The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The first paper mill in Germany was
set up in 1917.
bombay can now be reached by fast
steamer from London in thirteen days
and the Cape in fourteen. :.
--From the Lost Chord" alone it is
said thatASir Arthur Sullivan has real
lied over 100000. .&:
decided that the Sunday liquor law ap-
plies to social clubs.
There are between six and seven
million Hebrews in the world and two
million of these, Sir Samuel Montagu
estimates, might be relied upon to 90
to Palestine if asked.
The astrologers who confidently pre-
dictetl that Queen Victoria would die in
December last now claim that IAN out
burst OF intercessory prayer was in
Strumcntal in altering the course Of fate.
Five young women converts were
baptized in q creek at Richmond, Ky,
the other day. with four inches of snow
ON the ground. several inches of ice on
the Shoal waters of the creek, and the
temperature considerably below freez-
ing.
In January, 1852, the weather in
England was SO mild that strawberries
We're gathered in some gardens near
Tynvmon'is in the first part If that
year and an apple tree at Wullsend. be-
longing to Mr.. CroZier, was covered with
blossoms
A suggestion has been made in Eng
land that the names of the great diyi-
siuns of the empire should be given to
hattlsships, and the names of chief
should be called Caledonia. Australia,
Africa and so on: and cruisers. Lon
dom. Bombay Melbourne and the like.
The smallest republic in the world is
Tarolaro, a little island in the Melit,r-
ranean, about seven and half miles
from Sardinia. The island is only cnc
and half miles across, and has only
elected for six years; no public official
receives any salary: and women have
the same voting rights as men.
A shower of dust fell on the deck
Of the ship Scottish Dale when she WAS
far out at sea off the coast of the Ar
grntine Republic on a voyage which
ended at Tacoma. Wash, last week.
The captain says the dust was very
fine and of light buff color. The cap
tain Supposes it came from some vol
ranu in active eruption.
A professional man in New London,
Conn.,. has invented an apparatus to
convey light under water-a submarine
illumination. Electric rays with this idea
can ht made to light up the submarine
rctesStS to any depth necessary for prac
teal purposes. The idea has been tested
On 4 small scale, and worked we'll before
some electricians in town.
Among the earliest experiments in
the direction of producing light. etc. hy
means of electricity. were those of Sir
Humphrey Davy. who in 1St)S. with Il
voltaic battery consisting of 1000 parts
of plates. demonstrated the great il
Illuminating and heating properties of the
voltaic arc, by means of which quartz.
diamonds, etc. were fused and vapor-
lied
In 1861 WheatStone and others made
the discovery that an electric Magnet
could be advantageously substituted for
the permanent magnet previously en-
rl"yr,l. and since then various forms of
machines on this principle have been in
vented. which are styled dynamo electro
machines, those best known being the
Gramme and the SemenS
There is on record an extraordinary
instance of anthroporhagy in the annals
of Milan. y woman of that city, named
Elizabeth. from Il dcpravcd appetite had
an inv'nciblc inclination to human flesh,
of which she made provision by enticiny
children INFO her home. where she killed
and salte,l them: a discovery of which
having been made. she was, in 1910,
broken on the wheel and burned