The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-28

EloDIldIlUS DIE lOult VI S1u, OuU
will not touch champagne.
DIR. Seeman says that to touch
the leaves or stem of the fleetwood
tree sis like letting the hand come
in contact with red-hot poker"
1t grows in FIJI.
The largest mass of pure rock
salt in the world lies in the prov
ince of Galica, Hungary. 1t is
known to be 500 miles long, 20
miles broad and $50 feet in thick
ness.
Late in the last century a regu-
lation was passed by the governor
of Gibraltar to the following effect:
"On account Of the scarcity Of
flour. soldiers must not powder
their hair with it until further or
ders.'
\ tired editor offered prize for
an October poem in which wine
was not mentioned. He found one
and awarded the prize accordingly,
when the iubilant poet went forth
and got bottle of it and thirty
days
When snake venom is concen-
trated by removing the albumen
substance and retaining the other
two, what is left constitutes the
most powerful poison known to
toxicology 1t has been reckoned
that a thimbleful of it suitably APP
piled would be enough to kill 25,-
900 people
Mrs. Alexander, wife Of the
Bishop of Derry. wrote one hymn,
which is widely known and adj
mired There is a Green Hill
Far Away" and it is said that the
popularity Of this hymn. having
the effect of bringing her husband
into notice, obtained for him his
elevation to an Irish deanery. He
was made bishop in 1867.
The splendid magnolia tree at
Mount Vernon, said to have been
planted by Washington, was broken
off by the recent storm in that
section. The old tree in Cam
bridge. under which he assumed
command of the American forces,
still lives. but it is braced and
strapped like an old East India
half pay officer.
From the top of the cathedral
spire in Mexico you can see the
entire city, and the most striking
feature Of the view is the absence
of chimneys. There is not chin
ney in all Mexico. not a CRATE. nor
stove nor a furnace. All the
cooking is done with charcoal in
Dutch ovens. and while the gas is
sometimes offensive one becomes
used to it.
Mr.. Allen Fleming Of Augusta,
GA, bought recently the oldest
bale of cotton in the world 1t
was grown by a Mr.. Watts, in 1912.
in Laurens county. :. c., and was
set aside from the balance Of his
crop to pay his burial expenses in
case he should die destitute. But
he was in good financial shape
when he died. and the cotton was
transmitted by will to the present
day. 1t was snowy white and
without any yellow tinge
The first thermometer was made
in 1921 by a Dutch physicist
named Cornelius Van Drebbell,
and consisted of tube filled with
air closed at its upper end and
dipping at its other extremity,
which was open, in bottle of nj
tric acid diluted with water AS
the temperature rose or fell the
air in the tube increased or grew
less in volume, and consequently
the liquid descended or rose. This
instrument is now known as an
air thermometer. but as it's meas
urements were based on no fixed
princi pie it was of little use.
Alais, a town in the center of
the mulberry and silkworm dis
trict of France. has been comment
Grating by series of fetes, the
services rendered by Pasteur to
sericulture. The silk industry now
covers an enormous area, and it's
extension is owing to the studies
conducted by Pasteur at Alais in
1865 and the following years into
the diseases Of silkworms and the
method of eliminating them. The