The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-03
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

-Forty-two French convicts transport
ct to Cayenne have succeeded in MAX
ing their escape during the last twelve
months.
the pretrndrr Don Carlos. has entered
the Russian army as Il sublieutenant of
Dragons.
-Nn the ground that they are too con-
spiruouS in war times the gray horses
ut the Second dragons, the Scots Grays,
are to be SuppreSScs and dark horses are
to take their place.
Lieut. Walter Maxwell Scott, the
great great grandSon of Sir Walter Scott
and the first male heir of Albbotsford
since Sir Walters own son, will come of
age in April. Queen Victoria, it is said,
will then make him Il baronet.
Grand Duke Michael Michaclovitch
of Russia has been pardoned by the
Car. He was eNiled for marrying the
Countess Won Torby. daughter of Prince
Nicholas of Nassau by his morganatic
marriagr with PuShkin's daughter.
ON Marli GraS, with matinee pro-
yranme made up of Moliere's Lies Fem
mes SavanttS" and M. de Pourceaug-
nae" the Coincide Franchise took III
$3.50 francs, tn. largest sum for one per-
furmanrc in its history.
AT Stettin, in Prussia. near which
there is !: peat moor, apples and pears
have been preservel successfully by be-
ing packed in null" the dust from the
dry litter of the peat. 1t is very light,
has no smell. and can be- used many
times over.
-"t;ro~Se Fortune" Henri Meilhacs
pew comedy at the thea ter Francais has
had only Il success deStime. 1t turns
rn the efforts Of a young wife to win
back her husband. who loves her, but
has gone a>traE on account eft suddenly
coming into great deal Of money.
-MonSignor Agostino Caprara, the
advocate of the devil. has just died at
Rome The duty Of the advocatus dia-
bell is ~ present the objections to the
ranonization Of any person proposed as
new saint and to cast doubts on his mira
Giles, while the advocatus Del takes the
other >iUe.
Deulatoy Of Paris, is generally due to
the progressive formation of a calculus
analogous 70 the stones formed in the
liver and kidneys. He thinks his theory
is confirmed by some recent experiments
in which appendicitis was produced by
surgical means in rabbits.
AT \lederrentsen. near pledenhoten,
which is the German for Thionyl?le.
treasure of from $4,000 to 10000 Roman
coins belonging to the Third and Fourth
centuries was recently discovered, ac-
rnr,liny to the I.othringen Zeitung. The
coins weigh nearly 100 pounds and have
been given To the Lorraine Historical
society.
There were 114.4S9 fewer children
being educated in French primary schools
than there We're five years ago. according
~ the last report of the minister of pub
lie instruction. while in the five years
the number of pupils in the schools Of
the Christian Brothers nearly doubled.
The brothers are now teaching 1,361, 1856
Oh !. with oil fr,p, rho
u,'nt.
--'retk barber surgeons in the y.evant
Use large ants to keep together the edges
"f cuts. The ant. held with forceps.
opens its manlihleS wide. and as soon
as it >rizc> the edges of the wound has
its head severed from the body, but re-
tan> its grip. People have been seen
with wounds healing held together by
seven or eight ants heads. The kind
Innntu>.
Lord James of Hereford. chancellor
If the Durhy of Lancaster. has been ap-
pointed a member of the judicial com
mlttsr Of the privy council. and is >huS
empowered to try appeals in the House
Of Lords. Except in the case Of lord
rhancell"rS. the only time when judicial
aud political Offices have been so com.
hined in this century was when Lord
into the cabinet in 1906. Sir Henry
James twice refused the lord chancellor
ship.
In Australia they have whale cure
for rheulua tisn which is said to ne eff
f"ctive though diSagreeable 1t was dis
covered by Il drunken man, who was
staggering along the beach near the
Whaling station at Twofold Bay. and
who. seeing Il dead whale cut open. took
Il healer into the decompoSing blubber.
1t took two hours for him to work his
way out, but he was then not only sober,
but cured of his rheumatism Now
hotel has been built in the neighboring
town Of Eden. where rheumatic patients
wait for the arrival of whale in order
- take blubber baths