The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,


year.
The weaker branches of evergreens
produce male flowers. the stronger ones
thu femae.
-c,usut>es against noises have been
begun in Boston, Providence. Hartford,
Buffalo and even in Philadelphia.
Toronto trains are to be forbidden to
whistle within the city limits on Sunday.
as they disturb the worshipers at church.
The average duration Of yellow fever
is week. but i'll graver cases the attack
may be precipitated and prove speedily
fatal.
-Clarinaa, Ia, has an insane asylum
which cost 100000 1t is said by ex-
pcrts to be the finest building of the kind
i'll the country.
Raw eggs, milk aud plenty of fruit
are recommended for brain workers. The
fruit currects the bilious tendency of the
milk and eggs.
An enactment of the Texas I.egiSla-
ture provides for the teaching i'll the pub
lie schools of course of humane treat
mcnt to animals.
The battleShip Sutfr,n, recently
launched at Brest, France, is the largest
ship of the French navy. 1t is Of $500
tons displacement.
1t is believed that the most ancient
dictionary in the world is the Chinese
lexicon. compiled by Pacutshe thousand
years before Christ.
A German army officer estimates that
in the century just closing no less than
3O.NO.OOO men have been killed in war
III civilized countries.
the river for the sea after spawning is
unknown and nothing whatever is. known
of its habits or food
In the grammar schools in Chicago
the sexes are about even in number but
in the high schools the proportion is about
three girls to one boy.
-Germany's principal exports to Japan
are sugar. alcohol, printing paper, dyna-
mite. wool, nails, machinery, iron, zinc,
,eluluid, anilinc dyes.
Russia which has heretofore supplied
the greater part of Europe with cereals,
has herself become Il purchaser of grain
from the United States.
Saturn is the sixth planet reckoning
outward from the sun. the next beyond
Jupiter. Its average distance from us is
nearly SNo.NWWM miles.
The average profit of the municipal
works IN Great Britain-saS. water, cleo
tricitS, tramways and workmen'S dwell
lngs-laSt year was A. per cent.
A monster wine barrel has just been
built at Nancy, France, for the Paris
t\ptSitNil n ull1eF "stS gwen inside,
the barrel to the $50 coopers who made
it,
About twenty four women in 100 are
stronger in the left arm than they are in
the right: women, too. arc more frequent
ly equally strong in both arms than are
men.
charleston, S. C., mas, as a part of
its municipal government, /; bureau of
freight and transportation" whose object
1t Is to secure favorable rates for ship
pers.
Since the foundation of the Legal
Aid association in New York 10000 peo-
pie. vlctimized by their fellows, have
sought and found justice through it's cf-
forts.
The Argentine locust has il habit of
moving forward like an army i'll line,
and gathering together in lunches, in
stead Of scattering like true grasshop-
pers.
In eight of the corn-raisiny states
the estimate of the corn crop this year is
l.125kN.WN bushels. For the whole
country the estimate is 1000 ,0OO,OUO
bushels.
FEWER pensions were granted to sol
diers in the Spanish war than was ex-
pccted. the number being 295. There
are now 991 ,519 names of pensioners on
the rolls.
-Parisians are greatly disturbed be-
cause the extension of the Orleans rail
way threatens to ruin the fine row of
shade trees on the left bank of the Seine.
Quai d'Orsay.
Although Chatham is so near to Lon
don little has been heard of the great
magazines for explosives which the adj
miralty are having erected at cost of
about $4,000.
The iron and steel plant which the
government of Japan is now building at
hlnshln is constructed on the American
system. though the plant has all to be
made i'll Germany.
Austrian women can be seen in the
best restaurants with huge glass of
beer standing on the table in front of
them, and they consume the liquor with
ease and evident enjoyment
The Odeon theater, Buenos Ayrcs is
heated by electricity. This is not the
hrst theater in the world to be so heated,
but very few large public buildings have
been warmed in this manner
1.-The ocean rates on horses from New
York and Boston are from 1925 to $50
per head, including feed and attendance,
insurance Tor the voyage and for ten
days after. landing and dock charges.
after the convict has served out his
term in the Maine penitentiary, and has
donned the suit of clothes given him by
the state. he is required to sit for his
photograph, and it is kept for future ref
erence.
London capitalists are interested in
the proposal to lay cable from Van
couver, B: c., to Skaguay, Alaska, to
connect with the telegraph line to Daw-
son City, which is expected to be com.
plcted soon.
The American coal exhibit at the
Paris exposition will be very complete
1t will consist largely of small cubes of
about four pounds weight. Views of
various collieries. shipping arrangements,
etc. will also be shown.
thousands of persons in Germany
live literally ION straw making it up
into blankets, panniers, boxes, knick-
knacks, hats, bonnets, etc. Profession
nj schools have even been founded where
the trade is taught in all it's varieties
In West Africa the natives hiss when
they are astonished; in the New Hebrides
when they see anything beautiful The
BasutOs applaud Il popular orator in the
assemblies by Kissing him. The Japa-
nese, again, show their reverence by
hiss
The Russian form Of parting saluta-
ton is brief, consisting of the single word
The Otahtite islander will twist the end
of the departing guests robe and then
solemnly shake his own hands three
times.
"A pet monkey, untimciy deceased
had very formal burial in Il satin-lined
white casket in Baltimore recently.
There We're six pallbearers, a eulogistic
address. -four carriages for the mourners
and several flower designs, including IN
empty chair and a gates ajar.''
Ice skates can be changed into roller
skates by a Washington mans patent,
comprising arms for attachment by bolts
to the front and rear of the runner, with
wheels journaled in the arms, the front
wheel being carried by head which per-
mits it to turn like the front wheel Of !,
bicycle.
The oldest woman in the world, ac-
cording to official census reports, lives i'll
Hawaii. and is 124 years of age. Her
name is kepoolele Apau, and her claim
TO advanced age has been thoroughly in
vestigated by Alatau Il. Atkinson, the
general superintendent of the Hawaiian
census.