The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

Tho Indian jute crop is only 90 pc
cent, of the normal.
One swallow will do away with a
least 6OOO flies Il day.
The Sandwich Islanders estimate tn
beauty of women by their weight.
"A German has invented Il thimble o
felt or gum for the use of pianists,
The Kaiser and Impress took alon.
lo2 trunks ON their Jerusalem trip.
THE amount Of subscriptions to til,
National Gladstone memorial is f15,3S4
"A physician declares that people VIII,
sleep with their mouths shut live longest
The average of wrecks in the BALI,
sea is one every day throughout the year
The Salvation army waste paper anf
daily. A'e'
Trains run from Pekin to Tien Isl,
in four hours-the distance being 12S
miles.
Russia has spent over 1855, GOO 900 j,
naval ornaments during the past sever
years.
The natives of La Rrenne can be seer
Wadlng i'll the marshes catching leeche.
for sale.
No person in Norway may spen,
more than + cents at one visit to 4 drink
ing place.
There are only 6O93 lawyers of al
kinds IN RuSSia-one for every 10000 in
hubitantS.
In Great Britain the Roman Catholi,
population has diminished by one third i,
twenty years
The tents of the Retloun Arabs are
usually black. They are made of dyet
goats hair cloth.
The first train across Siberia has
reached lrkutSk and was welcomed by q
religious ceremony.
The two little islands of Zanzibar and
l'emba furnish four-iifths of the cloves
consumed by the world
The hover grade of molasses, which
Is unsala bic. is used as fuel Over 100.
otD tons were used last year.
"A registrar in the East End of Lon.
don has just recorded the birth of Il child
who has been named Sirlar Kitchener.
In Dawson City currency and silver
are called "chee chnrko." Business is
done in gold dust on Il basis of SIG an
ounce.
The fellah prefers the ancient plow
and also the morag, or hay cutter, but he
does like the modern steam pump TO,
lifting water.
1t is claimed that all the jewelers.
big clocks have the hands painted to
aSsassinated.
A bees wings arc said to beat the nj,
ut the rate of 1870 strokes per second AND
to prop~l the bee Il distance of thirty
miles all hour.
-t'eorge \. Ward of Abingdon, H.,
left his false teeth to the CONGREGATIONS
III church. which accepted the legacy, and
sold it for $27.
All curatrs in the diocese of Wake.
field have shaved their mustaches, not nv
order but ut the strongly expressed wish
of their bishop.
-Fashoda is now described as little
more than marsh. This accounts for
the anxiety of France to open it I'm ms :,
frog-growing center.
Brussels has Il tower clock which i,a,
never been wound up by human hands
BY an ingenious arrangement the wind
keeps it wound up.
a missionary reports that the cocoons
Of the silkworm are eaten in some parts
of China fried in oil or lard and served
with chicken gravy.
The marble fountain that Empcro,
llham purposes to erect in Constant.
nople to commemorate his visit there is tc
be OF his own dcsi en-.
There We're covered market crosses in
ancient England for the shelter of traders
aud they were generally in cities where
there were monasteries.
A man who went through the Cri.
mean war and the Indian muti1iy 1yaS
killed by 4 van while selling booflarps III
the streets of Tottenham.
WYATT While. railroad station in
New South Wales, has just won fight
to retain its name, which the railroad
company wished to change.
London has taken up the experiment
OF municipal street railroads. The Soutl,
London tramWays have been bought br
the county council for 81 ,25G,OOO.
In Queen Elizabeth's reign the OK.
penses of the navy were about $50. 600 q
year. Il contrast to the present huge sum
1T Sl2o.UH,.WO spent annually on the
fleet.
Boston is in hard luck. A carload of
beans. ell route to that city, was wrecked
about two miles west of Pittsfeld. Mass.
and the spoil was gobbled up,by the ma
tives.
A liquor and cigar cabinet in the
shape of Il coffin with skull, bones. dice.
hcnr-gl lass. scythp, snakes. frogs. spade
and other fittings is offered for sale in
London.
-Dunmow, famous for the fitch of ba-
con. has an old lady of 90 who recently
bought bicycle, does all her shopping.
and visiting on it, and says that she feels
better Tor the exercise.
India has perhaps greater variety
VI plants than any other country in the
world, having $1,000 native species, while
embraces only about 10000.
The English basso, Plunket Greene.
after all absence Of two seasons. is to
pay visit to America i'll January next,
and will remain for tour of three
months
The most costly piece of railway line
III the world is that between the Mansion
House ana Aldgate stations. in London
which required the expenditure of close
upon f2.0OO,000 mile
1t is calculated that the yearly pro
ductlon of paper in the world is 5000.
hn,0Oo pounds weight, and. according to
an estimate which has been made, this
cmanates from 1891 mills.
In Paris a peculiar fad on the part of
rich women has given rise to the curious
profession of dog dressmakers.'' Mem
hers of this profession supply every sort
OF covering a lady wants for her pampered
pet.
Free libraries are not wanted in some
parts of London. The three adjoining
parishes of lslingtOn. St, Pancras and
Marylebone have refused to establish
them even where the books were offered
us i; gift.
A man named Smith in st. Paul. in
lecture the other day, disposed of Her
bert Spencer by referring to him as "an
old man i'll London, who has built III, Il
system of philosophy which will shortly
be- forgotten
More than one half the lord chance!-
'or" of England during the past fifty
years we're the sous of poor men One
OF them was the son of Il country bar
Der, and the father of another was IL
Newcastle coalheayer.
Russia is going to turn the harbor of
Iibau on the Baltic, near Riga. into q
first-class naval station and fortress. The
port will be closed to merchantmen and
foreigners. for whom the harbor III Win
dau is being fitted up.
An Austrian professor, who believes:
IN the value of hygiene, declares that
England owes her supremacy over other
nations to the national hathtub. and that
the only sure way to outstrip England is
to beat her i'll the use Of water.
"A French doctor has invented an
electric helmet inside Of which IL :, small