The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-21
THINGS LITTLE AND. BIG.

J i sLostriches can run twenty-five miles an
In Paris. one person in eighteen lives
So OH charity.
.x.; Annual rainfall Oh, the Pacific coast is
- -Cuvicr thought that Il whale might live
tn be 1000 years old.
-Africa's gold production is $4,000, 900
greatersthis year than lastsss i 81
i4ea.lm$ French physicians incline to
the oehet that porkSis Il frequent cause Of
cancer.
,xu Nv oman, oman,s work in India has made
en- missionaries in the country.
Siberian peasants clean stret..h mn,
dry the skim 1T the. tllrbot for leather bags
ami as Il substitute for glass window
panes.
In an Arkansas boom town il S:,2OO
lot hrought 500 the other day. Arkansas
never suffered muclr from the boom fever.
thrre were two total ecli,ses of the
SUI; sun m the Year 1712 and two i'm 1880.
Inns rare phenomenon will not happen
AGAIN until the year 2uo7
Ilhr picture of Nlillet. for which NJ.
hauchard recently gave over $500, OtM
"aS originally traded by its painter for
Il case OF wine; worth $40.
"A thautauuua circle, the first eyer
formed among those OF the Hebrew faith,
mas been organized by the New York $50
c'ety for Religious Study
A smelling mill with machinery filling
."eh'S-9W" cars. WAS moved from boom
5 town to- boom town through the South
rs 4 means Of stimulating Spectators.
.u can be frozen ut tcmperature
or 80 degrees below zero. and the prod
uct Wh"1 can be handled and felt. burns,
SO 10 sneak. with its excessive cold.
Mss DR.: Jennie Taylor. niece of Rish-
mission work. recently walked 500 m;ls
mana' and was not sick a minute Mt any
Farm lnn,iS in East Tennessee, staked
ana ,"ltt t" Boston tenderfeet in city~ lots
III Sl'"' i foot front. art, now DjOWel
again 10y farmers who attended the fore
closure sales. >
line German stati>ticiau. Arnstein.
S:'!s 'h3f Greece stands in the first rank
among European countries in the humber
" 'entenarianS. He attributes this to The
climate. ~ '-'e
ON the gold coast yarious nnrsonx
have lately joined the Christians mot as
t'lhlnnnl'antS, but as ;llherentS) to save
themselves from being accused of witch
rratt. suspicion from which no hcathcn
is safe. XIV II
Ill v presbyterian board of home mis-
SONS rennriS total receipts for seven
mrnthS S'1 $40. q gain Of $S9.201. OF
THIS S'I).:'nl is in lesacies, S3,3. $50 in tho
W"InenS donations. TIE regular church
""nat"ns have fallen off about $1,000 :
-S:nrr the passage Of the act%of 1870
pr"vnl,nS for the primary and secondary
tf''lc"tinn the number Of school children
in En"'iSh schools has increased from
!:"s'hm t" I.Wnn,OM: and the number
or persons i'll prison has fallen from r.
600 to :,OOO
An instrument known as the "Gasto-
graph" has been constructed for tho mr.
pose If recording the motions in the
stomach of Il patient under trea tment,
the movements of the food while it is nm
h"rSnlnS chemical action being carefully
and infinitely recorded by means of cleo
trinity
After it was clearly ascertainet that
the Roman catacombS contained the re-
mains IF Christian martyrs, these subterra
mean cemeteries We're taken in charge bv
the church, and ST. greatly were they es-
trrm'sl as PAGES Of burial that persons of
III" highest distinction were inferred there.
THE I4utherans of Germany have be-
'"..lr deeply Interested in the religious con-
''it"n If Persia. and have recently sent out
an exploring party to decide upon some
proper hrd where they shall locate mis-
80 "'.i'i' III 'il-tt htHStOul. uiNlElS Special
reference to the Hebrews and Kurtls.
According to Invention. IL building has
recently been erected by Herr Wagner. an
architect in limbArg solely of materials
formed of ashes, without any admixture
of sand. 1t is claimed that hard natural
stones IF almost every variety have been
successfully initiated with this very cheap
MATERIAL
BY the will of the late Senator Ross
Of Canada: Morrin College and the high
81 hoo. in Toronto receive between them
s1T'':nn. Jeffrey hospital 100000. three
Anglican churches $4,000 each, French
mission Presbyterian churches $50 600
Wom'ns Christian association $4,000.
Protestant home $4,000.
-Sruch hats arc numerous in almost al!
communities south of Mason and Dixon's
line. and conservative old Southerllers still
demand the best felt III such hats A real
" good hroad-brim felt hat such as a fas-
tMinuS Southerner wears will cost almost
as much as respectable high lk hat, but
Will last longer because it never goes out
of fashion,