The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-31
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

"A free school in Dahomey, conduct
ed by an Englishman. has been closed by
the French governor on the ground that
all languages were taught there except
French.
Nine Jeanne Hugo. the granldaugh-
ter of Victor Hugo. who was recently
divorced from her husband, Alphonse
DaudctS son, is about to marry n young
doctor in Paris.
Among DR.. Donaldson Smiths dis
cuverieS in the region of Lake Rudolph
is that of the existence of fifteen new
tribes of Africans. ono of them of
dwarfs. none over Ave feet in height.
Stanley and Monterrey Jephson, the
only white survivors of the expedition
for the relief of Emin PaSha. have just
erected II brass tablet in Fillmore church
to- the memory of their comrade, Sur
yron Park.
doctors at Montreuil near Paris,
refuse to give their services to the nut
ncilml tliSpenSary. because a woman has
been appointed to serve i'll it one day in
the week Their grievance is aggra-
waited by her heing paid. while their
services are given free.
French football is improving. The
Racing club of Paris recently beat Il
fifteen Of Oxford men ut Rugby game
at I.,valloiS- Perrct by one try to moth
ing. while the Olympique club beat the
same fifteen in the Bots de Roulogne by
Il goal to Il try.
Three hundred and eighty-siN dis
tintt libel suits have heen begun by as
many priests against the Paris Journal.
on account of an article rejecting on
the clergy of the Hautes Iyronees. Each
priest asks for $40 damages, and if they
win the result of each lawsuit will be
as many of Bordeaux and in twelve
newspapers in the department.
Prof Virchow refuses to accept the
missing link. pithecanthropus erectus, re-
constructed from fossil bones discovered
hv DR. Dubois in Java. The skull, he
says. is that of large gibhon: the thigh
bone may have belonged to man. but
ln>t a> likely to an ape: the teeth look
like human teeth. hut are not identical
With them. and there is nothing TO show
thar all the bones belonged to one body.
\ foot race from Marathon to
Athens. twenty six miles. probably in
mrnt"rv of Philippides. will he me of
H., features Of the Olympic games,
Which begin April : and continue till
April L.. They will include. besides foot
and cycle races. long and high jumps.
pole vault. putting the weight, fencing.
shooting. tennis. cricket, football, gym
naStir> swimming and yacht races.
Eight hundred German gymnastic So
rirtie> are going to enter the games
An instance of how sayages disre-
gard pain comes from NyaSSaland \
cartridge dropped in the camp and ex-
p!"led injuring the hand of one of H.
ii. JnhnStons porters, so that the doctor
Amrutatel the mans fingers and thumb.
AS he seemed weak from the effects of
the chlOrOtOrm. he was told to stay in
the hospital and come for treatment next
day. In the morning he could not be
found and it was afterward discovered
that he had taken up his load with the
other carriers and carried it to Blantyre.
over forty miles away.
Maj. T">rlli'S death in .AbySsinia
and the conduct of his nat;Te servants
reads Ike a page Of Roman history.
After sending on the wounded and those
who could escape. ToSclli faced the enc
my AMI held them back till the ammuui-
ton failed and he was killed When
they saw their master dead. two of the
servants shot themselves through the
head with revolverS. while a third
stabbed himself to the heart with a dag
ger
In tho Caucasus NM. Sommier and
Sewer hay" discovered tracts where q
t1nra of gigantic size grows. which in
other respects is like the flora of the val
l"y>. y campanula, which in the lower
regions grew to two feet. here measured
SIN. and valerian leaf could be used
as parasol. They are uncertain wheth-
or the phenomenon is due to the accu-
mulated richness of the soil. or whether
- It marks the survival of archaic giant
forms.
There We're 1895 divorces granted in
FRANCE i'll 1892. as compared with 1882
in 1850. the first year after the passing
OF the divorce law. The number of ap-
pllratlonS for judicial separation was
2Et. Of which 1891 were granted,
against 2122 in 1885. In 1909 cases
tn" wife was the applicant and 1910
the hus band. The marriage had lastc.
from five t" ten years in 370S cases,
from ten t" twenty years in 22S5 and
less than five years in 1855. There were
chlldrrn III 41S2 cases and none in 3olS.
The courts granted s. per cent of the
Applications for divorce in 1885 and Sc
per cent i'll 1892. but in the latter year
they granted only 10 per cent. of the
demands for seDa ration