The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-08
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Edinburgh has seventyeight "hokey'
pokey" shops
--'rhirty-two thousand varieties of
goods are manufactured from wood
over Gve-siXths of the silk manu-
featured in Turkey is exported to West
rrn Europe.
The first railway in Germany was
built in 1880. 1t connected Nuremberg
and Furth in Bavaria.
The entire coast line Of the globe
measures 10000 miles.
Next year is the centennial If the
silk hat, which first came into com -non
use in Paris in 1907.
In Minnesota there is II girls school
vi ayrirulture which is, SO far as known,
the only one in the country.
Lord Salisbury turns the scale at ~.
pounds. Mr.. Gladstone, on the other
band, weighs hess than III pounds.
1t is estimated that the cycle factories
Of the United Kingdom are now equal
to Il production Of 100000 machines per
nnnum.
"A pin-making machine turns ont 5000
an hour. and some factories have as
many AS thirty OF forty machines at
work ut one time.
In st. Petersburg only 81 per cent
OF the inhabitants We're born in the city
in Paris 81 per cent. Berlin IL, Vienna
~, Lnnion Is.
Within the last fifty years the rate
Of speed Of ocean steamers has trebicd
and the usual horsepower Increased from
900 to 10000.
Gull shooting is Il popular sport al
Passport. Me-, just at present. The gnll>
80 cents Il pound.
Ar Now 81 IF}a The
mayor sitting as magistrate. accepted
lve hogs from Il negro culprit rs Sc
turitS tor the payment of Il fine.
Queen Victoria now rules 1861 ,OQO. 900
people. Il greater number than has ever
before acknowledged the sovereignty of
either a king. queen OH emperor.
4 hrrries blo>Somed in Arkansas in
October. and in November straw berries
rpsntu III the open air, the second crop
of red June apples WAS half grown, and
pears were in bloom.
Last year the number of trolley, or
storage lines. i'll Europe grew from 20
to Ill. While the total amount Of rails
used Went up from 1871, miles to 564.
Germany heads the list with q total of
2:'J miles and S5I autonotor vehicles.
An aUtocar worked by steam ran
hourly between Glasgow and Paisley six
ty-three years agn. and worked very we'll: :
metal said to have been put on to stop
it, the boiler hurst, killing several pas
StngtrS.
Mrs. Phoebe j. Clymer of San Fran
cisco. who has been Totally blind for
thirty-siN years last week recovered her
sight. Her family believes that this was
divine di>lrn>atinn granted to them
III response to constant prayers.
Reports from Kalamazoo. Mich. say
that 4 great deal of the celery crop lies
rottiny in the trenches in the fields.
From unr-thir'i to onehalf Of the crop
will be a tnta! loss to the growers. Its
va!ue is estimated ut from $15OOOO to
So:MkhD
Il 'rrmati"n 'i"rS pot seem TO be maxi
ing much Roadway iii Scotland. At tho
arrual meeting of the Scottish Burial
COW ii was stated that only eight bodies
had been incineratcu during the past
year.
The Lagong bridge built over an
arm of TIE China sea. is five miles long.
with :Ha' arches of stone. 20 feet high
and 20 feet broad. each pillar supporting
marble lion II feet in length The
cost of the bridge is unknown.
~ rather unexpected place from
Which I" receive an order for IL search
light is Siam. yet it is stated by the
t.itrtrlrai Review that an order from
Singapnrr for Il 14-inch protector has
been placed III this country by one OF
the I"rky kings Of Borneo
TN" vast mahogany forests of Mica
rAgua are almost wholly controlled by
Boston firms 10y contract with the Mica
ragNan government. The export trade
i'll the expensive wood has become very
extensive. it having reached 100000
feet IL 1892.
1t has been aScprtaincd by exDcri.
ment that Il number of persons who use
the telephone hear better with the left
ear than with the right. The common
practice of the telephone companies is to
place the Receiver so that it will be ap-
piled to the left ear.