The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
New York has 10000 BARRIERS.
Telephones employ 10000 Ameri-
An iron furnace was built in Virginia
in TIA.
"A single hair will bear Il weight of
1850 grains
American coal has possession of the
Havana market.
EARLY. furnaces We're sometimes blown
with bellows. -
The ,world'ssproauction of gold in 1893
was ,S62 ounces. -
The engines Of tirst-class man of
war cost about $7OO,OOO. -:
Asparagus is the Oldest known plant
that has been used for food
The earliest attempt to use iron orc
i'll this country was in 1922.
The bull sperm whale is the most
vicious fighter Of all whales.
"A little over 5000 years ago iron ore
was first discovered in this country
Light narrow gauge railroads are
again being tried in England and France.
The water pouring over Niagara each
minute amounts to 13,0OO,OOO cubic feet.
-!Sixty-sev PENNSYLVANIA town names
begin with Bel" or BELL" or Belle"
The total missionary gifts of Chris
tendon for 1898 are estimated ut $l4.-
In Peru the cotton plant grows to be
tree and is in bearing from twenty-five
to fifty years.
Astronomers claim that there are over
100000 comets in the solar system
alone.
The first shipment of iron ore from
the nlted States to Europe was made in
Not Il single dock in the United States
is large enough to dock the new battle
ships.
-"Beaver' is Il very popular na.h, in
Pennsylvania. twenty one towns having It
in their names.
Whale hunting is no longer SO DANGER
Gus as of old. owing to the invention of
bomb lunces.
Two "Beechtrees'' ant: eight Beech:
woods adorn Iennsylvahia's map as
names of towns.
An eminent Boston electrician de-
slares the common poplar tree to be
natures lightning rod" =
-knoxville, Tenn. is named after Gen.
Knox of Massachusetts. 1t was first
called Fort Knox.
In 764 the cold at Constantinople was
50 severe that the Black sea was frozen
fifty miles from shore.
"A llS Will OIle ueHu. CnceC eyes. two
bodies and eight legs has been born alive
i'll Jasper county. Ia.
Every year the King of Italy receives
present Of 10000 picked Virginia cigars
from the Emperor Of Austria.
1t takes no less than 1900 red cedar
trees, to supply the wood for the pencil
manufacturers in this country.
-<ien. Richard Montgomery, who was
KILLED at Quebec III no. is remembered
tho IF no A lob
Not less than 13.OOO.OOO human be-
ings have persisted in earthquakes since
the beginning of the historical era.
John D: Lesekamp of Billings. Mont,
apparently has Il corner on elk teeth. hay
ing $4,000 of them in his possession.
The first attempts to throw high ex-
plosives from guns with compressed air
was made by the United States in 1886.
-Australia is now refrigerating it's rab-
: bits and shipping them to the London
market, where they bring cd price.
The Roman catacombs are $50 miles
in extent, and 1t is estimated that from
6.ON,OOO to 15,VOO.OOO dead are there in
TERED.
An apple tree in Monticello, Fla.
bears on different limbs grated apples.
rrabapples. prunes, peaches, pears and
ounces.
-One of the largest masonry dams IN
the world is built ut Austin, Tex. Fiji
= teen feet of water passes over it in times
of flood.
John Lynch, the brother of Judge.
Charles Lynch, the originator of thu.
Lynch law, was the founder of Lynch
burg, Va.
,. The mosque of st: Sophia, in Con
hommedan worship in the world, was
once Christian temple.
-Natchez was ut first called Rosalie, in
honor Of the Countess Of Pontchartrain.
It's name was afterwards changed to that
of tribe Of local Indians
Arizona has produced more than $780,
"H.Wn worth of precious metals. The
exports of silver have exceeded $1,000
'He' Il year, of copper $4,N0,OOO
Two famous hotels. Claridge's in Lon
con and Meurice's in Paris. have recently
been sold to make way for newer struct-
ares. Both have housed Kings and EN-
l'tr"rS. and found their way into liter
allure. = =
The first metal bridge in England
Was Il cast iron structure built in 1777
over the Severn. The east iron bridge
'ren'Hl in 1906. -.
\ sea gull one of hundreds blown in
Ian" by the recent storm, was captured
at Americus. Ga, and placed in the fount-
ain at City Hail park, where he appeared
10 De very much at home.
AT Hammerfest, Norway,two sea ser
penis were seen recently by the entire
populace. They were 50 near that the
fishermen dare not put off their boats.
1t is estimated that one of them was 1870
feet in length. r.
w nile men We're engaged. in tearing
down the Old Beehive public house in
Bridge street, Blayden, they happened
upon some masonry that was a part of
monastery that had stood Oh the site 400
years before.
Large numbers of silver salmon are
being caught at the mouth of the Nook
sack. Fish weighing from ten to sixteen
pounds are sold ut Whatcom, Wash.
for 10 cents each. Several shi1pnpnts
have been made to Chicago
1t has now been definitely arranged
that the immense pile of buildings: erected
on the Thames embankment, London, by
one of the Liberator group of compan ies,
and known as Hobbs Folly will be
pened as hotel early, next year.
The Paris police have discovered y
"kable hotel in the Faubourg St
It was = resort of thieves
ms had double ceilings, the floors
doors and all the drawers in the
e had false bottoms. Large guam.
If jewels, money, securities and
generally We're discovered.
Blake, the flagship of the British
Atlantic squadron, is to return tc
I'd early next spring after an alb
of three years. Her place will be
.,Aen BY the Crescent, now in Australia