The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
A single cod produces 100000 eggs.
.~--The Gods bladder makes good Using
lass,
The greatest ocean depths are near
land.
The snakes SENSE of touch is very
slight. r J
A 4o-pound child was born at Ma
con. TIA.
The Corean is ranked Us n man by his
hat.
Every drop of the ocean is in constant
movement.
The electric light has invaded At
ghanistan.
prescriptions must not be written in
Latin i'll France.
-Great petrihed forests have been
found i'll Arizona.
sx-lsrenrh; drug stores are officially in
spected once Il year.
--Holning instincts of the swallow have
been utilized in England.
-Suustroke is almost unknown among
explorers i'll tropical Africa.
The busiest railroad station in the
world is Waterloo. London.
-Windmills We're introduced into Eng
land from the Netherlands.
-Windmills are frequently mentioned
III ancient Roman history.
The mantle flower of Central Ameri-
c;l resembles IL baby's hand.
The new waterworks ut Jerusalem
supplies water free to the poor.
~-The first electric-lishting plant in
Alaska has been set up ut Juneau.
In France it is against the law for
pharmacists to give medical advice.
Medicines. the manufacture of which
is secret, are forbidden in France.
The gold product of the United States
last year was the largest since 1856.
-Teahouses in China take the place
of rlubrooms of Western civilization.
considering the varied uses to which
it is put. the cod is the most useful fish.
The new mirrobe that makes steril-
lied milk transparent has been discov
cred.
1T costs over $:,O.UOO IL year to scrape
the harnaces off IL big mau-of-war and re-
paint it.. g
The finest varieties of pears. like
Struwb berries. are almost worthless for
canning.
A constant wind Of ut least ten miles
an hour would practically supllant steam
on land.
India and Ceylon have reduced the
average price Of Indian tea fully one
half since 1891.
One Chicago man ,habitually eats
paris green as other people take opium
or drink whisky.
The cubic:,l extent of water is four
teen times greater than that of the land
above sea level
When the planet Mercury is nearest
the sun it receives lUE. times more light
and heat than We do.
One species of bee fashions Il tubular
gallery Of clay outside its doorway, which
is guarded by sentinels
The amount Of soapstone produced in
the United States in 1898 was PLOT
tons. valued at $2:n5.o67.
A skeleton of an extinct animal has
been unearthed in Shellville, Cal. which
has both horns and tusks.
-Norwegans give Gods heads mixed
With marine plants to their cows to i'll
crease the yield of milk.
The uuivering of the aspen leaves is
due to the fact that the leaf stock is fiat
on 1the sides and SO thin about the mid
die that the slightest breath of wind sets
all the leaves trembling.
A company engaged in the construc-
ton of an electric railroad on the Jung
frau proposes to devote $1,000 to the
altitude of about $1,000 feet.
"A new chemical element. dense and
inert gas, has been discovered. 1t is
separated from atmospheric nitrogen,
which is known to be heavier than nitro
gen obtained from any other source.
A clergyman i'll New South Wales
complains that out of III marriages
which he has celebrated within the last
year. in - cases he has been called out
Of bed hot Wppn y NIGHT nn1 * IN ho
morning. - o~-'--S . o. - ..-
The strongest muscle is in the calf of
the leg. because locomotion is one of the
most necessary. functions. The great
muscle of the. calf has been found. by
actual experiment. to be capable of sus-
tanning seven times the weight of the
body.
"A curious source of wealth is reported
by the rench consul at Mongtze. in Up
per 'fonkin. 1t hes in wood mines. The
wood originally was pine forest which
the earth swallowed in some cataclysm.
Some of the trees are yard in diameter
a German doctor has been publishing
the results of long course of visual ex-
animation. He finds that only in one
case ont Of fifteen are both eyes in good
condition: In seven cases out of every
ten people possess one eye which is
strongerthan the other
Anne Of Brittany. widow of Charles
VIII. was the ideal Of the knights Of her
time, and did much to raise the popular
estimation Of female character. and to
secure proper respect for women. She
did not long live in widowhood, but mar
ried Louis XII.
One Of the oldest pieces of wrought
iron known to be in existence is sickle
blade that was found by Belzon under
the base Of the Sphinx. Another ancient
piece of iron is the wrought bar of D;,-
nr.aScus Sfeal (which KING Dew. ~
scented to Alexander the Great. This
bar. which is Of unknown antiquity. is
still carefully preserved in the National
Turkish museum at Constantinople.