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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Bicycling Costumes.

The proper length for the skirt is now
conceded to be about to the top of the
boots; no shorter, aud for hall riding even
longer. The fulness is all in the back,
but there is SO much goring over the
hips and width below that the outlines
of the figure are becomingly hidden.
On the correct cut of the skirt depends
the beatty of the costume. which may
be made of a cheap material if only it
hang well.
There are two ways this season of ar
ranging the fulness of the skirt at the
back. One has it all beneath the folded
over pleats which meet at the back:
the other has two hox-pleats, double,
like many of the walking costumes. The
latter fashion looks rather better off the
wheel, butt the former looks best when
riding for the folds hang more grace
fully .
The most becoming style for the waist
is the Norfolk jacket, but this season the
flled-in Elton jacket is more popular.
The Norfolk jacket has the pleats sewed
down land cut away underneath), and
there is none Of the ugly bulkiness which
formerly condemned that garment for
stout women. It should be made to
come quite. below the waist-line, and
with full skirt effect. s.~~tt r..
q At the neck it is cut open just enough
to show the neck-tie-the four-in- hand,
fashionable once again-and5 has small
dat revers. The sleeYes Of 4 correct
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Tender Stems.

When the use Of the automatic vacu-
UNI brake was first made compulsory on
our railroads, says London Answers,
great pains were taken by the foremen
of engin sheds to see that the drivers
were fully alive to the proper working of
it.
In one of our Northern towns fore
man was examining driver on this
subject and, after questioning him for
some time, put the following query to
him:
IF YOU were in charge Of an engine
and the brake failed and YOU saw a col
lision was unavoidable what steps would
you take?'
The answer, if totally unexpected. was
not devoid of genuine wit The driver
looked his questioner up and down. and
then, with look of contempt, blurted
out:
THE tender steps, sir: and pretty
handy tool"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Never. Again.

ran across a theatrical friend of
mine yesterday, and be was plainly out
Of temper, says the Washington Posts
Woman About Town"
IF l get forgiveness for this once ~
said he, I'll never try to get off joke
again. I was sitting in So-and-So's all
night restaurant last night when X came
in He didn't say X. by the way,
but as the name he did say belongs to q
popular comedian, won't tell it.
* was looking for new gags. He
asked me if l knew any. told him I
did NOT, but unthinkingly I did say that
l remembered conundrum I had heard
gave it. This is it: If Rider Haggard
had been Lew Wallace. where would
She have been:'
* looked at me vaguely and tried to
seemed pleased.
The answer is Ben Hur,' l said
"'Oh, yes! said X. But who is Ri
der Haggard?'
Il explained that infinitely. Then
told the conundrum again. X tried hard
to laugh.
~ see,' he said. Say, that's awfully
good, best ever. But what has Lew
Wallace got to do with Ben Hur?'
And then I got up and went out into
the cool night air.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
a Mechanical Cow,


There is Some talk Of factory for
Ames at last, but it is not sugar fac
tory yet: It is d factory that is ii every
was as appropriate to the place as a
sugar factory-a cow factory John Slew
ers has invented hew sort of COW,
called Il hunting cow, and is going to
apply for a patent: This COW differs
FROM, the ordinary "bossy' in that her
There is door to walk inside; and When
you get in there you use your feet inside
the covering of the front legs, which
sets some machinery in the back part in
motion. Cruising the hind legs to, keep
step with the front. You are supposed
to keep this motion up until you come
TO a field containing geese, and then pre-
tend to Craze till you get close enough,
shooting. --Nebraska State journal. - "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
ReDlanted the Teeth.

An interesting bit of dental surgery
is reported in the Medical Record. Dr..
F. s.. Pettijohn of Alma; Mich. wrote
that his little daughter, aged : years
the two upper incisors. on the edge Of
one Of the steps, extracting them as COM
pletely as if By forceps. The gum was
badly lacerated. After the fright and
the crying; which. continued for a half
hour, the child was rocked to sleep in her
mothers arms: The teeth were found
on the steps, uhinjured;. and placed in
a WARM sal It solution. While the little
one. was sleeping chloroform was adj
ministered:. the teeth were placed with
in their sockets and pressed into position.
the gums about. having been cleansed
with antiseptic solutions. The teeth
were Left without further dressing or
application -Four weeks later they
we're firmly rooted; and the mouth ap-
'eared perfectly natural in every way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
ERRATIC GOLDFISH.
The Way In Which Fishermen Labnr to
Capture tho Voracious Fish.

