The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-04-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

White .opossums are occasionally
caught in Ohio county, Ind.
The Indian school at Chamberlain,
s. D., has 1O2 pupils enrolled.
"A free medical dispensary has been
opened i'll Chinatown. San Francisco.
Capital invested in farming in this
country is estimated at S16,OOO,O0O 900.
London spends $40 year on the
education of each child in the public
schools.
The total number of sheep in the
at $14,32655O
A resident of Coos Bay, Or, is re-
ported to be getting together IL raft of
logs to take to Cape Nome.
Heavy timbers for use in dredges
have been sent to Jacksonville, Fla,
from Lewis county, Wash.
The number of deaths in Brooklyn
for the month of February was 2OO0,
which is unusually large.
In the Danish high schools the cost of
educating students: including everything
except clothing, is sos year.
In blowing out a candle. hold it aloft
and then blow upward. This will pre-
vent scattering of the grease.
Philadelphia has forty-onc wards
and two branches of the city council.
Chicago has thirty-tive wards.
The foreign commerce of the port Of
Boston last year aggregated $3.50, 49,
600, surprising all previous records.
The name of Col. Kekewich. the hero
of Kimberley. is much mispronounceu.
1t should be pronounced "Cakewich.'
automobiles. They can be attached to
the footboard and can be reached by the
foot of the operator.
-Deducting dubious vessels, the COM
pleted battleships of England now num-
Der thirty.six and those of France and
Russia thirty-eight.
Picked Russian Sardines. not having
a place on the tariff list, are held to be
dutiable as behring's, picked or sailed,
at half a cent pound.
The Delaware, LackaWanna Il
Western announces that it will put in II
block signal system between Hobokcn
and Hackettstown this year.
-Glyngarth, a mansion ON the Angle
sey side Of the Menai straits has just
been acquired by the ecclesiastical com
miSsioners as palace for the Bishop of
Bangor.
-Mormons claim these converts in the
past four years: Indiana, 276: Illinois,
80: Iowa. 100: Missouri 100; Nichi-
gan -: Wisconsin, 100; Minnesota, IS;
Nebraska, 60.
Rev. DR.. II. Allen Upper. pastor of
the fashionable First Baptist church at
Montclair. y. j., has given up his church
to help the poor and work among the I'M
churched masses.
During the past few months over 200
vessels on the lakes, some of them the
largest and best class of steel steamers.
have been bought and sold, mostly for
ore transportation.
The discontinuance of Japanese i'm
migration to the Hawaiian islands has
,A,1S Of V.,,>
couver s.. e., an army of them arriving
by every Oriental steamer.
Switzerland now has about sixty
macaroni and noodle factories, which
supply the whole demand for the coun-
try. although the Swiss come next to the
Italians as macaroni-eatcrs.
FOR new shops at the PHILADELPHIA
naval station 81 ,mO.NN will be expend-
rd. Thirty-two structures will he added
to the League Island plant, giving fucili-
ties to turn out ships of war.
"A picture by Sislcy. The Flood"
which was sold by the artist in 1877; for
% and reSold at a public sale in Bol.-
deaux in 1886 for S1S. was sold once
more in Paris recently for $500.
,,:Rev. DR.. F. W. Hamilton of the
I'm hnive e,1sals church, Roxbury. Mass,
church in the street cars of Roxbury and
IN the cars of the Boston IL" road
Representative Gibson of Tennes-
see says that a tombstone in a ceme-
terry down in his district bears this cpi-
taph: Some have children, others
none: here lies the mother of twenty
One''
Helen NJ. Francis. aged years and
months, has arrived safely at Strou,]-
Ok, after having travelled from New
ork city without escort other than the
tfalnmen TO whose care she had been
committed.
Education costs $3.50, 100000 year
IN the United States, Great Britain.
France and Germany. The United
Mates spends three-seventhS of the whole
amount. and leads with all educational
per capita of $2.67.
One Of the old Stockton and Oar
hngton engine drivers has just retired
from active service. He has been an en-
glne driver since 1853. and in the forty
SIN years has Travelled nearly 1000, 900
miles on his engine.
The women's department at Cornell
university will be rendered more demo-
cratic next year. An effort will be made
T." get two women i'll each dormitory
room by increasing the price of room
occupied only by one.
Some of the London doctors are going
in strongly for a new and fashionable
cure for adult patients who suffer from
indigestion. They prescribe quarter of
an hours vigorous exercise in the morn
ing and skipping ropes.
For fancy dress gayeties in England
Young women are adopting as novelties.
IN honor Of soldiers at the 'front.' what
are known as Khaki and Union Jack"
costumes, which are said to be pic
turesque, if not graceful.
Several new ten-inch guns mounted
on disappearing carriages have been
placed in the Notifications guarding San
Francisco harbor. Experts say the har-
Dor is now proof against anything that
may try to steam into it.
-Cassaya and fish form the chief arti
cleS of food of the Caribs of Guatemala,
and the former is cultivated only in sutti-
Gent quantities for their daily needs, as
vegetable to eat with their fish and to
make their strange bread.
At last the autombile has reached the
York firm is Offering automobiles for
$1,000. The advertisement announces
that one is ready for delivery and that
others can be furnished in u short time
When Theodore Thomas has fulfilled
his promise and given to the Newberry
library his collection Of musical scores,
Chicago will have the second, if not the
only rival will be the Boston Public IL
brary.
- There are more than $4,000 streams
in Porto Rico. Not more than half a
dozen are worthy of the name of river.
The rest which are so numerous, are
only mountain brooks or rivulets at NEST
which are almost wholly dry EXCEPT
when the rain falls.
Frank Stanton of Rapid City, S. D.,
sold to Sioux City party two carloads
of range horses for an average Of $50
apiece. The animals We're about the av-
erage run Of the range. The price is con-
siderably higher than has been paid for
horses for number of years.
A new nitro-glycerine explosive has
recently been employed in Europe, which
has a low inflammability, and is quite as
insensible to the effects of friction or
shock as any other kind of explosive. 1t
also can be stored in Il damp atmosphere
without suffering deterioration.
A mothers gallery is feature of
the Lincoln Park Rantist church Gin