The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-30
LOCAL NOTES AND COMMENT

LOCAL NOTES AND COMMENT.
Artificial whalebone is now ioe.
ing made from leather, which is
soaked for two or three days in
su]phate of potassium then
stretched, slowly dried, subject.
ed to q high temperature and
then to a heavy pressure which
makes it hard and elastic. =.
At the coming session Of Con-
grees Brer Wilson, of West Vir.
ginia, should be elected 20 de.
liver the valedictory At the clos.
ing general exercises. Il will
be a s,,lcmn occasion when the
time comes for the peoples sen.
tence to be executed, aud the
places which have long knowu
so many will know them: nc
more forever. = "
1t is a mighty good thing that
the credit Of the government is
still good enough to enable Dem.
i ocrats in Washington to borrow
sufficient to pay their own salar.
les. ~<>->
An old newspaper published
at Boston. has a notice Of the
marriage of Captain Thomas
Baxter, of Quincy and Miss
Whitman, Of Bridgewater, on
Dec. Is, 1888, latter a long and
tedious courtship of forty.eigh,
years, which both sustained
with uncommon fortitude."
The annual report of Superin
tendent Stump of the immigra
ton bureau for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1894, shows 8
very material falling off in the
number Of immigrants arriving
in this country. He estimates
that since October, 1893, the ex
odus Of foreign Storage passen
gers from the United St,tes ha.
been greater than the numbe,
arriving and therefc:e concludel
that numerically :nere are nov
fewer foreigners in the United
states, who came as steerag@
passengers than there were a.
the end of the fiscal year fol-
1893. From the tables accom-
panying the report it alpear.
that during the last fiscal yeal
280, 020 immigrants arrived il
this country.
Buenos Ayre. will soon set
thu completion Of the 1arges,
opera house in the world. Il
will seat 5000 spectators aud tire
stage will hold 800 persons: Thu
house will be so CONSTRUCTED
that box holders can have thei1
carriages driven up to thei!
tiers. =:
The newspaper ad. is fas'
taking the place of any. othe,
kind of advertising among pro
gressive merchants. This il
reasonable when a person re-
fleets that the average country
paper reaches upwards of one
thousand readers. TO these
readers it goes tifty-two times
per year. 1t is taken home: I,
is read and re.read by. every
member of the household, and
the neighbours, too. just drop in
to look at 1.-The miserable sheet
Otherwise it is with . hand bill.
Usually the hand bills are hand.
ed out on the streets, kftin the
door knob or on the porch. If a
man takes one on ths> street he
chances at it and throws it aw.
ay. The ones left on the porch
and behind the door knobs are
usually lost, while the news
paper ad. becomes more attrac
tive and more generally, read
IMAM ever: - ~: u. ss.t,ssz ........
Jerry Simpson signs from tue
Hot Springs that it was DOODLE
that beat him in Kansas. Hith
erto it had been supposed that
it was votes. ~
The terms of Grover Cleve-
land and David B, Hill end =,
exactly the same minute March
4. 1897. They will, therefore,
start even for . new job.
A Chicago woman sues for di.
vorce on the grounds that her
husband is a fool. When the
marriage certificate is produced
and it is proven that he married
her, her charge will have been
proven and the Judge should
accede to the request 81 the wo
man that the man may be al.
lowed those inalienable rights
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