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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
BULL RUN TO GO AT AUCTION.

Fam GUS Battlefield to be Converted Into
Farms and Town Lots. 81.
The spirit of progress has at last
reached to Bull Run and Appomattox.
The first battlefield of the war is to be
sold at auction. to be divided into small
farms and town lots. The sale will
take place by order of the court at Man
assas, Va, December ?.
This brings to mind one of the most
singular condolences of American his.
tory. The first meeting of the army of
Northern Virginia took place at
Blackburn's ford, July IS, 1861,
and brought on the first pitched
battle of the war. At 10 a. m. of that
day Beauregard took up his headquar-
ters at the Mclean house, and there
Mcdowell attacked him with a heavy
force of infantry and artillery. On the
9th of April, 1865, after 1861 days of
almost constant fighting, the command
ers of these two armies, Grant and Lee,
| met at the Mclean house at Appomat-
tox and drew up the terms of the sur
render.
When Beauregard evacuated Mana ssas
Maj. Mel 4ean removed his family to Fa-
quier AS the tide of the war rolled
again around them they removed the
second time to Iunenburg, and there. in
1863, the major returned one day and
told them he would move them this time
where the sound of battle would never
reach them more" They rented the
brick house at Appomattox. which has
become historic, and toward which all
the straegy of the war converged, and
around which it so suddenly eliminated.
And so it happened, as Mai. Mclean
frequently said, that ''the war began
on him and ended on him."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
BUILDING a 2oo-FooT puDDIno.'
How " was Made nm Savage Island /,
4 the Village OF Liku,

How " was Made nm Savage Island II,
the Village Of Liku.
mad been ten years on Savage island
and meant to come to England on a visit.
but before leaving went to each village
to say "good-by" to the people. We had
been three weeks from home when we
got to little village called ELiku. The
evening after our arrival there was ter
rlble commotion-men, women and chill
dOren were running about--some carry-
ing sticks, some logs of wood and some
big stones. The men began digging d
long, shallow trench with their sharn-
pointed sticks. The boys brought bin
stones and frewood. These were piiei
up oil along one side Of the trench.
The wood was then set fire to and was
soon blazing, while the stones on the ton
We're getting hot. While the fire was
burning one side, little bundles of some-
thing white and soft were being unilone
from the clean leaves that Contained
them. This was the paste out of which
the pudding was to be made. There were
no flour, suet, eggs, milk, plums or cur
rants IN it. 1t was the paste Of a native
vegetable called taro, and old cocoanut,
both grated very fine and mixed to.
gether. A long pudding cloth was laid
along the side of the trench, and in il
the pudding was carefully wrapped. 1t
was Aoe SuAASo VI ALucu. DuC nice, clean
banana leaves. Over this long cocoanut
leaves We're plated. When the stones
We're hot enough, some were quickly
laid on top of them, and then some more
stones at the sides and on the top. Some
girls had brought heaps of leaves to law
over the top to keep the heat and steam
in, and the earth which had been dug ont
Of the trench was thrown over the ton.
The cooks and puddingmakers all Went
to sleep and left the stars to watch their
cookery. Next morning at 8 the whole
village was astir, men, women and chill
dren, all in holiday attire.
1t was soon uncovered, and was found
to be we'll done. Long poles were
brought and laid the whole length,
These were fastened to the pudding by
small vines, canes, etc: 1t was then
rolled out of the trench on one side:
short sticks were made fast crosswise tn
the poles, and all was ready for taking
up. About 100 men and bows then
raised it on their shoulders, and, with
one tremendous shout, started toward
my house, accompanied by the whole
village. l measured it before carving
and found that it was 200 feet long
two feet longer than the monument of
London is high. 1t measured thirteen
inches in circumference. It was soon
carved into pieces four yards long. and
these were distributed all over the land.
men carrying as much pudding as their
strength would allow to distant villages,
-SnOkane Review
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
SUBSTITUTES FOR GOLD.
Prolnissory Notes Not Recognized
These Banking Circles.


