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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
A Worm that TurneH.

Everybody enjoys it when the tcaser is
teased-and as for the tcaser, he has no
business to be in the business unless he
enjoys it, too. A story wherein he is dis
county officer, who retircs to private life
at the close of this month He is sore
enough at the loss of his plum, but is
annoyed exceedingly to have about every
acquaintance he meets very considerably
ask him in what business he intends to
engage after he leaves the public crib.
This humble worm turned the other day
III market, when man who suffers
from chronic lassitude propounded the ia
miliar old question. Don't know"
snapped out the officer. Guess III go to
you and have you give me your plan how
to live without working l have known
you twenty years and never saw you do a
days work, yet you manage to live
And the sausages barkcd for glcc.-Lew-
iStOn journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
Two Good Irish Stories.

A Protestant magistrate once had Il
little waif of an Irish boy brought be-
fore him for some tritling misdemeanor
Wishing to ascertain how much the child
comprehended his duty to God and his
neighbors, he asked him if he could say
bis prayers. The boy promptly repeated
the Lords Prayer, and further yolun-
teered that he could say the "Hail Mary"
The magistrate testify replied that he did
not want to hear that, but requested him
to repeat the Greed. The child. much
frightened. began to do SO, but when he
came to the clause, "Born of the Virgin
Mary" he stopped short. and anxiously
said, "Please yer worship, she's turned up
again, and what am l to do?'
A tourist was being driven over part
Of the country in Ireland where his in
fernal majesty appeared to have given
his name to all objects of interest in the
locality, for there was the Devils bridge,
the Devils ca dldron, the Devils glen, etc.
Said the traveller: "The devil seems to be
the greatest landowner in these parts"
"Ah! sure, your honor" replied the jar
vey, "that is so; but he lives in England.
l think he's what they call an absentee
landlord in Ireland. "-London Gentle
woman
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
MONTANA TURKEYS,
Good to Eat a nd Besides Their Crops Y
CALI onI Su~,>liun,

| Good to Eat and BESIDES Their Crops Yield
Gold and Sappllires.
One of the most pleased men yesterday
with his Thanksgiving dinner was NAL
colin e.. Nichols. the advertising agent
Of the Great Northern road. Some time
ago one of his friends, Col Langley, for
mcrly general agent of the road at Helc-
ma, Mont, but now prosperous mining
man of that city, promised Mr. Nichols
two of the famous gold nugget breed of
turkeys grown i'll the mining districts of
the Rocky mountain country.
keys reached Mr.. Nichols by express
They were killed and placed in the re
frigerator for Thanksgiving. Yesterday
morning. when the servant girl was pre-
pairing them for the oven she was sur,
prs,d to find in their crops little bits of
thought were glass She immediately
called Mr.. Nichols attention to the matter,
and upon investigation he was greatly
surprised to find that the little yellow
chunks were nuggets of gold, and what
the servant girl thought were pieces of
of one of the turkeys half an ounce of gold
was taken out and thirteen sapphires.
In the crop of the other was one large
nugget in tho form or Il nOrse's head. and
firmly imtcldel iii such IL way us would
do credit to diamond setter was a brill
lnilh Slp)llft tllill "Oulu weigh neuf-
ly karat. Also other nuggets were
foun, along with about half Il dozen sap
phirrs that would weigh from half to
two karas. One peculiar thing is that
the gems were so brilliant that they can
can be used for setting without being
cut.
Several times before gold, sapphires and
rEbics have been found i'll the crops of
turkeys raised in Montana, and one enter
prisinS miner year ago utilized turkeys
to gather gold from his placer claim near
Butte. But thieves 50 annoyed him he
found his project nnprotitable. 1t is not
found in the crops of two turkeys such a
wealth of gold and precious stones. Mr.
Nichols will have Il pin attached to the
nugget with the sapphire setting, and
wear it as Il scarfpin. Hc will have some
of the other Sapphirps set in the nuggets
and will present them to his friends
He tclcgrapbrd his thanks to Col. Lang
ley for the valuable presents-St. Paul
Call
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
The Nicaragua Canal.

