The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-05-04
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS,

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Malta has IL population of 10000
Italians, against only 2OOO English.
The Iron Mountain railroad pays
S2O0,WN Il year i'll taxes in Arkansas.
The frcightagr of wood from Sydney
to London is about tis per 100 superficial
feet.
There are 344 cities and towns in
New York state which have Il public
water supply.
--Twcnty-four men have each served
twenty years and upward in the United
States St nate.
An Edinburgh professor says i: is
the 'morning dram which is the curse
of the country.
Ten thousand cabmrn of Naples are
ON strike to prevent the introduction OF
aut"tabS i'll that city.
The United States sent S4,31O,291
worth Of silver direct to China during the
fiscal year to February -.
India rubber nails for use in places
where ordinary nails are Liable to corro-
sion are Il German novelty.
-Four ffthS of all the garlic eaten in
Europe is raised On the two African is
lands. Zanzibar and Pcmha.
The Belgian State railways have or
dtred twelve locomotives from philadtl-
lhia for September delivery.
ti,cs has passed a bill to prohibit boys
under ~ years from smoking.
Gen. Lew Wallace has just received
copy of his Ben Hur" translated into
Persian and published in Egypt.
Owing to the prevalence of smallpox
no spring elections were held in two Ohio
towns. the officials holding over.
There arc three different railway
gauges in Australia. 3 feet inches, i
feet 81: inches and > feet 3 inches.
The advance in coal at Baltimore, it
is estimated, will cost the consumers of
that city an extra $3.0OOOm this year
Settlers in Siberia along the new
railroad are huyinG their agricultural
and other machinery in the United
States.
-Thrty-onc American locomotives are
ready for shipment from Philadelphia to
China. with POO tons of steel rails for
Japan.
The price of the TranSvaal sixpenrr
in London is now ) ShillngS kruger's
pennies, however, are relatively more cX
prnSivt
Half Il century ago the labor cost in
the production Ut 100 gold hunting watch
cast turned was $:'4O. In 1891 it was
only $50
A church society in Brooklyn dis
cu>>cu ut 4 recent meeting the question:
NV hlch is more drMora!iZing. fashion or
tuhacco!"
1t is stated that coal is leaving Phil
adtlphla at the rate Of lMW tens Il day
for Me ditrrranean ports. uStcn>ibly for
railway fuel.
Sundays and fixed holidays excepted
1t Is estimated that t2D.thm worth of fish
is daily dragged out of the sea- 10y Brit
i>h fishermen.
Stone street WAS the first street in
New York city paved with c,hhlc>tnne>,
hence its name. The paving was done in
the year 1867.
1t is estimated that if the Beers
should blow up Johannesburg and de-
stroy the gold mines the loss would
reach S:}-n.tHM.nnO.
Coral is again in favor after it,; Ion.
period of ,liSuSe. The pink coral is the
,h"ictr. from its purity, but the common
red is much worn.
An attempt to cvt.lr the payment of
cent toll on the R''rkS and nanphin
turnpike has just cost Il rich rcnllSyl-
vania cattle dealer $40.
A purely Scottish expedition is about
to nc organized to the South Pole to
work in conf unt ton with the British
and German expedition.
There is hospital for trees on the
hanks of the Seine in Paris. Trees
which, grow weak along the boulrvards
are taken there to recover.
The Niceroy Of India reports that the
number of persons on relief work is in
crt;lsing everywhere, and that the total
now reached is 1852 900.
Cremation is growing more popular
in London. In 1885 only three bodies
were incinerated in that city. Last year
the cremation> numbered 24O.
In France and Italy it is believed
that the maiden who burirS drop of
her blood under roSebuSh will Dc re-
Warupu with rOSp-fint rod chnnEs
In one case $2'i6.OOO has been saved
owing to the establishment of wireless
telrsraphy between the East Goodwin
lightship and the South Foreland.
a medical expert contends that out
Of 1000 girls studying the piano before
the age Of II, about GOO are afflicted
with nervous troubles in later life.
-Orphanagcs. and destitute orphans
are alike nonexiStent III Australia. There
every waif is taken to a receiving house
and kept till country home is found for
The amount Of national hank stock
held by women in America is estimated
at S12O.NM.NM. and the amount of priv
ate and state bank stock at $137, 900
900.
-Witrlcn. a suburb of Vienna. has the
largest dwelling house in the world. 1t
contains 400 rooms. divided into 400
suits, and affords shelter to over 2UU
persons.
En- gland has /; Garden City aSsocia-
ton whose aim is to build cities in such
way that they shall combine the ad-.
vantagtS Of country life with those of
town life.
The total number of women over Is
years old employed in the factories and
workshops Of the British islands is about
3OO.OlH' IF whom II per cent belong to
trades unions.
-Elcctric dog carts are being built in
England which carry four PASSENGERS
and run fifty miles with one charge 1t
has four specds-thr"e, six and twelve
miles an hour.
Miss Lillian BlakeSlcc of Cory, Pa,
who has been under medical treatment
for years for consumption, coughed up a
collar button the other day and is rap
idly recovering.
Holland has national woman's suf-
frage association with fourteen branches.
ut present the franchise is limited to
male citizens who own property and have
their taxes paid.
In Norway and Sweden. before any
couple can be legally married, certiti-
Gates must be procured showing that
both bride and bridegroom have been
duly vaccinated.
kept so busy building warships that
fears are being expressed that it will
soon be- necessary to have merchant YES
sells built abroad
AT Muhcim-on-R Rhine firm of rope
manufacturers makes steel wire towing
ropes 313 inches in circumference in one
continuous length of nearly - miles and
weighing 21O TONS
"A prize of $4,000 is offered in Paris
for any air navigator who will start from
Longchanps and go around the Eitfcl
tower and return, distance Of seven
miles, in thirty minutes.
1.-The street-car charges of Cape
Town are high, u cents being the regular
rate for distance of from two to three
miles. Eight miles, the extent of the
longest line. costs 3G cents
The government monopoly of the
liquor bus which Russia began to
Introduce in 1895 now extends to thirty
five districts. The profits last year
amounted to 321 100000 rublcs
Lying side by side in specially-pre-