The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-07-26
Publisher.
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

the United States was twenty miles east
of Columbus. Ind.
The Adonal Shomo has one organiza-
ton and twenty members. Their place
of worship is valued at $4,000.
The Plymouth Brethren in the Unit
ed States number 22I9. They have los
halls. seating 742S persons.
Scientists believe that all salt wher-
ever found, has come originally from the
sea in some way or other.
-MoSt of the land in the republic Of
Mexico is held in almost feu,lal tenure
by 1000 families.
The Reformed Presbyterian tsynoD
has 1854 members and own church
property valued at SLOT 400.
No less than six different methods
If traction are employed in different
parts of the city streets of Paris.
The Seventh-Day Adventists have
1N societies and 9123 members, with
church property valued Mt $2t4 .O1O.
The Ethical Culturists have 1854
members and / societies. They worship
in = halls, seating $3.50 people.
In Palestine the rainy season ends
in February or March. when the spring
advances with wonderful uuickness.
The Church of God has 40 organiza-
tions and 22,,51l members. 1t claims $50
church buildings. valued at $G43,1 SI.
The German Seventh-Day Baptists
have q societies and 1914 members. They
claim three churches and one hail.
Old Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany had
Il soft voice and spoke in Il soothing tone
that gave pleasure to every nearer.
The Zoin African Methodist church
has l7t4 societies. $40 members. and
$2.1l4.12S worth of church property.
According to Il Frenchman who has
been experimenting. single hair can car
y wpiyht nf moro thnn six Ouut.pS
A Spanish provcrb says: "Receivc
your money before You give Il receipt for
it, and take a receipt before YOU pay it,"
-IIuNley's tables show that the hui
man body is made up of thirteen different
clements, of which five are gases and
eight solids.
The Brethren of Dunkarls ,Cunserva-
tiv.> number 61,1ol. They claim 30
societies. worshiping in S:,4 churches and
1870 halls.
The Evangelical .Adventists of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints claims 21.-
1>i members and OWNS 122 churches
valued at $22G,oS1.
The R.organized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints claims 21.-
7:'2 members and OWNS L., churches val
ued at $22G,2Sl.
The Reformed Presbyterian church.
in the United States and Canada has one
society, one church, valued at $4,000,
and GN members.
In Cyprus the favorte method of the
British government to destroy the locusts
is to purchase them alive and then de-
stroy them. Last spring $4,000 was eX-
pended in this way.
Isaac Watts priIed himself on very
dull treatise. The Improvement of the
Mind" and seems to have thought little
Of the hymns that are now sung in every
EngliSh-spea king land.
The fourteenth annual bulletin of the
French Cremation society states that in
Paris alone more than 10000 bodies have
been burned since the commencement OF
the movement.
Thermometers made for taking the
temperature in moderately deep waters
have the tube incaSed i'll Il copper cylinder
t" protect it from inquisitive fishes and
from contact with rocks.
The area of British colonies is 5000,
'Hh' square miles that of the French
',NA,.'AH, Of the Dutch 6tN.WW of the
Portuguese 2M.WN. of the Spanish 100.
MN. Of the German. $4,000 and of the
Danish 1900.
A mail train on the Bengal Il Nag
pore railway recently ran into wild
elephant that was straying along the
left the rails with the first i've cars,
but no one was seriously injured.
A cry of despair has gone up from
the Fife county council, Scotland, on the
subject of the abuse Of the public high
ways Of that county by cyclists and
they have adopted the course of petition
ing Parliament on the subject.
In Japan the consumption of butter
and cheese is confined almost entirely to
the foreign communities.
Locke fancied that he was a great
writer on the subject of education and
seems to have valued his educational
writings more highly than he did the
Essay on the Human Understanding"
The proportion of clerks and account
ants is much greater among the Ameri-
cans than among the foreigners while
the latter have larger percentage Of per-
sons engaged i'll skilled mechanical opera
tons.
One of the smallest denominations in
this country reported to the enumera tors
of the eleventh census is the Reformed
PrpSby terrain (Covenanter). 1t has four
societies, one church, three halls and
thirty-seven members.
The Catholic Apostolic church. dis
senting body. has ten organizations in
this country, with three churches and
seven halls. all having joint capacity
of 100 and value of $6G,O5O. The
membership numbers 1894.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South claims 15.O17 societies, with
membership of 1.2O9.976 This denomi-
1913, 1866 persons. The value of the church
property is stated to be $18.775,362.
In the erection Of the Temple of
Baalbec stones 81 feet long, 70 feet
broad and L. feet thick have been used
more prOdlglOuS masses than have ever
elsewhere been moved by human power
and much exceeding i'll siz" any stones
used in the pyramids.
M. Fremont has proved by expert
ment that water kept for twenty min
utes at 17i degrees Fahrenheit loses all
the deleterious germs it may have con-
tanned without being deprived of it's
gases or precipitating the salts contained
in it. and the flavor is not modified.
-coffee-planting promises to be the
great industry of British Central Africa
The export of coffee in 1893 about 95,-
900 pounds, was nearly double that Of
1892: that of 1894 was nearly double
that Of 1893. and 1885 can now be def
nitely expected to double that of 1894"
The wages of any class of employees
in this country is greater than that of the
corresponding class in any country in
Europe. and it is probable, although this
fact is denied by some, that the purchas-
ing power of the wages is also greater.
Burns liked Tom O'Shanter' as well
as anything he ever wrote. and yet this
inimitable poem was composed in order
that Alloway Kirk might not be left out
Of IA collection of Scottish ruins that an
antiquarian was making.
Steele said that ',The Lying Lover"
was the best piece of writing he ever did.
He did not seem to think much Of his
essay work on the ''Spectator' Most of
it was done very hastily and went to the
printer without revision of any kind.
New England has Il greater proper
ton of wage-earners than any other sec
ton Of the country. in Rhode Island the
proportion reaches ~ per cent. or nearly
onc-haf of the entire population. This
remarkable state Of things is due to the
employment of women and children in
the mills
In the Northeastern states the pro-
portion of agricultural to other labor is
exceedingly small In Massachusetts and
Rhode Island only 8 per cent. of the
workers are on the farms In New Ter