The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-07-15


The income of teacher in a
private school of China is very
small, about halfpenny day for
each pupil.
Telegraph wires will last for
forty years near the seashore. In
the manufacturing districts the
same wires last only ten years, and
sometimes less.
Seaweed is now made into a
tough paper which takes the place
of window glass. When colored,
the effect is similar to stained or
painted glass.
In Bulgaria the proprietors of
medicine by which they claim to
cure a specified disease are liable
to be imprisoned if the medicine
fails to produce the desired effect.
The mosque of St. Sophia at
Constantinople was built over one
thousand years ago, and the NOR
tar used is said to have been per-
fumed with musk. The musky
odor is still perceptible.
The rapidity of the growth Of
the hair varies much in different
persons. It has been calculated
that the beard grows at the rate
Of one line and half per week, or
six and one-half inches in a year.
On the head, the growth is much
more rapid.
The tail of the fish is his soul
ling oar. He moves it first on one
side and then the other, using his
fins as balances to guide his mo-
ton. If the fish moves fast, and
wants to stop, he straightens out
his fins just as the rover Of boat
does his oars.
There is very remarkable tree
in Glasgow, Ky. It is an old To-
Gust tree, and in the dryest Of
weather a continued shower of
mist or vapor can be seen coming
from its branches. A shower bath
can be had beneath it's foliage at
any hour, day or night.
Live bees are sometimes shipped
on ice so as to keep them dormant
during the journey. This is par
ticulariy the case with humble
bees, which have been taken to
New Zealand, where they are use
full in fertilizing the red clover
that has been introduced into the
colony.
st. Helena is probably the best
known of all the solitary islands
in the world. Situated in the
South Atlantic ocean, it is 100
miles from the nearest land-isle
Of Ascension-and twelve hundred
from the nearest point of the Afri-
can continent. 1t is ten and one
half miles long and six and one
half wide.
The woodchuck is a great dig
ger. His hind feet are shovels to
dig the hole wherein he lives. The
beaver uses his broad, fiat tail as
the mason does his trowel, spatter-
ing and smoothing the mud with
it as he builds the walls Of his
cabin. while his sharp, powerful
teeth are his saws. with which he
gnaws off large branches Of trees
to build his dams.
The casting Of the largest man.
ganese hub ever made in the
United States for a propeller blade
was recently successfully turned
out by a firm at Newport News
for the great shipbuilding firm Of
that place. This hub required
over 1900 pounds of metal
poured. When finished the hub
will weigh $500 pounds.
The height of the Gibraltarrock
is over fourteen hundred feet, and
this stupendous precipice is pen
etrated by miles of galleries in the
solid rock, stone portfolios for can
non being placed at frequent in
tervals. From the water batter
les to distance of two-thirds up
the rock one tier after another of
cannon is presented to the enemy.
A garrison of from five to ten
thousand is maintained, with pro-
visions and ammunition for a six
months siege.
There are several wooden rail
ways in the United States and
Canada One of them is in the