The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

In the Russian markets all fresh fish
is sold alive. "a.
The King of Italy has never visited
the Pope. - =.
The public library at St. Petersburg
possesses fine smoking room. -
The cathedral of Rouen boasts a
clock which has kept time for 500 years.
On the Yukon ut distance of from
700 to 500 miles from the sea there are
many points where the river is twenty
miles wide.
Such is the restitution in Crete that
the sailors on her Britannia majesty's
coats for the needy.
Lord Charles Beresford has dared the
admiralty to give the Belleville boilers a
real test by speeding the new cruiser Din
dem across the Atlantic under it's full
steam of 1880 horsepower.
British purists regard with envy the
Dutch village of Diuxverioo, where hang
ing underclothes out to dry in places visi-
be to the public is punished by heavy
fine for the first offense and by imprison-
inent for the second.
-Coquelin aine, in the part of Cyrano
lie Bergerac, will be made into statu-
cite of precious materials by the sculptor
Puech. The flesh will be of ivory or tint
ed marble. the dress of ivory, gold and
SILVER lntaM with S0lu.
An exchange states that 800 bales of
horses names and tails, to be used for
Upholstering furniture. have been landed
ut Philadelphia by the British steamships
Maine and Michigan from London, where
they were shipped from Siberia.
Paris is suffering from plague of
rats living in the sewers and in the eel
lars of the Palais Royal and the Halles
Centrales. LIE Gaulois suggests that the
sewers be divided into sections and let to
sporting men for rafting contests.
French postoffice employees are be-
tween the devil and the deep sea. They
have just received an order forbidding
them to read postal cards and next direct
ing them not to allow insulting or Hhelius
postal cards to pass through the mails.
A dutiful German son advertises in
the Leipzig Tageblatt: 'Marriage-l
seek for my father. strictly respectable
tary widow or maiden with some property
in cash. Address, with statement Of
conditions, -
Traffic through the Suez canal fell off
greatly in 1897, the amount being the
smallest in fifteen years; 1856 steamers
of 7.S9S,9S1 tons register passed through.
as compared with 34OS steamers of
S.562.237 tons in 1896 and about the
same number in 1898.
hing Bell OF CameronS, through
whom the Germans acquired their pro-
tectorate over that country. is dead at
the age of 20 years. and Germany will
no longer acknowledge the royalty of the
Bell family or any other native King
The late Kings eldest son, Augustine
Manga Bell, is a Christian, educated in
England.
European court officials are getting
careless. The Prince of Naples mas
ter of the household, has been dismissed
ut the request of the princess for pres
enting to her at a reception person who
before her marriage had been ballet
girl at the San Carlo theater, and Queen
Victoria's Lord Chamberlain has been
hauled over the Goals for presentation
ut the last drawing room that will have
to be annulled
A queer lawsuit is before the Munich
courts. where an actress in the Deutsches
thcater. who married recently, sues the
proprietor for her salary in spite of a
clause in the contract STIMULATING that "a
member of the theater who marries with
out permission Of the director forfeits all
claim to salary" She pleads that as il
WIS the director himself that she mar
ritd the court must infer that she had
his permission and consent.