The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
Publisher,
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

"A telephone Wire .0S of an inch in
diameter and 1900 feet long has been
stretched across the Wallenstadt Lake in
the canton of St, Gallen. Switzerland.
A bronze figure just discovered in
the Amsterdam museum is believed by
the director to be by Michel Angelo. II
represents King David dancing naked
before the ark. ..~ g, w s
Golf has reached the Canary islands,
hotelkeeper at Teneriffe. after at1yer-
tiSing 1.-THE finest climate in the world. -
announces that his golf links We're laid
out by Tom Dunn.''
Philadelphia may soon have a patron
saint of its own, It's the negotiations for
the Qualification of it's fourth Catholic
bishop, John Nepomuk Neumann, are
far advanced at Rome.
hrating Queen Eictoria's siXtieth ami
versary is the emancipation of the 300
600 slaves kept in bondage in the British
protectorate at Zanzibar.
Important deposits of coal have been
discovered at Cape Blanc Neg, near Ca
lais. The idea of boring there arose
from the discovery of coal seams on the
opposite English side of the channel,
M. Andree. who means to try for the
north pole again next summer, has had
the size of his balloon increased by 800
cubic feet, which will enable him to take
along 400 pounds more of dead weight
What is fame! Swinburne wrote !,
sonnet for the eightieth birthday of
George Frederick Watts, and two great
London daily newspapers described it
as the work of Charles \. Swinburne.
An attempt to acclimatize ostriches
in South Russia has proved successful.
The ostrches born in Russia are much
less sensitive to cold than the imported
rhair n1n,npS pun0EtV ,rODH
-Livingstone's tree at old Chitambo,
which shaded the spot where his heart
is buried. has nearly fallen to pieces. \
recent traveller asks that some lasting
mark be placed over the spot where the
great explorer died.
Medical service in the British army
seems to be very unpopular. At L recent
examination for thirty-tive vacancies only
thirty-one candidates appeared. trough
the rule fOrbiddlng a man from irving
after having failed twice, was suspended.
Diana Vaughan. it seems, was only
Nine Leo TaXile dressed up. and NJ
Taxlle is the author of her memoirs of
DR.. Battail.e'S revelations and IF the
greater part of Slgnor MargiOtta's dis
closures of Masonic iniquity. The name
was suggested by Diana Vernon. in Wal
hiding. was known as Father Vaughan
In the stories about her she was made
to assume the name Vernon when on her
travels.
True mamma has been found CT a
blue grass in Queensland. 1t appears ON
the nodes of the stems in masses rs large
as marbles. It is sweet, and nearly
three parts of it consists of ,nannite
which. though sweet, is not sugar. 1t
also contains fernlent which mas the
power to decompose cane sugar without
evolving carbonic acid or any kind of
gas. The grass is not only indigenous in
Australia, but is found also in tropical
Asia and Africa.
A curious row over the divorce ques-
ton has arisen in village of Brittany
the most strongly Catholic part of
France. The mayor, whose duty it is to
perform the civil marriage ceremony. re-
fused to marry a couple because the man
had been divorced, and sent in his res;g-
nation. The assistant mayor and four
municipal councillors were asked in turn
to perform the ceremony. and rather
then comply resigned one after the other
The subDrefect of the district refuses to
accept the resignat tons. the disappointed
bridegroom has sued the recalcitrant Of
tcials for 10000 francs damages and &
francs for every day he remains unnaar-
ried and the district attorney threatens
to prosecute them in behalf of the state