The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.


According to the Church Missionary
Cleaner, the Christians in Japan num-
Der 140,S06.
The Birmingham health department
furnishes bottles for the children of
impoverished patients
The rampant tropical vegetation of
Martinique is invading the ruins of
the deserted city Of st. Pierre.
A New York charitable woman who
is generous in her gifts of flowers to
hospitals sends butterflies with them.
Within four months there have been
ten mishaps, more or less serious, to
British torpedo boats and destroyers.
The Rome newspapers comment ia
vorably on the scheme for the erec-
ton in that city of a monument to
Shakespeare.
Many brick and stone masons in the
City of Mexico are working for 81 to
$3.50 day who only got so cents and
IS cents few years ago.
A class, to show the most modern
methods for the cure of stammering,
is conducted daily in the palace of
education at the Worlds fair
A special mission will soon leave
Constantinople for Italy with collec-
ton Of ancient arms as present from
the sultan to King Victor Emmanuel.
The government of Ecuador has in
troduced into congress bill for the
separation of church and state and the
confiscation Of ecclesiastical property
1t is suggested that perhaps one rea-
son why martial law is so often pro-
claimed in the South American repub-
lies is that it Suspends the payment Of
debts
A German publisher says that,
while the number Of new books issued
every year is enormous, only about
one manuscript of 300 submitted gets
into print
In Vienna the answers made by pris-
oners in the "sweat box' will be re.
corded by phonograph, so that there
can not be subsequent doubt of the
statements made
The bishop of London has received
a subscription of s25 from an under
taker who described the gift as a
thank offering because trade has
been so brisk Of late.''
There is board Of guardians in the
south of London, says an English ex-
change, that allows inmates who have
seen better days to don the silk hat
when they go out for holiday.
In the French ports the importation
of English Goals fell off in 1903 from
1902 about $4,000 metric tons, while
the direct imports of coal from Ger
many have increased very rapidly.
During the summer season many of
Roston's street cars have university
students as conductors, who employ
this method Of earning money to as
sist them in obtaining an education.
In the hope of making profit out of
the Chinese who have displaced them
from the Transvaal mines, some KAT
frs have taken to hog raising, SO as
to crafty the celestials' love of pork.
Two Antwerp policemen have each
written a theatrical piece, and both
plays will be produced by the mem
city composed exclusively of police
men.
Many thousands of workmen in
Hamburg are abstaining from drinking
beer, using coffee, settler and spirits
in it's place. They are doing this in
support of the striking workmen of %
breweries.
Actors belonging to the Court the
alter, Vienna, are not allowed to per-
form for charitable purposes except on
payment of certain fixed fee, which
is handed over to the pension fund of
their theater.
AS a gravedigger at Einsiedeln, in
Switzerland, was shoveling earth on
the coffin Of woman who had been
buried he heard cry for help and
hastily opening the coffin found the
occupant alive.
Colorado produced 100000 pounds
of honey in 1908, and the output this
year is expected to be considerably
larger. Epicures declare that Colora-
do honey is the finest produced in any
state of the union
1t is the intention of the senate of
the university of Heidelberg to estab-
fish a gold medal in honor of Prof.
Kuno Fischer, and to award the same
every five years for work on the his
tory of philosophy in Germany.
1t was found the other day in Lon
don that stolen dog which failed to
identify it's owner had been dosed
with aniseed by the thief Aniseed de-
stroys the sense of smell temporarily.
The dog did not recover for two or
three days.
Brig-Gen. John F. Weston is happy
over the order permitting officers to
wear civilian clothes Whine on duty
at the war department in Washing.
ton, It is current gossip in military
circles that Gen. Weston was respon.
sible for the order
Automobile renting in New York is