The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-07-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

tof persons, Is the most pOpulOuS parish
in Great Britain.
-Roothhay, Me-, has a man who denis
in Ike seals. and Etlsw orth boasts of a
citizen who raises AngfeWormS.
- Inc sen power OF Great Britain Is at
this moment reader for action than the
sea power of all the rest Of the world.
The British press generally approve
OF the gold plank in the Republican plat
form in America. while they condemn
protection.
At Muneie. Ind. two men we're sen
fenced to one year in the state prison for
stealing 10 cents worth of tobacco from
grocery.
"A little dry torn starch or pulveri2ed
Soapstone nut on the hands in warm
Weather will prevent any perspiration in
iuring kid gloves.
One of l.ivcrpool'S leading citizens, Il
millionaire manufacturer, labors under
the Authorization that he is a steam
boiler JUS: about to burst.
A coroner's jury in Maine reported
that deceased came to his death by ex-
tsSSivc drinking. producing apoplexy in
the minds of the jury"
-on the eastern coast of Ireland it
rams on an average POS days in the
Year. III England about 40 days, at
hazan about Nl days, and in Siberia
only 90.
A settler at HAY. New South Wales,
reports that he and his sons DESTROYED
$4,000 rabbits in four days, and that on
one occasion he poisoned 10000 in a
night.
- lohns are very susceptible to change
ct the weather. The strings of a violin
always become more taut and thus rive
sharper tone. when storm is coming
ON.
The new catalogue of the Wisconsin
1n,verSlty shows total registration of
l.'!S students during the present college
year. an Increase of IS over the att.n1I
ant" last year.
ales is the most criminal part of
the British isles. but this is not due 50
much to the corruption of the Welshmnn
as to the Immigration of English. Irisu
amt foreign criminals.
-t.NcavatorS in the neishborhood of
'Zeh discovered IN almost perfect Yacht
OF r,, treasure vessel which had been as
rrlhtd by experts to be the, eleventh or
twelfth dynasty. "r about 1000 B. &.
The cords of window blinds are coed
har"meterS. When they become fight
the reason is found in the fact that the
ar Is moist; the cords have absorbed
some nf the MOISTURE and 50 are drawn
taut.
Fire suddenly started the other day
III showcase in front of 462 Broadway.
A'ih. helonSlnS TO manufacturers
ct celluloid goods, owing to the cellulod
articles i'll the case taking fire from the
heat Of the sun.
A vegetable meat of JaDan c,l,ed
tortu. is said to consist mainly of pro.
TEN OF the Soya bean. and to be as nntrj-
nous and dlyeStible as meat 1t is sold in
tablets. as white as snow. and tastes like
fresh malt
Madrid schools are 50 bad that Ger
man residents of the city have united
to establish i school where their children
more civilized parts Of Europe for =
reasonable outlay of money
A hunting party organized bv the
Grand Duke Serge Michailovitch in the
Auban district of the Caucasus brings to
nght the fact that the wooded AMI So
r!uded parts of that region are still in
haolted by panthers and other wild
beasts -"
For 1895 the receipts of the Suez
canal traffic were 7S.42G,,nO frames o an
increase of 100000 francs over the
last year. Part of this was due to tho
tfench expedition to Madagascar and
the Italian troubles in Abyssinia. The
number OF vessels was 1854
\ remarkable story comes from Au-
SuSta' Ne. on account of cyclone of
three weeks ago. \ pig was imprisoned
-iiS i"ih' ~ q UdIu which mad been
blown down in that gale, and was not
released until Thursday. when it was
found alive. but very thin and emaciated.
-.Ienners silver lancet case and
iancets. the former engraved with the
initials and the later with the name of
the dlscoverer of vaccination, have been
presented to the Royal College of Sur
seons by doctor who obtained them
from the grandson of Jenner's assistant.
The men liable to military service in
Switzerland number 500, 900, according to
the recent statistics published by the
government at Berne Of them 80, 900
are incorporated i'll the active service,
and 2I6.OOO kept on the rolls, to be
called upon only in case of an extraor-
binary emergency.
While Frenchmen grumble that they
still have to pay taxes in order to make
up the war indemnity exacted by Prus-
S.a twenty-five years ago. the town of
N"n'ssberg. i'll Prussia, has only this
year paid the last installment of the loan
contracted to the war contribution i'm
posed on it by Napoleon I.
"A piece of pianoforte wire recently
tested at the WATERFOWL arsenal showed
the extraordinary strength of 2O6 tons
per square inch. The wire was one
tenth Of an inch in diameter large
size and gave Il tensil strength of 1876
tons and upward per square inch. The
metal contained O.S5 per cent of com
bined carbon.