The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-11-16
NOTES OF INTEREST.

cent.
AZ the beginning Of this century
Bl1t1ah shipping amounted to: only p
100000 tons. A ma ximum of 10, 0OO, 600
tons marks the commencement of its de-
cline.
Walter Rothschld of London has a
collection of eighty-four turtles from all
parts of the world. Some, weighing, over
400 pounds, are believed to be about $50
years old.
The Suez canal halved the time it
took heavy freight to go from the Allan
canal will perform like service for the
Western world.
&C. H. Potter mas exhibited at Post
Falls Idaho, six apples OF the Wolf River
variety whose aggregate weight is seven
pounds ten ounces. Two weigh twenty
four ounces each.
After great labor, time and expense
the newly-fOrmed Pal0utnotchnle canal,
situated at the mouth of the Danube and
passing through Russian territory, is now
officially declared open.
The oldest public building in New
York is St. Pauls chapel, at the corner Of
Broadway and Fulton street. 1t was
built in 1906 ten years before the Decla-
ration OF independence.
Bulgaria is great country for. the
dlstlllation of altar of roses, which is
soapmakers. 1t is precious product
that costs about f5 per ounce.
A protest against the continuation Of
the Boer war conveying the warmest OK
pressions Of sympathy to the South
African republic received 1853 sig
natures in Switzerland in fifteen days.
The Russian government has decided
to adept the metric standard OF weights
and measures, and the ministry of finance
is in no
and manner of introducing this reform.
Written Chinese is practically uni
form throughout the empire, and has
hardly altered during the whole course Of
Chinese history. The spoken language,
on the other hand, is constantly chang
ing.
The Hawaiian band Of Honolulu has
just completed thirty years of continuous
existence, and the present bandmastcr,
Capt. Henri Berger, has been in charge
of the organization during twentyeiyht
years of that period.
The oldest dressmaker's bill was
found in the ruins OF temple Of the city
OF Nlpur, and cannot be less than 300
years old. 1t contains the names Of
nlnety-tWO VeStments given to the temple
by the King of Babylonia.
A sanitary Testament for the use of
courtrooms has been put on the market.
1t is bound with white celluloid instead
of leather, and it can, therefore, be
washed,~ and ~ lisinfected from time to
time.
j. A. McCullom of Eugene, Or, finds
near that city. One hill produced 100
nuts. Last year he planted thirty-fiv+.
hills, one nut in each, which produced a
buShcl. Next year he will plant u larger
crop.
Like Halloween and Hogmanay, and
other Old World festivals, the Harvest
home-which used to crown with JOY and
gladnesS the completion Of the ngather-
ing Of the fruits of the earth in Scotland
bids fair to become 4 thing of the
past.
Where the Chinese language-writ-
ten or spoken-came from nobody knows,
any more than they know where the
original Chinese themselves came FROM
But it is probable that the primary Chi
nese characters existed 5000 years ago
pretty much as they do today.
Silk weaving was learned from the
Italians and French. Nenetians were
brought in to teach glassmaking. a
German erected the fiEst British paper
mill Flemish exiles taught the English
fine wooden manufacture. Cotton print
ing was borrowed from France
--Ubaldo Sibllo, one Of the best-known
Whoelmen in southern Italy, was fatally
injured by fall recently. The funeral
was held at Bari, in Culabria, and was
attended by several hundred bicycists,
all aWheel. One of the mourners rode
behind the coffin "leading' the dead
man S Wheel
In Cologne all automobile vehicles
must be provided with number large
enough to be read at considera BILE dis
lance, and every operator must have Il
certificate issued by the police. author-
ties. Bells must be used instead of sig
nal trumpets. and the vehicles must also
have two brakes.
In certain parts of Australia cannibai
trees t1ourlsh-trees which can hold il
mans body in their center and devour it
as readily as our insectivorous wild flow
CTS trap the insects on which they partly
subsist. In appearance they are like gil
gantlc pineappleS, many OF them being
eleven feet in height
The agricultural department of the
Iowa state college at Ames has been
notified by the United States department
of agriculture that the butter sent by the
college creamery was awarded a gold
medal at the Paris exposition. Only six
medals were awarded, and the competi-
ton was open to the world.
Potato spirit, or alcohol adulteratcd
with pyridine, is coming into favor as all
illuminant in Germany, and promises to
rival acetylene. 1t is most economical in
ramps VI ~ 1CttSl ~ C11ulepONeT. III
the gardens of the imperial palace of
Sans-Souci, Potsdam, there are 22O in
candescent lamps burning this alcohol.
The finer varieties of linen were
brought from Germany and Belgium as
patterns in England. British cloth was
long sent to Holland to be bleachcd or
dyed; British porcelain production is due
to France. The Dutch conducted tn.
British fish catching down to the end Of
the Eighteenth century. English ships
were first built by Danes and Genoese.
Sweden is suffering from the effects
of a boom in manufacturing which has
drawn thousands of the country people
to the larger towns and caused house
rents to advance 20 or 80 per cent. Many
of the manufacturers have invested be-
yond their capital and are in distress.
Money is very scarce and crisis is
threatened.
A new apartment house in course OF
erection on West End avenue and Seven
ty-ninth street, New York, will have at
tached to it automobile stables for hous-
ing the automobiles of tenants. Facili-
ties for charging the electric vehicles are
provided on the first floor, and the second
floor is intended for living anartmon+c 80.