The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-06-02
Publisher.
NOTES OF INTEREST.

crease cf $l5.aO5, 900 in it's gold reserves
during the last week of April.
Some naturatists believe that hares
never drink, hut get enough liquid fol
their needs IN the dew on the grass they
cat.
The wise man turns up his sleeves
and goes to work while the fool sits
around and waits for work to come t,
him.
-MeNican school children are allowed
to smoke during lesson time, provided
they have attained Il certain standard of
eNcellency.
FARMERS in Scotland are unanimous
that such a backward season as the pres.
rnt has not been experienced for ut least
twenty years.
In France. il a person dies leaving
lnsuttcient money to pay his debts, the
doctors bill is settled first and then the
rest of the liabilities are dealt with.
In the last three months the fire IN.
s"rancr companies of New York have
patti IN LOSSES two and IL half times as
much as they have taken in in premi.
inns.
Japan is Il very small country. hayinp
an area Of less than 100000 square miles
but 1t has, according to latest accounts
-'.M" elementary schools and $500, 600
pupils.
Joseph Pierce. who lives on a farm
near Finraville, o., and is rs wears ola
is the father of thirty five children. Mi
living. \ family reunion will be held
this summer.
The latest book on volcanoes. nv
l'r"I. R"nncy of London, declares frank.
~ that it is left for the coming century
10 explain the causes and significance at
volcanic action
=" ,Sconsln; Minnesota, North Dakota
and California were the four stateS
which by the federal census of 1890 had
larger foreign born than native-borb
maze population of voting age
Many animals in desert regions never
nave any water except the dew on veg.,-
tatlnn. parrot in the London Zoo is
hu""n to have lived tifty-two years with
out drinking drop of water
The German Association Against tho
Misuse of Spiritnous Drinks has issued
Il CIRCULAR t" the students of Germany
asking that the rompulSion in the corps
anu ''re'nS to drink beer be done away
with. ''
The curious fact that corn. potatoes
and other plants thrive better whom
placed III rows running north and south
mas now been proved. Planted thus.
they obtain more uniform and regular
light. 7''"'
mere are 1900 persons upon the Ger
man Emperors list of employees. incInd.
'n@ ooo women servants. who are on
gagged III looking after the TWENTY-FIVE
royal palaces and castles that belong ia
the crown. ~
An the fifty lncorporators of the Mis-.
S'S>lppl Gotten Manufacturing company.
Just chartered and capitalized Mt So3G
wv are negroes. and styled the best
known and most substantial men of tho;,
ace Ill the state.
-l'nring 1898 the Argentine repuh,;c
Imported goods worth 1O7, 42S. 900 and av-
ported goods worth 1888, S2O,OOO. Most
OF ITS imports were from Great Rrito;n
Italy was second. Germany third and tho
nted states fourth ''1e
During March this country cxporte,
Inlrty locomotives, against sixty-eirht in
March. 1888. During the nine mnnth1
ending in March, 372 locomotives wer..
exported, against 33:57 in the same months
Il year ago and 27O in 1897.
All ofhclal Of the British Museum d.
cares that Its chronological collections mr.,
no, more tnan one-Seventh the extent an,;
value OF those in the chronological mn
scum IN Berlin, the most complete instr
tuition of its kind in the world.
The Baroness Burtlett- Coutts has
!''>t ctl'or1ted the eightyfonrth ami
'rr>ary of her birth. Her fortune th;r
Ten tons OF English sovereiyns 81 S0O
"''' ramc to her quite uncxnectedly
when ~ Years of age, from her rr,n,i
father, C"utts the banker.
1t mas been resolved by the Florida
Legislature that the action of tho ,.aa
ttpar'mrnt i'll sending Il negro paymastar
~" pay 'ne troops stationed in jackson
,:'I many months ago, was against tho
",I"sS OF the white people of this state >
Sary'' UNJUST anu uhneces-
The number OF inspections of cott,o
Tor tuberculosis made during tho raar
'NN IN Pennsylvania was IL l37-26o IN
nerds not known to be infected and o+
the expense Of the owners, and 10 III a.
1he expense of the commonwealth. As a
result Of the latter 1913 animals liz o nor :"
cent? were found tuberculous and v o.,
condemned. "eie
4 new industry is springing nm IN
northern Mexico-sinking wells for ~ so IL
water TO manufacture salt for m;n;na
ana domestic purposes. One ComnnnS
mas secured 10000 acres of saIt-wata,
territory at Camaron 100 miles soutb ~
i'arc'lo, and have struck water contain.
ing IL per cent. salt, worth from I tn 2
cents pound.
luther, EIherr can be no doubt that the most
"plielnS postmaster i'll the state of Mis-
souri, lives at Bethel He recently mt ),
''ltpnone IN his office and announced tn It
lor INT beneht of those out-of- town na.
'r"llS who are connected br wire ana
WI" may desire it he will open their I int'
ttrS and Will read the contents to Them
over the phone ~ 'nein
in Holland among the Quaint old
t T mat line the dykes Of the Zuyder
nee II Is the custom when the stork hn .
pad Il visit to a fortunate household to
announce the fact by hanging outside tho
door tiny silken pincushion. 4 hlack
one Lndichtes that the new arrival is -
roy and white one tells the neigh bors
that it is a girl.
Perhaps the oldest suite of furniture
IN the world is owned by Joseph Berger.
hotclkceper at BudaDest For mon,.
years he has made it his business to cni-
lc"t match boxes from factories of w.
rlolls countries. His collection apprepatas
1000 boxes. He ordered a skillet coh;n,
ctmaker to equip room with furniture
made of these boxes.
Two hundred men have refused Z,
work at cleaning Brooklyn streets be,
cause they lid not wish to wear the
hired under the new system. and ali nf
them are Americans. They say they will
not clean the streets until the I,eris,o'
turc changes the law that comDels Them
t" wear the white wings. ''Wc arn
men, they say, mot monkeys"
LOCKOUT inn, ON the famous mountain
near >Chattanooga, Tenn, has been sold
to the National Order of Railway Con.
!inctors. The order has bought the inn.
1t IS learned, for home and school. a
portion Of the immense place will he
used rs a sanitarium for disabled and
aged members Of the organization. This
IS ono Of the handsomest hotels in. the
south. and the cost of it's construction
was $3OO,OUO or S35O,OOO.
The agitation against the excessive
use Of liquor. which already has made
such Roadway in France and Belgium, is
extending throughout western Europe
This work in AlsaceLorraine is carried
on under the auspices Of the Blue Cross
league, which devotes it's attention both
t" relieving misery caused by alcoholic
indulgence and-as it's principal activity
to preventive work among the working
men.
The great telescope which will no
seen at the Paris exposition is intended
to sl!rpasS the most wonderful instrument
of this kind ever before constructed. #
is TO be the longest one ever made on6