The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-29

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

In the Fifteenth century religious
nOveletteS We're fashionable. Some of
them ahounded in absurd anachronisms.
In one Abraham is represented as about
to sacrifice Isaac by shooting him with a
bluntlerbuSS.
books of heretics, such as Origen and
Arius. We're frequently burned in great
piles, while hereticS retorted in kind by
burning the writings of the orthodox con-
truverSialists.
--Hothouse Strawberries from New
Jersey. now in the New York market,
sell at So n basket The fruit is large,
perfect and beautiful, but the baskets
arc small; they run about fourteen ber-
RIGS to the basket
AT the Berlin Geological gardens
pair ct young lions, male and female.
have been born. and the mother liOness,
though this is not usually tn" case with
animals i'll cages. fultills her duty and
nurses her offspring.
The Japanese religion demands that
man must worship ION the soil" every
day. Princes and rich men evudc this
by Sprlnkling Il little dirt in one corner
of room. sometimes on Il square Of &C.
mcnt made for the purpose.
Handel, the composer Of 1.-THE Mes
siah. WAS educated among the pin boxes
of his father, who was Il country doctor.
the same profession, which, however, the
latter soon deserted for music.
In the South Pacific islands or reefs
of coral the tridacna. or king of the
CLAIMS. is found-a gigantic two-valved
she'll. with deep radiations or convolu-
tons that often weigh 800 pounds, the
animal alone weighing 30 pounds.
Cumming birds have been known to
show anger if the flower they approach
contains II" honey. Audubon says he has
seen them more than once tear such il
flower from the stem. at the same time
chattrrin% loudly. as though in wrath.
Marshal 1.ann.S. the great soldier,
was Il carpenters apprentice. but had Il
strong taste for military life He Sael
himself that when work was not pressing
in the shop he was always whiting out
lrultlS Of swords and guns.
Ei$rhtrin. the painter. spent his
rhildho"! in Il bakers shop. His first
signs "f Il taste for art were shown by his
skill i'll giving peculiar and sometimes
his father baked. The shop became fa-
mons for them.
A knife is being brought out in Eng
land which has Il nickt-plated handle.
On this handle is stamped in remarkably
plain letters the rates for letter and par
eel POSTAGE. book and foreign postage.
money orders, with also the rates for tel
tGr;mS.
The German Emperor has IL magnifi-
cent wine cellar. containing precious
brands from Ill parts of the globe Each
brand has its separate enclosure shut in
by iron ratings. with tablet affixed Civ
ing name, age, price and number of bot
ties.
The Armenian ball formerly given
every year in Constantinope for the ben
eft of the schools i'm Armenian prov
in,.,S and which for
has been prohibited. will this year bt.
held. the necessary authorza ton having
already been granted
In y New York public schnal are two
handrailS along the stairs. one in the
usual place on the top of the balustrade
ami the other at about half of the height
of the baluSterS-a handrail for the little
children as we'll as one for children of
larger growth.
There is Il common belief in India
that the Indian orioe lights his hanging
nest with iireties. 1t is said that the
bird catches the insects and fastens them
head first III Il bit of moist clay. Natu-
raliStS have found the insects thus i'm
prSnnt,l.
The peacock's spreading train is not
the birds tail, but a corona Of feathers
above the tail The true tail consists of
eighteen feathers beneath the corona
The latter is provided with curious sys-
i'hi VI uluHIltS ny "nlCu IL GILL DC Greet
cd at will.
1t is said that the first cost of build
ing Il fleet of Atlantic liners is IL trfle
compared to the cost of running them; in
less than three years it will exceed the
cost of construction. so enormous is the.
constant expenditure in wages, port du-
ties and repairs.
The bank of England employs about
100 men. and has a salary list, including
PENSIONS Of about f3W.tWO per annum.
The governors and directors of the bank
divide between them E1+.MU per annum.
or this the governors receive $1,000 each
and the directors 5000 each.
-Faschal. the historiograDher of
France. every few weeks announced the
titles of Il new series of books he had
written. Of which the titles were the
only parts he ever completed. He did this
III order that his pension allowed for the
writing the history of France should not
/" stopped.
A novel scheme to provide bread for
the poor was recently successfully tested
in Flint. Mich. There were $50 competi-
tors among the ladies of the city to see
who could bake the best loaf. each CON
testant to make three loaves the winner
to receive a valuable prize and the bread
to be given to the poor