Capture the voracious Fish,
Goldfish are very erratic in their move.
ments. A schooner may have fish arol,nd
her for thirty days, one day being us
good as another, or she may sail and
drift for three or four days before pet
ting bite. If luck is with her, down
goes the anchor, and the trawlers begin
work a trawl may be described as a
rope many hundred feet long, to which,
at intervals of thirty eight inches. fish.
hooks are attached by lines about two
feet long. There are 5000 hooks to the
average trawl, which is attended by two
men. Each man has 1900 hooks to butt
and care for. The rope is weighted to
sink to within few feet of the bottom.
and is then buoyed. The trawl is gener,
ally. set late in the afternoon and over
hauled next morning.
IT luck is with the fishermen 500 cod
may be- taken from a trawl. They are
a voracious fish, and in Selling the bait
firmly hook themselves. It often han
pens that the 1000 hooks may be over
hauled without securing more than fifty
fish, but again the catch may be 26O0.
The boats of the trawlers look something
like an ordinary river skiff, but are very
bouyant and easily handled. A schooner
with sixteen men aboard puts out four
travis and eight men. The rest are left
aboard to work the craft and attend to
the fish as they come in.-Lewiston Jour-
mi
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
German Women as Farm Hands,.

The utilization of women in Germany
as farm hands, which so many mors|ists
have considered their duty to censurc,
apparently, meets with approval from
DR.. Joseph Krauskopf, the rabbi: for
in a letter from Germany to his con-
gregation he says: ''Such farm work for
women is neither degrading nor too tan
ing. They have pledged to become help
mates to their, husbands, and they re-
gard it their duty to lessen the -labors
of their fathers, and being physically
able to do their share they regard it
WRONG to permit the stronger sex to
slave themselves to death while they
are i('ling their time away ut home
Judging. from their happy and healthy
looks; they seem to be none the worse
for taking their places alongside the
men folk for the purpose of honestly
earning their bread. Had we q little
more practical good sense and less SEN
timentality among our women at home.
many wolnan's life might be happier
and many mans life would be SPARED
the necessity of Shaving itself to death
to indulge a wife's or a daughters Idle
ness and Injuries. "-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Spoileu Her Annette.

4 lady who has just returned from
the Randi relates a somewhat gruesome
experience which occurred TO her in one
of the leading Johannesburg hotels dur
ing the recent water famine.
She happened one day to see two cans
of water standing outside bathroom
door. and the temptation to take bath
was too strong to be resisted.
While enjoying the luxury so long de-
MED her. the lady was startled by Il
clamor ut the door, and n voice which
implored her in broken English not to
pull up the plug. -.
.Do not use 100 much coup. madame.
L want &c watersfor re soup..
The lady did not dine at table d llots
that evening Ssasseus JouruaL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
-.Anti-Slan9 Society,

A number Of girls in Parkersburg. ".
Va, have formed an anti-slang society.
According to the MARIETTA, O., Register,
fore taking her seat, said in a clear,
calm, we'll modulated' voice: ''Really,
girls. am too much ratified by the honor
conferred: upon me to give YOU much
CAB. This is the first time I ever tum.
bled to anything of this sort, and / hard
" know how to catch on. However,
will try, to he sufficiently up to snuff not
to let any flies light on me while doing
the president of this society act / am
with you in this move, and we ought to
ladies. Let our motto be: Shoot the
slangist, -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
One Dozen Eggs.

, whats this!' exclaimed the young
husband, referring to the memorandum
she had given him. 'One dozen eggs,
a pound of raisins, bottle of lemon ex-
tract, can of condensed milk. dimes
worth of ground cinnamon and half q
dollars worth of sugar. What do you
want of nil these things, Belinda?"
"I'vc got dry loaf of bakers bread"
replied the young wife, that I'm going
to save by working up into a bread pud-
ding never let anything So to waste,
Henry. SIS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
The Poet.

