The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Baked potatoes are more nutritious
than those cooked in any othef way.
In many cases of dyspepsia great re-
lief is found by a very hot bath quickly
taken.
Michigan produces one-hfth Of the
iron of this country, mining $780, 900
tons year.
Italy is the home of the pawnshop.
since it is claimed Savonarola estab-
hshed the first one.
Lexington, Ky, has an old peoples
club. of which the youngest member is
~ years old: There are three members
80 years old, one 81, two SO and two
Derry was named Derry Calgaeh"
ava Derry Columkille," the former
from chief and the latter from the
celebrated Saint Columba-'derry" sig
nifying oak grove.
Eli Perkins" is hardly known to
the world by any other name. Even
when introduced in society it was always
as Eli Perkins and not as NJ. D. Lam
don, his real name.
MARKHAM Howard" was the pen
name chosen by Mary, Cecil Hay as beng
most likely to populariZe her writings.
1t is sail that Markham WAS the name of
youthful friend.
--Crleraine, 20 Kanes Country" was
united to Derry in the reign of James
l.. and called Londonderry in honor of the
city of London, to whose trade guilds
James gave large tracts Of land in Eng
land.
According to the laws of good society
in China, young widows should not re-
marry. Widowhood is therefore held in
the highest esteem, and the older the
Widow grows the more agreeable her po>
SitOn becomes.
In the time of Pliny silk was supposed
to be 4 vegetable product and his Nat
ural History contains a long story Of the
way in which it was picked from trees
i'll the East Indies and spun and woven
into fabrics.
era all silk imported from the East to
the West was valued at its weight in
gold. The silken goods We're put into
one scale and enough gold to balance them
was placed in the other.
The pulp and paper mills in Maine
at the present time have daily capacity
Of about 1900 tons This is two-thir,ls
pulp and one-third paper. About $13, 000,
600 is invested in this industry in Maine
ard upward of 5000 men employed.
In Russia young man does not at
tain his ma ority until he is 20 years old.
--ShoemakerS were at first called SAN
dalma kers, and there is little doubt that
sandals and rough buskins, or socks (cov-
tring the legs like gaitersl, were the first
specimen OF shoes.
The common people among ancient
Egyptians wore wooden sandals If we
may credit tho assertion of historians.
one of the Egyptian Queens received the
revenue of one city solely to keep herself
in sandals.
The Cocopah volcanoes, seventy-fve
miles southwest of Yuma, Ariz., were
in violent eruption week or so since.
The larger ones were emitting great vol
uineS of smoke and some flames. and the
smaller ones We're throwing out qua nti-
ties Of water, stones and mud. The roar
of the eruption could be heard twenty
miles or more.
Mrs. Eugene Daniels of Canaan, y.
H.. has a tame crow that is Il curiosity.
1t is about IS months old, and has been
in captivity from the nest. 1t talks and
and is fond OF music. l! goes to church
every Sunday and waits outside until the
services are through.
Sudden death, except from accident,
IS far less common than most people I'M
agine, and death with no preceding sign
of illness is very rare indeed. Practical
ly there are but three conditions by
which men going about in apparently
active health are at one blow brought to
the grave-heart disease, aneurism and
apollexy.
A writer in London periodicals some
forty years past states that nearly ali the
English clerevfhen living between 200 or
300 years ago wore the mustache. In
his list of those who wore the beard on
the upper lip. we find the well-known
names of John Dome. George Herbert.
Robert Herrick. Jeremy Taylor, Thomas
Fuller aud Robert South, the famous
John Knox, and the celebrated John
Bunyan.
Sir Walter Besant tells the follow
ing curious coincidence which happened
to himself: Il was consulting" he says
IAN artist, with regard to the face and
feature of character which he was il,
Illustrating for me, and briefly described
to him the kind of face I had in mind
He was meanwhile rapidly sketching n
face on piece of paper he had before
him. Will that do? he asked, showing
me the exact portrait of the man 1 had
been thinking of -