The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-23
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

income exceeds $3.50, 900. -
The word 'cossack'' is Turkish and
means free man" or "free lance"
A Venezuelan orchid now on OK
hfbition i'll London is valued at $1,000.
Boston is agitating the question of
prohibiting the ringing OF church bells.
The number of persons cremated in
Germany from 1873 to 1899 was BIO.
Canadian towns and cities are stead
lily growing and many of them quite rap
Tobacco is now raised in County
Meath, Ireland, where it grows luXuri-
antly.
The evictions in Ireland of the past
year were only 454, the lowest in twenty
years.
Some of the English towns are being
infested by fraudulent collectors for the
war fund.
One hundred wounded Germans were
found i'll the hospital at JacObsdal, in
South Africa.
There is movement in the Malay
States to send Il mounted volunteer corps
to South Africa.
1t is Il curious fact that Il negro has
never been known to tame an elephant or
any wild animal
In the years 1SoO-1S93 the number
of families who left Alsace-L Lorraine for
France was over 1000.
Trolley lines in Connecticut last year
carried 59,OS4. i02 passengers, and the
steam lines, 5O,2t9.4GS.
Among 100000 Germans there are
twenty-one suicides every year, most of
them aged between 20 and 80.
-IhOnph X
country. it had to import last year more
than S1o,OOO,OOO worth Of grain.
The plum known as the .'Abund-
ance" is cross between japanese
plum and the American wild plum.
-Roumania is to have three new rail
way lines constructed ut Il cost of &c.,
.'4i,'HO exclusive of rolling stock
AT Zurich the theological faculty of
the university finds that it has only eight
students for ten professors this winter.
A news vender of North London was
sentenced to seven-day term in jail
for crying false war news on the streets
1t is predicted that our whole re-
naming area of white pine forests will
be practically denuded within five years.
The balance of trade in favor of the
United States for the seven months end
ing January amounted to 1913, 12S, 49,.
Gen. Funston is stationed in the
under him, scattered about in small gar
riSonS.
shipping tolls at the Suez canal in
January yielded 81 .>ti. 400, against ST.
416WM i'll January. 1890, and $1,4OS,0 900
in 1898.
london medical papers discuss an
outbreak of typhoid fever at Exeter,
which has been traced to consumption of
raw cookies.
The California currants sold in this
country are SO carefully cleaned that
they command better prices than COrinth
ian currantS.
The great need of Havana is a mod
ttrn Strengthening plant. and plans have
been made for one to be built at the
expense of the city.
Prof. AgaSSiz'S exploring expedition
with the -AlbatroS$ has found the ocean
five and one-half miles deep near the
Island of Tonga at Eua.
descendants of the missionaries III
the Hawaiian islands constitute about
"ne-twenticth "f the white population,
exclusive IF the Portuguese.
A compilation of dates from the YEAR
-llf to 1867 Indicates that Japan must
expect IL destructive earthquake about
once in two and Il half years.
colorado produced last year $751;
1:o. 1G'; in gold $12 .GSO2j6 in silver 81,
ti1.329 in lead, 1.Sl4,:22 2G in copper and
So11. 30 in zinc and manganiferous iron
Statistics Of the Massachusetts rail-
way commissioners show that the aver
age cost of railway equipment per mile
of main track in that state last year was
$t6.149
The timber supply Of Georgia has
been estimated by lumbermen of that
state as sufficient to last only nine years
ut the present rate of saving, 2.6OOOOO
feet daily.
Hamburg and Bremen cannot agree
as to which has the larger fleet hut both
are proud of the fact that Germany has
the two biggest steamship companies in
the world.
Judge Woodward of Wilkesbarre
Ia, discharged Il prisoner the other day
because he was unable to decipher the
commitment papers made out by a Justice
Of the peace.
Payments out of the British en-
cheIuer b! the formal returns averaged
during February almost exactly $4,000
'"W per week over the average of the
preceding year.
-Ihe Presidents summer tour this
year will begin in July or August and
VIII INCLUDE. Il trip to the launching at
Nan franclSco of battleship, to be
,-N9me City. the new mining town on
the Alaskan coast, already has Il news
p'per-a four-page sheet which measures
about 12x16 inches, but which sells at
i" cents copy.
-katS have lately been uverr,1nnil,e
certain parts Of the northern district Of
i'nndt*. Recently 6-year-old girl. who
IS h1th deaf and dumb, was badly in
,''re' by these pests
Through state aid there have been
pun III New Jersey about $50 miles of
harl roads. Counties. boroushs, town
Shlps and other municipalities have con-
structed as many more.
,-Kussla is probably the ONLY cOuntrv
that could raise a regiment cOnlposed on.
ttIrrely OF generals. who number 1913
ley receive in salaries an aggregate of
|,oW,0OO rubles year.
= The Yorkshire tEng) brewers are
gradually bringing into use motor tr.c-
t,"'! ears Tor the conveyance of beer to
their customers. The cars are stated to
ne 'll'lch more economical than horses.
=. DAiabamas output of coal in 1870 was
I.5.2oO tons and in 1899 10000 900 tons.
of iron ore i'll 1870. 1850 tons, and in
IS'o i.oS3,M3 tons. The thirteen COT
two in 1899. ~ MY
=. English insurance societies are badly
divided ever the question of war risIs
some refuse to haye the volunteers at
any price. while others think the men
rs safe in South Africa as at home catch-
ing influenza.
Several new 1O-inch guns mounted on
disappearing carriages have been placed
IN the fortlfications guarding San Fran
CISCO harbor. Experts say the harbor is
now proof again anything that may try
to steam into it.
Since vaccination has been compul-
sorry in German cities, in 1874. only
few cases of smallpox has been observed.
and most of these occurred in foreigners
coming from countries without compul-
sorry vaccination
The Sultan Of Turkey is most in
quistive as to what is said and written
about him abroad. Every day trans
latIons are laid before him from the
newspapers of the world, and these are
all closely perused.
The corporation Of Lincoln. England
have resolved, if possible, to make the
largest and deepest boring for water in
the United Kingdom. 1t will be over