The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-09-27
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annr; lily consumed in Boston.
Australia has spent nearly $55.O00,-
600 in promoting immigration.
Eleven presidents of republics were
assassinated during the last century.
Duluth flour mills are preparing to
make 10000 barrels of Hour every "a
hours.
From 1902 to 1912 many attempts
were made to fasten metal points to
quill pens.
The 10000 Indians in Ontario, CAN
ada, own $3.50, 900 worth of proper
ty, or S615 a head.
The Japanese earthquake of 1903
was the most destructive on record.
it killed 100000 people.
Some naturalists say that no in
sect except the silk worm feed upon
the leaves of the mulberry.
This years crop of oysters will
eclipse in number and flavor the har-
vest of several years past.
The 1000 or more Boer prisoners at
st. Helena have started the publica-
ton of a weekly newspaper.
A thousand railway cars are need
ed to handle the peach crop in one
country in southern Missouri.
Last year there were 192,705 miles
of telegraphic lines and 933, 153 miles
OF wire in the United States.
Within few weeks the Germans
Of Mexico City collected $4,000 for a
German schoolhouse to be built there.
After the confiscation of monastery
property in Spain by the state, much
of the proceeds were devoted to the
making of roads.
The bloom on fruit is said to be
natures water-proofing. Where it is
rubbed off damp accumulates and de-
cay soon follows.
A new trolley line between New
York and Connecticut promises a reg
ular run of sixty miles an hour out
side of city limits.
A hornets nest usually contains
from three to four hundred perfect
males and females and an indefinite
number of workers.
Of fifty-six glaciers observed in 1879,
thirty-nine were found to be decreas-
ing, while five were stationary, and
twelve were increasing.
The British war Office is said to be
considering the training of dogs TO
carry water and provisions to sick and
wounded in time of war.
of England has much increased. The
principal consumers of wool are: En-
gland 114,O00.000 franc, Germany 100,-
100000, France 91.000,000, etc.
Germans are still prejudiced against
corn as an article of food, except for
cattle and swine, but efforts are be-
ing made to overcome this prejudice.
Servants in the English royal pal
aces have received a fresh reminder
of the spirit of economy with which
King Edward intends to conduct his
household.
Labor strikes are of great antiqui-
ty, although, owing to the different
conditions of labor, anciently they
were on somewhat different lines
from those of the present day.
The game of golf is said to have
been invented in ancient times by a
lonely shepherd who had nothing bet
ter to do than to knock round stones
into a rabbit hole with his crook.
John w. Bowler, general superin-
tendent and director of physical train
ing in the public gymnasium of Bos-
ton, has accepted five-year contract
as director of physical training at
Dartmouth college.
The oldest known weapon was the
club. The clubs of the lake jewellers
Of Switzerland, studded with stones
in default of nails, and thus making
formidable weapons, have been recov-
cred from their habitations.
In New Jersey there are two match
factories with capacity together of
90,000,000 matches day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barber
ton, O., can turn out 100,0OO,0OO match
es day, probably one-seventh of the
entire consumption.
A strange sight was witnessed at
Bologna recently. A bellringer at
church was struck by great bell and
thrown violently through the window
OF the tower on to the roof, some
90 feet below. He escaped with moth
ing more than a shock.
The total product of wool is 1,O00,-
100000 kilos annually. Australia is
credited with 3O4,OoO,OOO kilos. Ar
gentina 172 100000, the United States
13a,OOO,0OO, Russia 100000, England
100000, France 46,0O0,O0O, etc. Dur
ing the past ten years the product
A recent invention by an Italian is
receiving notice from those who go
to sea. 1t is a net made of hemp and
intended to break the force of waves.
One recently tried with success at
Havre was 500 feet long by so feet
wide with meshes II inches apart.
The nets will break the waves at sea
and will also be bulwark for hy-
draulic works against heavy surf.
1t took sixteen years to build the
first Brooklyn bridge. but immensely
larger suspension bridges can now be
constructed i'll from four to five
years.
Twenty additional fruit-carrying
steamships were chartered recently
to reinforce the fleet now trading