: 49, h zz#s The Poet. T., %ss@.
The poet stood by the raging sea; 80
Flo felt Its MNddened swell In his soul.
Sleeping his pen III Its bitter brine H
He wrote an ode to its restless roll &:..
Men said: '"Tls but Despair's sad t0lln'
-. -: s ~. N = r. ~
The poet roamcd through a lovely vale,
Morn blushed around him fresh and fair.
Wetttng his pen In the diamond dew
He wrote hymn to her beauty rare.
Men said: '",fis but a matin prayer!''
The poet gazed on the dying sun,
Gliding with splentior the even-sky,
He dyed his pen in It's golden hues,
And wrote an Ode that might never die.
Men said: '"Tis hut for rest cry!"
The poet stood meath the midnight dome,
Where myriad lamps shed hopeful CLEAN,
Dipping his pen In a glowing orb,
He wrote hymn to Night supreme.
Men said: '".ris the Murmur Of angels
dream"
The poet mixed with his brother men--
Shared their burdens Of grief and wrong.
Sleeping his pen In the human heart
He wrote to soothe the care-sick throng.
Men heard and cried: '"rhis-this Is
ID. O'Kelly Branden in Donahoe's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Sermons by the Barrel.

The wife of minister in Cincinnati
traded a barrel of his old sermons not
long ago for new bread pan. The
next spring the rag man came around
again and asked if she had any more
sermons to sell. . : -.:. '..~
'tsWhy do you want sermons?" x
because I did so well with those I
got here year ago. I got sick IN the
summer and Il preacher in the country
boarded me and my horse for three
months for that barrel of sermons, and
be has, since got a great reputation as
preacher up there. will give YOU, s.
cents a pound for all you have got..''--
Buffalo News, - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Fresh Air,

Good Housekeeping believes in an
abundance of fresh air, as one of the most
material and Indispensable foods for thu.
nutrition and preservatioE of the human
system. In this line, an interesting test.
which proved that fresh air in winter
was beneficial to even young and delicate
children, is reported in the Journal of
Household Economics. 1t was tried re-
Gently in babies hospital in Boston.
All the sickly babies that We're suffer-
ing from chronic indigestion and lack of
nutrition, and who would not improve in
spite of good food, perfectly ventilated
rooms and careful bathing, were wrapped
as for street, put in their perambulators
and taken to the top ward of the hos
pital, where all the windows were wide
open. They were kept in this room
from two to four hours daily. and soon
showed n marked Improvement. Their
checks became rosy, they gained in
weight and appetite, and would often
fall asleep and remain so during the
entire time they were in the air. Very
delicate children had bags of hot water
placed at their feet. 1t is recorded in the
account of this experiment that not one
child took cold.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
BIG PRICES FOR STAMPS.
Over a Thousand Dollars Paid for Two
Canadian Stamps.

Two little pieces of paper, which, when
originally issued by the Canadian gov
eminent, were valued at I'D each, were
sold by auction Thursday night in this
city for 1920. The price paid was the
largest given for any single lot of stamps
in the three days sale which closed Fri
day night: All Canadian stamps of the
issue of 1851 are rare, but these two
12-pence stamps are believed to be the
only unused ones of the kind printed
Oh laid paper. The. stamps were pur-
chased by Mr.. Needham Of Hamilton,
Ont, who sold these same stamps to thu,
company holding the auction and got
$500 for them. Mr. Needham also
bought number of other Canadian
stamps at prices ranging from $40 to
$1S5.
a 5-cent st. Louis stamp, 1856,
which is a postmaster's provisional is
sue, sold for $251, while a 1O-cent speci-
men Of the same date brought $1O5.
United States government ISSUES sold
from 500 down. The former price was
paid for an 1876 30-cent, unperforated,
unused, which is one of the rarest of
United States stamps. New York
Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
"A Long Horseback Ride.

