The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-28
MINI.
Publisher.
". E. HANNAFORD,
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


muzzler because it went over the muzzle
or mouth.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
Paris Exposition OF 1900 will not be
short OF $20,OOu.Ou
OF all European countries Sicily has
most often been subjected to the yoke of
foreign power.
Bonnet was originally the name for y
mans head-c0veriny. The word is still
so used in Scotland.
From the Thirteenth to the Seven
teenth century blue coat in England
WAS the sign Of Il servant
The slashes or openings in an outer
garment to show the one beneath were
formerly called ranes
Wheel farthngaleS were the enor-
NOUS supports to petticoats Worn in the
days of James and Charles l.
- The baldrick. So often mentioned III
early Dramas was an ornamental belt
PASSED diagonally across the body.
The experts now reckon the acreage
of cotton crops this year at about 1872
per cent less than that OF last year.
The castor oil plant and the tobacco
plan, are both looked upon by the animal
world with almost unanimous ,lisappror
al.
Japan has one of the best engineer
ing schools in the world, and is beginning
to manufacture vrruitable electrical MT
chincry.
The experience of many professional
washers OF clothes seems to have estab-
lisheu the fact that washed linen beaches
best iii frosty weather.
The plant phytolacca electrical,
plant capable of giving electric shocks of
somewhat startling severity. is most rc-
markahly .iislikti by the animal world.
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of European cities. Though it is the cap
',at Of Germany. only 80 per cent Of its
inhabitants are Germans by birth
The old Putnam house in Rutland,
Mass. where ten. Rufus Putnam lived,
is to hr preserved as u historical land
mark of the "t'ather of the Northwest
To pile On agony is popularity sup
posed I" he an .AnlcritanSln. 1t is. bow
ever. found in one of the letters of Char
hottie Rruutr, uu,t was used in English
lnpular literature before the beginning of
the present century.
In our OWL day the name of Sicily rs
Il kingdom has Tor the first time been
wiped from the map of Europe by its III
corporation with ltaly-a country in
hi,h the riri>SitudeS of rule have hetn
scarcely less rlittkrrt,;.
France is the greatest whc;st-yrowinS
country in Europe hot excepting ever.
Russia For the tire. years ended 1892
the t>tns;te't average annual product OF
wheat in France WAS 27S. 100 UIb bushels,
and in Russia. POI ,2SV.MA'.
Dryden was Il great "numskull." who
Went through 4 course of e.luca ton at
WeStmin>ter: but "the STIMULI ting prop
critics ut Dr.. Bu>hhy's classical ftrule
were thrown away upon the ,irone. who
was to he known as glorious john
Literary history is crowded with in
stances of torpid and embarrassing boy
hood. Gihi'on WAS pronounced dread
rally dull. AND the utmost that was pre-
,tirttd IF Hume in his youth was that
he might possibly become Il steady MGR
tIuus.
Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer royal
Tor Ireland. is said to believe that the
time is approaching when posterity will
b" able tr construct machinery that will
he' operated by means of GLASSES with
heat obtained Ivy the direct action of the
sun S'lays.
None can tell where the diamond
GOES to in combustion. Burn it. and it
ha\.> no ash, the flame is exterior like
THAT of 1, cork, and when it has blazcd
l>t.t out, there remains not even so
much as would dust the antennac- of a
butterfly.
Adam Clarke. afterwarL so deeply
skilled in Oriental languages and an
t!1ulties, was pronounced by his father
to lr. Il "grievU,lS Ounce" and of Boileau.
who became Il mo,itl for Pope, it is said
that he was Il youth of little understands
ing.
Where the diamond comes from no.
body Knows. You can no more predict
the existence of diamonds than you can
the cXi>tencr of genius, although. to be
sure. all diamond fields to il certain ex-
tent resemble each other, and all arc
found only in warm climates
In NcrdiS IL Trova tore" there are
forty-two themes, thirty airs of tunes of
Il striking character, and at least ten of
these mtlu,lies were in cverybody's
mouth about twenty years ago In the
street or the concert room or the the
cape them.
The love of display. apart from the
art of Stlf-aGornment. is nothing but Il
survival Of the patriarchal days when
the women were compelled to make their
dress or their ornaments an exponent of
the wealth Of the man whose private
property they were.
The 9th inst. was the twelfth ami
versary of the public opening of the
Brooklyn bridge. Since it was opened it
has been crossed by about 3GOOOO. 900
people. OK on an average Of 3O,OO0,O0O
IL year. The total earnings from traffic
have been more than $11 100000.
In me,iiaeya! times when life was
insecure it was usual for people to sleep
un il bed which was surrounded by sides
of board, with strong posts at the four
corners. These sides contained sliding
doors, which could be fastened inside
When mrn retired to rest they took Il
weapon with them.
In Il publication issued about 1902,
i'll England. entitled THE Beauties of
England and WaleS." we are informed
that Il fisherman observed lobster at
tempt to get ut an oyster several times,
bat as soon as the lobster approached the
oyster shut his shell. At length the lob
Strr having waited with great attention
I'LL tn" oyster opened again. made shift
t" throw Il stone between the gaping
shells: then spring upon his prey and de-
YOUR it.