The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Bishop Walsh, Anglican bishop of
OsS0ry. who as 4 Curate baptized Charles
Stewart Parnell, has resigned from his
see.
An Aberdeen jam and pickle manu-
facturer has hequeathed $2,5oO,OOO for
ally and China.
Tomatoes have been grated upon po-
tatoes by a French experimenter, whose
hybrid plant produces tuhers under
ground and tomatoes above.
John Payne, the translator of the
ARABIAN Nights" has completed a met
rical transla ton of all of Omar Khay-
yam's Quatrain, nearly 800 in number,
which viii be printed for the Villon so
ciety. Three-quarters of the work has
never been turned into English before.
M. Osiris. who recently restored Jo-
sephine's Malmaison, has turned over
100000 francs to the Paris press syndi-
cate to be used as a prize for the most
meritorious work exhibited at the eXhihi-
ton of 1900, judged from an artistic in
dustrial or humanitarian standpoint.
Hugo Wolf. the viennese composer,
has developed such eccentrcities that his
an asylum. \ society formed in Vienna
to spread his works made it as its first
rule that none of the members should
have anything to do with Wolf person
ally.
War has been declared by the Cor
nish fishermen on the painters of the
Newlyn school who visit their coasts, and
are now frequently attacked with de-
cayed fish when they try to sketch. The
cause is the interference of the visitors
with the liquor question in the town cleo
lions.
An incandescent electric light for life
huoys has been devised by Compieyne
inventor. When the buoy touches the
water an India rubber bladder moves a
lever which esta blishes the circuit and
lights the lamp automatically. The power
is furnished by an accumulation which
acts for eight hours
Coral is now applied in mosaic or tor
toise shell and other materials for the Or
namenration of glove and jewel boxes and
Of musical Instruments ut the ROYAL
School of Coral Work and Decorative
Art. at Torte del Greco, near Naples 1t
is also used to ornament picture frames
and artistic furniture.
Bicycle frames stamped out in two
halves by one opera ton from steel
plate are recent Birmingham novelty.
The halves are clamped together and
though the frame is not so elegant as
one made by another process it is per-
feCtly rigid and can be made at cost
of 50 instead of $3.50.
Human perspira ton, if injected into
dogs or rabbits, acts like deadly poison,
according to NJ. Arloing's experiments.
Precipitation sccreted during hard mus
cular work has more toxic power than
the ordinary kind, while that obtained
from subjects whose secretion has been
checked by cold is very poisonous
Heidelberg students who study chem
istry or physics are obliged by the univer-
sity to insure themselves against accidents
in the laboratories. The payment of 3
marks entities them to receive 1000 marks
in case of permanent disability. provided
the experiments that cause the injury are
carried on under the supervision Of the
instructors.
Salmon fishing has been very poor on
the river Spey this season, owing, it
seems. to the whisky refuse from the dis
tiliers on the banks. Anglers assert that
the refuse kills or drives away the fish.
while the dstillers say that the salmon is
hungry for it and thrive on it. For either
cause, however. the salmon will no Ion
ger touch the flies.