These Banking Circles.
Norway even now uses corn for coin.
The skins of animals were the ear
hest form of money.
Sheep and oxen among the old Ro-
mans took the place of money.
Oxen form the circulating medium
among the Zulus and KatIirs.
In India casks of tea pass as currency,
and in China pieces of silk.
Tin today forms the standard of value
at the great fairs of Nishni Novgorod.
In the retired districts of New Guinea
female slaves form the standard value
Iron spikes, knives and spear heads
and brass rods are employed in certain
parts of Central Africa.
Chocolate is still used in the interior
of South America for currency. ms nre
cocoanuts and eggs.
The archaic Greek money was in the
form of thick, round humps of metal,
stamped with the given value.
Whales teeth are used by the Fijans,
red feathers by some Of the South Sea
islanders, and salt in Abyssinia.
u, The old Chinese gold coins were in
the form of cubes, while the bronze was
shaped like knives and mining tools.
The Icelandic and Irish laws yet nave
traces Of the use of cattle for money.
Many Teutonie fines were paid in
cattle.
In the early colonial times of 1852
tobacco and tobacco receipts were legal
tender, corn and beans and goldfish also
being employed.
The small hard shell, known as the
cowrie, is still used in India, the Indian
islands and Africa, in the place of sub
sidiary coin.
In 1862, during the early colonial times
of America, musket balls passed for
change at a farthing apiece, and were d
legal tender for sums under shilling,
Wampum was the commonest currency
of them all. It was the shell bead money
of the Indians, and was soon accepted
by the colonists as convenient token ;
The strangest coin of all, though, was
the ideal money spoken OF. by Montes-
quieu as being. found in certain parts
Of Africa. It is an. ideal money called
"maconte," but is purely sign of value
without a unit. Sel.-Ram's Horn.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
DICK, THE GULL, BACK AGAIN.
Each Fall, for Twenty-four Years, FL
Has Returned to the Liehtshin

Each Fall, for Twenty-four Years, He
Has Returned to the Lightship.
Dick, the gull, has futtered back to
the :Brentons Reef lightship, to spend his
twenty-fourth winter with the crew, who
think that something has gone very
wrong if he does not come back every
winter within three, days of the same
time. Time was when Dick was the
liyeliest gull that ever skinned the
waves to pick up piece of meat in the
bubbling wake of. an ocean liner, but
now the twenty-nine years of his life
have told on him, more than the light
ship men like to think. Some of his tail
feathers have moulted away for good
and when the men throw boiled salt pork
to him they have to pare the rind off, SO
that he can swallow it. He flies feebly,
Dick still remembers his friends
though. and while he does not tell them
where he goes in April, he is back again
in October with great regularity. Know,
ing that he must die soon, the men hope
he will die near the ship. because then
he will be stuffed and sent, as BELTS a
famous Bird, to the Smithsonian insti,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
French Restaurants in New York.

2 IHes@HEenrn TeStaurants are Slowly
but surely .enticing gourmets away from
the high-priced cafes. The wine card
tariff has much to do with this phase
of city life. Wine is becoming an ele-
ment of almost every Gothamite's din
ner and in the French restaurants it is
possible to get a very fair wine at a
moderate price, while the same or an in
ferior quality costs at q chophouse or
hotel restaurant twice as much. In the
best of the French restaurants, such as
the Martin or the Logerot, man can
buy for so cents quart of red or white
wine, which in a hotel would cost from
81 to $50. Even the California wines
are sold III hotel restaurants at price
which puts them beyod the reach of
anybody who wants a cheap or moder-
ate-priced meal. If you don't believe
this, sample the spots for Yourself
New York Letter to Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
"UNloN MAN ? NO; JUSTICE"
Walking Delegate Who Approached JUS
tice jerome is Running Yet

