The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Both Oxford and Cambridge now
have university hockey teams, =
A small Irish Jew boy of IL has just
eloped from Dublin with young wom-
an of Is.
Japan will hereafter manufacture
her own torpedoes; she is said to have
one OF Japanese Invention that is far
superior to the Whitehead.
Theirs are $1,000 artists in Paris,
more than halfSof them painters. The
hihitions, last year was about 10000.
Mrs. Kelley, the venerable actress
whose ninetieth birthday was recently
celebrated IN London, sang the "Mer-
maids Song" in a performance of ODE.
ron. conducted by Weber himself, in
"A temperance banquet was given to
the mayor of Southport, England, re-
Gently. at which the drinks were orange
champagne, ginger champagne, lemon
AIDE, ginger ale. gingerette, winterine and
coffee.
Coal dust is successfully used as
fuel Tor boilers by process invented
by German named NVegener. 1t is
fed to the furnace automatically, and
only ordinary chimney draught is need
cd
Two miniatures of Joan of Arc by
a contemporary artist. now in a private
COLLECTION at lsenheim in Alsace, are said
by NJ. Gatrio to be probably portraits
of the Maid of Orleans from life.
Although there is more water than
usual this year, the Eolga is growing
SO shallow as to be unnavigable. Ship
ping has entirely stopped between liver
and kyhinsk and nearly stopped be-
tween the latter place and Mini Nov
xurod
Pure glucinum has been obtained
from the emerald by NJ. Lebeau by heat
ing the emerald in the electric furnace
until the silicon is violatilized. when the
residue is confined with hydrofluoric
acid, and, after u series of puritica tons,
gives glucinum.
English ships will be attra ctetl to ST.
berian ports now that Capt. Virgins
has shown that it is possible by the de-
!cision Of the Russian government, to al
low foreign mercha ndise to be imported
into Siberia by the Arctic route for some
years to come at least.
Miss Vera Beringer, the first Little
Lord Fauntleroy in London, has grown
UP and is to appear soon as Juliet to the
Romeo of her sister, Miss Esme Ber-
niger. 1t is the first time that two Sis
tiers have acted in these parts since the
days of Charlotte Cushman, half Il GEN.
fury ago.
Though the German schoolmaster
won the war of 1870. he was and still is
very poorly paid. Thirteen thousand
schoolmasters have salaries of less than
500 year. They lately met and re-
solved that they ought to have at least
$500 to begin with, and a chance to rise
to 5000 by the end of twenty-five years.
Women in Hungary will henceforth
be allowed to enter the Budapest univer-
ries, study in the philosophical fac
ulty. They must pass the same high
school examinations as the men, how
ever, and for that purpose the govern
ment will provide them with opportuni-
ties to study Latin and Greek.
-.Anti-toxin shortens the time needed
for the retention of the tube in the lar
yn1 III cases of Group and diphtheria.
according to DR.. Bokai of Budapest.
In 215 successful cases where he used
tube without anti-toxin the average
period of intubation was seventy-nine
hours. while the average duration of
forty-fve successful cases with anti-tox-
in was sixty-one hours, being a reduction
Of eighteen hours.
4 large number of unpublished let
tiers from literary and musical celebrities
left by George Thompson, an Edinburgh
lawyer. The letters are being published
in the Glasgow Evening News. The first
batch contains letters from Jean Ar
nour, the wife of Robert Burns, and
from the poets brother. Letters from
Dickens. Scott, Byron, Tom Moore, Bee
thoven, Haydn and Weber are to follow.
First editions ofERobert Louis Ste
At the recent sale of Philip Gilbert
Hamerton's library and etchings, which
brought in only $3.50, a presentation
copy of IAN Inland Voyage" 1878, was
sold for S:'3. and the first edition of the
New Arabian Nights two volumes.
ESdr for ru f4r eau fos sod for a'$ &c.,
the highest price obtained. Hamerton's
own books and manuscripts obtained
very low bids.
THAT tuberculosis is increased by liv-
ing i'll thickly settled communities is
shown by statistics collected by DR.. Petit
for ti;2 French towns. In Paris the pro-
portion Of deaths from tuberculous dis
ease in 100000 inhabitants is 1870; in
II towns of from 100000 to $4,000 in
habitants it rs 1863; in 46 towns with a
population between 10000 and 100000
it is 3O5: in so towns of from 10000
to 10000 inhabitants it is 2SS; in 127
towns between 10000 and 10000 it is
III: IN :}oZ towns between SGO and
10000 it is PIG, and in 95 towns with a
population below 5000 it is 1871.
"A man wearing the Victoria Cross
was recently sentenced TO eighteen
months hard labor in England for biga-
my under unusually cruel and coward
~ circumsta nccs, the judge telling him
that he richly deserved the full
limit Of ten years. He had mar
ried one after another a number
of young girls, beating them brutal
y after ter ne ~; was tired OF themi Yet he
usually unselfsh act of bravery. In
1880. when the British were cut up by
the Afghans at Maiwand, in the insur
rection that led to Roberts march to
Candahar, he saved a gun heaped up with
wounded men by rushing alone on foot
against the Afghan horsemen about to
surround it and holding them off with
his rifle for the few moments needed to
get the piece clear.