The project of the Nicaragua Canal has
been debated in the L. s. Senate very
vigorously. One thing should be re-
membered about that climate. it is
death to almost every foreigner who
goes there. and laborers especially sue
cumb. 1t is said that the Panama Rail-
road cost a life for every tie. What an
idea of pains and aches is in this sen
Every laborer provided with St. Jacobs
Oil would be armed against these
troubles Mems muscles there are
cramped with rheumatic pain and they
ache all over. That's just the condition
where this sovereign remedy can do it's
best work. The fearful malady is very
much like the break-bone fever in GER
tain parts of America.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
| CALIFORNIA LUCK,
Incidents of Wealth Getting by Sheer
Chance Alone.

Incidents of Wealth Getting by Sheer
Chance Alone.
"A haSty glance at the field prompts me
to suggest that quite as many large fort
unes have been accreted on the Pacific
coast through what seemed to be accident,
stupidity or gross viola ton of sound bust
ness methods as have been amassed
through well conceived plans and intelli-
gent management. 1t has been asserted
that all the millions taken from the lower
.cvels of the Comstock are due to blast
fired without orders i'll the Crown Point
mine; and l know of at least three fort
unes of over million each accruing to the
owners of mining shares which they vain
ly sought to dispose of at beggarly figures
on the very eve of Developments multiply
ing their values by hundreds and thou
sands.
Very many real estate owners in San
Francisco are in attiuence today because
the great depression caused by the discov
cry of gold on Frazier river, and large
hotel in the city occupies a block of land
which the keeper of an clearinghouse re-
luctantiy took for a board bill of $50
thirty-five years ago.
A very prominent mining stock oler-
ator, now deceased, admitted that mis-
take in a telegraphic cipher dispatch
from Virginia City to his broker in San
Francisco saved him IRON bankruptcy
at il critical time. Had he sold the stock
short rs he intended. ruin would have
resulted; hut the broker bought instead,
and profit of Il quarter of a million fol-
lowed. Another well-known San Fran
cisco operator, who enjoys the rental of
substantial building on Montgomery
street, might relate Il somewhat similar
personal experience, were he' so dis
posed.
A gopher hole led to the discovery of
the valuable gold deposits on Shane's
fiat, i'll Toulumne county, and in falling
over cliff a drunken Swede brought to
light one of the richest quartz veins in
Amador county.
In the summer of 1852, in defiance of
the advice and jerrs of their neighbors,
Il party of inexperienced miners fumcd Il
rifle of the North Yuba, where the shore
bedrock was bare, and there was no in
dication of gravel in the channel And,
indeed, no gravel of consequence was
found in the bed of the stream after the
water had been diverted from it; but the
bare crevices were studded with nuggets
from one to twenty ounces in weight.
There was no less than half bushel of
them, and many old residents of San
Francisco will recall the exhibition of
them for few days in Montgomery
street window.-Overland
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
$500 for q Name.

This is the sum we hear the Salzer
Seed Co. offer for suitable name for.
their wonderful new oats. The United
States Department of Agriculture says
Salzer's oats is the best of 300 varieties;
tested. A great many farmers reports
a test yield of 200 bushels per acre last,
year, and are sure this can be grown
and even more during 1895. Another
farmer writes us he cropped ll2 BUSH
els of Sa,zer's Marvel Spring Wheat on
two and one-half acres. At such yield
wheat pays at 30c per bu. One thing
we know, and that is that Salzer is the
largest Farm Seed grower in the world
and sells potatoes at $3.50 per barrel,
If You Will Cut This Out and Send IT.
with 1Oc postage to the John A. Salzer.
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, you get free
his mammoth catalogue and a package
Of above $500 Prize Oats. GNU.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
Strange History of a Will.

A will just fled for probate in San
Francisco, and leaving the estate of Mrs
Jennie Parsons to Minnie Adams Brooke,
puts finishing touch on a strange story.
Mrs. Parsons was one of the Vaudeville
sisters we'll known on the stage years
ago. She was one of the passengers on
the steamer Pacific, lost off Cape Flattery
in 1875. She left nearly $4,000 in bank
which was turned over to the public adj
ministrator. Relatives of the woman's
husband established Il claim, when Mrs.
Brooke came forward with Photographic
will, which was found i'll Il bottle washed
ashore from the wreck. The will is in tn.
form of letter to her daughter by her
first husband. and has just been found
after being missed sixteen years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
BALD EAGLES IN NORTHERN OHIO,
An Observer of Their Habits Talks In
!. 81 teresfingly of Them.


