The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-05-08
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
French doctors have taken picture
of an unborn child by means of the
Roentgen rays.
-Maynooth college has received from
the Pope authority to confer degrees in
theology and philosophy.
-Trilby may be used as trade mark
in England. The court Of appeals has
said SO after the lower court said no.
M. Laroche, the French resident in
Madagascar, though Protestant, makes
1t point to attend mass in the Catholic
cathedral every Sunday.
Charles de Lesseps and Nj. Blondin
are said to have left France to avoid
fresh proceedings about to be taken for
the recovery of Panama money.
"A Gaelic society for the study Of the
Irish language has been established
Dublin. In the Tuam News one trades
man advertises his wares in Gaelic.
"A bin requiring meat and cheese not
produced in Great Britain to be labeled
Foreign" or "Coloniar' when exposed
for sale has just passed the second read
ing in the House of Commons.
Prof. Sylvester, +. r. S.. of Oxford,
the mathematician. who earlier held pro-
fessorShips at the University of Virginia
and at Johns Hopkins has been elected
:, foreign member of the Turin Royal
Academy of Science.
Pierre Lott is said to spend more of
his time before the camera than any man
in Europe, except Kaiser Wilhelm and
the Prince of Wales. He has Il mania
for being photographed in fancy cos
tunes.
Melbourne, Australia, has lost 43, 44335
Inhabitants in four years. the census of
1875 giving population of HI, 4f1.
The population OF the seven Australian
colonies ut the end of 1895 was LBS
900.
-Acetylene gas is being used to light
up the ears of one Paris street car line
being generated in little tanks carried on
the platform. \ months trial has shown
that the gas is cheaper than either kero-
Sene or electricity as an illuminant.
An English trades union has refused
to work with men who ride to their
work on bicycles. on the ground that
they have an unfair advantage in being
able to work longer at the shop and yet
set home at the same time as those who
walk.
Russia death rate is believed to be
greatly increased by the practice of the
peasants in plungins into the rivers after
the blessing of the water at the feast
of the Epiphany. January Is, in the be-
lief that it has then the power to wash
away their sins. The practice has long
been forbidden at st. Petersburg.
Russia is pushing the construction of
the Tit1iS kars railway as fast as possi-
BILE and will probably have it COMPLETED
by August next. 1t will enable her to
carry an army from the Caucasus to the
doors of Turkish Armenia The line is
100 miles long, and is already built rs
far as Alexandropol, fifty miles from
kars.
-Roumania has upset the plans of
treaty powers to have only two fleets on
the Black sea by setting up Il little fleet
OF its own. 1t contains one fast cruiser.
the Elizabeth and fifteen smaller craft
The Ronmanian flag has been recognized
by the Russians, who returned salutes
when the fleet appeared off Sebastopol
South Africa has given Il name to
the Duke of Abcrcorn'S little grand
daughter. who has been christened Rho
Iesia. the duke being chairman of Mr.
Rhodes Chartered company. This opens
up the prospect of names like Mashona,
Rechuana. Delagoa. Metabele and
Mowapwa for the new genera tion of
English girls.
Teller, the composer of the Vogel-
handler and the Obersteiger. who is also
an Austrian aulic counsellor and head of
the department of art in the ministry of
public instruction, has been suspended
from his post, pending his trial for per-
jury. He is accused of giving false evil
dence IN suit concerning the Inherit
ance of an uncle which had been decided
in his favor.
oxford, by close vote, has refused
to allow the Earl of Berkeley to qualify
tor degree, unless he sleeps within the
mile and half limit required by the
statutes. The earl's health is delicate,
and though he is able to study in Ok
ford during the day he is obliged to go
out of town to a high spot to sleep Res
idence is described in the statutes as
pernoctation, and the university re-
fuses to make an exception for an earl.
Richard Atkinson. the last of the pot
wallpapers. has just died ut Pontefract at
the age of 81. The potwallopers were
legislated out OF existence by the re-
form ACT of 1892: they We're the men
who ''boiled their own pot" that is,
earned their own living and were not a
charge upon the parish, and who, if they
resided for six months in a borough.
either as householders or dodgers, were
entitled to vote ut parliamentary cleo
lions.
-.NHorways supply Of cod liver oil is
rapidly diminishing. Not only are less
are of inferior quality. While in 1893 the
yield of oil was 2G.S13 barrels, in 1894
1t was 1880. and in 1895 1860 bar
reis. with every prospect of smaller har-
vests in the future. Joseph Chamber
lain has gone into the sisal business. He
has bought a large estate in one of the
outlying Bahama islands and sent out his
second son to manage it,
At the Am Urban hospital in Berlin
az diphtheria patients were treated in
1S94-95, 255 of whom were discharged
cured. OF 245 treated with serum, %
per cent. died, while among the 146 who
were treated otherwise the mortality was
~ per cent; $50 of the serum cases
We're serious, 23.7 severe and the rest
slight. No evil effects were observed
to follow the use of the serum, and it's
effectiveness was proportionate to the
earliness of its application and the
strength of the first doses The hospital
authorities infer from this that it is
not an infallible, but a highly valuable
remedy.
CALIFORNIA; Edible Lizard.
There is living in the mountainous
parts of the Mojave desert a very