The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Pearl borers in Ceylon can earn
about 20 cents a day, 5Ssz Il u .sss. IS. d
The deepest spouting well is at Sper-
enherg, in Prussia-41N feet.
"A weaver in Morocco makes from
% cents to 80 cents day. b.. 49,. a
Shirts of chain armor which cost
about $500 are now Worn by more than
one distinguished person on the CONT
nent H.. II
The composition of the first part of
Goethe's 'Faust" was done at odd in
tervals during nearly twenty years: the
preparation of the second part continued
over twenty-six. - 7 =
-George Washington, when surveying
for Lord Fairfax. is said to have carved
his name on Il rock of the Natural bridge
Of Virginia. where many people profess
to be able to see it.
shepherds say that the wool Of the
of weather changes. When it is crisp
there will be no rain. When it is limp
and feels very soft to the touch a storm
is imminent.
Out on the Columbia mountain the
crows are acting i'll Il peculiar manner.
They are building their nests as usual,
but, instead of leaving them open on
top, they are all inclosed, except a small
entrance on the side.
The champion football game between
England and Scotland was played a
sand persons attended and paid an adj
mission fee of a shilling each. The pre-
vious largest attendance was 5000. -
Exactly overhead, strange as it may
seem. on the highest spring of the arch
of Nirginia's natural bridge. is a figure
OF gigantic spread eagle proudly
perched in the very position in which
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The flags to be hoisted at one time in
signaling ut sea never exceed four. 1t
is an interesting arithmetical fact that,
with eighteen various-colored flags, and
never more than four at time. no fewer
than 1852 signals can be given.
DIR. Chauvet of Fordham. Mass,
owner of the famous Poe cottage in that
suburb, has summarily elected the ten
ant. The tenant. who is laundry
man, has nailed up sign, On which was
painted Poe Laundry ami perched
above the sign 4 wooden raven.
The wine cellar of the House of COM
mons is capable of holding some ESQ.,,
600 to 100000 worth of wine. 1t is over
POO feet long. with innumerable small
cellars branching from the main avenue.
In this stOrehouse there is seldom less
than $4,000 worth of wine.
In all countries in Europe a man is
less he can show that he is both re-
spectacle and moral; that he has resided
in the land of his adoption certain num-
Der of years; and that he is ready to
renounce the country of his birth-his ma
tive land.
-Moplaho is the name of tribe of
Mohammedans which forms fourth
part of the population of the Malabar
coast of South India. They are sup
posed to be descendants of Moors and
Arabians who ablished themselves on
the coast and intermarried with native
women. Some years ago there were
about 100000 of them.
To change ones nationality in Rus
STA is not at the command of every
purse. The first condition is that you
should be a landowner for five years at
the shortest. and that during the whole
of that period you should have resided
upon your property in that country. The
next condition is that you should take
the oath of allegiance to the Gar.
Nearly everywhere service in for
eign army confers the rights of natural
ization upon the alien soldier. An Irish
man fighting for France might. if he
liked. claim the status of a Frenchman.
parents, one of whom may be English,
but born i'll France, is regarded as
French, and is liable to CONSUMPTION.
An Englishman who wishes to turn
himself into Frenchman must reside
on the other side of the channel for ten
years without interruption. But an cas-
Ter way. after a years residence in
France, is to marry a Frenchwoman, or
to render some signal service to the
state. either in the army or in the crea-
ton of some industrial OF agricultural