The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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-Christmas cards first came into fash
ion in 1916. - = -
An electric deermat has been Invent
ca Whfch rings a bell rs soon as anyone
steps on it. thus making it safe to leave
the doors open.
London has a resident population of
nearly 1000 professional orchestral instru-
mentalists. Of this total nearly TOO are
violinists. -
BY experiments on rabbits Prof. Fischl
has demonstrated that getting chilled shas
most important effect in predisposing to
disease. ~
-f'lscatorial authorities say that, were
II not Tor the natural enemies of. fish, the
eottnsh would NIL all the available space
III the seas, rivers and oceans.
Tops. are being manufactured which
are spun by current of air directed by 4
bioW-plpe INTO the curved channels ex-
tending outward from a central opening
in the top. =
1t has recently been claimed that iron
ships with electric plants suffer rapid de-
terioration of their pipes having direct
connection with the sea, due to electro
lytic action. =.
Bottles now are being made of PAGER
use particularly ON shipboard, where
heavy weather works havoc among glass
receptacles.
STOCKINGS and socks eau be easily re-
paired by means of toe and heel caps.
which are being made for the purpose.
and are adapted to fit over the worn parts
and be sewed in position.
The facilities for inland transporta-
ton are so limited in Brazil that the in
habitants of the ports find it cheaper to
import grain from North America than
from their own farms.
When dead bodies are entered as a
cargo on Il ship, they are often recorded
On the invoices us "statuary." or natural
history specimens" to allay the super-
StitiouS fears of the crew. -
The oldest sailing craft in the world
is the so-ealled Gokstad ship, Viking
vessel. which WAS discovered in sep
uchral mound on the shores of Christi
anna ford. 1t is Il thousand years old.
When Columbus discovered South
America. near the mouth of the OrinocQ.
the Spanlards found an Indian village
bullt over the water on piles. AS it
reminded them of Venice, they called it
Venezuela, or Little Venice"
An Illinois man paid 1892 go to the
tax collector of the county and frankly
confessed that he shirked taxes to that
amount during the last ten years. Such
an awakening of conscience is worthy of
CONNIE ndation and widespread emula-
ton.
An act of Parliament was passed in
the reign of Edward Ill. prohibiting any
one from being served at dinner or sum-
per with more than two courses. excent
upon some great holidays therein speci-
he'd. Oh which he might be served with
three.
he European hornet is shown by
VI L. .: Howard to have existed near
New York city for at least fifty years,
yet it has spread less than $50 miles.
In Europe the species inhabits Outhouses,
nut III America the nests are almost in
var'ably built in hollow trees.
From 123 answers to questions pub
lishcd two or three years ago, Messrs.
Y. and c. Henri find that a persons first
memory may be of an extent occurring
as early rs the age of 6 months OF as
late as years-two to four years being
the usual age.
1t is a curious fact that the higher
the civilization of race the slower the
action of the senses. At any rate, actual
experiments have shown that. whereas
the ear of bite man responds to Il
sound in l4I-1GOO of Il second. that of Il
negro responds in 100000, and that of
4 red Indian in 10000.
The Rothsrhilds have made it a ruiz.
to intermarry, aud have defed the doc
trines Of the scientists, who have. for
hidden the marriage Of relations on the
ground that it facilitates a race. 4
Rethschid always looks among his
cousins for wife; uncles have married
nicces, nephews have married aunts.