The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-06-10

Jerry kuntz, aged eight, who resides a
Philadelphia, displays passion and phe
nomenal ability for everything numerical
and mathematical. The boys parent.
learned of his remarkable talent for figure.
before he was three years old, and as he
grew older his mathematical ability de.
veloped with such astounding rapidly
that they, fearing that the rest of his gen.
eral intelligence might suffer, had him
placed in special" school where mathe-
mates are prohibited as far as Jerry is
concerned.
AT recent auction of books at New
York total of $42,673.5O was paid by
book lovers for rare editions in one days
selling The highest price paid for sin
gle book was $500 for the Lord Am
herst copy of the first edition of Cover
dale's translation of the Bible, printed in
1885. 1t was bought by New York firm.
A Chicago man paid the next highest
price $500, for the E. N. Lapham copy
of "The Posthumous Papers of the Pick
wick Club" by Charles Dickens, first edi-
ton, in the original parts.
A project for obtaining control of the
waters of the Upper Nile is being serious
ly contemplated. The work will extend
over a generation, and involve the expen-
diture of tens of millions of dollars, af-
fecting the entire future of irrigation
throughout the Nile basin. A commission
has already been formed and consists of
three members: an irrigation engineer
nominated by the Government of India
as president, and British physicist nomi-
mated by the University of Cambridge,
and an irrigation engineer nominated by
the Government of the United States con-
stitutes the third member.
Gibraltar seems to fulfill all the condi-
tons of desirable residence" for war
impoverished people. There are no taxes,
except on alcoholic liquors and tobacco,
and the revenue, mainly derived from
Customs and port dues, shows handsome
balance on the right side. The colony
has no public debt, and the prosperity of
its inhabitants is shown by the saving
bank deposits, which doubled in a year,
and at the end of 1918 gave an average
of $3.50 for each depositor. At present
the British civil population numbers about
10000. There is room for few more on
"the Rock" because the Census of 1911
enumerated nearly $4,000 besides Maltese
and aliens, who have also diminished since
then.
Chinese legend has woven an interest
ing myth about tea. According to this
authority tea was discovered by son of
an Idian king, Darma, who in s19 A. D.
paid semi-religious visit to China. He
vowed never to sleep that he might de-
vote all his time to prayer, but one day,
after many years, he was overcome with
drowsiness, and, against his will, slept.
To show his remorse he cut off his eyelids.
The next morning he found the eyelids
into two shrubs, which,
ever since have been called chaa," the
Chinese for eyelids. The moral of the
legend points out that Darma chewed
some of the shrubbery and learned its
arousing properties. In 1889 the Chinese
presented the "chaa" or 'tea" leaves to
The Gear, and later they were introduced
into London.
The British Minister of Education points
out some mistakes that he has come across
N books. One of them runs through Ivan
noe, where the Normans and Saxons are
represented as two distinct races. The
fact is that at the time with which the
story deals marriage between the two
races had gone so far that Norman could
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