The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


There are 100 Scotch mountains
which have the prefix "Ben."
Newfoundland is now the sixth cop
reproducing country in the world.
London enjoys greater area of open
spaces than any other capital i'll the
world. :
Statistics show that the consumption
ut hay in the large cities is as large now
as it ever has been.
Tobacco seeds are so minute that a
thimbleful will furnish enough plants for
al acre of ground.
A Chinese athlete says that the
brains of 4 duck are the most strength
ening foodSit is possible to eat. 81 3
The children in the Chicago public
schools have contributed $4,000 toward
the La Fayette monument. ), !
-Four-ffths of all thes garlicseaten in
Europe is raised on the two African ISL
ands, Zanzibar anu Pemha.
-Balwant Sangit Sangat is the appro-
pirate name Of a Lahore club for the cul
tivation of Hindoo music.
No married man in Vienna is allowed
to go up in balloon without the formal
consent Of his wife and children. j,
The comptroller of Georgia estimates
that $500. 900, Oo0 of intangible property
escapes taxation each year in that state.
If all the tunnels of the world were.
placed end to end they would reach 4 dis
lance of 514 miles. They number about
l142
"A Spanish newspaper announces that
the last two descendants of Christopher
Columbus are now occupants of poor
house at CadiZ.
The number of blind persons III Aus
tratla i'll proportion to the number of the
population is considerably less than in
most other countries.
A famous musician says that so per
cent. of the Germans understand music,
IL per cent of fhe French, and per
cent. of the English.
Venetian coins of 1870 and 1877,
bearing the name of Doge Alloys Moce-
nigo. have been found in Mashonaland,
in the interior of South Africa:
The smallest man who ever lived was
probab bly, the dwarf Bebe. born in France
in 1740. He was just 20 inches tail and
eight pounds in weight when full grown.
A Leipsic court has decided that some
recent photographs of the Princess de
Chimay shall be suppressed because they
represent woman too fat to be artistic.
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
III times.
frankfurt, Germany, has a reform
gymnasium or high school, which is at
tracing much attention. It teaches
French first, then Latin, and Greek only
ia the last years.
Greek ana Roman doors invariably
open outward; person passing out of the
house WAS therefore obliged to knock on
the door before opening If to avoid col
lision with passerby.
"A Paris surgeon has handed in a
thesis for the doctors degree OIL THE
Physiology Of the Ballet Dancer" In it
he adopts Schopenhauer's view that all
women have crooked legs.
-Tattooed dogs ARE now the fashion in
London. \ coat of arms or a monogram
is marked on the throat or breast of the
animal. The process is made almost
painless by the use of cocaine
One of the leading features of the
lord mayors procession this year will be
Il car emblematic of Anglers XOn union,
Britannia and Columbia, the central fig
ures, being surrounded by the British col
OnieS.
According to official returns there
were 1872 distilleries at work in the Unit
I'd Kingdom last year. OF these 143 were
in Scotland, % in Ireland. and only ii
i'll England. The North of Scotland had
one-thirtl of the tota! number.
"A rhinoceros bird, about the size of
turkey, which was recently shot On the ISL
and of Java, had iii its craW a rim from
a small telescope and three brass buttons,
evidently belonging to the. uniform Of
British soldier.
Only one pupil attends the Lovejoy
school for colored children, at Alton, ILL.,,
and his education costs the city nearly
$1,000 annually. The sum would more
than pay his way through the best univer-
Sity in the country.
A professional school of electricity is
to be established near Paris, France.
The school is intended to furnish laborers
and foremen with an electrical education,
and hrst-class instruction will be given III
both theory and practice.
The Hon. Philip Petre, heir presump-
tive to the Barony of Petre and to rights
i'll over dozen of the oldest British bar
nnies now i'll allegiance, is in the hands of
the police, charged with passing worth
less checks on Il clearinghouse keeper.
Evanston has C. D. Gibson fiend,
Tor whose conviction the library officials
have offered Il reward of 500. Every
picture by the Eastern artist has been
clipped from the library magazines, and
the offender has escaped detection, de-
spite the efforts of the library otfieia
The plant known as yervain, which
is not distinguished for it's beauty, and
which grows nowadays utterly disre-
garded. was SO sacred to the Druids that
they only gathered it for their divina-
tons when the great dogstar arose. in
order that neither sun nor moon should
see the deed.
a curious watch has been brought
out i'll France. The dial is transparent,
hut there are no works behind it, and
the hands appear to move by MA gic.
The secret lies i'll concealing the works
:'t the edge OF the case, and commitment
Ing the motion to the hands by means of
Il glass disk.
Anxious to be at the head of the pro-
cession in everything, Chicago now boasts
the longest police beat in the world"
One patrolman has charge of bit Of terri
the extreme western limits of the city
ana includes 4 few houses and consi(lera-
bic nnimproved prairie.
Secretary Wilson of the National De-
partment of Agriculture estimates that the
annual egg product -of the United States
amounts to S5O,0O0,OGO dozen. Placed
end to end, they would grid the earth
Twelve times at the equator and still leave
enough to exercise proper restraint upon
onc-night transformers.
The transportation of prisoners TO
their own country by the victors is not a
novelty in warfare. In 1903, after the
defeat of the French at the battle of
Nimiero, Portugal. the victorious Eng
lish deported 1900 French prisoners,
with their equipments. from Oporto and
Lisbon and landed them at Brest.
In some of the less accessible parts
of Norway visited by tourists there are
no inns in the villages. The government
has now decided to grant in such cases
certain annual sum to the owner of Il
spacious house i'll each village, tile pro
pf1ctor agreeing, i'll turn, to accommodate
four or more guests if called upon. -
Stockholm has an opera house which
Is said to be the finest i'll Europe, although,
others have ii larger seating capacity. 1t
took seven years to complete it and the
cost was more than $1,6OO,OOO. Private
enterprise made the scheme possible, al
though the property has already pa ssed
into the possession of the municipality.
An elderly Philadelphia woman, Sa-
rah Loura. recently went to ST. Mary's
hospital and asked to be relieved Of dis