The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

An opera cloak costs $500.
California has frog farm.
England made 10000 bicycles in
In England tifty-6ve towns cremate
garbage.
Spain exports 1.45n.OOO 600 oranges
year. ~---.- .~- -.-.- -.~-.-
France leads Europe in wheat pro-
duction.
The Swiss government made profit
of about $l.OOO,OOO last year on it's mo
nolnly in spirits.
The territory of the Spartans COM
prised district about equal in size to
Delaware. !
-SOne Of the insurance companies of
Paris refuse to insure people who dye
their hair.
The Greek empire. under Alexander
the Great. comprised about 1.5OO,OOO
square miles.
Paraguay and Montana are of the
same size. each having nearly $4,000
square miles.
In the most prosperous days of Po-
land its territory comprised about 600, 900
square miles.
A hedStead bottom that is made ex-
tenSible, to tit any bed. is among the
latest inventions,
Diamonds worth $15o,OtNOOO have
been taken from the mines of Kimberly.
South Africa. since 1871.
-'rhe empire founded by Napoleon
comprised at its greatest extent about
Ih|tNN square miles.
One horsepower converted into gas
equals T. candle power: INTO electricity
equals lWW cantlle-power.
The city of Lowell Mass, pays the
doctors of that city - cents for every
birth III the city that they report.
- During the past season 600 brace of
grouse were killed on Lord SeftOn'S
m.'nr> in the Nrye,lak district of Lam
raShirr.
There is proposal to Shunt the
equestrian statue out of Parliament
square at Edinburgh to make room for II
statue of John Knox.
Five hundred and Srventy-six archi-
ttvtS have entered the competition for
the preparation Of plans for the pro-
jrrttl Paris Exhibition of 1900.
The DoShisha. the Christian univer-
Stv Of Toxic, founded largely by Joseph
\teSima. is now. under President kozazi.
in Il t1ouriShinS condition.
PariSian' restaurant keepers mix lit
tie honey with their butter. This gives 1t
an agreeable taste and flavor. and makes
inferior butter more palatable.
Western Australia was first settled in
IS? is the Swan River settlement and
for man.? year> the popula ton was very
small. but in the end of 1889 it had risen
To- 1892
The Feast Of RECONCILIATION was a
religious festival established by Queen
Mary. to be held January -. 1.En,, to
rlrhr;,tt the return of the Church of
England to the see of Rome.
The Mos,ems have two festivals of
special Importance the Greater Rairam
and the Lesser Bairan. The former is
in memory of Abraham Offering his son
Isaac and LASTS four-lays
The fixed Christian feasts are: All
Saints November l: All Souls November
>: tandl,maS. February ,; Christmas:
Circumcision. january l Epiphany. Janu-
AIRY &: Innocents. December -.
March , is the Texas Fourth of
July being the anniversary Of Texan in
dependence. 1t is generally observed in
that state. and meetings of the veterans
IF the war with Mexico are common.
Japan is Il "show-piece" of the mis-
Sinnaries. Probably the Christian re
liyirn has here made faster and frner
progress than i'll any other land. In
China missionary work is almost rec
ord of failure.
The total consumption of cotton in
the world is 12.WN.'NN bales Il year. of
this amount 9,OOO.OW are produced in
the United States and 3.OtU,OOO bales
-nnpfourth of the worlds consumption
is produced in Texas.
In some Japanese temples may be
seen suspended great coils of rope woven
from human hair. Such ropes, made of
hair sacrificed by thousands Of women
and girls were used to hoist stone and
timbers for the temple. and are now pre-
served as relics.
1t has been decided to establish a
torpedo school ut Chatham, England, so
as to avoid the Inconvenience and ex-
pense of sending Midway Steam Reserve
men to the torpedo school ships at Ports
mouth and Davenport for instruction III
that branch of naval warfare.
A curious custom still prevails at the
coal pits on Hogmanay. in Scotland
The first man to come up the pit after
his work is over is received with g
shovelful of hot ashes which, being pre-
pared for. he lodges as best he can.
while the last man gets a bucketful OF
cold water thrown at him.
In the CATTLE market of Edinburgh
last year there were sold 4j,113 ia;
sheep, 1902 fat cattle, SO.t4S store sheep,
1G.51S store cattle, 1928 mich cows,
1868 pigs and 1924 horses, against SO,
tS:; fat sheep. 1902 fat cattle. G4.322
store sheep, 16.62O store cattle, 1892
mirh COWS and 1923 pigs in the previous