The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-07-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

weather. In this position she is said to
hold the water that is imagined to be in
her.
A Spanish proverb says: 1.-THE moon
with circle brings water in her beak.'
Another Spanish maxim declares that
1.-THE circle of the moon never filled
pond. but the circle of the sun vets Il
shepherd"
The paragon of all fabulous crea lures
WAS the bird described by ancient writer's
rs the "Arabian phocnix' The legends
connected with the phoenix all agree that
only single bird of the species was liv
ing at any one time.
French soldiers having of late given
up singing while route marching. Gen
Poilloue Il, Saint Mars, who commands
the Twelfth Army corps, has en,lcavored
to revive the practice of enlvcning long
roads by vocal music.
White satin was the principal ma
terial at the court ball ut Buckingham
palace recently, and it has been for the
last three seaSonS-Satin shot with gold,
with pink. with silver and with mother
oipearl tintS.
The true origin and meaning of the
expression .. II. is said to he as follows:
More than Il century ago the best tobacco
AMI the best rum came from Aux Cages
pronounced g. k.l and the best of any
thing was designated as Aux Cages, or
.. X
Sir ViSto." the name Of Lord Rose
hery'S Derby winner. appears i'll ropr'S
fourth moral essay, AMI is mentioned
as knight who. having acquired wealth
in som, shady manner. lost it by fonishly
ia billing in art or architecture.
The returns of the Established Pres
byterian thuch OF Scotland give tS'O.37G
as the number Of commandments. an in-
crease in the past year IF 1860, The con-
trhntnnS show an advance of t:S)'9, the
total amount raised being t:I:>,22.In
On. curious fact brought out by the
report of public prosecutions in England
is that the number of prosecutions for
murder in 1894 WAS nentically the same
MS in 1898. ~ men and - women having
been proceeded against i'll each year.
There is a very general ignorance as
to how the Tower bridge Of London WAS
paid for. The money came from the Old
Bridge House estates. which We're in
tended to provide for the maintenance of
London bridge. but the surplus has been
50 large that RlarkfriarS hridg, was
built from it and Southwark bridge
bought with it.
1t is said that in Virginia there are
l.MH'.'Hn acres Of waste land or land that
is not under cultivation more than there
is under cultivation while in North Caro-
lima there is double the lanl not cult
waited that is cultivated. Illinois has
4.Wh'.HO Of its :'nNm.OO that are idle.
The following works We're by the
au'ient> esteemed the seven wonders of
the world: The Pyramids the tomb of
MauSoeuS the Temple Of Diana. the
hanging garlen~ of Babylon, the Colos-
>,,> Of Rhodes. the ivory and gold statue
of Jupiter Olympus. and the Pharos or
watch tower. Of Egypt.
The average tenure of the office of
lord chief justice of England has been
seventeen years. OF the eight who have
PASSED away. Kenyon, Peterborough.
Tenterden. C"ckburn and Coleri,lye died
in office, Mansfield and Denman re-
resigned and Campbell was promoted to
the woosack. Lord Campbell held the
office for nine years.
"A huge specimen of the Australian
almond-!eavrd gum tree exists at Fern
shaw. j., the Dan.lenrnS district of Vic
t"r!a. md IT seems only lately to have
claimed attention. 'Ine vast trunk,
which is 60 feet around some distance
above the ground. shoots up Il sheer $50
feet fn'F'. * throwing out a single branch
and it is 40 feet to the top
4 very relnarkabi illustration of
the benign and wholesome influence of
vegetation on climates has recently been
supplied by the French in Algeria. They
had planted some millions of eucalyptus
these have absorbed all the stagnant
impurities hitherto prevailing and had
tended to purify both the earth and the
air.
Water all plants that require it in
the morning: leave no water in the Sau
Ger of any plant after the whole has be-
come saturated through: never water by
drils, but give the whole good soak
ing or the result often is that the top
of tn" mould is Wetted while the lower.
containing the roots, is dust; sponge over
the foaye as often as it becomes dusty.
for plants need ~ breathe as much as
We do.
The Paris Faculty of Medicine seems
to b. paying pralseWOrthy attention to the
discovery of new channels by which dis
cas-" may be transmitted. Inquiries show.
they announce. that diphthpria may be
spread by the telephone. Several cases
have occurred at the Central Telephone
company in Paris. and they recommend
the use of sppcially-prrpared antiseptc,
in connection with the instruments, for
stopping the spread of the contagion.
The Tai Mahai, a tomb erected at
Agra. in HindoStan. by Shah Jehan, over
his Queen, Moor Jehan, is built of the
pnrest white marble. and yet seems 60
airy that, when seen from a distance, il
is so like Il fabric of mist and snnbeams,
with It's great dome soar ing up, a silvery
bubble about to burst in the sun. that even
after you have touched it and climbed to
its summit. you almost doubt it's reality
1t cost over E3WW.OtN.
English farmers We're taught in ear,
'icr times to believe that if the weather
IN the sixth day Of the new moon is like
that Of the fourth or Of the fifth day,
it will h" the same nine times ont of
twelve in the first case and eleven time,
ont of twelve in the second throughout the
month. Modern scientists have demon
strated the falIacy of this belief, and ye,
the majority Of the weather charts appear.
inS i'll various almanacs are based on this
principal
FIis Wifo nococ&, Eon., .. or.