The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-21
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Forty years ago the first missionary
was eaten on the Fiji islands. - <
The French cruiser Jean dare is es-
tlmated to have cost $4,OOO,OOO.
The women in an Afghanistan harem
are many, though kept as prisoners.
South American monkeys play foot
ball and croquet in their native wilds.
Hydraulic pressure is used in COM
pressing flour for the use of the British
army.
Amsterdam is the nearest European
capital to~L-ondon, being only 1919 miles
distant.
The papyrus of Egypt was written by
Il magician about the end of the first
century, \. ID.
-MarseilleS has 1O1-year~old woman
who still earns her living by keeping a
newspaper kiosk.
1t is intimated that Argentina will
export 4OOOO,OOO bushels of wheat from
the present crop.
Traffic on the railroad between Ten
sSin and pekin has increased so much
that double track must BE- laid ut once
-One great name energies from the
Drryfus middle. Maj. Patty de Clam, it
seems. was prosecuting officer at the
court martial.
A house" of the Cowley Fathers
toSting $4,000, is to be established at
Westminster with the approval of the
Bishop of London.
In thvket in the upper Harz noun
1alnS granite monument has been found
Will, the inscriptions: "Here in the year
Ia! the first trials We're made with the
cultivation of the potato
-l'ampeuna. his native town. has es-
1AhtlShet SaraSatr museum to which
the vlulini>t has given al the presents and
ltW ht,
~ni,as,~ during his career.
A tunnel ten miles long. which will
h,' the longest in England, is to be cut
through Shap FEELS by the London and
Northwestern railroad, in order to short
en- the west coast route to Scotland.
1'loueester's cathedral lady chapel,
one of the finest specimens of the per-
pendlcular style of architecture in Eng
land has been restored and opened to the
public after being closed for TWENTY-FIVE
Years.
Father Kenelm Vaughn. an English
Catholic priest. has been gathering money
i'll Spain for the new Westminster ca
thedral. In Biscay alone he has raised
$500. 1t sounds like squeezing blood
from stone.
Count Dimitri Miljutn, formerly war
Of the chief promoters of the EmDeror's
liberal reforms, has just celebrated the
sixteenth anniversary of his admission to
the Russian general staff.
Wilhelm BuSch's Die fromme Hell
enc has been turned into an opera boufPe,
which Manager Pollini of Hamburg with
bring out in the fall. The composers
name is kept secret, but he is said to be
well-known Frenchman.
A London author. guilty of book en-
titled 'Dvorak Abu Fernus," when sued
by his publisher for the cost of publishing
it. demanded that the case be tried by a
jury consisting of four publishers, four
poets, and four professors Of Arabic.
-5uggernaut's car cannot pass through
the streets Of Colombo owing to the inter
ference of overhead telegraph wires. Pc
tit"ns have been sent to the governor by
the tryloneSe. as twenty-five persons
wish to throw themselves under the idols
car.
Mt. EanSwithe's relics are publicly ex-
posed on the altar of the Folkestone An
sIiran church on the saints day. and after
Il special service the congregation passes
them. making reverences. The vicar de
clare$ that this is not Elaboration" of the
relics.
Dutch pictures brought very low
prices at the Sedelmeyer sale in Paris,
the whole collection bringing in about 49,
600 francs. 4 Ruysdael landscape, the
gem of the collection, was withdrawn,
the upset price, 10000 francs, not having
been bid.
One hundred miles of the Uganda
railroad have been completed and will be
thrown open to traffic at once. There re-
mains 300 miles to be constructed before
the Victoria Nyanza is reached. The last
forty miles were laid down in little over
two months.
johnny Armstrong, the border cattle
thief, who was hanged at Caerlanrigg in
1880, with thirty of his followers, by
order of King James v. and became the
hero Of Scottish ballad, has had mon
ument erected to his memory in Caerlan-
rigg churchyard.
A gang of twenty men have been
sent to Russian river to open the bar
so that the steelheads or salmon may
run up the river. The North Pacific
Coast railroad sent the men, and the
fishing at Russian river will soon COM
nenCp in earnest.
"A London water-color painter who
ordered soda water at bar, and was
hit in the eye by the cork when the bar
maid opened the bottle, has recovered
$500 damages from the proprietor of the
restaurant. though no structural injury
was done to the eye.
COUNTESS Hermann Itchy is about to
open Il tobacconist's shop at Budapest
Her husband was obliged to resign from
the Hungarian Parliament on account of
his debts, and for time edited a Hun
garian newspaper in New York. The
countess has sung ON the music kali
stage.
A woman arrested for keeping a dog
without license in London pleaded ex-
IRENE poverty, and the magistrate allowed
her fourteen days to raise the money
The newspapers spoke of the case, and
within a week the clerk of the court re-
reived S154 from British dog fanciers for
hnr relief.
Sir Charles Mordaunt. Bart, the
plaintiff in the notorious Mordaunt d-
vorce case, in which the Prince of Wales
was one of the correspondents, died re-
Gently in London. This is the case where
the prince chose to go upon the stand and
was believed to, have ':perjured himself
like IL gentleman" 80
An Irish ex-sergeant in the army,
who died at Wilmington, England. left
directions that bottle of Irish whisky
should be buried with him. As the sex
ton objected, comrade of the dead man
sprinkled the whisky over the coffin. He
was arrested and tried for Indecent be-
havior,' but was acquitted.
South Africa's Dutch Reformed
church proposes to excommunicate total
abstainers. The synod has declared
that members who unite themselves
with teetOtal societies become unfaithful
to their membership, and if they will net
give heed after many warnings must be
cut off from membership in the church,
Burglars broke into the fortress of
Vincennes, near Paris, recently, and af-
ter stealing the money and valuables of
the soldiers and officers, used the tools
of the military blacksmith shop to break
into the commissariat, which they plum
dered. and then made their way out
through the moat by means of the ladders
in the fort.
Paris is providing excitement for
summer visitors. a tiger was recently
found roaming at liberty in the woods of
Meudon, bear in the Bots de .Boulogne,
a large snake crawled out of the ruins of
the Cour des Complies, near the chamber
of deputies, and a boa constructor has
been captured on the roof of a house
near the BOurse. II 4
The gold watch of Edgar Allan Poe
is how in: the possession Of H. w. Al
bright Of Fort Madison, Ia, and it's his
tory is CHARACTERISTIC of the checkered
career of the poet. He had been in debt
to Mr.. Albright's brother, merchant