The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-05-01


Mr. Chapman is undoubtedly the discoy-
erer of this strange sculpture of nature
| as the oldest inhabitant' fails to recall
ever having heard of it.
The face is formed of three rocks, one
for the forehead, one the chin and
a slightly elevated knoll. at an angle, as
if the great general in efiigy We're taking
his reposc and langudly gazing out to
! sea.
! The George Washington stone will
henceforth be one of the many objects of
Bay statc.--Ncw York Press.
Boy. had Habits, Specklcd Apple.
Howard is the white-haired boy who
answers the telephone in the office of the
Metropolitan Steamship company,
bright, polite youngster, who goes to
night school, and whose reasoning is
equal to many mems.
| Mr.. Walker, the veteran executive of
the office, wheeled around in his chair
the other day and gravely listened =
DO you knox, Mr.. Walker, my grand
1ather says that a boy forms all his
habits according to the company he
keeps. If it is bad company, he forms
oad habits. If it is good company, he is
YES said Mr., Walker, thoughtfully,
Il guess grandfather is about right
1--WE had a dish of apples on the table
when grandfather told me this, and
there was a speck on one of them
Grandfather says: Now, Howard, put
that dish of apples in the closet and
don't let anybody touch them. Next
Sunday we will look at Them"
YES responded the. veteran, Won
| deringly.
Now. Mr.. Walker, what do you sup
| pose: Why, when we took the apples
out next Sunday, the apple with the
speck on 1t was very rotten, and all the
other apples right around it had specks
on them, too. You see, Howard says
grandfather. how bad company has hurt
the other good apples. Just so bad COM
pany causes bad habits, I'm going to
grow up with good company"
"Rlght, my son, and YOU won't tend
telephone all your life it you do" was
the veterans rejoinder, as he turned
away and laughed quietly to himself
New York Sun.
An Engineer Mouse.
Mice are good engineers. In digging
holes for telegraph poles one of the work
men became greatly interested in watch
ing the ingenuity and perseverance Of q
mouse which had fallen into one of the
holes 1t was four and one-half feet in
depth and twenty inches in diameter. The
first day the little prisoner spent in run
ming round the bottom of the hole try
| ing to find a means Of escape.
The second day he had got over his
Mysteries and settled down to steady
business. He began Systematically to
dig a spiral groove round and round
the inner surface Of the hole with uni
form ascending grade. He worked night
and day. AS he got further from the
bottom he dug little pockets, where he
could lie and rest. The interested wit
ness kept it supplied with food. After
a while the mouse struck a rock; he
tried to get under, around and over the
obstacle, but without success. He there
fore reversed the spiral and finally
reached the top.-London Invention.
A Merry Dance.
This is a form Of quadrille called
the ordinary quadrile, any marked move
ment in two or four time. Four couples
take their places as for the ordinary
square dance; the rest of the company
remain seated and are the odd pins. Top
and bottom and the side couples gallop
across simultaneously: then follows the
ladies' chain, as in the lancers; then the
gallop again. An odd man now comes
forward and turns the four women in
rotation, then joining hands with the
J other four men they dance round in a
! circle till the music suddenly ceases,
when rush is made to secure partners
AS there are five men and only four wom-
en-. one must be left out The same
programme is repeated, except that Il
woman pin joins the circle instead of a
man, and so the fun goes OH until all the
odd pins have had their chance.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.