The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-09
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The earth receives only one two-bil-
lionth of the heat of the sun.
If kept continuously running. watch
will tick 1GO, III, 600 times a year.
There are $40 employees to every 100
miles of railroad in the United States.
Tho Arabs entertain a belief that Eve
was the tallest woman that ever lived.
1T costs about $1OOO to build an elec-
trio cab of the kind now III use in Paris.
In Japan coins are generally of iron
and in Siam they are chiefly of porcelain.
instruction in art is given to 2,445,-
1S5 persons year in England and Wales.
The Singalese children are said to be
more beautiful than those Of any other
race.
The distance from the farthest point
of polar discovery to the pole itself is
4GN miles.
When Tartar wants 10 invite man
to eat and drink with him he takes him
by the ear.
Many houses in Berlin are numbered
with luminous figures, which are easily
visible at night.
After an absence of eight years the
famous Dore pictures are AGAIN to ap-
pear in London,
Warsaw has the most spacious bar
SS.WN soldiers. =,
The mummy of an Egyptian queen
who lived over 1000 years ago was lately
sold in London for $50.
Only one man in 100 pays income
tax i'll India. though the tax is levied on
all incomes of f3S and upward.
Walter Resant thinks the new tower
bridge over the Thames the most noble
entrance gate and portal in the world.
MINES, his birthplace. is going to erect
monument to ARhonse Daudet. and is
raising part of the money by bullhghts.
Hunting for old coins is such pro6ta-
BILE business in China that it is taught as
an accomplishment in some of the schools.
Under the laws of Arkansas fine of
SO is assessed on the company permit
ting colored people to ride in the sleepers.
A tobacco trust to be known as the
Union Tobacco company of America has
been formed with Il capital of $1O,OOO,-
100.
Canada has three of her sons sitting
in the House of Lords viz: Baron Hall
burton, Earl of Carnwath and Earl of
Elgin
The dairy industry of Iowa continues
t" grow. There are now 1902 creameries
in 1896.
i'll the world are to be found in Switzer-
land, where the government owns the
railroads.
1t is said that the proprietors of the
London Times have cleared $15O,OOO by
their republication of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
A good Arabian horse can canter in
the desert for twentyfour hours in sum-
ner and fOrty-eight hours in winter with
out drinking.
London and Liverpool are both ut the
level of the sea. Glasgow is 30 feet above
it. Manchester is 80 feet and Birming-
ham 300 feet.
All curates in the diocese of Wake
field have shaved their mustachcs, not by
order, but ut the strongly-expressed wish
of their bishop.
1t costs between & and cents a
pound to raise cotton in the South. while
at present prices the planter gets less
than cents Il pound.
Wait a While. railroad station liz
New South Wales, has just won Il fight
t" retain its name. which the railroad,
company wished to change.
In an account of fatal accident which
hrfell a prominent citizen of Il Kansas
town the local paper says that ''he met
death at the hands of horse
Of municipal street railroads. The South
London tramways have been bought By
the county council for 81 $50. 900.
A liquor and cigar cabinet in the
: shape of coffin with skull, bones, dice,
hourglasS. scythe. snakes, frogs. spade
and other fittings" is offered for sale in
London.
The only theory advanced rs to why
John Hopper. 20 years old. of Hillsdale,
y. j., committed suicide. is grief at the
election of Col. Roosevelt as governor of
New York
Odds of 10 to I. and even 20 to /.
against war are still offered in London
where people are willing to bet on any
thiny-even the probable date of the Day
Of Judgment.
a new Anglican church, dedicated to
st. George the Martyr has just been
consrcrated at Jerusalem. The church
and college stand just outside the walls
vt Jerusalem.
1t appears that there has recently
been large influx of Scotsmen into the
Irish civil service. and the native N sss
h".' ,;is,v:"rc:l i: this fact a crying ma
tional grievance.
Police detectives in Montrea! estimate
That the people Of that city spend over
S2'Oo.0W year on lotteries. The num-
Der OF policy tickets bought annually is
estimated ut 100000.
a law passed by the Vermont Legis-
iature requires that wagons to carry
three tons shall have wheels with a three
Inch tire, over three tons four-inch and
over SIX tons, six-inch.
In Arkansas, as in South Carolina.
the Democratic caucus or primary is vir-
tu:ily the election. In Little Rock only
300 of the 1000 voters registered went
to the polls on election day.
James Crichton Browne of England
is of the opinion that if the present rail-,
Of decrease in phthisis cases continued
the disease would have disappeared from,
Great Britain in about thirty years
time.
The Sultan. in fear Of his personal
safety. has taken to revolver practice
tie shoots at a target daily, and has, it
is reported in Paris, become so proficient
that he can fire with equally fatal facii::
ity with either his right or his left hand.
A turban generally consists of from
It to fourteen yards of cloth. and is. as
those who have made the Hadj or nil
SrlmaSe to Mecca. and among theolOgi-
cal students; also by some Eastern M
tons
lin i, certain class of Russian schools
the highest reward given is the initial let
ter OF the Empress name. 1t consists of
the initial in solid gold, an inch and
quarter in height, on Il blue bow. Should
its DosseSsOr ever BECOME governess II
will entitle her to a higher salary than she
could otherwise obtain.
BY order of the Berlin BARRIERS. Hair
dressers and Wigmakers' union appren-
trees are forbidden to wear their hair cut
short: because the practice is unprofession-
al. The union decided that the apprer-
tees hair should be tastefu.ly and care
fully dressed in order to act as inspira-
alton for the business and COR custom
ers.
Capt. Spelterini's attempt to cross the
main body of the Alps in the balloon
Vega has failed. The ascent was made
from Sion in the Vallais, with northeast
breeze. but after the balloon had risen |
the wind shifted to the northwest, send
ing it over the French border. The bal
loon rose to IL height of over 10000 feet
and landed near Dion.
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