The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-13
Curious COMBINATIONS.

More than 27,OO0.00O.O0O pounds Of
in 1890
enteen grandsons and only three grand
daughters.
Los Angeles has thirteen parks, big
and little, the average park area being
314O acres.
philadelphia was the first city to is
OFT in 1855.
Spain is the only country in Europe
which has 4 smaller foreign pcpu!at ton
than Norway.
Monster flying kites are being utilized
for aerial photography in the French
army this year.
Last year there were 1920 miles
Of Geographic lines and 933. 1913 miles
of wire in the United States.
The shoe manufacturers have made
and sold fo1 The first half OF this year
lIJ.0OO case: more than last.
TO maintain the public schools of
this country costs every man, woman
and child little more than 50.
The French olive-growers have to
reckon NOR and more with the compet:-
ton OF the olive-growers in Tunis.
The average annual consumption of
beer per head of the population is 20)
liters in Berlin and 566 in Munich.
The largest inland sea is the Medte:-
raDcan, 81. 600 square miles, or more
than three times the size of Texas.
The shallowest OF all seas are the
Baltic and the Adriatic, which average
only 43 and As yards depth respectively.
1t costs so cents more to send ton
Of freight from Liverpool to Manchester
(England) than from Liverpool to Bonn
bay.
Modern inks date from 1893, at
which time researches Of DR.. Lewis and
RibancOurt in the chemistry OF ink be-
gan.
A perfect SECOND folio" Shakespeare,
1852, with all the original blank leaves,
sold at Sotheby's recently for f136. or
$3.50.
AT the close of the fiscal year of 1900
there were 76,GSS postofiices in the Unit
ed States, or one to every 1000 inhab b.
itants.
The "Gideons'' is an organization of
commercial travellers in Chicago who
| neither drink. smoke nor play cards, 1000
strong.
England was originally Engaland,
the land Of the EngleS, or Angles, who
came over from Sieswick, a province Of
Jutland.
balloons left the city with ninety-one
passengers, 3J4 pigeons and nine tons
Of letters.
During the first half Of this year POI
textile mills were built. of which 143
were cotton. So knit goods and % mis-
cellaneous
Timber is seasoned by the evapora-
ton of the water, the extraction of the
vegetable juices and the qualification of
the woody tissue.
A Yale professor has grated the tail
rattlesnake, and the combination is alive
and ready for business.
An old woman has Just died in the
West who is reported to have seen less
OF the world than any other American
woman. having never viewed Il railway.
never entered Il church, and never heard
the music Of band
-Hellogabalus was the first Roman
emperor to wear a slken garment. In
the year \. y. 800 he had a siiken gown
made in which he appeared in public.
and which caused grave scandal among
staid elderly Roman citizens.
During the year 1900 no fewer than
212 rocks and shoals which were dan
gerous to navigation were reported by
the British admiralty survey depart
| ment. Nine sunken rocks were discoy-
cred by vessels striking on them.
The Hood River Fruirgrowers' union
in Oregon recently received an order
from a Chicago firm for $4,000 or 1OO,-
600 bushels of apples in bulk lots. The
demand was too big for the supply, which
this year will be about 10000 boxes.
A period of FIVE seconds between a
fash Of lightning and thunder means
that the flash is a mile distant from the
observer. Thunder has never been heard
over fourteen miles from the flash,
though artillery has been heard at 100
miles.
An outbreak of smallpox led the
Hull tEngland authorities to allow
smoking in their street cars, and though
the practice is still INDUCED in. Hull is
probably the only English city in which
this is allowed