The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-30
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

at $12O a case and beef at 81 80 a pound.
The Saxon government made more
than $S,OOO,OOO profit on it's railways in
Boise City can talk over the telc-
phone with San Francisco. 1000 miles
away.
Austria had 255 strikes in 1898, in
volving SS5 establishments, with $4,000
labOrers.
Cotton soaked in peppermint oil has
been found to be effective in getting rid
of mice.
The Kaiser has $25,OOO,OOO of his
income in New York city and London
mortgages.
Last year 100000 cubic yards of
material was dredged out of the Duluth
Superior harbor.
Java has taken to the bicycle, aud
keeps a factory that has been established
at Samarang busy.
SO far this season about $4,000 boxes
of oranges have been shipped from Mana
tee county, Florida.
In Nebraska there are Ill log school.
houses, 517 built of sod, one of baled
straw and one of steel.
The Massachusetts Daughters of Vet
Grams have Endorsed the trailing arbutus
as the national flower.
Three hundred thousand bushels of
potatoes will be ground in Wisconsin
starch factories this year.
A provision of a new charter draft
ed for St. Paul limits school expendi-
lures to $25 per pupil per year.
The Paris Exposition will have the
dating 1900 to $4,000 persons.
The old-time mitts are coming into
fashionable favor again abroad, because
of the number of rings now worn.
A movement is on foot in Hamburg
to unite the various scientific institutes
in the city into sort Of university.
Horses in their wild state live to
the age of 36 normally, being still fairly
fresh and hearty at that age in the des-
trt.
Metal culverts have been used with
much success in the Congo railway. in
Africa Masonry is extremely expensive
there.
Now that John Ruskin is dead a
"RuSkin Union" has been formed in Lon
don for the purpose of studying his
works.
The average of President McKin-
ley's official household is just eleven
months less than that of the English
cabinet.
Meat is very dear in Havana to the
retail buyer. The price for beef is about
81 cents a pound, and is very poor beef
ut that.
The Wolverhampton England Con
gregational church has eight branches.
three assistant pastors and sixty lay
preachers.
In Paris last year among the arti-
cleS left in cabs were 5000 umbrellas.
500 corsets and about 100 funeral
wreathS.
There is IL marked tendency in Aus
tria toward the formation of trusts out
of industries competing in the same line
of products.
The Democratic Silver Republican
and PopullSt committees of Idaho have
declared for union of all silver forces
i'll the state.
-Massa chusettS has 116 street railway
companies. controlling 1892 miles. Last
year the increase in mileage in the state
was thirty-fve.
-1noculation for the plague is coming
more into favor in Bombay city, as many
as 1179 persons having been so treated
in one week.
Eastern electric light plants this sum-
mer will be used in the manufacture of
little needed.
4 bill is before the Maryland Legis-
lature asking that the rigorous provisions
OF the Sunday law be modified in their
relation to Baltimore.
At the Lakeside club, on the south
side. in Chicago, the cigarette is permit
ted and the pipe is barred on occasions
when ladies are present.
A free medical dispensary has been
Chinatown
Consul-tieneral Ho Vow gave $500 to
defray the initial expenses.
An order has been introduced In the
Massachusetts Legislature to make
Wcmen eligible to serve as overseers of
the poor i'll Lowell, Mass.
The National Council of Free Evan
geical churches in England has organ
lied an evangelistic mission for the
whole of England and Wales.
The Italian Union Republican club
of Philadelphia has led the clubs of that
city in subscribing 5000 toward Philadel-
phlas national convention fund.
The Paulist Fathers in New York
have opened a clubhouse for the Door
boys. 1t is furnished on a scale compar-
ing favorably with the best of clubs
The amount of national bank stock
held by women in America is estimated
at S130,WO,OOO. and the amount of pri-
vate and state bank stock at $137 ,O0O,-
OOO
1t has been discovered that a lot of
expensive furniture in the capitol at
Washington supposed to be solid mahog-
any is only thinly veneered with that
wood.
Burlington, y. Y, will not collect
any taxes this year. the saving on an
preparations having gone on so long that
the township has sufficient funds to run
all departments.
AT the last meeting of the New York
Methodist Minister'S union a resolution
protesting against "Sapho" was voted
down, on the ground that the ministers
did not care to advertise the play.
The first skates were made out of
the bones Of animals: Sometimes chill
dren would sit on the jawbones of a
horse or COW and propel themselves
along the ice by means of iron slaves.
Reports from the principal manufac-
turers of candy Easter eggs show that
the output this year will be about CO.
OOO,OW, surprising all previous records,
and about 20,OOO,0OO in excess of last
year.
-One of the most successful of evan
gellsts now preaching in London is Clip
sy Smith. He was born in gypsy tent,
reared in the lanes and fields Of rural
England, and knew nothing of books
when converted.
Since vaccination has been compul-
sorry in German cities, in 1874, only q
few cases of smallpox have been observed
and most of these occurred in foreigners
coming from countries without ccmpul-
sorry vaccination.
From 10000 to $4,000 young men
from the rural districts annually come
to New York alone. Ten thousand in
wade Philadelphia. Twenty thousand en-
ter Chicago. They flock into every large
city in the United States
Because Of the multiplication Of gov
ernments in Chicago, due to the existence
of seven townships in Cook county, the
per cent. cost of collecting taxes is 6G6,
as compared with 81 in New York prop
CIR, .9G in st. Paul and 1.12 in Boston.
Swallows migrate to Central Ameri-
ca and the southern part of Mexico. They
like it pretty warm. Along about this
time of year they begin to appear in the
Southern states, but they seldom get far
north until the latter part of April. The
robins don't care for such warm eli
mate, and very few of them get as far
SOuth as Meyico