The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31

with crop of crimson peoples
every year.
In India the average duration
of life of the natives is twenty
four years, as against forty-four
in England.
Kangaroos in captivity are said
to suffer from enormous corns. In
wet weather they develop symp-
toms of govt.
The most extensive cemetery in
Europe is that at Rome. in which
over 5000, 600 human beings have
been inferred.
Bank of England notes are num-
bered backward, that is, from
one to ten thousand, hence the
figures OOO,O1.
Naples is to be connected with
Mount Vesuvius by direct rail
road line, which will connect with
the cable line running to the top
of the volcano.
A foreign physician asserts that
the pain of neuralgia, if superb
cial, can be relieved by throwing
a beam from a bri ght arc light
upon the affected part.
The highest masts of sailing
vessels are from 100 to $50 feet
high, and spread from sixty thou
sand to one hundred thousand
square feet of canvas.
An old Roman tub we'll has
been discovered at Silchester. It
is in comparatively perfect state
of preservation, though nearly two
thousand years have elapsed since
it was made.
In the forests Of Nubia grows
tree from which, when swayed by
the wind, come strange sounds
like the note of a flute, fife or
whistle. The vocal treeis terror
to the natives. The sounds are
caused by the wind blowing
through little holes in the trees
that have been made by insects.
1t has long been held that ty-
phoid fever is disseminated by
bad water, or germ-i infested milk,
and not by direct contagion. Re-
Gently typhoid fever among SOL
diers in small barracks has been
directly traced to dust from the
floor. On examination the dis
ease producing bacteria were found
In the sweepings, and the locality
OF the cots carried out the cOnvic-
ton.
An ehort has been made to de-
termine the pulling strength of
elephants. horses and men. At
tached to a dynamometer, Barnum
and Bailey's largest elephant reg
istered pull of two and one-half
tons on the second trial. but
smaller and more active elephant
gave a record Of five and One-half
tons whether as the result Of a
steady pull or sudden jerk APP
pears to be uncertain. A pair of
powerful horses registered a ton
and fifth. while it required the
strength Of eigh y-three men to
equal the pull of the smaller ele-
plant
Remains Of the skulls of two
wild horses have recently been
discovered in Ireland They indi-
cate that the animals were very
much smaller than the horses of
today. The remains were found
in the gravel underlying bog.
Similar discoveries have hereto
fore been made in Ireland, some
of them in Shandon Cave. Geolo-
gists believe that a race of wild
horses inhabited the island at the
same time that the gigantic elks,
whose skeletons are found in the
boys, hourished there. But while
the elks were of enormous stature,
the horses were dwarfs.
SO small a creature as the beaver,
according to Mr.. H. B. Woodward
of the British Museum, has altered
the character of a considerable
norton of tho Rriticb TC1oc 70 q
remarkable degree. The borders
Of the fens were once covered with
forest, and the beaver was one of
the most plentiful animals of the
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