The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-25

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| nesses, I'LL in knee breeches and cycling
stockings, was fined 10 marks for gross
impronriety, and the sentence has beer
confirmed on appeal by the PrussiaI
| courts. ~. T.. '.,q (. p. GO;
The Canadian Bankers association
| which held it's annual session in Toronto
has recommended that there shall be .es
| tahlished Canadian mint, where thu
gold of the klonaike and other producing
sections of the great Northwest may be
minted. 49,
While the fast refrigerator train or
| the Chicago Il Alton road was speeding
toward Glendale, Mo-, Engineer Richard
A. House sat dead in his cab, his hanC
grasping the throttle, his glazed eyes fixed
straight ahead on the track and 4 peace
full smile on his face. = -
Sir Robert Ball, the eminent astrono
| mer, told an audience the other night that
anyone who took the trouble to lie on his
back on the ground and gaze at Il clear
night sky would, as his eyes become &C.
customed to the heavens, soon perceive
numbers of shooting stars.
The peach was originally a poisoned
| almond. Its fruity parts We're used to poi.
son arrows, and for that purpose were in
PRODUCED into Persia. Transportation
| and cultivation have not only removed its
poisonous qualities, but turned it into the
0elitIouS tfult we HOW ENJOY.
John McDonagh of Errislanon, Con
1870 years. When the French expedi-
ton, under the command of Gen. Hum.
bert. landed in Killala in August. 1898,
McDouagh was youth employed as a
workman i'll drawing stones.
Paris has lost curious institution,
the last of the cabinets tie lecture in the
Passage de rOpera having been closed.
For a small fee people could enter and
read the magazines and latest books. The
business was killed by the increased pub
LEGATION of "feuilletons" in the daily news
papers.
1T is said that Saturday has been a
fatal day to the royal family of Britain
for the last 1S5 years. William Ill,
Queen Anne, George l.. George H.,
George III, George w.. the Duchess of
Kent, the prince consort, the Duke of
Clarence. the Duke of Albany and Prin-
cess Alice all died on that day.
Sir Henry Dryden, Bart. who is so
years of age, and has held his title for
sixty-one years, recently climbed outside
the high spire of Kings Sutton church,
in Northamptonshire, without help, using
the steeplejacks' ladders. in order to
measure and draw the tracery on the
spire. There was a strong wind.
That great barrier reef which fringes
the coast of Queensland north of Bris-
bane. i'll the direction of Torres straits,
must always range among the wonders
of the world. For 1900 miles the coral
animalculae have raised solid projec-
ton against the range of the ocean swell
at a distance varying from 20 to $50 miles
from the shore.
A blue silk unlershirt worn by King
Charles l. at the time of his execution,
,%.,s,N nod 10, -, u
sold at auction i'll London soon. The GER
tificate attached states that the shirt was
obtained by DR.. Hobbe, the physician who
attended the King on the scaffold, and
passed by the marriage of his daughter
into the possession of the family which is
about to sell it,
Upon the Isle of Man, where sheep
stealing is evidently Il serious offense,
John Dixon was recently sentenced to
three years Imprisonment for it. The
exact words of the jury were: "Not hay
the jury for the possession of the sheep
we find the prisoner guilty" What puz-
zicS the lawyers is this: Can Il man be
legally jailed on such verdict!
Members of the Grade Teachers fed
Grafton of Chicago are about to undertake
in experiment i'll cooperative farming. 1t
is proposed to purchase for $4,000 a
+Gttacrt farm in the Green Lake region
of Wisconsin, and to form Il stock COM
pany for the cultivation of the same
six hundred teachers will be the share
holders. and each is to pay her ASSESS
mert in monthly installments of 81.
The Queen of England is possessed of
one Of the most remarkable articles ever
made i'll prison. The superintendent of
Agra Jail two years ago received an order
to weave Il carpet of special design for
her majesty. On it twenty eight of the
deftest convicts of the esta blishment have
been engaged. The carpet measures Il
feet by 10 feet and is estimated to con-
tain no fewer than 5o,0o0,o0O stitches.
1t is computed that about 100000 pe-
don bridge every day. Each leaves be-
bind a little shoe leather Oh a little iron
just tritie. But when litter and dust
are added to these minute losses the
whole fills between three and four CARTS
The most surprising fact of all, however,
is that the incessant traffic across the
bridge reduces to powder about twenty
five cubic yards of granite every year.
The population of Italy is 100000
less than the population of France, but
Italy has more thcaters than France. and
twice as many as England, though the
population of the United Kingdom is
full: 5.0m,0OO larger than that of Italy
There are approximately 1000 places of
amusement i'll the United States. In
Italy there are 44S in France. 1877, in
Germany 800. in Great Britain 352 and
in Spain 21O.
The Cherche Midi prison. in which
Col. picquart is now so closely confined
that even his counsel is not allowed to
visit him. has many historic associations.
1t was built i'll the Seventeenth century
by the Architect Victor Daily for the
Countess de Eerue, whose salon was fa-
nous in the days of Louis XIV. At a
later period it was the residence of Nine.
Recamier, when it became the rendezvous
of the most famous French men and
women.
The Prince of Wales has oficiated
scvcnty-tive times as godfather: the En-
pcror of Germany stands godfather to
all seventh sons in Prussia, and Empress
Eugene i'll one year acted us godnlother
to 1884 children who We're born in
France on March 16, 1856. the same day
as the Prince Imperial. Cecil Rhodes is
godfather to about forty young scions of
the aristocracy. 1t is his custom to trans
fer to each of the godchildren fifty shares
of the De Beers mines.
While secretary of the Prlssian Legal
ton ut Frankfort, Bismarck attended a
ball ut which was present a certain NJ. de
oidHtSS. d VI DDulDOuS ana
sc Insufficient manners, who in dancing
held his hat at arms length. The spec
tac.e had for Bismarck comic side. and
in the course Of the dancing he dropped
a coin into the hat. The next day he was
called out and duel with pistols fol-
lowed. Bismarck was unhurt. while his
adversary was wounded.
st. Johns church, at Ellicottville, n.
T., has bell that was made nearly two
centuries ago in Spain and which for over
100 years sounded matin and vesper calls
at monastery on the outskirts of NAL
aga. The monastery was destroyed dur.
ing the civil war and for years the bell
lay among the ruins. 1t was finally
brought to this country by New Eng
land skipper and purchased for the Eli
cottville church in 1888. 1t is feet 2
inches in circumference at the top and
little over feet ut the base
Most of the bicycles in use. in Scot
land are of British manufacture, and
range i'll price from $lS66 to $97. :3;;,, the
greatest demand being for medium priced
machines. There is a strong prejudice
against the American bicycle. The wood
eli rim is believed not to he ada MIA lilo RI