The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-09-30
Curious COMBINATIONS.

--hussla Is SAID TO OWN 0,uUU,UU horses
nearly one-half Of the whole number in
existence. - s
There is more exertion used in run
ming 200 yards than in riding bicycle
fonfsmiles 81.
Nearly all the gold coin in circulation
in the Sandwich Islands is of United
States mintage.
The longest span Gfitelegraph wire Id
the world is in India, over the river Kist-
nas It is over 600 feet in length.
-Edinburgh's school board has decided
to simplify the ten commandments. to be
taught the children in the public schools.
Among the Chinesesa coffin is consid-
cred "a neat and appropriate present for
an aged person, especially if.in bad health.
One Of the last bits of work done by
the Dutch sculptor Workman, who died
last week, was - bust of Queen Wilhelr
than 5O0,0O0 sewing machines
are made in this country annually, which~
is 80 per cent. Of the production Of the
world. =
russian families, when moving to
new homes, kindie the fire on the hearth
with Goals breaghtsfrom the old resi-
dences
Taking the ayerase. depth of the
ocean to be three miles, there would be q
layer of salt go feet deep if the water
should eyaporate. g
"A 4O0.pound Bear, in quest of its
breakfast. c0Olly strOlled into barnyard@
In Rrobstels Wash..a marched off with
calf Kits embrace
ed that it lis higfspower telescope, en-
abling the bird to seeT objects at an al
most incredible distance
lin times of scarcity the South AfriS-
lcanNatises Something's rob the ants nests,
aid as much IS liEe bushels of grain have
been "a ken from "a single pest.
ArtifciaI legs and arms were in use
IN EgyM as earl As ,. C.. 100. They
NEE aas e e gs,sst re We're the
is sid that 81 strfk16g onfline of
|sthe9 features of George Washington lag
appeared lin a knOtfy pn5tafefaneus Of 4
TREE ins Portlaaa. Me- Il q NOT CHERRY
tfete. ssesssAlSsSf
Elephants have dniy eight teeth-two
below and sfW0 Above on x9aeh side. All
aelep1iaHf teeth Z fall out when the
animal is about A. years old, ard new
set grows. -
In home for sandwichmen in I.osts
don there are said to be severai-u niver5
slty graduates and medical men. and
Scotchman who ran through fJO.GO in
three years.
L. The i london. Of. the future will. it
visits realized, have
|npG coal, no ST am engines no horses. and
fsalI1 heavy traffic willsbe sent al0pg deep
underground electric Railways.
1t is said that many people in Maii,,
are SO offended at the advertisements
painted on boards and barns along the
country roads that they refuse to deal
with the firms which SO advertise g
h scientists have demonstrated that the
purest arr ia the cities is found about
twenty-five feet above the street sur
face. This gees to prove that the health
lest apartments are those ON the third
floor. E
An English physician has discovered
way of producing local anaesthesia with
GU; the loss of consciousness OF the use
of ether or chlorofurH1. He uses moderate
currents Of electricity frequently inter
rupted. ~ = = - ; -. lEF j - 3
IN the time of Charles v. Spain had
1S0OeO monks and priests and $1,000
nuns. No fewer than 102 days of the 365
were holidays. and the 100000 uobles-
Elwsuld have considered it a disgrace to d., .
any useful work to make d living. s.szC
According to the Moniteur yinicole,
the worlds wine production for 1886 was
I3S,262. 103,S20 gallons; for 1897 2S43.-
41S,920 gallons. The production in the
United States was in 1896, 1855, 600
gallons; in 1897;S30, 303. 40 gallons.
gne Development of the fight between
the English tea firms has been their TAX
ing mp the sale of wines and iquers as
| part Of the business. Nov one of the
chief contestants announces that news
papers, books and magazines will be sold
IN all its tea stores
On a large wheat farm in California
the grain is cut from the stalks, the chan
thrashed out, and the kernels Placed in
sacks which are sexed and piled ready
for the mill-all by one huge machine,
which is drawn by and gets, its motive
| power from team of thirty-ei9ht mules.
/ Prince Honenlohe, chancellor Of Ger
many, is about to sell the last of his for
1ler enormous possessions i'll Russia.
They were the property of the late prin-
cess. and at her death had to be sold. in
accordance with the Russian law for
bidding the holding of real estate By
aliens.
-Mr. Kensit, the London bookseller
who started the new militant anti-ritual-
istic campaign. WAS a choir boy in rft-
ualist: church at the age of Is. He then
became firmly convinced that ritualistic
services were no better than mere imi-
tations of Romish services" and took to
street preaching
-Damask derives its name from the
city Of Damascus; calico from Calicut, a
cotton cloth, and there also calico was
printed; cambria from Can1bray. town
in Flanders, where it was first made. and
tweed from fabric Worn By the fisher
men upon the river Tweed
At the sale Of the Morrison canieos in
London a Greek ring set with an intagli0E
of sBacchus from Trasus was sold fore
$780, another ring with figure of Bac-s
chus for 1926, the signet of Asander.
King of Bosporus. from :Kertch, for
5000! the Sessa ring for $725 and fine
intaglio bust of Domita for $40.
4Ongthe new Russian military railway
from Europe to aAndijan,S on the borders
of the Chinese empire. tree-like shrub
called the sascaoul has had to be planted
all along the line through the desert to. /
prevent the rails being covered by sand
For further protection "A ribbon of wild
oats runs along both sides of the railway
When the lord mayor Of London re-
ceiyed the delegates to the Worlds Sum
day School convention the Rev. L. b.
Maxwell, negro congregational minis
ter, was presented as from South Caro- :
lima The mayor hesitated a moment. then
asked: Do you speak EnglishT' II
generally do" replied Mr.. Maxwell. as he
passed Oh. ST.. - ....sss
We have to thank GaEa, - in Pales-
stiine the gates of which, Ssnleon carried
away, for gaze or gauZe. GAIA means
treasure. and precious to the fair is the
tissue which covers without concealing
their CHARMS. sal oltaire,, wishingssto de-
|scfibe some Intel lectual but 8 perhaps
Sdressy swonia n.ssaiaas Shells an eagle in
cage of gauze."
Theodore Gonvy. the French COM
EpoST who spent nearly all his life in
assfnMny. and who died. recently at Leip-
4igsns bequeathed 30 the Berlin Acat-
RMyM Fine Arts. o. which he had been
&snember since 1895, the sum of 10000
msik s thesahnuais interest to be allotted
1oalny poor musician whom the academy
mays aeem svctthssof its assistance.
HE Literary Digest has canyassed
the newspapers of the country and sue
eeeds in learning that of 1872 papers 81
call for the possession by yAmeriea of the
whole group Of the Philippine islands,
while Jos prefer some less radical solu-
ton of the problem. OF the los papers
633 hink the United States should be
satisfied with simply a naval station
in the, Enited States 31 per cent. of
children under 3 years Of aye die from
gaStrO-intpSfinal disorders, --.zt