The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-09-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

There were 5,5OO,O00,0O0 cigars sold
in the United States last year.
Prof. w. H. Mace has declined po-
sition III the Chicago university.
Gen. Wood has been made a member
of the academy of science in Havana.
England now has seven admirals
OF the first fleet and MAE field mar
shals.
Miss Henrietta Homeier, of Ingle-
side, l.. l., dislocated her jaw chew
ing gum.
Eggs of flies taken as food is said
sible for epileptic fits.
Lord Roberts never smokes, drinks
bat little, and is said to be most tenn
perate in his language.
During the last thirty years more
than 100000 Germans have emigrat-
ed to the United States.
Tie largest wroueht-iron pillar is
at Delhi, in India. 1t is sixty feet
high and weighs seventeen tons.
Of fifty-siX glaciers observed in
1897, thirtyfour were found to be de-
creaaing, while five were stationary
and twelve were increasing.
There are forty counties in Texas
which have to seek legal advice out
side their limits, as they have not a
single attorney of their own.
Gen. De Vets ancestors, who set
tied in South Africa, was Jacobus De
Vet, who made his home on the river
L;esbeck, where he died in I'LL.
Mr.. Edison holds the worlds rec
ord of having taken out TAP patents
since 1872. Prof. Thomson is credited
with 444, ard Sir Hiram Maxim stands
third.
Charlotte Cipriani, graduate of
the University OF Chicago, is the first
woman to receive the degree of doc
tor of letters from the University of
Paris
Beetles are strongest insects. A
horned beetle has been known to
move neutrality-suspicious. let
ter weight--that is, 3l3 times its own
weight.
Goust is the smallest republic in
the world in point of area. It is in
the Pyrenees. is 600 acres in extent,
has 100 inha bitants and was estab-
lishea in 164S.
The Pope pays a daily visit to the
little menaScric in the Vatican gar
,lens, where he rewards the parrots
loyal cry of "Vive il Popa!" with a
double ration.
A telegram from Ponta Delgada
states that the international meteor
illogical observatory in the Azores
was iDaugurated by the king of Port
ugal on July 10.
Herbert Crowbie Howe, for a num-
Der of years secretary to President
Schurman, of Cornell university, has
been appointed professor of English
a. the University of Oregon.
France. with p gallons head, is
the greatest consumer of wine; the
United States, with half gallon
head yearly, the smallest. English
people average a fraction more.
4 movement has been started
among the Catholic women of ST.
Louis for the raising of fund of
$4,000 for a bronze monument in
honor of the late Archbishop Ken
rick.
The method of canceling postage
stamps in vogue throughout the
world was instituted by the French
government in 1880, but was not
adopted until comparatively recent
years.
Thomas G. Shaughnessy, who sue
ceeded Sir William Van Horne as pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railway
system, entered the services OF that
road as general storekeeper as late
as 1882.
Work is almost completed on the
statue of Gen. John Egan Howard,
the Maryland soldier, and it is ex-
pected that the bronze will be set up
in one of the Baltimore parks early
in the autumn.
When the sultan of Johore is at
tired in his state clothes he is a most
gorgeous ruler. He wears gems worth
$12,000,o0o, which sparkle in his
crown. on his epaulets, in his girdle,
and in his cuffs.
For every man, woman and child
in this country there is an average
Of two farm animals. There are
about 100000 each of sheep and
swine, about 45,0O0,00O COWS and 9TH
er cattle, and about 1G,0OO, 900 horses
and mules.
Curse cards are being used in Swift
zcrland and Germany to check pro-
family. People go aboat with the
cards in their pockets and, whenever
they hear bad language, present one
to the swearer to sign. The card has
printed on it a pledge to obstain
from swearing for specified time
or to pay a small fine for each oath
to some charity. Nearly 10000 of
these cards have been distributed in
Switzerland alone.
Judge James Humphrey, who died
q few days ago at his home in Wey-
mouth Nights, Mass, was the oldest
active judge on the bench of Massa-
chusetts. He was born in Weymouth
on Jan. 20, 1919. He was appointed
to the bench in 1852.
The maids of honor of the Emnress