The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-12-06
VIRGINIA.. MIMI.
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Edward johnson Of AIiddletown,
Conn, two weeks ago east his seventy
third consecutive Delnocratie vote TO.
] town officials, he is 81 years old ,
-Phny says that special perfumes not
allowed TO any but the members of the
royal family We're prepared for the Ro-
man enperors. Ss .sS
orless yarnishs hat scnall be sApplie $40
any picture without IN Jury. OF trans,
parent and brilliant c0loring, the works
of Hubert and Jan Van Eyck haveneyer
been surpassed. sg.sss
Edward, the Saxon Rims Of England,
was designated The Confesser account. sc
his personal piety, After his death he
was cannonizea and his shrine in West
minister Abbey is still an object of reyer-
ence. t3* So Il 80 80
An English lady With her Young
son and daughter, Travelled on donkey
back from Garrna,t through the naunt-
aims of Galicia, Asturia and Navarro,
to the English frontier, this summer.
accompanied by a single donkey driver,
She found no serious, difficulties on the
trip, though she had been warned by
Spanish authorities that it WAS rather
dangerous. -% - 1872 VI
In Antwerp cathedral there are, sev-
enty bells. some of them of great an-
tiquity. One. the Carolus, given by
Charles v, King Of Spain. Emperor OF
Germany and 3trchduke of Austria, is
only rung tWicein each yeaE when it's
saidsto take sixteen men to ring it, The
amalguni of$ whichSsft is made consists
OF gold, silver and "copper", and the bell.
with the8nietal Il contains, is said to Be
worth 100000. = Il. : 80 g. Z
The advantages witch are claimed
for water which has been purified by
boil
to be put to- the test in India. Part of
the prisoners in the large prison of the
Punjaub are supplied With boiled and
an equal part With unhoiletl @wateasAaseIf
the boiled water reduces the death rate,
or has any beneficial effect upon the
health of the inmates, it will in future
be provided throughout
Bells are knownsir, the earrIiest ares
of which we have any certain account.
But the bells of the a nsien tsrwereT very
small i'll compsrison4with those Of mod
Virgil. the invention of such as q re hung.
in the towers or steeples of Christian
churches did not occur until the latter
end of the Fourthaor beginning ST the
Fifth century, when they were, intro
duced by Paulinus, bishop of Nola. &,
A French writer, NJ. Louis de Ora
mont. seriously proposes the ~esta blish-'
ment of baby market in Paris. How;
many people are there. he asks. who la
ment the fact that they have no children
in their homes and. %en the other hand,
how many people are there who, having
children. find the struggle With adversely
too difficult. and Cannot get food FOR
those children? Let them sell their chill
dren, he says. and all will be well. - ".
-Fyen the phylloAera cannot stand the
smell of Spanish garlic. Ell DefensOr de
Granada says that the village ofs.Valor.
in the Alpujarras. used to export large
quantities .of garlic. to- Mexico and the
United States. OF late years the demand
has fallen off. the farmers being left with
their crops on their hands. One farmer
took it into his head to use his spoiled
garlic rs manure for. his vines, which
were consumed by the phylloxera: The
plants came UP clean and strong, with
no trace Of the disease Last winter his
neighbors initiated him, with the same re-
suit
Experiments in crossing rivers has re-
Gently been made by the Austrian cav
airy with water-tight haversacks filed
with straw. -Four of these were formed
into sort of raft held together by three
S:bers: on these i've men. got astridess
the foremost steering with Il pole, and
the horses were led. swimming. 1t took
eight minutes to- prepare. eight minutes
more to cross river $50 feet wide and
II feet deep. and two minutes to resad-
die on the opposite bank; so the five.
men We're ready for action on the other
side in eighteen minutes after the order.
to cross was given. Boats We're also
made with the hayersacks, stiffened by
iron bars or cavalry tsabers, in which
twelve or fourteen armed men i were
ferried across, Ii q ia >,