The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

A caterpillar is so greedy that
in one month it usually devours
six thousand times it's own weight
in food
Scarlet seems the color most
conspicuous in bright sunshine,
and scarlet flowers are commonest
in dry and sunny climates, where
their color gives them an advan-
tage in their struggle with other
flowers for the attention Of butter
flies and other pollen bearers.
A piece of camphor gum is a
very good indicator of what the
weather is going to be. If, when
the camphor is exposed to the air,
the gum remains dry, the weather
will be fresh and dry, but if the
gum absorbs the moisture and
seems damp. it is an indication Of
rain.
1t has been a source of interest
and wonder to Arctic explorers to
find such numbers Of singing
birds within the Arctic circle
They are abundant beyond belief.
But the immense crop of cranber-
ries, crowberries and cloudberries
that ripen in the northern swamps
accounts for the presence OF the
birds.
A United States historian says
that 1.-The first coins struck by the
United States mint were some
half dimes, in 1892. The first
dimes were struck in France from
old family plates furnished by
Washington. the coins being
known as "Martha Washington
dimes, from an adaptation of the
liberty head to that Of Martha
Washington.
The rooms Of Corean woman
are as sacred to her as a shrine is
to it's image-indeed, the rooms of
wife or mother are the sanctuary
of any man who breaks the law.
Unless for treason or for one other
crime, he cannot be forced to
leave those rooms; and, so long as
he remains under the protection
of his wife and his wife's apart
ments. he is secure from the Off
GERS of the law and from the pen
alties of his misdemeanors.
In the Hawaiian Islands. where
pumpkins and other like plants
have been introduced, and where
they have no bees or other insects
of that kind to do all the flower
fertilizing, it is done by the ma
tives. These plants were found
to flower profusely, though bear
ing no fruit, and when they finally
solved the mystery they found it
necessary to carry by hand the
pollen from one plant to the pis-
ills Of another
The Blue Ridge is the west
coast of the Appalachian line, the
Mississippi Valley to the west Of
that Blue Ridge was great inland
sea "a great interior Mediterra-
mean, and the western shore of the
Appalachian line was the eastern
coast of this great inland sea-.
Along this shore line, which ran
from New York to northern Ala
bama (some seven hundred miles l.,
was line Of shallow water and a
line of maximum accumulation Of
sediment.
Last year there we're issued in
the United Kingdom a little over
GIL 100000 railway tickets, exclu-
sive of season tickets and work
mems weekly tickets. It is not
easy to realize such number. If
they had to be carried from Lon
don to Edinburgh in a mass it
would require one hundred rail-
way trucks. each carrying ten tons.
lie they were stacked one upon an
other in a single column they
would attain height of five hun
dred miles, and if laid end to end
in line would be one third longer
than the equator.
The Missouri river is one of the
most lawless of the great rivers Of
the world. It cuts didos, ruins
farms, and demoralizes whole COM
munities along it's banks. By a
change in the rivers course about
5000 acres of land have been trans
ferred from Nebraska to Iowa.
The owners of the land alonr the