The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-12

Tuesday with the Persians, Wetlnesday
with the Assyrians, Thursday with thu
Egyptians, Friday with the Turks and
Saturday with the Hebrews.
One Of the effects of the severe
weather in Northern Illinois was to Kill
a good deal OF the clover. Wheat. which
4 month ago was thought to be in sout
condition. is found to be worthless. RI,
acreage Of corn will be larger, becacs,
wheat and clover must be plowed up.
.-Waves travel faster than the wind
which causes them, and in the Bay of
Biscay frequently during the autumn and
winter III calm weather a heavy sea gets
up and rolls in on the coast twenty-four
hours before the gale which causes it ar
rives, and of which it is the prelude.
The gross expenses Of the state OF
New 1vrk in the year ~ 1922 ~, viz H. it is
which nearly 10 per cent. viii be neces.
sary to pay the deficits Of departments
which exceeded in 1898 or in previous
ears the appropriations made for them
Beer tahloids are about to be put on
the market by Il German firm 1t is as
serted by the makers that small tab
let dropped into glass of water will
turn it into beer as fresh as if Just
drawn. The next thing in order is to in
vent tabloid wherewith to make the
glass of water.
A map 1877 feet high and 2225 feet
Ions, showing the railway system of the
United States, will form n remarka BILE
feature ut the Paris 1900 exposition.
Each line will be marked out by electric
lights, and from time to time moving
electric lights will show the position of
express trains.
ESTIMATED expenditure for the Brit
tSh navy during the coming year is, in
American values, $lS2, $4,000: Our own
Congress appropriated for similar pur-
poses this spring $56, O9S, 1913. Ten wears
ago, IN 1880, Great Britain spent only
HE'21OUO on its navy and the United
States $21,37S,SO9.
.-Frank Griffen, editor of the Mary
vile tNlo.) Daily Review, was shot dead
recently by man whom he had at
tackled IN his paper. He had three daugh-
ters, all of them under 20, and since his
death they have taken charge of the pa
per, writing, editing, typesettiny and
printing it themselves
"A generation ago there were only two
colleges i'll the United States drawing in
terest on funds reaching $1,OOOOOO.
Harvard's interest bearing funds last
year We're $S.9G3, O53; Yale's, $4,000. 600:
Columbia's, $1,000, 600; Cornell's. $G,44G,
SIS; Girard's, $15,O4S,14G, and Leland
Stanford, Jr.'s, $3,50O,O0O.
Samuel Tarwater, who died at his
home in Ray county, Mo-, Il few days
ago, aged 81, had long enjoyed the dis
tlnctl0n, owing to Il serious wound re-
ccived in the Mormon war, Of being Mis-
Sourls only state pensioner. He had
been married five times, and was the
father of seventeen children.
The British soldier is the best-fed in
dividual of his class in Europe. He re-
ceives for his daily rations Is ounces of
bread, II ounces of meat, ounces of
rice. 8 ounces Of dried vegetables. 1G
ounces of potatoes, and once week he
receives ? ounces Of salt. ounces of
coffee and 8 ounces of sugar
North Kerr W est who has just died
at Franklin, n. Y, at the age of 81
years. was one of John Browns lieu
tenants in the fight at Ossawatomie. He
came into prominence by obtaining some
of the type stolen from the office of the
Lawrence tKas.) Journal and melting it
into bullets for Browns forces.
Honolulu has one theater. q ram
shackle building, in which various crude
performances are given by natives. Once
in Il long while a dra matic company
makes the trip from San Francisco, the
latest doing so last summer without ne
cuniary profit. Single entertainers stop
there Oh the way to Australia.
Statistics gathered regarding the bu-
bonic plague in India show that since
the beginning of the last outbreak at
Bombay 100000 deaths have been re-
corded. This number, however, is be-
lieved to be much below the actual total.
because the natives are known to have
concealed deaths from the disease.
AT recent election in Hays City.
Kan, ticket composed Of boys was run
against the old men, and the boys won.
Fred Haffamier. the mayor, is barely q.
and only one Of the councilmen is older
than %. Haffamier was born on the
town site. Two of the councilmcn were
privates in the Twenty-6rst Kansas.
The Kentucky law under which so
many negroes in the last twenty years
have been sold on the block for term of
years in punishment for vagrancy has
been at last declared unconstitutional.
The decision was made by Judge Scott,
at Richmond, Ky, In the case of Ben
Burton, colored. charged with vagrancy.
The 10000 Indians, Cherokees
Creeks and Delawares. who have volun-
arily gone from Oklahoma to Mexico
to establish reservation, declare they
are actuated by desire to get as far
away as possible from the white mans
civilization. They have about 1925. 900,
and expect further additions after they
have organized their settlement.