The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Hair dye is considered 50 detrimental
to long life that Il Paris insurance COM
sons who use it.
The city of San Salvador, capital of
the Central American republic of the
same name. is called the Swinging Mat,
on avrornt Of its numerous earthquakes
The accession of Queen Victoria to
the throne ct England took place on
the 10Th of June. 1887: the proclama-
INK.
The total number of capital letters
i'll ,hr whole Bible is lU6asN; Of small
capitals. GSN1. and Of lower case 3,4o2,
,';G. Grand total of letters, including
one -\e, S.NM,4Sl.
-MrNiro imports leather from Europe,
Exporting for it green hides. There is Il
great opportunity for tannrrleS in McN-
zee. the ca>calotc bean furnishing good
tauMu.
--Hr>ileS doing Il great amount of
work for various government depart
n,tu,S. the inmates of Parkhur>t convict
prison. las, year made 1920 mail bags
for the prSsutlice.
The Empress Eugenie has presented
to the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts
all the plans and drawings prepared for
m,nt> in the Tuiilrres.
\ baby that ut it's birth six weeks
aSn weighed only as much as the New
brunswick midget. Ia pounds. and is
HON under :. pounds in weight, is living
;.lrt doing we'll III ESSEX, Conn.
- The Nh.u,-sruwing lands Of Texas
are in the region northwest of Fort
Wnrth, and the average crop is about
N.hN'aN bushels. 1t is said that the
frequent ami abundant rains that have
:All.,n since, the growing crop was seeded
give excellent promise for tn. yield of
1886.
because heavy rains had flooded the
cells in the lower part of the city hail.
Port Townsend. WASH. Police Magis-
ordered that all prisoners confined there
tr discharged. rs there was no other
Suitable place for their detention.
--.I.>,,il>' Bark lCortcX PcruvipnuS,
called by the SparardS fever wood, WAS
discovered. il is said. by Il Jesuit about
l.:S, Its virtues We're not gen rally
hH"wn till 1888 whom it cured of fever
the lady of the vlreroy of Peru. The
,I,>,,it> gave it to the sick, and hence its
name
-.Albrrt tran,z relates that the Ger
man ocean WAS frozen over in the year
l:i2o:'. 80 that men passed on foot from
l.uherk to Denmark and to Prussia bl
SEA. inns being erected on the ice in such
places rs were tnmmoIiouS In 1890
Turing Inc whole of the winter, persons
Passed on foot from Lubbock to SunIen
- 1t is said that the use of the tele-
Scope was first discovered by one Haul
>;.n, Il ~pcrtacrmaker ut Mi!dlehure, in
Holland whose children. playing in the
shop casually, placed :: cuncave and Il
convex glass in such Il position that, by
lacking through them ut the weather.
T., l.,,,,
than usual.
In ancient times seal incosed in
cas-" was attached to the papal Bulls BY
:, string. The case, commonly of lead.
WAS called hulla. Il Latin word which
originally Sisnitic,l a bubble Of water.
and anything which had the circular
shape of hubble of water, such as ANU
let's made OF gold and silver, which were
worn 10y the treeborn children Of ancient
Rome. In the process of time the name
If the case WAS transferred to the ,ucu-
ment
mother we!l-known American shin
will hcrat:er fly IL foreign flag. She is
the Charger. which arrived at Hamburg
RECENTLY from the River Plate. The
send. at their East Boston yards. about
twenty years ago for the firm of Henry
Hastings & Co.. and flew their house flag
until two years ag', when She was
btEeut ny Adpt. -. -. tIOO0elk, Jf., VINO
had commanded her for several years.
and sold her ut the end of her last vov-
rgt
-',ne hundred aud nine thousand loco
motives are ut present running on the
earth Europe has $4,000; America, 49,
''H'; Asia, $500; Australia. 1000. and
Africa. 700. In Europe, Great Britain
and Ireland take premier positions with
| .HD engines. Germany has $4,000,
France II 900 Austria Hungary, the
>'rnn;l largest continental country, has
:,!hUi
The Russian and Polish Hebrews
Nh' founded farming colony on prac-
rnaly abandoned farms in the south
part Of Colchester, Conn. have nearly all
given NJ farming us too hard work and
nrpr"fitable. They have turned their
attention largely to the making of cloth
ing for New York manufacturers, who
forward great bundles of work every
Week to he finished.
The mail of the Emperor of japan is
more than ten times as great as it was
before the war with China began. There
IS hardly = city in the civilized world
from which he does not receive letters
Many of his correspondents seem to
thing that through him they can gain en-
trance 70 :he japanese market. The
number Of inventions of all kinds offered
him tor sale is enormous.
Now 3pidoe Pjt1