The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-10
On This
Occasion
Just a few thoughts by the Editor on things
Material and Immaterial.

Statistics prove that young people
are relatively fewer in number than
they were a few years ago according to
the total population. However, it must
be said that you can see more of them.
An Isle of Man inventor has invent
ed wrist watch which is kept wound
up by the action of the arm and de-
velops enough reserve energy to run
it throughout the night j. Adam Bede
in his Budget says it only scored one
failure, and that was when attached to
a government employee.
The government began on Wednes-
day to print the new paper currency
and will print nearly a billion of the
new bills, So per cent of which will
be 81 bills. The new currency will
be in denominations of 81, So, SIS, $40,
$50, $50, 500, $500, $1,000, $4,000 and
$4,000. The new money will go tinto
circulation about July l, 1929. We
presume the SO per cent coinage of 81
bills is for the purpose of accommoda-
ting the country newspaper profession
the majority of which calling would
stage pass out should they ever even
see or handle bills of the larger de-
nominations, much less own one.
The dance marathon at the Duluth
Curling Club which opened July 10.
closed Monday night at midnight with
four couples on the floor The dance
closed by mutual consent of the four
couples after they had danced 45612
hours. The prize money of $1,000 was
divided among the eight dancers, each
receiving 5000 or about SO cents per
hour for their grueling work. 1t is
needless to say that the promoters
divided considerable more than this
as the public nightly filled the seats
at 81 and more per seat. When the
dance was called off, the spectators
were loath to leave and felt they were
being cheated 1t is said that the
audience were repeaters and night
after night and Gay after day held
their seats hoping some one of the
dancers would pass out and they want
ed to be in at the finish.
The dance marathonS have become
popular and there is a certain fascina-
ton about watching them which gets
on the nerves. However, like an auto
mobile race, a stunt flyer and several
other acts by which the life of a hui
man being is lightly held, there is no
kick developed unless there is an ac-
cident and some one passes out. Like
effort expended is hoeing potatoes,
washing dishes or doing something
which might be beneficial would not
draw the crowd and no crowd. no en-
trants and no promoters. If any Of
the sixty entrants were offered a lob
at so cents and hour and eight hours
day instead of twenty-four, they
would spurn the offer While the dan
GERS received two hundred it is esti-
mated that the promoters pocketed
twenty times that much.
Now that the marathon is ended, will
some one kindly inform waiting pub
lie just what outstanding benefit to
the human race, the city of Duluth,
the marathoners or the spectators, was
accomplished? Some of those witness
ing the exhibition designated the dan
GERS an nuts" but the opinion of the
majority is that the nuts" were not
on the floor dancing but in the seats
looking on. Duluth is peculiar While
the American Legion had a beautiful
educational pageant on at the same
time as the marathon, the Legion was
hard put to make expenses while the
promoters of the horse play waxed fat
and departed from the Zenith City
with roll
E. w. Backus, the main push in the
scheme to make an ocean of the Dor
der lakes, was with the Congressional
party at Eastwood Lake Saturday
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