The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-03
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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
-"Tea boozing" is becoming fashion
7 able among Glasgow ladies.
THE only lady mayoress entitled to,
wear Il chain of office is the wife OF.
the lord mayor of York, England.
Every householder in the parish of
Collace. Scotland, received pair of rab>
bits recently from Mr. Hope, Dunsinane,
A Scotch paper publishes the follow
ing item: The minister Of Scoonie has
got his stipend increased from Is to %
chalders." saS 4 @ sss@ B 4 ssHa
Ten years ago thereswere 1000 lakes
and pondss&in Minnesota. One third sof
these. are now dry and the others arc
largely shrunken in area. q SaS @ss
A Centerville, Me-. couple recently
celebrated their golden wedding in the
very house into which they moved on
their wedding day. fifty years befores
A tinker died at Perth. Scotland, the
other day, and a group of mourners as
sembled a. the funeral from various
parts of the country in response to tele>
grams. -.--. x.e---are<>r
For hiring. a negro to kill his wife,
i'll order that he might marry another
woman, Lee Hawthorne of Augusta.
Miss. was sentenced to death with the
assassin.
The ancient ceremony of paying
Wroth silver to the Duke Of Buccleuch,
as Lord of the Hundred of Knightlow,
took place recently before sunrise at
Knightlow Hill, Scotland. ...-.
OF the 4914 sealskius brought into
Port Townsend. WASH. during the sea-
son just closed 5000 were of female seals
an indica ton of the rate at which the
seal herds nrN hplNtr DESTROYED = .
Kansas is u prohibition state. which
makes it odd thatsa noted tempera nee
lecturer should be about to start on an
aggressive tour of the state under the
direction of the Kansas State Temper
uEce association.
The Bank of England has r1160 Off
cals on it's pay roll. which amounts to
about $1.00O,OOO Il year, and 1000 clerks
If Il clerk is late three times he receives
a warning: the fourth time he is dis
charged ut once.
-For the healthy nap in the after
noon is not necessary. and the brain will
not demand it, If a man finds himself
mapping at that time. either he has eaten
too much 81 his midday meal, or his
cerebral circulation is feeble. 81,
New silver COMA &c, of the value OF
nearly S15O,OtH, has been sent from the
mint to the Scottish banks. in view of
the deficiency of silver in the North.
This is the largest supply of new coins
ever introduced into Scotland at one
time. y s.;
There has been a~decline in thescon-
sumption Of beer in England during the
past half year In Scotland and Ire
land there has. on the other hand. been
an increase. The net result, however, is
a loss to the exchequer of EDS, 76l.
-Ex-Empress Eugene has recently de-
posted her will with a prominent Lon
don attorney, in which, true to her
pledge. she has left Il legacy to each of
the birthday of her son. Prince Louis.
The first water dams were construct
ed by the beavers. and the engineers
have never been able to improve upon
the models presented by these industri-
Gus workers. Their dams are wide at
the bottom, narrow at the top, are we'll
supported and seldom give way.
When honey has been exposed to a
low temperature, or has been kept for a
and is said to be ''candied.' If it is de-
sired to restore it to its original state,
place the vessel containing it in warm
water until the crystals melt.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
reports that during October the exports
of merchandise from the United States
amounted to $S7,O17 ,24O. against $685.
653,121 during October, 1894. The re-
cent gain of S3.3G4, 119 shows that the
export trade is now improving decidedly.
An odd instrument has just been in
vented combining fan and an ear-trum-
pet. The deaf lady, when she wishes to
hear what is being said, folds up her fan
into a shape somewhat like the paper
packets used by grocers, and applies the
small end to her ear.
The egg of the dogfish is provided
with a system of spiral cables like the
tendrils of climbing plants. These feel
ers reach out in every direction, and
whenever they encounter an object
which they can seize. Irvine themselves
around It and hold the egg in position
until it has Matched.
The largest structure on the earth,
when com pared with the size of the
builders. is the ant hill of Africa. Some
of these mounds have been observed l.
feet high and 8 feet in diameter. If a
human habitation were constructed Oh
the same scale. it would be more than
seven miles high, ~~~. -? =
The mole's habitation is regular
fortress. generally under a clu1np st
bushes or in some place not likely to be
trodden upon by heavy animals. The
central fortress, or habitation. is always
provided with six or eight entrances Sc
that the male can escape in any direction
on short notice.
-NeIlu your cullufen INTO the open All
much as possible. Open air exercise
is one of the most important conditions
for the preservation and obtaining of
health, and. though exercise for the
young infant must be passive for the
child who can run and play it should be
very actire indeed I
The admiralty lla We resolved to noun,
luick-hring guns on all cruisers forming
the second line of Defense thus greatly
adding to their fighting strength In
most cases three and six-pounders viii
be supplied. It has also been decided
to replace the Lee Metford rifles on ships
Of the Mediterranean squadron with the
Martini-Henry rifles.
The %old-fashioned reticule bag, in
which our Observation-Disclosures were wont
to carry handkerchief. books, peppermint
drops. and all the other paraphernali,
dear to the heart and necessary for the
wants of the grand dame. has reap
peared. They are principally made OF
brocade Or velvet, though in some in.
stances they are made of the same ma.
terial as the gown worn. A. e-~a = ;
Demand for Pennies.
Ever since August there has been a
heavy demand on the United States
treasury for 1-cent pieees.{ The demand
which comes from all parts of the coun-
try, is attributed to the growing GUS
tom in various retail business houses of
marking down prices from round fig.
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