The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-21
VIRGINIA. MINI.
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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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churches viii be occupied June Ii by
women. 80 49,
-,rhe Paris exhibition of 1900 is to
cost t4,OOO,O0O sterling, and will cover an
AREA of nearly 1000 acres.
Eighteen men have aroppei from the
brooklyn bridge since May IS. 1855, when
Robert E, Odlum tried it and was killed
An oak tree At Windsor castle is over
1000 years old. History says that Will
lam the Conqueror many times admired
The Congregations minister at Foula,
Scotland. h;sS Il salary of ECO, and the
pastor of llarray never had bigger sal
AIRY than f:s5 ~'
1t is said London has no fewer than
1o.'AN professional musicians of various
grades, and that more than half of them
are women.
"A sour swamp that has been drained,
but refttnts to yietdss may be made a gar
den of prodnctivcness by applying ashes
and lime.
The letters in the various alphabets
Of the world vary from II to 2tl2 in nuns
Der. The Sandwich island alphabet has
L.. the Trtaran 212
"A scientist declares that the COM
p'eNi"n Of English girls are due to the
logs which sweep over Albion. Damp
hess keeps the skin soft.
Near the Castle of Langholm in
nunfriesshire. Scotland. is place point
ell out where several reputed witches were
burned during the last century.
-t'ream white writing paper is the
most correct at present. In place of Il
monogram or address. the initials in
white script, slightly raised, are used.
With populati ton not much over half
that of London New York city proper
consumes daily 1S3,0OO,OOO gallons of
water. against 19O,0o0,0OO for London.
The diatoms. single-celled plants of
the seaweed family. are so small that
5000 Of them laid end to end scarcely suf-
tre I" cover IN inch of space on the rule
There has been Il great increase of
foxes i'll the West Highlands of Scotland
nj late. \ party in Glen Nevis recently
captured four old and thirty young ones.
A Philadelphia oc,list who has been
studying the human eye for thirty years,
declares that all great men of the past
AMI present have or had blue or gray
eyes
monastery of st. Honorat. which is stu
lir,i IN IN island near Cannes The
monastery was established 400 years
ago.
The great ordnance survey map of
England. containing over 100000 sheets
and costing during the last twenty years
about S1,OOO.OOO Il year, is nearly COM
pleted.
The total weight of the latest cleo
trc locomotive constructed is $4,000
pounds. 1t is intended to use it expert
mentally in switching and hauling heavy
freight.
The bookings of passengers between
New York and London at the present
time show an increase of so per cent
compared with those of the same period
year ago. =
A principal feature of the Paris ;ex-
position of 1900 will be the largest tele-
scope in the world. 1t is to be 200 feet
long. and to have an objective of four
feet diameter.
The most rapid orator in the world
and the torment of the swiftest short
Taghl;tt, is the Italian deputy and min
lister. Barnardinc Grimaldi.
Where the bottom of the ocean is bad
an ocean cable will frequently last only
three or four years. but on good bottom
Wire taken up after twenty years has
been found almost as good as ever.
The Improved Industrial Dwelling
company OF London ACCOMMODATES 80
ONO persons in it's houses. It is claimed
that its system has reduced the tene-
ment death rate from 40 to only II in
1000. : =
The recent war between China and
Japan has resulted in opening the way
for the first time to the introduction of
the Scriptures into the army and navy
of Japan and their distribution of the
troops.
The London Aquarium people have
got hold of clock made by pious
Srotchman.' The popularity of the time
piece is that at midnight on Saturday she
stops short never to go again till Monday
morning.
The oil palm bids fair to revolution
ONT fra FrS1 r.
tates find greater profit in compelling
their subjects to cultivate this tree for
the sake of it's oil than in selling them
for slaves.
There is one Christian minister for
every 800 of the population in Great
Britain, and there is ~but~one in every
l!f,ooO in japan, one in 165,OS0 in In
-31, 900 in China W e. ~ = =
--Tasmanian apples are arriving in
large consignmentss to London. They
bring Us to s16s per case. coming into
competition with the last Of the Nova
Scotia and Canadian apples, which are
selling at 16sSt to Cos. ;. y 7
The Japanese religion demands that a
man must worship on the soil every day.
Prlncess and rich men evade this by sprink-
ling little dirt in one corner of the
room. on Il square of cement made for tho
purpose.
Interpretations of the Bohemian
Forest Passion Play will be given this
summer at Hoertz, and the play wear Of
1893 will be the last for some time to
come. There are to be eighteen per-
formances.
ne Japanese are a cosmopolitan
people; Their political models arc Eng
',Sh' their religion is supplied mainly by
-tiherlca' their courts are modelled after
the French and their schools after the
German idea.
ORDERS have been given by the English
war office for the cavalry regiments sta,
toned at home to be rearmed with the
magazine Lee-Metford carbine in place OF
the Martlni-Metford carbine they are at
present carrying. = =
.Presldent Angel of the Massachu-
sets Society for the Prevention of Cr1eI-
~ to Animals has offered a reward of
800 for evidence which will lead to the
CONVECTION of any person guilty of prac-
ticing vivsection.
sir benjamin Richardson, a noted
tn:llsh physician, thinks that the normal
period OF human life is about 10 years.
ought to live that long if they took PROPER
care Of themselves
i treat interest is taken in Berlin in the
coming exhibition Of the presents received
ny Prince Bismarck in the last twenty
hye years. They include the pen with
"hiNi 'ilt tTealy OF peace was signed
between Germany and France in 1874.
10 this day Lapp men and women
dress, precisely alike. Their tunics belted
loosely, at the waist, their tight brooches
ana their Wrinkled leathern stockings,
their pointed shoes; the whole appearance
OF them, in short, is Identical - 49,
IF a cannon ball would be made So,
times larger than the largest yet known.
and if it could be charged with sos times
more powder than has ever yet been
fired ut single discharge, the sound
could be heard around the world.
The government of Rostoff, III South
ern Russia, reports an unusually large
record for 1889 included six deaths at the
age of from 101 to 40, and a claim IS
made of two deaths at the good old age
of 10 -
The paper on which the Bank Of Eng
land notes are printed is made of new
linen or cotton, and note will support
weight Of thirty-eight pounds before it is
sized. Ii the note nrnner Is Of tho r.inlt