The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-24

| IS less than $400 each per year. and the
incomes Of nearly so per cent. Of the en-.
tire number are less than $1,000 each per
year.
! So far as is known the flag Of the
Iransvaal. the South African Republic,
does not tly over any vessel, no matter
how small, and that country, with the
Orange Free #State,is entirely without i
navy. 3d. M
| The hair of rabbits and other animals
In Russia is converted into bowls. dishes
and plates, which are valued for their
strength. Inability and lightness. The
articles have the appearance of vanished
leather.
| Jewellers say that Turquoise will be
the fashionable precious stone this win
ter, and everything that is made up in
brooches, rings pins and charms has
| from one to dozen of the pretty blue
| stones worked into it somehow.
| -For many years scientists have
| known of the existence of Il faint COM
paniOn to the North star. So close and
faint is this companion that owners Of
small telescopes have often fused it to test
! the power of their eyes and Instruments.
Several soda lakes have been found
in the foothills near Ashcroft, British
| incrusted with Il natural washing COM
| pound containing boraX and soda quite
equal to the washing powders in common
use.
An Italian sculptor has designed a
sculpturing machine for duplicating stat
| uary carvings, i'll which several pieces of
| rough marble are set in pivots in frame,
and the carving tools are MI operated by
the artist as he works on one of the
pieces.
There will be no parliament of re-
ligiOn at the Paris exposition, but instead
a congress for the scientific study Of re-
ligion. 1t will treat religion purely from
social and historic point Of view. They
will not talk religion, but will talk
about it.
According to DR.. Schjerning, there
were only $50 cases Of tuberculosis last
year in a force Of 514, $50 men. The
number of deaths from this disease in
the army has been gradually decreasing
loo in 1857. ~ ~ - p@'
The pension agency ut Knoxville,
Tenn, has upon it's rolls the name of the
widow of one soldier of the Revolution,
and while there are no names of soldiers
who served in the War of 1912, there
are the names of the widows of more
than 400 of them.
The manufacture of lamps has in
creased to a wonderful degree. There
are today exclusive large lamp stores in
almost every city of any SIZE and the
manufacture and proper use Of chimneys
has developed into Il science which few
persons understand.
A singularly inconsolable husband APP
peared in Il London police court the other
day. The charge was drunkenness, and
the prisoners excuse was that he lost his
wife at the time of the Princess Alice
disaster, more than twenty years ago.
He was discharged.
BY the simple trick of cutting the
wood across the grain, or of cutting it
with the grain at such an angle that
it will split almost lengthwise when fric
ton is applied. it is asserted that the
match trust is adding to its profits by
enormous yearly sums.
There are nearly 500 water-power
electric plants in the United States, rep
resenting an investment of over $50, 0OO,-
600; horse power represented by water
wheel 100000. There are 600 miles of
street railway operated with water-lower
electrically transmitted.
H. NJ. S. Flexible, which was COM
pleted in 1880, was among the first Brit
lsh warships with internal electric light
ing, but in those days there were no in
candeScent lights, so that arc lamps had
to be used. Electricity has been used
too for working the guns.
-Cooperage woods have advanced ~
per cent. largely caused by the enormous
demand from the whisky combine Ex-
permenters are trying to make cloth and
soap out of wood pulp Saw dust and
wood waste have almost as great value
as the clean plank ten years ago.
There is Il special class of farm la
borers in Sweden who are given so many
acres of land for their own use, in CON
sideration of so many days labor during
the year for the owner of the farm
They are a sort of fixture to an estate,
and their like exists in no other country.