The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-05-18

stteppc on tho eastern shore of the Cas-
plan sea immense naphtha springs Of a
quality which is said to be equal to the
best American naphtha.
An American who has recently re-
turned from Cairo says that most of the
Egyptian women nowadays dress in Eu-
rnpean clothes with great magnificence,
and wear the most wonderful diamonds
and ether precious stones.
"A flower known as the laughing
plant, which grows in Arabia, is so called
because its seeds produce effects like
those produced by. laughing gas. The
flowers arc of IA bright yellow, while the
seeds resemble small black beans.
Statistics have been published to
show that brainworkers arc long-lived.
Five hundred and thirty eminent men
and women of the present century were
taken, AND their duration of life gives
an average Of 6S years and months
The Woodworking laborels and
coolies seen everywhere in Japan wear
only Il narrow loin scarf and straw san
dalS. In cold and rainy weather they
wear Il macintosh of loose straw over
their shoulders and IL mammoth rude hat
The recently-published statistics of
European countries regarding emigration
Of 1890 show that the United States still
offers the strongest attractions for Euro
pcanS who wish to leave their native
lands.
The little city of Orca, in Sweden,
OWNS and operates Il nursery that brings
it an annual income of $15O,OOO. sum
that pays all the expenses of the munich
pality, including free schools for the chill
dren and il free telephone system for the
people.
To give an idea how Industrious the
ri nd ,,.f
lines of work they are most interested,
there were produced last year eighty di-
rect or substantive colorS, twenty-five
morlant colorS. forty-tivc acid colors and
six basic colorS.
Some old Quarrit~ of Oriental alabas-
ter have recently been discovered in the
ncighborhood of Monte Aniata, near ST.
ena. 1t now seems probable that the
beautiful columns Of that material in the
interior of the Cathedral of Sicna came
from those uuarries.
The two leading agricultural socip-
ties in Britain. the Royal Agricultural
and the Highland Agricultural, have
united their forces and are henceforth to
have Il national agricultural examination
board and to grant prizes and diplomas to
farmers after examination.
In recent case of pneumonia III
Brooklyn $500 gallons of oxygen gas was
used. the sick man was packed in ice an
alcohol bath was given every Twenty-Five
minutes, and four quarts Of milk with
three quarts of whisky were admins
tered daily. The patient recovered.
A Southerner has patented venti-
lating apparatus which will draw cur
rents of air from the top of building
to the rooms below, having Il vertical
pipe provided with Il tlaring- mouthed
hood. p:votcd at the top. the hood swing
ing toward the wind and receiving the
air for the pipes below.
A New Yorker has designed a street
cleaning machine to he operated by one
man. having Il rotary brush geared to a
large wheel to be rapidly turned and
sweep the dirt into an endless chain of
buckets. which empty into bag suspend
ell from the machine as the latter is pro-
PEELED along the pavement
On a tombstone in an old New Eng
land churchyard there is an epitaph
which never fails to bring smile to
the face of the reader: ITO the memory
of Ann Sophia and Julia Hattie. his two
wives. this stone is erected by their
grateful wilower. James 3. Rollins.
They made home pleasant
"A modern railway mail car. equipped
with the latest c'ntrivanctS. such as
veStihulc>, automatic c,uplerS. airbrakes
etc. costs between $4,000 and $4,000
The government pays fer the use of it's
railway mail cars ut the rate of $40 a
year Tor a 3Ofoot car per track mile,
and $50 per year per track mile for 60
foot car.
The English people think that the
proposed new nincpenny coin will enable
them to get the better Of the French
who, it is assumed. will accept the coin
as tn" equivalent of il frame At present
VIII. n John Bull visits Paris he frequent
ly has to surrender y shilling in ex-
change for an article the value of which
is frame.
The board of health Of Independence.
HAS. recently purchased 4 patent fumi-
eating apparatus. and the thing was
tried for the first time recently in Il
house which had been occupied by Il
smallpox patient. 1t exploded and blew
a hole through the roof. but the health
officers are satisfied that tn. disease
germs We're killed by the shock.
The output q native coal in Rus
STA has enormously increased If late
years: ut the same time the import o.
the fcrci=n article has steadily risen, and
this in spite of dntics. till at tho pres
ent moment the import of foreign coal
has bcccm. Of such urgent necessity that
the duties have had to be temporarily re-
duced Or RENTED altogether.