The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

There are at present between $4,000
and $4,000 cabmen in London.
Several companies are prospecting
for oil in various parts of Mexico.
Next to England and France, Ger
many is the greatest creditor nation.
There are over $4,000 bookkeepers
and accountants in the United States.
China pays II per cent. interest on
her public debt; the United States
only 2 per cent.
Canada is capable of furnishing
more than the 200,000,0OO bushels of
wheat which Britain has to import ev-
cry year.
More than $750,000 worth of artifi-
cial milk was exported last year
from Germany and France to the Unit.
ed States.
A Chicago girl has originated among
spnsters the Mutual Massage Club"
the members smoothing out one an
others wrinkles.
The United States imported 51,471,.
179 pounds of spices in the fiscal
year lSUo-f, value dL pOllS WuSuCS
imported, $4,815,125.
Spain holds the record for cheap
management of her railroads. Only
48 per cent. of the gross earnings are
spent in management.
A number of towns on the northern
coast of France are now connected
with London by telephone. The charge
is 81 for three minutes.
The English waiter has been virtu.
ally ousted from English hotels, res
taurants and boarding.houses Swiss
and Austrians have taken his place.
1t is believed that the whale holds
the palm for length of years. A re-
liably correct computation puts the
extreme age of the largest fish at 400
years.
The worlds total coffee production
for the period of 1923, according to
bags, of which Brazil furnished 1885,.
308 bags.
More than 5000 experiments on liv-
ing animals were made for British
government departments of public au.
thorities in 1903, and 1913 for the tu-
berculosis commission.
A study of prevailing industries in
Latin American shows that brewing is
a very important industry in Chile.
The largest breweries are those at
Santiago, Limache and Valdivia.
Prof. Justin H. Smith, of Dartmouth
college, is at present travelling in Mex
leo experimenting the collection of
material for history Of the war be.
tween Mexico and the United States
A new harbor is to be built at Nelil.
la and one on the Chafarinas islands,,
in Morocco. The Spanish government
will grant a subvention for said OBJ
jects.
The bamboo sometimes grows two
feet in "a fours. There are 80 varie-
ties of this tree. The smallest is only
six inches in height and the largest
$50 feet.
The entire sophomore class of the
University of Vermont has been
placed on probation as a result of
kidnapping, when two freshmen were
detained from a class banquet.
An exhibition of mineral products
and hydraulic machinery is to be held
in Barcelona this month. Exhibits
coming from abroad will be received
even after the exhibition has been
opened.
Acting Secretary Of the Treasury
Taylor has suspended the order for
the making Of new costums stamps
for imported cigars until all parties
who might be affected by the proposed
change can be heard.
Sir Richard Sankey estimates that
Ireland's boys contain the equivalent
of 5,000,000,0O0 tons of coal, and he adj
vocates creating power for varied in
dustries by converting the fuel into
electricity on the spot.
rumOr is in circulation in naval
circles, and is believed to be we'll
founded, that the admiralty has de-
cided to abolish the 4.7-inch and G.
inch guns in the navy and substitute
for them the 9-inch guns.
Cleanliness is not understood in
Tibet. What serves as clothing by
day serves as bedding by night; the
bathrobe, which constitutes mans
suit of clothes, is simply ungirdled
when he lies down to sleep.
An Austrian naval league, modelled
after the German Naval league, has
just been organized in Vienna, which
is supported by Archduke Franz Fer.
dinand, the Austrian ministry and
other influential personages.
A professional man who found re.
lief from insomnia by reclining on a
seaside porch, where the sight OF
rolling waves soothed his nerves, will
make the experiment of attaining the
same result with moving pictures.
The wife of Camille Flammarion
the astronomer, never allows any one
to cut her husbands hair but herself
and she uses the shorn locks for pill
lows. Her home in Paris is full OF
pillows stuffed with such clippings.