The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
will probably be broken up. She was
purchased in New Orleans FOR $4,000
to run to the Klondike. :@5s zs; rs.

/ club, died recently at the age of 94 years.
! The club was founded in 1924, He had
she was a baby. and walked across the
Thames when it was frozen over in 1914.
Two years ago the Khalifa's influence
stretched in an unbroken line from Sar-
ras, above the second cataract, to BedCen
in Equatoria, 11OO miles from north
to south. and from Gurp to Matemnch,
S0O miles from west to east. Now it
would be difficult to say exactly where
it extends.
The largest library in the world is
that Of Paris. 1t contains upward of p
900, 600 printed books and 10000 manu-
scripts. The British Museum contains
about 1,aOO,WN volumes and the Imperial
library ut St. Petersburg about the same
number. These are the largest libraries
in the world.
"A patent has been recently issued in
Germany for reflector by which piano
is illuminated from within by combna-
tlon of lamp and Il mirror in such a
way that the music is easily read by the
player. The light from the lamp is re-
fiecteu by the mirror on the music and
the Keyboard.
The latest reports concerning the
Anglican church in Hawaii, which may
be- transferred to the American Episco-
pal church, show that there are in the
islands seven clergymen, seven churches
and membership of 1900, of whom fif-
teen are Hawaiians. There are 10000
Congregationalsts and $4,000 Roman
Catholics in the islands.
The list of persons who have killed
themselves because they have been ruined
by the Vienna municipal lottery is a long
one. The other day y woman who had
spent all her money in buying tickets, and
| had never Won Il prize, hanged herself
Nevertheless, the citizens of Vienna look
! With favor on the lottery, as it keeps
| down taxes
The German Emperor takes for his
breakfast small white loaf, the top Of
which is covered over with salt, and
which accordingly goes by the name Of
special kind of bun. known as Il 'lucca
eye. then some sandwiches, for which
another kind of bread is required. baked
until the outside is quite black.
1t has been less than two years since
the law making life Imprisonment instead
Of death the penalty for murder in Colo
RADIO went into effect. and yet agitation
has already begun looking to a revival of
the death penalty. 1t is asserted by
sallows that the life Imprisonment law
has resulted III an epidemic of crime.
-Massachusetts has Il remarkably trust
ful board of cattle commissioners. 1t re-
ceived such small appropriation this year
that it had to abandon the principal part
OF it's work i'll April, suspended it's ceri-
cal help and served without compensation;
yet it has continued to serve the state at
its own expense, hoping that the next
Legislature will reimburse the members
for their outlay.
| People often ask how many books
are in the British museum, but nobody
seems to know: In fact, there are ~
many that it is impossible to count them.
Some years ago it was estimated by meas
urement that there were 100000 books
there. Since that estimate was made the
number has considerably increased, so
that at the present time the total is prob
ably nearer 100000.
The mustache first became common
in the British army at the beginning of
the present century. The Hussars adopt
ed it. and not long afterward the Lancers
Russian war that the infantry adopted the
mllstache. WhiskerS disappeared after
1870. and at present the mustache has
come under the Queens rcgulat tions for all
branches of the service.
The New York Times points out that
while Indian names usually make admira-
Bile designations for the mountains and
slowed upon tho newly discovered noun
tain III Alaska that towers higher than
Mount St: Elias is not euphoDious.
"Busbae, says the Times, SIS not a
: good name. No peak. however tall, could
wear it and look digniied.'
Tug boats are the draught horses of
the sea. New York harbor has 400 Of
them, and the average run is about $50 a
day. This makes i; daily average of $12-
GOO, Or $4,000 week, or SO, 744 900 a
year, which gives an idea of the amount
of shipping that is handled there annually.
As many as 300 ships have entered the
harbor in day. The price of tug
ranges between $4,000 and $4,000.
A perilous feat was performed by a
Cossack i'll menagerie. at Moscow. He
was directed to clean the cages of some
of the tame animals and sponge the
brutes. BY mistake he entered the cage
Of savage tiger with Il bucket of water
and coolly proceeded to wash the animal
The tiger liked the moved sensation and
quietly submitted. 1elightedly turning
every part of its body to the Cossack
Boston is preparing to celebrate the
tWenty-siNth anniversary of the big fire
Of November 8, 1872, in which $SO,OOO,-
900 worth of property was destroyed. If
things were managed on the Boston plan
in Philadelphia it would be in order about
this time to hold a great carnival of re-
joicing over the 15Oth anniversary of the
fever plague of 1893, in which nearly
5000 persons lost their lives out of Il pop
ulatiu of 10000
1t will interest all readers of Dumas
to know that the island of Monte Cristo
: i'll the Mediterranean, is uninhabited and
covered with woods that TEEN with many
sorts of game. For a time an Italian
noble had a shooting box in it, but he sell
dom visited it, and now the Prince of Ma
pies has leased it for hunting ground
and for a house in the wild and solitary
surroundings that his Montenegrin wife
Graves.
According to statistical returns the
suicide rates per annum a million of
population have risen during the past
thirty years from 81 to so in England
and 40 to 81 in Scotland. 1t is asserted,
however, that the tendency to conceal the
occurrence of death by suicide has dimin-
ished since insanity has become more
widely recognized as disease: and this
leads to the belief that suicides on the
whole are not increasing
The latest Englishman to write a
book on this country. objects to what he
calls American hotel customs. He dis
likes to be asked by "a raw, bony.
frrckled damsel' if he would have his
, eggs straight up or turned down." 1t
PANIED him also to be supplied with a
knife Of silver-pated iron that wouldn't
cnt. and to have more than a dozen small
dishes dumped before him in which "the
doses are infinitely small.'
Switzerland has a business-like COM
pulsory education law. If a child does
not attend school on a particular day the
l.arent gets notice from the public au-
thority that he is fined so many francs:
the second day the fine is increased, and
by the third day the amount becomes 4
serious one. In case Of sickness the pupil
is excused, but if there be any suspicion
of shamming a doctor is sent If the
| iS fo ho JnJ br
parent is required to pay the cost of the
doctors visit.
Not long ago Frenchman died and
a clause in his will set forth his desire to
be conveyed to his last resting place i'll q
motor car arranged un Il heursc. Near
: Marseilles there has just taken place
Il christening of a new order The chris
tcning party consisted of nine persons,
! and they were conveyed to church by a
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