The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

| "hoiS VIRGINS 20 IONS.
! There are 1900 persons upon the Ger
man emperor's list of employees.
HE greatest customers the Peoria
distillers have are the Japanese.
AN exhibition of Canada's mineral
resources is to be held at Toronto.
HE rearing of silk worms gives en-
ployment to 6OO 600 people in Italy.
THE finest shops in a Chinese city are
those devoted to the sale of collins.
A PERMANENT exhibition of Spanish
products is being established at Hayti.
In the year ended June so, ALAG inn
migrants were received at San Fran
cisco.
| The Dominion of Canada imposes
tax of $50 on every Chinaman that en-
tiers that country.
| ONE hundred thousand Americans
have visited Europe this summer,
breaking all records
OF every 100 school children in Lon
don, Go leave school between their
tenth and eleventh years.
The president has au thorized the or
ganization of company of Indians
for service in the Philippines.
BEN CLENCH, the highest mountain
in Scotland, will have an electric road
to its summit and a sanitarium.
| AFRICA has nearly 20 different Ian
guages, and this fact presents great
difficulties to missionary efforts.
| BELLA M. HUGHES, of Atchison, Kan,
recently cele brated the fftieth ami
versary of her second marriage.
VANCOUVER city council has voted
$500 to the trades and labor council to-
ward the Labor day celebration.
PARIS has burial vault fitted with
| electrical appliances for the detection
of recovery In cataleptic subjects.
EVERY boy in Germany, from the
crown prince to the meanest su bject, is
| obliged to learn some useful trade.
Owing to the large increase in bust
| ness the Great Siberian railway is to
be rebuilt before the line is completed.
REPORTS of the cotton crop of Texas,
Indian Territory and Oklahoma show
decrease in the yield of 375 per cent.
SPAIN has more sunshine than any
country in Europe. The yearly aver
age is 5000 hours. In America it is
2,1OO.
The Kansas bureau of immigration
has shipped east samples of corn II
feet high; also tomato stalks feet
high, with fruit at the top.
JOHANNESBURG is TIA miles from Port
Elizabeth LOLA from Cape Town, 666
from East London, 4S3 from Durham
and 500 from Delagoa bay.
THE health authorities of Bavaria
examined last year So 4S7 samples of
food and drinks, and made complaints
in 1863 per cent. of all cases.
FARMERS in Androscoggin county,
Maine, complain bitterly OF the injury
done to their crop by the protected
and rapidly-increasing deer.
AT a recent meeting of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Prof. Dills advo-
Gated the use of English as universal
language for men of science.
A sHELLFIsH known as the pianna in
the Mediterranean has the curious
power of spinning viscid silk, which
is made in Italy, into regular fabric.
WOMEN do the mining in Colon bia.
No man with any self-respect can be
induced 20 engage in that occupation,
because in Spanish times it was the
work of slaves
In the center of the plaza in Lima is
pretty bronze fountain that was
erected in 1878, gift from some noble
Spaniard, and is probably the oldest
fountain in America.
BERLIN booksellers are strictly for
hidden to sell school children books
stitched with wire. as several cases of
blood poisoning have been traced to
| scratches from rusty wire.
ONE of the queerest villages known
is in New Guinea, and is called Tupu-
| selei. The houses are all supported on
| piles and stand out in the ocean a con-
| siderable distance from shore.
IT would be difficult to imagine more
extraordinary digestive powers than
| those of the hyena. One of these
beasts has been known to swallow six
large bones without crushing them.
THERE is much French and Belgian
| capital invested in the principal rail-
way lines of Spain. while England
| owns many of the shorter lines and is
| also at the head of the mining inter-
| ests.
The Ortiz mine grant of 81, 900 acres
| located 80 miles south of Santa Fe, n.
| M, and covering the richest gold-bear-
| ing district of New Mexico, has been
| sold to Thomas A. Edison and New
| York and London syndicate for SIS, 000,-
OOO
| Col. w. L. ALBRIGHT, of Ohio, or
ganizing company with $4,000, 900
| capital, to build the missing Link
railway" from Chattanooga to Walhal-
la, S. c., distance of $50 miles. is in
Georgia to secure a charter in that
| state.
A COMBINATION of glove manufacture
| ers has been effected, with capital
stock of $50, OOO OOO of which SIS. 900, 900
is preferred stock. representing the
cash value of the properties merged,
and sig, 900, 900 common stock, which is
to be distri buted as a bonus.
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