The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-14
IOUS CONVERSATIONS,

The private estates of the Gar cover
l.WU,NN square miles.
The Bank Of France is four times
as large as the Bank Of England.
ATTEMPTS are now being made to
acctimatize Scottish grouse in Denmark.
Seventeen transatlantic cables have
been laid, hut only seven are in use.
The others have given out.
There are $1,000 women telegraph
operators in the United States. and the
number is constantly growing.
The Book of Job, written about
1870 B. c.. describes very accurately
several processes of smelling metals.
Toledo has 10000 people living on
NJ, square miles of ground. The city
is worth $14.SS3,41O, and it's bonded
debt is $4.76S,275.
The 115,uW people Of Columbus are
not in the least crowded together for
their city is laid out over 1911 square
miles of territory.
The annual increase. of the German
nation during the last five years has
been more than Ave times as much as
that of the French.
rapidly in London as that of the little
fancy vest dubbed Louis Ouinzc," in
velvet or lowered silk.
Memphis has 75,OOO population
squeezed into four square miles of ter,
ritory. Tho city owes 81. 1OO.StD. and
it's property is valued at $}5,t4,G7177.
The 10000 people of Nashville live
on eleven square miles Of territory. The
bonded debt of the city is S3U57 900,
aud the assessed valuation S37 ..l2O.IOU.
An ice marriage took place recently
in Holland The couple wer married on
the frozen Zuyder Zee. the ceremony be-
ing followed by IL dance on skates.
"A form Of clothing known us knee
',fS is said to be used quite generally
in France by all ciasse during the Win
ter. II is n wooden cuff for the knees,
much the same as in England is Worn
round the wrists.
Sturgeon fishing rs unusually good in
tn. Columbia river this season. and some
last week "r tw" One sturgeon Ntiyi,-
ing 40 pounds was caught near the
town Of The DallcS last week.
The height Of the monument, Fish
street hill. London. is oO2 feet high from
the pavement. being thirty feet higher
than that of Antonius at Rome. md is
considered the finest as we'll as the high
'>t isolated column i'll the world.
The reason why leeks are worn by
Wrlshmen is said to be derived from 4
victory obtained r-er the Saxons by
Sixth century. The Wclshmen, to dis
tngnsh themselves from their enemies,
and tho NOR. readily to know each 9th
.'r. wore letkS.
The silkwurm originated in the south
Crn part of the Chinese empire, where
written documents are said to exist PROV
ing that these insects were raised there
21N years before the Christian era.
From thence they pa sseI into Persia, In
re- nf \ SIO nd c,,1,
seuuently to the Isle of Cos.
The band Of music at village we'd
dings in England is now almost obsolete.
In the reign of Elizabeth, weddings
among persons of the lowed classes were
Away public, and the bride and bride
groom were accompanied to church by
their friends and neighbors-a band Of
music playing before them, and other
ceremonies.
The smell of pickles always sent
Cardinal Wulscy into hysterical fits. H..
called upon Henry VIII. once while the
monarch was iunching of some cold
meat. and Wolsey fell down under the
table rs soon as he smelt there was
picked cabbage in the room. Henry,
thinking the cardinal vas intoxicated.
had him locked u2 in the tower inme-
liatrly
The word parliament is generally
considered TO he derived from thu,
French. parler. to speak 1t was first
applied. says Blackstone. to general as
srmbies Of the states. under Louis VII.
IN France. about the middle of the
Twelfth century. The earliest mention
Of IT in the statutes is in the preambl.
10 the statute of Westminster, 4. D.
lo7o.
For the nineteenth year in succession
Bank of England note for $500 has
been placed in the offcrtory box ut st.
Mary $ church, kilburn. by Il lrnevolrn,
person unknown. The note has on each
occasion been accollpa MED by :: small!
slip of paper. signed ~. requesting
that the money should be- distributed
among the various charitable organiza-
tons connected with the church