The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-29

one tail. The great comet of 1744
had six tails spread fan shape.
Arcturus is about 100 light years
distant from us. This star sur
passes the sun in volume many
thousand times.
Certain female insects live sixty
four times as long as the male.
The female of bees and ants are
longer lived than the males.
Equal parts of lime-water and
sweet oil we'll mixed will form a
kind of soap which is very effica-
cious in taking out or removing
inflammation, as we'll as for heal
ing wounds caused by burns or
scalds.
The secretion of honey, as well
as the perfume Of the flower, is for
the purpose of insect attraction;
and flowers produce different kinds
of perfumes which are peculiarly
adapted to the attraction of GER
tain kinds of insects.
In India there are 100000 boys
and 627, 900 girls under the age of
fourteen who are legally married,
while $500 boys and $4,000 girls
who have not attained the age of
four, are under marriage bonds as
arranged by their parents.
The authorities in Pittsfeld,
Mass, have lately added to the fire
departments apparatus sort of
restaurant on wheels, or might
lunch cart, vehicle stocked with
doughnuts, sandwiches and coffee,
which follows the engines to fires.
The Lagong bridge, built over
an arm of the China Sea, is five
miles long, with three hundred
arches Of stone, seventy feet high
and seventy feet broad, each pillar
supporting marble lion twenty
one feet in length. The cost of
IL.
There are mounds in Cowley
County, Kansas, that give evidence
of another race Recently some
parties have been digging in these
mounds and have found arrow
heads. bones, pieces of pottery,
etc, One Of the prominent geolo-
gists Of the state is going to make
investigations.
A petition has been sent to Lord
Salisbury, headed by the Duke of
Westminster, praying that some
substitute for gin be devised to
serve as money in the western
coast of Africa where Britain has
jurisdiction Even gold is no good
there: nothing will do but gin as
a tender for goods.
The people Of Norwich and
Montville, Conn.,. are anxious to
have their state purchase a big
detached bowlder, locally known
as Cheegan rock, in Millville. 1t
is said to be one Of the largest in
the country, and of great interest
to biologists, it being about so
feet long, IS feet high and weigh
ing. it is estimated, 1000 tons.
One historical authority states
that the earliest discovery of iron
within the present limits of this
country was in the mountain
range of western North Carolina.
and the first effort to manufacture
it into understandable form was
made in the state of Virginia in
1919. The foundry was DESTROYED
by the Indians in 1922.
The deepest body of fresh water
In America is Crater Lake, Ore
gon. Only one lake in the world,
Lake Baikal, exceeds it in depth,
and it is only four hundred feet
deeper. Until recently it was as
serted that Crater Lake was bot
tomless, but soundings have shown
its great depth to be two thousand
feet. 1t is five miles in diameter,
nearly circular, and occupies the
crater of an extinct volcano.
Cultivate the habit of breathing
through the nose and taking deep |
breaths. If this habit was uni
versal, there is little doubt that
pulmonary affections would be de-
creased one-half. An English ply
stefan calls attention to this fact,
that deep and forced respirations
will keep the entire body in aglow
in the coolest weather. no matter