The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-11
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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The English language is spoken by
115,ooo.ooO people.
Mrs. Langtry now plays on Sunday
nights like ordinary second-rate actors.
There are said to have been five sui.
cides in five years i'll Trinity Hail, Cam.
bridge.
The Onchidium, a species of shelless
snail (SluS), has innumerable eyes on its
back.
-America has 21S,S71h miles of rail
road, or 81 600 more than all other cuun-
tries combined
-(innamon, rs cure for cancer in
ITS, early stages, is advocated by Il writer
in the Lancet.
1t is said the big crops of Texas will
keep the roads Of that state out of the
receivers hands.
Europe has 1+4.3M miles of railroad,
Asia has 223.2l91. miles, Africa 72l21a
and Australia l2.GSI.
The two fields of Waterloo and lin
son peoples every year.
In England the tax on farming lands
exceeds 10 per cent. of the value OF crops
in Egypt it is II per cent.
The name Munich is derived from the
fact that the Monks owned the property
ON which the town now stands.
Net more than 100000 Mexican cat
tie can be sent to the United States TINS
year III consequence of the urouth.
The average European wouan's life
is shorter than the mans, but over two
thirds Of the centenariaus are women.
The power of the hcrculite. new OK.
plosive, is almost beyond belief. \ half
pound of it will move thirty tons of
stone.
The newiy-marrird l'zariM, speaks
and writes German. English. French
tI.ly
ably we'll.
-Four hundred tons of top weight
must come off the new French battle
ship RrcnnuS before she can be made.
>taworthy.
The students of the University of
agreed among themselves to discontinue
haxng.
stockings were first worn in Italy in
the year hoo. Before that period it was
customary to Swathc the feet ant! legs in
hautlaErS.
Murat spent his boyhood in his fathers
mn ana his youth III theological college.
He waS destined for the church, but pre-
terrtd the army.
In 100 handkerchief cost GO cent,
in Massachusetts. while palr of stock
inyS cost - cents and potatoes We're 80
cents a buShcl.
1t is stated that an old woman of %
who is not going to fight for Il place ON
the parish council.
Hot water pipes have been put into
the lmin'S apartments in the Vatican, as
his doctors insist on his being kept at an
even temperature.
--i.nnlon pays II per cent. of the i'll
como tax of EnS;nl ana Wales. and its
government and management cost about
S:l1,AH)th Il year
To keep egg ynlkS for Il day or two
put them in Il cup ana cover with cold wa
ter. which may be poured off when the
eggs are t" he used.
LORI RoSebcry the other day pre-
Stute,! the boys Of the Fourth training
ship Caledonia. off Queensferry, with ESQ
to start Il ha=l,ipr band.
Nine hundred and ninety nine Bap-
lists We're baptized in Hungary last year.
The number of RaptistS in that country
has doubled since 1891.
Prof. Barnard says people make a
great miSt;ik t iii coming to the Lick OBJ
Stlvatury at night to see the stars, for
they can be seen far better in the day
time.
For every 10000 Inhabitants in the
United States there are 23.f2 miles Of
railroad. In Europe the proportion is
J - miles to every 10000 inhabitants.
The proportion of killed to the num-
bef tl runway tt3NSlelS Is III EluCC
in 13.NW.NnV in England I in 1000
n'n', and in the United States l in 400.
coo,
OF the $50 successful candidates for
the degree of b. \. from the London uni
.'rr>ity recently II We're women. Last
ear there were only 81 women graduates
The early Egyptians believed that
the soul existed only while the body Ell
,'Irtl.. They therefore. emba)ncd tn.
body to prevent decay as long as DosSi-
bic
According to Principal Williams, Ed
iElurgh. the danger Of tuberculosis
spreading among human beings was very
much greater from the milk than the
flesh Of cows.
Cape Colony will join the Universal
Postal union on January 1. 1895. a
.'-cent stamp will then carry letter to
any civilized country Of any Importance
III the world.
The largest death-rate of any city in
the world from the use of alcohol is re-
corded in Stockholm. the Swedish capital.
The number of deaths from this cause is
80 in 1000.
The Brazilian National observatory
at Rio .]aneiro is to be moved from its
present position at MORO do CASTILLO to
y better situation near Petropolis. On
the other side of the bay, 800 feet above
the Sra.
SOLITARY confinement is calculated
doctors state, to- produce melanchOlia
suicidal mania and less of reason Nine
months of absolutely solitary confinement
are almost certain to result in the mental
ruin af the convict.