The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Berlin had thirty-one strikes last
year. only eight of which were success
full for the strikers, of whom 4,616
were involved.
An official examination shows that
public schools at Minneapolis have de-
fective eyesight.
w. I. Speakman, postmaster at No
BUSINESS postoftice, in Morgan county,
Ala. has been arrested, charged with en-
bezzling postoffice funds.
The percentage of tourists in Switz-
erland in 1875 was: German, $40: Eng
lish and American, 24.64; Swiss, 1866:
French, 11.6; Italian, 3, etc.
A rock by a Calais (Ie.) roadside
bears bears the following: ''Take Smiths
Chamomile Pills" and directly below it,
Caskets" ~''>'
The introduction of sugar into Eng
land is often stated as having taken
place in the Fifteenth century. but it was
really in use in that country in the Thir-
teenth century.
The Swiss people. on February %,
by vote of 200. 900 against 100000, re-
jected the proposal to establish state
bank with the exclusive privilege of issu-
ing banknotes.
Curtain rings for heavy curtains are
now hung on ballbearings, the balls he
ing set in a casing in the upper inside
portion OF the ring, so that it will slide
easily on the pole.
The hrst great international exposi-
tion was held in London in 1851. 1t last
ed 144 days, there We're 10000 visitors,
the receipts Were 100000 and the ex-
penses $1.50O,OOO.
In the ninety-eight years since it's es-
tabllshment, the British and Foreign BIZ
BE society has distributed 1856, tifS9
Bibles, Testaments and books of extracts
from the Scriptures.
Miss Alice Venn of McClellandsville.
Pa. in opening an egg found a large,
live spider in the yolk She kept it in
the she'll twenty-four hours, when it spun
its web and then died
"A portrait, supposedly Charles Car
roll. was discovered lately in Baltimore
in cellar of the old Carroll house,
Its authenticity is left to the decision of
the Maryland Historical society.
The annual consumption of tea is es-
timated by Mulhall as follows. in pounds:
lnited Kingdom. 1874, 100000: United
States. SO.OOO.OOO: Russia, $1,000. 600.
Canada, 22,OO0,OOO; Australia, 10000.
Buffalo expects the encamoment of
the Grand Army of the Republic to be
2eid mere next summer to be the big
gest in the history of the order, with
1892. 7 ''A -
countries: according to Mulhall, was:
China. 9O.OOO,OOO pounds; India, 90
100000: Japan, 4O,OOO.OOO; Ceylon, 49,
100000. -
The oldest medical recipe is said by
French medical journal to be that of a
hair tonic for an Egyptian Queen. 1t is
dated 400 B. c.. and directs that dogs
paws and asses hoofs be boiled with
dates in oil
Il. F. Dietrich, Baltimore artist.
has painted five portraits of ex-senator
Henry &. Davis Of West Virginia, hay-
ing only recently completed the last one
One of them is in the capitol of the state
at Charleston.
In England no physician may legally
give a certificate of the cause of death I'M
less he has prescribed for the person at
least forty-eight hours before DEATH With
mitted to bury the body.
en- the Suicides cemetery at Monte
Carlo sixty-fve new graves were filled
in last winter. The cemetery is in bar
rem, uncultiyated land, and within it
are buried any who have taken their lives
through losses at the Casino.
The Queens judgment of pictures has
been remarkably accurate, and paintings
tor which she gave comparatively small
sum few Years ago would now fetch
big figures. The value of her pictures by
Landseer alone is over 100000
In Central Africa the greatest of all
Injuries is salt, the long-continued use of
vegetable food creating so painful a long
ing for that mineral that natives deprived
of it for long period have been known
to show symptoms of insanity.
Experiments which have recently been
made at the Hygiene institute of the
nlverslty of Berlin would seem to over
throw the theory that bacteria are indis-
pensable to the existence of ancient life,
which theory was put forth by Pasteur.
"A manufacturing firm in Fitchburg.
Mass, has been condemned by jury in
Boston to pas $4,000 as damages to
one of its workmen who was injured by
the fall of bridge between two of it's
workshops. The man sued for $50, 600.
The temperance society of an Ohio
town recently purchased the only saloon
in the town limits and burned all of the
fixtures with appropriate ceremonies
Ihe owner was recently converted at a
revival meeting. and the Prohibitionists
are now booming him for mayor
This item is from a Ripley CTenn)
paper: The report comes from Lightfoot
vicinity of the capture of a wild hog
by w. R: Rayder, J. T. Mccarthy and
T. NJ. Wakefield. weighing 400 pounds,
II years old and with tusks six inches
long. The chase lasted for four miles.
A New London, Conn.,, man who had
water meter in his house, tinkerei its
interior arrangements so that it ran back
ward, and at the end of six months thc
dial indicated that instead of his owing
the city for water, they owed him ST.
and he says that they brought him a
check for that amount. %
South Africa is anxious to have a
real university of its own. The Cane
university is simply an examining board
like the London university, and it is nro,
posed to change it into Il teachers mi
versity.. The Beers of the Cape Calony
wish the examinations to be. hold in
Dutch as well as in English
"A Lady has been lecturing in BOSTON
in favor of larger consumption of On.
IONS taking as motto the saying: Cat
onions in May, and all the wear after
edy, and the lecturer advised its nsa
through all the months, regardless of
odoriterous complications.
"A candidate for MAYOR in k.,.,.
City, kas., has just been defeated nv .
narrow margin at the primaries hecausn
of the active opposition of the women
voters, whose services were enlisted 70
avenge one of their number, to whom the.
candidate tor mayor had paid marked at
tentlon before marrying another.
The citizens of Lubec, Me-. oro IN
buy new hearse by voluntary subscrin,
ton. The proposition made is this. Bach
subscriber agrees to pay 81, with the nro-
viso that if he should have use for Tho
same" the hearse, of course) within
two years, he shall be entitled to a re-
bate equal to the sum subscribed. # is
evident that the subscribers who have oc.
caslon to use the hearse will be "in it."
"A life-sized bronze statue of Posei-
don was recently discovered in the sea
near Mount Cithaeron by fisherman.
Though it is badly rusted, the head is
untouched, and only the hands are miss
ing. Near it was splendid marble ned
estal with an inscription. The statue Is
assigned to the Sixth century before
Christ by archaeologists, who saw it is as
fine as the Jupiter Olympus found at Del
phi. 80 e'-
"A company to provide life insurance
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