The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-04-13

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In China thieves who are caught stealing
are compelled to make tour of the neigh
boring villages with board, bearing an ac-
cunt of their offence, clamped round their
necks.
Raymond Tilton of Richmond, KY,
aged Fl, performed the feat of gaining four
pounds of weight in less than three hours
to become soldier in the United States
Army at the recruiting station in Cincinna-
ii. Tilton desired to join the infantry, but
tipped the scale at l23 pounds, three pounds
shy. He invested in a meal and imbibed
freely of water. Then it was found that he
had gained four pounds and he was accep-
ted
Edward S. Norton of Standish, Me-, who
visits Cuba several times year on business,
says the old French and Spanish coins which
have been the circulating medium on the is
land are rapidly being eliminated by the new
Cuban coinage. 1t is planned to have about
$50, 600, 600 of this money in circulation
Because the boys didn't get enough study
points to be eligible to the athletic board,
athletics at the High School of Jamaica.
N. Y, are now controlled by the girls.
By teaching firemen to handle coal scien-
thcally Hamburg society with more than
500 members aims to produce the highest
possible efficiency from steam boilers with
the least possible emission of smoke.
The extent to which cotton lands have
been planted to grain this year can be de-
Quoted from recent statement of a govern
ment authority, who said: "The value of
the grain crop in the cotton country this
year is about $500. 900, 900 more than any
previous crop, including the seed
You can over-work your notion of neat
ness. A woman in Virginia crippled her
usefulness for life, by hopping hole thru
her kitchen floor and falling into the cellar.
In China it is the parents of prospective
bridegrooms who make the arrangements
for the marriage of their sons. They aid
and supervise the choice of wife and carry
on all negotiations for the dover of the
bride.
After the marriage ceremony the young
bride is obliged to take up her abode in the
home of her father-in- law. Her husbands
living and her own are thereby guaranteed
and the bridegroom usually serves in his ia
theirs business. After a certain period he be-
comes the sole means of support, the parents
always retaining, however, the direction
of the home, until in turn, younger gene
ration is married, apprenticed, and ready to
take the reins of support.
Conditions being what they are,
In this our vale of tears,
What busy man can spare the time
To live hundred years?-N. Y. Sun.
The habitual 81 can ter has as much
chance of Winning success as last years
bird nest has of surviving Kansas tornado.
Smile, don't smirk. There's as much
difference between the two as there is be-
tween Kentucky thoroughbred and Mis-
souri, mule.
If you can give up all desire to be some.
thing great, and feel heartily willing to be
just yourself as God would have you, you
will be happy.
Beware when the great God lets loose a
thinker on this planet. Then all things are
at risk. 1t is as when a conAagaration
has broken out in great city, and no man
knows what is safe, or where it will end.
There is terror in death which we need
never know, because Christ has died.
There are some depths of darkness into
which we need never descend, because He
went for US SO deep into the pain of life and
DEATH
One always receives full measure when
one acquires peck of trouble.
When YOU have no reason to smile, keep
in practice anyway.
Some people do odd things in trying to
get even.
Never worry about the troubles today
that you can put off until tomorrow.
When an opportunity occurs for kind
words deliver the goods.
A mans credit is seldom good if he i.
unable to make good.