The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-05-17
YHE VIRGINIA IN RISE
VIRGINIA. MINI.
". E. HANNAFoRD, Publisher.
CURIOUS ORGANISATIONS. .

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--~ttattan was inttoauee5l into Italy
from Spain g.. u, 1@9l Ss 81
-Watattiin, the Indian name, signifies
the highest place ,&S 1s5=s
Argentina has itssname from the: sill
very reflection of its riyers. Il
The worsted manufacturers Of Eng
land began IN Norfolk 1910,
The potato was taken to Spain and
Italy by theSSpaniards about 1925. SIS
Satisfy is Indigenous to South Eu-
rope. 1t was described as early as 11TG
-According to Chinese proverb,
there is a time to fish and time to dry
nets y - j.: g.. Ell.
-Woolen hats were made in Nurem-
berg, 1850; the makers were called Filz-
karpennacher. *-.s
Under Augustus roast pig was in
such demand that laws were passed
against eating it. *t.*.
Cranmer limits arehbishops to six
dishes of meat, bishops to Ave, lower
clergy to four.
Humble pie was pie made of the
"ambles, or entrails, given only to the
lower servants. ''
"A large ling was recently captured off
the Paroe islands. Its weight IS said to
have been eighty-sve pounds.
death warrant. and that was for an exc
cution i'll the Isle of Man. $50 =,
DIR. Arthur Stradling of London says
that more than seveI,-eighths of the whole
number of species of snakes are void of
venom. -
During the seventy years of the exist
ence of the Royal National Lifeboat
association of England, it has been the
means of saving 39.iktu lives.
~SiSy-fve shiilings head is the est
mate CT Blairgowrie, Scotland, drink bill
fcr year. y couple of shillingS a head
SuticsS for education. Hes>.s '->-~@'z>- - :" =,
1t is said the wound made by the
tooth Of the cobra species Of serpent is
mere puncture and causes little swelling
Death enSues From paralysis Of the nerve
crnters.
Popcorn pops because the essential
oil in the corn is converted into gas by
heat. ana thus an explosion occurs whict
trarS the kernel open and causes .sin-
gular inversion of its contents.
The Lake jewellers of Switzerland.
who are believed to be the contempt
r;sries Of the Greeks who fought at Troy
had small-grainel wheat apparently
much harder than the kind now in USE
Barley grows wild in Central Asia,
in Asia Minor in Ara bia, Petra, in the
dtserts1aahout'@ Mount Sinai in Georgia
stEtt iFtGSSitt, Ill III the
t'amits, ami iii MANY parts of China and
Siberia.
The AGRICULTURAL department of Cor
ne university claims to have found that
the butter fat can $bes extracted from
whey toy running it through a separator.
The department. now has in press 4 bull
letin explaining the process. -
1T is recorded that, during the Polar
expedition under Sir Edward Parry, Il
s5laucous gull was shot which immediate
~ diSgorged little aux, and, on further
Internal examination being made, another
little aux was found undigested in the
stomach of the gull ' -~-~~ss
In Brazil, we are gravely Informed,
monkeys are now being employed to
some extent in the plantations instead of
negroes. They have been found to pos
sess a latent talent for gathering and pre-
pairing the cotton. and they are being
gradually initiated into the work.
1t is said that modern cutters despair
of reproducing the ancient sword blades
of feuduI Japan. as modern artiicers in
iron despair of initiating the artistic
sworl guards of that country. Accord
ing to tradition. the test of the ancient
Japanese sword was even more rigid
than that applied to Saladin's blades. ::
1t is announced that Casablanca, in
Morocco. has been visited by enormous
uuNbCtS Ot IpcVStS. -IuStiit tsdflSs piTt OF
March there was 4 veritable storm of
these :unwelcome visitors. which lasted
upwards of three hours. The sun was
obscured as if by q dark cloud, and no
one remembers having seen locusts in
Morocco inssuch flights before.
The oldest tree in England is the Yew
tree at<Braburn, in Kent, which is said
TO be 5000 years old; while at Forthigal,
in IerthShlre, is eOne nearly as old. AT
Ankerwyke House, near Staines, is a
yew tree which was famous at the date
Of the signing of, the Magma ~Charta in
1915, and later was the trysting place of
Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn.
"A snake that bolted Il couple of rab-
bits OIL Christmas day. 1881, declined all
food until January, 1884. though it re-
lllHneG in perfect health during this time
No snake can see anything distinctly at
distance equal to twice, it's own length;
and its lidless$ eyes become Opaque to
blindness for some days preceding each
casting Of the skin. So says an English
authority.
The Imperial canal of China is over
1000 miles long. The canal of Langue-
doc, or the. Canal du Midi, to connect he
Atlantic with the Mediterranean, is 14S
miles long. It has more than 100 locks
and about 80 aqueducts. It's highest part
is $50 feet above the sea, and it is navi-
gable for vessels of upwards of 600 tons.
The great North Holland canal is 125
feet wide at the water surface, 81 feet
at the bottom and has a depth of 20 feet.
1t is; u miles long. e i = : =