The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-06-27
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BY series of elaborate experiments
a scientist has come to the conclusion
| that bees are not so intelligent as house.
! flies.
Boston town council 1as purchased a
| fire engine and given it the name of Ed
ward VII. But this Boston is in Eng
land.
Two large steamers have been
| launched at Kiel and Flensburg for the
Siamese and Chinese passenger and car
60 trade.
There are three things about the
North Pole that have never been dis
! covered -exactly where it is, what it is
and why it is.
Since 1879 France has spent $780,
100000 on canals. and there. are new
schemes involving an expenditure Of
$1O0.0OO,OOO more.
Fairly good English was spoken By
GO per cent. of the German soldiers who
visited Dublin recently while their squad
ron was at Kingston.
"A German firm Of cannon founders
has offered to purchase the electro-mag-
netic gun recently invented by Prof.
Birklands of Christiana.
An electrical means of thawing pow
der for use has been devised by E. +.
Stuart of Silver City, Ida, the home of
Little Dolly Daydreams.
veric into Fremantle, West Australia,
the steamer Narrung's salvage is ex-
pected to exceed 100000.
Sixty good-sized mushrooms were re-
Gently discovered growing in the matched.
roofs of some old property at Hucknall
Torkard, Nottingham, Eng.
Sweden is sending an expedition to
Spitzbergen to take meridian measure
ments. The party, proyisioned for year,
will leave Tromso July 26.
Two chickens, one white, the other
black, and both Matched from the same
egg, are now in the possession Of a COR
respondent at Enfield, Wash.
--Arbor day was originated by the late
ex-Secretary OF Agriculture J. Sterling
Morton, and it will serve to keep green
the memory of it's originator.
extensively in Durham, South Africa,
since the war, is held responsible for the
dyspepsia prevailing in that town.
Now that it has been decided that the
United States ''is'' and not "are'' what
the populace is pining to know is wheth-
er the United States is "she'' or '.it.'
Canada represents 80 per cent. of
the entire British empire and one-ff-
teenth of the land area Of the world.
Yet. it's population is not over $780, 900.
There is man in Havant; England,
the! day Of his BIRTH has now Started
fine crop of hair at the mature age Of 90.
The largest goat ranch in the world
Ia% 9Wnf n IA has @ an Of
they have $4,000 acres in whichato roam.
Out of the population of 100000 in
Hawaii nearly 10000 are Asiatic, 10000
being Japanese and 10000 Chinese.
There are also several thousand Porto
Ricans.
The engineering ski IL of beavers,
while proverbial, rarely fails to call forth
fresh enthusiasm when their work is in
vestigated by competent and skilled me-
chanics.
"A New York physician has discov-
Scripture should therefore be amended to
read: Cali men are more or less dys-
peptic.'
Berlin newspapers state that the
Kaiser hats rejected the appeal for mercy
lodged by the Poles sentenced to impris-
onment in connection with the disturb
ance at Wreschen.
"A recently enacted law prohibits the
operation on Chicago's south side boule-
wards and parks of automobiles which
emit sparks Of vapor and leave offensive
odors behind them.
BY means OF an injection of a color
ing matter that is not poisonous into the
veins DR.. 1card Of Narcotics claims to
be able without danger to dis :pSalsh
death from catalepsy ~
-Coffee-leaf smoking is said to possess
the property of imparting to tobacco
smokers an intense dislike for the flavor
of tobacco. This is the meanest thing
yet sprung by the anti-coffee people,
-Caius College, Cambridge, England,
is pronounced "Kees" College. The
AS an undergraduate he was named
Caius, since Latin had to be used, but
however he wrote the name he was al
ways spoken Of as 'Kees," as are his de-
scendants to this day.