The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-10-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-BrSzil's gold mines show an increas-
ing yield.
Several deer have been seen this fall
in Connecticut.
The shad, herring and alewife all be-
long to the same family.
"A comparatively new business is the
making of artificial palms.
"A sand crab can bury itself in sand
before Il person can count five.
The fruit business of Omaha, Neb.,
is valued at $1,5OO,0O0 annually.
The typhoid bacillus frozen in ice has
been found alive after 1O2 days.
Scotland has forty-siN parishes with,
out paupers, poor rates or public houses.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
erect Il 100000 library at Emporia Has.
In Prussia Srnoui principals are pen,
Stoned seven years earlier than are
judges.
Near Hastings. England. lives an &C.
centric old mau who daily prays to the
sun at noon.
During the present year the tussock
moth killed 1924 trees on the streets and
parks of Buffalo.
For every million inhabitants in Rus
STA there are only ten newspapers aud
journals Of all sorts.
A leaf Is only Il metamorphused
branch and the covering of seeds only q
metamorphosed leaf.
The Turk will Solemnly cross his
hands upon his breast and make pro-
found obeiSanCe when he bids anyone
farewell.
-Malforma1ions among goldfish are
produced by the Chinese 10y agitating the
fertiliZeu eggs at Il certain stage Of their
development.
Il;
from glass and paste is To touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much the colder.
Gold. silver. steel. aluminium and
lead, when immersed in laurie acid. Il
new chemical discovery, become pliahie
and ductile as putty.
A sturgeon will live nearly two days
ont of water if its body be wrapped in
4 wet cloth and the yillS be occasionally
mciSteneu with water.
There are 5000 thtut,rS in the Unit
ed States. More than 1000 are fairly
,lassable as legitimate and over 1000
more are devoted to vaudeville.
The government of India is disposed
to employ electricity as its motive power
in the great central factories which it
intends to set up in Jubbulpore.
France loses every year by infectious
and contagious diseases 100000 lives. or
nearly uOuDle inc nuluDcE VI lives luSt
in the Franco PrusSian war Of 1870.
The cheapest postal service i'll the
world is that OF Japan. where for two
>en-about seven-tenthS of Il penny-let-
tiers are conveyed all over the empire.
The sword blades forged at Toledo
by the SaracenS could be coiled up like
clock spring and would resume per-
feet straghtneSs as soon as released.
A novelty is the cold storage Of hops.
This is done in several places i'll England.
Several systems are employed. notably
the 1.nde. PontfeN and De la Ecrgne
Over 1000 nursery and seedsmen and
frultgrowers III Germany have petitioned
the government for Il protective tariff
against American horticultural prOduc
tons.
1t is now proposed to construct Il
canal connecting Germany with Euro
Iean Turkey. The financial success of
the KEEL canal has given rise to this
project.
The spruce gum crop of Maine, the
largest in the states history, in the
neighborhooh Of thirty tons. worth about
S63.OOO. has been harvested and sent to
market
1t is estimated that there are $780,
~D.OOO worth of coppers-pennies. half
pennies and farthinyS-in circulation:
that is. roughly speaking, 44GtiH tons of
coppers.
1t took twenty years to build the
statue of Victor Emmanuel. recently I'm
veiied at Turin, and the frequent dis
putes over it have made it byword in
all Italy.
In Germany, during the year ending
July. 1893. out of 3S7, 991 PERSONS look
ing for employment. 2222 ,;393 found occ,l-
patton by means of free employment
agencies.
The Sharon Steel company is to erect
a big plant Oh 400 acres of land near
Sharon, Pa, and promises in eighteen
months to De in condition to employ
2OOO men.
The conversion of the fiintiest. rough
est limestone into soft. white wool is one
of the wonders of the century which will
shortly appear in a practical way to the
manufacturer.
The Sioux and Blackfeet will at part
ing dig their spears in the earth as
sign of confidence and mutual esteem.
This is the origin Of the term 'burying
the tomahawk.'
A tramp recently arrested in Buffalo
had in his pockets a pair of shears, nee
dies and thread, u pocket mirror a comb,
hairbruSh. Il toothbrush, toilet soap
and a manicure set
In Buffalo planer is in operation
which at each cut removes !; shaving
iron. The knife is between twelve and
thirteen inches wide.
An Italian company has asked the
ropes permission to put the vintage of
the Vatican gardens into the market as
Leo Wine at high price. The Pop.,
Of course, refused his consent.
After long and patient struggle tho
women physicians of Russia have secured
decree placing them upon an equality
6SnI
male physicians in the empire.
In Japan vaccination is ccmpulsorv
ana the government makes it's own lymph
and issues it free of charge, Reyaccina
ton at stated periods is also rigidly en-
forced. Only calf lymph is used.
In 1877 the number of students at
the universities of Italy was under g.
wv. This year it is nearly $4,000, or
more. IN proportion to the population,
than Germany or France can boast.
"A French naval return shows that
there are to be completed for commits.
sion this year an 11.275-ton battleship
thlrd-ciaSS cruiser, four torpedo-boat
oestroyers and twenty-five torpedo-bonts |
The Salt Lake tUtah) Herald snvs
tnat the Mormon church revenues from |
ltnes alone were $!UU,UOO in the year
ending December l last, one-third Of the |
amount being cash and two-thirds nrod- !
1ce. paw
line ancient town Of Lexington.
Mass, is already making preparations for
an elaborate celebration it is intended tn |
nave April 10, 1900. of the hundred and
tWcnty-hfth anniversary of the battle |
there.
line results of series of experiments |
MADE by German dairy experts show that |
milk that has been heated for fifteen
minutes at IS degrees {, scarcely loses
any OF its capacity of being converted
into cheese.
An insect census has just been taken |
by scientific Englishman on purely Sci !
entlhc lines, with a view to determine
as 1ar as 1t is possible which insects are |
boon and blessing to mankind and |
which are the reverse
-SplderS, are a serious plague IL,
Japan They spin their webs on the |