The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-11-27
CURRENT TOPICS.


New York city consumes 1000. 900
barrels Of potatoes a year.
There are nearly 27o different relis.
Ions in the United Kingdom.
Canada produced over $4,000, 900
worth OF pig iron last year.
The total cotton crop of the world
amounts to about 100000 bales.
Cork has the best dressed and most
prosperous looking population in Ire
land.
The United States will sell more
than $10,000,000 worth of fruit abroad
this fall.
In Spain the daily wage Of a field
laborer ranges from 20 to % cents,
without board.
Baron 1waski Hisya, the richest
young man in Japan, is touring the
United States.
Servia and Greece each has a popu-
lation OF 100000, or a little less than
the state of Indiana
The As national banks Of New York
city hold from $400!0oo,000 to $780,.
100000 Of other banks.
With the recent death of the duke
OF Richmond passed away the last Of
Wellington's aids-de.camp.
George B. Mcclellan never delivers
extemporaneous speeches. He al.
ways reads from manuscripts.
A large part of the tropical fruit
used in the United States is raised by
the transportation companies which
bring it.
The earliest railroads were designed
to be toilways,. on which any man
could run his own cars on his own
schedule.
The Louisiana leper colony will be
moved from Indian camp, which is 80
miles above New Orleans, to a point
near that city.
Frank Schaukee, of Vincennes,' Ind,
has designed and patented no less than
SOFA devices Of various kinds, and
claims to be the most prolific inventor
in the country.
Pennsylvania farmers refuse to pay
more than $50 per month for school
teachers. but are offering 81 per day
for men to dig potatoes.
The United States Is now the great.
est coal-producing country in tho
world, the output Of the last year
reaching 300,000.000 tons.
Since 1852 more than $4,000 convicts
have been sent to French Guiana, Of
whom 341@ per cent. died of disease,
hardship and insufficient food.
According to a recent census, there
are upward Of 600 Chinese in Johan.
nesburg, Of whom $50 are in business.
All are reported as doing well.
A sensitive dog will follow the track
OF man who is wearing his masters
boots, and will reject the track of his
master II he has on strange boots.
Richard T. Latin, of Worcester,
Mass, a street railway man, will leave
for the Philippines on January 1, and
will build electric lines in and around
Manila.
M. Gaub, the French chemist, says
that If the hair crop could all be shorn
from the women of France for one
year 1t could be made to produce l..
O22,O00 pounds of iron.
Herr Dorfer, of Sodchman. Prussia:
lays claim to be the oldest teacher in
the world. He is over 81 years of>age,
and still teaches. He has never had a
days illness in his life. rs.
The government in it's laboratory at
Washington is testing free all seeds
sent for that purpose by farmers. It
Is not unusual to find that half the
seeds in sample will not germinate.
In pound of clover seed 27,700 weed
seeds were found, mostly green fox
tail and plantain. III. r. A..
The effort of Germany to become In,
dependent Of foreign countries for 4.
number Of products by developing
them In her colonies has failed in the
matter Of cocoa, coffee, tobacco and
ginger. The only definitely successful
venture is that with sisal hemp. Pea.
nuts have done fairly. .E : .l=s* s115t
At cracow, Poland, 500 Jewish rab-
BIS have taken solemn oath that IN
their religion there Is no such thing
es the blood ritual. which Is believed
to be ONE of their ceremonies By the.
peasants q Russia and Central Eu-.
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