Walking Delegate Who Approached JUS
tice Jerome is Running Yct.
Justice William Travers Jerome. Of
the court of special sessions has re-
Gently purchased new house at 535
West One Hundred and Forty-eighth
street. He has just moved in aud finds.
as is usual in all new houses, that there
are many alterations to be made. Last
week he decided that he wanted the
paint around the window sashes on the
ground floor of a different color.
-, IT there is one thing Justice Jerome
likes above, anything else in the world
it is to work with his hands. He is
many repairs to his bicycle that he now
travels. everywhere with three different
kits of tools, and instead of riding
spends most of his time on the road
looking for smashups so that he may
repair the broken wheels.
When Justice Jerome decided to
change the color of the paint in his
house, he decided also that he would
do the work himself. He thought he
could do it as we'll as if not better than
a painter, and he knew from past ex-
perience that he could get better tint
than any of the regular craftsmen.
He got his paint and brushes together
Friday afternoon, and. after putting on
Il pair of overalls and an old SLOUGH hat,
started in. After working On the inside
of the house for an hour or two, he
went outside and began on the wood
work of the windows. He had not been
at it very long before well-dressed
man came sauntering along.
pretty good job you got there?" he
asked.
yep" said the justice, as he added
about a pound Of paint with single
sweep of his brush.
"Who's the contractor?' asked the
'"There isn't any contractor" said JUS
tee Jerome: Its just a job by the day"
"Gettin' union scale?' asked the man.
"No," said the Justice, II am not"
"Why not:" persisted the man.
oh" said the justice. Il guess the
man for whom I am working doesn't
think l am worth it., L know he isn't
going to pay me much
We'll" said the stranger, agressively.
am walking delegate for the House
painters union. Let's see your union
card"
II haven't got any. I don't belong to
the union." said Justice Jerome, solemn
ly, but with twinkling eyes.
"Huh, so you re scab. are ye? Well.
you'd better join the union. You'll do
better nS and d Est better tna Wages ssoaa u+oo
Jerome" I am making $4,000 u year
"What!" almost shrieked the walking
delegate painting housesv'
We'll, you see" explained the justice,
when I am not doing this sort of work
am a justice in the court of special
sessions: Ierome's my name"
The walking delegate did not stop to
running yet.-New York Mail and Ex-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
Channels WaistcOac.

i Men who dote on dress can find here
much to entertain them. They can see
in the shop windows rare and radiant
arrays of ready-made new tangled waist
coats, some in red, some in blue, and
some, in buckskin cloth. In the highest
priced tailors you can see the cloth for
the same. l have seen but one man in
a bright red vest, and he was college
freshman. Gradually men are getting
up courage enough to appear in buckskin
vests, but such extremes, except for the
paddock or horse show, are looked upon
as not being of good taste. However,
corduroy vests are more generally worn,
though corduroy waistcoats have u bit
of sporting blood in them that bars them
from the nbttomens of certain men. But
buy yourself a buff vest, or a vest with
some white, blue or deep red figure in it,
and you will be looked upon as being up
to the hour without appearing extreme.
For a few dollars any dude can sport a
waistcoat that's up-to-date, and not a
bit too loud.-New York Letter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
VIDOCO PRAYING.

her joy that church is out. When told
to sing she commences something in
the dog singing line. which might be con-
sldered burlesque of the dead march in
SAUL One of her most fetching tricks
IS when she poses as ashamed. She puts
her two black paws up over her nose,
shuts her eyes and looks for all the world
was ashamedaof. Then her master says
TrWeli, what have. you been doing now
Have you been doing something naughty
Ill the house? Never mind, I'll forgive
you At the words ''I'H forgive your
vidocq runs to her master and jumps
Joyfully around him, expressing in her
dumb way how sweet. It's to be forgiven
The trick which cost him the most time
and patience, for it required a vast
amount Of patience. was a trick in which
the dog poses as q blind beggar. Vidocq
jumped up i'll chair, Mr.. Mentz puts a
ticket ticket on her neck, upon which is printed,
uilease help. the blind" Underneath
this placard is Il little tin box in which
the pennies Of the generous can be
dropped. This box the dog holds be-
tween her fore feet She shuts her ewes
| and sits there begging until her master
says, oh: | do not believe that dog is
blind. This is only a fake" Then
| To be "Just Like Grandpapa" she sits
| i'll a chair, pair of spectacfes over her
eyes, pretending to be reading the .Ea-
gle, The captivating feature about this
| trick is the way she looks up over the TOP
rim of her spectacles, so like~an old per-
| son. - =-"-,g =, =,
Again, Mr.. Mentz will say, ."Now.
! Nidocq. you and l have every reason to
| be thankful that we live in place in
| which we can get Sunday morning
| shave and haircut. We will do that lit
| tie job for one another. I'll commence
! with you. At the word next Vidoco
! jumps UP into n high-backed chair, lean
| back and let's her face be washed.
Vidocq is a very friendly dog and is
! apt to jump in the lap of any caller, but
as soon as her master says, "Well, are
you everybody's dog!" she jumps down
and, no coaxing or .bribing can bring her
! back.
8. Vidocq's puppies are Hector, Tido.
| Bruno and Fenus.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
A SURPRISING YANKEE WOMAN.
Weighs 800 Pounds Works p Rio Far,

