The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
PubRsl,ss.
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Tea is u bracer for the brain.
-AIagnolias are North American.
London consumes as much fish as
ireland has 2,SSO,OOO acres of bog
land
Trumpet honeysuckles are north
American
LAYERS of flour Oh cut will stop
bleeding.
The King of Italy eats only one meal
Il day.
Paper stockings are now made in
Germany.
-Plumer and Plummer prepared feath-
ers for hats.
The heaviest anchors weigh about
100 pounds.
Titan began to sketch before he was
years old
-t.nglands apple crop is the worst in
twenty years.
Female frogs have no voice; only the
males can sing.
-R4tfier as family name descended
from Beautleur
Every day 5000 marriages are per-
formed throughout the world
-Rasutoland has III; schools with IN
enrolment of 1922 scholars.
A new fire tug for the city of Cleye-
land was launched ut Buffalo.
Sixty thousand acres in this country
are devoted to celery growing.
-brldSe. Rridger and Rriugster were
toiltakers at the Kings bridges.
-Germany has an average of 1877 doc
tors to every 10000 inhabitants.
-Rapid growth of the finger nails is
conSiuered to indicate good health
In Stuttgart there is Il roSeb,,sh that
covers space of 80 square feet
The Thames pours 4O.OOO,WO cubic
feet Of water into the sea every hour
-Tea-drinkin= prevails to IL very large
extent among persons of literary habits.
The smallest telegraph facilities are
possessed by Paraguay. Peru and Persia.
In New York Il tritle over 20 per cent.
OF the families rent the habitatons they
occupy.
The Portuguese say that no man can
he Il good husband who does not eat a
good breakfast.
"A growing pumpkin or melon vine
Will reach Il pail of water left near it in
II few days.
Jules Eerne'S income with all his
tireles> industry, has never averaged over
f12OO year.
1t is said that paving blocks made
of compressed hay are being experimental
with in the West.
An average of 10000 foot passengers
and SONN teams cross the Tower bridge
of London each day.
-South Carolina has Il coiored woman
1n years old who still works in the fields
and knits without glasses.
A cotton shower looking exactly like
Il SHOW storm. is Il common ..irht il, th.
cottonwood groves in Colorado.
"A teaSpOonful of bicarbonate Of soda
in wine glass of cold water will re-
lleve Il mild attack of headache.
A glow worm has Il brush attached
to its tail because it is necessary to show
its light that the back BE- kept clean
,-!ilencoe. the scene of the massacre of
the MacDonaldS, was lately sold for $780,
Nn. The estate comprised $500 acres.
A German Statistician saws that his
latest discovery is that 1000 years hence
there will be one man to every 900 wom-
Ell.
- The latest census returns show that
England spends every year for drink
about Sl2n,0NU.uOO and only $50. 900 900
for books.
-Horticulturists now use glass houses
which are moved on fixed rails to pro-
tect vegetation and force it's growth in
various localities.
There are three khans-Khiv;,, Kho-
kand and Bokhara-who date the origin
of their families back to the Turkish in
yasion of Europe.
A horse while fording stream in
Florida recently was attacked by ;n alli-
gator, and had several pounds of flesh TAX
en- before he was rescued.
Several books Of the Second and Third
centuries have leaden leaves. One such,
INNS hos civ
leaves, with hinges and clasp.
Many early books had no title pages.
but in the center OF the first page appeared
Il short PR tgraph setting forth the char
acter AID contents of the work.
In 1880 stereotype plates for book
work We're rendered more durable by pro
tectlng them with Il covering of copper,
this being laid on by an electrotype pro-
cess.
"A New Haven, Conn.,, man has in
vented cotton picker that may reyolu-
tionze the process of gathering this crop.
1t successful, two men and two horses
to run the machine will do the work of
100 men.
FIX Empress Eugene lives in England
as the guest of Queen Victoria, who is her
warm personal friend. She often goes to
the Continent. and is said on one or two
occasions to have visited Paris incognto.
after the DOWNFALL Of Napoleon his
mother. NINE. BOnaparte, went to BlUiS
and thence to Rome. She returned to
France during the Hundred Days. and,
after Waterloo went back to Rome,
where she died in 1886.
There are doors in some old houses
in Holland which were, in former DAYS.
never used except for weddings and funer,
ais. After the bride and groom had
passed the door was nailed up to await
the next occasion.
There are two brothers living in the
vicinity of Chicago who are exciting Il
great deal Of interest just now. Ono is
II years old and measures = feet inches
in height. while the other, who is 10
years old, measures but + feet inches.