The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

--l'nclc Sam has 1870 -four mills
The cattle-.iftinE tiger DOES not kill
for sport, and is satisfied with one bullock
Il week.
Walking and running are the sports
which entail the most severe training on
drvotreS.
Exhaustive tests of Alabama coal are
to be made 10y the cruiser Montgomery al
Pensacola.
"A jnrikisha man in Japan has been
known to pull passenger stvcnty-tiyc
miles in day.
dairy school has been opened ut the
Michigan Agricultural college with thirty
students on the roll
Yorkshire is tn. county in England
which has the greatest railroad mileage.
The next is Lancashire.
The girls who insist. upon spelling
their names "kathryn. "Maryt and
"Maryurrte" are no longer in style
\ S.Gialia, Mo-. man broke. three of
his Wifc$ r!hS by an unusually hard hug
recently, according t" reports from that
section.
The smallest salary paid to the head
of civilized government is f3 Il year to
the President Of the Republic of An
drrra. in the Pyrences.
There is Il lodging house in course of
construction at Mecca. which. when COM
lhttttl. W III NNN" lVoIle. IL
is for the use OF pilgrims.
Many of the pleasure gardens ana
castles OF the Japanese mobiles are now
turned into parks and schools and used
for other public purposes.
The belief that tigers will only eat
animals they have killed for themselves
is very general among spurtSmen, but is
not uuite warranted by facts.
The only tw" civilized countries i'll the
world in which Il white man is not per
mitt,d to acquire civil rights or own
property are Liberia ami Hayt!.
There is little doubt that the short
lived jockeys owe their premature deaths
to the severe. dangerous and almost sui
vidul rndtavnrS to lessen weight.
West Virgins; has Il girl hunter
whose aim is death IT, bears. She has
4 record Of seven large animals Of the
hrun family during the past year.
The French language is unruuaitd
for wit. point. gracefutneSS of touch and
,lrarnrS< of statement. but it lacks dig
nifty. depth of feeling and sustained force.
The habituul use OF salt as Il ncctS-
>ury supplement- to diet. especially cereal
food dates back to the advance of man
kind from the nula,lic to agricultural
life.
A wild otter weighing twrnty-tour
pounds was captured ut otter Lake.
near Pontiac. Mich. one day last week.
1t i Il rar. animal i'll Michigan now.
though once plentiful.
--Th, salt mines of India, were the con-
ter of Il large trade before the time of
Alexander. while Palmyra. Fhocnicia
and Southern Russia were largely en-
gagged in it's distribution.
Salt as y taxable commodity or us II
government monopoly is source of
permanent revenue i'll Oriental nations,
while in AhySsinia and Thibet salt has
been used as money.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes several
years ago asked Il friend. what is your
idea of happinesS: And the prompt
answer. -Four feet on the fender, gave
him great satisfaction.
-Eugene Sue was the first to Introduce
the maritime novel in France. His
"EIysterieS of Paris" when first printed
in serial form in Paris paper. created
y tremendous sensation.
The tarrar;, marble quarries are
practically inrxhaustibl". The entire
mass of Mount Sagro, which dominates
tons Of marble are annually exported.
1t is extremely probable that the old
est trade routes were created for thu
salt traffic. for salt and incense formed
the chief economic and religious neces-
SaricS of ancient highways of commerce.
In health and during exercise thu
average man has about 20 reSDiratiOnS
!, minute, and ~ cubic inches are in
halctl at each reSpira ton: in an hour 49,
Wh cubic inches of air will be inspired
civilization is impossible withou:
cereals. and but for the ichneumous thu
myriads of grubs. Hessian flies worms
and insects would have made growing of
cereals on any large scale impossible.
--t>nr variant of the japanese race is
the Aino. or hairy man. The Amos live
in Il small province in the northwest.
and probably have more hair on tbei,
faces and bodies than any other known
people.
of the o222OW officers and men on
the rolls Of tn" British army at the close
of the year, 1O6.thW We're stationed in
the British isles. 26NW of them in Irp
land. :S.'nm in the colonies and Egypt
and 1S.NH| in India
In their native h;iuntS tigers are dj-
vi'l''l int" three classes. the game-kilIer.
the rattle-liftrr and the man-eater. The
latter is almost always an aged beast,
whose teeth and claws are no longer
>trvicrabt
Thomas II. Roulhac of Greensboro.
Ala. but formerly Of Hillsboro. y. C..
and Il grandson of Chief Justice Ruffin.
has been appointed judge of the superior
court by Gov. Oates Of Alabama. He
WAS Il cadet at Tew'S Military Academy
ut tiil>bOrn in 1864 and afterward
served in the Forty-ninth North Caro-
lima regiment