1 s:zz@S terestingly of Them.
J At the fourth annual meeting of the
Ohio State Academy of Sciences, e. l..
Merely read Il paper entitled Notes on
the Bald Eagle.' Mr.. Merely resides in
Northern Ohio, and his paper gave Il de-
scription of this American bird. which
has nests at Kcllcy's island, Put-inBay.
on the peninsula and ut various points
in Northern Ohio. He gave the result
eagles which have an eyrie near il coun
try postotfice III the vicinity of Sandus-
KY. which they have occupied for nine
years, rearing two and sometimes one
eaglet each year.
He said that the eagles occupy their
nest for years. Some have been rccog-
nized by old fishermen as having been
sixty, years i'll one nest, and others forty
to fifty years. He stated that on the
islands the eagles arc decreasing in num-
bers, but on the penincula they are i'll
creasing, notably some sixty having been
counted ON the west harbor and some
thirty more on the cast harbor near the
peninsula.
In the remarks following Mr.. Morely's
paper it developed that the people of that
and that a fine of $:1, is laid for shooting
one of them. The eagles eat fish almost
exclusively, the strong taking them from
the weak and also stealing as elsewhere
from the osprey.
The question was asked whether it were
true that when the male bird was shot
another male came along and consoletl
the disconsolate widow eagle in the same
nest and assisted to rear families, and
if the female were killed the male would
desert the eyrie and never return, nor
would any other pair occupy such nest
except by accident
Mr.. Merely stated that he had never
had the opportunity Of observing, having
no method of distinguishing the sexes. as
they were about the same size and plum
age. He had noticed that whenever one
bird was away the other generally staid
at the nest and watched for the return Of
the mate, sometimes going to meet him
He had also noticed that OH Kelley's ISL
and some years ago there were four nests.
and now there was but one. Why the
other three were abandoned he never
knew, but the suggestion in the question
might account for it, He had also noticed
that bird, which might be Il grownup
son or daughter, had been seen to domicilr
with the old birds for some weeks aud
then fly away. Columbus State Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
Try:
Jnhb;rD <o,,~b r,oo< Nth or< 10

Rubbing tough meat with cut lemon.
Bacon fat for frying chicken and game.
Stcaming stale loaf of bread to fresh
en- it.
Warming crackers slightly in the oven
before using.
Dipping sliced onions in milk before
frying.
Fried sweet apples whenever you have
liver or kidney
Heating dry coffee before pouring on
the water
Pouring vinegar over fresh fish to make
the scales come off easily.
Adding lemon juice to the water in
which rice is boiled to keep the grains
separate.
Beating the whites of eggs at an open
window if the kitchen be hot and steamy.
Table
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
THE SCARLET TANAGER.

Witch Of the wood, to your sylvan dell
have followed and found you not,
Where brooklets glisten and hllltOps swell
And the air seems a tlnking silver bell
Have followed and found you not.
I've traced your steps where the delicate
grnss
In homage bows as you daintiy pass,
And the rich rose bushes deeper red
AS 1t treasures the. kisses you softly shed.
Coy In your secret, wcll-bowered nest,
You are resting secure, l know;
with your velycty wings in graceful rest,
On. wildwood bird that love the best,
And your singing is soft and low.
My ears are deaf to the feathered thrOng
That yainly seek to rival your song;
Ana the forest to me seems only bright
With the rays you flash In your rapid flight
New York Sun
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
ATTACKED BY A BULL MOOSE.
How the Half-tOn Brute Made a Savag,
Attack Upon DIR. Heher Eishop

