The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-12-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Many specimens Of beetles have TIVE
eyes on each side of the head, one supe-
rior and one inferior. 3.sz1.
In New South Wales, bakers are paid
$12.65 week: in Switzerland they re
eeive 1888; in Spain, $3.50, 80 IS S..z#
-Confectioners in France receive 81. 80
q week; in Germany, $3.40; III Italy
$3.75: in New South Wales, $:ss3S.4O
Jewellers in New South Wales re.
ceiye $3.50 week: I'M Switzerland
$3.50: i'll Germany, $5.21. and in France,
$624 ~ $ ~ :
"A street waterer in Calcutta, who
sprinkles the streets from a water-skin
carried on his shoulders, is paid &c Il day.
A plumber in Bremen or Hamburg,
by hard labor and in favora Bile season,
can make no more than $5,4O a week.
A Germa n }bookbinter receives 81. 20
week: in Switzerland the same class
of labor is paid $4>6S, and i'll Italy, $50.
--Distillers in Victoria, Australia, re-
ceive 1915 Il week; in Germany, Sa.56;
in Denmark, $500, and in Spain, $4.25. =
Drivers on the street cars in Amster-
dam and Rotterdam receive from $4.O5
to $5.6S per week. while the conductor
gets $5.25.
brewers in England receive $685. a
week: in Germany they are paid 50: in
Holland. SIS: i'll New South Wales they
receive S23.
-Japanese Consul Salto of Tacoma,
WASH, will report to the Mikado in ia
vor of 4 mail line of steamers from
Japan to the United States.
The hookah, or Oriental state plant,
is deemed of such Importance that in the
courts of princes Il special functlOnary
has no other duty than to keep it in
order.
The Lord Chamberlain of England
exercises authority over theatrical enter
tainments. us. before a play can be
performed. it must undergo the scrutiny
of dramatic censor.
"A famous advocate confessed him
self: Il am never so happy as when
am defending prisoner | know to be
guilty; for if he is convicted he will get
his deserts. and if | get him off it will
be tribute to my skill
-Admirals and generals are of equal
rank but the former takes the prece-
dence in eases where two officers belong
ing to each grade niece together. the
navy being considered the most distin-
guished service.
The Orientals possess the secrets of
certain poisons in which they dip their
daggers: Il scratch from one of these
poisoned Instruments causes death. 1t
is compounded of certain herbs and ber-
ries unknown to Europeans.
Emperor William has added a new
uniform to his polychromatic wardrobe.
The Emperor of Austria has made him a
general of Austrian cavalry. Scarlet
clothes with white dolman is the garb
William is entitled to use in this po-
sition.
In former times many credulous love-
stricken females We're made to believe
that if they could only have Il lock of the
PERSONS hair whose affections they
wished to gain, and wear it next their
hearts for certain time, Il reciprocal
passion would be created.
A new industry has sprung no at
Eicksburg, Miss. Moss is pulled in the
marshes thereabouts and baled and
shipped to Eastern dealers for use in
packing nursery stock with. The Vicks-
burg Nursery company has shipped a
large number of carloads of the stuff al
ready.
= Potatoes are so plentiful and 50 I'M
profitable at ruling prices in North Da-
kota that farmer Of Grand Forks has
announced that he will not dig the large
quantities he has, and has invited his
nelshbors to help themselves and take
all they care for the trouble of digging
and carrying them away.
Mime. de Remusat had features so
PetAect INA! nef contemporaries SAID she
was worthy to sit as model for Greek
goddess. The flesh of her face closely
resembled alabaster. and vet she was not
pale, and did not give the impression of
being in delicate health. Her beauty at
tracted universal attention to her
1t is an erroneous notion very preva-
lent that death warrants are signed by
Queen Victoria herself When the Judge
passes sentence of death upon a prisoner,
before leaving the room he writes on the
calendar against the name of the doomed
individual, LET execution be done:" and
the execution takes place on the day
named unless a respite is granted
-Messalina, the Infamous wife of
Claudius Caesar, was small and lively.
She had black eyes. that sparkled when
she talked, and a persuading, pleading
way that no one could resist 1t was
said Of her that she was so clever at
hypocrisy that she could smile on her
lover and lean caressingly ON his bosom
while he drank the poison her own hands
had prepared.
The Italian painters chiefly painted
from models in clay, and most Of them
We're, at once sculptors and engravers
Eandyke usually finished portrait in
the evening of the day he commenced.
requiring a long morning and afternoon
sitting. Gerard DOW was so attentive
to minutiae that he employed five days
in finishing hand, and was three occu-
nicd on 81 broom