Prince Constantine Wiasemsky has
just completed a journey, mainly on
horseback. around Asia, having ridden
2G.S15 miles in two years and half.
China, Tongking. Anam, Cochin-China,
Cambodia, Siam, Burmah. Assam, India.
Kashmir, Thibet, Turkestan, Bokkara
and Persia, returning to Russia by the
Caucasus. He was wounded four times
by savage people, nearly died from thirst
in the desert of Cobb, and besides horses
something's rode elephants, oxen and
yaks. !. lie visited Buddhist inconsistencies
in India and asserts that he discovered
the secrets Of the fakirs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
: irish Prosperity.

ireland, according to banking and rail
road statistics that have just been pub
lished, is in an exceedingly prosperous
condition. Deposits and cash balances
in joint stock banks are oyer $1,000. 600
larger than they were for the CORE
spending period a year ago. -.
The estimated balance in the Postof-
fee Savings, bank is more than $50, OOO,,-
600, gain Of more than So, 600, 900. The
railroad receipts for the year are the
highest Oh record, When it is reneIl-
bered that these figures represent the
progress of a. stationary if not decHn-
ing population, the increased individual
prosperity in Ireland must be very large.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24

not for the remains from the hospitals,
which amount to from 1000 to $500 bod.
les per annum. The apparatus EN-;
nloyed is that of NM. Toisoul and
Fradet, and works by means OF gas with
4 recuperator, deliberations are accom-
plished in an hour, or at most an hour
and 4 quarter, and the cost Of the conl-
bustihle never exceeds 3 francs per OPP
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
The Fl.h Hawks and the Pound Nets.

. II suppose there are people who are
against pound nets said MI old fisher.
on the Jersey beach they ST Oh the
pound-net stakes and watch the fish is
they come IN, and pick out the biies they
want, aud fly away satisfied; ind il they
are not satisfied they come back for
more. The fishermen don't like this. and
! suppose thnt 1t must be bad fOrat The
fish haw ks, because it must make them
lazy to pc able to get, what they want
sit OF the pound-'iet stakes just Tie
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Lion In His Netlrottn,.

p. ]. Hannah, who lives with his two
partners, T, Z. Hubbard and w. Il. Gil
lup, in a rough cabin in the mountains
counter few nights since with mount
ain lion. 1t seems that Gillup and Hub
bard had walked over to Cripple Greek,
taking with them the only dog in the
place, and Hannah, a young man, was
left alone in the cabin.
The only door to the place had no
fastening except a button Oh the inside
being opened. After reading few
hours he left the door ajar blew out the
light and went to bed.
He was awakened by the door creaking
on its hinges some time LATER but paid
no attention to it, supposing his dog had
returned in advance of his comrades.
There was some fresh meat in box
under the table, and a few seconds later
he heard what he supposed was the dog
ut the meat. Raising his head, he was
electrified to see standing in the dim
light from the window n huge beast with
eyes like balls Of tire. His brain reeled,
and FOR some time he entirely lost his
reached for small-caliber revolver
under his pillow and with rapidly beating
heart he waited to see what his visitor
would 40 next, hoping that he would go
out rs he came i'll, without taking any
notice of the occupant of the bunk.
The door, however, had closed behind
the lion. After eating the meat he
looked at the window as though he
would jump through it and then turned
and went direct toward the bed in
which Hannah lay.
There was no time for parleying and
with his heart beating like trip ham
mer. Hannah raised his revolver and
fired. and at the same time the lion made
a spring at him. Hannah instinctiyely
threw the bed clothes in front of him and
the lion fastened upon them and fell
back upon the floor, tearing, gnawing.
biting and thrashing in terrible man
ner.
While thus engaged Hannah sprang
out Of bed and ran up quite close to the
beast and fired into his body again. The
beast now sprang at Hannah, and he was
about to fire again, when the lion fell
and his weight knocked the boy onto
his back from which position he fred two
more shots at the animal, neither of
which took effect. When he managed to
get on his feet he found the lion dying
After firing the remaining shots into his
body, Hannah lighted candle and be-
gan to take an inventory of the damages.
he had three scratches, one on the right
shoulder and two on the left thigh, which
were quite deep and painful.-Cripple
Creek Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
CASCADE OF WINE,
Novel Feature of an Exhibition of Cali
forMia Products.

