The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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AS many as 1000 dates have been
gathered from single palm.
Three out Of every 125 English
speaking people have red hair.
The typhoid bacillus. frozen in ice.
has been found alive litter 1o2 days.
There is no duty of any kind upon
sugar or its products in the United King
dom.
"A San Francisco lady Possesses a
unique collection of 24O books ON cti-
uuettr.
The wood-pulp mills in Maine have
been seriously crippled by the long
drouth
.-Atcording to an eminent scientist,
the alkall III asparagus develops form in
the human brain.
The old Second church" in Boston
celebrated it's two hundred and tifteth
anniversary recently.
An lola, kas, mans method of per-
suadiug his wife to stay away from a
dance was to attempt suicide.
st. Johns guild women in New York
have collected over $4,000 for floating
hospitals for women and babies.
The Catholic Missionary union ex-
Ponds $500 Il year for the support of
Catholic missionaries in the South
The length of the worlds railways is
more than seventeen times the circum-
ference of the earth at the equator
.,-Rritain gains f2i6l0O a year from
the little tax which falls ON patent me,li-
clneS, pills. liver cures and ointments.
BY recent report there are about
4uo tlnplate mills in operation in Wales,
with an annual capacity of t65, 900 tons.
1t Is well-known fact that no SOON
er does Il mouse trap or Il cat enter a
house than it is followed by :; troop of
mice
The campaign in the Philippines de-
yelopet lot of orators in the Twentieth
Kansas who are lecturing in their home
towns.
Sleeping with the hair pinned M
tightly is not only bad for the circulation,
but 1t is said to prevent the hair from
growing.
The British soldiers dress was not
always red. 1t was white in the reign
OF Henry VIII. and dark green in the
time of Elizabeth.
burning soft coal without smoke is
said to be an easy chemical problem,
but manufacturers have not yet salts
factorily solved it,
Several of the native papers in Bonn
bay are now urging their readers to re-
sort to incubation as Il precauton
against the plague.
The non-Sectarian Protestant Order
OF st. christopher was reorganized at
College Point. y. u. recently for Chris
tian work in prisons.
Bottles of perfume. still fresh, Jars
of pomade that had not lost it's fra
GRANGE. have been recovered from Uercr-
laneum and Pompeii.
White hats are worn for three vears
us Il sign Of mourning by every grown
male in Corel after the death of a mem
Der of the royal family
Ir,1
the SteeplechaSc horse and the victories
won by Irish horses in England across
country are innumtrable
Il movement is on in Minnesota to
have the university regents and the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton elected by the people
Japan is Il corruption of the Chinese
word Shl-pen-kue. which means root Of
day, or "SunrSr kingdom" because, ia
pan Is directly east of China
An expedition consisting entirely of
women has been formed in Australia to
explore the Solomon islands. the home of
the hercest cannibals known.
The little town of Turner Kan with
Its 4,U inhabitants supplied three soldiers
when the call for volunteers was issued,
and all of them died of disease.
The largest library of small books in
the world belongs to Frenchman. who
editions in single portmanteau.
During the year ended September 80
last there were only five deaths among
the 1917 inmates of the eight chiIdren's
temporary homes in Connecticut.
A firm of English soapmakers which
gives halfpenny to the Transvaal war
fund for every cake of soap sold. has al
ready sent in f10OO to the fund.
1t is announced that there are 1O1
han, in h.,
Lower House Of the Connecticut LcyiS-
lature There are 252 members in ALL
The underground railway of Paris,
mich is nearing completion, will have Il
total length of nearly eight miles. 1t is
expected that it will open for ira tic next
June.
The game Of whist originated in Eng
land. 1t is believed to have developed
from the older game of triumph or
1870.
The last great var of the world, that
between Russia and Turkey. cost alto
gcther ESQ. OOO,OoO and 100000 lives, of
which Russia paid tl:S} ,WO,OUO and no.
600 lives.
~ glmlet was once devourcd by an
ostrich III captivity and another is said
to have swallowed Il lighted pipe with
out experiencing any apparent discom-
fort or injury.
No less than twenty fonr steamers
sailed out of various ports last year and
nave never been heard from, and seven
lynne sailing vessels cleared and never
reached their destination.
"A copy Of Queen Victoria's "Leavcs
from the journal of Our Life in the
highlands, presented by her majesty to
charles Dickens was sold at auction in
London the other day for $500
Almost all tho corn which Erroro
takes is consumed by animals. 1t is the
increasing animal deficiency Of feeding
stuffs abroad that explains the large
purchases c. corn by Europeans
The London Standard says that after
the completion Of the Schenan railway
the russian government will build a line
from Tlt1is to Fladikarkas in the Cau-
casus at cost of 43,U00,0OO roubles.
"A circular has. according to the
EveHement tParis), been addressed to all
nonagenarans, soliciting their signatures
TO an address of homage which, with an
album, VIII he offered to the Pope next
year.
The heads of three firms with which
the Queen has placed orders for the
chocolate to be sent to the troops in
South Africa are all QuakerS, and one
at least is Il member of the Peace So
ciety.
delaware publicly whips some of it's
male nlefactors. but no woman has
been thus punished in the state for near
~ nifty years, the law exemptiug them
from it's infection having been enacted
in 1850
The Prussian income tax returns of
1S9S-M show increase of $2JO.OOO, 900
over those of four years ago. The Frank
furter Zeitung estimates the increase for
all Germany in the same period at $685.
100000.
brooklyn spends annually 81 ,393, 100
for kindling wood. In addition to this
$l3J,OOO is expended each year for oak
and hickory stove wood, making the total
annual expenditure for this old-fashioned
fuel 81 ,72S, $50.
Some Englishwomen, grieved at the
lack of rational amusement among the
children of the present day, have formed
themselves into Il body for visiting board
school Fairgrounds in order to teach chill
dren how to play.