The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
The number of undefended cases in
the London divorce and probate division
this term is 112. - -
The Importation of birds for milli-
ners' purposes has been greater this year
than ever before.
There are nine kinds Of Bank Of
England notes, all of them printed on
thin. crisp, white paper.
Sheets of paper four or FIVE miles
long are now commonly made for the
use of the newspaper press.
The principal county in England for
fruit cultivation is Devon, where there
are 1855 acres of orchards.
Water pipes made from paper viii
keep the water from freezing much long
er than metal or earthen pipe. :
A perfectly white squirrel, with pink
eyes. was caught by hunter near South
Windham, Conn.,. few days ago.
In London there are more Hebrews
than in Jerusalem, more Irish than in
Dublin and more Scots than in E1in-
burgh.
Twenty millions of meteors are said
to fall upon the earth every day, their
aggregate weight amounting to some
thing like two tons.
AT sale in London the other even
ing of British and foreign postage
stamps Mauritius I'd, blue post paid
unused with original gum sold for f140.
Catherine the Great of Russia was
very incorporate. and constantly dread
ed lest her face should become red. She
rarely appeared in public after it did.
The early use of tobacco in Europe
provoked much controversy. King
James wrote a stupid book on the sub
ject in order to discourage his people
from smoking.
The hookah, or Oriental state pipe,
courts of princes special functionary
has no other duty than to keep it in
order
1t is estimated that if the present
method of capturing salmon in the Pacific
ocean rivers are continued, this great
food fish will be exterminated i'll three
years.
"A blue lobster was taken in one of
the traps near Gloucester, Mass, the
other day. 1t was bought by Prof. Hy-
att of the Smithsonian institution of
Washington.
The man who patented the brass
spring fingers one sees Oh lamps for
holding the chimney i'll place received
for many years royalty amounting to
$4,000.
Tobacco stems were long considered
almost a waste product. but will soon be
utilized in many ways other than for
fumigating green houses and to make
sheep wash.
Most of the materials added to manu-,
featured tobacco cannot be properly
called adulterants, as they are employed
to flavor the tobacco to the taste Of the
consumer.
Roses do not secrete honey in their
flowers. Insects are simply attracted by
the perfume and rich color and by the
abundant supply of pollen, which serves
us food.
"A French woman confesses to having
attended 122 balls to catch a husband,
and only to have caught instead bronchi-
tbs IA times, pleurisy thrice, and 12O colds
in the head.
Our government has had fourteen
great Indian wars, which are estimated
to have cost it not less than $3.50 OOO,-
600. and as much more in private loss
was sustained by individuals.
The dried leaf has little of the aro-
ma Of the manufa ctured tobacco. This is
developed by kind of fermentation to
which it is subjected in the warehouses
of the manufacturers.
For the largest territory in cities
Chicago leads, with an area of 1879 square
miles. Philadelphia has 1914 square
miles: New York has IN: Brooklyn,
~, and Washington 69A.
Many names of Indian tribes are
nlcknames given by the whites; the HUI
rons, lroquois, Nez Perces, Gros Ven
tres, Diggers, Blackfeet, Fiatheads and
others are of this character.
The death of Admiral Sir J. Drum
mond of the British navy will probably
result in the abolition of the Office of
gentleman Usher Of the Black Rod,
which he had held for twelve years.
Two or three years ago PHILADELPHIA
was one Of the worst paved cities in
the Union. Today it would be difficult
to ind another city of equal size with so
many hundreds of miles of well-paved
streets.
The Atlanta Constitution saws that
the prevailing belief among the negroes
who saw the Liberty bell on it's way to
the exposition in that city is that the
bell obtained it's name because it was
first rung in celebration of the abolition
of slavery.
diana. widow of Montmorenci, and
daughter of Henry II. of France. had
the art of growing old gracefully. Only
vanced age, she repeated memoriter the
whole of play in which she had taken
part at the age of II years.
Gathering Parr, the lady who had the
singular good fortune to become the Wild
ow of Henry VIII, would have been in
luck if she had remained widow. She
married Sir Thomas Seymour, with
whom she lived very unhappily, and
hnally died under suspicion of poison.
T,Margaret of Parma was large, men
tally and physically. Her features were
strong and coarse, her voice masculine,
and she had hairy upper lip and chin.
One of her contemporaries calls her "a
man in petticoats." She cursed and
swore like a man, and finally died of
govt.
-Zenobia, the famous Queen of Pal
myra, IS stated by ancient historians to
have been of light brown complexion.
with intensely black hair and eyes. She
is described as cutting off her hair in
front and allowing it to hang over her
forehead in the style of the modern
bang" =.
Haydn and his wife lived in constant
lnharmony, and he was finally forced
tippe. and, as he often said, did not care
whether her husband was shoemaker
or musician. She was much interest
cd IN church affairs, and in the effort to
conciliate her he wrote much music for
the choir of her favoTite church. II
Beethoven was frequently obliged to
change bis lodgings on account of his
queer habits. He was fond Of bathing,
and would splash the water until the
ceilings of the room below became
soaked and fell: When composing he
would howl and groan il so dismal
manner that on many occasions the peo-
pie in the same house, if ignorant of his
ha bits, would rush in, thinking he was
i'll.
Purcell, the great English composer,
had a termagant wife, who was accus-
toned to lock him out when he did not
come at the hour she designated as prop
er. On one occasion he arrived late and
drenched to the skin from q sudden
shower. The door was locked, and be-
fore he could reach an inn where he
could change his wet clothing, he was
seized with chilli which ended in q ia
tai illness.
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