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

is less than S4OO each per year, and the
incomes of nearly 50 per cent. Of the en-,
tire number are less than $1,000 each per
year.
SO far as is known the fiag Of tho
Transvaal. the South African Republic,
does not fly over any vessel, no matter
how small, and that country, with the
Grange Free State is entirely without a.
navy. 4 I 2 IS. u ]
The hair of rabbits and other animals
in Russia is converted into bowls, dishes
and plates, which are valued for their
strength. durability and lightness. The
articles have the appearance Of vanished
leather.
-Jewelers say that Turquoise will be
the fashionable precious stone this win
ter, and everything that is made up in
from one to 4 dozen of the pretty blue
stones worked into it somehow.
-For many years scientists have
known Of the existence of faint COM
paniOn to the North star, So close aud
faint is this companion that owners Of
small telescopes have often used it to test
the power of their eyes and Instruments.
Several soda lakes have been found
in the foothills near Ashcroft, British
Columbia. Their bottoms and shores are
incruSted with u natural washing conn
pound containing horaX and soda quite
| equal to the washing powders in common
use.
An Italian sculptor has designed a
sculpturing machine for duplicating stat
nary carvings. in which several pieces of
rough marble are set in pivots in frame,
and the carving tools are all operated by
the artist as he works Oh one of the
pieces.
There will be no parliament of re-
ligion at the Paris exposition, but instead
a congress for the scientific study of re-
hgion. 1t will treat religion purely from
a social and historic point of view. They
will not talk religion, but will talk
about it.
According to DR.. Schjerning, there
were only $50 cases of tuberculosis last
year in a force of 514,S30 men. The
number of deaths from this disease in
the army has been gradually decreasing
from 40 per 1000 in 1892 to 81 per
1000 in 1897.
The pension agency at Knoxville,
Tenn, has upon it's rolls the name of the
widow Of one soldier of the Revolution,
and while there are no names of soldiers
who served in the War of 1912, there
are the names of the widows of more
than 400 of them.
The manufacture of lamps has in
creased to wonderful degree. There
are today exclusive large lamp stores in
almost every city of any size, and the
manufacture and proper use of chimneyS
has developed into science which few
persons understand.
A singularly inconsolable husband ap-
peared in Il London police court the other
day. The charge was drunkenness, and
the prisoners excuse was that he lost his
wife at the tune of the Princess Alice
disaster, more than twenty years ago.
He was discharged.
f),.> f,S<. nf tIs,
wood across the grain. or of cutting it
with the grain at such an angle that
it will split almost lengthwise when fric-
ton is applied, it is asserted that the
match trust is adding to its profits by
enormous yearly sums.
There are nearly 500 water-power
electric plants in the United States, rep
| resenting an investment of over $50, OOO,-
900; horse power represented by water
wheel. 100000. There are 600 miles Of
street railway operated with Water-1Ower
electrically transmitted.
H. NJ. S. Flexible, which was COM
pleted in 1880. was among the first Brit
,sh warships with internal electric light
ing. but in those days there were no in.
candeScent lights, so that arc lamps had
to be used. Electricity has been used
too for working the guns.
-Cooperage woods have advanced ~
per cent, largely caused by the enormous
demand from the whisky combine En-
perimenters are trying to make cloth and
soap out Of wood pulp. Saw dust and
| wood waste have almost as great value
us the clean plank ten years ago.
There is a special class of farm la
bOrers in Sweden who are given so many
acres of land for their own use. in CON
Sideration of so many days labor during
the year for the owner of the farm
They are sort Of IL fixture to an estate.
and their like exists in no other country.