The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-23
Curious Combinations.

{ Curious CONVERSATIONS.
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Among stevetlores cotton is~regartlel
as the hardest to stow, and railway iron
the easiest 4
Single eyeglasses Worn by women is
the form taken hy~the latest London
fashionable insanity. 81 d, - - .g....
A Norwegian engineer has invented a
process for producing paper glue, dressing
gum and soap from seaweed.
5ss-ManN is the best tongue for counting,
as 1t has ninaty-seven ways in which to
say My dear" This is the opinion of
the London Manx society,"
All of the New Testament has been
translated for the first time into one of
the Australian native dialects by two
German missionaries.
california has forty mountains the
n hgheSt peaks Of which are more than
10000 feet above the sea. Colorado has
tfty-nines peaks which are more than 49,
600 feet in altitude. It's
-Hxports of mineral illuminating oil
from this country in the fiscal year 1875
amounted to POI ,955,3OS gallons; in the
year ended June 30, 1898, they aggre-
gated 1,US4,269,61 gallons,
The sawnlills of Portland last year
cut 13o,0oo,ooo feet Of lumber, at IS per
of the state brings the total value of Ore
CONS humber production to 339S, $50. IS.
A deal has been consummated in a
group Of onyx claims at Hartville. Wyo.,
by which the owners Messrs. Golden.
Bon and Nreeland of Denver have sivel,
an option to DR.. Catlin of Fort Worth,
Tex
Queen Victoria has conferred on the
Twenty-tir l-ancers, who made the
charge at Obdurman, the designation Of
the Empress of midas I4ancers. They
ties
During the year ended June 80. 1898,
Missouri produced 2,SSS, 152 tons of coal,
an Increase over the preceding year of II
per cent. During the same time it pro-
duced 1S,66S tons of zinc and 1861
tons Of lead.
After IL litigation tasting fourteen
Years the will disposing of a San Fran
cisco estate once worth $4,000 has just
been sustained and litigation suspended,
because the estate has been exhausted in
paying legal fees.
president Faure's daily mail is said
to contain Oh the average 700 letters, Of
which 80 are begging letters, $50 peti-
tons on political matters, 100 complaints
against officials, 50 anonymous insults
and 20 threats of death.
AT three of the large London railway
misunderstanding Cross. Cannon street.
and London BridgNmore than $4,000
movements for signal and point levels
have to BE- made every twenty-four hours.
quite apart from the telegraphic opera
tons.
Two crocOdilcs in a circus at Bayeux,
France. got into fight, in which the
hind leg of one of the beasts was badly
laeerated- \ veterinary surgeon was
called i'll. who amputated the leg sue
cessfully, tho crocodile being as lively as
ever.
In the archives Of the Due lie la Ire
mouillc have been found the minute
books of the Sorbonne. the ecclesiastical
court. from 1905 to 1888. the period Of
the strongest struggle against Protestant
ism in France. They are now in the
Paris National library.
The earliest record of the presence of
Sypsies in Europe is in 1417. They said
that they came from Egypt, but it now
seems certain that they came from India,
The mass of their language is of Indian
'rlsin: though there are also some Greek
and Slavic "loan-words"
In the chief cities Of japan several
1T She streets are devoted to the sale of
certain lines Of merchandise. In one
street nothing is on sale but wooden
shoes: another is devoted exclusively to
IL
per lant'rnS and so on.
The lack of Il timber supply for the
world Is not likely to cause much I'M
taslnesa tor some years vet. 1t is stated
that in the province of Archangel. Rus
>la- there are forests belonging to the
government which cover SS,979. 400 acres
III which the ring of the woodsman's axe
has as yet scarcely been heard.
"A scientist. looking for microbes. says
there are absolutely none on the Swiss
mountains at an altitude of 1000 feet.
Here is the place for the -urity party:
and scaremongers, who are forever horri-
tying the public with the dismal fear of
microbes. would have to take their SIM
ply with them, most Of which are useful
to man.
There is no part of the world which
has such--a black record for wrecks as
the narrow Baltic seas. The number in
some years has averaged more than one
day. the greatest number of wrecks re-
corded in one year being 1875, and the
smallest 1A. About 80 per cent. of these
vessels became total wrecks, all the
crews being lost.
"A license for stage plays, granted to
the Cripplegate institute, is the first such
permission ever given by the lord cham
berain's office to place within the linn
Its of the city of London. The old City
Of London theater stood outside the
boundaries. while in Shakespeare's time
the lord chamberlain had nothing to do
with the theaters.
-"Cyrano de Bergerac," at the 24Gtl
performance ut the Porte Saint Martin
theater. broke all records for Paris the
ater receipts, having brought in 100000
francs. For the same length of time
Michael Strogoff," in 1SSO-S1 drew l.
4S,O56 francs to the Chatelet, while
Round the World in Eighty Days. at
the Porte Saint-Martin in 1S74-75
brought in 1,636,30O francs.
The Western boast that every mans
house is his castle is as nothing to the
sanctity Of the Eastern harem No Off
Ger Of the law may enter harem and
therefore there is no safeguard for the
life and liberty Of its inhabitants. One
day they may be slaves, the next prin-
't>'ses and the next strangled or poisoned.
IN iil-disposed man could carry off an
enemy to his harem and kill him and
none would be the wiser.
AGrocerywoman Poet.
An old lady in small country town has
kept for the last twenty years. and still