The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-05-03
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dean de Reszke is to sing at Bay
rsuth in 1876 the part Of Siegfried in
mernng" Edouard dc Reszke will be
tho Wotan.
-Longfellow' $ ballad of Carnillian,"
set to music by Il young Scotch com
poser, Archibald D, Arnott, was recently
sung for the first time by the London
Choral union.
,; Natural gas is reported to have been
near Buenos Ayres. A bill granting 4
monopoly of it to the discoverer is before
the Congress.
-Adelina Patti will receive S12,OOO for.
six performances at Covent garden. $1,000
Il night. which is nearly double what
any prlma donna has ever received at n
London opera house.
brought out at the Paris Grand Opera
next month for the first time since 1S6t.
1t was then given three times and howletl
down.
Mrs. Burnett's Little Lord Fauntle-
roy has just been brought out in
French translation ut the Comedie Pa
risienne us lie Petit Lord" with yreat
SUCCESS.
Both Oxford and Cambridge made.
money by their university presses last
year. The Clarendon Press earned S25.-
600 clear profit for Oxford and the Pitt
Press $4,000 for Cambridge
Prom Venice comes the announces
ment that the bodies in the old Protest
ant cemetery. where many Americans
ana Engllshmen are buried, are to be re-
moved to the new municipal cemetery.
The oldest known valentine in verse
IS said to be in the Kings library at the
British museum. 1t was written by the
Duke of Orleans in the Tower after his
capture at the battle Of Asincourt. 1415,
Sir John Lubbock'S daughter is tread
ing in her fathers footsteps. Some
ioor Law Questions. an explanation of
the workings of the present laws and pro.
posed changes. by Miss Gertrude Lub
book, is announced by Murray.
A grand ball is to be given in the
great amphitheater of the Sorbonne to-
celebrate the centenary of the Paris Eco,e
\ormale. This is curious even in France,
for the Sorbonne is the theological fac
ulty of the University of France.
Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin.
Bart, &. e. B., who died recently at 81,
was the senior officer in the English navy.
he entered the navy in 1873 and was a
mldSh!rman on one of the vessels blockad-
ing the Scheldt when the battle of Water
loo was fought.
"A new outer sole is being tried on
order of the Emperor 1t consists of n
paste of linseed oil varnish and iron filings.
which IS said to render the sole flexible
ana make it more durable than the new
aluminium boot nails.
An eccentric race for one-legged men
was run recently at Nogent. near Paris
1t was won by man 30 years old, who
had lost his leg in the Francc-P russian
war. covering 200 metres in thirty Sec
ondS. There We're sixty competitors for
the prize, a work of light and a wooden
leg "of honor
Holland has never completely recoy,
cred from the tulip fever of the Seven
tenth century. At HARLEM they are
holding the seventeenth Quinquennial ex,
hihition of bulb plants, hyacinths. narcis,
SuS and tulips. which are again becoming
popular in Europe. Among the flowers
is an almost black tulip.
DR. Marmorek, a young Viennese
studying with Pasteur, is said to have
discovered the bacillus that causes blood
poisoning and inhamed wounds He
calls it Streptococeus pyogenes, and says
that he has found out the antdote as
well. The remedy can be used also for
diphtheria too malignant to be cured by
serum.
Tea culture on large scale is to be
tried IN the Caucasus by the .R;issian i'm
peral domain. 100. -acres of crown
lands being set~irart for the purpose.
\ commission of experts will be sent at
once e China and Ceylon to study the
Methods of cultivation, and will bring
back from China 100000 young tea
plants.
Count Tolstoi refused large sum Of
fered to him by an American publisher
for his last story. The Neva, a Russian
illustrated weekly. then offered him S5O0
a page for the exclusive right to publish
1t as serial. This, too, he refused, and
made free gift of the manuscript to
the Sevcrney Eestnik, Russian monthly
magazine.
In China there is strange profess
sion for ladies. 1t is carried on by elder
~ ladies. who go the round of the best
houses. announcing their coming by beat
ing drum. and offering their services
to amuse the lady of the house. This
offer accepted. they sit down and tell the
latest scandals and the newest stories
and ontlits, and are rewarded at the
rate of a shilling an hour.
Fifty large quarto volumes, contain
ing nearly 10000 pages and over 5000
work on the scientific results of the Chal-
lenser expedition. While afloat the ex-
penSe to the government for the scientific
part Of the work was 100000: since
then S2F'.HW have been spent, but the
cost is insignificant when compared with
tue SclcIIlllc results ODt0ine0.
A pilgrimage on foot from Lille to
Jerusalem was made recently by man
named Belveche. He was seriously sick
last summer. and vowed to take the jour
ney If he got well. AS far as Constants.
nople the difficulties were not great, but
it took him some months to travel oye1
the Asatic part of the journey. BY way
of Caesarea, A1eppo and Damascus he at
last reached Jerusalem. He took Cooks
ticket to return home
Don Marcantonio Colonna. head Of
the family, who is hereditary prince as
Slstant to the papel see, performed his
duties for the first time at the recent cele-
bratlGn OF the anniversary Of Pope Leo's
coronation. Until his fathers death last
year, I'rlnce Colonna held an office at
th, Court of King Humbert; he was
obliged to give up all relations with the
Italian court on assuming his hereditary
charge.
a BrattIeboro 5-cent postage stamp,
in London Three St. Louis iO-cent
stamps brought 500 and $95 apiece.
Other high prices were: Moldavia, 1O8
red, of 1851, $165; Of 1852. s1oO: Tus,,
cany. ; lire, yellow, $3.50; British Guiana,
Scent. green, 500 and $12G; two 4-cents'
primrose, $500 each, while an Scent
green and 4-cent orange in the same en-
'eiOpe Jetcne0 SOUU.
AT Prague man called Proschaska
was arrested some time ago for selling to
Hamburg firm a number of children
whose growth had been checked by ne.
culiar diet, that they might be exhibited
as iliputians: for every child 300 forms
were paid. The inventors of the system
and the parents Of the children as well
have been punished by the courts. Two
years ago a regular mandatory of dis
tortions and monstrous shapes in young
children for begging purposes was discov,
cred and suppressed in Croatia
-Ground oyster shells were given by
the medieval doctors to children suffer-
ing from ricketts, and scrofula. Now Drs.
Muntz and Chatin tell the Paris Acade-
my of Medicine that the old fellows were
right. The shells contain lime, nitrogen.
iron, sulphur, manganese, magnesia,
-four. brornine, phosphoric acid and iodine,
all excellent for feeble children. They
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