The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-04-14
Facts Worth Knowing.


belt of the heavens about sixty de-
grees wide, through which runs the
Milky Way.
In India there is a species of butter
fly in which the male has the left wing
yellow and the right one red. The col
ora of the female are vice versa.
According to the computations of
Prof. Hamy, the black race embraces
about one tenth of the living members
of the human species, or 15O,OOO,OOO in
dividuals.
Rabbit skins have regular CONNER
cial value in consequence of the hair
being we'll adapted for felting purposes.
Its chief use is in making the bodies
of felt hats
All animals. when taken for sea
voyage become tanner. Monkeys suffer
greatly from sea sickness. Fowls and
geese soon become thin, and cOcka gen.
orally cease to crow Birds, too, are
affected by the sea, and never sing dur
ing voyage.
The Liberty Bell in Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, Pa was cast at
Whtechapel, London. 1t was cracked
on the morning of July 8, 1885, while
being tolled in memory of Chief JUS.
tice Marshall. 1t was found to be
hopeessly useless after being tried
Feb. %. 1913.
Fatigue causes a chemical change in
the blood, resulting in the production
of a poison resembling the vegetable
poison which certain savage tribes use
on arrows When the blood of a tired
a fresh one, the latter exhibits all the
symptoms of fatigue
Prof G. Lloyd Morgan has, in his
new book on Habit and Instinct" adj
vanced the theory that, while the calls
and alarm notes uttered by birds are
probably due to simple instinct, their
songs may be traditional; that is,
handed down from generation to gen.
Grafton. and perpetuated through the
faculty of imitation.
Birds have an extremely rapid blood
circulation, their average temperature
being from 1O3 to no; they all have
wings or something that represents
wings, though they do not all use them
for flying, and they are universally
provided with clothing, which is one
of the most decorative things in nature
unless flowers may be excepted.
The great pyramid of Cheops is the
largest structure ever erected by the
hand of man. Its original dimensions
at the base were 764 feet square, and
its perpendicular height in the highest
point 44S feet. 1t covers four acres,
one rood and twenty-five rods of
ground, and has been estimated by an
eminent English architect to have cost
not less than Sl65,OOO,OO0.
In Nice, France, there is a society
called The Friends of Trees The
forests and mountains being almost
completely devastated and denuded in
the maratime Alps by the ak of the
peasant. price is given to land owners
who plant trees on vacant spots, and
an annual Alpine fete destines dOna-
ton of 800 to the society or individual
who plants the largest number.
Among the multitudes of stars filling
the heavens, about ten thousand have
been found to consist of at least two
stars, and in many cases these cOmpan-
ion stars are coupled together by NUT
ual attraction, so that they revolve
around one another. AS telescopes
improve, the known number of double
stars rapidly increases, and some of
those found in recent years are very
remarkable. Since August, 1896, five
hundred new double stars have been
discovered in the southern hemisphere
of the heavens at Mr. LOwell'S Observ-
atory near Flagstaff, Arizona.
In message to Congress in 1907
Thomas Jefferson, then President OF
the United States, recommended the
surveying of the Atlantic coast line of
the country with view to its adequate
of guides and safeguards to navga-
ton. Congress adopted the recon-
mendation of the President and made
an appropriation of fifty thousand dol
lars for the purpose; the direction of
the matter being put into the hands of
the Secretary Of the Treasury, at that
time Albert Gallatin, who communi-