The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-17

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The beautiful and delicate COL
ors observed on the eggs of birds
are not very fast to light, more es-
pecially when they belong to the
lighter class of color.
In Germany man who has lost
both hands in an accident can
claim the whole Of his life insur-
ance money, if he be insured on
the ground that he has lost the
means of maintaining himself.
The fifth and sixth days Of Jan
uary, the twenty-ninth Of Septem-
Der and the twenty fifth of March
have been celebrated as Christ
mas Day; and it was not until the
fourth century that the Church
Council fixed the date as atpresent.
The Norway rat, instead Of mi
grating annually, only does so
once in every eleven years. Nat
uralists attribute this movement
to some inherited memory Of a
flight to escape an expected cata-
clysm; but this seems somewhat
far-fetched.
History gives sixty-eight senti-
mental names to emperors and
kings whom it chronicles. For in
stance: Charles VIII. of France
had the alias appellation Of "the
attable," Philippe I. of France
that Of "the amorous,' Alphonse
XII. Leon and CASTLE "the aven-
ger" Victor Emanuel ere gallant
uomo," etc. Many potentates are
ranked by history under the same
alias. Eight are good" forty-one
are great" seven are conquer
ors," two ':cruel," two fair" and
four ''fat'' But none is surnamed
''the happy"
The widow of Lieut.. Richard
Moore of Brooklyn is soon to re-
ceive special pension on account
Of the death of her husband last
year, after IS years of service. He
enlisted as drummer boy in the
war of 1872 and was never out of
service in the army until he was
entitled to retirement His widow
is not the young wife of an old
soldier. She is 80 years old, and
at the time of her husbands death
they had been married 63 years.
In length Of service Lieut.. Richard
Moore probably beats the worlds
record. Much Of his soldier life
was spent on the Western frontier
fighting Indians
One Of the finest and best pre-
served Of the ancient northern
castles Of England is the seat of
the Duke of Cleveland. King
Canute presented it with other Of
ferings at the shrine of st. Cuth
bert, but it passed out of the
hands Of the monks in 1131. Por-
tions of the older building are so
skillfully incorporated with the
new that it seems perfect speci-
men OF castle Of the fourteenth
century. The castle is Of great
size and strength, and the walls
surrounding it occupy about two
acres Of ground. The pleasure
grounds and park are Of a magnif-
cence commensurate with that Of
the castle itself. and command
love y prospects.
President Ripley of the Atchi-
son system of railroads, in letter
written in reply to populist
newspaper of Kansas. gives some
interesting figures worth studying
by those who believe that the
United States Government should
own all the railroads. He says the
Interstate Commerce Commission
reports that in 1896 there we're
ISL passengers killed upon all the
railroads in the United States.
They carried during the year 512,-
100000 passengers, and the dis
lance travelled exceeded 100000
600 miles; passenger would travel
72,O93,O56 miles before it came
his turn to be killed, or he might
ride 20 miles day, 800 days in
the year, for 1853 years.
Of the employees of the railroad
killed he claims that the average
shows $4,000 miles travelled
for each life lost, or over 10000
miles a year for 43 years, and he
says the accident insurance COM
panies recognize in their policies
the fact that the danger upon a
railroad is only half as great as