays have been estab-
lished by law in the public schools
of Switzerland. Recognizing the
well-known fact that the brain
cannot work properly when the
heat is excessive, the children are
dismissed from their tasks when
ever the thermometer goes above
certain point.
Who owns the glaciers and
mOraines Of Switzerland the
state. the cantons, OF the town.
ships? AS no grass grows on
them, no one seemed heretofore to
have cared who owned them. but by
recent decision in the Canton
Nalais, they belong to the COM
munities within whose limits they
lie.
\ citizen Just returned from
Paris describes very ingenious
device that has been adopted there
for use in cabs. 1t is a register
that indicates the exact distance
automatically the cab travels on a
trip, and at the end displays the
amount of the legal fare for that
distance for the information of the
passenger.
Some years ago an English lady
who was in Egypt bought terra
Gotta cat, which she with her own
eyes saw excavated from pile of
ruins. She was very proud of her
possession. and took the best pos
sible care of it. A little while ago
it was knocked down and broken,
and she found the head stuffed
with English papers of compara-
lively recent date.
After the great fire of 1872, says
an exchange, the cost of bricks
laid in the wall was ordinarily
reckoned in Boston at $50 thous-
and. Now, better bricks, quite as
we'll laid, with better lime and
cement, cost there, in the wall, SIS
thousand. Fireproofing pro-
cesses have been greatly improved
and cheapened, so that an ordinary
mercantile building can be erected
with floors, roof and partitions all
of iron and concrete, or terra Gotta,
for ten to fifteen per cent more
than it would cost with cheap
wooden floors