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

Librarians say that people who read
novels and nothing but novels are about
. ~ per cent. of readers in the public book
!. institutions.
3s:-Dutch coins in British Guiana are to
be demonetiZed. Ample time will be Civ
en- for holders to get them exchanged at
the treasury.
An official return from the British
war Office shows that the distinctively
Scottish regiments in the war contain
10000 men.
Golf has infected every European liv-
ing in the city of Singapore. There are
two golf clubs, and the members are very
enthusiastic.
-Eighty-six. Kansas counties have re-
funded their bonds, reducing the interest
rate in some instances from { and to
49, per cent.
There arc 1900 church-bell ringers in
the diocese of Oxford. This is the larg-
est number in any English diocese. Ex-
cter comes second and Devon third.
The negroes of Rome Ga, have de-
clared III absolute boycott OH the street
railway company because of rule re-
stricting them to the three rear seats.
A Wichita (kas:) girl, who tried sui
eide but failed, had written Il note re-
Qutsting that she be buried without a
coffin. She refuses to explain the be-
quest.
A leading Chicago physician says
inland certainly the cheapest-is to
ia tak ia long trolley ride just before going
The Marquis of Salisbury keeps
about seventy indoor servants, not count
ing dependents of higher class. such as
private secretaries, librarians and chap
lans.
p,$k ho,. 60 holl
the record for the largest sum that has
ever been earned III a year by Il woman.
~Her highest total for twelve months is
100000
The Adirondack mountains embrace
an area of over 2,SOO.OOO acres. and in
this great area fully 300 mountain peaks
rise to attitudes ranging from 1900 to
5000 feet.
-Kansans are so busy that it is men
toned as Il sacrifice that Dickinson
county farmer stopped harvesting long
enough to attend the weddings of his
three daughters.
The fashionable women of Persia
have finally decided to adopt European
dress. and the services of the dressmak-
erS in Teheran are said to be rewarded
now at Il fabulous rate.
In France women arc allowed to
wear mems attire. but they must pay for
the privilege. The amount of tax which
Il woman pays for wearing masculine
garb is about so year.
-Chinese iron is becoming serious
rival to the American and English prod
uct in Japan. and is now sold at about II
per ton cheaper than that which is inn
ported from Great Britain.
Tennessee cotton planters are sending
out large orders for turkeys, in an effort
to save the crop from destruction by
era shoppers. which have appeared this
SeaSon in enormous numbers.
-Ire1and's vital statistics for the quar-
ter ending March 81 shows 4 decline in
the population of 1915 souls, of which
thu. excess of deaths over births is re-
Sponsible for nearly one-half.
Northern Europe contains the follow
in. estimated number of total abstain
trs: Sweden. 100000; Norway, 2O.O 600;
Denmark. 1UD,UOO. and Finland. 10000:
an aggregate of $4,000 adherents.
For the first time in its history the
actual sea levels. mileage, attitudes and
lungitudes of the Mississippi river are be-
ing determined. The work is in the hands
Of the Mississippi river commission.
There is an umbrella in Butler, Pa,
supposed to be oyer 200 years old. 1t
used in Butler county for over 200 years.
At present it is an ornament in hard
ware store.
The smart parasol for this summer
has large golden butterfly poised on one
Of the fgodets, with sequins for wings.
The parasol is rather plain otherwise, but
the butterfly gives it all the dash and
blilliancy that may be required.
With population of 100000 Lon
don harbors every day 100000 strangers.
Some may remain week, some a
MONTH but all the year around there is
an average of 10000 visitors who are
within the metropolitan boundaries.
Al ~1~4
shirts and boots of tanned salmon hide
and jackets from goldfish skins. Frog
skins are now used in the bookbinders
art. and the skins of many other fishes
and reptiles are put to practical uses.
-Ahefdeen (ScotlandD has become the
great center Of the Scotch fishing indus
try. No fewer than no steam trawlers,
engaged in fishing. These land on an
average something like $40 tons of fish
every week.
Colorado has sold sixty acres of tim
Der near Devils Head mountain, where
it is estimated there are 10000 gray
squirrels, which have lived and multi
piled for years. protected by public senti-
the woodcutters.
-(irrmany had hob suicides in 1897.
rate of p to 100000 inhabitants The
rate for Prussia alone is 20, that Of the
province I: Saxony 81 and for Schles-
wig-Holstein 33, while in Catholic and
Polish Posen it is only 8. For Berlin
the rate was 81.
The enterprising japanese are among
the first to carry into practical effect the
lessons of the Transvaal war. Attention
has been called to the Importance of good
cavalryin mount ainous districts, and be-
fore long great improvement will be eff
fccted in this arm.
Many wedding invitations in New
York instead of being engraved have ev~
cry word in manuscript, and written by
the bride herself. This is not true, of
course, of every large, ceremOnious at
fair. but where the marriage takes place
at the brides home.
-A@novei' dog show is soon to take
place in the Leyallois-Perret hippodrome,
is to be show, or rather a competition,
for sheep dogs and their masters, and
every, possible way of testing the excel
lence of hes dogs competing is to be tried
- Two aof$ the largest Ruhmkorff coils
ever made have been ordered in this
country for foreign government, and
vii! VIII give an ELECTRIC spark forty
amounting to three or four horsepower
and having potential of half million
yolts:a -.
Congressman Long of Kansas sent
one IL his constituents at Newton some
radish seeds several months ago. Now
the man has sent his representative q
.radiSh eighteen inches long and foul
Inches in circumference to prove thai
government seeds will really grow some
thing. .:..s-
Some Of the few surviving delegates
to the first ational Republican conven
ton have changed their political faitl
since that convention assembled. There
are only fourteen of them all told, and j.
they get to the polls in November fai
percentage of them will certainly vote fo
MIR. BryaR.2yt, ri : r.
The Ninth regiment, which has JUS
been ordered from the Philippines t.
China, was for time under command
of Gen. Wheeler. The fighting abiitie!
of itszmen are of first-class order and il
calledsupon for battle, in China they vii
most assuredly give good account OF