The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-''teSSa Is the chief talloW market.
Tall men are rarely the strongest 0r
the most Intelligent. .
The United States contain 1S,OOO.O 900
land owners.
-Chicagos doll congress-. just closed,
realized $taNW for charity in two days
1t is said that moro than $14,ON, 900
is added each year to the capital invested
in missions in India.
Ii Is claimed that several times during
the winter the mercury has been down to
>" degrees below zero at Houlton. Me.
"lhr Feast Of Fools" was II name
gwen ny tn" monks to the Christian holt
day which took the place of the Saturna-
tia.
Tho Salvation army publishes TWEEN
ty eight War t'ryS. printed in fourteen
different languages. whose united circu-
lati"n is 1:'.MA!'N copies a. year.
The British and German Drui,ls had
Il festival that nearly correspOnlel. in the
time Vt its observance, to our Christmas
Sv:,>;,n.
May ~, the anniversary of the sigh
Ing Of the 'Mrrkenhurg declarat ton of in
drrendrnce, is !, legal holiday in North
Carolina.
The burning of the yule log in Eng
land is Il relic OF the Scandinavian wor-
ship of the god Thor. His feast was
ral'ri iulr. or iulr-ti,le.
The Duk, Of Argyle is engaged to
b" married again. this time to canon's
''an~htrr. His late wife WAS the tlauSh-
ter of Il bishop.
In building nests birds invariably
avoid the use of hriEht-toluretl materials.
which would add to the chances of the
enemy III l"ratin@ them.
he t;'nprr"r Napoleon made his own
h!rih'|ay. August Is. holiday in
traur%. and farctiouSly called it the
"t'"Stival OF st. NAPOLEON"
The whole bottom of the ocean is COW
erred with layers of calcareous ooze,
mingled with the skeletons and other ami
anal remains of its inhabitants.
If it were not for the salts of the
mass Of corruption, owing to the decay of
the Organize matter it contains.
II" theory that the stature of the
present day man is smaller than that of
his ancestors. has no foundation in fact
a''"l'lng t" Il French scientist.
Many efforts have been made to
sound the ocean without using a line, the
WriSht carrying i float that returns to
the top, but none has been successful.
When taken from the sea and laid
ON Il stone the medusa will fall off ia
wei Sht from fifty ounces to six or FIVE
grains. The NEST of its weight is water.
Prof. Charles \. Briggs declares
THAT !n' religious orSaniZa ton in history
HAS en- "yel such !, marvellous growth
rs the Salvation army in SO short Il
'!Nr
\ woman VIII" wants to play Lady
Macbeth in L Topeka amateur show
refused t. go Oil because she couldn't
have big sleeves for her sleep walking
GOWN.
Lon: fingers give love of detail in
every thinS-in the lccora ton of IL room.
in tie treatment of servants. in the
nE!na"tlnrnt of nations. or in the paint
n. of Il picture
Roth of tn, legs of Miss Eva Dooley
III Rn>tnn We're anputated ut the knee
Recently to save her life. They were
poisoned Ivy the dye in red stockings
ll:rh she had been wearing.
~Th" vri"rity of wind is continually
'sAu=ln=. 1t varies every second, and
while the average vrl"rity may be TWEEN
iy-thrtr miles :in hour in the course.
''EuS :.
"A Voting Kansas lady whos., devotion
I" 'iramat art is we'll known applied
t"' Il temporary position as Il table, wait
r'.>> that she might hand noted Dug;list
"rtnr his raw beef with her own fair
hands.
The Chinese empire is divided into
eighteen grand provinces, representing an
average area each of 24S: 900 square miles
900 s,lEarc miles the French Republic.
2th,'Hn and the British isles. 121,OOO.
-D"r forests are expensive luxures,
On the G,enuuoich ami Glengarry forest.
80 long rented by Lord Burton. the yearly
outlay for al purposes is E1O.J2::>. and dur
in- the last tWtny-one years no less Il
sum than t221 1872 has been spent upon