The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-20
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cial reports Of the world.
Cornwall is the only county In Eng.
land which has no theater.
Cubans are buying cattle in Vene.
zuela at the rate of 100 900 head q
year.
An open box of fresh lime placed in
a damp cellar makes the air purer and
drier.
In FormOsa a man must have a
license before he is allowed to smoke
opium.
Last years shipments of oranges
from California were the largest ever
reported.
Moscow asylum authorities are ex.
p~erimenting on a hypnotic cure for
alcoholism.
The ground value of the city of Ber-
lin is said to be worth twice what it
vas in 1887.
Bolivia and Siam are the only civil
lied OF semi-civilized powers without
a national debt.
Mexico stands at the head of the
Spanish-American countries in the
matter Of letters.
Russia has a per capita investment
in industrial enterprises of 81, while
the United States has $125.
The United States has 1887 Sun
day-schOOls, or more than half the
number of the entire world.
When an unmarried m dies in
Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery Of
the coachman are all scarlet.
A man won a smoking contest in
Paris by keeping a cigar alight for
two hours and twenty-five minutes.
st. Moritz, in Switzerland, has the
biggest toboggan slide in the world.
1t is three-quarters of a mile long.
A London fireworks firm has re-
ceived hundreds Of orders from per-
sons "desirous of celebrating the fall
Of Port Arthur"
Nineteen competitors took part in a
race in Paris for men with wooden
legs. The winner did a mile and a
half in IL minutes.
The funeral of a young girl, who
died after less than two days illness
of diphtheria, was held at Woodsville,
N. H., by telephone.
Judge John J. Jackson, of the north
ern district OF West Virginia, still dis
charges his judicial duties, although
over 80 years of age.
Nearly 100000 barrels of oil were
produced In the acknowledgements
field during the year 1904, nearly twice
the Ontnut nf tho nrouiorc voor
Cuban honey is shipped to Germany,
the United States, France and other
countries. The amount gathered in
1904 exceeded $500 900 in value.
According to the California Fruit
Grower, California in the year'19O3-4
produced 165, 600, 900 pounds of prunes
and 120, 900 900 pounds of raisins.
A striped bass three feet six inches
in length and weighing 25H pounds
was caught in Russian river, Califor-
MIA. recently. 1t took several hours to
land him.
A Turk from Smyrna has applied
for membership to the New York stock
exchange. He is very rich and a
heavy dealer in cotton in Asia Minor
and Egypt.
It is estimated that to collect one
pound of honey from clover So, 000, 900
heads CT clover must be deprived Of
nectar, and 3,750,O 0 visits from bees
must be made.
A postal curiosity is the fact that
one Of the smallest countries in the
world, San Salvador, has issued the
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postage stamps.
Nearly 40 per cent. more women are
working this year at mems labor than
worked ten years ago.; while the in
crease Of male workers is only a trife
over 25 per cent.
Alabama planters are being urged
by banking interests to grow more
grain and potatoes, thus reducing the
cotton acreage and preventing low
prices for the staple.
An investigation by konradi has
shown that the anthrax bacillus may
survive in water for three and a half
years and the typhoid bacillus for
more than 500 days.
Outside the polar regions there re-
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one-fifticth of the land surface OF the
globe. Fifteen years ago the unknown
portions were about o%ne-eighth of the
earth's total.
Garfield county, California, contrib
uted 1910 900 worth of potatoes to the
agricultural wealth of the centennial
state for 1904. Fifteen hundred car
loads is the estimate of the potato crop
for that county.
California has a law against the
docking of horses tails. The first ar.
rest under it has just been made, in
the person of a veterinary e e
He may be fined $500 or imprisoned
for six months.
BY a recent amendment to the law
taxing travelling statesmen in the state
of Tabasco, Mexico. all representatives
Of foreign business houses will have
to pay a license fee of $40, and those
Of local business men SIS.
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