The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

observation-disclosures LVAC.
In the United States army there ar
SOO commissioned officers who have riser
from the ranks,
Two recent arrivals at the New Yorl
aquarium which attract much attention
are catfish from the Mississippi
,-Malaga usually has about 1G rain,
days year, and at least POO DAYS whei
there is not cloud in the blue sky.
In 1850 there We're 1000. tons o.
steel made in the whole world. In 1895
the United States alone made 9,O75,OO(
tons.
In 1850 there were 1000 tons Of
steel made in the whole world, In 1895
the United States alone made 9,O75, OO(
tons.
Miners in the west Of Scotland vii
have pence per day added to thei
April.
The Victorian Order of Nurses wa:
founded by the Countess of Aberdeen u.
Canadian memorial of the diamond
jubilee.
The nut trees alone of the world
could at pinch feed a population three
times as great as the present number OF
inhabitants.
Over 100000 bottles, of the value Of
tIOOO. are recovered each year from the
dust yards in London and returned tc
their owners.
Business in Dawson is very dull
Many restaurants and two hotels have
been forced to close their doors for want
Of patronage.
1T is estimated that the various the
alters and opera houses in Germany re
ceive subventions to the amount of about
100000 year.
A debating society in the north OF
Ireland is discussing the question wheth
cr the last snow was Il foot deep OF
twelve inches high.
Native chiefs of Ceylon have started
a Transvaal war fund. One chief head
cd list with $500 and rival immedi
ately subscribed $3.50.
Cecil Rhodes fits out the tattered pris
oners of Kimberley with new suits, and
transforms them into clean and reSpecta
BILE members of society.
The San Jose scale is scattered
through Southern Georgia in thirty coun
ties. while North Georgia is comparative
ly free from the infection.
Rainy days are particularly despised
by the telephone girls. because more peo
pie stay indoors, and as a consequence
the work is almost doubled.
The number of waves required to pro
duce the sensation of red as they break
upon the eye must be $4,000 in an inch
and Al 1000, 900, 900, 600 in a second.
Owing to the old system of digging
out diamonds Kimberley proper is built
around a hole big enough to contain the
entire white population Of South Africa
The Salvation army, for the SECOND
time. has failed to get Il foothold il
Mexico. Mexican laws forbid all re
ligious professions in the streets of cities
In the Crimea the British left 60,
600 corpses, which are inferred in 13(
cemeteries on ground occupied by the
troops during that long and disastrous
war.
New Hampshire Sons of Veteran:
are making strenuous efforts to have {
national military college located at The
Weirs. an elevated site on Lake Winni
pesaukee.
The London papers announce thai
final steps have been taken in forming
hat trust to control the trade of England
The combination has been capitalized al
$20OO.OOO.
About 100000 Mormons remain il
the Utah region, from Canada to Mexi
co, with about $4,000 more elsewhere
Mormons act together, as directed by the
Mormon priests.
Plans are being made for adequate
navy-yard. In the past the yard has de-
pended almost entirely on the Brooklyn
fire department.
During the first week of January in
fuenza nearly doubled the number OF
deaths in Amsterdam. In the Wilhel
nina hospital 80 of the assistants were
attacked by the disease.
Twenty sets of the Marconi appa
ratus will be installed on our warships
The first charge for each set will be $500
and an annual rental of $500 per set vii
he paid to the company.
Poetic justice has been dealt to .
poisoning brought about by the scratch
OF wild rabbit he was letting loose fo1
the hounds in cOursing match.
-Britons within the United Kingdom
are fairly blinking their eyes these day:
at the object lesson in real British unit,
furnished by the colonial troops fightin!
side by side with British regulars ii
South Africa.
The number of Catholics in tn,
Transvaal are roughly estimated to reacl
from $4,000 to 10000. for the most par
engaged in mining business or mechanical
pursuits. They are conferred mostl,
around johannesburg.
There has been appointed specia
cliff jewellers in the vicinity of Manco
and Cortes, Col, and also near Aztec
Mex. with the idea of reserving tn,
lands as a national park.
Some people make it point never t.
retire without a light burning in thu
house. A bit of information worth hay
ing is that small even light may be OBJ
tanned from a small piece of candle al
night if powdered salt is piled around til:
candle until the black part of the wick is
reached.
In 1856 astrologers said the world
would be destroyed by the conjunction
Of the planets. A few years later anoth
er alarm was raised, and in 1881 Simon
Goulart claimed mountain had opened
IN Assyria and scroll had been shown
him on which was written the predic.
ton the world was coming to an end
He frightened everybody.
In the middle Of the Fourteenth cen
fury in Paris new ordinance enjoininq
the cleansing of the streets and the shut.
ting up of swine was carefully neglected
as usual, and terrible plague was the
consequence. The faculty of medicine
called upon for a remedy by the King
sent to inform him, after long discussion
that the plague was the result of a hos
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