The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-02-10
Curious Combinations.

1t takes crocodile eighty seconds to
turn completely round.
The Welsh coal dispute cost the Mar
uuis OF Butte nearly $15O,OOO.
-Ion,lon has forty restaurants in
which only vegetable food is served.
The swallow has larger mouth, in
proportion to it's size, than any other
bird.
The original regiment of Dragons is
said to have been organized in England
in 1851.
"A "conjuress" in India says she can
change from woman to man and back
again at will.
AT the beginning of 1899 there We're
1000 fewer licensed saloons in Chicago
than IN January, 1888.
1t is stated that about one in eighteen
of the population of Paris live on'charity,
with tendency toward crime.
The capitol ut Hartford. Conn, is to
be closed at night hereafter in order to
prevent the clerks from using the offices
us bsd-ehamberS.
The Straits Of Gibraltar measure
twelve miles across; modern guns, with
which the rock is beautifully supplied, are
effective ut fifteen miles distance.
Since 1851 there have been manufac-
turel in the Saginaw river district, in
Michigan 23 o47 .521 OPP feet of lumber
This district is only eighteen miles long.
Mr.. JamSetsii Tata has offered the
Indian government S1,2aO,OtN for the eS-
Establishment in India Of Il university for
research on the model of Johns Hopkins.
Fir will grow at as great an altitude
rs 600 feet above sea level. yellow pine
ut G2O0 feet, ash ut 1900 feet and oak at
$3.50 feet. The vine ceases to grow at
about 1900 feet.
cnor>, 900 nisr iron
fetched $50 Il ton. 1t sells now for So
aud $40 Il ton. In six years the produc-
ton has Increased from 162oO, 900 to %,
NN.nU0 tons Il year.
AT ChriStiania. United States Sena-
tor Knute Nelson Of Minnesota, the
American commissioner to the Bergen ex-
hihitinn, and 0. \. Thorp of Chicago
have heen gazetted Knights of st. Olaf.
In Maine there are seventeen spool
that state annually supply the material
for :Mo.0WMW Spool$, on which are sub
>suuently wound about $4,000, OOO, 200
yards of thread.
Victoria, Il lioness in Sanger's circus,
near London. has given birth to six cubs
This is believed to be the largest num-
Der born ut one time in captivity. The
cubs have been named after Queen Vic
t"ria children.
A st. Louis grand jury reports thai
- per cent. of all crimes are committed
by lntnNicated persons. and that most
of the hurglares and robberies are com
mitte'l by boys and young men between
the ages Of l. and 25.
About 200 tons Of the ballast which
Capt Anderson had in the hold of his
bark Austria, British vessel which
reached Boston from Manila. were rock
from the Notifications of Cavite that
We're destroyed by Dewey.
A pension of 5000 year. granted tc
he Earl of Surrey in 1913 for his vic.
tory over the Scots at FlOd,len Field and
drawn regularly by the Howard family
ever since. has just been compounded by
the l'nk" Of Norfolk the Earl's repre-
sentative. for $1,000 in cash.
In the crop of a duck dressed at the
house of W. T. Dockhorn of Oskaloosa,
HAS was found a good-sized lump of
gold. Any mining excitement which
might have resulted was allaycd by the
subsequent discovery that the nugget
W:i> he artificial crown of tooth.
Powder costs from ii to e. a ton in
Northumberland. England That's what
tn" manufacturers get. The laborerS
who mine and make it are goin; to es-
tahli>h . mill and try to sell the stuff
:" Tho whole world ut Il smaller figure,
Perhaps it will he as cheap then to shoot
us to eat game.
Elena SAM, the Spanish contralto,
VINO sang for many years at the Paris
Grand so.,era; died recently at Nice III
the age OF rs years. Her retirement
from the stage was said at the time to
have been due TO the attachment that
the late King Alfonso XII. of Spain
showed for her.
The Royal Society of Physicians, at
budapest. has had debate lasting sever
al hours 20 decide whether women doc
tors should Or should not be admitted to
membership of the society. \ resolution
WAS finally voted to revise the statutes of
the society so as to allow of their adj
mission. Ninety-one members voted for
and IL against.