The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-04-21

How great a havoc is created IN
France among birds, is shown by the
fact that during Christmas week, at
the central market, 114,OO0 larks were
sold.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of fifty thousand
square miles. a., 1t is all meadow land,
and is filled with lakes, ponds and
canals.
Moscow has hospital large enough
to hold seven thousand persons. 1t
was founded in 1854, and at present
takes in children at the rate of forty
day, or about fifteen thousand year.
There are twenty-six physicians and
about nine hundred nurses.
The title Dom or Don was first as
sumed by the pOpes, from whom it de-
scended, in France at least, to bishops
and other dignitaries, and finally to
monks. The Spanish Don was orig
inally confined to the nobility but is
now bestowed by courtesy as indis.
criminately as the English Mr.. or gen.
tleman.
How far the Milky Way is there are
no means of judging with much conf
dence. Prof. Barnard has given good
reasons for thinking that it's ground
work consists of stars, which are much
smaller than the sun, perhaps hundreds
or thousands of times smaller, so that
its distance from us may not be great
as star distances 60.
Dog-days, in ancient times, were the
forty days between July 3, and Aug.
IL; derived from Sirius the dog-star,
which was supposed to cause the in
sufferable heat at this season. At the
season of the year when this star rose
with the sun their combined influence
was supposed to be productive of pes
tilential heat and baneful influences.
The fact is stated that in single
one of the standard locomotives en-
ployed by leading railroad of Amer
lea, there are, counting individual riv
cts and bolts, though not nails in the
cab and tender, over twenty thousand
pieces. The modern locomotive is
really wonderful example of an evO-
luton superintendent in its successive
stages from type to type by keen,
human intelligence.
The hanging gardens of Babylon
were anciently reckoned among the
wonders of the world. Their cOnstruc-
ton is ascribed to Queen Semiramis
or to NebuchedneZZar-S centu
ries later but still more than five cen.
turtles B. C.-whO is said to have made
them for his Median queen, Amytis,
because the Babylonian plains seemed
dreary to her in comparison with the
beautiful scenery of her native land.
The long familiar laboratory method
of drying the air by means of moist
ureabsorbing agent has been borrowed
by Frankfort inventor for patented
dry barrel or box for preserving veg
etables and other substances. The new
apparatus is simply box with false
bottom of Stats, under which is placed
metallic tray containing caustic pot
ash. The vegetables, fruit, ETC., are
placed on the false bottom, and the
air admitted only through the bottom
is dried before reaching them by pas
sage over the potash. One charge of
the drier is claimed to last six months.
Endemic and hypodermic are med
ical terms used to designate certain
methods of making the skin an agent
for the reception of medicines. The
endermic method consists in raising a
blister by the ordinary process, open.
ing it by small puncture, which must
not be at the lowest part of the blad-
der, gently pressing out the fluid con-
tents, and then injecting a medicinal
solution. The endermic method is
now superseded by the hypOdermic
method, in which medicines are intro.
duced into the simultaneous cellular
tissue by very finely pointed syringe,
filled with hollow needle, sharpened
at the point.
The narratives of the evangelists are
in many things close repetitions of
each other and not infrequently relate
the same incidents in words which are
all but Identical On the other hand
they occasionally exhibit grave dis
crepancies, whether of facts or of cir
cumstances; one relating an occurrence
not noticed by another or placing an
occurrence at a time or in circum-