The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

Women are not permitted to be pho. |
tographed in China.
"A Joliet physician says that carpet |
beating spreads disease.
A Landmarks club is one Of southern
California; organizations.
Opal mining is one of the latest Aus
tralian mineral industries.
In all Spain there are only $3.50 chill
dren i'll the Sunday schools.
Toronto has, according to the asses.
sors returns, l92.9oI of Il population.
A movement is on foot to establish
the beet root sugar industry in Canada,
The word Bible means simply book.
but it is now confined to the Book of
Books.
More than half of the phosphate in
the world is now supplied by the United
States.
Among professional wcmen hospital
nurses, it is said. head the list of marry
ing women.
The poStottice building in Virginia,
San Diego county, Cal, is made of an
old piano box.
Women employed ON Japanese tea
farn,S work twelve hours and are pail
IL cents a day.
Each pigeon used in the carrier serv-
ice of the British navy costs the govern
ment 81 year.
-German pianoforte manufacturers
have virtually secured Il monopoly of the
AuStralasian trade.
1t is estimated that 10000 barrels Of
apples will be shipped out of Huron coun-
ty, Ontario, this year.
Rain has never been known to fall
in that part of Egypt between the two
lower falls Of the Nile.
Out of 100000 in Massachusetts Ell
gagged in gainfni occupations, only 81 900
are employed on Sundays.
The number of marriages in Manhat-
tan and Bronx this year will be greater
than ever in their history.
-Trainsd nurses in German hospitals
get from $50 to 5000 a year, with board,
lodging and all their clothes.
Manchester, England. has opened
lodging houses under the control of tho
city to accommodate 800 men.
An apparatus has been devised for
automatically photographing people as
they enter shops and other places.
Alcohol was first distilled by the Ara
hianS. and when we talk about coffee and
alcohol we are using Arabian words.
A new union of beer wagon drivers
in Brooklyn has received Il charter from
the National Union of Brewery Workers.
The latest Chinese papers state that
there are ut present six smokeleSS powder
factories i'll operation i'll the Chinese en-
plre.
The Philippine islands hav, taken
$717.33220 merchandise from the United
States thus far this year, against $S4.S5
last year.
The lead pencil originated with the
discovery of the graphite mines in Eng
land i'll 1864. during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth.
cub, A.
summit Of Chilkoot pass has been be-
gun for thirty-seven-mlc electric road.
to cost $I15OMO.
In an auction room the sword of hon
or presented to Admiral Lord Coling-
wood by the city of London was sold re-
Gently for $1,000.
About 1900 lives nave been lost by
the earth shocks at Ardin, in Asia Minor
Many towns have been completely wiped
out of existence.
1t is not generally known that clip
pings from masculine heads of hair are
used for making strainers through which
syrups are clarified.
The University of Illinois has secured
Carroll D. Wright, United States labor
commissioner, as Il special lecturer in the
department of economies.
-Great quantities of crabs and lob
sters are annually canned in Russia, yet
are regarded with horror.
A peculiar clock, of the time of
Charles L., Was the lantern or bird-cage
style, which hung from the walls high
up, with its works exposed
1t is likely that the Russian expedi-
ton to SpitZbergen will have to be post
poned year on account of unusual ac-
emulation Of ice around the islands.
The origin of Roentgen rays and Bee
uuere! rays has not been ascertained,
though hundred scientists have been
tormenting nature to let the secret 90.
1t is ascertained on scientific data.
that the air resistance to a railway train
O1 average weight moving sixty miles
an hour IS 11.3I4 pounds-nearly six
tons
"A plan to found colony in Cuba.
with the twin purposes of raising fruit
for United States markets and of estab-
fishing winter resort, will be recon-
mended soon.
Out of the 1927: 100000 over which
100 women in England have exercised
trStamentary powers during the last
eight years. $134SO,OOO has been be-
uueathed to charity.
-Jinrikshas, pulled by Zuius, are the
common public cOnveyancps in Durham.
Natal. while cars drawn by horses and
mules are employed in Kimberley, East
London and Johannesburg.
A fire extinguisher which may easily
he made and kept stored in bottles ready
for use consist of three pounds of salt and
one and one-half pounds Of sal anmoniac
dissolved in a gallon of water.
A retired Mississippi steamboat cap
tain intends to make his will by talking
into monograph and having the receiv-
ing cylinder preserved that in case of
contest it can be produced in court.
In some towns Of Germany the tele-
phone is introduced by tobacconists as an
additional attraction to customers. Any
one who buys cigar may, if he desires,
speak over the tobacconist's instrument.
Parsley should always garnish dish
containing onions, as it takes away the
oder most people object to. 1t even pre-
vents the aftertaste if eaten by the in
dividual who loves onions and must have
them.
The S. gold piece of 1922 is very rare.
There were supposed to be but two in
existence, one in Philadelphia, the other
in Boston, but short time ago one was
found i'll money-chanser shop in New
York.
A curious application has been made
to the New York police board by Il patrol
man, who wants to wear eyeglasses.
Some officers glasses on desk duty,
but no patrOlman has ever worn them on
patrol duty.
The League of American Wheelmen
is beginning to receive applications for
membership from the owners Of automo-
bileS, who are as much interested in the
cause of good roads as the Wheelmen
and farmers.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo
tubes was utilized in China years ago,
and one Of their writer's mentions boxes
which repeated the sounds Of persons
voices that were dcad-a machine SINH
lar to the photograph.
Some people have the scheme of op-
posing the ships motion. When she dips
they rise on their toes: when she rises
they dig in their heels. They move to
counteract the motion. 1t is lots Of work,
but usually successful
There are no mint marks on copper
coins and nickels and collectors pay high
for coins bearing mint mark The