The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-29

position from owners of bee hives, who
protested that the weeds blossomed near
~ all summer and their bees made much
honey from them.
drinking glasses called tumblers owe
their name to the fact that they are the
successors of little round silver bowls,
so perfectly balanced that. whichever
way they We're tipped about on the table,
they tumblcd into position again, and
there remained with the rim upward, as
If asking to be retilled.
sidered sufficient for cleanliness. and
among the Polynesians one can hardly
insult man more than to state that his
skin shows marks Of salt water. In
fact. directly after bathing in the sea Il
bath in fresh water is considered neces-
slty to wash off the salt.
The great libraries Of Picking contain
Volumes OF books numbered by the hun
dreds Of thousands. In the archives of
the government are still to be found the
ancient predictions Of eclil,ses made with
great accuracy. together with works on
astronomy which show n fair Knowledge
Of that Interesting science.
-Servia appears to take the palm for
longevity. This country is said to have
the greatest number OF centenarians
There are $50 Of them in a population
Of less than l.SOO.OOO. Iceland has SIS;
Spain. 4O1; England, Scotland ana
Wales, 1872; Germany, Is: Norway, %:
Sweden, 20, and Denmark. y.
10 stop bleeding ut the nose. cut
some blottins paper about an inch square,
roll it ahout the size of lead pencil, and
put it up the nostril that is bleeding.
The hollow in it will allow the sufferer
tiN h.. th.> g.
between the tube and the nose, and will
very soon coagulate and cease to flow.
The Russians are preparing for the
Paris exposition Of 1900 map of France
III stone, which will be Il remarkable
specimen of the lapidary'S skill. 1t will
show each separate department in jas
per. while the sea will be represented by
lapiS lazuli the rivers by platinum and
lod towns marked by precious stones.
Only oue-half Of those who enter the
military academy at West Point con-
time in it long enough to obtain Il COM
mission. and in part because of the sever
lty of the discipline. Six thousand six
hundred and tifty-eight cadets were adj
mitttd to the academy up to and includ-
ing 1886. and only 1884 of these wer.
graduated.
An expert calculates that if Young
man of II should start in to measure
the corn crop which Kansas will produce
this Year. and if it We're possible for him
I" measure Il bnshel every second-a big
load each Misunderstanding ten hours Il
day every working day in the year he
would be SO years old before he complet-
ed his task.
Interest in the medical mission in for
eisn lands is constantly increasing. Ma
tives i'll the north of Africa come long
distances for treatment, and wild Be-
d0uln characters. encouraged by the Sui
tan and living in lawless independence,
who treated their own women as cattle,
are Slngularly Amenable to the women
missionaries.
A well-preserved Roman camp has
been discovered on the right bank of the
feet long by 80 feet wide Sf has BEEN peu
traced. Part of the walls. gates and
towers are still standing. and many uten-
silS and weapons have been dug up. 1t is
believed that the camp was erected in the.
time of Nero
The Korean woman is so little es-
teemeu that she has not even a name. In
childhood she has nickname bestowed
upon her. by which she is known to her
family and intimate friends, but after
she arrives at maturity she is called thus
only by her parents. To the rest of the
world she is simply the daughter" or
tne sister OF SO-and-SO.
The judicial department of the Ger
man empire has recently been called up-
on TO pass on the proper Authorization for
l9oo The common Authorization for 1890
is, Of course, 80. but the German Judges
have decided that 900 would not do at
all for the first year of the next CEN
fury. Accordingly the year will have to
be written out in full on all German doc
uments.
IN the course of a day a person
breathes about 1900 gallons of air, weigh
ing 81 pounds, about six times the ay-
erage amount of food and drink con-
sumed. 1t, therefore. seems rather fool
lSh to be constantly on guard against
adulterated food and impure water, and
to allow your neighbor to pollute the at
mosphere because it is cheaper for him
in his business.
century predicted that the Gaelic Ian
guage would be once more held in great
esteem in Ireland, and an Irish paper
says the prediction seems in a fair way
of being fulfilled in our time, and notes
rs proof that the district councils. under
the new local government bill, are chang
ing the English names of roads and
streets into their Irish equivalents.
Many flashes of lightning not only
measure themselves but actually manu-
facture the recorder by which they are
measured. When an electric meteor
strikes a bed of sand it plunges down
ward into it, Transforming simultaneous
ly into glass the silica in the material
through which it passes. Thus by it's
great heat it forms a glass tube of pre-
cisely it's own size. Now and then such
tube, known as ''fulgurite,'' is found
and dug up.