Weighs 800 Pounds, Works a Big Farm
Herself, and is q Terror to Tramps.
In Northern New England recently
met fat woman" said New Yorker,
who ought to inspire all victims of adj
pose tissue. was driving with Il ma
tive when she came along the road
She was positively enormous and would
nave looked unpleasantly big had it not
been for her pleasant, frank face. She
nodded to my companion. who returned
the sa1utation with more Difference. than
L had observed in his manner toward
anyone else. After we had passed her
he said that she was the wealthest wo1n-
an in the mountains.
You wouldn't think so to see the
way she works. he added. for she does
about as much as any two men around
here. She has the biggest and finest
farm within twenty miles, and she works
it all herself. OF course she has sonl.
one to help her in haying time but sh..
does her own blowing and seeding AMI
can toss more hay than any man ever
woman. She weighs nearly 500, but she
don't mind that. and it don't Interfere.
with her getting around. either. You
just trying walking with her and see if
you can keep up with her. l can't |
and when l went to get it she told nv.
she would pack it in the wagon if
would throw it up to her Well. she
kept me working until l thought my
arms would break, and the way she.
stamped down that hay was caution
1t was all could do to get it out again.
it was packed so hard. You saw her
walking now. Well. that's what she
calls taking Il constitutional after her
work. She will cover ten miles easy.
mind you. she has not got to work.
and she is not stingy. either. Her sister is
travelling all the time. She goes to
Europe. to the seashore and everywhere.
She's away now. They are both of them
we'll educated and very liberal to the,
poor. No one has to ask twice at that
house, but tramps have to be mighty pc
lite. Several of them who tried the
other thing with this one found them
selves out in the road SO quick they
didn't know what had struck them.
She says she works for the love of 1t,
and when she has to quit she will give
up living
prom inquiries that l made after
ward | learned that this woman was \
lady in every sense of the word, we'll
hammered. genial and good converse
tionalist. Her marvellous strength and
abundant animal spirits im,eilrd her to
do hard work for the pleasure of it,
New York SIM
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
Ferocity OF the Alpine Buzzard,

John Scherer, hunter, shot a male
lammergeier, or Alpine vulture, and was
climbing to the nest when the female
her claws in deep and trying with furi-
Gus backward beats Of the wings to drag
him from the face of the rock. The
mans gun was loaded, but he dare
not let go his hald on the rock to FIRE it.
His attitude was for time that of a
reversed Prometheus, the vulturc tear
ing his back instead of making a meal
of his victims liver. In this predica-
ment the hunter contrived to shift the
position of his gun so that the muzzle
almost touched the breast of the hammer
gcier, and cooked and fred it with his
foot. But in these cases the vulture
was not the first aggressor Unfortun-
atcly the cases in which it has carried
away young infants are not rare. and
are well Observation-Disclosures Specta-
tor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
"A Story OF Malone.

crate army: IT remember Gen. Malone
as he appeared before Petersburg III
1864. He was already famous through.
out the army for his fighting qualities
and his temper. Ny duty took me fire..
qucntly past his headquarters, and one
morning L saw him pacing up and down
In front of his tent while a negro sat in
the doorway gorging himself with a
fresh pan Of biscuit. turned to an of
strange performance. Then came the ex:
PLANTATION that the negro had baked a
pan Of sour. biscuit for breakfast, and
Malone. by why Of an object lesson. had
set the cook to eat all Of his own product.
The negro ate as fast as possible, and
Malone kept up his patrol until the last
biscuit disappeared. The performance
-WaH chara cteristic of the man.. 49,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Over the Aill. ana Far Away. Z

