The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-05
NOTES OF INTEREST,

-Anthracite coal costs 80 ton ut
Winnipeg.
1t is proposed to construct railway
in French Guinea.
A stringent antitrust bill has passed
the Minnesota Legislature.
The spruce timber Of Norway and
Sweden is nearly exhausted.
About 500, OOO,Ot is invested in the
candy business in the United States.
The last issue Of the London Direc-
tory weighs eleven and one-half pounds.
The Alpine air in Switzerland is free
from microbes at an elevation Of 1000
feet.
The idea of making starch from
sweet potatoes is being discussed in the
South
York tPaD sportsmen are distributing
100 Kansas uuails i'll the country around
that city.
The exports of wheat and corn from
the port Of Boston last year were 2G,OOO,-
600 bushels.
The present number of Indians in
Canada is 1OOO9S, an increase OF ~
over last year.
An eagle got drunk on mccnsh,ne
whisky, near Lebanon, Ky, and was
captured easily.
The Wisconsin Legislature has for
hidden the use of living rooms for man
ufarturins purposes.
Not Il foot Of the farm of Michael
GuilognwSki ut Pedricktown, y. j., can
he sesa at high tide.
Two hundred new designs in penny
TOYS are brought out every week in
Nhitechapel, London.
A man walking d,y and night with
out resting would take 42S days to jour
nev around the world.
There We're 249.14J marriages in
England and Wales last year, more than
Ill any year since 1876.
-l.eating SpiritualiSts of the Central
states have formed an organization to
expose fraudulent mediums
The principal exports of the Canary
islands, i'll the order named, are bananas,
tomatoes, onions and potatoes.
DR.. Still, the Missouri bone healer.
has done so we'll that he is building Il
$4,000 residence in kirkville, Mo.
The latest estimate of the population
of England and Wales is $1,000 600, the
women being in majority of 9GO,OOO
The production of pis-iron in Rus
Sla Is estimated to have increased from
100000 tons in 1887 to 2,194,OOO in 1898.
AT thu. railway stations in Russia
books are kept in WHICH passengers NAV
enter any complaint they may wish to
make.
- IN Vienna organ grinders are allowed
70 play only between mid and sunset
Thus are the horrors Of darkness miti-
gated!
~ recent find of set of ivory pins,
I little gateway and three balls indicates
that the Egyptians played ninepins quite
5000 years ago.
The discovery has been made that
some very successful coiners have been
operating inside the state pententiary at
Canon City, Mo.
1t Is stated that 80 per cent. of tho
common contagious diseases are carried
from house to house by the domestic
pets of the world
.fatrito, believed to be the last Yauni
Indian i'll California, is dead. lie Was
l'> years old, according to the record
Kept III pioneer days.
-Lyons, France, has been experiment.
ing with glass pavement, which. f is
SAID, can be produced cheaper and is
more durable than stone.
In nearly every street in Jananese
cues Is Il public oven, where. for a small
rec: housewives may have the dinners
ana Suppers cooked for them.
There Is great Indignation among the
.nristlin people of London over the in
PRODUCTION of Sunday editions of the
'aliy Telegraph and Daily Mail.
New Jersey fru1t growers as a rule
oeneve there will be an immense crop,
as the buds had not developed enough to
be damaged by the cold weather.
-Cottins in Russia are never covered
Win black. 1t the deceased is Il child.
PINK Is used; if a woman, crimson
though for widow they use brown.
More than 100000 trees have been
p!inted along the line of the Northern
iaclhr railroad in North Dakota, to
serve as protection from snowdrifts.
-1.ast year silver with a market yalue
~ HLJ"'oM,,oOV was added to the world
STOCK. :, there Is nearly four times as
much silver in use as forty wears AGO
The new Swiss aluminium steamer for
Lake Victoria is 43 feet long, carries e.
I! persons, and separates into nine Soc
tiohs' no part weighing over $50 pounds
y cotton mill company, with capital
OF $4,000, has been organized in
shreveport. La. Mississippi negroes are
a' ;m organizing a company to build a
damages of $1,000 have been assessed
IN teieeraph company in 1; North Caro-
ma SUIT for mental anguish" for non
i'llvery OF telegram announcing .
death.
Lancaster, Ia. Is worried about ire
water supply. 1t draws from Conestoea
creek, and consumes 100000 gallons =
day, which is the minimum flow Of the
stream. VI 'ne
The will of Mary Dryer of Philadel-
pnia distributes S25,OOO among Roman
catholic charitable and educational insti-
tutlonS, the majority Of them located in
Philadelphia.
-.Al1nzo Cresswell, an Ebensburg Ua. }
o"y who is crack shot, killed a large
oalh eagle at the Evans (sawyer) dam
-ipril 10. The birds wings from tin f.,
tip measured five feet two inches.
At church near Ledbury an annual
sermon is still preached against duelIinq
ms Is done in accordance with the viii
ana testament of a damsel whose rival
lovers died lighting for her hand.
The Chinese believe that the Yellow
river has always been of it's present coIor
except one day about 1900 years ago. on
when occasion great man was born
ana the river was perfectly clear.
But two tanneries of any magnitude
are IN operation throughout Japan-0ne
IN Osaka and the other in Tokio-and
they are chiefly occupied in supplying the
leatner wants OF the army and navy.
Senator Carter of Montana saws that
Ill ten years Montana will be producing
annually more wheat and flour than anH
Two states in the Union. It will no
Shipped ne adds, to Asiatic markets.
That football is not losing it's popu
larlty III England is shown by the fact
that the match for the English football
cup at Sheffield on April is was vii.
messed by upwards of 10000 persons.
There will soon be brought into Mas
S s.! fifty dozen quail from the In
alah territory, and they are to be turned
loose in protected localities to furnish
piled. Au'''
equipments Of manganese ore from
the Mediterranean still continue. Over
,1tD tons of it were brought to Phila-
deiphla on April II on the British steam.
snip Collingham, from Stratoni and En-
EeSteria. A
Years ago George W. Steele Of Ind;-.
ana organized a law firm which became
more widely known than any other in the
Hoosier state. His partner was Charles
Il Steele
by order of the Emperor of Corea
the members of the Corean legation in
n oh ,rrfo