The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i' III Has Detn re-
luccd within Il few years from % per
1000 to Is per 1000.
France consumes 925.OOO,OOO gallons
of wine annually. equal to 24.25 gallons
per capita of population.
bordeaux buys about 100000 bar
rel slaves per year, all hut 100000 Of
which come from Austria.
Ancient \ineveh had it's pottery,
and. indeed. the museums teen with the
pottery of all primitive peoples.
The Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine has organized Il second expc,li-
ton to West Africa for the study of ma
laria.
OF the coal exported in one year from
New South Wales to thirty different
countries, only Seventy-two tons went to
England.
Omaha Neb.. is the third Stcer-klliny
place in the United States. Chicago and
Kansas City are greater killers than
Omaha.
Tho board of education of Chicago
has voted in favor of Fairgrounds for
children in all future plans for new
school buildings.
Good cavalry horses arc easily bring
ing from $50 to $12I, according to size
and condition. and artillery horses COM
mand higher prices.
Sixty years ago, when England was
1T luSStTueiUS With nina. size lllHUe IL
profit of $4,000, 900 as the result of near
ly three years fighting.
The total vote in the electoral college
will be the same this year as it was in
1896 when Mckinley received o11 cleo
t. raj votes and Bryan 1I6.
The United States government has to
pay royalty for the use of most of the
telescope sights now employed on the sea
coast and field artillery guns.
In the Canadian Northwest provinces
there are probably more colonies of diff
frrrnt nations than are to be found on
any equal area elsewhere in the world.
According tn the Street Railway Re-
view. the Toxic Tram company of Toxic,
Japan. has declared Il dividend of over 30
per cent on its business for the last year.
France exports about 25O.OOO.OW
oysters annually. The European oyster
is valued according to the grcenness Of
its color and the hrasSinesS of its flavor.
A Philadelphia man who has just
taken the pledge explains this act by
saying that when he was drunk recently
he committed the folly of paying his
debts.
Exports of cotton from this country
III March. as officially reported by the
government. increased over last year 12O
per cent. in quantity and l!2 per cent. in
value.
The newest slang phrase is "blight
tr. 1t is SYNONYMOUS with "Stunner.
and is looked upon as better than kill
ing" The new word originated in Wash
ington.
The government owns many thou
sands Of acres of land in New Mexico
that have never been taken up. 1t is
the finest country in the world for stock
raising.
An Ohio man has patented an electric
|,
storage battery. is supplied with elsctric-
~ generated by Il motor attached to the
bicycle.
Walnut logs from D, to % inches
in diameter are worth from $1U5 to
$115 thousand feet in Rotterdam.
Poplar is worth $50. white oak $4:i. hirk-
DRY So.
1T has been decided to open Il per-
mant Mt International motor car exhibit
ton in Berlin. where complete vehicles
and all their parts and accessories will
II" >hnWn.
There has been set up at Sumter. S.
c.. factory for making golf sticks of
per>imm"n timber. 1t is claimed that
n"rSlMmrn makes the best golf stick in
the world
Moscow ha: the largest hospital in
Europe. with 1000 beds. There are
ninety-siN physicians and 800 nurses. and
about $4,000 patients are taken care of
every year.
There were 1.O57,o3S acres seeded to
sugar beetS in Germany last year The
yield is about eleven and ii quarter tons
per acre Of heet>. containing 127 per
cent. If sugar.
Anne rican lard sells in Singapore ut
~ cents Il pound in ten-pounl cans.
American canned fruits. vegetables and
meats. as we'll as American buggics, arc
also sold there.
A scientific statistical work just pub
liShrd fixes the population Of Europe at
81, HhltN"', All increase of 1o.WW,OO
since 1870. ar an annual increase vi
about 3,MA'.OOn.
After ages of neglect the traditional
resting place "f the remains of Ireland'S
patron saint i'll the cathedral graveyard
memorial stone.
Polish women in Pennsylvania ctlt-
l'ratr the close of the Lenten period by
switching their husbands and dtluginy
them with water. 1t is Il custom import
ed from Poland.
South Carolina is now manufacture
ing all the cotton she produces. North
Carolina, Georgia and other states are
also turning out large part of their cot
ton in finished goods.
American labor is paid treble the
calling. and the cost Of food is from 10
t" 80 per cent. cheaper in the United
States than in Germany.
A "lallnon house is to be built this
spring by the government at Fort Myer,
near Washington. AS soon as the build
ing Is ready for use balloon experiments
for war purposes will begin.
The German peasant Of Il century
ago-thc period of the Napoleonic wars
ate little except black bread and potatoes.
and in many cases he had barely sutfi-
cent of them t" sustain life.
VERIFIED figures show that city of
lGO.om inhabitants could be built from
the annual output Of stone, clay. lime
and gravel found within a dozen miles
Of the city hall in Philadelphia.
1t is curious to note that the French
color manufacturers are not credited with
one new produce this year, while the
Dutch. Swiss and Germans are fully rep
resented with generous quota.
-StatisticS of the MaSSae husetts hos
pItals for the insane for twenty years
show that permanent rccoveries cannot
BE- expected in more than IS per cent.
Of those committed for the first time
a dummy clock has been placed on
Independence hall. in Philadelphia. at the
point where Il real clock marked the time
IN other days Its hands point to the
hour when the Declaration was signed.
-"Inrircumscriptiblcn meaning in
capable Of limitation, has been admitted
INTO DR.. Murrays new English diction-
AIRY, on the strength Of its use by Il COW
cnanting Bylicld of the Seventeenth cen
fury.
1t is becoming the fashion for smart
women of London to do their shopping
Of Il morning walking. and in fact walk
ing is now looked upon as a health-giving
exercise, and is greatly INDUCED in by all
degrees.
A table prepared by the Indiana bu-
reau of statistics shows that the aver
age annual earnings of journeymen in
that state in 1899 were $577.72, a daily
average, Oh basis of 312 working days,
of $1.S6.
There are plenty Of snakes in Sa-
moa, but they are all harmless. In GER
tain districts it is a custom of the ma
tive girls to wind live reptiles around
their necks and arms as ornaments for
their dances.
The Ferris wheel was composed Of