The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-29

day. And the thermometer per.
formed it's part of the contract
BY dropping accordingly.
There are forty five states in
the union and only eight port
folios in the cabinet. So far as
known, Minnesota considers her
self entitled to only three Of the
eight, the matchless magnanim-
ity of Minnesota cabinet. makers
permitting them TO readily admit
that the other forty.four states
are entitled to some recognition. |
There has been circulated in
the state legislature and signed
by all the republican senators
and representatives from the 9th
district, a petition to Speaker
Reed, asking him to appoint
Hon. Page Morris to place on
the river and har oors committee.
Such an appointment would be
eminently proper. and will very
likely be made.
In the partnership dissolution
suit of John O'Connor against
Peter A. McNaughton, the latter
this morning filed an answer in
which he alleges that there is
nothing whatever in the claim
that he got the best of the part.
nership. He alleges that O'Con-
nor collected money and failed
to account for it, and he also
seeks an accounting. Duluth
Herald.
DR.. Routh, health officer of the
city of Duluth, has issued an Or
der strictly forbidding splitting
on the floors Of public places and
public conveyances, alleging that
disease;is frequently conveyed
In this manner, and threatens to
prosecute any offenders. Such
an order is worthy of emulation
by the health department of any
city, for the sake of decency if
for no other reason.
The largest steamship ever
built, with the one exception of
the Great Eastern, will be the
Pennsylvania, now nearly CON-
Ipleted at Belfast She is intend.
ed for the freight trade between
| New York and Hamburg, but
will also have room for 228 cabin
passengers and 1900 steerage.
This monster vessel is 500 feet
long, and will hold over $4,000
tons of freight: She will haye
five decks, and her engines will
be of 1000 horse power.
A bill of considerable import
ance to the lumberjack, known
as the log lien law, has been in.
troduced in the state Legislature
1t provides for lien on logs and
) lumber for labor performed in
the state and for other services
! in transportation of logs and
lumber from other states. If the
, bill becomes a law, woodsmen
will have no further trouble in
y securing prompt settlements OF
accounts.
2 These are the days when the
: editor of the average country
3 newspaper would prefer to be a
r millionaire. Not that the mil.
j. lionaire enjoys more of the lux
l uries of life, but because he don't
have to hustle to find out some
l thing he don't know for the ben.
5 eft of his patrons, and get Sc.
. verely criticised if be don't sue
: coed. We are not. however, OF
5 the common herd; oh, no; we'd
| rather be newspaper man.
If there is one thing that this
] world admires above others 1t is
a dignitied manhood-the man.
: hood that refuses to fawn on the
4 influence of position, the AFRO.
f gance of petty authority or the
pride of wealth; that places self
I respect above the smiles of syco
l phants; that values men by their
i. worth and not by their position
or the favors they are able to
: bestow and that knows no SER
, vile, cringing nature but to de-
2 spise it.
H. Strehiau has secured the
l exclusive right for the ranges
and Itasca county for the sale OF
, the Hon. VIM. ]. Bryan's book,
, ''The Great Battle" and is busy
, these days in soliciting orders,
with good success. The work is
one of interest to anyone inter
ested in political or economic
questions. The book is still in
the hands of :the publishers
: Conkey & Co., Chicago, but the
first installment will be ready
for delivery on February list.