The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The Nile is the longest river, in the
miles and the Za,lbesi lG0O miles.
The union ciSarmakerS OF Tampa
Fla. have enforced demand that cigar
factories be scrubbed ami cleaned once Il
month.
1T is no unusual thing for II vessel
plying between Japan and London to
carry 100000 fans as IL single item of
its cargo.
The Malay language is spoken by
more than 4O,uUO.ouO perSons 1t is said
to be easy to learn, as it has almost no
grammar.
--Charlotte comes from the old Eng
llsh word charlyt. meaning Il dish of Gus
tnrd. and charlotte russo is simply Rus
sian custard.
The police department. of Hartford,
conn. will soon be equipped with auto
mobile patrol wagons, ambulance and
prisoners van.
In Siam the very choicest of tobacco
Is not to be purchased. it hein. reserved
for the use OF the King and the chief of
hcerS of state.
The tunnels nf the steamer Oceanic
are of such gigantic proportions that two
London tram cars could PASS through
them side by side.
Wood carver> are in Gemand in New
York and the trade is booming Mem.
htrS ot the craft are coming FROM Lon
lion to secure work.
A Brooklyn man named Fre,le rick
Braun owns collection OF 500 skeletons,
illustrating the craniumS of every living
race and many long extinct.
AT present Australasia is the largest
producer of wool in the world, with Rus
STA second, the Argentine Republic third
and the United States fourth,
A New York man claims to have
shot crane up in the .\dirondacks that
had fnrty-hve trout in its stomach. none
Of which weighed less than pound.
All street railway companies olerat-
ing in the city of New York are required
Ivy law to run 1T least one closed car in
every four at all seasons of the year.
If the reports of the criminal court
Of the stat. of New York may be taken
rs I'LL index. it is safe to say that crime
is on the decrease in the United States.
In Great Britain there are 1910. O;h3
houses IF all kinds. AS the population
is about 4o,AWMW, this gives five per-
sons and, say, Il baby to each house.
The Japanese government decided
some time ago to increase the price of
railway tickets by onethiru. The result
was Il loss instead of I; gain in receipts.
When potatoes were first introduced
in Germany they were for long time,
like tomatoes, cultivated merely as a Gu
rluslty. No one ate them, even pigs re-
fuSing them.
4U34 classes, of which 1861 are for boys,
1876 for girls, - mixed. and 10 for the
weak minded. OF all these schools, only
II are Catholic.
Swiss archeologists have decided that
Il certain ruin near Bel which has been
held to be one of the many Roman re-
mains is really Celtic, the only one of the
kind i'll the country.
Badness is far less common among
led-headed people than among their
inrkerhaired neighbor>. The ordinary
crop on the head of Il reu-headed person
is about 1920 hairs.
A tramp's minimum income in Eng
land is over 81 day. At least, Il tramp
has DECLARED in court that he did a4bad
days work if he could not find sixty per-
sons to give him Il penny.
Eight sections at the Paris universal
exhibition of 1900 will be devoted to
the history of the religions of the world
with the beliefs of all the known races
OF men, past and present.
The great Cascade tunnel, Oh the
Great Northern road. $1,000 feet, or two
and Il half miles through, is being pushed
by 600 men. day and night. 1t will be
finished by October !. 1900.
People who suffer from heat in the
hands and feet can obtain speedy and
easy relief from the same by putting in
side their stockings aud gloves il small
portion of very fine oatmeal
The most-highly organized industries
in London- England, are printing and
photography: They have sixteen trades
unions, and 81 per cent. OF the adult
males employed are members.
After Il recent tornado i'll Australia
thousands of watersnakes We're found on
the beach in one place, while in another
til. beach was entirely washed away,
leaving nothing but bare rocks.
1t is forty years since the first Brit
that time it was his in reality. fo-
even privates i'll those days provided thei:
own garb and weapons of war.
The largest drydock in the world,
which will accommodate two of the larg-
est warshipS in the world at one time
and have room to spare, will soon be
completed at Newport News. Va.
Paris is to have its bullfights to add
to the excitement Of its populace. The
city walls, but at Eneicn, which is some
twelve minutes journey by train.
In railway building in the Soudan
there are two harp players and IL flute
player to every gang Of forty or fifty
men. AS long as the music is brisk the
laborers do not seem to feel fatigued
The Bank Of England destroys about
3oo.WN of its notes every week, to re-
place them with freshly printed ones
One evening i'll each week is set apart
for the making Of this expensive bonfire.
The athletes of Greece in ancient
times, when training for physical CON
tests. were fed on new cheese figs and
boiled grain. Their drink was warn,
water. and they were not allowed to eat
meat.
An enterprsing liquor firm has en-
gagged an aeronaut to give Il series Of bal
loon ascensions in Ceylon, and Will,
ascending to drop small sample bottles of
whisky attached to miniature para
chutes.
Something entirely new in China is
that the Red Cross floats over a fully
equipped hospital, where from 80 to 100
or more patients are treated daily. The
hospital is in charge of four native ply
sicans.
In spite of British rule India is still
virtually SoapIeSs country. Throughout
the villages of Hindustan soap is indeed
regarded as natural curiosity. and it
IS rarely, if ever, kept in stock by the
native shopkceper.
AHiti itdn 'pdl HlIllfFS are tfItnllg
all the miners Of other countries how to
mine. coal by electrical machines Haul
ing by mules costs 80 cents a duy ppr
mule, while electric locomotives do the
work at half that cost
DR.. Henry J. Schenck has just COM
plcted his twelfth year as dog constable
Of Boston, during which time he has
killed over 10000 unlicensed dogs He
gets 81 for each dog he kills, but his
expenses are not small
The largest unbrokcn area of grain in
the world is now being harvested. 1t is
in MADEIRA and Freno counties, Cal, and
extends ever $4,000 acres, or about for
ty square miles, an area nearly one
fourth that of Chicago.
The fecundity of microbes is prodi-
gious, so much SO that if fifteen drops Of
water polluted with bacteria are allowed
to fall into cup of broth the germ pop,t-
lation would have Increased in twenty.
four hours to SO.O0O,OOO.
Lord Wolseley, during one of his CAM
laigns, grew so anxious ut the depletion
of his force by sickness, that by con-
Stantly studying the roll call he came ia