The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
NOTES OF INTEREST.

- I.arlanl is the tisherman's paradise.
New York has Il Hebrew painters
union.
There are $1,000 coal miners in
France.
Kansas pays it's governor only $1,000
wear.
Mormon missions have heen cstab~
i>h,l in the Philippines.
\ man in Glasgow is making a manu-
script copy of the Bible.
reuple of melancholic Temperament
rarely have clear blue eyes.
\ sewing machine is supposed to do
the work of twelve women.
\ pure blue is shown by experiment
Ia be the natural color of water.
rh" yield of pruncs in Oregon is light.
hu' the fruit ranks high in grade.
Lake Superior is remarkable for the
fat that it never gives up its dead.
tlv. million roses are required to
produce one kilogram Of altar of roses.
An automobile STRENGTHENING ma
chlnr is i'll successful operation in St.
Louis.
Prof. Garner promises to furnish
some talking monkeys for the Pan Amer
lean exposition.
The cabinet officers follow the Presi-
Dewey reception in New York.
London is Importing ice from Nor
way. The regular supply has been ex-
hau>trd because of the intense heat
The sum OF S77lO.OOO will be dis
trihutel among the hop-pickers of west
rcn Oregon within the next three weeks.
-rhimhleS have been found in prehis-
turir mounds with every evidence of hay
ing been made by machinery similar to
oar own.
A Waterfalls, Me-, conductor has
just completed fifty years OF service Oh
the Maine Central without one accident
vr the loss Of single day.
"A parliamentary return shows that
during 1898 91o1 vivisection experiments
were performed under license in England
and Scotland on living animals.
1t is estimated that there are $1O,-
WNntM worth of coppers-pennies, half
pennies and farthings-in circulation;
that is. roughly speaking, 446614 tons of
cuIper$.
An enterprising Western firm is max
ing arrangements to set up modern
Sawmill in China, where lumber is still
sawed by the primitive methods of a cen
tury ago.
In those parts of Armenia where the
ma>>acreS took place three years ago
Turkish soldiers still infest the villages
and force the impoverished natives to
support them.
Last year the Sweetmeat Automatic
Supply company of London collected in
,opptrS from their machines no less than
tl33. Ihi-355.o $40 pennies, roughly
3l2 ton of coppers.
Natural gas found at Ieathfield,
Sussex. is being used to light the railroad
station there. This is said to be the first
Practical use to which natural gas has
been put in Europe.
One of the queerest villages known
Is Ill New Guinea. and is called Tupuse-
lei. The houses are all supported on
piles. and stand out in the ocean a con-
siderable distance from shore.
A service of motor vehicles has been
started between RoSaS and FigueraS, in
Slmln. distance Of twelve miles, The
" hirtS are of eight horse power and
Passengers.
KNIVES sell we'll throughout the
whole Of Senegal Those most in de-
mand are those with a cosable Turkish
blade, called Gerodias. Their price is
ah"nt cents per dozen. They are gen
orally packed in cardboard boxes of
1Wtnty-fOur.
Just when the day became divided
INTO hours is not known, nor is the
process explained. The Greeks and Re-
mans measured time by the water glass
with sand. was the outgrowth of these
vessels. from which the water drinmd
through tiny openings.
Il typewriter invented by an English
man has a device by which vertical col.
'nlns of figures can be written as readily
as they can be set in type. BY means OF
special line space key the operator is
t0 rift oil ~.
whole width of the paper or in narrow
columns at WILL
In the Seclusion of an Oriental haren,
a woman invented the weaving of cash.
mere shaWlS, and besides this evidence Of
hrl!llance gave such wise advice TO her
husband that he changed her name from
NHurmahal light of the hareml to Nou1-
thah nisht of the worlD. The same
woman invented altar of roses.
Il very curious fact concerning to.
bacro smoke is the remarkable change
IN color which it undergoes after enter
ing the mouth. From the burning end
of cigar the smoke issues in deem hlus
threads. while that which is expelled
from the mouth is Of decidedly brown.
i>h tint
There are to be no locked horses in
olGrado; \ law has been passed max
ing It unlawful to import any horses with
locked tails, as we'll as illegal for q
hefSeoWner to so mutilate any animal
NJ owns. ~ fine of not less than 500
or thirty days imprisonment, is the pen.
atty. ~ -
-Ihe RUSSIAN government has. after
many years discussion decided to ah,n.
uoh the Julian calendar and adopt the
'resorlan. now in use the world over ex.
f'pt IN Russia and Greece. The Russian
calendar is twelve days behind that in
general use, and produces much con.
fusion IN commercial correspondence,
An English soap manufacturer has
rtce!vtd communication from the a,,-
tth'rItieS Of a Presbyterian church in
scotland asking for the firm to adyertis,
IN the soap on the walls of the church
me letter lntimated that the church was
IN pecunlary difficulties, and that this
way had been decided as the best mean,
of raising money
The village of Sainte Foy de Taren-
talSr in the department of lthone. is at-
trt'tllG attt ntlOn because Of Il crrious To-
cal phenomenon. 1t is situated on y
small plateau, which for some time has
!" en- III slow but continuous motion. AL
ltinE the bell tower of the church is out
81 thr perpendicular and the interiors and
90 liars Of some IF the houses show cnor-
nous cracks and assures.
The worlds production of gold for
maintain the rate with which they began
tn" year. will probably reach $34OO 600
coo. or about $5OUOD,OOO more than in
1913. At the end Of the current year the
three principal countries will rank in the
following order in the list of gold -prolnc-
ing districts: South Africa, $1OGWO.
nW Australia, $7SGCD, 900: United
States, $14,DOO.OOO
n cnnp!" Of years ago bicycle riding
was made responsible for the falling of
Of >" many persons in literary enthusi
assn. The wheel took them away from
books and ovcrcame the allurenpnts of
the library: Now, however, one pub
Usher has discovered that the bicycle has
at least been the means of awakening an
interest in natural history, and reports as
Il direct result an increased demand for
books on that subject
The Sydney (Australia) cycle track
has been lighted in a novel way by means
nf inverted arc lights. Fifty-fve arc
lights and seventy incandescents are
placed around the track at intervals of
thirtyfive feet, the lamps being inverted,
with the reflcctors Immediately over the
are. There are absolutely no shadows