The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


ern Mexico are to be irrigated by canals
from aid extended by the federal ant
state governments.
= Southern California is famous for it,
Indian centenarians. most Of whom ar,
able to establish the date of their brit
in franciscan mission records.
;o "A &C Chicago physician is Of the opin.
matte ccnditions, SS per ano cent? nen e al al
cases" of consumption can be cured.
According to the decree of March
~, 1893, in Paris, the speed Of automo
biles has been fixed at twelve miles al
hour in the streets and sixteen on tn,
road.
When the South African war is end
ed and the troops come back London ha:
made up it's mind that there is to be
review of the Grand Army with "Bobs'
at its head and a march through the
streets.
A military company stationed at Tu
mis- recently captured 5000 sparrow eggs
many pounds of other ingredients anc
made into an omelet nearly seven feet il
circumference.
The Standard Oil company does no,
insure against fire. finding it cheaper t(
stand it own losses than pay the high
rates which are assessed against extra
hazardous risks, in which class oil rein
cries are placed. =
I'm Philadelphia case has just been
finished concerning diamond which has
caused two years litigation in the law
courts. sent four persons to the penitel,-
flary for long terms and has cost big
sums for lawyers fees
German Southwest Africa is proba.
bly, the most important of all the German
colonies. 1t has territory two and one
half times larger than Prussia and pos
Scsses climate similar to that of the
Transvaal and Cape Colony.
The superiority of American engines
and cars, as we'll as of all other railway
equipment and supplies. is conceded b.
railway officials and experts, and the de-
mands upon our shops will continue to
grow with increasing rapidity
-Highlanders in London who have not
forgotten the Gaelic will regret that
the Gaelic services held at intervals in
Crown Court church for the last thirteen
years are not self-suppOrting, and may,
therefore, have to he given up.
1t has been found that smallpox pa
tents are least marked when kept in
rooms dar kened with red curtains. Sun
light passing through a red medium loses
its chemical power. 1t thus prevents
smallpox taking continent form.
-Antipathy to green paint led a Chi
caso horse to turn in a riot alarm from
neWly-celOred patrol box. Several pa
troll wagons and a big squad of patrol
men answered the call, caused by the
horses gnawing at the alarm box
Cork is about the most buoyant sub
stance there is, but q cork sunk 200 feet
deep in the ocean will not rise again to
the surface owing to the great pressure
of the water. At any less distance from
the surface, however, it will gradually
work its way back to light once more
Water pipes can be secured and
cleaned by new German apparatus,
which is composed of two globular floats
to tit the interior Of the pipe, carrying
between them a tOothed scraper which
engages the sides as the floats are forced
through by the action of the water.
For the extraction of rubber from
the rubber tree a new process consists in
cutting up the bark and roots and soak
ing in dilute sulphuric acid. This de-
cOmposes the woody portions without af-
fecting the India rubber. In this way
the rubber and bark and roots are sep
arated.
An association of automobile COM
panieS has been formed in Berlin; large
structure has been erected in the center
of the city which will contain pernla>
nent exposition of automobiles of differ
ent makes, delivery wagons, motorcycles
and all the accessories of automobile con-
struction..
The old Indian burying ground in the
suburbs of Sandusky, O., are to be made
into city parks. The bones of the red
men, who have been inferred, some of
them, for nearly century, will be re-
moved to some other spot in order that
the grandeurs of civilization may have
fuller sway.
The government of Guatemala has
determined to make cart road from Ell
Rancho, the terminus of the Northern
railroad, to the city of Guatemala, there
by obviating the necessity of mule traffic
and insuring safe transportation. 1t is
thought that the road will be finished
within six months.
The word compound" which is
used frequently in the dispatches from
China, means an Enclosure. In that
country and in Japan it is customary
to build high brick walls around fac
tories, business houses, banks and resi-
!dences for protection, and these are
known as compounds"
In the German army, the automs-
bile using alcohol as combustible is to
be tried for the transportation of pro-
visions and ammunition. Emperor Will
liam has given an order for the con-
struction of four automobiles with gaso-
line motors, in order to test the value
of this type for army use.
a Nuremberg paper, commenting on
the fact that eleven of the thirteen pigs
that were found in the markets of that
city last year afflicted with trichinae,
came from Prussia, concludes sensibiy
that the policy of excluding meat from
America is foolish and that the only
safeguard lies in careful inspection.
An extensive building has recently
been opened in Leeds, Eng, to be de-
voted to the Development of clotheswork-
tention of the Clothworkers' company of
London that this college should become
the leading and most complete example
of a textile and dyeing school in the
world.
The close of the Nineteenth century
is identified with many new methods OF
combating disease. tuberculosis, which
has hitherto claimed such multitudes of
victims, is yielding to the open-air treat
ment, and now there seems to be some
hope that the dread malady known as
cancer will be found to be amenable to
treatment.
-Tien Tsin, the center of so many ex-
citing scenes in China just now, is one
of the largest cities in the empire hav-
ing fully 100000 inhabitants. 1t is the
and Muddy Pei-Ho river, cighty-three
miles below Picking and thirty-three
miles above the Taku forts at the mouth
of the river.
In Strasburg an engineer has in
vented substitute for gutta percha.
In ordinary temperatures the mass is
hard like pitch, and while not being
brittle is firm against pressure. 1t does
not break when hammered, even at the
freezing point. Thin plates were sub |
jected to the action of sea water with
good results. -
American or European softwoods |
will not last in the Danish West Indies. |
They are destroyed by an insect called |
the wood louise. This seems not to be |
understood by foreign manufacturers of |
furniture, such as pianos, for instance.
An instrument is frequently honey
combed by these little creatures and rem
dered useless.
Each of the eighteen provinces of the |
Celestial empire is ruled by governor or |
who is responsible to
the Emperor for the entire administra-
ton, political, judicial, military and is
cal. Each province is subdivided into
departments ruled by projects, and each
department into districts, each with a
district ruler
E. III. Town, who lives at Chubbs