The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-05-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The annual seattle CROP" of New
South Wales is about 100000. ~.
-Washington was only % when made
commander-in-chiet of the forces of Vir-
ginia. >.. ~ ~. a. -
Kant began his philosophical and
metaphysical speculations before the age
of Is.
--Hooke's first works We're published
when their author was barely 10 years of
Young produced several Of his most
acceptable poems before reaching the age
of 30.
Maurice. the son Of the first prince
of Orange" showed himself born sol
der at 15.
Milton wrote "Comus,' by some es-
teemed as one of his most charming
poems, at 70.
Fielding was extensively known as a.
novelist and general litterateur before he
was 80.
Thomas Flanagan of Elmwood, Ind.
is the happy owner of a four-legged
Plymouth Rock rooster.
Among the Hebrews all slaves. eN-
cept such as desired to remain in Servi-
tude, went free at the jubilee year.
During the sixty years ending with
1917 1.462,OOO slaves We're transported
from Africa to the Americas.
Chinese parents. unable or unwilling
to provide for their children, sell them
to whomsoever will buy.
1T is estimated that not less than
1SO.OOO.OOO African slaves have persisted
to glut the avarice of slave traders.
In 1910 all serfs in the -AuStro-H Hun
sarian district were liberated. their OWN
crs being paid in government scrip.
A Hebrew slave who desired to re-
main such had his ears pierced with an
aWl and was then slave forever.
The rapidity of the growth of the
hair varies much in different persons
1t has been calculated that the beard
grows at the rate of one line and half
per week. or six inches and half in a
year. On the head the growth is much
more aniC.
You whistle for it" originates in
the sailor superstition for whistling to
raise the wind. AS great deal of
Whistling was sometimes necessary when
Il calm prevailed. the expression to de-
note failure to achieve an end came into
common speech.
The expression "a grass widow has
several fanciful explanations, but is most
probably corruption of the French eN-
preston. veuve de grace, Il widow by
grace or courtesy: that is. a woman
who has left her husband or has been
deserted by him.
Flower and vegetable seeds, in Ger
many. are mostly grown in the fertile
lands of Thuringia. the Magdeburs and
Nuremberg-u I'm regions, and in War
temberg. Frost and grass seeds are
grown in Thuringia and on the Main:
clover and kindred seeds are from 81
lesia.
Six hunters have trapped 30 foxes
within ten miles Of Gardiner, Me, dur
ing the past winter. One of the hunters
claims to have secret bait that is ir-
resistibe to a fox. and he has a record
of sixty eight foxes last winter He
sold the secret to another trapper who
got ffty-two foxes.
An event in the railway world of
England is in the fact that the stock of
the Great Eastern railway is now above
par. The Great Eastern only dates back
to 1862, but one of its constituent lines,
the Eastern Counties, is now about
sixty years old, and years ago the rolling
stock of the Eastern Counties line had
to be seized for debt. 1t has been Il
long struggle with the Great Eastern,
but the struggle has been successful.