The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-07
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

to urge the passage nf the Reconsideration
bill at the next Congress.
Utah gives it's convicted murderers
the choice IF how they will be executed
The latest one chose to be shot.
Thirty years ago there We're only two
dozen explosive compounds known tu
chemists: now there are over 1000.
-kingtsher, Kas.. has an ordinance
requiring the dog catcher to produce the
tail of every unlicensed dog killed by
him.
AT the present rate of increase the
population of Edinburgh (now 29J, ti2S)
will reach the 100000 mark in less than
TWO Years.
The lighthouse ut Corunna, Spain. is
believed to be the oldest one now in use
1t was erected during the reign Of Ira
jan and rebuilt i'll 1864.
There are 5000 licensed liquor shops
i'll st. Petersburg, against $4,000 a few
Years ago, and under the law person
can obtain but one drink of liquor in one
tavern.
--rari<ian BARRIERS are legally com:
ptllrd to wash their hands after attend
ing II customer and before waiting on an
other. They must use, also, only nickel
plated combs.
The public entrance doors of the
great building Of the Bank of England
are so finely balanced that II clerk, by
pressing Il knob under his desk can close
them instantly.
English missionaries who have
. studied the languages Of the Fuegians
There are three| declare that they have
distinguished sixteen Nowels and twenty
nine tonSunantS.
Asia Minor was the chief opium mar
ket until the Twelfth century and from
then on it was gradually, distributed all
over the globe. The Chinese obtained
the drug in the Thirteenth century.
The cake at English weddings is al
ways Il star feature. Usually at fash
.'nable affair it is fully six feet high, and
is Il marvellous architectural structure of
icing adorned with flowers and figures.
A new machine capable of canceling
from 4tH to 800 postage stamps 4 minute
is now being tried in Chicago postotfices
1t has four feed pockets. in which letters
may he placed either Sinsly or in punches.
There are, approximately, 100000 In
.ian$ iii the United States. and the larg
er number of them maintain such tribal
organizations as exempt them from the
operation Of the ordinary laws of the
country.
Last year the people Of the United
States used about 100000 pounds of
tea, which cost $1OOOO,OuN. The secre-
tary OF agriculture favors another at
tempt at raising this commodity in this
country.
-fev. &. J. MILAN said at the annual
meeting Of the American Tract society
in New York that in ten Southern states
last y";S the Mormon church obtained
more recruits than the Presbyterian
church.
-I!dalls plan of purifying water by
means Of electric currents has been tried
successfully ia the Burgess canal in Bel
GUM. After being subjected to a current
Of 1000 volts, the water became pure and
palatable.
A Kansas soldier who was present
ut the capture of Malolos says that the
flag OF truce displayed by the natives
who remained in the town when the
American troops advanced was pair of
white trousers.
A Maryland man wanted q wife. but
failed for long time to obtain his desire
because he was nearly 90 years old. FL
nally. however, he induced il young wom-
an to we'd him by presenting her before
hand with 800.
Mrs. Emily \. Fi6eld member OF
the Boston school board, presided at j
recent session of that body in. the absence
OF the president. 1t is the first time in
the history of the Hub that woman
has been so hOnored. j.
DR.. Robert Koldewey will lead an ex-
petition Of German psychologists who
Will undertake the excavation of Baby
of the Royal German museum are pa
irons of this movement.
samuel Iarwater, the only pensioner
IF the state of Missouri, who was men
toned in this column about two weeks
ago, has just died. He received $500
year from the state for wounds received
Ill the Mormon war of 1888.
The federal telegraph system of Mex
leo. which is controlled by the govern
mcnt. Is neins rapidly extended, and al
ready many of the small mining camps
in the Serras are in Geographic connec-
ton with the rest of the world.
An old deed uncarthed at the Rock
Island offices in Topeka discloses the fact
that at one time the Kansas river was
t knoWn as the Camp river. and the
bluffs at Kansas City as the Foothills
of the Rocky Mountains of Missouri
The number Of students at the largest
ten universities in the world is as fol-
lows: Paris, 1c,047; Berlin. 1906: Ma
nrl'. hl43: Vienna. $40; Naples, 51O3:
Moscow. 44f1; Budapest, HOT; Munich.
39I: Harvard, 3G74; St. Petersburg,
In the north OF Brazil, in the dis
trlcts III the vicinity Of the Amazon, are
the forests containing the rubber trees.
the amount of this produce exported last
year being valued at $5O,OOOOOO and
the supply as yet showing no signs of ex-
haustion.
Hydrogen light is especially favored
III hospital work for hygienic reasons
aside from the advantages of economy
and the. recent experience with tic
Strache lamp at the Vienna general hos
ptal confirms the favorable reports al
ready received.
Late reports on the experiments at the
Schlesbusch dynamite works near Co.
logne says that Prof. Linde's method of
-Iv,0 Il
mas proved so satisfactory that it has
been adopted ON a large scale in the
Simplon tunnel
-Ihe small town of Fiana de Cepa.
about eight miles from Valladolid. is the
spot which. because Of the fertility of the
son and the luxuriance of the vegeta-
ton ON the surrounding hills, has been
pertinent in Spain
In Aschen, Rhenish Prussia. the Ka-
rls Schuetzen guild will celebrate next
month the eleven hundredth anniversary
or It's foundation by Louis l., son of the
great Gharlemagne. Originally it was
FOUNDED for 1.-The protection of the ca
thedral and divine SERVICE
49, -k e Island is talking of repeating
the free textbook law. There are only
ten states in which school books are req
ulariX furnished free to pupils These
are Del aware. Idaho. Maine, MARYLAND.
Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hamn,
S Hhr New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
according to recent returns, Krupp
VI Essen Essen pays income tax on u revenue
Of 100000 marks. Baron Willy Won
RothschIld, chief Of the Frankfort bank
ing house, estimates his income at a little
less than Krupp's. Count Henckel- Don
nersmarck occupies the third place on the
list of big taxpayers.
-tharies 3. Shanks, representing AL
cxandcr Winton Of Cleveland. Dosted a.
600 in New York to cover similar
amount held in Paris to bind a chaI-
lenge from H. Charron, the French auto
moblllst, for an automobile race between
'hlcago and New York, which is to be
run some time in August.
"A hole in his right heel enabled a no.
gro workman in the diamond fields of
south Africa to secrete and steal gems to
the value Of $273,O0O. These he ex-