The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
CURIOUS, CONVERSATIONS.

-London, in monetary value, is worth
two and one-half times us much as
Paris. 52$sy'', - -. s.
A peer of the realm in Great Britain
Is not lia bic to arrest for debt.
There is" u Presbyterian Literary So,
cieties' union in London, with thirty,
five societies on it's rolls and members
ship of 5000. @ .3s @.s.Ss9
1T is liverpool which now declares
that when married couples get to the
poorhause they invariably refuse to live
together. ~
The national debt of Great Britain
in lS65 amounted to nearly fSO4 600
0Ou; i'll 1895 it had been reduced to about
f655. 100000. :.
In the Fifteenth century the beer
gallon measure of England was fourth
larger than the wine gallon measure. to
allow for the, froth. g, a. t.
Historians tell us that the first Eng
lish marquis was created by Richard H.,
who bestowed the title upon his favorite,
Robert de We're. in 1856. }a
1t is said that the first English duke
was Edward. the Black Prince. who. by
his father, Edward III. was created
Duke Of Cornwall in 1887.
Proposals have been made to con,
struct new railway between Liverpool
and Manchester, so as to meet tho compe-
tition offered by the ship canal.
Several beggars in Pera own 4 large
amount of property. One well-known
man has house worth 10000 liras, and
vet is to be seen begging in filthy rags.
Emerson is reported often to have
spent six months to a year in the compo-
Sition of one or two short essays His
object was the condensation of the great
est possible thought in the fewest num-
Der of words.
-Froude passed seven years in collect
irg materials and writing his History
OF England He was very careful in
the selection OF data. and spent whole
days in the effort OVERLY !. single fact
that nearly twenty. years elapsed be-
tween the skctching out the plan of
"ParadiSe Lost and the completion of
that work. The actual labor of compo-
sition was condensed into two or three
years. s
Irving wrote the first 12O pages of
"Bracebridge Hair in ten days; the
"Alhambla' was mostly written during
the three months be spent in that place.
His Life OF: George Washington re-
qu'red neatly i've years to write.
An imposing addition has been made
TO the architecture of London by the
opening in the City road of 7. J. Lip
tons rev premises. Built of white stone
and red brick. the building presents an
imposing appearance. tho doorway alone
being 30 feet in height. and thanked by
pillars Of gray marble.
The London county council has de-
cidel TO spend t1,OO0.OO0 on the pro-
vision Of new .asylums for tho insane.
The expenditure is to spread over five
years. ard at the close of that period
it is believed that the provision of asy-
lum accommodation will be fully AIDE
Quate to the wants Of the metropolis.
Last year two-thirls of the Anlcri-
can bicycles We're made with Rirming-
ham tube. and the English makers, fail
ing to get supplied, Were very much
hampered. although they had all the 9th
tr cycle necesSaries: hence new compa-
Mes were formed and old companies be-
gan working again in Birmingham and
elsewhere. Z" -'
1t was once told to certain King
of England that Lord Blank was his
politest subject. II will test him. said
the King, and showed Lord Blank to
the royal carriage, holding the door open
for him to enter first, which he did.
man would have troubled me with cerc-
mony.'
ten. Sir Peter Lumslen. G. C. f.,
Indian Staff corps, was placed OH the
retired list on the 9th inst, on attain
ing the limit age. Gen. Lumstlcn. who
entered the army in 1917, served in the
whole Of the operations On the north
west frontier. 1927, and the Indian
mutiny. China and Bhootan campaigns
In the southern and western part OF
Missouri especially in the Ozark regions
where w. J. Bryan and his party are
hunting, there are many irregular.
shaped openings in the earth, which the
local biologists term elbow holes OF
''cold caves" and from which cold blasts
of air are constantly issuing - -
DIR. Burton Ward. according to tht
Medical Age. declares that there sis one
infallible symptom indicating whether
one is sane or not Let person speak
ever sosrationally and act ever SO sedate
ly. if his or her thumbs remain: in
active there is no doubt of insanity
I.unatics seldom make 81 use of stheil
thumbs in writing, drawing or saiuting.',
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