The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-09-06
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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kansas has 114,o69 acres of fax,
The cream of 1860 yielded 1,2O4, $685.
tGS pounds Of butter.
Rose, cook of Charles H., gives TWEEN
ty-six ways of folding the napkin.
-HelioSabalus generally supped on the
brains of sou thrushes.
Chopin rarely read anything heavier
than Il French novel.
free planting is now encouraged in
nearly every Western state.
Rule Britannia" is usually credited
to the authorship of James Thompson.
Most of the beet sugar made in this
country is manufactured in California;.
The ancient Roman aqueducts poured
.iSo.WN.0N gallons of water daily into
the city.
"A medical authority on the virtues of
various kinds of food declares that the
herring gives the muscles elasticity, the
body strength and the brain vigor, and
is not flesh forming.
People riding i'll the big wheel in
London recently had Il scare. as the
machinery broke, and those in the cars
had to remain there over two hours.
Thr wheels diameter is about 500 feet.
English is now included in the list OF
SUBJECTS IN the examination for aumis-
sion to the great military schools in
France Hitherto German has been the
only foreign language necessary.
A buShel of wheat is now carried
from Dulut to Buffalo for > cents or
less. 4 distance of over 1000 miles, while
It still costs from ) to 5 tents to carry
it from Buffalo to New York, Il distance
Of I9 miles.
Gut flowers will keep fresh if Il small
pinch OF nitrate of potash or common
>a!treter IS put in the water in which
they stand. The ends of the stems
should be cut Oft Il little every day to
keep rlen the absorbing pores.
Several Georgia watermelons weigh
ing more than fifty pounds have been
brought to market this season, but it is
iiktly the record will be carried by one
weighing Il tritie over Seventy-hye bounds
cut last week Oh Il ThomaSton farm.
"A Bridgeport tConn.) man suddenly
tttane insane Il few days ago and his
peculiar form of insanity is that he is
living over again the horrible prison life
ut -~\naerSonvillt. where he was confined
during Il portion of the Civil war.
Munich policemen have been official.
l.! totoiddeh to talk t" representatives
tag or the Ravarian Diet. In thu. first
case the punishment is il weeks impris-
"nW"nt IN the latter it is still heavier.
-'ln the possession of the Baroness
Rurdette-tOuttS is II guinea which she
treasures above all her minor belongings.
Her grandfather. who was Il gentleman
" sloventy outward appearance. was
gwen 1t by Il benevolent old party who
'hanced I" mistake him for y rau3er.
The Chronicles of F'roissart abound
with accounts Of the maSSacres rerpc-
trat"l by the most notable KNIGHTS of
mat chlvalrir age. They thought it
no harm t" burn churches, destroy re-.
i1Sl"u> buildings and plumber and butch
tr Il peaceahle and inoffensive ponuln-
ton. ~
The obstruction of life in modern
warfare is something frightfui. In the
Francu-PruSsian war from AUGUST i
1870. to August IS. 100000 Germans
and French We're killed outright, to saw
nothing OF the many thousands more
who afterwards died in the HOSPITALS
from their wounds.
The leading religions art. represented
by the following figures: Protestant
Christians, 2uW. 5000: Roman Catholic.
Christians. 19o. WM 1900; Greek Catholic,
ehr,stlanS. 1H,.tAND,'HN'; total Christians,
:"H).oDO.Hh. Hebrews, S.WW.mW; Mo-
hahllhehanS. lSn,NN,NN; heathens. S12,-
'"Hi,'tH: total non -Christians. l,WWWW'-
WW.
"Love's Young Dream" one of
Moore's best, was set by him t., IN Irish
tune called The Old Woman" Moore
heard the tune from Il blind fiddler.
wrote 1t down. and. discerning its bean
ty, determined that it should have better
words than the nonsensical verses to
which IT was sung by the Irish peasant
ry.
In 1880 the amount of naphtha tx
tract was 3Sb,4U tons: in 1893 it
amounted to G,OS4.S:O tons. ('oincident
WIN fhp increasing rr.,l,;, ~. "
p,ortatlon of naphtha and its products
decreased from 21.G;7 tons in 1SSO:to
SCI tons i'll 1893. while the explorations
increased from 446D tons to 1U7W731
tons.
Fourteen prominent publication
houses in Germany have organized An
Association Of Christian Book Publish
frS; Its object is to use their craft
ana business III the interests of the
pr!nclpies of Christianity and to antag-
"l!lze tn" spread of p"rnicions and anti
christian literature in every shape and
form. ~
A French academician. N. Henrion.
once estimated the height Of Adam to
be ~ feet. and that Of Eve us. nrn-
portions that must have appeared most
formidable to the serpent. and made tho
proposition for apples Il somewhat triv-
lai thing. The same authority brings
Abraham down to 2S feet and makes
Moses only IL.
IN ere was Il cricket match PLAYED
III England recently between eleven Ia
dies and eleven gentlemen (not an nm
common incident), and the latter had to
bat with broom handles. The men were
badly beaten, and afterward it turned
out that the ladies had ''rung I'M" a
clever boy bowler by dressing him IN in
one Of his sisters frocks.
The custom Of celebrating gold and
silver weddings belongs to GERMANY
lhe silver wedding occurred only ON the
twenty-hfth anniversary and most DeonIe
could ctl"brat" that, but to bp fifty years
nihrri"i was Il sort of an event in q
family. The house was quite ,ovcrxI
with gar]ands. and all the neighbors from
lar ana near were assembled,
y hrySoloras, Il native of Cnnstauti-
noplc, who has been styled the r%estorer
OF 'ireek in Italy. carried Greek lore
and taught his native tongue to tn.
magnates and youth Of the PRINCIPAL
Italian cities from 400 to 1i1:3. and
his Greek grammar .as the standard
for many years. Greek at that time
WAS little knOwn in Western and \nrth.
rrn fnrope. not Il single book in that
ldiom being found in the library of the
Alng Of France as late as 1926 but it
became Il favorite study in Italy. whore
many Greek scholars found refnre after
the final overthrow of the Eastern en-
pirc in 1903.
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