The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-06-13
LITTLE ODDS AND ENDS.


The total length of ocean cables is
160,S42 miles.
Saul, the first king of Israel, was
said by the rabbis to be seven feet
high.
Tea consumed in England is sub
jected to duty of IL cents per
pound.
Venice has a German school, which,
| however, has more Italian than Ger
man children.
David Wartield will next season use
'Dinkelspiel,'' a German comedy by
| George Hobart.
Organized laborers to the number
of 1000 are employed by the diamond
dealers and jewellers of Amsterdam.
| Hazlitt, after the necessary work OF
preparation has been concluded, wrote
one lecture a week of the series 'Lec-
lures on Authors"
The University of Paris has 245 pro-
fessors, 76 of whom belong to the med
ical faculty, while SO teach literary
branches, 40 natural sciences, etc.
Amelia Karle, who has been MEM
Der of Rogers Brothers chorus, will
marry a wealthy western ranch owner
in the fall, and bid good-by to the stage.
| Taking size into considera ton, Switz-
erland has the biggest foreign popu-
lation of any European country, 222,-
900 foreign residents living within her
| limits.
Mrs. Langtry has signed contract
with Charles Frohman to appear in
this country next season. She will
probably be seen in Paul Kester's
| "Mademoiselle Mars"
Mrs. Oliver Ames supports at her
own expense full brass band at the
Oliver Ames high school of North
Easton, Mass, an institution of her
own planning and provision.
Along about the second day you
begin to wonder that some of the
neighbors don't go out and kill a
quail for you; something delicate to
tempt your appetite.-Atchison
! Globe.
| There is an apparent lack of mutual
admiration between some of the people
who have written successful historical
novels and some of the critics who
would if they could.
| French Africa is reckoned at over
1884, 900 square miles, as against 2,713,-
900 miles under English control. Add
ing, however, the million square miles
of Egypt, the English possessions
| equal those of France.
Paul Bonhomme, Paris news
vendor, has just been found dead on
a doorstep. He had not been to bed
since he woke one morning six years
ago and found his wife dead by his
side.
DR.. Coulter, of the chair of biology
at Emery college, Oxford, Ca, has re-
signed in order to accept the director
ship of the United States botanical
gardens in the Philippine islands. His
headquarters will be in Manila.
A new airship mas been manufac-
! tured for M. Santos-Dumont, who ex-
poets to travel at the rate of 60 miles
an hour in it. The new airship is con-
| siderably larger than it's six prede-
cessors the famous aeronaut has
| owned.
| Wholesale evictions are planned for
Tory island, nine miles off the Done
gal shore. The population of 800 lives
by fishing and making kelp and has
paid neither rent nor taxes for years.
| The landlords writs of ejectment will
be backed up by British warship.
| Rev. Thomas Dixon has been look
ing over some piles of southern
newspapers dating back to 1865 and
was astonished to find that BookerT.
Washington's platform of negro edo
ucation was advocated in speeches
delivered by confederate generals
after their return from the civil war.