The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-04-20
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Several soap bubbles can be blown
at once with new toy, which has res
ervoir for soapy water, from which a
small quantity of liquid is forced into
narrow neck, air being blown through
the tube into the neck to force the bulb
bles out between a series of metallic
disks at the end of the neck.
japanese clerks are now employed in
| Il considerable number of London stores,
| and give satisfaction, whereas manufac-
turers who have tried them complain
that they are wasteful to material and
have no idea of the value Of machinery.
| They seem to spend all their spare time
| studying the English language.
William F. Horner of Seattle, who
has been serving as private in the
Fourteenth infantry in the Philippines,
| for the past five months, is the proud
possessor of gold ring given him by
Ma: .-Gen. Lawton for his brave defense
on the evening Of November -, 1899.
In Paris it has been customary for
cyclists to go to the nearest restaurant
and to initiate their tires with the help
| of the carbonic-acid apparatus which is
used to give head to the beer, but it is
found that pneumatic tire inflated with
carbonic gas soon loses it's resilency and
the S"S esS"peS With ieuidrkdDle Iaplu-
ity.
A. w. Kennedy of San Francisco is
having built Mt Seattle raft containing
100000 feet of lumber, or Ii, 900 piles
| which he will have lowed to Japan. The
venture Is exceedingly risky, but very
profitable if successful. When finished
the raft will be $50 feet long and So feet
| in diameter, and will draw considerable
| water.
Railroads are placing large orders
for Washington fir to be made into
freight cars. Large shipments of this
lumber will come over the mountains
this year and the stuff will find it's jour
ney's end at the car shops of the middle
West. The Rock Island, North Western
and Burlington companies have large or
ders in.
There is hardly ranch in the Pan
| handle or the western part of Texas that
does not have its own private telephone
system, and the barbed wires of the pas
ture fences are used exclusively for the
purpose. A number of these private lines
are fifty miles long, and messages are
without a break.
-Chicago's fire losses for 1899 are now
closely estimated at $5.75O,OOO. These
are the figures as advanced by the off,
| Gals Of the Chicago Underwriters asso-
citation. and taking the first six months
records 1t is not Improbable that they
are approximately correct. The income
of the companies for premiums is esti-
mated at $6,OOO,OOO.
Mature is economical as we'll as wise.
When she puts animals in dark places
where they need no eyes, eyeless they
! are. There are blind fish and insects and
spiders i'll Mammoth cave, and in the
| Adelsberg cave in Carolina there is the
ohm, a singular reptile with queer
! punches Of gills, three claws to its feet
| and minute and useless eyes beneath the
skin.
| w. w. Fish, millionaire of Elmira,
n. Y, and Prof. B. F. Barge have leased
1900 acres of choice lands on the Yakima
Indian reservation at Since station,
Wash, and have a large force of men
engaged in blowing and seeding. They
propose making a great stock farm, in
which alfalfa will form the basis of feed
ing several thousand cattle, sheep and
hogs every winter for the early spring
market.