The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
NOTES OF INTEREST.

In battle only one bullet out of eigh-
ty-hve takes effect.
The number of penniless men in the
klondike is placed at 5000.
-Covent Garden, London, has been in
the possession of the Bedford family for
800 years.
--For nervous disorders it is now found
that the finest cure is the simple one Of
lying in bed.
Boston banks paid out $4,000, 900 in
dividends on July l. New York banks
are said to have paid ten times that.
The Baroness Burdette- Coutts is said
come is set down as being close upon
$4,000 a day.
A new canning machine will be re-
sponsibie for an increase in the Maine
sardine industry from 100000 cans to
over 100000.
-Nirile nations like the United States
and England use ten times as much su-
gar per capita as do weaker nations such
as Turkey, Italy and Greece.
The average speed of a carrier pigeon
in calm weather is 1900 yards minute
With Il strong wind in the direction of
flight some pigeons have covered 1900
yards minute.
One Of the daughters Of Senator
Clark of Montana has a large collection
of the car!catures of her father, pub
li>hed during his recent political contest
for Il senatorial seat.
--Iynace raderewSkl has postponed his
arrival here until December, so that he
may give his personal direction to the re-
hearsalS Of his first opera, which will be
sung at Dresden in November.
Raphael JoSeffy will make tour Of
the principal cities Of the United States,
beginning in the early part of Novem-
her, appearing in recitals only. He will
limit the number of appearances to fifty.
The peso, Il silver coin. is the none
tary unit i'll Central America and Co.
lnmha. where it is worth II cents. The
peso Of Argentine is worth Ml2. the peso
# Cuba 92l:, cents. and the gold peso of
Uruguay $1.0S.
bacillus proof house. The supply of air
is first forced through Il pipe, it is then
filtered through cotton wool. and, last
ly. is driven against Il sheet of plate glass
coated with glycerine. This is supposed
to catch all the bacteria which have not
built entirely of glass, that the heat of
the sun may kill any stray microbes that
have entered by chance.
Paris most fashionable society no
longer uses envelopes, but has reverted
to the old fashion of folding up the sheet
NJ paper and closing it with sealing wax
UT WATERS All sorts of delicate colors
are employed for the waters. the favor
ties being faint heliotrope. sky blue dull
gray, fawn cream and robins egg blue:
dark green or red is in bad taste
A pair OF iron StirrupS were sold for
Sl3,''m ut the Formau sale in London
They We're made for Matthias Corvinue
King Of Hungary. and are partly plated
with silver. parcel gilt and chased, each
IF the outer sides having an exquisite
border of translucent cloSonnc enamel on
gold, III: inches high and + inches wide
The work is italian, of the end of the
Fifteenth or the beginning of the Six
tetnth century.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby band of forty Creek Indians
will be sent to Paris in 1900 to give ex-
h'hitnnS Of tn" game of ''toli'-a sport
which combines the principles of golf
ana shiny. with the brutality of foot
bali. Only about twenty Indians are re-
urired to play the games, but as about
fifty exhibitions are to be given it will
he necessary t" have score of substi-
tnteS to take the places of those who may
be injured.