The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-05-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


home grown tobacco.
Of the BOO Chinese in New Zealand
only 2G are females.
The life of an Australian native rare
ly exceeds 80 years.
Glasgow has about $4,000 of popu;
lation more than Liverpool.
--t'ermany has thirty-Six fewer bicycle
factories than it had last year.
On IL nursery ut Brisbane Water
there are nearly 100000 exotic trees.
lin 1900 there were 200 horses in
Australia; i'll 1900 there are 2,OOO,OOO.
british locomotive firms have work
on hand for twelve to eighteen months.
Philade. phia has two doctors. il den
fist and two druggists all named Slaugh-
ter.
More deaths are due in England to
alcoholism than to diphthcra or typhoid
fever.
There is al asparagus farm Of 2Oi
acres near Charleston 1t is Il hi.
moncymakrr.
1t is said that 100 acres of timber
are destroyed in the United States every
day in the year.
-S;indalWM,l. which sometimes feeds
huShman'S fire, is exported to China
for idol incense.
In London walking is now looked
upon as Il hcalth-giving exercise and is
greatly INDUCED in by all degrees
The Americans in the Klon,like have
exactly the same rights and privileges
and pay the same taxes as Canadians.
Among the 153.OOO inha bitants which
the last census gave to New Mexico there
were 10000 Ind ans and $4,000 Mexi-
cans.
Within twenty years California has
added 100000 to its population, or five
times as many as the entire population of
Arizona.
Municipal authorities in Chicago ex-
poet the coming school census to show
that he population of the city is over
2.WN.NOO.
The largest ocean going vessels can
voyage up the River st. Lawrence as far
as Montreal. over 1000 miles from the
Atlantic ocean.
The native dress of the better class Of
Japanese of both sexes Is loose wrap
per, open at the chest. and ut the waist
G. mined by Il girdle
British Columbia ''toothpicks each
about :; feet square and 80 feet long
is a name given by Canadian lumbermen
t" large timber haulkS.
T. W. Williams Of Decatur, Ala, is
said t. own the largest hog in the world
1t weighs 1924 pounds is ID feet :, inches
in length and II. feet high.
A medical expert contends that out of
1000 girls studying the piano before the
age OF t. about COO are afflicted with
nervous troubles in Later life.
Milford comes to the front with the
first gra<$hoppers of the season, ii farm
or Of that place having captured some
lively specimens III his wheat.
Railroads Of East and West Java
have recently been united. SO that one
can now travel from one end of the is
Land to the other in two days.
American tourists in Japan number
three times the total Of all other foreign
travellers, and the United States are held
i'll high esteem by the Japanese.
Since 1868 the corn production of
this country has increased more than 122
per &c nt while the production Of wheat
has increased nearly $50 per cent.
The Japanese ride American bicycles
and play baseball; they use American rx-
rrt'>Si"n> in eunnrrti'n with the game.
as Zone strike. home base" etc.
One of the common sights in South
Africa is the great yulture of the hills,
the "AS>vrgel. Over all the battleheds
these enormous carriun birds hover.
The Australians eat more than double
the amount OF meat per head Of popu
lHtion to that consumed by an other peo-
pie. except these OF the United States.
The quaint log church of the Presby-
the hands Of a brewing company. and it
has become the office of the establish
mtnt.
The total capacity of the boiling
down. chilling. freezing and meat-prcserv-
ing works in New South Wales is esti-
mated at 1G.WO,OOO head of sheep and
cattle.
While 10000 900 died of the famine
i'll India in 1877. 1i,OOO.OlW died in that
of 1897. and the estimates for the pres
cnt famine are much more. Where will
it end!
Last year the American people ate
2.F"'Wn tons Of sugar. OF this the
American Sugar Refining company, 9th
rrw!Sr known as the trust, made 1885,
900 tons.
According to the Iowa State Regis
ter that state has 200 more financial in
situations than any other state in the
| nicn. The banks are generally small.
however.
1T is estimated that Of the 55j, OOO,-
'hH' feet cut Of logs in the Maine forests
the present season. 225WO,OOO feet will
le sent TO the pulpmills instead of the
sawmilS.
Balloon wireless telcgraphic commu
nlcatlon Is TO he attempted at Ports
mouth. Eng. with Il view to establishing
communication between the sea and a
land force
In 1898 France sold to foreign coun-
tries no less than 1863, 900 bottles of
\ilUt'l at 81 -l.DO francs.
The first place in the trade is occupied
by England.
Tho Mersey dock board of Liverpool
has decided to spend $2,OOO,OOO in max
ing the southern dock able to hold steam
ers ~ per cent. longer and broader than
the Oceanic.
lin his state clothes; including the
lnonds worth f2,4OOOOO. His collar his
epauicts, his girdle, his cuffs sparkle with
precious stones
On June - the seat of the national
government in Washington will have
been occupied 100 years, and IA grand
celebration is bein: planned to commem-
crate the event
a brass plate in the Alabama capitol
IN Montgomery, marks the place where
jefferson Davis stood when he took the
oath of Office as President of the South
ern Confederacy
The American Mouse club is a re-
cent addition to New York clubdom The
purpose of the organization is not to ex-
terminate the little rodents, but to de-
veop fine species.
An ocean steamer of the first-class
gong at full speed, cannot be brought to
halt in less than three minutes. In tn.
meantime she will traverse a distance Of
about half Il mile.
After heavy snowfall in Wyoming
last winter a bunch of horses were re-
covered near Battle lake by digging a
trench through five feet of SNOW for dis.
lance Of three miles.
The coal famine in Russia is 50 60
rious that the minister of finance has
persuaded the Emperor to permit foreign
coal to be imported free of duty for the
use of the railroads.
AN Arkansas woman and her seven
children recently Travelled to Minnesota
on one ticket. The children were all
within the pres: ribbed age limit, there be-
ing two sets of twins,
Within a radius of four miles of
Rushville, Neb., there are no fewer than
nine prairie dog "towns,' covering as
much as $500 acres of pasture, which is
rendered almost useless.
San Francisco parties are having
built at Seattle, Wash, raft Of logs
which, when completed will be 625 feet
long and contain L. 100000 feet Of lum-