The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-10-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

The Sonora Canovas del Castillo has
just died in Madrid.
About 100000 bushels of beans are
annually consumed in Boston.
Australia has spent nearly S55,0o0,.
OG0 in promoting immigration.
Eleven presidents of republics were
assassinated during the last century
Duluth flour mills are preparing to
make 10000 barrels of flour every "a
hours.
From 1902 to 1912 many attempts
were made to fasten metal points to
quill pens.
The 10000 Indians in Ontario, Cam
ada, own $9,S40,0OO worth of proper
ty, or $615 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 192,7O5 miles
of telegraphic lines and 933, 1873 miles
of wire in the United States.
Within q few weeks the Germans
Of Mexico City collected $4,000 for a
German schoolhouse to be built there.
According to statistics prepared for
the home secretary 1,7Oo children are
burned to death yearly in the United
Kingdom.
An Englishman 80 years old may
expect 32 years 2 months more of life;
a woman of that age "a years 1
month more.
After the confscation of monastery
property in Spain by the state, much
of the proceeds were devoted to the
making of roads.
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 a capacity together of
100000 matches a day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barber
ton, o., can turn out 10o,OOo,oOo 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
go 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 304,0oO,000 kilos. Ar
gcntina 172, 100000, the United States
132, 100000, Russia 100000, England
6i.OoO,0 900, France 100000, etc. Dur
ing the past ten years the product
A recent invention by an italian is
receiving notice from those who go
to sea. It is a net made of hemp and
intended to break the force of waves.
One recently tried with success at
Havre was 800 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 n.y.
draufic works against heavy surf.
1t took sixteen years to build the
first Brooklyn bridge. but immensely
larger suspension bridges can now be
constructed in from four to five
years.
Twenty additional fruit-carrying
steamships were chartered recently
to reinforce the feet now trading
between the West Indies and Phila-
delphia.
Sven Hedlin, the explorer, reached
Charkhlk, in the heart of China, last
April, without hearing of the trou.
bles in the eastern part of the en-
pire. He found the Chinese polite
and obliging.
The United States has the highest
proportion of children at school; Is
per cent of her population are at
school, II per cent of Germany's and
Is per cent of England's.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has added to
his collection of arms, which is one
of the finest in the country, a sword
worn by Simon Bolivar during one
of his South American campaigns.
OF 1914 gasworks in the United
Kingdom, 1888 are in England, 253 in
Scotland and 10S in Ireland.