The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

The queen OF ROumdnla Is n success
full lecturer, as learned as eloquent.
On the Mississippi, between st.
Louis and Minneapolis, 60 sawmills
are in operate and 179 steam crafts
of various kinds navigate this stretch
of the river.
DR.. Reuben Peterson, of Chicago,
has been appointed to the Bates pro-
censorship of the diseases of women
DR.. j. n. Martin.
A thousand graves in the church
cemetery, Luton, England, have been
dug by a one-armed man named Al
len, who became grave digger in 1871
after mill accident.
In the ten years that have elapsed
since it was opened the Cripple Creek
district of Colorado has produced
$1O4,0OO,0OO in gold, and its estimated
yield in 1901 is $25,O0O,000.
According to statistics of the Uni
ted States Weather Bureau, As per
cent. of deaths by lightning occur in
the open, "a per cent. in houses, IL
per cent. under trees and 9 per cent.
in barns.
The total valuation upon which
state taxes will be assessed this year
against taxable property in Nebraska
will be approximately $174.432,OOO or
$2,6s5,OOO greater than the assessed
valuation of last year.
The latest invention for life saving
at sea is a life belt that carries
light to guide the struggling swim
mer to it, and whose lamp is lighted
by contact with the sea water. This
device is reported from Germany.
Bears eyebrows, being stiff, and ex-
actly the right shade, are used in
newly invented fly that is killing
quantities of salmon this year. These
eyebrows come from the Himalayan
brown bear. and cost about $3.50 per
set.
In addition to the $4,000 bequeathed
to the Albany hospital by Nathaniel
c. 8rockway, who died recently in
New Haven, the will provides for be-
quests of like amounts to four other
charitable institutions in the former
city.
The Massachusetts Frog company
has been incorporated in Maine, with
a capital of $1,000. The objects of the
corporation as stated in its applica-
ton for charter are ''to buy, sell,
breed and import frogs and like ami
mails
NJ. c. Treat, of Washington, Pa, has
offered to give $1,000 to Buie's Creek
On. CO. academy, if other friends of
the institution will realise $4,000, 10
the end that $4,000 building may
be erected to replace one burned 1e-
Gently.
In Greece, in the third century B.
c., the wearing of silk was forbidden
to women, the husbands of those who
violated this law being heavily fined,
on the theory that a husband ought
to be able to control his wife's taste
for finery.
j. Pierpont Morgan, for all his ire
mendous Importance in financial and
other affairs, owns pet name, which,
however, none but his wife dare use.
Mrs. Morgan not infrequently calls
him "Ponty," the name being relic
of sparkling days.
No force in nature except lightning
entirely disintegrates the body that
it kills. A stroke lierally tears a man
to pieces as bomb would. Yet SO
intense is the force that the skin of
the body may be left without the
slightest abrasion.
The railroad mileage of the United
States was increased 4,051 miles dur
ing the year ending June 80, 1901.
That is the largest increase in any
one year since 1893. The total single
track mileage in the country on June
80 was 193,345 miles
The cooking stove as it is known in
the United States, does very little
service in France. A few are in use in
the country, but in most farm houses
the cooking is done in large fire
place. In the cities furnace is built
in the small kitchen.
Although the diameter of the
earth has been roughly known for
many years, it has only lately been
accurately ascertained, after thirty
years labor and cost of 100000.
1t is 1926 miles at the equator, and
1880 from pole to pole.
It has been calculated that some.
thing like 1,25O,OoO,OOo pints of tea
are imbibed yearly by Londoners, and
that the teapot necessary to contain
this amount, if properly shaped,
would comfortably take in the whole
of st. Pauls Cathedral.
Ex-senator Mitchell, of Wisconsin,
who has returned home after two
years spent abroad with his family,
says that since the Spanish war 1T is
evident to travellers that the English
regard us with much more friendship
and that "the French do not like us at
all, though they are afraid of u.s."
A machine that will do the work OF
30 expert mathematicians is being
constructed by the government in its
scientific instrument shop on Capitol
Hill, in Washington. 1t is to be an i'm
provement on an instrument in use
in the Bureau of the Coast Survey,
which has charge of calculating the