The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Curious Condensatiors.

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Mexican miners get a71a cents day.
In Mexico women of every rank so
barehended. II
Opium is obtained from the unripe
fruit of the white poppy.
"A horse has been known to jump thir-
ty-seven feet in 4 steeplechase.
The average pulse of healthy man
should beat ~ times a minute.
Scarlet flowers are said to stand
drouth better than any others.
The national debt is now $1a.41 for
each individual. In 1867 it was 500. 90.
"A new method of cleaning gilt frames
consists in washing the frames with beer.
A doctor states that tight, unventi-
lated hats are one of the chief causes of
badness.
The Christian era was not introduced
us Il basis of reckoning time until the
Sixth century.
Potato juice is said to be excellent for
cleaning dirty clothes, being Infinitely SUI
perior to soap.
No baking powders are manufactured
i'll Mexico, and the imported article sells
for 81 4 pound.
1t is Il curious circumstance that some
of the most important inventions have
been discovered by lunatics.
-Camers milk is said to be not only
very paatable, but also extremely
strengthening and nourshing.
Queen Elizabeth had as great love
for pretty fans as she had for gowns,
and had Il large collection of them.
The Illinois Supreme court has hand
rl down an opinion that the act of break
ing into henhouSe and stealing chickens
Is burglary.
The Quakers are the most largely
represented in the English Parliament
There are only $4,000, and they aave
eight members.
"A strange item in the Bishop Burton
Church accounts for last year is: ITO
killing worms i'll the bust of John Wes-
ley. Is ShilingS"
Turquoise blue is the prevailing fash
ions,hle tint used i'll combination with
many other colors, rs we'll us black, ON
reception and house toilets.
The proportion of men and women in
France is more equal than i'll any other
country i'll the world. there being 1907
women to every 1000 men.
Japan, which forty years ago had no
other than coaSting vessels, now has sew
cral large steamship companies, the larg-
est of which owns siNty-three vessels.
In feu.ial times the boar's head was
the distinguishing Christmas dish 1t
WIS served on Il gold Or silver dish. and
brought i'll TO Il flourish of trumphets.
In the poorer regions of China many
old women make Il living by buying chill
drtn ut 81 to 81 apiece. and afterwa rtls
selling them into life of slavery or vice.
Miss Sadie Win,ler of Morris, Pa.
went to church one Sunday recently and
the sermon put her to sleep. She did
not wake up until Wednesday, following
That copper preceded the bronze age
is proven by the fact that articles re-
GENTLY unearthel at -Abytos and Nega.lah,
Egypt. have been pronounced pure cop
PET.
"A letter addressed to ''rhe Ornriest
Man i'll the United States" after long
journey through the mails, WAS very ap-
rropriatey sent back to the writer in
I;tnvtr.
a new paddock has been invented,
with Il chamber which carries an explo-
wv. to be fired by a hammer inside the
lock. and gives an alarm when the lock is
tampereu with.
-t)rchidS aye found in almost all parts
Of the world. except in extremely dry eli
mates and on the borders of the frozen
regions. Oyer 5000 species are row
known to Eutanists.
White men are said to bear up bet
ter against intense cold than against in
ing that the cold air is less tainted with
the seeds of disease.
A St'ven-foOt granite monument in the
Upper Harz. Germany. has an iron tab
let inscribed: Here. in the year 1871,
the first trials were nlatie with the culti-
Walton Of the potato
st. Petersburg has company with
S..HH'.WFl capital designed to utilize the
\arnwa, Im.tra and Wuezen waterfalls
II; f1rr ala rfprr f,>p -,
st. Petersburg and vicinity.
-Green rests the eye; resting the eye
often means to rest the nerves; and the
rrfreshment of the eye is as necessary to
comfortable life as the renewal of the
other bodily forces by food.
The Office of groonl-in- waiting to the
Queen. which recently became vacant by
the death Of Gen. Sir Henry Lynedoch
Gardner. is worth $1,000 a year. with
about SIX weeks of annual duty.
The postal authorities at Berlin are
preparing to place at the railway and
other stations 200 automatic machines for
the sale of stamps and postal cards; also
for pencils to write on the cards.
About 100000 false teeth are manu-
featured annually in the United States.
while one ton of gold and three tons of
silver and platinum, to the value Of $1O,-
100000. are used in stopping teeth.
are said to be the LATEST people on earth.
Nature gives them enough to eat without
any considerable labor, and they seem
contentcd with what they thus receive.
Only the hest Of the, London fire ell
glneS can pump 500 gallons !; minute,
whereas some of the steamers i'll use in
towns like Liverpool and Manchester are
equal to 1900 and 1900 gallons minute.
Women III France have just secured u
1,<r1,t LIS H. u I'M
must henceforth be valid witnesses to reg
istration of births. marriages and death
and to the signatures i'll legal documents.
The interesting dispute between the
OsWestry guardians and the local govern
ment board i'll London as to the legality
of the appointment Of IL woman as reliev-
ing officer has ended in favor of the
guardians.
The. foot of the reindeer is most pc
through the middle, and each half curves
upward in front. They are slightly
elongated and capable of q considerable
amount of expansion.
A Scarsport lMe) man has an old
time linen sampler, worked with silk,
which is inscribed: ''Bluehill Bay, July
., 1865: Phebe Parker" The sampler
is of coarse linen, such as young ladies'
used to work 200 years ago.
length of six feet. A single hair will
bear mp weight of four ounces without
breaking, but the hair thus heavily tried
must be dark brown, for blonde hair
breaks under strain of 21a ounces.
Books written on bone, stone, bricks,
tiles and oyster shells: Bibles written OF,
palm leaves and manuscripts transcribed
on bark, leather, papyrus, parchment,
wood. lead, ivory and copper are among
the treasures of the British museum.
Our senses do not fall asleep stimuli
taneously. The eyelids are first affected,
and shut out sight; next follows the sense
of taste, then smelling. hearing and
touch. the last named being the lightest
sleeper and the most easily aroused.
Some of the Connecticut Daughters
Of the Revolution have suggested that u
fitting monument be erected to the me1n-
DRY of the women of the Revolution. The
suggestion is one thing. but the raising Of
the necessary $4,000 is quite another.