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

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a law making life imprisonment instead
of death the penalty for murder, and now
there is a popular agitation for its re-
peal. -. - .. -
American coffee buyers, who have Just
investigated the condition of the coffee
| crop in the state Of OaXaca, estimate that
the total yield of that state this year will
coffee industry i'll that part of Mexico has
| had a very rapid growth during the past
| ten years. r r. = = -
"A brunswick {Me.l youth wrote to Il
| young woman, asking her to so to u bull
| with him the other night, and his courage
failed him at the hast minute, and he
| dared not so and get her to so to the
| dance. She got ready and sat on the
| doorsteps till after 10 o'clock. She got
cold and is now i'll. = "
AS shown by the certificates of inspec-
| ton issued the past year to foreign steam
vessels IN American ports, Great Britain
commands over one-half Of the total gross
tonnage of such shipping and no less than
lSS of the SIG vessels inspected. Ger
many was second with 81 vessels, and
Holland third, with only Is.
The life insurance companies of Cana
tta take noteworthy step in agreeing
of married women unless they happen to
be the hread-winners of the family. Sew
eral cases of murder of wives for their
Insurance have happened recently and led
to the present action of the companies.
The largest flower in the world. it
is said. is the holo, which grows ON the
Island of Mindanao, one of the Philip
pine group. 1t has five petals, measuring
nearly a yard in width. and a single
two pounds. 1t grows on the highest
pinnacle of the land, about 1000 feet
above the level Of the sea.
The salt mines of Wieliezka, near
Cracow. Poland, were mentioned in 1044,
and have been worked since 1910. The
first map of the mines was made in 1888
by Martin German. a Swedish mine sur
are from POT to 9S5 feet deep. and the
length of the levels now open is 345, ZOO
fee., with 115,5N feet of underground
tramlineS. s-
Massachusetts is the only state in
the Union in which the judges are ap-
pointed to hold their Office during good
behavior. There are seven states in
which the judges are appointed by the
governor, by and with the advice and
five in which they are elected by the
Legislature, and thirty-three in which
they are elected by the people.
All code books carried on warships
have leaden backs, to make them sink if
lost overheard. The letters in the book,
moreover, are printed with peculiar ink
which fades away when it comes in con-
tax: .:::;s ::::s wate:- tn make things
still more safe the letters are changed ev-
Even on the warships few officers know
their vessels official signal code.
The Japanese now publish three times
as many books as the Italians, whose lit
erary powers seem to have faded almost
entirely away since the days of the Ro-
mans. Out of 2o.OOO volumes published
last year in the Land of Flowers no less
than 5000 were law books. and 1900 treat
cd of religion, which shows that the ro-
mantle little nation has not yet taken
kindly to any written form of romance
-Four of the great German universities
are now at work on the preparation of an
actual dictionary of the hierolyphic Ian
y,lagc of the ancient Egyptians. The
hope is entertained that printing may be-
gin ill 1909. The meaning of vast
number CT words has to be found from,
comparison of texts containing the words
sought. BY a system of exclusion proba.
bic meaning may be reached for each
wOrl.
Salaries of United States army officers
arc as follows: General. $4,000; lieu
tenant general, $1,000; major-gcneral.
$500; acknowledgements. $4,000; colonel,
$500; Northumberland. $4,000; major,
$500; captain, mounted, $4,000; captain,
not mounted, $500; regimental adjutant,
$500: regimental quartermaster, $1,000;
first lieutenant, mounted, $1,000; first lieu
tenant, mounted, $500: second licuten-
ant. not mounted, $1400; chaplain, $500.
The mummy rooms Mt the British mu-
scum, says the London Mail, have been
completed. and are now open to the pub
lie. These sleeping beauties of the an
Gent past have been Systematically laid
out in a manner becoming their age and
rank. Kings and mobiles, priests and peo-
pie have been assigned to their places &C.
cording to their chronological or ecclesias-
teal order, and no fairer show or better
display can be seen outside Ghizeh than
the recently augmented company in these
rooms.
In private life Duse dresses almost
entirely white. She wears no corset and
does not make up her face even for the
stage. She has beautiful black hair, but
she bundles it up anyhow and is quite
proud of the one snowy white lock that
sweeps across her templee. AS to her
character, this is what great friend
says: She is charming woman, sincere,
brave and good. Her conversation, when
she chooses to speak, is startlinsly bril-
liant, but she is one of the saddest women
l have ever known"
The chief Of the Philadelphia weather
bureau, in paper recently read by him,
showed the wonderfully large aggregate
to which apparently trivial but continued
leaks may amount. One drop of leakage
per second amounts to five gallons pe1
day. This may we'll be remembered by
central stations with leaky piping, paying
for water by meter, and also that appar-
emily trivial steam leaks are a loss not
only of water, but of coal, and electrical
leaks, Of water, coal and labor.