The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-05-06
Scientific and Curious Facts.

SC1ent1nC ana Curious EaCtS.
We learn from Natural Science
of London that the Roentgen rays
have been applied to fossils en-
bedded in chalk, and the photo
graphs obtained have been very
successful.
Anything black will produce
more disturbance in your baby's
mind than anything white. A
child refusing to go to a relative
i'm dark clothes would not hesitate
if the suit were changed to light
color.
A meadow at Biddeford, Me-, is
known as the hoodoo lawn, for the
reason that rain follows every
time it is moved, before the grass
can be cured. 1t is said that this
occurred for twenty five consecu-
tive years. q
A novel clock just patented is
designed to light lamp at a GER
tain hour by means of a project
ing rod, which holds match, and
is sprung into position and the
match ignited by weight falling
on the tripping-lever. 49,
An ordinary man can say every
thing that any occasion calls for
with vocabulary of 1000 words.
Of these he uses only four or five
hundred, using the remainder
when an idea out of the usual line
of thought occurs to him.
A few years ago 4,5OO,OO bronze
two-cent pieces we're set afOat
Three million of these are still
outstanding. Three million three
cent nickel pieces are scattered
over the United States, but it is
very rarely that one is seen.
In large Goldfish recently
caught on the Scottish coast was
found corked lemonade bottle
made in Elgin. containing a piece
of paper on which was written:
Schooner Lucio foundered Sc
miles off Dunnet head. God help
us
The largest bog in Ireland is
the bog Of Allen, which stretches
across the center of the island.
east of the Shannon, and covers
nearly a quarter Of a million acres.
Altogether. there are nearly three
million acres Of bog in Ireland
that is to say, about one-seventh
of the total area of the country is
bog.
OF all the exercises, with per-
haps the single exception of foot
ball. the very best is digging, says
a doctor Every muscle. vein. ar
terry and nerve in the body is
worked in the process. There is
no aid to digestion, no recipe for
a good nights sleep, to match an
hour at honest digging once or
twice a day.
An interesting instance of the
accuracy with which music that
has not been written can be trans
mitted through the ear and the
voice is noted by Miss Alice C.
Fletcher in her studies of the
songs of the Omaha Indians. One
of these songs was recorded by
means of a photograph. and it
agreed in every particular with
the same song as it had been
heard and noted down twelve years
before.
Some iron tonics of the pharma-
ccOpia are useless, others are harm
full. 1t has been suggested that
the iron should be obtained in an
assimllable form from vegetables,
and the idea has now been ex
tended by a French chemist nj.
Gabriel Viaud, who proposes to
feed the vegetables with iron to
prepare them specially for use as
a tonic. By systematic manuring
he would provide vegetables hav-
ing any required proportion of
iron
The rapid rise of the land about
Hudson Bay is said to be the most
remarkable gradual upheaval of
an extensive region ever known.
Driftwood-covered beaches are
now twenty to sixty or seventy