The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

America has 2OS female lawyer:

S'"''"" war 10 AAlne.
a railway viii! he built III the Rax
.Nr. which is ti4OU feet high.
One fourth Of the inhabitants of tn,
-\rgs ntine republic are Italians.
The first law school in America WAS
opened in Philadelphia in 1880
There are 1904 pianos in Chicago, or
"n'y one for every 800 Inhabitants.
China has Il population Of 100000
W'U ANA only SHO miles of railroad.
Nineteen pie bakeries in New York
have combined with $4,000 900 capital.
Contrary to popular belief: excite
meat causes much less insanity ;hab
m"n"tony.
Automobile tir, engines and hose
wagons are 70 Ec tried in Paris at an
early day.
Lansing. Mich. has the widest drive
way bridge in the United States. If not
in the world
-RuSSia now has about $4,000 miles of
sion in Siberia
Russia is making Il vigorous effort to
>Urplant the United States as the butch
CT for England.
There are thirty yuld-pru,lucing
rrlnIieS in the lIG,UM square miles Of
California; : area.
Fer every million nhabitants in Rus
>'a there are only ten newspapers and
Journals of all sorts.
-Schcrl children in Victoria. Australia,
are carried III street cars to and from
:, hnul free of charge.
I."udnn policemen have been forbid
den IT, wear tan shoes on the ground that
they are too stylish"
Millions OF dollars are to be expended
ON developing the now proved value of
Niagara as Il WuterpOWer.
The people nf ancient Tyre were such
experts i'll dytinG that Tyrean purple re-
mains I'M Ncrl!r! to this day.
There are four large rabbit farms in
Indiana. The largest one is located ut
" AhASh ana covers sixty acres.
Til, Baltimore Il Ohio Southwestern
Hallway company will try plan Of CO.
operative grocery for its employees.
DRIVERS for electric vehicles are SO
scarce in Londrn that one concern has
been compelled to give up business.
-Ihs tota quantity of diamonds found
III lS!iS in the Tran>vaal waS 22.S43 ca:-
ats. valued at t43, '$212,S12.o4,.
The value OF hogs is $16G272. no
n,rt than tbs, total amount deposited in
'!l the savings banks in the country.
"A carload If dried canned potatoes
contains 5000 bushels. but would hold
only 500 bushels in their natural state
scum aud gallery in Rome for $500. 600
francs. to be paid in ten annual INSTALL
ultnt<
The foreign commerce Of the | niteu
States during the month of August WAS
tn: most profitable in the history of the
country.
The vaccination. or rather anti-var-
r!iHtlnn. question is Il very live one in
England. the law there not being com
p1ll>ury.
While blowing Oh his farm Joshua
Dean. near Petersburg. Ind. une;lrthtd
ninety eight flint Spear-heatl$ and two
skeletons.
The Saginaw river. in Michigan. is
eighteen miles long. and on its banks
have been produced $4,000, OOO,O 900 feet of
pine hUardS
The woman who invented Satche-
bottom paper bags wa> offered $2OOHM
for the patent before she could get ava:
from Washington.
Among the curioSitieS of Prussian
statistics is the fact that in a decade IL;
Srhrrl children, under IL years of age,
committed suicide.
The largest tree in the world lies
broken and pctrified at the end of il de-
file iii northwestern Nevada. 1t is said
to be tt'i feet long.
An engineer in TuniS has invented a
lt' p-Sea diving apparatus which has been
t1ie,t without accident lit a deuth of 174
feet near Cherbourg.
Eggs as an article of diet were first
u~e, by the Malaccans and when We
speak of Shanghai chickens we but mem
ton an ASiatic name.
A steamer trunk has been patented
which. being alright. may be attached
tn the waist belt in an emergency and
used as a ifepreServer.
The Italian cruiser Gariballi recent
~ launched ut Genoa from the yards of
the -An>alln's. was launched nine months
after the keel was laid.
A peculiar clock of the time of
Charles |: was the lantern. or bird cage.
style. which hung from the walls high
MP. with works exposed.
Japan has to rely entirely upon for
'lSn countries for her supplies Of leather,
there being only two tannerieS worthy Of
the name i'll the country.
An Indiana man planted twenty
acres Of former marsh land in cabbage.
and at present market rates lie will re-
c.ivr $1,000 for his crop.
The American Distillng company
has concession from the Venezuelan
g"vclnment covering the right to make
whisky and other liquors.
The minister of foreign affairs ut
prevent the immigration of Italians to
Central American republic.
For many years the farmers thought
peppermint weed obnoxious and grubbed
them out. Today there are three big
peppermint farms in Indiana.
a Connecticut Yankee has received
permission from the King of Siam to
erect a $2OO.O'N hotel that will be 1000
feet long and four stories high.
The Argentine locust has habit of
moving forward like an army in line, and
gathering together i'll punches, instead of
scattering like true grasShoppers.
-Evaporated vegetables were first put
ny for the Alaskan market but the bust
ness is being developed more largely for
export to other parts Of the world
interference with digestion is by no
means uncommon effect Of excessive
exercise. and so far as training is con-
r"rnch it IS one of the most destructive
On many Of the church doors in Lon
don are notices tackled up telling when
and where the excise board will meet to-
grant licenses to sell Intoxicating liz
ilOrS.
The mineral resources Of Western ST.
IBERIA are vast Between TOmsk and
k"oznesk lie 10000 square kilometers
l23.1G square miles, of coal lands which
have never been touched.
h:' OPINION that malaria is conveyed
to human beings by mosquitoes has long
been held by the Somali of East Africa,
according to information given in Wick
rnbnrg'S Wanderungcn in Ostafrika."
Austrian women can be seen in the
best restaurants with huge glass of
beer standing foot high on the table in
front Of them, and they consume the
i'r'"r with ease and evident enjoyment.
london capitalists are interested in
the PROPOSAL to lay cable from Vancou-
yer, +. g.. to Skaguay, Alaska, to con-
meet with the telegraph line to Dawson
City. which is expected to be completed
soon.
Over 7O,GO0.OOO pounds of poultry
and nearly 3GOOO,OOO dozens of eggs.
produced in Missouri, were handled bs
transportation companies last year, the
aggregate cash returns for which were
%S23S 23o
They are busily working again at the
wonderful quarrics Of VituIano. in the
Italian province Of Benevento. which
Charles III. Of Naples first exploited, and
from which he buiIt tho spJnDdil mol co