The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

New York's National guard numbers
13,423 men. of whom 12.1fO are infan.
try.
Tho game commissioners of Maine
put the number of deer killed last year
at 10000.
There were 11,61S deaths in Boston
during 1886, Il rate of 221a per 1000 in-
habitants.
A Sabbath days journey among the
ancient Hebrews was 14G1 yards, ! foot
and inches.
Rice. constitutes the chief article of
diet of more than 25O,OOO,OOO people in
British India.
Traffic through the Sault Ste.
Marie canal far surpasses that through
the Suez canal.
The first fire engine used in this
country was brought from England to
New York in 1871.
1t is said that the first cannon cast
IN the United States was made at
Hagerstown, Md.
The statistics show that in the last
twenty-five years Kansas has produced
AH6,OOO,0OO worth of corn.
-One steamer, the Mongolian, carried
i@V.OOO geese and turkeys from Canada
TO- Liverpool just before Christmas.
The strongest fortress in European
Russia is Cronstadt. It is the Russian
naval depot of the Baltic sea.
A farm in Mecklenberg. Germany, is
provided with all the electric power it
can use by dynamo driven by water.
minneapolis has a Froebel normal
school where tifty-eight young women
are learning to teach in the kindergar-
tens.
During the past year New York OK
ported Ia, III cattle and S9.955 sheep,
while Boston exported 161, 0OS cattle and
124, 1S5 sheep. :,
Florida dry goods dealers attract at
tentlon to their: display windows by the
exhibition in them Of live snakes and
tarantulas.
Hs-Michigan alone has 100000 mich
cows. Enough butter fat goes: to waste,
by the ordinary methods Of butter max
ing, to every year pay the state tax.
a Port Huron man has received a
consignment of feathcrless fowls. with
the intention of introducing the breed
into Michigan. The birds do not know
what feathers look like.
-Snowballing in Sault Ste. Marie.
Mich. is tahooed, and the small boy will
have to look little out in the future.
The fine, if caught, is 500, and the alter
native is thirty days in the coop.
The buckwheat crop of Southwestern
Michigan was the largest this season for
flour is being sold at lower price than
that charged for wheat -four.
The principal fortresses of Austro-
Hungary are Caracow, Phzemsyl, Karls-
burg, Arad. Temesvar. Komorn. Peter
warden, Budapest. Pola and Trieste, the
two last naval harbors as well.
There has just died at the Barnum &
Bailey winter quarters the only two
horned white rhinoccros in this country,
and, with one exception, the only ami
NAL of his particular kind in captivity.
-Muskrats arc only protected within
the limits of the waters of Lake Erie,
Detroit river. River St. Clair. Lake ST.
Clair, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
and can be caught anywhere else in
Michigan.
A Hutchinson. kas., young lady
broke her engagement because she heard
that he gave another girl diamond ring
for Christmas present. She has since
found out that the other girl was only )
years old.
The latest compilation of the wheat
crop estimates makes the worlds product
last year 100000 bushels less than in
1895. and 167 100000 bushels less '' than ~,
two years ago, when the greatest croD on
record was produced.
"A recent issue of a London paDer
mentions the case of pastor named
Mathson, who has just died at the age of
~, after serving sixty years continuously
as Church of England minister at Pat
terdale. Westmoreland. For many Years
his living brought him only $50 a year.
and the highest he ever got was $50.
"A bicycle race with panther was
the exciting experience of an English
lady in Singapore one evening lntol,.
When riding slowly homewam along a
road outside Of the town, the cyclist
found that she was being quietly stalked
by huge black panther. She had tho
presence of mind to start off at full
speed, and soon tlistanced her pursuer.
-Mrs.'*Lewis and Mrs. Gibson. the
two widowed sisters of Cambridge, Eng.
who discovered the Biblical manuscrints
on Mount Sinai. are earnest Presbyteri-
ans, and have just given to the Presby-
terrain college, now located at Blooms-
bury, London, the sum of $3.50. 900 for
the purpose of moving that institution to
Cambridge.
The Monmouth, Ill., city council has
passed a curfew ordinance. Under IT'S
provisions all children under the are of
Is years must be off the streets at 3
O'Clock in winter and 8 o'clock in sum
mer, unless accompanied by their Dar-
ents or guardians, or in possession Of q
proper permit signed by the parents or
guardian.