over the At1ls and Far Away. sss s
Over the hills aud tar away. 5..s
A little boy steals from his morning play, Is
And under the hlOss0mlng apple tree b
& He lies and he dreams OF things to be:
Or battles fought and victories won, ESsss4
or wrongs O.erthrOwn and OF great deeds
f.. done, 5EE$$zz ssZ.>>ssSaS= aS g. Ess
OF the palor that he shall prove some .day
Over the hills aud far a wa - 5 .z.s5s.
S. ~ Over the hills, and far away!
Over the hills and far away, @.s>ezz IssszE
It's oh for the toll the livelOne day! :S. IT
But 1t mattereth not to the soul aflame x
With the love for riches and power ana
fame. - = -i'= e, d .s.1t,I] -
On. o man! while the sun is high s5.5 Sc
On to the certain Joys that lie .&s5s,.
Wonder where blazeth the noon or day. e.
Over the hills and far away
/. Over the hills, and far away!
Over the hills and far away, sss--z% ..5
An old man fingers at close Of day;
Now that his journey Is almost done, II.
His battles fought and his Victories won,
The 0!d-time honesty and truth, FF|'.
The trustfulness and the friends of youth,
Home and mother-where are they?
Over the hills and far away
Over the years. and far away!
Eugene Field,
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with this clear coffee or toa. Sometimes
she took claret. She limited the amount
OF water taken through the day to one
quart, or at most three pints. Some of
this she drank hot before or after meals
Often she squeezed the juice of Tenor,
IN It. When the two months were over
and the flesh had begun to diminish she
ate other vegetables and fruit, corn,
peaches, celery, but never any vegetable
that grew underground--potatoes, onions,
parsnips, turnips, or beets. She never
ate-and this WINS the most important
rule.-she never ute anything fer1iienting
in chafcter, any pears, pliiins; GRAPES Of
sweets. Becaiise bread flas a fernleHti6g
duality In II, she always toasted it dry.
Pudding she never touched, sauces nor
cake. If any food led to fatulency in
any form she knew at once it was food
to be avoided. By-and-by, after the first
few months, she allowed herself now and
then an occasional sweet or an ice, but
never as habit.-Harpers Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
TRICKS IN HIGH DIVING.
The Secret of Dropping Safely Into Shall.
low Tank of Water.

low Tank of Water.
What bothers most people who think
anything about the subject" said kear-
ney F. Speedy, high diver, who began
his public career by jumping head first
from the st. Louis bridge four or FIVE
years ago, ''is how a dive of so or 80
feet can be made into a tank of 36 inches
of water You see, they confuse diving
with bridge-jumping-quite a different
thing. Bridge jumpers are neither jump
ers nor divers-they're droppers; that
is, they reach the lower rods of the
bridge truss and drop feet foremost into
the water. The trick is to maintain the
perpendicular. They must have plenty
of water under them, too. The high
diver, as you have seen, makes n clear
dive, head first, just as boy does from
a springboard in swimming. l do it in
very shallow water. l weigh. stripped.
1870 pounds. and never do any training.
l have been diving from the top of a
circus tent all summer into tank but Z
feet wide, and into water but 3 feet
deep. The shallow dive is possible from
the same principle that a cannon or rifle
shot meets the most resistance the more
powerful the impact. You see, give my
body and head a slight inclination up
ward at the instant l strike the water.
which causes me to pop out as a board
would do or an oar on the feather. |
learned this trick in the st. Louis nata-
torium when a boy, praeticing in shall
low water and from n greater height.
Then there is a certain elasticity in the
water known to the high diver, but the
trick is in the strike and turn, for water
will break bones and crush chests. as
many a man knows."-New York Her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-29
A Peculiar Industry.

a peculiar industry has been brought
to light in New York police court.
Two men were arraigned for disorderly
conduct: When the usual question as to
occupation was asked, the, attendant po-
llceman explained to the judge that the
the custom around the dock yards Oh
the west side of the city when a big
jumps into the river to pay the man that
fishes it out a reward of 81. The 10
liccnlan stated that the prisoners had
rescued innrlmerable pigs, but of late the
pigs have become very cautious aud
make up for the loss of legitimate bust
ness the men had been driving the pigs
into the river and then pulling them
out. They were engaged in this divers
sion when they were arrested. ~ -