The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


The daily medical inspectiun of
school children has been adopted in Phil
"A vanilla bean Kept in the sugar box
imparts Il delicious flavor to sugar. The
French do this.
1t is said to be almost impossible to
sink Il modern battleship constructed on
the best models.
pan. i'll New York has adopted the ''ncy.
or close" policy.
The income from the Monte Carlo
gaming tables for the past year reaches
over SGO,0O0,G0O.
A Sicilian advocate charged with
fraud was recently sentenced to $50
years imprisonment.
In Il Texas case, Judge billiard de-
cideS that mortgage on an implanted
crop is wholly illegal and void
A natural soap mine and Il paint mine
are two of the latest curioSities which
have been discovered in British Colum-
bia.
With this years payments, the South
Carelieo dispcusury Will have contributed
Il total of $205, 1879 to the schools of that
state.
The Georgia Legislature has been
asked to appropriate $1,000 10 found II
schools.
The tota! number of women over IS
years old employed in the factories and
workshops of the British islands is about
100000.
The Chinese honor their guests by
placing before them the oldest eggs OBJ
tainahle. which are considered their
greatest delicacy.
There are altogether 334 parks we'll
stocked with deer in the different coun-
ties of England, and red deer are found
in about thirty-one.
One of the earliest coins known is a
dldrachm of Aegina, coined in 100 b. c..
1T is worth in money value 80 cents, but
sells to collectors for s..
About 5000 new teachers are en-
gagged annually in PENNSYLVANIA, to fill
the vacancies caused by death, mar
rlase. change of occupation, etc.
An entire new glass covering has
been ordered for the roof of the Crystal
palace in London. The total glass area
to be covered is about fifteen acres.
While the year has been exceptionally
dry Ill America, Ireland had had 81 O4
inches Of rain up to the end of Septem-
Der, as against 23.Oo fer the same months
last year.
Over five tons Of documents produced
by England in the Venezuelan arbitration
required two large railway vans to take
them away.
1t is Il well-known fact that, but for
the pride entertained by most English
nOhemen for their deer parks, many eS-
tates would of late have found their way
into the market.
The turkey was first discovered in
America and brought to England in the
early part Of the Sixteenth century. Since
then it has been acclimated in nearly ali
parts of the world.
"A planter in st. Thomas parish, near
Charleston, s. c., has achieved very no.
table success i'll silk culture, his annual
incOm" from this source amounting ~
from $1,000 to 5000.
There is a new railroad car that by
its own motion congresses ammonia gas
to liquid, which in going through the
pipes expands and produces the ntccssa-
~ GOODNESS in the air.
All telephones and telegraph lines IN
France are operated by the government
There are 112 towns outside Of Paris sup
Piled with telephones with IN aggregate
population of G,00O,OW.
The United States turns out annual
ly 1So,UW,0OO,OGO pounds of plug tobac
co. l2,OOO.O0O pounds of fine cut, a.
WO.OOO pounds of snuff, 100000 cigars
and 5,00u.000 cigarettes.
The British railway companies have
agreed to convey free to the port of en-
barkariOn all books, papers and period-
Gals intended for the use of the troops
engaged in South Africa.
The exhibit of the Omaha public
schools for the Paris exposition has been
school exhibits of the country are being
collected for shipment abroad.
One of the interesting signs to be
seen along Broadway, New York, is over
81 somewhat conspicuous wooden packing
case And this is what it says: Put
your banana skins into this box"
The most curious palace in the world
is the Alhambra, in Spain: 1t was orig
be capable of holding ia, 900 men. 1t was
begun in 1913 and finished in 1911
The healthiest spot in the world
seems to be Il little hamlet in France
named Aumone. There are only forty
inhabitants. twenty-five of whom are 50
years Of age, and one is over 100.
The authorities in Algeria gave $4O,-
900 towards fighting the grasshoppers
In one section 5000 camels were employed
to carry the material for burning over
the places where eggs had been deposited.
An enterprising Cincinnati milkman
invites his customers to have the milk
he serves analysed twice u year, at his
expense The tests may be made at any
time, without warning to the dairyman.
The butchers Of Berlin have curious
way of informing their customers of the
days on which fresh sausages are made
by placing a chair, covered with large
clean apron, at the side of the shop door,
"A French scientist has found that
some kinds of mushroom afford a vaccine
against the venom of snakes. The juice
of the mushroom renders person inn
mune against the poison for month or
two.
The original Maltese lace was
coarse kind of Mechlin or Valenciennes
in an ara besQue pattern. Malta has the
first claim to the invention of fine gut
pures. which are usually called Maltese
laces.
The tomato is now definitely assigned
place as a tonic among foods. a noted
physician has made extensive expert
ments with the juice as medicine, and
says as Il health preventative it is TN
equaled.
An English authority has estimated
that if all the inhabitants Of the British
isles should decide to attend church on
given Sunday 25,OOO,OOO would be
crowded out for lack Of seating room in
the churches.
Wild boars still abound in some parts
of Morocco, one hunting party having
lately killed over 100 in one week near
back with lances, an exciting and dam
gerous sport.
A city meeting in Burlington, VT, re-
Gently, although held in the forenoon,
was attended by 1000 citizens. 1t adj
journed in three and half minutes,
after having voted to abolish the city
liquor agency.
Canada lacks only 237O 900 square
miles to be as large as the whole CONT
of EtI1rr II it,n nj rfx
as large as Great Britain and Ireland,
and is 100000 square miles larger than
the United States.
Cremation is popular in Japan. In
1893, it is estimated, about 43 per cent.
of the bodies of those who died in Toxic
were burned. There are now seven Gre
matories in that city, each Of which has
twenty-five furnaces.
In. Bavaria each family on Easter
Sunday brings to the church ward-fire