Novel Feature Of an Exhibition of Cali
forMia Products.
a considerable portion of the Califor-
mia Midwinter exposition is at present
on its way across the continent, Ell route
for New York city, Many of the most
bodily from the Golden Gate to the i'm
mense floor of the Madison Square gar
den. This second edition of the great
exposition viii be opened early in May
and will continue throughout the entire
month. The West is making much of
this opportunity to teach the East some
thing. Of the magnitude of its native in
dustries. 1t is safe to say that it has
never before been so well represented on
the Atlantic coast.
The principal cndeavor Of the EXPOSE
ton authorities will be to impress New
York with the magnitude and quality of
California's vintage. 10 this end the
be treated to the most remarkable object
lesson of its kind ever seen. A gigantic
cascade of claret wine, as large as a
river. is to dash and foam over rocks Of
colored glass for a whole month for the
editication and refreshment of thousands
of visitors.
1t is estimated that fully 5000 gallons
of wine will flow over these rocks every
minute. The stream of wine will first
fall in one solid body of wine down a
distance of twenty feet, where the cas-
cade is TO be broken. In it's fall, owing
to the impetuous flow and curved shape
of the source, it will be made to broaden
ont SO as 70 fall into pool of equal
width, AT this point the volume of wine
will be reinforced by fresh stream.
This tributary will flow at the rate of
2sNe gallons per minute, thus increasing
the volume Of the cascade by just one
half. The lower portion of this remark
able water, or rather wine fall, is to be
broken ~ into number Of smaller cas-
cades. This, it may be seen, will add
greatly TO the natural cascade-like effect
of the whole. The wine in it's wild rush
will foam and bubble around series If
crystal rocks, which will serve to divide
it into four distinct streams, from each
of which will rise a cloud of spray. The
entire volume of this. precious fluid will
be gathered in Il second pool, some
twelve feet below the first pool. From
this rapidly filling reservoir the wine WILL
CT course. be carried back to the source,
to begin its journey all over again. bur
the machinery for carrying on this work
will be concealed behind the cataracts.
\ number of powerful force pumps will
be kept running continually, in order
to keep this stream in ashing-
ton Star
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Nothing Above Board.

popular and well-known lady of
central Mississippi visited New Orleans
at the last Mardi Gras for the first time.
She was delighted with the city, and
was considerably shocked at the "decol-
letteness' of some of the costumes at
the balls.
One day while here she was enter,
tanned at fashionab BILE dinner, and upon
her return to the house Of the friend
whom she was visiting, she was asked
to describe some of the costumes worn.
what did Mrs. c. weary' said her
friend
II didn't look under the table; but she
didn't have on anything above it!''-New
Orleans Times-Democrat. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24

and compelled her to climb fence for
safety. Eleven of them appeared ID be
In such q condition that it was deemed
advisable to kill the entire lot, and this
was done. 1t was found that each enc
Of the sheep had been bitten,-AP ittsburg
Dispatch. AZ s #sss n. IA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
10 Catch PorcuDines Alive

"A Shooting and Fishing writer tells
how to bring a porcupine out Of a tree
without seriously injuring it. All that
is necessary, he says, is to shoot the
tip off the desired animals nose. Then
it will sit up on its launches, and for a
minute o. SO rub its nose violently.
Afterward it will begin to back away
from the pain, coming down the tree
backward. 1t; may then be captured
readily, and may be tanned into a very
interesting pet. q; .=s2.s ::
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-24
Rcrnhardt's New Role.

There is new role Rernhardt played
just before she sailed for this country
She does like to have things her own
way. So do other women. for that mat
ter.
She was boarding special train from
Paris to Brussels; her car didn't suit
her. and she wanted it removed The
high and mighty official could re-
move it If he was summoned. But he
was a government official, strong in
his position.
Mime. Bernhardt," said he, "forgets
that these changes cannot now be made.
The train goes within two minutes
Take Your place if you want to go to
weather. The official looked at his
watch.
lis the train going to start?' she in
Quire,l, innoccntly.
In tWenty-nine seconds madame,'
With the air of a Napoleon.
"Ah, then there is still time
\ pause
How much longer, monsieur"
Ten seconds, madame" with the air
Of a Brutus.
Excuse me for ten seconds"
She made Il few of those panther
strides of hers, and stepped directly in
front Of the locomotive.
'Start yOur train. monsieur
The official bowed profoundly.
Madame, like love, you always con-
quer. The car shall be changed"
And it was.