The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21
Publisher.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

u spider can live ten months without
food
The island of I.uxon has the same
area as Ohio.
Smoked snow-water is favorite
drink in I.apland.-
told eeils 10 III scirculat ton twice as
long asscOpper coins. -
NJ present the longest single sub
marine cable is 27O0 miles. ~ - .
Australia is capable OF supporting at
icaStslO.OON,OOO inha bitants. =
Silk is considered unclean by the Mo-
ha'nmeta'As, bssaasesit is the product of
-ChinessssS scholarss claim that iron
swords We're III nse>s IN their country 1000
Nearssago. Y q u y 70 3 -
Experiments to reproduce dead mems
features from their skulls are being made
ia Germany.
Thursday island. in the Torres
straits expert" mts annually mother Of pearl
The population of the earth is esti-
mated3to be about 1,5OO,OOO,O 600. In 1898
it was 1,4S5, 7tS;,WO.
Last year in twenty four cities Of the
United States Ssh divorces werr asked
for and 6iO3 were granted.
The cathedral OF Mexico CITY was
commenced in 1873, and completed in
1871. at Il cost of $4,000, 900.
sails made of paper are coming into
use Oh vessels. They are said to lie
stronger than those made of linen.
Between 1870 and 1897 the number
nf professional women writer's in the
United States increased from lo0 to
There are about eighty distinct tribes
among the natives Of the Philippines The
MoroS are the most bloodthirsty savages
known.
There are about 500 species of hum
ming birds, all natives of America. and
most of. them confined to Central and
South America.
1t is estimated that at the present
rate of growth London. which now has a
population of 1861 600, will, in 1871,
have over 13,OOO,OOO.
The Russian government by recent
r'ilct claims all meteoriteS which may be
found. The finder is to receive only )
per cent. of the value.
Iron visiting cards are popular in Ger
many. The name is printed in silver,
and forty Of the sheets only measure one
tenth of an inch in thickness.
The Fisk University Jubilee singers
are i'll England again after an interval
OF more than twenty years. There are
ten Of these colored minstrels.
lage Of Storbeck is chess-player. The
children are taught to play chess just as
they are taught to read and write.
Within Il mile from Congleton, Eng,
ON the high road from Macclestield, there
is Il deserted village consisting o. over
sixty houses, not one of which is ten
Inted.
Women students Mt the University of
Berlin are not allowed to wear their
h,ir in br:aids down their back. Two
girl students who persisted in doing this
We're expelled.
Some of the cod lines used in the
fishing industry measure 1000 fathoms
long, or about so ordinary miles, having
-itiS'' hooks, the whole costing in some
eases f2OO or f3OO.
Berlin booksellers are strictly for
hidden to sell to school children books
Stitched with. wire, as several cases of
blood poisoning have been traced to
scratches from rusty wire.
The imports of mutton into London
from all parts have increased from 400
rArrasseS i'll 1880 to nearly 4.5OOOOO in
1888. and the fact is noticed that the
'"E'iltion Of frozen meat ON arrival is
gradually improving.
The Sikworm was first introduced
int" Europe by two monks engaged as
missionaries i'll China, who obt ,ined a
quantity of SilkwormS' eggs, which they
concealed i'll Il hollow cane. and conveyed
III safety to Constantinople in So.
Oakland, Me-, has become such a .fa-
-EOrable resort of tramps of late that thu,
town authorities have voted to purchase
and use Baker primitive chair a
Kind Of mo'lernized stocks. whcrewith to
make it interesting for visiting wayfar-
trS.
.Ihe origin of saying las clean as
whistle is aScribed to the whistle tank
ard" of ol'len times in which the whistle
came into play when the tankard was
emptied or ''clearcd ont to announce
TO the waiter that more liquor was re-
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