The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-06
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the shah of Persia.
Cork weighs Is pounds per cubic
foot, gold 1,155 pounds.
Lord Breadalbane is the owner OF
the finest vine in Europe.
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the height of the living man.
A Bridgeport, Ct, man is about ia
build an airship, designed to carry six
people.
Paris supplies, free of cost, sulfurous
baths to all persons engaged in hand
ling lead.
Dentistry is now an accepted and
often 1ourishing profession for WON.
en- in France.
There were 100000 children at school
in India sixty years ago. There are
100000 now.
The human windpipe is composed of
sixteen or eighteen cartileginous rings,
united by exceedingly flexible liga-
ments.
Holland has 10,100 windmills, each
of which drains 80 acres of land, at
an average cost of twenty-five cents an
acre year.
There is now in circulation in the
United States s2S.72 for each and every
man, woman and child-the largest
figure it has ever reached.
Posen, in Prussian Poland, is to have
its Notifications dismantled. Prussia
will buy the land they cover from the
German empire for 11,25O,OOO marks.
The indications are that the dis
tillers of the United States will go to
Washington in force when congress
convenes, prepared to make a fight
through the session for a reduction of
the tax on whisky.
DR.. William Duane, professor of
physics in the Colorado State univer-
sity, has been granted patent for an
invention by which he claims as many
as eighteen messages can be sent over
one wire simultaneously.
French women wrap in red cloth
children who have measles. Now
scientist named Chatinier proves by
experiment that red paper pasted on
the windows of patients having
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AS early as 1884 bloomery forge
was erected at Lime Rock, in Litch-
field county, Ct, by Thomas Lamb,
which produced from 500 to 700 pounds
of iron per day. A blast furnace was
afterward added to the forge.
1t is cited as proof of the hard times
in Germany that while in October,
1900, there were 153 applicants for each
100 vacant situations, in 1901 the
number had increased to 1913 appli.
cants for each 100 vacancies.
With fruit that is imperishable the
owners of the almond lands have in
hand one of the most paying industries
of southern California, and one is not
too sanguine to believe that in the
almond Antelope valley may see her
reclamation.
The bureau of engraving and print
ing has completed all the dies for the
Porto Rican revenues. Proofs in va
rious' colors have been submitted to
the treasury department officials, who
are to determine the matter of color
for each value.
More than $1O,000,000 will be raised
by direct taxation in the city of New
York to pay what are known as coun.
ty charges, the maintenance of the Of
fees in the four counties making up
the city, and for the expense of each
toward the state tax.
The Swedish government has under
consideration the substitution of cleo
tricity for steam on all the Swedish
railroads, the abundance of water pow
er in the country not only making
the project feasible, but holding out
promise of great saving.
The humming bird, of which there
are a thousand varieties, is found only
in America and the adjacents islands.
The only food that will be of any avail
in the proposed attempt to convey some
of these birds to Europe is honey. 1t
is not very difficult to keep humming
birds alive in cages for few weeks
in summer, but it is almost impossi.
BILE to get them through the iwnter.
When King Edward-or the prince
of Wales, as he was then-lay at
deaths door with typhoid fever, the
famous William Jenner was called in
for a period of four weeks, and in re-
turn he was paid at the rate of g.
500 week and given a baronetcy into
the bargain. Nor was it by any means
unusual for him to receive a fee of
$500 for an hours consultation with
less celebrated patients.
Hatchers of trout have discovered
that the big German brown trout,
which has promised so much in the
way of sport, will not live in har
mony with it's smaller, but gamier,
cousin, the brook trout. 1t not only
eats the fry of the smaller trout, but
is so large that it can eat fairly
good-sized grown-up. Sportsmen are
universally in favor of the native
trout, and the Matching of the German
fish may be abandoned.
Danny Maher, the American jockey,
has been engaged at salary of $4,000
a year to ride the horses owned by
King Edward, of Great Britain.
Nearly all the chairmanships of the
house committees will remain un-
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