The Virginia enterprise., 1900-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

COX" per year.
,--S"nIe 800 immigrants arrived in New
York Oh Christmas day
:n:\mer!cans ~: buy $7,OOO,OOO worth Of
millinery in Paris yearly. "
AS much as f25OO, ,OOO. 900 has heen
hht to other nations by the British.
last year the income tax Welded
Nrtat britain revenue of f4. 800, 600
IN Twenty-Five years Germany has
increased her manufacturing canacitv
ten fold. p''i'S
-l'ure butter, eaten in moderation. vii,
iut.liSh the OILS required by the human
Some Indian tribes in Alaska get
even with their mosquito tormentnrs nv
eating them. ~
France has more persons ovnr ~
years of age than any other conntrr.
Ireland comes next
,.-over S4O.N0O pounds of hides and
SKINS were bought in Mexico for tho
nlted States dealers.
AS St"ck-raiSing country Venezuela
could supply the wcrld with beef were the
grazing facilities utilized
he banana produces per acre FORTY
IMur times more food than the potato. and
lol times more than wheat,
Nearly $500 residents of minnesota
shared in 1899 in the trcc-plantiny boun
ty, receiving $2lO an acre.
alcrS italcrS estimate that more than
Z:"''"H' christmas trees were sold in
New York before Christmas.
IA hrnllZ" tIhlrt in memory OF Gen.
;N'fred II. Terry has been unveiled in the
nltrd church. New Haven.
New York keeps Il flock of sheep in
'tntral park as ornaments, curiosities
and for the good IF the turf
4 Crumwel' is how the Protectors :
name was pronounced in the old days,
and this is how Lord RoScbery speaks of
him.
"A New York druggist says that Chi
name IL l'atrOnizc the drug stores very lit
tie. as they have little faith in American
drugs.
The hre;,d-ealiny world requires more
than 2.3tH|Mm.WW bushels of wheat ev-
cry twelve months to supply its tables
with bread.
1t is announced that Miss Maud
G"nnr. tn" Irish ayi1ator, will soon re-
turn tu this country to work and speak
for the RurrS.
The Liverpool city council has Cecil-
&c, tn convert or lay down during 1900
htty->iN miles nf electric tramwayS ut a
cost Of t31O.Mm
Nearly onc-third of the paper pro-
'l'ccd in the United States during the
first six months of 1888 was newspaper
in rolls and sheets.
The Japanese come nearer following
American customs i'll celebrating Christ
mas than the other diplomats Of non
Christian countries 1T Washington
- Hin, is ranks >trun, to PENNSYLVANIA
IN tn" production Of coal. 1t is mined in
htty-tWn counties of the state and the
output fer last year WAS %. 4:34 40 tons
The Di>tilling Company OF America
Will abandon Il good many of its smaller
plants ana apply the money to the better
equipment of the larger and more modern
plants.
Never in the history of North Caro-
lima have :" many charters for cotton
mills been taken ont a$ in 1899, nor so
much capital invested in such enter
pri~rS.
The Snuthrrn Pacific railroad has
purchased G,'hN,.ntM feet OF heart long
leaf pin" and 1000 sticks for pilinys to
build whHrvr>, sheds and tracks ut Gal
weston.
III all the towns of the Philippine is
lands which are under American control
any natir" who may be found out Of
doors after $50 p. IN. without Il pass is
fined So
A large trade is done in Germany in
artincial Sponge>. which are produced hy
patented process depending principally
on the action of Zinc chloride solution on
pure celluluSt.
After >andbngging Il man into uncon-
seriousness tw" Minneapolis hiShwaymen
robbed their victim. and then took him
to i lodging house. put him to bed and
paid for his lodging.
The Iule log waS always laid aside
before It wa> burned cut. so that on the !
next Christmas day the new Yule log
might be lighted with the charrc,l re-
mains of its predecessor.
The word ''Iue" has in reality moth !
iii" to d" with Christmas. 1t is an old
Sramdi din;.vian word. >ivnfyins the win
ter SolStice; whi' h was kept as a feast
hy the old heathrn GothS.
-C"-"lWrativc factories in Great Brit
a'n last year made profits agsrcgatihs
over si;ann'an, on a capital of little
over Sll ,MmMW. This is more than 10
per cent: on the investment
--ENperinlpnt< :,:;;,lc in Baden. Ger
many. iii regard to coeducation have con-
vlnced the authorities that there is no
harm in it. and that it has advantages.
especially in the smaller towns
Near Tangie. Il native who stole a
''Hnk'y worth $40 was taken before the
chief ut the DEar. and as punishment he
Was tied t. Il tree while his eyes were
burned out with r"l-hot iron
AT Coventry it used to be the custom
t. eat what were called Goti's cakes on
New Years day. They were Of a trian.
gular shape. about half an inch thick and
filled with kind of mincrmeat
AT a recent auction sale in Paris Il
copy nf the !Jo edition of the Fables
Of Laf"ntaine' brought 500 francs. 1t
belonged originally to one of the court
ladies of Queen Marie Antoinette
There are about 10000 postofces in
the United States. of which 10000 are
money-order offices: In 1897 these 10000
Offices reported 52.O00,OOO financial trans
actions and handled over $500, 100000.
The senior class at Emory college,
Oxford. G. a., has formed itself into So
ciety for the purpose of compiling bbli-
Ngraphy of Georgia authors from the ear
hest Colonial days to the present time.
The city ordinance of Evansville,
Ind, relating to- temporary or transient
stores. upon which a heavy license is inn
posed has been decided unconstitutional
by Judge Mattison in the circuit court.
The common house mouse, when il
has once been caught in trap and es-
c;ped, cannot be caught again by any
trap ever invented by man. Rats are less
careful and sometimes fall second time
-Four million seven hundred thousand
cubic yards is, in round numbers, the
amount Of material that has been re-
moved from Duluth-Superior harbor un-
der the continuous contract in the season
Of 1890.
The tide is very high and strong in
tne second ' vancouver NarrOWS, and the
tidal power is to be used by the ex.Dre.
mier of Prince Edward island, who pro-
poses to build large electric power
house there.
The crow in New Zealand strikes as
sweet Il note as any heard in the wood
land. The robin has no song and no red
breast: the native hen is the greatest Of
rat killers; there is Il caterpillar which
turns into Il plant.
In 1897 the herring fisheries of Ger
many yielded 1852 tons, but under the |
encouragement of the government in |
1893. 12S, 1913 tons were gathe fed eighty |
five sailing and five steam vessels being |
engaged in the industry
A new steamship line will be estab- |
lished between st. Petersburg and New !
York, and another line from st. Peters !
burg to Vladivostock. American capital |
to the extent Of 81 100000 is to be in |
vested in these enterprises.