The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-24
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


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Armagh is said to be the apple Or
chard of Ireland,
Morocco has nm army Of 10000 men
fairly we'll trained.
Japan will open twenty ne new ports
to foreign commerce.
A color expert declares that a pure
white flower does not exist.
New England cities may unite to
help Boston improve its harbor.
The importation Of wood pulp into
Italy is greatly on the increase.
Last year the eight mission presses
Ill China sent out l ,4IO,tS9 publications.
over 1900 scholars attended the con-
gress of Orientalists held in Rome re-
Gently.
Cement is used i'll France to protect
iron railway bridges from the fumes of
locomotives.
There are scores Of places in this
country where only one mail comes every
fourteen days.
In the Swedish Parliament there are
thirty.four temperance men aud fifteen
Good Templars.
Fully SOO.OW domestic animals, val
ued at $6.0OO,0OO.. are annually devoured
by the wolves in Russia.
Fried wasp soup is considered great
deiicacy i'll China. 1t is stated that it
IS quite an acquired taste.
1t is said that property to the value
of over 100000 is left in the railway
carriages of Britain every year.
The fifth centenary of Gutenberg's
birthday Is to be celebrated with great
splendor at Mayence next June.
The whole Of the trade in cheap no.
siery in Cuba is in the hands of the Ger
man and Catalan manufacturers.
For the last ten years there has
been an increase of 1000 annually in the
number of Great Britain's insane.
The juice of the mulberry was at one
time declared to be 4 sovereign remedy
for equity and rheumatic affections.
Nine columns in the great hall Of the
famous temple at karnak, on the site of
ancient Thebes, have fallen down.
The mayor of Mafeking is Frank
Nhlteley, a native of Bradford, who left
for Natal when he was IL years old
Norwegian statesmen are planning a
system Of national insurance to protect
people incapaeitated to earn livelihood.
-"Peggoty's Hut" ut Yarmouth.
made famous through Dickens David
Copperheld," is about to be sold ut auc-
ton.
An analyst has made the discovery
that California roses contain 20 per cent.
where.
In Surrey. England. there is ii great
poultry fattening establishment. which
annually sends about 10000 fowls to
London.
One test for distinguishing diamonds
from glass and paste is to touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much the colder.
AT Jamaica. L. l., the crowded con-
Il; 90
authorities to open sthoolroom tempo
rarily in barn.
Owing to feeling over the Boer war
English shops i'll the vicinity of the
Grand Opera house in Paris have been
bycotted by the French.
The Siamese have recently contrib
uted $4,000 ticals t$90OW for the pur-
chase of new site for the Christian
high school in Bangkok.
Withdrawals of money from the
Trustee Savings banks of France during
the first nine months of 1899 exceeded
deposits by $11,25O,OOO.
&C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo has present
ed East Aurora, near that city. with land
costing over $500. to be used for pub
lie park and athletic field
Norway supplied Great Britain with
twice us much ground wood pulp last
year as the United States, Canada, Swe-
den and Holland combined
Over $3,OOO,OOO have been expended
this year i'll connecting the main long
distance telephone lines with small towns
east of the Mississippi river.
One of the most valuable timber
trees in the great Northwest, the red &c,
feet and diameter of ii feet
Cheap chemical dyes threaten to ruin
the great indigo industry of Behar, In
1ia. where hundreds of thousands of
families have found employment.
A London man, arrested for burglary,
was found to be wearing three overcoats,
morning coat, a golf jacket, a tweed
suit. and four pairs of trousers.
st. Petersburg. which often has ex-
hibitions of French and English art. is
to have one of German art in january,
which will be something of novelty.
While the infant mortality in Sweden
and Norway is not over IL per cent, it |
rises in the German empire to % and in
the Bavarian highlands to As per cent.
Some students of the Chicago univer-
sity are going down into the mountain re-
gions of Kentucky to study the peculiar
sociological conditions that prevail there !
The vast forests of valuable timber
which cover large tracts Of the interior |
of Cuba await only the construction of |
railways to render their working profit |
able.
A good English authority estimates
that $1,OOOOO,OOO foreign capital is
now operating in Russia in manufacture
ing. industrial, steamship and other en-
terpriSeS.
The changes that occur in wine are
due to living organisms. Wines contain |
many microbes-sOme Of them dead but
most of them able to sit up and look |
cheerful.
I'm Boston the other day a man who
Il
support was fined $50, and his neglected
wife secured his release by paying that
amount
So rabid are the dogs of India that
from July. 1898, to March, 1899, thirty- |
three British soldiers have been sent to |
Europe from that country for Pasteur
treatment.
The Italian minister of public in
struction wants to introduce an "arbor |
day on which everyone should make an |
effort to plant some trees on barren |
mountains.
In Texas some nine years ago Sill |
yer shekel was found dating back to 142 |
3. q. lntrinsically it is worth about |
half dollar, but collectors put price |
of 5000 On it.
a Calcutta paper contains an account |
Of the workhouse or asylum for infirm
beasts and birds that was established |
some thirteen years ago by q society of |
influential Hindus
The Indians Of the interior of b. |
ilv'a wear shirts and hats made of the |
bark OF tree: which is soaked in wa
ter to soften the fiber, and then beaten |
to make it pliabIe.
The imports Of American tobacco in. |
to Japan in 1898 amounted to 1891. us |
pounds: and were valued at nearly 1885,. |
Un. 1t was used chiefly in the manu- |
facture Of cigarettes
The electric power is used in the |
mines for hosting. Air compressing is |
used to operate the drill. BY means of |
electricity low-grade ore is worked that |
was never used before
Minnesota, which has population of
!'3O1 ,e2G, and which cast 130.G2G votes
for Bryan in 1896 and 1880 votes for the |
sound-money Democratic ticket. has ONLY
one daily Democratic paper.
The artillery and cavalry horses of
the Beers have all been inocuInted