The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-01-06

Millions of families in India
live on fifty cents week and
women work in the fields for three
cents a day.
On the first railways a candle
stuck in station house window
meant stop: its absence was a sig
nal to 90 on.
Gar. or more properly tzar, the
title Of the Emperor of Russia,
was derived from Caesar, a title
assumed by Ivan Basilowitz about
1892.
France has set up about three
hundred monuments to more or
less distinguished Frenchmen dur
ing the last twenty-five years, and
there are now 127 committees col
lecting money for more.
Wales is the richest part OF
Great Britain in mineral wealth.
England produces annually about
so to the acre, Scotland little
less than so, but the product OF
Wales amounts to over $50 per
acre.
The earliest collection Of Christ
mas carols was published in 1921.
Many are little more than drink
ing songs used at social OF reli-
gious festivities, of which singing
and dancing then formed a prom
inent feature
\ tibrous preparation of steel,
made in the same manner as the
so-called mineral WOOL by pass
ing an air blast through molten
steel. is coming into use for clean
ing, polishing, etc, instead of
sandpaper.
Quinine is made from Peruvian
bark the outer part of a medici-
nal plant, called cinchona. 1t was
so named from the wife of Count
Cinchon of Peru. in the seventh
century. who by its use was cured
of intermittent fever.
In 1925. the year of the plague.
so great was the gloom in England
that it became known as ''the still
Christmas. The Christmas of
the Great Frost took place in
1879. The Thames was frozen
from bank to bank and barbecues
Were held upon the ice.
VI. Forel. in his excellent work
on ants. has pointed out that very
young ants devote themselves at
first to the care of the larvae and
pupp and that they take no share
in the defense of the nest or other
out-of-door work until they are
some days old. This seems nat
ural. because their first skin is
comparatively soft: and it would
not be we'll for them to undertake
rough work or run into danger
until their armor had had time to
harden.
1t was at Marengo. in North
Italy that the French army. COM
manded by Bonaparte, after cross
ing the Alps into Piedmont, at
tackled the Austrians. June II.
1900: his army was retreating,
when the arrival of Gen. DessaiX
turned the fortunes of the day.
The slaughter on both sides was
dreadful BY a treaty between
the Austrian Gen. Melas and Bon
aparte. signed June Is, the latter
obtained twelve strong fortresses,
and became master of Italy.
The true meridian line of Suf-
folk County. Mass. is indicated
by three granite posts. which are
set on the southerly part of the
parade ground on the Common
These posts are two hundred feet
apart The north and south line
is indicated on the brass caps on
the posts These were first set
out in 1870. and enclosures were
built around them so engineers
can descend and note the varia-
lions of their compassses.
An English practitioner, in
writing to The Lancet, refers to
the fact that many cases of ty-
phoid fever occur in the autumn.
and attributes the cause of the
disease to games. such as marbles
and peg-top, which are played in
the street after the cricket season