The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-04-19
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From Our EXCHANGES

Another difference between the ashes
of dead man and live one is that one
! kind is in an urn somewhere, and the other
is scattered all over the rugs and things.
Clerk: LET me show you our latest
machines. We have motor car now that
can climb any hill on EARTH
Chauffeur: "That's nothing. The last
one you sold me tried to climb tree.''
-"Let me see," said the editor to new
acquisition, graduate of the College of
journalism, 81 hardly know what to put
you at ''Until you decide" replied the
man, "I'll sit down and write few leading
editorials
"A new definition was given in an
American court. A witness was roaring out
his testimony. "Stop!" the Judge COM
manded; "don't you know you're in
courta' "Ya-as'r,' replied he. ''Well,
don't you know what court is?'' "Oh-h,
ya-as'r," said the old fellow, with bow.
"ya-as'r, cot is place whah dey dis
PCHSSS WIN JuStiSS!
"A well-known business man in Law
renee, Mass, once had customer who con-
racted debt that ran along unpaid for
year or more, and even several letters failed
to bring about settlement.
One day, while glancing over the religious
notices in local paper, the business man
saw something that gave him new idea.
He went to his desk and wrote the following
note to the debtor:
| "My Dear Sir-I see in the local press
that you are to deliver an address on Friday
evening before the Y. M. c. A. on "The
Sinners Unbalanced Account 1 enclose
yours, as yet unbalanced, and trust that
may have the pleasure of attending your
lecture
Pearls are almost the only precious
gems which are subject to decay, and this
happens very rarely. When disease attacks
pearl it turns color and after a time
crumbles away. The most valuable pearl
ever known is supposed to have become
diseased. 1t belonged to Russian million
aire who kept it carefully locked in casket
and refused to show it to even his most
intimate friends. One day some jewel
experts prevailed upon him to let them see
the most precious gem. When he opened
the casket he was dismayed to find that the
pearl had been attacked by disease and was
| already changing color. Soon afterward
heap of white powder was all that remained
of the jewel.
In proportion to its size, the sting of
the honey bee is probably the most effective
internal machine in existence.
The singing apparatus is smaller than
that of rattlesnake, yet single sting has
been known to kill a man. When we
realize that it is almost invisible and con-
slider what it can do we can not fail to be
astounded. 1t seems the very quintessence
of devilishness.
The honey-bee's sting is complicated
so complicated that many words and much
ink have been used in discussing its con-
struction and use.
1t is generally conceded that the sting
consists of shaft of three parts, the
principal one being sheath within which
move two barbed lancets. Like the barbs
of fishhook, the lancets are not easily
extracted from the flesh into which they
have been driven. The sheath and the
lancets combined form a hollow tube
through which the poison flows from the
poison sac.
| The hairy, soft projections, evidently
very sensitive, inform the bee when she is
| in contact with a stingable object