The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-02
Curious Combinations.

I NurtouS lamentations.
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Lotteries originated in ancient Rome
1s14 t"''e's OF stone were 0Se' as late az
The great bell of Moscow weighed
::.5O tons. -...y. FL.
The average height Of the elephant
is . feet.
Coffee trees produce fruit up to the
age of IS.
Under William III. tax was laid
on burials. :.
-Rreeches among the Greeks were q
sign of slavery.
The feast of the Epiphany was in
stituteu in S;SS
There are seventeen metals more val.
liable than gold.
Java has thunderstorms ninety seven
days in the year. Y :"
london streets were first lighted by
oil lamps in 1851. =,
In 17D the heaviest cannon used
We're 1S-pounders.
-Chloroform was discovered by Sam
uel Guthrie in 1881, ~r
1T is said the Bedouins of Arabia are
descendants of Esau.
OF horned cattle only the buffalo is
native of America.
Seven church buildings in Chicago
are advertised for sale.
There are 800 square miles of coal
fields in Great Britain.
One pound of Indian tea will make
l'o strong. cups of tea.
Ont of 6573 new books published last
year. 2611 r:were novels.
Iron hOrseshoeS have been found ia t.
ing back to the year 1871.
Opium is obtained from the unripe
fruit of the white poppy.
Skates were first made of bones by
the Scandinavian nations.
Wooden legs are used by over 1000
Mn English-speaking men.
Until 1880 the tomato was called love
apple i'll the United States. #.
A leading physician says that pepper
IS deadly poison to the SYSTEM
The Kaleidoscope was devised by Sir
David Brewster in Edinburgh.
The Sublican bridge. at Rome, is the
oldest wooden one in existence.
Glass windows were introduced into
England i'll the Eighth century
The choral service was first used in
England at Canterbury in GIT.
The temple of Diana. at Ephesus.
consumed 30 years in being built
1t was 300 years ago in Florence that
the first grand opera was produced.
Rivers hold in suspension over one
hundredth of their volume of solid mat
ter.
-Muslns are SO called because first
brought from the city of Maussaul in In-
dia.
The consumption of calico in The
I nited States is greater than in anv o+her
country.
-Chicona, from which quinine is
made, was called 'Jesuits' bark" by the
Spaniar,ls.
George I. of England introduced the
black Cnckatle from Germany as y mark
of the servant.
The manufacture of qunine was be-
gun in Philadelphia by John Farr in 1920,
the year gifts discovery.
"A Belfast tAIe) man has three pota-
toes grown together to resemble exactly
the Odd Fellows three links.
The Pacific ocean covers 7S.OOOOOO
square miles. the Atlantic 2:5.0OO,OOO and
the Mediterranean sea 1,OOO,O0O
The United States and Germany are
the ',nly two great powers of the world
that have no postal savings banks.
-Briar pipes that were once almost on
cluSlvely imported from England and
France are now made in this country.
Coco is Spanish for boyle, and it is
said the cocoanut was thus named for
It's resemblance to Il distorted human face,
line wages of maid of honor for
Queen Victoria were formerly $500 a
year, but the pay is now raised to $4,000.
The French government taxes every
ticket sold by Il railway company. Ali
the railways in France are run on Paris
time.
The name of Mother Goose's husband
was Isaac Goose, and her rhymes were
first printed by her son-in-law, Thomas
Fleet. printer in Boston.
The latest development of the art of
advertisement has appeared in Sweden.
The advertisers have actually captured the
backs of the Swedish national bank note.
A remarkable feature of India is the
number of it's deserted capitals, There
are no less than three old DeIhis, all close
to each other, and south of the present
city.
-Tarring and feathering was once a
legal punishment for theft 1t is said to
be found i'll the statutes Of both England
and France about the time of the Cru
sadeS.
To make paper ireproof nothing more
is necessary than to saturate the paper in
Il strong solution of alum water, and when
thoroughly dry it will resist the action of
flame. :.r-
The Arabs show their friendliness
when meeting by shaking hands six or
eight times. Arabs of distinction 20 be-
yond this; they embrace each other sever
al times.
New South Wales has spent $4,000
600 for harbors in forty years, exclusive
of the cost of the port Of Sydney, and
will spend $1,5O0,0OO for TIE same pur-
pose this year.
The town of Wildbad in Wurtemburg
probably beats the record in regard to
water facilities. The supply would suf-
fee to provide every inha bitant with 1900
quarts day.
The secret police of Paris are quite
distinct from the regular force. The mem
hers are generally unknown to each other
and one detective is often employed to
watch another.
A medical paper says that in railway
collision nearly all the passengers who are
asleep escape the bad effects of shaking
and conclusion, natures own anaesthetic
preserving them.
a breech-lOading cannon, made in
1863, has been discovered i'll an old mu-
scum at Hamburg, which explodes the be-
lief that such weapons are an invention of
the present century.
"A Paris surgeon has handed in the
SIS tor the doctors degree Oh THE Ply
siology of the Ballet Dancer In it he
adopts Schopenhauer's view that all WON
%: have crooked legs.
In fasting feats the sect of jams. in
India. is far ahead Of all rivals. Fasts
Of from 30 to 40 days are very common,
and once year they arc said to abstain
from food for IS days.
The insect known as the water boat
man has regular pair of oars, his legs
being used as such. He swims on his
back. as in this position there is less re-
sistance to his progress.
The result Of the national subscrip-
ton made in Sweden on the occasion Of
tho Kings jubilee was $685. 42. The
sum is to be devoted to the building Of a
hospital for consumptiyes.
Amsterdam is built on piles driven
through the earth into the water below.
Three hundred bridges span the many
canals which divide the city, ten miles in
circumference, into ninety islands.
The science Of gardening has been
taught in Russia since 1912. 1t was in