The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-09

about one two-thousandth-mil-
lionth part of the total radiation of
the suns rays.
It is no unusual thing for
vessel plying between Japan and
London to carry 100000 fans as a
single item of it's cargo.
A strong microscope shows the
single hairs of the head to be like
coarse, round rasps, but with teeth
extremely irregular and jagged.
It is said that were it not for
our atmosphere, the oceans would
become boiling hot from the suns
rays in the course of years time.
Firelighters are made in Ger
many by twisting wood into a rope,
cutting it into short lengths, and
dipping the ends of the pieces into
melted rosin.
A seeding plant of the Victoria
regia water lily has leaves no
larger than a penny. In the space
of four or five months it bears
fourteen or fifteen leaves OF over
six feet in diameter.
Beamur says that each thread
of what we call a "spider web" is
composed of about five thousand
separate fibres, and that it would
take 27,64S full-grown spiders a
year to spin a pound of such silk.
The hairspring of watch is
strip Of the finest steel, about nine
and one-half inches long, one-one-
hundredth inch wide and twenty
seven ten-thousandths inch thick.
It is coiled up in spiral form and
finely tempered.
Godalming, Surrey. England,
has remarkable black and white
cat, which, after being taken to
Leeds by railroad, returned to its
former home on foot, taking six
weeks to make the journey of over
two hundred miles.
The summer coat of the polar
fox is dark, in general harmony
with the ground of the rocky
Arctic regions, where the sun has
melted off the snow. In winter it
is so white that it can hardly be
seen as it runs over the snow.
Prof. Ansel says: "Chewing
gum is productive of wrinkles.
The incessant action of the jaws
throws the mouth out of shape,
and must, sooner or later, bring
out the wrinkles on the face"
Tutti-frutti girls will take warming
accordingly.
A procession of icebergs sent
against the surface of the sun
would melt at the rate of 800, OOO,-
600 cubic miles of solid ice a
second, and its heat is estimated
to produce a force of about ten
thousand horse power to every
square foot of it's surface.
The drill Of the woodpecker
has another tool inside, a sort of
insect catcher. On the end is
bony thorn with sharp teeth like
barbs on a fish hook. AS he
works and finds an insect he opens
the drill and sends out his barbed
tongue and draws it into his
mouth.
Housewives in Norway and
Sweden have started a scheme to
encourage servants to remain in
their places. Mattresses pay into
general fund whatever they can
afford for every servant that has
remained with them for twelve
months. The money is registered
in the servants name, SO that
when age overtakes her, and she
can no longer work, she has COM
Portable annuity to fall back on.
An old Washington lady used
to tell with delight of an occasion
on which she went with a kins-
woman, to dine with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Quincy Adams. The table
was beautifully set in the fashion
of the times, and at Mr.. Adams
place lay a four tined silver fork.
The other persons at table had
merely the two-pronged fork then
in use. Mrs. Adams apologized
for her husbands little eccentric
i4,n cnuinnr thof in bic lonn soionrn