The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Tobacco plants grow six feet high.
Two thousand oil wells are in opera
ton in West Virginia.
Tho building in which the British Par
lament sits covers eight acres.
-Rreastplates inlaid with gold were
found in an armorer's shop in Hereula-
neuM.
A pair of iron tongs has been found
at Athens. Several pairs were found at
flerculaneuin.
Several knives, evidently intended for
table use. have been found in the cata-
combs near Memphis.
"A Massachusetts" firm is introducing
a new electrical heater for practical use
IN public buildings and Offices.
The wooden rollers on which the
Egyptians moved their blocks of stone
are to be seen in the Cairo museum
Nine hundred and ninety nine Baptists
were baptized in Hungary last year. The
number of Blptists in that country has
doubled since 1891.
The most curious paper weight in the
world is said to belong to the Prince of
Wales. 1t $50 report goeS-the num-
mihed hand of one of the daughters of
Pharaoh.
The German government has issued
an edict to the effect that the names for
rev babies must be taken only from the
Bible and the roll of princes and ma
tlonal heroes.
-Mollic l.. Mc(;lasson. a young lady
IL years OF age. who recently rived at
Castle garden from Scotland. has two
horns. each about inches in length. ON
the back of her head.
Prof. Ghoost says that if we reckon
the average depth of the ocean ut three!
miles there would be layer of salt POO
feet thick in their basins should the waters
Hf all suddenly evaporate.
The King of Corea has presented two
magnificent horses from his royal stables
to Count Yamagata, commander of the
victorious Japanese army ut Ping Yang,
as tribute of his genius.
AT Il mining camp called ''Bachelor's
Rest. about sixty miles north of Tucson,
.AriZ.. there is not Il woman nor Il cat in
the camp. and POO men have advertised
for wives in Il Tucson paper.
AT the close of the fiscal year Septem-
bee 30 lS:'. for the first time in over
WAS out of debt. while the city of New
York is i'll debt more than $1OOOOO.OOO.
The chameeon's eyes are situated in
hony sockets projecting from the head.
by this curious contrivance the animal
can see in any direction without the
slightest motion save Of the eye
The land tortoiseS of many countries
'uiN tlle'tlStINtS Ill tile' uluu AT the Dol
toms Of streams and marshes on the ap-
preach of winter, and. also. it is said, ut
the coming of Il protracted drouth.
= The Swedish parliament has shown
ITS interest IN religious influences for
swedish sailors by an appropriation of
lN.Nh crowns for church work among
those who are gathered in foreign harbors.
France to Holland. and then from Hol-
land, where he first published his opinions.
lie was accused of atheism, and would
have been burned ut the stake had he
not escaped from the country
The appointment to the chair of mod
rrn history of Oxford, vacated by the
death OF Prot. Froude. rests with the
RnSehery's choice will fall upon Samuel
RawSon Gardiner. fellow Of All Souls.
Many of the cpitaphs in the cata-
combs Of Rome are simple and touching
i ;' Snra 81 sleeps siesn in peace zoticus is
pie soul, lay down here to- rest" "Octa
via here awaits the resurrection
London is as yet without permanent
orchestra capable of giving the highes,
class OF music. \ movement has jus,
been started to establish one on much th,.
same footing as that on which the 4, sion
Symphony orchestra is kept together.
n curious cheat was discovered re-.
GENTLY in unrolling a mummy supposed to
he that of an Egyptian princess. 1t was
evident that the original body had been
spoiled OF mislaid, as the body of an or.
binary negro man had been substituted.
-lieut.-Gen. Prince Gregory Galitzen,
4 member of the Russian imperial coun-
Gil. senator and ex-governor of the Ural
province. is in Washington. Prince Gal
tzen has been travelling for four months
on the American continent, and has ex-
tended his trip as far south as Mexico.
On the British lurret b..ltleshi. Mon
arch. commissioned twenty-five years ago
and lately overhauled AMI fitted with new
machinery. S2.24O.M 900 have been spent for
repairs alone. She is of iron. cost IS. 400.
900 to build and with her new engines ha|
II speed Of from thirteen to fourteen knots