HOW the Half-tOn Brute Made Savage
Attack Upon DIR. Heber Bishop.
Dr. ieber Bishop of Boston, and presi-
dent of the Megantic Fish and Game club,
mas just had very exciting time with Il
Dull moose upon one Of his annual Christ
Maine
His guides. Andrew Douglas, familiar
" known as "Old Dug Joe st. ODER. an
indian, and John Sylvester of Eustis.
Me-, had been following the moose several
days, the doctor keeping as near them as
possible. They finally came up to the bull
upon Il mountain.
the moose turned upon Sylvester and
made savage charge. Sylvester ran,
with the moose II close second. till tl,
moose's antlers were in close proximity
to his pack" The moose tore that off.
sylvester saw he could not get away,
turned tree: The pondcrols weight of the
moose carried him by. AS he passed. the
guide jumped out behind the moose and
hid Oh the other side of the root. Th,
other guide, Douglas, had crawled under
two logs to save himself from being
tramplcd upon should he be attacked
Inc Indian ran down the side of the
mountain.
The bull, seeing his enemies scattcrcd
remained i'll possession of the field. and
the guides one by one, when not observed,
sneaked Oft. The doctor, with his 1910
express rifle, was soon summoned by the
lhdlan, and as the moose was disapprarinr
over the mountain put in a shot, breakiny
one of his legs.
This seemed to have very little effect
upon the moose, as he went over five
miles at lively rate. with the doctor
and Indian i'll hot pursuit But his wound
was telling upon him, and he was soon
oVerhauicd. As soon as he perceived tl.
men ne turned and charged upon them.
The doctor waited till the infatuated bull
came within fifty yards of him, when he
gave him shot in the neck. bringing him
to the ground and killing him instantly.
One of the guides was dispatched to the
nearest logging camp. and Il horse pro-
cured. A road was ''swamped" to where
the moose lay and the huge animal was
dragged out by the antlers whole. He
was fine bull, weighing little over half
a ton.
He was hauled from the logging camp
to Jackman, Me-, station on the Cana,li
an Pacific railway. The head will be
mounted, but the moose will previously be
laid out as he fell in the forest, at the
annaul banquet of the Negantic Fish and
Game club, to be held at the Hotel Ven
dome, in Boston, on January TO- The
moose was killed at 10 Il. IN. on Mon
day, the last day of the open season in
Maine.
1t is not often that Il moose will attack
i hunter, but in all the experience of
DOuglas-and he is G3 years Of age, and
has been at the death of over tifty of
these animals-he says he never saw a
moose SO vicious and revengeful. He
thinks DR.. Bishop as we'll as himself and
the other guides, had narrow escaDe
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
HOW'S This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure
+: J. CHENEY i CO., Props, Toledo O.
We. the undersigned. have known F.. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
Walsling, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, Toe per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
sent free.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
Counterfeiter's Queer Outfit.

A deputy United States marshal ar
rested William Long, an alleged counter
feiter ut Minturn. Ark. For 4 number of
years Il gang of countcrfeiters have made
that place their headquarters. It was
headed. years ago by old man Hunkc-
ford, who rot only made nice-shaped coin,
but could also engrave the steel dies for
stamping it. The dies seem to have fall.
en- into Longs possession and he tried his
hand but about a month ago he came to
this city and got drunk and pawncd the
dies, which consist of round steel bar
the size of a silver half dollar, with one
side of the coin engraved on the end of
one piece, and the other cut on one end
of the other bar. A heavy iron collar was
then put around the end of one of the
pieces, extending over sufficiently to hold
half dollar and receive the engraved
end Of the other piece Of steel. 1t was
then set on an anvil and struck with a
sledge sufficiently heavy to stamp the
money. This die made coin Of the date
Of 1856. ~ -s.4,- s~,..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
An Oral Will Probated,

rittsburg in twelve years, was accepted
on "Wednesday by the register, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. James Bresnan
was injured on the railroad on December
Is last. and died short time after on
the operating table at the West Penn
hospital. Before he died he stated to
those around him that he wished his
property to 50 to his younger children
John. James and Mary-excluding his
oldest child because the latter was old
rn"'lyh to take care Of himself. He also
lett $500 to the Rev. Thomas Bailey for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
Rock Candy of Today.

