The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-26
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; NOTES OF INTEREST. s
The Greenland whale has heart
yard in diameter.
The Mexican army comprises 1907
officers and 24,5sS privates.
On the docket Of the criminal court
Of Atlanta are the names of - uncaught
murderers.
Canada sells us farm products valued
at S9,S2tiOuO, but buys OF us other goods
worth $7S,OOO.OOO.
The capital of Herzegovina has a
man named Gjugja, who is 100 years old
and boasts of 1856 descendants.
A large deposit Of tin is reported to
have been discovered in Honduras, with
in easy access to a good wagon road.
christian Science has over 10000 adj
htrentS IN the state Of New York, and
about thirty five churches and congrega-
ticnS.
The Bank of Russia still reports Il
cash balance "held abroad of $1O,2OO,-
600. against $9,GoO,OOO thus reported a
year ago.
Nearly all the taxes levied in the
United States are imposed upon produc~
ton and consumption, rather than upon
accumulation.
-Four thousand FIVE hundred dollars
was the cost OF the cake provided at the
wedding Of John Astor to Miss Willinr
OF Philadelphia.
An enactment of the Texas Legisla-
ture provides for the teaching in the pub
lie schools of Il course of humane treat
mtnt of animals
Since January l the typhoid-fever
Wcora in Philadelphia is 57S7 cases AMI
i1S deaths, or three times the casualty
list OF the war with the Philippines.
nsnS
sent by member of Parliament with Il
letter from London to Hampton. Cal,
beat the mails by only twelve hours
The archbishop of Canterbury has
in his Keeping the book in which the
signature of all royal brides and bride
SroomS married in England are written.
An inch of rain on Il square mile of
land equals more than HITS. 1913 gal
Ions, or over 6.6:s5 tons, 100 tons per
acre being rough and-ready reckoning.
1t is now proposed to extend the
boundaries of Montreal to take in the
whole island by annexing the twenty five
odd other municipalities established
there.
Since the beginning of this century
no fewer than ffty-two volcanic islands
have risen out Of the sea. Nineteen
have Disappeared and ten are now in
habited
Canada. besides 81 boarding schools and
>? industrial schools. with 1886 pupils on
the roll. and an average daily attend
ance of 1888.
A movement is on foot for the re-
turn by Brazil of the trophies of war
taken from Paraguay in lStS-7O. Brazil
may renounce the war indemnity still due
from Paraguay.
The government has officially rccog>
hn Ii.rIn lx,O ns,>&S,
Elias kimball Mormon. chaplain of
the Second corps OF engineers. He was
commissioned in 1898.
Thu Preshytery of Boston has refused
to make total abstinence from tobacco a
condition precedent to ordination in tht
'aSe of the young Eccntiates under it's
tslre and of ekler$-elect.
Candidates for the Royal Irish con-
stahulary must be nominated by the lord
lieutenant through a member of Parlia>
mtnt. The limits of age are II to %;
minimum height, 5 feet 5 inches.
The prohibition law still prevails in
1\anSaS, but its enforcement is il matter
of local option. Towns are wet or
'Hry' according to the demands of pub
lie sentiment rs to the closing of the "a
looms.
-t;oddard Z. d. Dianlo,,,|> vege-
tartan, los years old, intends to start
from his San Francisco home on May
"n walking tour to New York. He
does not use meat, alcohol, tobacco or
coffee.
In emulation Of many regiments of
the British army which have animals as
regimental pets the squadron of I-ancers
from Australia, which is soon to visit
Britain, will hare with it a tame kan
CARGO.
The strength of the sentiment in
Massachusetts in favor of state aid for
good road building was shown in the
vote. us to II. by which the House vot,
cd the state highway appropriation of
$dm.,U0.
.-Fiftytwo railways of Great Britain,
during the first three weeks of April
reported increase i'll aggregate gross re-
ctlptS from passengers of f6S, 55S. anL
increase of freight earnings amounting to
El4D1:,2
TESTS have been made in Finland to
decide the comparative value Of iron and
aluminium as materials for h0reshOes At
ter six weeks use by the cavalry the
aluminium shoes were in all cases proved
to be ia better condition than the others
In answer to an inquiry sent out by
the British admiralty few years ago to
ascertain the warship-building facilities
of Great Britain, it was found that the
whole British navy, about 100000
tons, could be duplicated in two years
time.
Tho American Church Missionary so
cHty has charge of a movement to build
Protestant Episcopal hospitals at Ha-
already been appointed to undertake the
raising of a fund of 100000 for the
purpose.
Nailed to the side of suburban rail-
way station not fifteen miles from the
New York city hall is the following ludi-
tr"ns notice: Passengers desiring to
take train will please show yourself so
that the engineer can see them in ample
time to stop the train
The Weekly Witness says that
Evansville, Ind, has a PROSECUTING con.
stable, who has persuaded over 100 Of
tenders to renounce their evil ways. He
has the sympathy and assistance of the
judge of the local court He tries to per-
suade his criminals to join the church.
OF the entire human race it is esti-
mated that 5O,O00,OO0 are well clothed
mat ~. they wear garments Of some
kind: 25O.OOO.OOO habitually go naked,
and 1OO,O00,OOO only cover parts of their
body. Five hundred million live in
houses, OO,OOO,O 900 in huts and caves and
2JO,OOO,UOO have virtually no shelter at
ALL
Portland, Or. is one of the healthiest
cities in the world: In 1893 the death
low as S.G6. thanks chiefly to the excel
lent water from Bull Run river, which it
cost $4,0OO,OOO to bring into the city,
Denver has death rate of 9.4S. Los
Angeles of 13. IL and San Francisco of
II.
AT an auction sale Of autograph man
nscripts in London, four pages, contain
ing Beethoven's songs, "Ah Perfide" and
''H"idenroslein,' brought $500, and
NIiynOn'S song Chemist d,l fos Land -
SG2. -Four Schubert songs. in autograph,
brought prices ranging from $105 to $165
each.
AT nearly all the Kansas towns,
camped in the suburbs iu gypsy fashion,
grown, tow-headed children and hungry
dogs, who wander like the Arabs over the
plains from the mountains of Wyoming
to the coast of Texas as the weather
grows cold or warm.
Between 1886 and 1896 the people of
4 rrpntina increoenI thc;r imnnrts FROM,