The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
". E. HANNAF0RD, Publisher,
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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No Engl:shman can legally wear a
foreign order, or bear foreign title, in
England without the sanction of the
crown. 1
1t is stated that Assam tea, is the
richest in theme, that Ceylon and Indian
teas will not keep, and that Dayeeling is
the best of all. 4 5 .gs.s :. = /.
Queen Elizabeth used to play at
chess and draughts with Roger Aseham,
who was her preceptor before she as
cended the throne, and afterward her
esteemed friend. FL
~Euekle, like Macauley, was a leader
81 all sorts OF literary matter that had Il
historic. social or political value. He
SEEMED to have no choice of authors and
read with an eye to the probable worth OF
the matter in his subsequent work.
Owing to the strict nature Of the
French marriage law concerning the Nee
css,'ry consent of guardians until tho
Frnchman is Is, there are hundreds of
are wives i'll England and not in France
Sir William Cubitt. when the tread
mill was first introduced into RriXton jail,
i'll 1877. openly declared that he had take1.
the idea from the Chinese, who have Il
similar contrivance for raising water for
the irrigation of their fields.
The art of gardening was introduced
into England from the Netherlands, from
whence vegetables Were imported till
about 1910. The gooseberry, with sal,
ads. garden roots. cabbages, etc, was
brought from Flanders and hops from
Artois in 1870.
If tradition and the questionable au-
thority of ancient British history are to
be credited York is the oldest city or
town in England. for it has had assigned
to it an antiquity as high as 1900 F.. c.
Il TX ,C IN. L.,
founded 1880 B. G..
The name of the ginseng root in the
chinese language is Schinseng, signifying
the trunk OF Il human body, and Grosier.
the scientist. says that this is because the
root, which is divided into two branches
from the main trunk, bears resemblance
to 4 mans thigh.
AT one time the ginseng root COM
manded fabulous prices in China, the fin
est qualities of which are obtained from
Manchurla and torea. fetching as much
as $500 and $loo IL Chinese ounce. The
collection Of it was prohibited at one peri
Oh because of its scarcity.
The Exeter municipal records are sin
Eularly perfect, and each reach back in
an almost unbroken series to the reign of
Henry Ill. \. u. 1868 The early char
tiers tone OF Henry ii. aud one of Rich
ard ID are on the narrowest strips of
parchment: but the ca!igraphy is exquis-
itely fine.
High church means Il close adherence
TO the rubrcS and ceremonialS Of the
church; broad church. as accepting them
with liberal allowances: and low church,
as approaching to the simplicity of dis
sent. or not too rigidly insisting OH mere
literal interpretations of formal obServ-
anceS.
The judge of the household of the
kings of Wales. in the time of the Anglo
SaNonS. possessed the fifth place of rank
aud dignity, and had Il seat at the royal
table. fie was sworn into office with
great Soemnity, and invested with it by
the King giving him Il chess board of GU
rious Workmanship.
do cats often live in trees? Two
cases are recorded-one recently and the
other in the summer of 1891. The latter
was in st. James park. London. when Il
stray cat made nest in tree some forty
or nifty feet from the ground, and her kit
tens were seen to be dispurtinS them
selves in the branches like so many suuir-
re)s
The difference betw aen brilliant and
rose diamond is that the former is cut in
faces both at top and bottom, and whose
table. or principal top face, is fiat; while
the rose diamond is quite fiat underneath,
but Its upper part cut into divers little
faces. usually triangles, the uppermost
whereof terminate in Il point.
Under the name of sun bear are
often included three very different spe-
cleS-the Hlmalayan bear, Indian black
bear. or Tibetan sun bear (Ursus Tibe-
tanuS,. and the Malayan bear or bruang
Nrsus Malayanus). The Himalayan
bear is found in Nepaul, Assam, Eastern
Siberia and China. 1t rarely exceeds
five feet in length.
OF two years he is able to strange or
pull down horse or ain OK. and so he
continues to grow in strength till he
reaches his eighth year, when he grows
no more. For twenty years after his
tangs and talons show no signs of decay,
but after that he gradually becomes
feeble. and his teeth fail him.
The distance from the source of the
Amazon i'll the Andes to the Atlantic
ocean is 2oOO miles in direct line, but by
the course of the river 1000 miles. The
plain through which the river and it's
tributaries flow is $4,000 miles wide and
in some places $4,000. The mouth of
the Amazon is 100 miles wide, and it's
mud tinges the sea for distance of fifty
miles,
An interment thirty years after
death took place in 1867 in Berlin The
deceased was Il celebrated beauty,
Rachel Levin. She had ordered in her
will that her coffin should have a glass
plate in the top. and that it should be
constantly watched for month and
then deposited in a particular vestibule
for thirty years: all of which orders
were scrupulously carried out
-Stow states that lin the yeere 1864
William Boonen. Dutchman. became
the Queens (Elizabeth's) coachman,, and
was the first that brought the use of
coaches into England After a while.
divers great ladies', with as great jeal-
ousie of the Queens displeasure, made
them coaches. and rid in them up and
down the counties to the great admra-
ton Of all beholders."