The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-19
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The Gordon Highlanders ut Edin.
bnrgh on April 8 appeared for the first
time in Draw Highland feather bonnets.
The regiment has been so much abroad
since 1881, when the old Seventy-tif
was merged into the Gordon Highland
ers. that the tropical helmet had been
their regular wear.
AT grange meeting held lately down
in Maine one of the sisters. in spicy
come Of the Farm Is Due to the Wife,
claimed that there should be two pocket
hooks instead Of one. and that One-halt
the income above actual expenses should
belong to the wife.
The hair OH the heads of most of the
hundreds of thousands Of dolls now being
exhibited in shop windows is made from
the hair of the Angora goat. This prod
uct is controlled by an English syndicate
and is valued ut 100000 year. After
the hair is prepared it is sent to Munich
and made into wigs by girls. .
The American Beauty rose originat-
ed in the conservatories of the white
house. The first of the species was a
freak flower, and the intelligent gardener
saw that he had Find" and cultivated
the plant, with the result that the Ameri-
can Beauty rose is today one of the most
popular flowers in the market.
The race question cropped out in the
international Sunday School convention
at Atlanta the other day. Georgia laws
say cOlored people shall sit apart from
whites in all public gatherings. The
police called Chairman Gamblers atten>
ton to this, but aftcrward decided to let
the delegates sit as they wished.
Railway whistles intlict torture on so
many people that the efforts abroad to
check the plague will soon be followed
with interest. Austria has introduced a
system of dumb signaling to start and
stop the trains. Belgium is trying COM
and Germany experiments with horns.
A firm of English tea merchants Of
fers to every married woman who buys
u pound Of it's 5O-cent tea for five con-
secutive weeks pension of $3.50 a week
III case of the death of her husband, pro-
vided he was in good health when she
began to buy the tea. The pension is to
continue as long as she remains Il widow.
There are now about twenty wells
in the lola district, Kansas, varying in
depth from S12 to 937 feet, giving a
daily flow of from 100000 to 14,OOO,-
600 cubic feet and pressure varying
from 80 to $50 pounds. Several ex-
pcrts have pronounced one of the wells
Mt lola the best in the world. 1t is per-
fectly dry.
The illiteracy of new recruits for the
English army is commented upon in the
report just published in London. Only
forty one in 1000 are we'll educated, and
eighteen are utterly illiterate. Thirty.
five per cent. of the applicants are re-
jected for physical disability, and this
proportion is said to show slight I'M
provement over former reports.
The workmen's insurance laws have
had Il very good effect in German cities
ilr diminishing tuberculosis by compelling
the wage-earning classes to join sick
clubs. and thereby putting them in the
way of taking better care of their health.
and providing them with medical attend
ance and nursing at an early stage when
tuberculosis is not yet incurable.
The Soudan is being rapidly covered
with a network of telegraphs. 1t is ex-
pected that the telegraph will be 1000
the year. This means the practical join
ing up with Uganda, and as Mr.. Rhodes
telegraph is approaching Tanganyika,
the tranScontinental telegraph may be
expected to he finished early next year.
1t has been discovered that the clay
VI which our common red bricks are
made contains gold; about % cents
worth to every ton of bricks. An in
,enious person has calculated that, as
here are at least 100000 tons of bricks
II London, there must be at least ST.
$4,000 worth of the precious metal
ocked up in the walls of that metropolis
,lone.
Kansas can add to the surgical rec
,rds another instance of a person who
las recovered after being shot through
he brain. Three months ago Miss Mat
lie Stone of Crawford county fired a
,)nllet into her head with suicidal in
-ent. Last week the surgeons lifted her
;kull and removed the bullet, which had
passed through one lobe of the brain.
She will recover.
The Shah of Persia is reported to
have signed ON March /, concession to
Il Russian mining company covering the
whole province of Ozerbaijan, the most
province of Persia, having an
urea of 10000 square miles. The con-
cession is for seventy years. The prov
ince contains rich copper deposits, and
the company will exploit the tract for
metals and gems.
oncerned at the waste of money on the
UBIQUITOUS piano. There arc, he assumes,
$1,000 900 people in Great Britain,
housed in some 100000 homes, of
which latter one at least in seven con-
tains a piano. Taking the average cost
Ut 500, this means $1OO, 900, 600, and al
lowing ten years life-rather low esti-
mate, surely. for even 500 instrument
we get yearly expenditure of $1O,-
100000.
The consumption of quininc by Amer
can soldiers suffering from one South
'rn fever or another during the past year
is said to exceed 125.OOOOOO grains.
In some instances men in the hospitals
# Cuba and Porto Rico were dosed reg
,larly with 800 grains week, and there
was hardly a man in the field who did
rot take the drug at one time or another.
Fully one-third of the entire quinine sup
My Of the world is consumed in the
United States.
The first thing to be said about lead
pencils is that they are not lead pencils
ut all. Once upon time sticks of lead
were used for making marks on paper
and wood, and the name has survived.
though nowadays all the pencils are
filed with graphite or plumbago. This
mineral is found in only a few places in
the world-in Cumberland, England:
along the Laurentian ranges, in the prov
ince of Quebec. and at Ticonderoga, VT
The largest mines on this continent are
Man May RightfuIly Beat His Wife.
There is Il judge in St. Louis who i'll
clines to the old common-law opinion
that a man on occasion may rightfully
beat his wife, provided he does it with
due moderation. The story is, that be-
fore this magistrate, Judge Peabody
there was brought on April 5, Barnard
kretzer, charged with slapping his wife's
face because she had contradicted an Or
der he gave to one Of their children. In
passing Judgment the Judge said:
In this case the wife was more guilty than
the husband for trying to contradict and
thwart her husbands will in the presence
Vt the children and setting them bad ex-
ample, which he had right to rebuke.
There are times when a wife irritates her
husband to such an extent that he cannot
control himself and uses his hand or fist.
AS long as no serious harm Is done, l don't
believe In punishment.
1t is possible that the magistrates de-
cision in this case may have been prac
tically wise, whatever may be thought
Of the reasoning that led up to it. 1t
would be interesting to know what the
judges attitude would have been if the
boot had been on the other foot and
the beating had been administered by
the wife to the husband. Whatever may
be the condition of the statute law in
the matter in various parts Of the Union,
public opinion no longer consents to the