The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-10-21


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st. Petersburg is the Oldest capital in
Europe.
Half Of the 125,O 600 scandinayians in
the United States live In Chicago.
The Congregationalists have one min-
lister to every 114 members of their
churches. !, =ss5
The word Asia is derived from the
Sanskrit ushas, meaning the land Of the
morning dawn,
Mexico has had fifty-tive Presidents
since 1921. OF these, sixteen have died
violent deaths.
There are 1000 submarine cables in
use all over the world, which have cost
about $160, 0OO. 600. @
The cost Of running big ocean liner
from Liverpool to New York and hack is
something over 10000, So
TO furnish shoes for our army would
redaifss the. skins Of a4,625 calves, not
Counting the soles and heels.
A Norwegian engineer has invented a
process for producing paper glue. dress
ing gum and soap from seaweed:
When chameleon is blindf6 lded II
loses all power of Changing its color, and
its entire body remains of q uniform tint.
China has an arsenal at Tsinanfu at
which 400 workmen are employed making
arms aud ammunition, besides repairing.
,.-Thea Rhind manuscript, now in the
British museum, is the oldest intelligible
mathematical work extant that has ever
been deeiphered:
"A rose bush bearing blossoms Of i've
different c0lors was bne of the principal
attractions iii q Belfast (1e:( flower
garden this summer:
-W6men who occupy h8lses subject to
taxation iii M6ntfeal, Gam; either as les
sees OF ownets: haSes by the new charter,
fill municipal Suffrage: &
The Caedmon cross at Whitman,
eretted Iii honor of England'S first Chris
laureate on September q.
More than $1,000 Ffehchinen belong
thousand of these ARE connected with the
army: The rest are civilians.
Nj: yZola's ''Paris," and sAIohks aud
Their Decline" by Rev. DIR: zurther Of
Buffalo haye been placed. in the index tf
prohibited books by the Vatitai. ~
The bank checks passing through the
clearing houses in London and New York
in one month exceed the value Of all the
gold and silver coin in the world.
Germany has more electric street rail
Mays than any other European country.
Next in order come France, England,
Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Belgium.
At Pana. ILL.,. seven business men
were indicted fof refusing to act DIS depn>
ty sheriffs during the miners riots: Thir-
ty-six ininers wefe indicted for fiOting.
Among the many mysteries Of bird
migration is the fact that ovef-sea jour
neys are generally conducted in the dark
ness and Invariably against head wind.
,,-Bacteria multiply very rapidly, and
they do it iii a. very curious way. "A sin
gle one breaks itself in two, then each
half grows until it becomes as large as
the original.
Sweden is the latest country to lay
claim to the ancestry Of Admiral George
Dewey. Canada insists that the parents
of Admiral Sampson were reared by the
LADY of the Shows" ~.
Investigations made officially in ILL
hois show that pound includes 2.1S5, 600
seeds of blue grass, 1,421; 900 of timothy,
$4,000 of white clover, $4,000 of red
tlover and 243,000 of alfalfa.
-Ih Budapest the police have just
secured Whole: gang of shoplifters.
They were almost exclusively women,
and the chief of the band was the rich
owner Of large estate in Hungary.
Blankets for the army cost s. 1923
each. This would mean an outlay of
1921 By the way, old army men are
agreed that better poker can be played e1,
one of these blankets than on any other
cloth. -. ~ r.. - s.. 5 sS
The Orientals of Bokhara indulge in
Il peculiar pastime which is said to re-
sides.'s A decapitated goat takes the
place of the ball, and 200 horsemen
scramble for it. 49, r-.. /.
The blue tint In glass has it's cause in
chemical deposits formed in the coal gas
furnace, and which. under the action of
the air, produce blue coat on the glass.
To remove this blue coat tint causes con-
siderable trouble. 49,.
-Ceylon is said to be alarmed ut the
news that the world will end next year
and that the beginning will be the sub
mergence of Ceyion. The villagers on the
island are trying to atone for their sins
by acts of charity and by focking to the
temples. 49,
john Hamilton of Wilmington, Del,
has Plymouth Rock hen which catches
and kills rats The hen waits at Il rat
hole i'll stable, and pounces upon an
animal as it appears. usually Selling him
by the leg. It then shakes him vigorous
~ and picks out his eyes. p.
in advocating the practice of boiling
water land milk of uncertain purity,
Prof. Bizzozero combats the prejudice
against boiled water as a beverage. He
maintains that the "taste'' frequently
complained of in boiled water is really
caused by the kettle and can scarcely he
due to the absence of dissolved air. of
which water from wells of great depth
often contain very little. ~, = So =
The Yellowstone National park.
which has always heretofore been ia.
troled by the soldiers Of the regular army.
was this summer without guard or pa trol
until June %, when a detail of civilians
undertook the work. They found the
park to be overrun with sheep, which had
been driven in by the owners during the
spring. contrary to law. The civilian
guard has thus far elected 175,OOO sheep
from the prohibited territory. y $50.