The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-07

superstition is that it was OH Friday that
Adam and Eve ate the fatal apple, and
then it Is agreed that Christ was cruci-
fed Oh Friday. 1t is believed to be bad
luck to cut the fngernails on Friday, and
manicurists say. their business is lightest
on that day. i e. & # "a s
"A German paper gives the following
method of detecting small cracks in steel
tools: The tool, near the cutting edge.
is to be dipped in petroleum, which must
be rubbed off clean and the surface then
wiped with chalk. The petroleum, which
has entered the fine cracks, sweats out
on the chalk, and the rent is visible in
its whole extent.
In opening Great Marylebone street,
London, to lay electric cables, worklnen
came across several elm-tree water pipes
i'll fine state of preservation, although
face. These tree trunks bored through
We're over 200 years old and must have
been part of an old water conduit. The
pipes were blocked with silt, but other
wise were quite disable.
"A dispatch from Cairo to the Lon
don press says that Lord Kitchener in
tends some time between September
and 10. when the railway will be COM
pleted by Khartoum, to throw open the
Soudan to traders and others without re-
striction. Foreign goods will enter free
OF duty, but subject to small! registra-
ton fee to be levied ut Wady Halfu.
In Bath, England, there is a dentists
assistant who has mania for tooth ex-
traction: He goes along the streets, and
on meeting little boy alone tells him to
open his mouth and shut his eyes"
When the request is complied with, and
before the unsuspecting Juvenile is aware
OF what IS going on, a pair Of forceps
is introduced between the open jaws and
out comes Il molar.
Girls who attend some of the wom-
ems colleges i'll England are wailing be-
cause they don't have enough to eat and
they don't like what they do have. The
parents are adding their voices to the la
ment. because their daughters are driven
by hunger to buy food outside the col
lege. the bills for this extra diet being an
additional charge on the parental purse
already taxed with high enough fees.
-portugars iron-ore deposits are at
tracing attention, and improved trans
portation facilities alone are needed to
insure their immediate development.
Red and brown hematite deposits occur
at Cuba, in South Alemtejo, and on the
bank of the ZeZere, in New A!emtejo,
there is bed of brown hematite yield
ing 5o to IS per cent. of iron, 8 to 5
per cent of phosphorus and no sulphur.
A Cleveland lady who opposes the
general practice of kissing, on the ground
that it is dangerous to public health, is
indignant. because she says she has been
misquoted in the newspapers. They
say she declares, that l never let
anyone kiss me. and that l should not
let anyone if he tried. l did not say
had never been kissed,' and, she naively
added, because there was no occasion
for such a remark
The Cologne Gazette announces that
the German governor of kiaO-Chou in
tends to try to raise il body of native
troops. At first only company of 100
men will be enrolled. and if this proves a
a battalion. The success which German
instructors have already had in training
the Chinese in very unfavorabl bic circum-
stances leads to the belief that they will
not fail on this occasion.
The new wolf scalp bounty law of
Kansas is giving the clerks of the vari-
Gus counties considerable trouble on ac-
count Of its ambiguity. The new law Of
fers bounty of 81 for all wolf scalps,
scalps are worth IS each The county
clerks don't know what the ''lobo' is,
and have been unable to obtain any in
formation that will enable them to dis
tinguish them from the ordinary wolf.
Cows south of the Ohio river will not
average above three pounds and fourteen
ounces of butter to the 100 pounds of
milk. The COWS of Texas only show II
per cent. of solids in their milk. Cows
through Indiana and the strip running
east and west will produce milk that
runs four and one-half pounds. Cows in
Minnesota and Manitoba will produce
milk that will pivn -J
five ounces of butter to the 100 pounds.
The actual area of Greater New
York is stated by the board of improve
ment to be as follows: Manhattan bor-
ough, or Manhattan island, 13,4S7 acres:
borough of the Bronx, OF annexed dis
trict, 1920 acres; borough of Richmond.
or Staten island, $4,000 acres; borough of
B Brookiyn3 20 ! 1903 5'ot acres; borough Of
area of Greater New York is o 30 so !u,r.
miles, with an estimated population of
3,2OO,OOO.
The Japanese have adopted a new
code of laws, which is formed so much
in accordance with Western ideas that
Europeans and Americans have no rea-
SOnable excuses for refusing to submit
to Japanese courts. French and German
ton to the English and American sys-
tenn was that, as it is not codited, uni
formity in the administration of justice is
impossible, hence the skill of the lawyer
aqd the caprice of judge have often
more to do with the shaping the verdict
than the terms of the N.
TN a home in the country not far
from town." says the Cattlettsburg, Ky,
Independent, there may be seen quite
pile of sewing lying on the floor, nearly
in the middle Of the room, that has been
undisturbed for more than six months.
At that time the head of the house want
ed a cha ir, and seeing but one handy, he
dumped 10 the floor the sewing which lay
upon it. His wife asked him to pick it
up. He said he wouldn't do it. She told
him as he threw it there it could remain
until he got ready to pick it up She
would never touch it, And there it re-
mains, a memorial to an incompatibility
of disposition"