The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-22
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

You can buy tea in China for III
cents per pound.
Australia has on the avearse ono hos
pital for 1890 persons.
No fewer than liz families of inju-
riuuS insects VeN farmers.
There are nearly $500, 900 acres Of
swamp land in South Carolina.
dublin university is to establish Il di
pluma for teaching agriculture.
The meat of sheep killed by Il deg
fatally poisoned Il Kalamazoo girl.
-Raltimore claims the largest negro
population of any city in the world.
The chatting dish is an accessory to
the nursery in preparing special foods for
children.
Chinese scholars claim that iron
swords We're in use in their country 1000
years ago.
The republic of Venezuela contains
5OH,159 square miles. 1t is larger than
any country in Europe except Russia.
The hysienic reports of Paris for the
year 1893 record 1900 persons bitten by
dogs supposed to be mad; eight of those
persons died.
-Theater omnihuses have been started
in Paris which leave the chief theaters
after the performances and go out to six
residence quarters.
Pope Plus ms private library is Of
fered for sale at Il Roman book auction.
Many volumes are in artistic bindings,
bearing the late Popes arms.
Ten torpsso-boat destroyers of the
Sckol type, but with speed of only 26
knots, have been ordered by the Russian
government Of the Neva works.
New York has school in conncc-
men are taught to scale buildings, catch
dummies and handle furniturc
Since the beginning of the year no
tests have been made of gas supplied to
London. The result shows that NO1: per
cent. were below sixteen candles.
Women grooms to attend young per-
sons when they ride are a recent London
occupation is provided for women.
-F!rSt-clasS passengers in England
have increased only 10 per cent. in ten
Years. while the number of the third
class passengers has increased IL per
cent.
Foreign trade of the Argentine Re
public for the first nine months of 1899
showed an excess of merchandise exports
over imports amounting. gold value, to
Sm0N 900
-Canad;'S expert of cheese to England
has grown from 100000 in 1865 to ST.
100000 in 1883, whereas the United
States exported only $3,2SI 900 worth in
1he same year.
There Is Il new railroad car that by
its own motion congresses ammonia gas
tt liquid, which in going through the
pipes expands and produces the nereSSa-
ry coldneSS in the air
A milk dealers association in SPRING
fici,l, Mass. has decided to use coupon
milk tickets. believing that the cuntil-
unuS Use of tickets may be Il means of
spreading contagious disease.
The tonnage Of the Who'll. mercantile
steam marine of Russia. Japan or IIol-
land does not equal the tonnage of the
merchant vessels taken over by the Eng
l>h government as transports.
The American tonSulS at all foreign
ports have the lawful right to examine
intending eni=rants for the United States
for the purpose of a>ctrtaining if they
are tit for admission to this country.
a company with $4,000 canital
largely subscribed in New Haven Conn.
where It's treasurer and two directors
live. has been Incorporated under the
laws Ct Delaware to raise fruit in Porto
Rico.
The application of salt to roadbcds
Will be tried this winter in New York.
1t Is believed that salt will prevent the
top soil from freezing. thus o,Jviatiny the
mud which invariably COMES from the
thaW.
massachusetts is making a hard fight
for the passage of Il law compelling the
railroads in the state to carry BICYCLES
as baggage. Fourteen states have passed
this law, and Massachusetts is expected
to get into line.
.-Corundum, of which sandpaper and
like polishing materials are made is be-
ing largely worked ut Waynesboro y. c.,
and they have orders there for all they
can produce. 1t is one Of the growing
interests of the state.
One Of the richest copper deposits
known iii the South lies in Person coun-
ty. y. c. The mine is taking out about
lW tons of ore day. This ore, when
cobbed-that is, picked for shipment
will average 30 per cent. of copper.
a new feature of the 1900 Paris ex-
hibition is the United States publishers
building, now in course of construction.
in which will be displayed the history of
the printing press in America, and speed
mems Of work done in the United States.
Most Of the Eastern states and many
in the West will have good roads and
cycle path bills introduced into the Leg
iSatureS this winter. An added factor
of strength in the fight for the passage
CT these bills will be the support of the
farmers.
In the year ended June 80, 1907. the
United States purchased %, 7O4 1870
pounds of coffee from Mexico, valued at
A313,S65; the following year, 34,511,
1853 pounds, valued at 1859, 1872: last
year. 27.3324.S27 pounds, valued at 49,
French army officers report that
aluminium cooking utensils employed in
the messes of the rank and file stand the
wear and tear of service very well, Suf-
fering less than timed vessels when
ovcrheatcd. Other observers make the
same report.
The Woman's Board of Missions of
the Congregational church has under it's
control about 100 missionaries, over
80 girls boarding schools, nearly 800 day
schools and about ITO Bible Women. The Ti1e
total contributions last year amounted
to $4,000.
The New York state commissioners
to the Paris exposition have appropriate
cd 1920 for dairy exhibit from New
York, $1,000 for. photographic display,
$3.50 for a fruit exhibit and 5000 for
securing and furnishing state headquar-
ters in Paris.
A marked popularity of the Indiana
coal fields is the slight depth at which
coal is found. An area of $500 square
miles, or nearly One-fifth of the total
area Of the state is known to be under
mined with coal at an average Of eighty
feet below the surface.
The Russian cruiser BorOdinO, now
under construction in the shipyard of the
New Admiralty, in st. Petersburg, is of
interesting type. The length is 1896 feet
width. 11L2 feet: tonnage, 1860 metric
tons t22O4 pounds each). The engines
have 16,0OO-horse power.
The special expert sent abroad by the
agricultural department in search Of new
seeds and edible plants has brought back
an 'cvrrbearing strawberry 1t is said
to produce fruit for months on the same
plants, and small patch will supply Il
family table Il whole season.
A writer in the Nineteenth Century,
having visited the largest hospital in Vi
emma, was shocked by the total want of
regard for patients feelings, the low
class Of women employed as nurses, and
the dependence of nursing upon the pa
tents readiness to tip his nurse
The Household Economic association
of the state of New York is going to es-
tniali.h dict LII.