The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The word ste" or it's equivalent in
sound, exists in all languages, and in
every one is expressive of disgust. In the
lcelandic the word ''pfui' means putrid-
ity.
1T was DR.. Johnson who said: "a
woman's preaching is like dogs walk
ing on his hind legs; it is not we'll done,
but you are surprised to find it done at
ALL"
There is an old legend among the
Greeks that says when rulers by the
name of ConStantin and Sophia shall
come in power Greece shall conquer
Turkey.
Some st. Louis women are not bit
particular. One was married to Il
freight conductor Saturday and they are
now making Il honeymoon tour through
the Southwest in a caboose.
There was large increase last year
in the farm produce imported into Ber-
lin. The increase in butter alone is es-
timated at over million sterling, and
of cheese ut Il quarter of that sum.
"A modern philosopher says that if a
woman gets what she wants to wear and
Il man what he wants to eat, there's no
reason, if married. why they shouldn't
always live together and be happy.
The native iaborers in German East
Africa are expected to work from $50
a. III. to + y. III. in the burning sun. With
only an hour and half's intermission at
noon. Many succumb to the heat.
A hill-posting machine, which sticks
with out the use of a ladder or paste
pot. is doing successful work in Paris.
Theatrical people are delighted with it.
A curious case of "a long Sleep has
recently occurred i'll an AlSatian village
\ country lad, aged 20, went to sleep on
january 10, and only awoke after twelve
days and nights Of uninterrupted sleep ON
January -.
To make dinner plates and dishes
very hot before sending to table dip them
in very hot water instead of putting them
in the oven. This takes very little more
time than putting them in the oven. and
is less liable to crack the china.
-"Spevtacles and eyeglasses are as
much bentited by bath now and then
as people are. remarked Il wcll-known
optician 1T is strange how many peo-
pie there are who think that their glasses
only need an occasional wiping.'
The increasing wealth of American
colleges enables no less than ten of them
is INDUCED in by Yale, Harvard. Cornell
Princeton. Brown. Stanford, Tulane. and
the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan.
The public administration was about
to divide the estate of the late Joseph Nc
Cullagh of the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
when a flood of claims were received. 1t
seems that he was one of twenty children
nine sons and eleven daughters. most of
whom remain in Ireland.
The largest bog in Ireland is the bog
of Allen, which stretches across the CEN
ter of the island east of the Shannon. and
covers nearly 250.0uO acres. Altogether
there are nearly 30OO.OUO acres of bog in
Irelantl-that is to say. about one-seventh
of the total area of the country is bog.
Sunday morning in Amsterdam is
proclaimed few minutes before 6
O'Clock by changing bells from every
church Steeple in the place. vigorously
summoning all good Protestants to their
early devctions; for the Dutchnlan be-
gins his Sabbath early and keeps it rigor-
oUSly.
In Vienna the height Of a house
must not exceed 80 feet: the floor of the
last story must not be more than 65.G
feet above the level of the street When
the ground slopes this measure must be
taken from the highest point. The house
must not have more than five stories, in-
Guiding the cellar and attics.
In the sofia water business in this
country there are $5OGOO.00O invested.
originated. in 1882. the idea of charging
water with carbcnic acid gas. The name
Of that great benefactor of mankind
presumably a woman-whO first suggest
ed the idea of dropping some ice cream
into glass of soda water has not been
preserved for history.
In very short time,'' says the
New York Christian Advocate, there
will be brotherhoods named after all
the apostles and perhaps a number of the
prophets. They are now rivaling the Sc
cret societies in number and Dersistency
The Brotherhood of the Christian Church
is as much as we find time to attend
to properly. and can hardly claim to
meet all of its responsibilities.
The Nebraska Senate has concurred
with the House in the passage of an anti
trust bill. 1t has also passed bill to
punish insurance companies entering into
compact on rates. a bill providing that
money lost in gambling and recovered in
court shall be turned into the school
funds. and a bill placing express, teIe-
graph and telephone companies under the
control of the state board of transporta-
ton.
In the seventy-three years of it's ex-
istence the American Sunday School
union has founded 100000 schools, from
which GO0O churches have sprung. Las;
year it started 1850 Sunday schools. and
during that time 1OS churches deyeloped
from schools which previously had been
opened. The greater part of this work
is being done in Minnesota, the Dako.
tas. Montana, Idaho. Texas, Kansas
mountain regions Of the Virginias, Ten
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