The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-04
NOTES OF INTEREST.

600 for missionary work in the Philill-
pines.
Cen. Boulangers famous black horse,
Tunis, is dead. 1t had been cared for by
an admirer of the generals.
baltimore has the largest negro pop
ulation Of any city in the country. 1t Is
estimated to be about 125.OOO.
The odor of musk which was mixed
with the mortar when the Sophia church
in Constantinople was built is still ner-
ceptible.
-Canada's farms annually yield $780,
100000 her forests $SO,OOO,0OO, the
mines $50 100000 and the fisheries $780,
The remarkable memory Of Charles
Dorr Of San Francisco enables him to
recite verbatim almost any play that he
has seen.
George Harris, Boston cabdriver,
has accumulated Il fortune of 100000
during his lifetime by the investment of
his fares.
While Canada's tax on Chinese immi-
grants is to be increased, japanese are
to be permitted to come in free only for
imperial reasons.
On one day recently there We're 1Oi
carloads of waternlelons on the railroad
100000 melons.
L
zerland will be allowed to import yellow
PHOSPHORUS for matches, but only for
scientific purposes.
j. L. Bryant, the Barlwell (Ky.)
millionaire, owns the largest strawberry
patch in the world. 1t covers 100 acres
and has made his fortune.
AT the semi-annual drawing in Paris
Of conscriptS for the French army the
number Of recruits was II per cent
smaller than one year ago.
Eight thousand men are engaged in
mining lead and zinc in Missouri. The
total output for 1888 WAS $4,000 tons of
lead and 10000 tons of zinc
American printing presses have ap-
peared III Edinburgh, and the only adj
verse criticism made is that they turn
out papers faster than necessary.
The death rate Of the French colo
NAL army is 1913 thousand year In
Madagascar it is 1851 thousand, and
i'll West Africa 1911 thousand.
All men of genius are said to have
eyes clear, slow moving and bright. This
is the eye which indicates mental ability
of some kind, it doesn't matter what
In proportion to population, North
Berwick is said to be the wealthiest town
in Scotland. 1t has an annual value of
real property per inhabitant Of about $50.
Hanover, Pa, has distinguished it.
self by running out of town the just
elected superintendent of schools because
it was found that he was Roman Cath
Ollie.
The giraffe was thought to be near
extinction. but Maj. Maxse. British ex-
plOrer. found great herds of them along
the Sobat river. Il tributary Of the White
Nile
-Russia's Asiatic possessions are
three times the size Of England's, but
hold only 23,OOO.OOO inhabitants as COM
pared with England's 297, 100000 sub
jects.
1t is estimated that this year the
yield of the three principal grains will be:
Corn. 2,121 100000 bushels; oats. 49,
100000 bushels, and wheat, $50, 14O, 900
bushels
Iron production in Great Britain,
Germany and the United States increased
in 1897 1,:42,S 343 tons over the previous
year. and in 1898 rose 2,567 1874 tons
further.
In Chicago a woman has sued for di-
vorce setting forth that her husband
treated her with as much arrogance as a
man would woman partner in a game
of whist.
In Kansas, since 1850, every year
ending with the figure . has been a
great corn year, while every year ending
with cipher has shown a failure of the
corn crop.
Successful experiments have been
made in Paris with an automobile water.
ing cart, and 300 of these will be put in
service, replacing 800 horsepower carts
now in use.
The Spanish are among the most
charitable people on EARTH Without a
poor tax, Spanish communities of $4,000
self-supporters feed IL pauper population
of 5000 or more.
The president of large telephone
system has offered to pay 100000 for
a telephone repeater which would be as
efficient in telephony as the telegraph
repeater is in tecgraphy.
A grape-srowing association in CEN
trail county of Alabama is shipping
grapes to the North from a vineyard of
400 acres. The vines are three years old
and bearing handsomely.
The British government has agreed
to contribute $225,OOO to the proposed
Antarctic expedition under the auspices
Of the Royal society. which must raise
an equal sum for the project.
On the electric railways of Milan,
Italy. the general fare is 2 cents, but
for the benefit of the working people the
fare is l cent before : a. NJ. in the sum
mer and before 8 a. nj. in the winter.
A writer in the German scientific Pc
riodical Globus denies that insanity is on
the increase. and that the recruiting field
exhibits larger amount of physical de-
generacy than in former generations
A new Italian gas, said to be so per
cent. cheaper than acetylene, is com
posed of 50 parts of quicklme and five
each of cOlOphOny and calcium carbide
and no heating Of water or special burper
is needed.
According to George F. Kunz, spe.
cial agent of the United States geological
survey, the value of all the precious
stones found in the United States in
1898 was $1GO,320, as compared with
$136,675 in 1897.
The reports from Maine, as usual at
this time of year, say that the pheasants
are tearing up the gardens deer are ruin
ing crops and bears are robbing pig-sties.
The shrewd innkeepers use the old bait
with great success.
"A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial-Tribune says the Georgia
melon growers have crossed the fruit
with the gourd, to make the rind harder
for shipping purposes, but have thus
greatly injured the flavor.
Most of the monks at King Williams
Town, Cape Colony, are tradesmen, and
40 their own carpentering, bricklaying.
blacksmthing, etc, besides teaching
school. All the buildings they occupy
were erected by themselves.
III ten years American life insurance
companies have doubled their assets, the
amount rising from SG57, 1885, 42 in 1883
to 81 ,344 ,9O1, 1893 in 1898. The increase
has been decidedly the greatest since
prosperity returned to the country.
Senator Depew says he believes that
course Of lectures on the operation of
railroads would be valuable addition to
all our leading colleges, considering the
large part which railroads play in our
everyday life and how little they are I'M
derStOOd.
The first cotton mill in Kansas will
soon commence operations in Independ-
ence. The mill building is 2OOxGO feet
in dimensions, and was donat ted by the
citizens. The plant will manufacture
thread and yarn. Cloth factories are ex-
pected to follow.
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts to
$3.50 day; President McKinley's is
equal to $131 day: cabinet officers the
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