The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-08-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

also fiery rel, to grow to an inortlinatt
length.
The Russian scientific expedition to
Ahyssinia has been abandoned us the re.
suit of the death of DR. Yclisseyeff, the
only practical scientific man connected
with it.
-Nandyke, the refined painter of ele.
CANT portraits, had the aspect of Il dandy
He wore his hair curled on his forehead,
and pointed beard of which he was quite
Ialn
The visit of Mr.. Gladstone to Gothen-
burg was made the occasion of numerous
lemonstra tionS of affection and respect
for the Grand Old Man OH the part of the
Swedish people.
Abraham H. Lavender of st. Paul,
now nearly 80 years of age, is living on
the exact spot where he settled forty
seven years ago. when there were only
five American families in the place.
Robert Harper. an Englishman,
bought land in Maryland and Virginia on
both sides of the Potomac and founded Il
settlement. The ferry he esta blishe, gave
Il name to Harper's Ferry, Va.
A chapel in honor of st. Paul gave
new name to the Minnesota city. 1t
was originally called Pigs Eye, from a
nickname given to Il one-eycd French
man. who kept drinking shanty at the
place
The recent disturbances at Jeddali,
the port of Mecca, are said to have been
connected with a plot in Collktuntinoplc
to dethorne Sultan Hamid and replace
him with his cousin Murad. the son of
Abdul AZiz.
Denver, Col. was named after James
w. Denver, an ex-governor of Kansas
Denver is situated the sites of two
towns, st. Charles and Aurora, when
were consolidated in 1850 and the new
Lame adopted.
james NJ Lang of Paducah. Ky, has
Il tree in his residence yard which bears
fruit that is Il cross between peach and
~ plum. The fruit is lucous and at
tractive. and is larger than an ordinary
sized peach.
Japanese postmen, whose routes car
ry them into the country, use bicycles
Their wheels are made by local manu-
facturerS, who have appropriated improve
mentS from both British and Japanese
patents.
Mi, hilim,ckinac is an Indian word
meaning great turtle. The Michigan city
of this name is situated at the place
where. it is said, there once was Il large
lurk whose outline bore some resemblance
tn that of Il turtle.
According to letter from Majunga,
the old rivalry between the naval and mill
tary departments of the French forces in
Madagascar has broken out with so much
violence that the operations are being
hampe1ed by dangerous delays.
The Stallion at Athens is nearly ready
for the international Olympic games next
spring. The two ends of the elipSe have
been completely covered with marble, as
have also the two lower rows of benches
throughout tine whole extent of the race
course.
SANDY" Smiths consuming curiosity
landed him in Jail at Chicago for burg
larry. The police arrested two of his ac-
completes and Sandy could not resist
going close to the patrol wa gon to see the
operation. He was recognized and hus-
tied into the wagon
The De Beers company of England
has just had erected the largest crushing
and concentration plant of the kind in the
world. 1t has capacity of 1000 tons in
ten hours.
A new company has been formed to
promote the manufacture of cotton from
wood pulp. White duck trousers made
from this artificial textile thread are
largely worn in England.
The English government in India col
lects about $50, 100000 year from the
sale of opium. This is an interesting fact
in connection with the psychology of re-
cent arguments by English statesmen
that the moderate consumption of opium
is good for the health and morals
A whistling moth is an Australian
rarity. There is CLASSY space on the
wings crossed with ribs When the moth
wants to whistle it strikes these ribs
with it's antennae, which have knob at
the end. The sound is a love call, from
the male to the female.
Mr.. Phster. an Austrian engineer has
discovered curious property of the
trunks Of trees-that of retaining the salt
of sea water that has filtered through
the trunk in the direction of the fibers
Mr.. Phster utilizes this property for OBJ
tanning drnkable water for the use of
ships crews.
1t is said that house1cs undoubtedly
disseminate Infection by walking over
infected bodies, then flying off and alight-
ing on other bodies capable Of receiving
the infection. Slices of sterilized no
tatOes were used to show the cOmmunica-
ton Of the infection by the feet of ths,
flies in running over them.
A statistician of the German govern
ment determined to make an investiga-
ton of the superstition regarding Friday
as an unlucky day. He has given the
world book of queer tables and figures.
which prove that it is Monday and not
Friday that is the most fatal and unfor,
tunate day of the week.
A striking illustration of the loss on
the rupee is afforded by the statement in
rial progress and condition of India, that
of six years increase of military OK
penditnre, amounting to nearly 5000, OO
tons of rupees, as much as 10 per cent. is
attributable to the fall in exchange
a report to the English Parliament
shows that from 1877 to 1893, inclusive
1913 English convicts were sentenced to be
logged under laws which allow this DUN
ishment to be inflicted in certain gross
cases of assault. 1t is said that such
crimes have not diminished in frequency
as a result of the severity of the punish
ment.
1.-THE Burns. in England. were re.
ceptacles for the corn and produce which
were gwen as tithes to the church in the
structures now remain, the custom of
paying tenths in kind having almost on.
tirely disappeared. Indeed. the tax itself
on many estates has been abolished nv
Communication.
"A curious use for a husband is re-
ported from Clerkenwell, near London
where = Mr.. Lamb and his wife keen :;
small shop. For fourteen years the firm
has avoided paying taxes by the wfe's
sending the husband to Jail to serve ont
the legal time for unpaid taxes, while SHE
remains at the store attending to bust
ness.
Malaria is declining in Italy, SAYS DR.
Raseri, director of the Hygienic institute
in Rome, the deaths from it III five years
from 1897 to 1898, being three in 1000
while the five years preceding they wer,
five in 1000. All places 1900 feet abov,
the sea are free from it, In the vale,
of the Pc the rate is one to two in 1000
ut Rome it is three
The power Of transmitting tcle
graphic messages without connectint
wires was put to a practical application
hon 4
between Oban and Auchnacruig brok,
down. A guttapercha insulated wire
one and half miles long, was laif
along the ground from Morvcn, Will,
on the island Of Null the ordinary over
head wire was made use Of
AT Oxford there is what is callc,
.'Chancellor ale brewed out Of sixteel
bushels of malt to the barrel and $,
strong that two winegIassfuls will intox
icate most people. 1t is kept i'll oak
bell..;sbaped casks and is never tappet
until it is two years old. Some of tn,