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


FOR Sunday holiday.
Hawaii has 1856 Mormons, of whom
4SliS are natives of the islands.
The first cotton mill in Kansas is
now being built in Independence.
Lambeth palace can show specimens
OF almost every style of architecture
which has prevailed since 1890.
A literary statistician declares tina,
for the year 1888 eight novels day were
published, Sundays and holidays not ex.
tluded.
The average number Of horses killed
in Spanish bull fights every year exceeds
HFD, while from 1000 to 1900 bulls are
sacrificed
There are throughout the United
Nln$uOm nearly 10000 women engaged
in teaching. almost three times the num-
her OF men.
Miss Lettie Simmons Of Friendship,
Me-. raised last season a turnip. which
she coaNed up to the enormous weight of
l21. pounds.
1t takes about billion and Il half
OF eggs every year to supply the demand
IN Great Britain and Ireland, besides all
the native eggs.
The medical directory gives the
names of 34,994 physicians in England,
This Is nearly twice the number that
France boasts-17, 735.
Prussia began absorbing railroads in
1876. In eight years she owned 5000
der control of the state.
The largest insect known to entomci-
oSlstS is a Central American moth, callet!
the E;rehuS StriX. which expands its
wings from II to Is inches.
-t;eneral Manager Holdrege of the
Burlington railroad is father of the Har-
ward stroke, having originated it when a
member Of the crew in 1868.
-Nirvann. the name of Il recent ano-
dyne. has received in Germany ,he.
chemical name of neutrality-suspicious.
oorybenzoesauremethyle
During the first week in May 25G,OGO
pounds Of cedar wood was shipped from
Navarro county, Tex. to pencil factories
i'll Cincinnati and New York.
On April l the Presbyterian board OF
foreign it missions i t needed $4,000 to cIose
closed its books $4,000 ahead.
1T is alleged that London money
lender has $500 note which he lends to
ariStocratic brides to be exhibited as q
wedding gift along with other presents.
Beavers have become very rare in
North America, hut two of them from
Edmonton. Northwest Territory. have
been placed in the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chi
cago.
Guage is observation-disclosures
Il jointed word of twenty-eight letters
Observation-Disclosures ness" is the next
longest.
The Belgian government has offered
Il prize of $4,000 to anyone who will
discover IL chemical to take the place of
white phosphorus in the manufacture of
matches.
The recovery of khartoum and the
southern provinces of Egypt has cost
$l1.:OO.OOO. For the current year the
expenditure in the SOudan is estimated
ut $1.NW.GOO.
--Dnring the first two months of the
year 1O.13O emigrants entered Great
britain from Continental Europe. while
l2.'nI of the people of Great Britain de-
parted for other lands.
The elm tier is full grown ut the age
"f l3o. ash at 100 and the oak at .HN
Years The growth Of an elm is about
two and half feet per annum; that OF
an oak less than one foot.
The Maryland Game and Fish Pro
tectivc association is buying cartridges
in Kansas and liberating them through
cut Maryland. Eight hundred were lib
Grated in three counties on April -.
-Arizona's oldest white resident is
Charles ID. Poston, who braved the
-Apache$ in 1854 and has lived in the ter
ritory ever since. He has just been vot-
ell pension by the Arizona Legislature
AT Lockwood, Australia, is the larg-
tst cemetery in the world. 1t covers
1000 acres Only Il plot of 200 acres
persons of all nationalities have been
buried
"A circus elephant needing surgical
treatment was recently chloroformed in
Peru. Ind. The anesthetic was given
through the trunk by means of trousel
leg slipped around it and packed with
cotton.
The Florida Legislature has received
Il memorial from the Florida Medical as
S"ciation. calling attention to the rapid
spread of tuberculosis, and asking legis-
iation to prevent indiscriminate kissing
and splitting.
The American soldiers are not al
lowed to shoot chickens belonging to Fill
plnoS, and they can't: catch them, be-
cause: as Kansas boy explains, ''they
fly till their legs are rested and then RIM
TIL their wings are rested"
More ships sail the Detroit river than
enter Liverpool or London. The Suez
cana, which carries the commerce of the
""r'i' passed last year S,5OO,OOO ton
mage, there were floating through the
locks at Sault Ste Marie 1G,jOO,O 900 in
eight months. "
IT IS so difficult to recruit men for
,he brit'Sh army that the Scots Guards,
Il crack Scotch regiment. has obto;noi
leave TO enlist Irishmen in Ireland rho
oldStream Guards, a swell English reg
,lmcnt. have also appealed to Ireland to
fli its ranks.
You may talk all you please about
expansion, writes an lola, Kas.. boy.
p't Tor my part l am a co1itractionist
IN fact' contraction is our chief aim ont
mere III the trenches | can swear that
behind straw A HUE
during the past month, twentv-6ve
steamers carrying breadstnffs, have
cleared from hiladeJDhia for foro;o,s
ports: carrying 245, 900 barrels Of f1onr
'z."s' bushels Of wheat, 1,167, O95 bush,
v vEo or corn, $3.50 bushels of oats and IT,
S'U bushels of rye ~
The theory that mosquitoes plav an
, 'h;1,, part IN communicating malaria
N.icn mas been advanced by Prof. Rob
trt Koch. the celebrated bacterioIo";St
VIII form the subject of a Comprehensive
ihHeStlgatlon by an expedition which ho
VIII lead into the tropics.
p-hev- Tucker Wilson, pastor Of q
t t.aptiSt church in Muncic, Ind, has es-
' :... new record. having immersed
his ao uSe'eh newly-converted members of
- -, r,t t"' , III twenty-seven minutes. or at
u rare greater than three a minnie and
'"'t w'thout any assistance
Mary Spooner, who died ot Ac,sh
n'a Mass. last week, at the age of 1O5
'"rS was said to be the oldest woman
81 New Eng ENGLAND. Her father, Micah
, ,h was one of the minute men in
hcvointlonary war. and he also
fought in the War of 1912. '''o
, IA French naturalist says that if tho
world were to become birdless man a,' .Is
not inhabit after nine years time .0u +"
S cp"11 Or 10 all the sprays and poisons that
ton of insects the bugs and SINGS ue Sa,';,,
SIMPLY eat up orchards and crops. ''''
ne Irish land court will soon offer
.n' n1Gs' admired portion Of the Lakes
W ta Killarney for sale. The Muckross o.,
and I t has already been sold to the tenants,
offered with the lakes. The snm me w
''"ned as likely to be asked is $4,000.
.hecords for big Oh speed in EXPRESS.
ram service have been made in Franci
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