The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS. !
Paper floors are announced,

Paper is made in thirty-four states.
a Family moving is fountain of
troubles.
Some butterflies have as many as 20
600 distinct eyes.
There are 9,OOOOOO acres of original
forests in West Virginia.
Rats avoid Il house wherein suinea-
pig Is permitted to roam at will.
In the Fourteenth century suits of
armor often weighed IT'S pounds and
over.
1T is a striking popularity of blind
fishes that they do not change their col
The ancients took the owl for a SYM.
boil Of wisdom. because he always minds
his own business.
There is a man in Hagerstown, Nd,
who eats strychnine, arsenic and BELLA
dnna with IMMUNITY.
When the sparrowhawk is swooping
down on its prey it cleaves space at the
speed of $50 miles an hour.
The gold watch of Edward Allan Poe
is now in the possession of X. w. Al
bright Of Fort Madison. In.
There are 1000 muscles in the body of
caterpillar. and the eye of Il dragon fly
contains 2S,OUO polished lenses
M. Rerthelot maintains that the in
vcntlon of gunboatS and armor-protected
guns IN ties back to the Fifteenth century.
Cakes of tea in India, pieces of silk
in China, salt in Abyssina, and Goldfish
in Iceland have all been used as money.
The earliest complete clock of which
an accurate record exists was made in
the Thirteenth century by Saracen me-
chanic.
The phenomenon of red snow is due
t" minute red plants which are present
in it, and which spread in wonderful
manner.
The hydra fusca. sort of polypuS.
may he turned inside out like glove,
and will continue to live and eat us heart
lily as~ever.
In 1000 eases of the morphine habit
collected from all parts of the world the
medical profession constituted 10 per cent
of the number.
-Simla. India. is built on the side of !,
steep hill, and the roof Of one house is
often on level with the foundation of
one in the next tier.
The Eleventh century Sandwich was
the most famous English seaport. 1t is
now. however. two miles inland, OWNS,
10 the sea rec,sling.
A purse made Of the skin of muir
lerer, executed in Morristown. n. J.. in
1888. has been presented to the New Jer-
sey Historical society.
The chief of police of the City of
Mexico has issued an order compelling all
the restaurants and saloons there to close
regularly ut midnight.
The German ReichStag is said to be
the cheapest of all the parliaments of Eu-
rope. Its total expenses for the current
year have been only about $4,000.
Near the Caspian sea there are sew
eral eternal fires, So-called by the ma
tives. where natural gas issues from the
ND md hov, k,,o Co,
AT Genoatoa. in the South Seas, every
does not 20 to church at least three times
Il week is liable to be arrested and fined
The Good Habit society now has 2OOO
members 1t WAS started by Harvey
FrentNe,- Chicago Srhoolboy. Its chief
pledge is to treat everybody with kind
ness.
-. Wooden shoes in France are produced
to the extent Of about 4.O00.WN pairs
yearly. They are made in AlSace and
BARRIERS by machinery, and in Lozere by
hand.
Frogs and toads have remarkably
acute hearing. The slightest noise in the
vicinity of a pond will ut once attract the
. attention Of the frogs and put them on
their guard.
For half an hour 31.9 knots was the
rate of speed Of the Star.-a new 3O-knot
erS. The average for the three-hour trial
was 3O-6S knots
In Germany man who has lost both
hands in an accident can claim the whole
Of his life insurance money ON the
grounl that he has lost the means of
maintaining himself.
OF the leading business houses in the
city. according to evidence collected by the
London chamber of commerce, 81 Der
cent. employ foreign clerks, who are al
most always Germans.
-AIarriage.in Spain takes place by day
Or at night. according to the fortune of
the young people or their station in life.
If we'll to do the ceremony comes off in
the early part of the morning.
Martin Martin, an eccentric and
wealthy Scotchman. has begun the cree
ton near Loneland, Ia, of a baronial
castle, with parks and lakes, which he
The sudden changes of climate en-
csuntrred by the soldiers when troops are
moved from one quarter of the world to
another are estimated as increasing the
annual mortality of Europe by 10000
men.
The Rev. D. Anderson, negro
preacher in Georgia, has created SEN
s;tion by a defense of lynching. which he
contends is something justifiablc. Some
to try it on him.
OF the locomotives on the railways in
the United Kingdom. 3SlE, per cent. are
lifted with automatic brakes: and 80 per
cent. of the carriages and other vehicles
attached to passenger trains are similarly
equipped.
In Holland women and persons of
either sex under the age of Is are for
hidden to begin work earlier than ) a. H.
or tN 4
may their work exceed eleven hours
day in all.
1t is not an uncommon thing. accord
ing to il Traveller in Russia. to meet herd
Of cows or oxen in certain parts of that
country wearing blue glasses to counter
act the effects caused by the reflection of
the snow in winter time.
-Impaling was used as a punishment
in Turkey up to 1853. The last men so
executed We're four Arab Sheikhs who had
rpbelled. They were impalel ut the four
corners of the BHgt!ad bridge. One of
The IN lived for nine days
Among the multifarious duties which
demand the attention Of the Calcutta 20
lice. the capture Of sharks in the Hooghly
years rewards have been paid for the de-
strnrti6n of those marine man-eatera
1t IS reported that a Stockholm COM
pany working the phosphorus ores Of the
Gellivara mines; in Swendcn. has also
adopted magnetic ore-sepa rating system
similar to thatsdevised by Mr.. Edison for
treating low-grade ores in this country.
Oily three people know the password
of the Tower Of London, and they are the
Queen. the lord mayor and the const:l-
bic. This password is sent to the lord
mayor qnarterly,5 81 gned by her ma jesty
1t is merely a survival of an old custom.
Heath Officer Weaver of Nopristown,
Pa. states that the odor of formaline,
the neW disinfectant, is Il combination of
''hilge water and the emanations from Il
sauer kraut kettle He adds somewhat
snWrfluOusly. that no germs will survive
it.
There is no plant which animals so
detest as the castor oil plant. it being poi
sonous to the whole animal world, A
goat viii starves rather than eat it. and
those destroyers Of everything green, tile
locust and army worm, will not feed
upon it. IT.
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