The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE skins of animals were the earli
est +nrms of money
EVERY German regiment has chi
ropodist in its ranks.
The ropes on frst-class man-of.
war cost about Sl5.000
NEARLY 40 per cent. of the popula
tion of Siberia are Russian exiles,
SINGLE bee collects only about a
teaspoonful of honey during a season,
IN England there are 10000 girls en-.
gagged in public houses and drinking
bars.
The total cordage required for a
first-rate man .of-war weighs about 80
tons, and exceeds SIS, 900 in value.
The Tartars have quaint custom of
taking a guest by the ear when invit-
ing him to eat or drink with them
WHEN bees do not 60 out as usual,
but keep in or about their hives, rain
may be expected to fall shortly after.
THE cost of fuel on steam railroads
is about ten per cent. of the operating
expenses; on electric roads it is about
five per cent.
The Chinese dictionary, compiled by
Pa-cut-she, l, 100 years before Christ, is
the most ancient of any recorded in
literary history.
THERE are at present 10000 convicts
in the French colony of New Caledonia
This colony has cost the French gov
ernment $50, 600, 900 since 1868.
QUITE a sensation has been created
in London by the public exhibition OF
collection of etched plate done by
Queen Victoria a number of wears ago.
A LETTER addressed to "The Orniest
Man in the United States" after long
journey through the mails, was very
appropriately sent back to the writer
in Denvef
Mrs. CAMPBELL CoPEMAN, of Wash
ington. has made over 500 mountain
ascensions, and is the only woman who
ever succeeded in reach the summit of
Mt. Rainier.
A sTATIsTICIAN computes that Queen
Victoria is now sovereign over one
continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 prom
ontories, 1000 lakes, 1000 rivers and
1O,O 900 islands.
AN Italian doctor has discovered that
there is in the common pineapple a
substance similar to pepsin and that
one pineapple is sufficient to digest 10
pounds of beef
THE longest-lived people have gener.
ly been those who made breakfast the
principal meal of the day. The stom.
ach has more vigor in the morning
than at any time
THE largest and most valuable mug.
get of gold ever found was discovered
in Australia in 1852 1t was reported
to weigh 223 pounds and ounces, and
was worth about S55, OOO
Mrs HIcKsoN, who died at the age ot
1O3 in Ireland recently, was married in
1918, and was probably the last woman
in the United Kingdom whose wedding
took place before Waterloo.
BOTTLES are now being made Of
paper under a German patent They
are for use particularly on shipboard
where heavy weather works havoc
among the glass receptacles.
The number of distilleries in opera
ton in the United States in March was
592 of grain and nine of molasses, pro
ducing 321, ,214 gallons of grain spirit;
and 9,461 gallons of molasses spirits
daily.
A TON of Atlantic water, when evap
GRATED, yields 81 pounds of salt; tor
of Pacific water 10 pounds. Arctic ant
An tarctic waters yield S5 pounds t.
the ton, and Dead sea water 49,
pounds.
JERUSALEM now has a population o
60, 900. about double the number of III
inhabitants about twenty years ago
but it has tile most imperfect and un
Wholesome water supply of any city
on earth.
GERMAN police authorities are trying
to discover the identity of, "a man.
body recently found in the Rhine. Par
of the description is; Age, about A
years, height five foot eight; language
the Geldern dialect"
In certain parts of Norway when 1
person is drowned cock is put in {
boat, which is rowed about the scene
of the disaster, the belief being tina
the bird will crow when the boa
passes over the body.
The term infantry" meaning foo
soldiers, originated with the Spanish
1t was first applied to the militar.
force employed by an infante, o
young prince of Spain, to rescue hi
father from the Moors.
For 80 years after the completion o
the railroad line across the Isthmus o
Panama the fare charged was so cent
per mile, or $25 for the trip from term
inal to terminal. This is said to hav
heen the highest regular rate ever de
lmanded by road in this hemisphere.
MEssBs. CHRISTIE, of London, recent
lily sold an old English walnut ches
from Suffolk mansion), which con
tained the treasure of the ill-fate,
Charles l. The royal cipher was mutil
ated by Cromwell's soldiers-but i
found n ready purchaser at IS guineas