The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-11-10
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matches annually.
POULTRY and eggs yielded 50, 900, 900
in Missouri in 1898.
ARRowRooT comes from the bulbs OF
South American cannas.
| The strike of the Boston upholster-
| ers is now in its twentieth week.
The imports of Irish linen into Ger
many has diminished very much.
DENVER Coli has more bicycles in
proportion than any other city in the
country.
HAwAn's unofficial territorial dele
gate in Washington is graduate of
Harvard.
A FEATHER of an eagle shot by
Dewey has been turned into pen by a
| Cincinnati man.
BRITISH recruiting officers are said
to be engaging German under-officers
for service in Africa.
RAIN has never been known to fall in
that part of Egypt between the two
lower falls of the Nile.
PARIS municipality erected Frances
| chief labor temple. 1t cost $500, 600,
and is used by 80 organizations.
A LAW requiring corporations to pay
| wages at least monthly has been de-
| clared constitutional in California.
HAWAII is said to have more tele-
| phones in proportion to the population
than any other locality in the world.
AN attempt on a large scale is soon
| to be made to stock the abandoned
farms of Maine with cattle from the
west
The British Association for the Adj
vancement of Science has granted g1,-
| 600 toward the expenses of an Antarc-
| tic expedition.
ALL the European navies are prac-
ticing shooting. Our soldiers taught
them the necessity for good shooting
in the Spanish war.
AMONG the French, formerly, to
| make even the most casual reference
height of vulgarity.
EMPEROR WILLIAM wants an enormous
increase made in the German navy to
| make it the equal of any sea force ex-
cept that of England.
In London the various underground
electric systems for rapid transit in
volve the expenditure of about $780,
| 900, 900 for their completion.
THE anti-British crusade of the Ger
| man press on the Transvaal war is said
| to be greatly against the wishes of the
emperor and the government.
REGINALD D'IBERvILLE is the only
holder of a Canadian title. 1t was
granted by Louis XIV. in 1900 and con-
firmed by Queen Victoria in 1880.
HoRsEsHoEs in Japan are simply
slogs of twisted straw, and during a
| journey many have to be carried to re-
| plenish those which are worn out.
ACRE once meant field of any size.
The Germans still use the word in this
| sense. Gods acre, meaning cemetery,
| is an instance of the old meaning.
MRS. LIE BRETON, Mrs. Langtry's
mother, lives in Jersey and is still one
of the best looking women in the
island in spite of her advanced age.
THE heart of vegetarian beats on
an average So to the minute; that of
the meateater rs. This represents
| difference of 10000 beats in "a hours.
| NEARLY so, 900 claims resulting from
the Spanish-American war have been
| fled at the war department, and they
are still coming in at the rate of so a
day.
In the king of Saxony's museum at
Dresden there is cherry-stone upon
which. by the aid of microscope.
| more than 100 faces can be distin-
guished.
THERE are parts of Spain where the
| hat is unknown except in pictures.
The men, when they need a covering,
tie up their heads, and the women
| wear flowers.
On the Queensland, New South
Wales boundary line, on the edge of
| the Australian desert, an artesian well
has struck yield of water of 100000
! gallons day.
BERLIN booksellers are strictly for
| hidden to sell school children books
stitched with wire, as several cases Of
blood poisoning have been traced 10
scratches from rusty wire.
The Spanish are among the most
charitable people on earth. Without
Ioor-tax, Spanish communities of
so, 600 self-supporters feed pauper
population of 5000 or more.
PRESIDENT KRUGER is said to be able
to write as well with the left hand as
| with the right, but detests pens and
ink so much that he uses indelible
| lead pencils whenever possible.
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