The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-03-04

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In Kansas whole sections of land
have suddenly disappeared, leav-
ing only fathomless lakelets to
mark their location.
There are 800 mountains in tn Q
United States which have a height
exceeding ten thousand feet. The
greatest number are in Colorado
and Utah.
According to the deductions of
a well-known astronomer, we re-
ceive as much light from the sun
as could be emitted by $4,000
full moons.
The horse when browsing is
guided entirely by the. nostrils in
the choice of proper food, and
blind horses are never known to
make mistakes in their diet.
Insects are for their size the
strongest members of the animal
creation. Many beetles can lift a
weight equal to 500 times the
weight Of their own bodies.
Moths may be kept from furs
and woolens, United States ento-
mologist L. 0. Howard concludes,
by cold storage during the sum-
mer at 40 to AZ degrees Fahrenheit.
Glowworms are much more bril-
liant when a storm is coming than
at other seasons. Like many 9TH
or mysteries Of nature, this curl
Gus circumstance has never been
explained.
The frog barometer, used in
Germany and Switzerland, con-
sists of a jar of water, a frog,
and little wooden stepladder. If
the frog comes out and sits on the
steps, rain is expected.
There is a wild flower in Tur-
key that is the exact floral image
of a humming bird. The breast
is green, the wings are deep rose
color, the throat yellow, the head
and beak almost black.
AT depth of 5000 feet in the
famous Comstock mine at Vir-
ginia City, New, the waters that
trickle from the sides, roof and
bottom have uniform tempera-
ture of 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
AS comets near the sun their
velocity always increases. Newton
calculated the velocity of the CON-
ct of 1850 to be $4,000 miles an
hour. Brydonne rated the speed
of the comet he saw in ITO at two
and half millions of miles an
hour.
The air is so clear in the Arctic
regions that conversation can be
carried on easily by persons two
miles apart, 1t has also been as
serted on good authority that at
Gibraltar the human voice has
been distinctly heard at distance
of ten miles.
The skin of the whale is from
two inches to two feet thick, and
the skin of large specimen
weighs thirty tons. The rhinocer-
Gus is the thickest-skinned quad
ruped, with hide so tough as to
resist the claws of lion or tiger,
the sword, or the balls of the old
fashioned musket
An engineer of the far-seeing
sort proposes to utilize enormous
water powers, like Niagara Falls,
to compress air for transmission,
at tremendous pressure, through
pipe lines to distant points, there
to supply power for all sorts of
purposes. Wilder things have
been dreamed of-and accom-
plished.
The method of lighting up the
interior of the human body. or
some parts of it, was shown recent
ly at Baltimore at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons Prof.
Friedenwald, by means of a fiexi-
BILE rubber tube, passed small
electric lamp into the stomach of
patient, and, the room being dark
ened, over two hundred persons
were able to watch the workings
of the patients internal organs
through the transparency" Gre
ated by the light in the abdomi-
nal wall.
It is said one of the spiders