The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-05

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Strung along the ROOF of the Boston
subway IN three rows are about fifteen
hundred incandescent lamps, while near
ly one hundred and seventy-6ve arc
lamps illumine the five stations, making
them us bright rs day.
The Walnut Street Baptist church Of
Louisville, Ky, has adopted resolutions
practically dismissing from the congrega-
ton all members who have any connec-
ton whatever with the manufacture or
sale of intoxicating liquors.
With Il population Of $500, 900, Lon
don harhors every day 10000 strangers.
Some may remain Il week, some a month,
but all the year around there is an aver
age of 100000 visitors who are within
the metropolitan boundaries.
All the newspapers of San Francisco
have refused to obey the new law, which
requires that signatures OF the writer's
be attached to all articles containing crit
icisms of living men or dead which bring
| rhem into discredit or shame.
The Sons of the Revolution have det-
icated tablet in Kings Chapel buryimg
ground, Boston, over the grave of VIII
liam Davis. who assisted Paul Revere in
alarming the minute men OF Massachu-
sets OH the night of April 1919, 1875.
Only 1900 pictures have been accept
ed for this years Paris salon, the aver
age for years past having been over
2OOO. The paintings sent in by artists
who are hOrS cOncOurS and not subject
to examination bring the number up to
1924.
A granite boulder weighing thirty
FIVE tons, uuarried near Lewiston, n. Y,
ter, near Buffalo, i'll honor of the officers
and privates of the Thirteenth regiment,
United States infantry. was unveiled on
April 10.
1t is alleged that the death penalty
is rarely enforced in Germany, Austria,
Denmark or Sweden. In New York
eleven out Of twelve murderers escape
without any punishment, and in the
United States only one murderer in fifty
suffers capital punishment.
The Jahrbuch of the Prussian Kunst-
samlunsen INK, - contains extracts
from the Milan "Codex Atlanticus,'
which indicate that the famous painter
Leonardo da Einci limited plainly ut the
possibility of propelling vessels on the
water by means of steam.
1T is estimated that England's stock
of coal will last POO years longer, and
North Americas 600 years, It is not
likely, however. that these supplies will
ever be needed, as it is probable that be-
fore many decades have passed power
will be gained in other ways.
Next to seamen of the United States
British seamen get higher wages and
better fare and more comfortable condi-
tons of employment than do seamen of
that alien seamen, as a rule, have lik-
ing for service on British ships.
1t is probable that the French gov
eminent will purchase the home of the
late Baroness Hirsch in the Rue de
IElysee, Paris, to use as a residence for
the guests of the nation during the Expo
sition. The house, with $2,OOO,OOO, was
left to the elder of her adopted sons.
The statistics of the Evangelical
that in comparison with the established
church they provide 100000 sittings
against 6SOO,OOO The number of com
municants reported by each is Il little
less than 100000, the free churches
being slightly in advance.
Six of the thirty-four state senators of
Missouri are over & feet tall. THE big
four" as they are known, are Charles
schweichardt,, + feet 21A inches, 210
inches, 21O pounds; E. 3. Fields, feet
= inches, 225 pounds, aud J. NJ Rollins,
feet 3A inches, 245 pounds.
The origin OF The Sign Of the
Cross" was, oddly enough, lecture by
Col. Ingersoll, which he delivered in st.
Louis while Wilson Barrett was playing
there. The latter conceived the idea of
writing play which would show the
beauties of the Christian religion as In
gersoll saw in it only subject of ridicule
The Spanish reporter of the Times of
Cuba notes the following distressing ac-
cident: Severe Fall-Finding himself
working on a big piece of timber. Don
Pablo Prieto, on the Regime wharf. he
suddenly fell, damaging himself consid-
erably. He had been standing Oh the
end En- !, of the timber which he was saving
g The month of March has been re-
markable in Scotland for low tempera-
ture. In Edinburgh, which may be tax
en- as typical of the rest of the country,
the mean temperature for the third week
in March was 1926 degrees Fahrenheit.
and the varying climate of the British
isles may be judged when it is mentioned
that the mean temperature of the pre-
viOuS week was 1919.
In the course OF lecture delivered
before the Twentieth Century club Of
Boston the other evening Prof. Patrick
ieddeS of the Edinburgh university said
that he looked forward to IL system of
furnishing sea water for houses in mari
time cities. with an abundant supply of
the brine flowing in the cutters on either
side of the streets to keep the air fresh
and the dust subdued.
The undergraduates of Jefferson
Medical college, in Philadelphia have
started a monthly magazine, the aim of
which will be to keep the college in
touch with it's former students and to
cultivate a literary taste among the ex-
listing classes. The first number con-
tains an excellent description of the new
buildings added to the old ones, articles
on collegiate life, the societies, etc.
-Ruskin's early home at Herne Hill,
England, was sold at auction a few
weeks ago, but it is believed that the
actual building will not be touched for
some time to come. In that pretty town
many of the fine old houses, with gar
dens full of beautiful trees and velvety
lawns, are being supplanted by rows Of
modern villa homes. There are still
standing. however, some fine historic
houses.
While fishing off Carlingford Tough,
on the Irish coast, the trawler Bourne
mouth of Milford Haven dredged up in
the net a bundle of papers. sealed and
tied with red tape, and perfectly intact
The skipper brought them to port and
handed them to a gentleman, who found
that they purported to be will In favor
Of Miss Mary Macdonald. and that
they had reference to estates in Ireland
valued at $1,000.
The Sin of Fretting.
There is one sin which seems to me is