The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-04-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Perfumes arc much in vogue again.
after the few years of comparative dis
use.
Leather money was in circulation in
Russia as recently as the time of Peter
the Great.
-(sermany gets most of the $500. 900
which the United States pays every year
for foreign dolls.
The imports of crude rubber to this
country have i'll the last thirty years in
creased 431 per cent.
The Gar of Russia's army is the
only one in Europe that can boast of
feminine medical officers
,-Dairying, is developing rapidly in
Georgia. and State Dairymen's asso-
citation was recently organized.
From microscopic observation it has
been computed that the skin is perforated
with 1000 holes ina square inch.
On duck farm near Fort Dodge,
Ia, there We're recently $4,000 ducks.
They ate 100 bushels of corn daily
"A skull and crossbones is the some
what grim emblem adopted by Capt
Montmorency'S scouts in South Africa.
The match trust has several factories
Ill Europe and has now absorbed an i'm
portant establishment in South America.
Within the last two years about 100
roStotticeS have been established in Chi
ma. The registry fee for letters is only
~. cents.
The directors of the Brooklyn Public
library have started a movement for the
establishment Of 4 century library to cost
over $1.5OO.0OO.
-Nearly ~ per cent. Of the patients in
Paris hospitals have been found to be
persons who We're addicted to the excess
Slve use Of alcohol.
Fishermen in Holland kill all fish
as soon as they are landed while French
fishermen. on the contrary, allow them
to die of asphyxiation.
The King of Sweden never touches
Il gun. The King of Belgium has shot
only once in his life, and the Sultan of
Turkey cannot bear to see a gun.
The London Lancet contends that
hospital patients, should be allowed to
play cards as we'll as to smoke provided
this does not annoy other patients.
In New Haven. Conn. it has just
been decided by a court that Il man who
asks another for a chew Of tobacco cam
not be held on a charge of begging.
The library of law books in all Ian
guageS. founded in Paris in 1876 at the
inStisation of NJ. Dufaure and the min
iStry Of justice. comprises at present 3d.
600 volumes.
Louie Schackenberg killed a cougar
on Wild Cat mountain, near Fox Valley,
Or. recently, that measured seven feet
three inches from tip to tip, says the
Stayton Mail.
The population of Hungary has in
creased from S,NO.OOO to 10000 this
century. The capital of the country
counts $4,000 inhabitants against 90
600 in the year 1900.
-Snpt. S. w. Downing of the Clacka-
mas hatchery has received 100000 trout
from Lake Michigan. which he is feeding.
These trout will be transpIanted in Wash
lngton and Oregon waters.
The old town of Concord, Mass, has
just voted an appropriation of $500 with
which to celebrate, on April 10 next. the
one hundred and twcnty-fifth anniver-
sary Of the opening fight of the Revolu-
ton.
The greatest of the crown jewels of
Russia is the Orloff. which weighs 1893
caratS. 1t was purchased for $4,000
and an annuity of f4OW by Count Orloff,
who presented it to the Empress Cath
crime.
1t is now recognized that the prosper
ity Of the iron and steel industries in
Germany has become seriously jeopar-
died by the scarcity of coal. especially
the qualities adapted to coking for blast
furnace fuel.
After the battle of Spionkop Brit
ish soldier was found dead with his fin
ger on the trigger Of his rifle. \ Boer
who attempted to take the rifle out of his
hands was shot dead by slip of the
dead mans finger.
Hams are generally sent to Singa-
pore, India packed il. bran or oats, then
sewed in canvas, and afterward packed
IN salt, this process preserving the flavor
far better than any other method besides
keeping the ham moist
-Magnalium. an alloy Of 10 to 20 parts
by weight of magnesium, with 100 of
aluminium, is claimed to have all the adj
vantages of aluminium and also to be
adapted for working with tools, while
even lighter than aluminium.
Prof: Forbes, the state entomologist
or by using a new attachment, which has
the burner collar mounted on hinged
support. with a locking device opposite
the hinge. which holds the burner YER
teal when the lamp is lighted
Near Gravel Ford. Or, a 14-year-ol1
iad named Allie Pearson, while out hunt
ing, found bear and two cubs in log.
ne succeeded in killing the old bear and
ond cub was killed by the boys dog.
A new system of railway traction
has been invented by a New Zealander.
IN which half of the car is underground
and half above. 1t is proposed TO con-
struct conduit Of sufficient capacity TO
receive the truck and running gear.
"A Californian has patented a small
bat to be used in playing handball, which
has curved wicker-work basket against
when the ball strikes. with glove at the
back which is drawn over the hand and
fastened to hold the basket in position.
1T is estimated that Great Britain.
which exported to Germany about 5000
OOO tons of anthracite and bituminous
Goals during the year 1899, will not no
able to spare for that country more than
100000 tons during the present year.
Large nails can be rapidly pulled by
Il new Implement having long lever fit-
ted with claw at one end, a yoke being
mounted close to the claw to support
roughened disk, which is journaled eccen-
trlcally, forming fulcrum for the lever.
There has been patented by woman
the combination of chair and table. the
back Of the chair being pivoted on two
arms attached to the front of the seat.
with adJustable legs to support the back
when 1T Is swung into a horizontal posi-
ton.
A comparison of New York's share
OF the total export trade two decades ago
with its present trade shows a loss of Is
per cent. last year. against a gain Of $50
per cent. for Boston, 6G per cent. for
Philadelphia and 24O per cent. for Bal
timore.
In the free textbook system, in op-
Grafton in Yankton, s. d., the children
rent the books, the yearly charge rang
ing from 20 cents in the first grade to
80 cents in the eighth grade. The fee
entities the pupil to all the books avail
able for his grade.
Nearly 5000, 900 persons in Germany
are insured against illness. One-third
Of these reported illness in 1888, the av-
erage duration being seventeen days.
which, taking the average wages at only
90 cents a day, means loss of nearly
$24,OOO,O0O year.
Lamps can be opened for filing with
out the necessity q. anscrewing the burn
OF Illinois, has estimated that without
the assistance of birds the state of ILL
nois would be carpeted with insects, one
to each square inch Of ground, at the
end of twelve years.
In Patagonia ostriches are not bred
as at the Cape Of Good Hope, but run
wild and are being gradually exter-
minated. The Indians chase them on
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