Rock candy, which is only sugar in
wholesale in tin buckets. enclosed in wood
en- firkins. Strings are stretched across
the buckets. and upon these the crystals
form. 1t happens often that the rock
candy of today is not the white, semi
transparent product of twenty-five years
ago, but a cloudy, reddish-brOwn crystal,
as if made from cheap sugar. It is not
easily adulterated, and Capitalization is an
essentially honest process.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
THE MEDICINE WHEEL.
Queer Indian Relic Near Bald Mountain
CITY

Queer Indian Relic Near Bald Mountain
City.
There is an interesting Indian relic
about four miles northwest of Bald
Mountain City which but few Of our
people have ever seen. 1t is what is
called Medicine Wheel 1t is made of
rock imbedded in the ground in the shape
of wheel with thirty-seven spokcs. TIE
circumference of the wheel is about 17J
feet, and it is supposed the savages came
to this place in the early days to ma Ike
medicine, and from this custom the
wheel derived it's name. One old Indian
Oh the Crow reservation, over 80 years of
age, says the wheel was there when he
was a young brave, and no one can rec
ollcct when it was made.-Sheridan
(Wyo) Ent.r,,r;ao
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
The Deer Caught Himself

From the hills and daIes Of the baauti-
full Pleasant Hill section of country
comes deer story that, were it not for
the uMOubtcd veraity of those who
have told it, would bt considered rather
''fshy," says the Eugene. Or, Guard.
On the hills adjacent to that section of
country the hounds occasionally get on
the trail of a deer, and their deep bay
ing is heard from the distance while
sometimes across little valleys can De seen
the race for life or death on the mountain
even when hard pressed. venture into the
settled part of the country. J. n. Otto.
who lives in that part of the county. one
day last week heard the hounds chasing
deer over on the hills from his place 4
little while afterward he heard 4 racket
in his woodshed and in an instant later
the deer came leaping into his kitchen.
frightened, and trembling from head to-
foot. TO effect its capture was, of course,
an easy matter, and it was done imme-
di1tf.ly
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herself, resulted in the awakening of
hopes that she would not admit.
Once again she experienced in talking
with Pierre the charm that she had loved
so well with his brother Jean.
With the help of this illusion her heart
opened and warmed once again with
love.
One day Mime. de Thcmines came up to
her aud whispered in her ear
Pierre loves you, my dear girl Love
him."
She did love him. Now they arc mar
ried.-From the French of Ernest Dau-
Diet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-08
FOR THE FARMER.
The Poor Mans PRAYER.

The Poor Mans Prayer.
Give us. dear Lord, our daily food
or pure, undoctored brand,
Bread without alum, milk 'thOut chalk,
And sugar minus sand!
Let coffee be the "Renl Old Cow
Not ground Canadian peas,
Old-fashioned butter juice from cows,
And heather Chiny tea.
Have ''bOnelcss" cod with bones left out,
Salt mack'rel void Of rust;
And keep, oh, keep, Our.victuals from
speculative "trust!'
Give us to eat our food In peace
With humble, grateful heart,
And nnimulculue to them
TO hunt them up by art
ID. Bradshaw In Boston Transcript.
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Den(llicst Poison Known.

The most deadly poison is that which
was discovered by Prof. Frazer of Edin-
bqrgh, and known as shophanthi'in, an
millionth part of an ounce of crystallized
shophanthidin produces distinctly in
furious effect upon the heart, and a very
small quantity is fatal.
Another deadly poison is cyanogcn gas.
the principal ingredient of hydrocyanic or
prussic acid. At ordinary temperatures
It is simply gas, but can be condensed
by cold or pressure into Il thin, colorless
liquid, and becomes solid ut 30 degrees
Fahrenheit. The inhalation in it's case
GUS state of most minute quantity
would cause instant death.
r One of the most deadly poisons is ar
seniuretted hydrogen, which is formed by
accompanying an alloy or arsenic and zinc
with sulphuric acid. 1t is colorless
gas, possessing fetid odor Of garlic,
and acts us 4 most deadly poison. !.
Gas from bitumen was first made vi
TIM WoolWlch ag1eral In 1853