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

Armagh is said to be the apple Or
chard Of Ireland.
-Moroesc has an army of 10000 men
fairly we'll trained.
Japan will open twenty-one new ports
10 foreign commerce.
"A color expert declares that pure
white flower does not exist.
New England cities may unite to
help Boston improve its harbor.
The importation of wood pulp into
Italy is greatly on the increase.
Last year the eight mission presses
in China sent out 1,4IO,699 publications..
-Over 1900 scholars attended the con-
gresS of OrientalIstS held in Rome re-
Gently.
-Cement is used in France to protect
iron railway bridges from the fumes Of
locomotives.
There are scores Of places in this
country where only one mail comes every
fourteen days.
In the Swedish Parliament there are
thirty-four temperance men and fifteen
Good Templars.
Fully SOO.OOO domestic animals, val
ued at $6,OOO.OOO., are annually devoured
by the wolves in Russia.
Fried wasp soup is considered Il great
delicacy i'll China. 1t is stated that it
is quite an acquired taste.
1t is said that property to the value
of over f9OO,O0O is left in the railway
carriages of Britain every year.
The fifth centenary of Gutenbergs
birthday is to be celebrated with great
splendor Mt Mayence next June.
The whole of the trade in cheap ho-
siery in Cuba is in the hands of the Ger
man aud Catalan manufacturers.
For the last ten years there has
been an increase of 1000 annually in the
number of Great Britain's insane
The juice of the mulberry was at one
time declared to be Il sovereign remedy
for equity and rheumatic affections.
Nine columns in the great hall of the
famous temple at karnak, OH the site of
ancient Thebes. have fallen down.
The mayor of Mafeking is Frank
Whiteley, a native of Bradford. who left
for Natal when he was IL years old.
Norwegian statesmen are planning a
system Of national insurance to protect
-"Pegguty's Hut" ut Yarmouth.
made famous through Dickens David
Copperfeld." is about to be sold ut auc-
ton.
An analyst has made the discovery
that California roses contain 20 per cent
more perfume than those grown else
where.
- In Surrey, England. there is great
poultry fattening establishment. which
annually sends about 10000 fowls to
London.
One test for distinguishing diamonds
from glass and paste is to touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much the colder.
AT Jamaica. L. l., the crowded con-
dition of school buildings has forced the
authorities to open schoolroom tempo
rarily in barn.
Owing to feeling over the Boer war
English shops in the vicinity of the
Grand Opera house in Paris have been
bycotted by the French.
The Siamese have recently contrib
uted $4,000 ticals $4,000, for the pur-
chase Of a new site for the Christian
high school in Bangkok.
Withdrawals of money from the
Trustee Savings banks of France during
the first nine months of 1899 exceeded
deposits by $11 ,25O,OOO.
C. j. Hamlin of Buffalo has present
ed East Aurora, near that city. with land
costing over $500. to be used for a pub
lie park and athletic field.
Norway supplied Great Britain with
twice as much ground wood pulp last
year as the United States, Canada, Swe-
den and Holland combined
over $3,OOO,OOO have been expended
this year in connecting the main long
distance telephone lines with small towns
east of the Mississippi river.
One Of the most valuable timber
trees in the great Northwest, the red ce-
dar, grows to a maximum height of 800
feet and diameter of IA feet.
Cheap chemical dyes threaten to ruin
the great indigo industry of Behar. In
dia, where hundreds of thousands of
families have found employment.
"A London man, arrested for burglary,
was found to be wearing three overcoats,
morning coat, a golf jacket, tweed
suit, and four pairs of trousers.
st. Petersburg. which often has ex-
hibitions of French and English art, is
to have one of German art in January,
which will be something of a novelty.
While the infant mortality in Sweden
and Norway is not over II per cent, it
rises in the German empire to % and in
the Bavarian highlands to 45 per cent.
Some students of the Chicago univer-
sity are going down into the mountain re-,
giOns of Kentucky to study the peculiar
The vast forests of valuable timber
which cover large tracts of the interior
of Cuba await only the construction of
railways to render their working profit
able.
"A good English authority estimates
that $1,OOO,OOO,OOO foreign capital is
now operating in Russia in manufacture
ing. industrial, steamship and other en-
terprises.
The changes that occur in wine are
due to living organisms. Wines contain
many mlcrobes-sOme of them dead, but
most of them able to sit up and look
cheerful.
In Boston the other day a man who
had been arrested on a charge of non
support was fined $50, and his neglected
wife secured his release by paying that
amount.
SO rabid are the dogs of India that
from July. 1898, to March, 1899, thirty
three British soldiers have been sent to
Europe from that country for Pasteur
treatment.
The Italian minister of public in
structiOn wants to introduce an "arbor
day" on which everyone should make an
effort to plant some trees on barren
mountains.
In Texas some nine years ago a sill
yer shekel was found dating back to 142
b. Z. 1ntrinsically it is worth about
half dollar, but collectors put price
of $1,000 on it.
"A Calcutta paper contains an account
OF the workhouse or asylum for infirm
beasts ana birds that was established
some thirteen years ago by society of
influential Hindus.
The Indians of the interior of b.
iivla wear shirts and hats made of the
bark Of tree, which is soaked in wa
ter to soften the fiber and then beaten
to make it pliable.
The imports of American tobacco in.
to Japan in 1898 amounted to 8,3o1,715
pounds. and were valued at nearly 1885,.
wv. 1t was used chiefly in the manu-
faCture Of cigarettes
The electric power is used in the
mines for hosting. Air compressing is
used to operate the drill. BY means of
electricity low-grade ore is worked that
was never used before.
Minnesota. which has population of
.3O1 1876. and which cast $50, G2G votes
for Bryan in 1896 and $3.50 votes for the
sound-money Democratic ticket, has only
one daily Democratic paper
The artillery and cavalry horses of
the Beers have all been inocpI.ted