The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-05-15
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Founded by Cardinal Wiseman and
Daniel OCounell in 1886, the Dublin
anniversary.
Paula Szaht. u 9-year-old Polish girl,
is Nicnna's latest musical prodigy. She
can play works by all the great masters
and also improvise
AT Calcutta university 274S students
are matriculated, more than five times
as many as in 1865. There are ninety
nine Indian colleges affiliated with the
university, which receives no public mon
ey in any shape.
-Fiorence's famous codeN of Aeschy>
lus in the Laurentian library. the manu-
script ON which all the editions of
AeSchyluS are based, has just been re-
produced in photographers. The TRACE
dies of Sophocles in the same cotlex were
reproduced in 1885.
john Burns proposes to have law
passed by Parliament making it compul-
sory for employers to give domestic serv-
ants "a character" on dismissal. Laws
to that effect have long been in force in
France and Germany.
Victor Cavendish is about to sell at
auction the famous Holker Hall herd of
shorthorns, probably the finest in the
world, which belonged to the late Duke
of Devonshre. There have been only
six sales ut Holker during forty years,
but they brought in 100000.
In being shown through the Bishop
of London's palace at Lambeth recently
London Methodist was panied to notice
that it contained no portrait of John
Wesley. He ut once bought an engrav-
ing Of him, had it framed. and sent it to
the bishop. who accepted it with thanks.
Sfvoilix- .,ksfir,tr oe
ton has just been settled by the House
of Lords. Two Aberaeenshire landown-
erS uuarreled over the right to fish in the
River Dee. which borders their estates
for r:D yards. Both admitted that the
fishing WAS ct no value, but they have
spent S11.tsW to have their rights de-
ciltd.
Two children We're found drifting
about alone on the schooner Robin Hood
ed out with them from Newfoundland
for Lisbon. but had died eight days be-
fore another vessel fell in with the
Robin Hood. \ sailor was put on board
who brought the schooner and the chill.
dren into Cadiz.
Susan Gleutenning died suddenly at
1slington recently. being So years Of age
She had plenty of money. was i'll good
health, and very active, but was in the
habit of drinking 4 bottle and half of
brandy day. The coroner thought she
had taken long time to kill, and his
jury brought in a verdict of death from
natural causes.
Prof Skeat thinks he has found new
evidence to show that tennis is derived
from the French tenetz. the imperative
of tenir. in manuscript reading of the
line of Cover. written i'll 1899, which
is the earliest instance of the use of the
word i'll English. Tenetz probably meant
see here" look out" and was there
fore the equivalent of play"
Melbourne. Australia. has been hay
ing judicial scandal. An Investigating
commission has reported that several of
the justices of the peace have been in
the habit of taking brides from litigantS,
of favoring keepers of houses of ill fame
in which they are interested and of hav-
ing cases in which their friends We're
interested transferred to them.
Russia produced 100000 tons of
pig iron. S50.SOO tons of iron in other
forms and 1.095.96O tons of steel in 1874
being over an eighth more in total pro-
ductlon than the year before. The i'll
100000 tons. nearly all of it being used
IN private enterprises, sign of the rapid
development of Russian industries.
4 new method of generating electrici-
ty directly from coal has been devised
by DR.. Alfred Cohen of Berlin. who has
succeeded in dissolving carbon in gal
vanic cell, in precipitating again on a
kathode and in forming lead peroxide
carbon couple with an electromotiye
force of 1903 volts. This is the first time
that carbon has to all appearance been
obtained III the ionic state.
A seaman on H. NJ. S. Edinburgh
recently had remarkable escape He
was ut work on a ladder on the bow of
the vessel as she was going into Ports
mouth harbor, steaming ten knots an
hour. when the ladder broke and he was
thrown into the water directly under
the keel. He came up again in the wake
of the ship. two ships lengths astern.
unhurt. having escaped the suction of the
vessel and contact with the propellers.
One effect of decentralization of
which French authors complain is the
restriction in the number of new play:
produced Whereas there were in
France last year 1872 first performances,
in Italy, where the production of a play
at Turin, Florence, Milan, Venice OF
Naples is of as much Importance us its
performance at Rome, the number of
new plays was 292. -
-Seventy-seven deserving old men and
as many old women, the number repre-
sehtlnS Tue years OF queen fIctOrla'S
age, received the Queens Maunly at
Westminster Abbey this year. Each
man first received $11.25 and each ON.
an $S.15; then red and white purses
were given to them, the red containing
sovereign in gold and 30 shillings, the
white as many pence in silver as the
Queen is years of age
"A 1j-year-old English girl has mitral
murmur of the heart so strong that it
can be heard twelve feet away when
she has her clothes on. If she is placed
with chest exposed three feet from a
closed door, the sound can be heard by a
person standing at the same distance
Lancet says the heart is not enlarged
or dilated. and the only inconvenience
felt by the patient is that she easily
gets out of breath.