The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

Ambassador White expects to leave
Berlin for home in September.
Out of $1,000 islands in the Indian
Ocean only $40 are inhabited.
The population of Northern China
is most completely vegetarian.
John Alexander Dowie has become
naturalized American citizen.
An advance of So ton in the price
OF steel rails has been agreed upon.
In certain London hotels wine left
on the tables is the walters perquis-
lite.
\ dressmakers' trust has now been
organized and incorporated for $780,
900.
The average depth of the Atlantic
is $4,000 feet, of the Pacific $1,000
feet.
The population of the German En-
pire includes 100000 who use the Po-
lish language.
some eight miles from Paris, is the
largest in the world.
A little girl named Beatrice, who
was only years old, travelled by her.
self from Dallas, Tex, to New York
Mud is the newest skin beautifier.
the latest fad for thu improvement
OF the complexion. lust common,
everyday, unromantic dirty mud.
Judge Jas. Humphrey, who lied a
few days ago at his homei in Weymouth
Nights, Mass, was the Oldest active
Judge on the bench in Massachusetts.
British farmers and dairymen are
to-day milking 100000 COWS and pro-
ducing annually in their dairies s22,-
100000 worth of milk, butter and
cheese.
The wooden church, with tower and
spire, built for the members of the
Baptist Communion of Santa Rosa.
Cal, was built from the wood Of y
single tree.
The imports of precious stones at
the port of New York during May
amounted in value to $3,1S9,273,
against $1,322,3 the value of the
imports during May, 1900.
The municipality of Berlin receives
poses under the will of DR.. George
Vierling, the Berlin composer, who
died in Wiesbaden recently.
There are in circulation in this
country $2,OOO,oO0 worth of bank
notes made from old state bank of
New Jersey plates, which were sup
posed to have been destroyed.
Daniels Wells, Jr., who celebrated
his ninety-third birthday recently,
has lived sixty-six years in Milwau-
kee, and is now the only ante-bellum
congressman living in that city.
The American Tract society was
organized seventy-six years ago, and
since that time it has printed and
circulated books, tracts and period
icals in 153 languages and dialects.
1t is said that the king and queen
of England will follow the custom
of Queen Victoria in giving to the
poor people in the hospitals of Lon
don flowers and fruits from the roy
al gardens.
When Cardinal Gibbons sat down in
weighing chair at an underground
station in London the other day a
British editor found occasion to call
him the least formal of the four En-
glish-speaking cardinals.
The establishment of an American
bank in Berlin and London is coz
templated. 1t is believed that this
will open the way for American in
dustrial undertakings and exports in
the countries of the old world.
The four states in which there was
no prohibition vote cast at last years
general election were South Carolina,
in which the dispensary system of IL
quor selling by the state exists: Wy
oming, Nebraska and Mississippi.
The late ex-Gov. Pingree of Michi-
gan subscribed to clipping bureau,
and kept all the printed comment
about himself. This was kept in a set
of scrapbooks, which are said to con-
tain $4,000 columns of newspaper
print.
In the city of Mexico there are
1911 private artesian wells and elev-
en- public ones. This number will soon
be increased, for, at the present time,
many property owners in the neigh
borhood of Guerrero are having wells
bored in their yards.
1t has been calculated that some
thing like 1,a5O,oOO,OOo pints of tea
are imbibed yearly by Londoners,
and that the teapot necessary to con.
tain that amount. if properly shaped.
would comfortably take in the whole
of ST. Paul cathedral.
Sweden has the lowest marriage
rate of any country. The yearly mar
rage rate is only 1876 per 1000, as
against 2O.6 per 1000 in Hungary. In
England the number of marriages IS
given as $500, or at the rate of 1913
per 1000, England's marriage rate
having risen steadily for the past six
years.
The Veddahs, or wild hunters OF
Ceylon, mingle the pounded fibres OF
soft and decayed wood with the hon.
ey on which they feed when meat is
not to be obtained.
Yhe engineers of the New York
rapid transit commission say they ex.
pect the tunnel will be completed
and ready for the running of trains
before the end of 1908.