The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
Publisher.
NOTES OF INTEREST.

The favorite small arm in Brazil is
double hrrel,d pistol, made in Belgium.
Moro than 5000 persons are buried
annually in the paupers cemetery OF Ber-
lin.
"A polite Chnaman considers it Il
breach Of etiQuette to wear SpectacleS in
company.
In France three bicycles of American
make are now sold to one Of English
manufactures.
Mrs. Celestina Nigro of Philadelphia
celebrated her 1u9th birthday by dancing
three waitZeS.
1T is estimated that kansas City;
Mo-. has population of $4,000 and
Kansas City. Has, 10000.
-EnSlanu'S exports of manufactured
iron and steel last month increased 2Ila
per cent. in tonnage quantity.
OF the worlds annual yield of petro-
ltunl, amounting to 5,OO0.O0O.O0O gallons,
the United States produces half.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Matt
land. Australia. has forbidden the use of
flowers ut funerals in his diocese.
In Cuba women are now able to dine
alone in reStaurants--u thing that was
never possible under the old regime.
In st. Petersburg is the largest
bronze statue in txiStenct-that of Peter
the Great. which weighs 1000 tons.
Among the GNu.OUO inhabitants OF
Naples 10000 never know today where
with they shall buy their meals tomor-
row.
-Raltimore has the largest negro pop
ulatinu of any city in ChriStendonl. The
census is expected to show ut least 120,-
600.
-Germnny publishes about 10000
hooks year. France l1,OM. Italy 1000,
England GWOu and the United States
5000.
A Waldoboro \MeD bachelor, while
watching beside the couch Of his sick
father last winter, made three fine bed
quilts.
IN analyst has made the discovery that
California roses contain 70 per cent.
more perfume than those grown else
Were.
charles Dorr of San Francisco has
a wonderful memory. He can recite YER
hatim almost any play after witnessing
it once.
Several towns near Boston are to
have steam power "mnibuSes soon, to run
in streets where there are no cars at
present.
Fireworks are sent off before the
services ut. the Bahia tBraziD cathedral,
in order ia attract the attention of the
people.
1t is estimated that 5000 miles of
new railroad, representing an investment
OF $11O. NAIUCN. will be built in the Unit
cd States in 1899.
This years production of beet sugar
in the nited States is estimated at 1.o2,-
'h, tons from III, 100 acres. Il fourfold
increase i'll one year
Two streets in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
which have heretofore borne the names
Of tw" saints, will hereafter be called
Gomez and Mckinley.
AT present England sells Colombia
nearly 40 per cent. of the cotton cloth
used Ivy the latter. and the United States
only about II per cent.
CONSUL Macrum pretoria, Transvaal
republir'. writes that the average exports
1T gold from the ports OF South Africa
amount now to about S2OC5J:l each
week.
A new dog has appeared in England.
Too high bred and too rare to become
G. inlnon. it is called the "buttcrty" or
'rarill"n, and weighs less than three
bounds.
England. France and Germany have
lrSular travelling statesmen who visit
Mexican trade centers every three
months, and they get the cream of the
business.
>--Charcoal IS the great Italian fuel,
Naples alone consuming 10000 tons Of
wood charcoal. ut il cost of from SIG to
40 per ton. the national consumption be-
ing 10000 tons
The governments object in sending
the cruiser Wilmington up the Orinoco
and the Amazon was to show the I-nitel
states flag i'll places where it had been
rarely ar never seen.
"A great cave, said to be large: than
the Mammoth, in Kentucky, has been
Nl>c"itrtd in Victoria. +. {. 1t has been
explored distance of twelve miles with
ont the end being reached
The area Of the Pretoria diamond
Fields continues to be increased by dis
t"vrf!tS III almost every direction, and
the yield from the extensive wash is re-
ported as highly satisfactory.
English and German speculators
hav" acquired rights to land in eastern
S'rvll. where the Romans are known to
nave found gold and where. accordingly.
mining works arc to By started
II he most cost y piece of railway line
Mansion house and Aldgate stations in
London, which required the exncnditnre
ct close upon S1O.OOO.OUn per mile.
On Il recent scientiii, test II worker
III metals succeeded IN drawing Il copper
cent out into 800 feet of wire. And
TINS SIMPLY proves that some men can
make a little money go an awful long
way.
Il monument will be erected in o.
tober to Charles Marc Sauria, said to
b" the original inventor of lucifer
matches, at st. Lothair a small yiIlar,
IN the .)ura, where he spent his life as y
country physician.
AT present there are only TWENTY
three cities in the United States and
Canada in which carpenters work ten
hours per day. One hundred and five
nav" the clght-hour rule and 424 work
lime hours a day.
1t is estimated that about 400 600
acres OF land in the United States aro
planted with vines. three-fourths of them
III Il bearing condition. In the amount of
wine raised New York state ranks neyt
after California. At
-ExperimentS have been going on with
an ingenious machine which shuts over
u man eye 50 that the eyelid as it works
"Opens and closes a chronograph. So far
tn' quickest wink on record is about n
sixth of a second
There are eleven states in which
school books are regularly furnished FREQ
to pupils; They are Delaware, Idaho,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts. &C..
hraSka, New Hampshire, New Jersey.
ffnnsylvahia, Rhode Island and Yer.
mont.
An average man requires ifty-nine
ounces Of food per diem. He needs tbir
V-Scvcl ounces of water for drinking.
and IN breathing he absorbs thirty ounces
OF oxygen. He eats as much water as
ne drinks, so much of that fluid beine
contained in various foods.
There arc eight inches more rainfall
on the south shore of Lake Superior than
on the north shore. and three inches more
III the cases Of Erie and Ontario. There
IS also a greater precipitation on the
rraStern shores of Lakes Huron and
Michigan than OH the western.
The Shah Of Persia thinks that the
art of printing transcends all others and
mas particular admiration for his court
printer 1 He has lately seen typewriter.
ana the idea that printing" can be ac-
tompIishcd by the mere tapping of the
Keys was almost too much for him.
line Rocky Mountain News prints
the story Of man who says that the
word Of farewell which he shouted in y
mountain canyon some twenty vo,r, oro