The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The river Nevsl is frozen over soli(ily.
at st. Petersburg. Esez s..s & s
In Iceland Goldfish beaten toGa powder
are used as bread. 5 s. .sg !.
According to one of the London FASH
ion writer's the canellias are the newest
and sulartest flowers. -. 81
No Sgirl who has not done growing
should be allowed to bicycle to any very
great extent, says Lady Jeune. -
ALL the rivers which flow into the
Arctic ocean ARE frozen s0lidly. to the
bottom during aboptssA months ID evefy,
year. at% Hs#A 81 g.
-Three London chimney sweeps have|
been fined fen..sknocasiag 1t doors and
canyassing for jobs, contrary to act
The Orinoco is only 1000 miles in
length, but is much larger than might be
supposed, owing. TO- the heavy rains Of
the tropics. p \ - - :, - ~
We have in Alaska one of the great
est rivers of2the warld,t the AlNwichpak.i
1t is believed to be more than 1900 miles
long.
Sixty cents an oath is what Grover
Reeves sot Red Bank, n. r.. had to nav
by order of court for uttering SIX ex-
pletives at bystander. >~% Il
A section of Tom Paines shrain is
on exhibition in London. The Pail Nah
Gazette says that it is quite black and
Hooks like a chunk Of iron pyrites."
M. Henri Mcnier, the zchocolate
manufacturer. has. says Paris corrc-
spondent. bought the Island OF. Anticosti.
Canada, for the sum of 100000 francs.
-One Of the most remarkable exports
of the Gold coast is that of monkey
= skins. During the last five years an
averages of 1T5.OO0 skins have been an
nUaily exported.
Edwin FORESTS first appearance was,
in 1920, as Douglass, in Homes plays
-ln Paris it is required that every
vehicle traversing its streetsfat might. if
only wheelbarrow, shall carry Ian
tern. ,. ...s.x, ,,, -.-.-,-. -
The old penalty against 1. German sol.
,tier or sailor Of the standing army or
navy who left the Fatherland was 4 fine
of POO marks or forty dayssssimprison.
ment. That has now been raised to 1000
marks fine or Imprisonment for four
months. ~
a large number of unpublished let>'
tiers written by Jean Armour. Dickens
Scott. Byron, Thomas Moore. Beethoven,
Haydn and Weber we're recently found
among the papers. Of the late George
THOMPSON. lawyer Of Edinburgh.
The are 9sing l pselshed by ths Glas-
The nttle economics that lave mtiile
Japan so rich may be noticed eEeryWhere.%
The dust of charcoal is gathered upsand
mixed with chaff of wheat, barley and
other grains, and with chopped straw.
1t is then mostitened into paste. rolled
into balls about as big as billiard ball,
and makes excellent fnel-F('I. ':g4's' :
The committee charged with the cree
ton of memorial to Mrs. Siddons have
selected the model designedeby w. Brind-
ley of Westminster Bridge road London.
and executed by ". Chevafer, a French
sculptor. The. statue, which will&cost
about $40 pounds, is to be life size, and
will no, fnnnoSpI off zxyhifn O0rhlf
The ways of auctioneers in different
parts of the world vary greatly. III
England and America the seller bears
the expense of the sale; but in France
the purchaser bears the" cost, s per cent:
being added TO his purchase. In tiot
land it is still worse, the buyer being re,
u,ired to pay 10 per cent. additional for
the expense of the safe. s7Tj{ 1Fi4 CT :
Someone with taste for figures has
noticed the fact that Miss Braddon,s the
novelist, has in the thirty three years
since she began to- write produced Just
sixty ronlances. eaeh2of them IN three
volumes. making $50 in all. She has,
therefore. made copy enough for six
printed pages on each day III all those
years.
Two more abSr~of stone, Inscribed
with words and music have been found
in the treasury of the Athenians at Del
phi by the French. By using some of
the fragments previously. discovered. a
second hymn to Apollo. with its notes,
has been putstogether. s,The date is after
the conquest Of Greece by the Romans.
The Greeks seem to have used twenty
one notes in their musical notation,
where we only use twelve.
In Switzerland and other mountain
Gus countries the goat leads long strings
of animals daily to and from the mount
aims. but it is in South Africa that it is
regularly kept and employed as a leader
of tlockS of sheep. Should "a binding
storm Of rain or hail drive the silly
sheep before it. or cause them to huatlle
together in q corner SOFAS to- suffocate
each other the trained. goatswilI wake
them mp and byta method best known
to himself will induce them to follow
him to a place of safety.