The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Nebraska has developed largely in
| the last fifteen years from the sterile
plains that formerly constituted its
territory. It's assessed valuation is now
500, 5s5, 1872.
An authority on clothing estimates
that every man, woman and child in
this country has at least $40 worth of
clothes. This would make the value
of our national garments exceed $780,
| 600, 600.
When the last census was taken the
depositors in the savings banks num-
bered 4,533,217, or about one-third of
the numbe of voters, while the depos-
its amounted to $1,623, 900, 900, an aver
| age to each depositor of about $3.50. 1t
is believed that no other country can
show SO large an amount of savings as
this.
OF the farmers of this country one.
fourth, or rs per cent, have property
valued at less than ST, 900; rs per cent.
have holdings rated at from 81, 600 to
$1O,0 900; and only 2 per cent. have prop
erty valued at from $4,000 to $780, 200.
| The number of millionaires among the
farmers is SO inappreciably small that
it does not appear in the census re-
| turns.
"A Baltimore barber has set up a
music box in his shop, the tunes of
which he turns on to suit the trend of
his trade. BY regulating the airs by
the flow of customers he thinks he
gets unusually good work out of his
assistants. When business is light he
runs out steady old ballads, and when
it is brisk-as on Saturday nights, for
instance-tbe music box keeps the
razors flying to the time of jigs, reels
and quicksteps.
Height of Ocean Waves-It is cal
culated, as the result of accurate study,
that in a strong wind waves may have
a length of two hundred and sixty
feet, with speed of about three hun
dred and sixty feet second. Waves
four hundred feet long, with speed
of twenty-eight nautical miles per
hour, are produced only in heavy
storms Waves may, according to this
calculation, rise six hundred feet in
fifteen seconds. 1t is claimed that
waves more than sixty feet high are
exceptional; that the average is very
much less than fifty. In ordinary
trade-winds, the height of the waves
is from five to six feet.
I'm Texas ''norther'' is a chilling
blast that sweeps over the country,
sending the temperature down as
much as thirty degrees in as many
minutes. But in California ''norther''
is hot wind that puts the temperature
up ten or fifteen points above comfort,
and instead of freezing vegetation does
great damage by causing a too quick
ripening. Early this month the Sacra-
mento valley had norther which
lasted ten days, ripening the wheat
crop prematurely so that the yield
shrank twenty-five per cent. over the
estimate of the previous week. These
hot winds rarely last more than three
days, as is the case also with the cold
Texas northers
"A sixteen-foot alligator crawled out
of the ST. Johns river at the foot OF
Main street, Jacksonville, Fla, one
day recently, and leisurely waddled
up the street toward the center of the
city. Main street is one of the princi.
pal streets of Jacksonville, and the ap-
pearance of the alligator created
good deal of CONSERVATION among the
hundreds of people there. Every man
with pistol started shooting at the
reptile, but the bullets didn't worry il
a little bit After promenading four
blocks, and squelching with its tail a
too familiar newsboy, it received
wound from rifle which caused it to
slow up little. Then it started up
leaning telegraph pole, thus exposing
it's vulnerable parts and was soon shot
to death. Nine biz alligators have
been. killed recently at the foot OF
Main street, but this is the first that
has ventured up town.