The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-29
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
New York has 500 milliouaires,

The new bank at Rakjavik is the
first i'll lvrland to issue notes.
The first law school in America was
opened in Philadelphia in 100.
--Malleahle glass was made in the Nile
valley years ago and the process lost.
Fifty years ago 6-year-cld children
We're employed in New England mills.
Not Il single penny. halfpenny or far
thing has yet found its way back to the
English mint.
Electricians claim that, the human
body can become more or less Injured tu
shocks from live wires.
japan, not to be behind European
states i'll civilization. is going to send
out an Arctic expedition.
A native Maori chief, the descendant
of cannhal kings, is now completing, his
medical education in Chicago,
"A Maryland law prohibits Baltimore
Policemen from doing mechanical work
fur the department or for hire.
The health authorities OF Bavaria ex-
amined last year JH.43I samples OF food
and drinks. and made complaints in 17.9
per cent. Of all cases.
In the first seven months of 1890
England imported from the United States
S2,M1,f'S more silver than in 1898, and
France $t;S,;,+36 more.
The cheapest postal service in the
world Is that of Japan, where for > sell
about S.vsn-tenth> OF IL ptnnN-letttrs
are conveyed all over the empire.
A Young New Yorker has started ii
new fashion among the SojournerS ut
Newport. He recently appeared on tao
golf Inks wearing SILVER anklet
Austrian returns Indicate that there
are III that country llu1 persons whose
income exceeds 10000 forms IL year and
who are therefore rated as millonaires.
There are Il number of buildings il,
different parts Of England and Wal :
which present the curious spectacle III
trees growing out from some parts of
them.
-tanada'S exports of butter to Eng
land are rapidly increasing. This year,
t. August 10, 2l5.4l1 boxes have been
shipped: as compared with total Of 154.-
I'll in 1896.
The scale upon which the Paris tx-
position is to be constructed is indicated
III the fact that the catalogue will cost
S:N.Hh to print and will contain abou-
lN.uN names
In Stockholm the fees for telephone
users are from $3.50 to $23 il year, yet
the last report of the telephone company
shows profits of per cent. above bonds
and other expenses.
The American beard Of Japanese mis-,
Christian missions in that country is not
from the heather priests. but from the
Japanese agnnSticS.
Very fine razurS are made ut the
present day. but no finer steel than that
contained in the Damascus swords and
knives which the ancients used several
thousand years ago.
"A Saracen constructed the FIRST table
Of >ine>, another explained the nature of
~ MI how II th,,
allowing for atmospheric refraction in
astronomical observations.
No fewer than 112 families of in
curious insects feed upon cultivated
plants and crops, doing damage to and
'!ev"urins thousands of dollars worth
of vegetable produce annually.
The OSages are probably the richest
people per capita i'll the world. Each one
Of them. man. woman and child. has 800
acres of good land and receives $50 from
the government four times a year.
Experts say that for smoking. tobacco
Is one OF the least injurious substances
known. Compared with other we'll
known vegetable substances used for the
same purpose. tobacco is very mild.
january and October OF the same
year always begin with the same day.
SO do April and July. also September and
December. February. March and No.
The South Metropolitan Gas COM
pany Of London has in use in various
parts of their system no less than 10000
penny-ln-the-SlCt gas meters. which they
are increasing at the rate of 300 il week
There is all animated controversy in
San Francisco over the fact that the new
city hall. planned to cost 100000, rep
rfStnt> up to date a municipal investment
Of over S3.OWOOOO, but is not Completed
In dark corner near the west en-
trance to Winchester cathedral is door
composed of four pieces of iron grill
work. which have the distinction of being
the Oldest specimens of their kind in
England.
Army DIR. Barth of Koeslin. Ger
many. says that singing possesses health
giving properties. 1t intensiteS. he says,
i'll" the lungs capable of dealing with
more air.
A veterinary surgeon of Faribault, s.
d.. has a novelty in the shape of Il won
'lerful pacing dog. So far as is known
this is the only instance on record Of a
pacing dog, though Il trotting dog is not
unheard Of
In spite of British rule India is still
virtually Il >naplesS country. Throughout
the villages of HinduStan soap is indeed
regarded as natural curiosity. and it is
rarely. if ever. kept in stock by the ma
tive Shopkeeper.
ELECTRICITY for application to the
muscles is generated by Il new exercising
apparatus. which has a magnetic electric
of the w ire, a spring being provided to
rewind the wire
a vase cut from q single emerald
has been preserved in a cathedral in
Genoa, Italy. 600 years. 1t is the larg-
est gem of the kind in the world, its di-
nensions being. diameter, 12112 inches
length, 55Ml inches
perts in dyeing that Tyrian purple re-
mains unexcelle'l to this day. The Egyp-
tlans were also wonderful dyers. and
could produce colors so durable that they
may be called imperishable.
1t is said that the study of German
is increasing in France. while the study
of English is on the decline In the
E;cole des Sciences Poitioues, in Paris
where diplomats are trained. many more
study German than English.
-Seattle's public square is to be the
abiding place Of veritable Alaskan ITO.
tenn pole of those strangely carved
symbols Of barbarism and superstition
which generally grace the front of Indian
habitations in Southern Alaska.
In Germany, as in many other Eu-
ropean countries, there is Il rule that no
can find seats Consequently. if a car
is full, if woman gets on and if man
gives the woman his seat, the man is
elected.
In 1888 the average price Of horse
was $74.G4; in 1897. $31 81. In the thir
teen years from 1884 to 1897. while the
number Of horses in the United States
had increased by more than 3,OMOOO,
their total value had decreased nearly
$4OO. 5000
1T is estimated that we use annually
in the United States over 10000. 900 900
matches. These indispensable little ar
ticleS were first used in this country less
than seventy years ago, and ut that time
Il box containing twenty-five was sold
for - cents.
A little more than fifty years ago
few workmen Of Rochdale, England.
joined together to purchase sack of
flour and chest Of tea. That was the
beginning of a cooperative movement
which now includes 1000 societies, with
a total membership Of 100000.
The Parliament building in Yelling