The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

Germany exported over $4,OOO,OOO
worth of soaps and perfumes in 1896.
The Ganges is 1870 miles long, and
drains an area of 100000 square miles.
Germany owns $4,000 acres in Cen
trail America, with 20,0O0,G00 coffee
trees.
On an average 100000 of the
worlds population are constantly
afoat.
Munlch's Red Cross Hospital has for
visiting surgeon the crown prince of
Bavaria.
St. Petersburg has the highest
death rate of any European capital, 81
per 1000.
Residents in England have e11O,O00,-
900 invested in mortgages in foreign
countries.
Brazil produces $4,000 tons of cof-
fee out of tia worlds yearly crop of
100000 tons.
The interess on the national debt
for the last year cost each person for
ty-four cents.
The Danube flows through coun-
tries in which SO languages and dia-
lects are spoken.
a society for the protection of hus-
bands from drunken wives has been
formed in London.
Secretary of the interior Hitchcock
will spend his vacation salmon fish
ing in New Brunswick.
English beekeepers average fifty
pounds of honey from their hives,
American twenty pounds.
The British Official Gazette has
announced the reappoiHtment Of AL
fred Austin as poet laureate.
Only one country brews more beer
per inhabtant than England. That is
Belgium, with 31h gallons head.
The shark holds the record for
long-distance swimming. A shark has
been known to cover 500 miles in
three days.
Two tons of beets are equal in feed
ing value to four tons of hay, but is
cultivation has proved too expensive
to be profitable.
America last year exported $780,
100000 worth of iron and steel, m
amount greater in value than her en-
tire exports of all kinds in 1890.
Oliver Hopkinson. son of the author
of Hail, Columbia!" is eighty-nine
years old. He is the oldest living
graduate OF the University of Penn
sylvania.
Grief Officer Hans Russer, of the
baltimore & Hamburg liner Batavia,
has been appointed captain of the
German expedition which is about
to sail in search of the south pole.
In Kansas militarism bows to l@ri-
culture. The annual target practice
of one of the state regiments was in
definitely postponed because the men,
bers were so busy in the beet sugar
fields.
10 finish the Panama canal tun-
mel four miles long, 100 feet wide and
160 feet high will be necessary. It will
cost $4,000 yard, a worlds record in
expenditure, being four times greater
than the Mount Gents tunnel.
The late Baron Faber the pencil
manufacturer once said of the arti-
Gle that had made him rich: sit has
done more execution since it came III
to use than the sword while who can
enamerate the libels it has written?"
Prof. Lester F. Ward of the geo.
logical survey and Frank La Flesche
of the Indian Office have been appoint
ed to represent their respective bu-
Teaus as members of the congress for
Americanists to meet in New York
City in 1902.
\ number of Yale graduates have
completed the subscription list for
the placing of a memomrial window
for Elihu Yale in the church at 1Nrex.
ham, Wales, near which Yale lies bur-
led, and work on the window will be
begun at once.
The duke of Roxburgh, who is be-
ing spoken of as possible husband
for Miss Astor, is just twenty-five
years of age and recently returned
from South Africa, where he served
with distinction as lieutenant in the
royal horse guards.
An institute OF animal psychology
has been created in Paris under the
patronage of scientists for the pur-
pose of studying the psychical facul-
ties of the brute creation. 1t is a
kind of school of experiment. in men
tai powers of different animals
A burglar attempted TO enter a
creamery at Benton, Wis, the other
day through a trap door in the roof.
He had bottle of nitro9lycerine in
his hip pocket, and the trap door, fall
ing, struck him on the hip. He was
literally torn to pieces by the force
of the explosion which followed.
Street cars without tracks, cable.
trolley or horses, and, most of all,
without franchises, soon will be run
ming regularly on the streets of Chi
cago.
Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court has the reputation of
being the best raconteur in Washing.
ton. His fund of stories is endless,
and he seems to add to it daily.
Candy makers say that the most
profitable part of their trade is in
fancy candies, put up in ornamental
boxes, the box frequently cutting