The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-07-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

London has $4,000 houses. of which
563, JIG are inhabited. -
Mexico ranks third among the corn
growing nations of the world.
About 500 people are killed year.
~ by lightning in the United States.
The branches of the Mississippi
have an aggregate length of $4,000
miles.
st. Petersburg's cabs charge half
the fare for women that they. do for
men.
Los Angeles has thirteen parks, big
and little, the average area being
$40 acres.
Oak. ebony and mahogany are the
three best-known woods which are
heavier than water. -.
Forests cover one-tenth of the land
of the earth and one-quarter OF ELL
ropes land surface.
1t is expected that 100000 boXes
of citrus fruit will be shipped from
California this season.
Only, SO,331 British subjects out of
the 100000 who died last year had
anything to leave by will. ..
Beginning next January, subscri-
bers in Paris will get telephones for
$50 year, instead of $50.
Bananas with purple leaves and
seedless fruit have been introduced
into British Conservatives. ss..
An electric engine has been in
vented, which is expected to attain
speed of $50 miles an hour.
The culture of daffodils has become
quite an industry in the southern
part of Lincolnshire, England.
The annual produce of chrrants in
Greece is about 100000 tons, but last
year, owing to the downy mildew, it
fell to $4,000 tons.
Vice President Roosevelt has prom
ised to deliver an address at the cell
ebration OF the quarter centenary of
Colorado's statehood, s..s.s
in village of Germany blind old
woman was led to church every Sum
day by a gander, who used to take
hold of her gown with his bill.
Discouraged because of the misery
prevailing among the poor children
of New York City, to whom she had
devoted years of her life, Mrs. Edith
Thomas, philanthropist, committed
suicide. -
Cast iron plows were first made
in this country, in 1897, and were
greatly objected to from the belief
that the cast iron poisoned the
ground and prevented plants from
growing.
There is still in existence an unre-
pealed law in Switzerland which for
bids the wearing of hats more than
thirteen inches in diameter, artificial
flowers and foreign feathers, under
a heavy penalty.
Mrs. Julia ID. Grant and Mrs. Luz
,cretia a. Garfield are the only two
women in the United States who en-
Joy the franking privileges. This
honor is bestowed on the widows of
former presidents.
The buzZard is a fast-fying bird.
One that was recently shipped from
Charleston, n. c., to New York, for
the purpose of testing it's speed, sue
ceeded in making the trip back home
in about four hours.
French, which used to be the world
language, now ranks last, being spo-
ken by only 100000, while English
is spoken by 115,O0O,Oo0, Russian by
s0,oOO,oOO, German by 100000 and
Spanish by 5O,O0O,O0O.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
engaged seven of the best Swiss
guides to conduct excursions in the
Rocky Mountains this summer. This
is the third batch who have been en-
gagged by the company.
Estimates on the gold output for
1900 are Sis, 1862 for the United
States, and 1885, 924,654 for the world
at large. First place is held by the
United States. The Transvaal yield
is estimated at $7,20S,S69.
When John Pierpont Morgan trav-
els he has train of five most ele-
gantly appointed coaches at his dis
posal. Instead of merely private
car he has whole train that is I'M
der his exclusive control.
In the course of certain operations
in the Belvidere park, in Tunis, the
workmen discovered huge circle of
enormous stumps of trees ranged
around an immense square stone show
ing signs of artistic chisel work.
A fine head of the Bos prilnigenius
has been dredged up from the river
Cam, near Upware, in England. Be-
tween the horns, from point to point,
is distance of two feet, and their
girth at the base is fifteen inches.
King Edward has taken renewed
interest in golf and he and his guests
have spent much time recently on
the new links near Old Windsor Cas-
tie. The kings sudden activity in the
direction of golf is due to the fact
that his physicians advised more ex-
ercise for his majesty.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is no.
ted for her fondness of pet animals,
and at her West Hill farm she has
been raising goats for over quarter
of century.
Norwegian legislators propose that
girls who do not know how to knit,
sew, wash and cook shall be refused
permission to marry. Daughters of
wealthy men are not to be eXcepted