The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-09-27
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Polish pianist, Scharwenka, is soon fc
be- brought out at the Weimar Grand
Ducal theater.
-Divoree business is Increasing So
much in the English courts that n thir,
Judge must be added to the probate and
divorce division.
MIR. Gladstune'S introduction ~ TIN,
Peoples Bible history will be more than
mere preface: it will he u kind oi
analytical history i'll itself. -
-Wiliiam Norris new romance, 'Child
christopher and Goltlilind the Fair" has
Just been issued in Il limited edition by
the Kelmscott press. -.
Andrew Lang is writing Il life @ot
John Gibson Lockhart, the son-in-luw
and hiographer of Sir Walter Scott and
editor of the Quarterly Review. 1 .~
A subscription for the Pope has beer,
started in Italy in commemora ton of tho
twenty-tifth anniversary of the declara.
ton of Papal infallihility.
Sir Charles Dixie and r, McKcnna
have cha llenged any two unionist mem
berS of the House of Commons to row
pair-oar race on the Thames.
Another Roman watch tower. the
twrnty-Sevcnth in Il line along the Rhine
from Basel to the Lake of Constance,
has just been found near Rheinfel,lrn.
At Ystrad Meurig school in Wales
the boys are taught Latin through
Welsh. The "Iastoruls' of the Old
founder of the school are used for that
purpose.
deposits in Irish joint stock banks
Increased by E2.WO,O00 last year, tn,.
total amount i'll June being E37 800. 600,
while the savings banks held f7,371 600.
an increase of t144.0O
A professors chair for the history of
Alsace has been founded at the Sorhonne
in Paris and given to DR.. Rudolf Reus,
of StraSShurg. il son of the Protestant
theolosian and Bible critic.
The reigning Prince of Waldeck- Pyr-
mont. who is Il brother of the Queen
regent of Holland and of the Duchess of
Albany. has just tieen married to Prin-
cess Rathilde of Schaumburg-Lippe, an
other inhnitesimal German in,leDen,lent
state.
Capt. Maurice Ncrmot. IL member of
French mission on the upper Ubansi,
VINO mas Just returned to France, pene-
tratesl into Emin's province of Eonatoria
and explored the watershed between the
,Melle. the rivers flowing into Lake
Ichal ana the tributaries of the White
Nile
The death rate of Berlin for 1884 was
ll.2 in Il thousand, that of London III.
BRUSSELS and Hamburg 1871. Amsterdam
lS", Copenhagen 1877, Turin, 1873, Rome
l"", Glasgow 20, Paris POP. Manches-
ter 2o.4. Vienna 22.S, Liverpool 23.S,
nphim ~, St. Petersburg H.4 and
Moscow 341.
desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight of
t'lin. died recently at Glin castle, county
limerick. Like the Knight of Kerry.
the Knight of GIin is ii hereditary
knlghthood created by Il Fitzgerald Of
Desmond in the Fourteenth century,
10y his authority as count palatinc with
out the interpretation Of the crown.
AT Nine. TuSsaud's in London is
now to be seen the Gladstone state car
rage. presented TO Mr. Gladstone by his
father more than fifty years ago. The
only other carriages in the exhibition
III. Mr. Gladstone sold the carriage in
order to obtain the money for ii chart
table scheme
-EiScount Mountmorres, who is n
member of the London county council,
has informed the London press that he
is ready to furnish it with contributions
at the rate OF $50 per 1000 words if
taken by the week. or at lower rates
for a longer period. He says that he is
"a vivid and graceful writer of more
than ordinary capabilities
In the Paris Chamber of DEPUTIES
a tresco has come to light representing
A1'"i: hlifppe anu his court at the
opening of the first Legislative session.
During the revolution of 1913 it was
concealed by tapestry hangings, and it's
existence was forgotten till it became
necessary to repair the tapestry. and it
was taken down, revealing the picture.
Out of $4,000 farms in Denmark
only 1900 are over $50 acres in extent.
ana most of them are worked by their
owners: ~ their great technical knowl-
edge of their business and the gradual
change from growing grain to breedin,;
cattle and dairy farming the Danish
farmers have suffered less from trans
Atlantic competition than those of any
other European country.
Il violent attack on the behavior of
the French in the last war printed in
the Morgen Leitung under the title of
"Hyenas of the Battlefield" containing
serious accusations against the troops
engaged in the battle of Woerth, has
been shown to he stolen from the Garten-
laube OF 1856. where the attack was
on the conduct of the Austrians at Sa-
dowa. The only changes in the article
were the substitution of Woerth for
Sadowa and French names for Austrian.
Harry de Windt, who has already
Travelled from Pekin across Siberia. is
gong to make journey from America
to Europe by way of Behring's strait
next year. From San Francisco he will
SC to Alaska and explore the country
between Mount st. Elias and Cape Prince
Of Wales: from there he will cross the
strait ON the ice to the East cape of ST.
IBERIA. and, after examining the north,
eastern corner of Siberia, will 20 by way
OF tihijisa and Okhotsk to Yakutsk, re-
turning to England some time in 1897.
-ltaly's harvest this year is satisfac
tory. The yield of silk cocoons is only
an average one, but as the quality is eS
cellent the value is $4.OOO.OOO more than
in 1874 Wheat. corn oats and +. rIar
are all good in quality, with a yield above
!he average: The rice fields are promis
lng' as the disease called risone has been
Stamped 81 out: so are olives and hemp.
Inc vineyards are attacked by perenos-
pora, but the dry July killed the pest,
and while the vintage will be below the
average the quality of the wine will
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