The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-09
NOTES OF INTEREST.

-Georgia is experiencing the most
prosperous winter in n score of years
The latest proposed French battle.
snip OF 12,41G tons will cost $5,5S5, 900
Japan will soon receive from Clyde.
bank one of the largest battleshins
afioat.
Irrigation work in Mexico is making
heavy demand for iron pine. dredging
eNcavating and pumping machinery.
"A 1lO-ton gun. though it can fire.
only eighty full charges, can fire 100
three-quarter charges and 800 half
charges.
-Sycose is the new material used rs q
substitute for sugar in diabetes. It's
sweetenlng power is $50 times greater
than sugar.
-Patiencc and long credits are abso-
ntel! essential in order to do business in
Russia. Russia, in a business way. is
practically the great unknown.
Owing to the large number of omni-
bus horses taken out Of London for the
war hundreds of employees in the omni
bus yards are out of employment.
-Forty-one lives We're lost in the Colo
RADIO coal mines in 1899. f,r. each 17S
miners employed. There were also re-
corded " accidents without fatal result
flooding of the lungs with purer and cool
er air is desideratum The natural life
out OF doors provides this. Many doctors
pronounce the sanatorium system n fail
ure.
1t is announced that the French gov
erhlheht' looking out for new source of
revenue. has determined to plant fruit
trees all along the public high roads Of
France. 's u
The materials used by the Swedish
snip and marine engine builders are. as a
RUE, MANUFACTURED at the Swedish steel
works, and Swedish material" is always
specified.
,-Slmplon tunnel is now progressing at
the rate of sixteen feet per day. It was
eegnn fourteen months ago. and must be
lhisneu III hve years and half from it's
commencement. WIN us
- There is Il movement in foot ,mono
1orelgn powers to do away with the limi-
tatlon of age of ambassadors. making TIA
tenure of office depend solely upon a
mans capabilities.
-Connecticut figures from its recent
STATE school census that it has 20 Der
e Genc more inhabitants than it had in
ioNo The population of the country on
TINS basis is IS. 80, 900.
Malta is one of the most importont
coallng ports III the mediterranean. and
consequently there are many firms there
dealing in coal, of which there is at all
lilies large stock on hand.
- man in Philadelphia makes a liv.
ing by selling foreign hotel, express and
railroad labels to people that paste them
on their baggage to create the impression
that they have been abroad
One of the Oldest hosteries in Eng
iand Is the New inn at Gloucester but in
spite of the centuries which have rolled
by since 1t was built its once appropriate
description still clingS to it.
The Chicago postoftice shows a great
decrease in the sale of postage-due
stamps since the rules prohibiting the
fnrwardingof underpaid second and third
class matter went into effect.
Near Cotui. in San Domingo. Il small
tGwn, inland about fifty miles from the
head Of SANTANA bay, there is said to be
valuable and extensive iron-ore deposit
The land belongs to the government.
AT Muheim. on Rhine. a firm of rome
manufacturers makes steel wire towing
ropes five and half inches in circumfer-
ence IN one continuous length of nearly |
nineteen miles and weighing 21O tons.
- Boston cemetery company has de-
clded to exclude automobiles from it's
burylng ground lest the horseless vehicles
should cause runaways. which might Gre
ate havoc among the tombstones and |
monuments.
There are SO many languages spoken
IN the provinces Of Austria Hungary that
interpreters are employed in the yarious
larliaments to interpret the speeches of
the delegates and make them Ineligible |
to all the members.
The rubber plantations Of Mexico as |
a RUE, are remote from centerS of DoDu-
lation. They are always thinly inha Bit
ca. Oriental labor must he imported. |
The approximate wage is 81 silver 81 |
cents i'll gold per day
1T is well-known fact that American |
footwear is not only the cheapest and |
BEST; but also the most stylish in the
Moild; It's lasts and shapes are readily
goods as american shapes"
A special service for the detection Of
Gamnlng has been organized by the DO
lice III Vienna. The police seek for Of
lenders not only in cafes, but in clubs.
and even enter private apartments in the
nope OF surprising poker players.
There are no fewer than ninety-six
TRANSACTIONS Of Millions Paradise LOST
IN the British museum. Apart from the |
great languages of the world these trans |
lations are in Danish, Polish, Manx. ar
menlan, lcelandic and Bohemian.
The ratio of men to women among
the public school teachers in Massachu-
sets IS to lO;2. During the first half of |
relatively diminishing, during the last |
half it has been relatively increasing.
-Jamaica has rejected Secretary Cham
bcrlains proposition to trade with Eng
land instead of the United States for q |
subsidy Of SlOO,OOO year. Jamaicans
prefer reciprocity treaty with the Unit
ed States instead Of a British bounty.
One thing in New York society is
bridge whist, and the women in partic-
ular are little short of crazy over it. Il
is played in the most exclusive sets in
town in lieu of poker, and the amounts
that are staked at it are very considera-
bic.
1t was early in 1910 that the first
daguerreotype was taken in this coun-
on that occasion is still alive. DR..
Charles E. West Of Brooklyn, now over
80, was the subject, and he retains the
faded plate.
In the United Kingdom the term
"shoe' is applied only to footwear the
sides Of which reach just under the an
kle. Boot is the term used for foot
wear reaching above the ankle, and this
is the form of footwear most widely used
in this country.
1t seems positively wicked to eat the
turkeys in Spain. Near Seville this vim
Ter travellers met couple of peasant
women going to market with poultry
They were driving great flocks of tur-
keys, which were beautiful birds. Some
were snowy white, with heads and necks
of wonderful iridescent pale blue and
rose color.
Agents who are food students have
been sent out to China, Peru. Persia.
Mexico, everywhere to the remotest ends
of the earth for the purpose of finding
out what the new or neglected food prod |
ucts are. their value as a nutritious diet
and the extent to which they can be
used to lengthen the menu Of the civil
lied cook
"A mining company at Marquette. |
Mich, has discovered that rats are the |
best and cheapest underground scaven-
gers. Before the men go to work in it's |
nucleus of a colony Of rats in the pit, so
that the scraps and fragments of the |
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