The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-02-03

"A recently opened guiana cave
was found to be inhabited by
great swarms of white flies, hav-
ing yellow legs and pale pink eyes.
1t is noted that the women of
the Royal families of Europe are,
ON the average, much stronger,
mentally and physically, than the
men
If, after eating pure food, fresh
outdoor air is breathed, the blood
will show a large increase in red
corpuscles, but by drinking slim
nlants, the red disks are decreased
I'm serious proportions.
In the Shakespeare Memorial
Garden at Stratford-on-Avon there
are growing chestnut tree from
Hamlet's grave and three young
beech trees from the grove around
0ph elias well at Elsinore
Thes first book printed within
the limits of the United States
was the "Bay Psalms Book" issued
in Cambridge, Mass. in 164O.
Specimens Of this publication are
extremely rare and command very
high prices.
s lie the inhabitants Of the fixed
stars had powerful enough tele-
scopes to see us, they would not
see us as we are today, but as we
were fifty, one hundred years, or
even longer ago, for it would take
light that long to reach them.
e. A celebrated family of lion tam
oers are reported to use electricity.
A live wire is stretched across the
cage and serves as an impossible
yet invisible barrier which pro-
tects the performer 1t is said
that one touch of the wire gives a
lasting lesson to, the fercest lion.
Greenwich Observatory claims
that it has little clear weather,
sun and stars are wholly invisible
every other day in winter, one day
m four in fall, one in eight in
spring and one in sixteen in sum-
mer. In the twenty years ending
with 1896, there were only eight
instances of sunlight for fourteen
consecutive hours.
The president of the Agassiz
Association, Mr.. II. Fl. Ballard.
recently caught an ant near it's
hill, shut it up in a box, carried
1t $50 feet away, and set it free in
the middle Of shady road. What
followed he thus describes: at
seemed at first bewildered. Then
at climbed to the top of ridge of
sand. erected its body as high as
possible, waved its antenna for
several seconds and then started
IN 81 traight line for home
y 1t is supposed that Centauri,
'one Of the brightest stars on the
Southern Hemisphere. is the near
est Of the fixed stars to the earth.
The researches on it's paralIax by
Henderson and Maclear gave, for
1Ss distance from the earth. in
round numbers, twenty millions
of miles At the uncomfortable
rapid rate at which light is pro-
Dagated through space, it would
require more than four years to
reach the earth from this star.
All epicure will feast on dish
0f asparagus, and perhaps think
meanwhile that he is enjoying
delicacy which is strictly prod
net OF the present century, but
history shows us that the plant
was grown in all its perfection
Two hundred years before the
birth of Christ. According to
Herodotus, lettuce was in use even
earllerthan asparagus, forit was cul-
tIvated as early as $50 B. G.. Not
only was it grown, but it was so
grown as to be had at all times of
the year, and even blanched to
make it white and tender.
Three of the best New York
Central men testify that they
would never under any circum-
stances reverse their engines in
order to bring the train to stop.
When they had to stop a train in
che shortest possible distance,
they shut off the steam and applied
6he air and did nothing else; there
WAS ONLY one unicker Wav TO ston