The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-13

Is given as OO,olZ, ana the ngureS Tor
the present month are sure to be much
larger. .-~ 49,,
There are four old colored women at
a nome for the aged in Philadelphia
whose ages aggregate 4OG years, and
there are several others in the institution
who have passed the century mark: One
Of these old women. Mother Melon
all" was born in Valley Forge in 177O
That makes her 100 years old. -
In New South Wales the number of
sheep has shrunk from 61,831 ,41G in
1891 to 35, 1882 in 1890. In nine
years, by natural growth, the sheep of
the colony might have been expected to
have increased 100 per cent. Instead of
this they have decreased by nearly SO
per cent, the effect of the drouth.
Buffalo county. Nebraska. boasts the
largest alfalfa field in the world.
1t is under the management Of H. D.
Watson and is from one-half to two
miles wide, and eight miles or such a
matter long. 1t yields three cuttings a
season and the total yield per acre for
the three cuttings averages close to
eight tons.
A proposed franchise act in Mantle.
ba prohibits voting by persons who are
unable to read and write the English
language. This provision is aimed at
the newly arrived Galacians and Douk-
hobars, who are disposed to retain their
former language and customs and who
are said to be undesirable citizens in
other particulars.
The sky over Philadelphia during the
convention was dotted with bright-rcd
kites and to them were attached Ameri-
can flags. These flags were on lines
running between the kites, and these
lines, at the height at which the kites fly,
could be seen with the naked eye. The
effect, therefore, was Of the flag futter-
ing, with the blue sky as its background.
The, memory of Caesar, a Great
Cardeza of Germantown, Pa, but which
died recently, is to be kept green by a
monument costing 5000. Caesar was
8 years old and feet tall and was
great pet among the Cardezas' large COL
lection of animals. The dog, was buried
in fine coffin, with real silk lining and
silver handles.
st. Joseph county, Indiana, which
for many years was far behind the de-
mand of borrowers upon it's school fund,
has now on hand over 10000 with no
demand. This means a loss to the school
fund. and it is suggested that Il law
ought to be framed permitting school
funds to be loaned at less than per
cent. rather than have the money bear
ing no interest.
The building at Guthrie, Ok, in
which most of the territorial offices are
located, seems to be infested with scor-
pions. Two of the poisonous reptiles
have been killed in the rooms occupied
by the school land department within
the last week. One of the scorpions
stung Charles Cunningham, clerk, in
three places on his body, but the iniu-
ries did not prove serious.
There is Hebrew court in Great
Britain known as the Beth Din, which
is presided over by the Very Reverend
DR.. Adler, chief rabbi of England Its
decisions are not, of course, legally bind
ing, but all who come before the court
are asked to sign form accepting the
that Moses used to adjudicate upon the
differences of the children of Israel.
Two paintings, valued at $4,000, were
delivered to the Adams Express company
in Boston for transportation. They were
lost and their owner brought suit to re-
cover $4,000. The Supreme judicial court
Of Massa chusetts sustains verdict for
the defendant on the ground that there
was a clause in the receipt limiting the
liability to $50 and that the receipt bore
the stamp, "Value asked and not given"
A CHASTITY relic of the late Spanish
American war is on exhibition behind
the bar of saloon on Front street, Phil
adelphia. 1t is a mass of silver Spanish
dollars. numbering some 500. which have
been melted in fantastic shape. The sill
yer was found on the body of half
roasted sailor OH the Spanish warship
Maria Theresa just after the battle of
Santiago, when Ccrvera's fleet was an
initiated.
A clerk in Brooklyn office named
William E. Farren has become so pros
porous that his father has asked that he
be discharged. The lad gets $775 month
and has held the position thirteen weeks.
The father says, however, that the boy
never brings cent home with him and
is running his health by sporting about
to excess says the elder Farren, land
am afraid he will disgrace himself
The states of Texas, Mississippi and
Georgia have recently abandoned the sys-
tenn Of hiring out convicts, but have en-
cially in raising cotton. This form of
employment has been found to work the
least injury to free labor and to assure
the best returns. Both Mississippi and
Texas have made a profit out of their
convict farms and the farms have been
free from the hardships and cruelties.
The census enumerators in Leaven-
worth, Kas., have discovered, as they
| think, the oldest person living in th?:
state. She is old Auntie Watkins, col
oled woman, who produced papers to
show that she was ia years old. She
recalls as one of the two most important
events in her long life the fact that she
cooked in the barbecue given at Liberty,
Mo-, in 1S49, to the soldiers on their re-
turn from the Mexican war. The other
was when she voted for the first and only
time. six years ago, when she was los