The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-02-17

lQoro are l4IC CnafaCC0rS III Cu0
twenty-four books that Dickens
wrote.
On July 6 the earth is farther
away from the sun than at any
other time.
In the United States 10000 die
from typhoid annually, and there
are 100000 sick with it.
SO penetrating is water at high
pressure that only special quail
titles of cast iron will stand it.
The Imperial University Of
Japan publishes scientific review
in English, French and German.
The largest telegraph Office in
the world is in the General Post
office building, London. There
are over three thousand operators.
Sir William Hamilton mentions
a tailor who was blind from birth,
and yet by the touch alone could
distinguish the patterns of Scotch
plaids.
The English have adopted new
fad in the shape of perfumed but
ter. The butter is of extra fine
quality and wrapped in muslin.
1t is then placed upon bed Of
rose leaves and the whole put in
a refrigerator, where it is allowed
to remain for ten or twelve hours,
during which time it becomes per-
fumed.
The words and music of the
'Marseillaise Hymn are ascribed
to Rouget de Lille, or L'Isle, a
French Engineer officer, who, it is
said composed it by request, 1872,
to cheer the conscripts at Stras-
burg 1t derived it's name from a
body of troops from Marseilles
marching into Paris in 1892, play
ing the tune. The author was
penslOned by Louis PHILIPPE, 1880,
and died in 1886.
Bears sleep for months during
the dead Of winter Fattening in
the fall, they creep to some cave
cor hollow tree, and pass there into
IL state of Information, which re-
duces them, physiologically speak
ing. to the condition of cold
blooded animals The vital activ-
titles of their bodies are reduced
to minimum, and yet they ap-
pear in the spring lean and ~ex-
hausted by this long fast
Fortune telling is traced to the
early astrologers, by whom the
planets Jupiter and Venus were
supposed to betoken happiness.
The SibbyllH were women said to
be inspired by heaven. In Eng
Hand the laws against fortune tell
ing were at one time very severe.
Fortune tellers. although liable
by the acts of l743 and 1924 to be
imprisoned as rogues and vaga-
bonds. still exist in England.
According to writer in Les
Nouv. Remedies. black eggs are
moi uncommon from ducks tat
are extremely fond of acorns. The
coioring matter Of their egg shells
us rich in iron: the resulting COM
blnation of tannin and iron is
stated to result in black eggs Ac-
cording to the same authority
bright red eggs may be obtained
from fowls by feeding them lob
stcr shells presumably boiled.)
Some land. 100 acres. granted
by George III. to George Wash
lngton. in what is now West Vir-
ginia has recently been sold at
private sale for $4,000 1t had
been in the Washington family
for l26 years, having been granted
IN l772 Whether George III. is
al legal fiction as the giver, or
whether it was a direct grant or
bounty. is not made plain in any
accounts of the sale yet published,
but in either case the subsequent
conduct of George Washington
must have made George III. re-
,yret that real estate transaction.
The woodchuck is undoubtedly
a. perfect hibernator, and the fe-
male bear is, but the male bear is
frequently reused from his winter
sleep, and is found roaming
,hOut in mid uintar hear