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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
THE HOUSE FLY.
How the Troublesome Pest Can be Kept
Away from Our Dwellings.

Away from Our Dwellings.
Miss r. A. Ormerod, in her twentieth
annual report of "ObservatiOns OH lnjuri-
GUS Insects" devotes n considerable space
to practical consideration of the common
house fly. This insect which is found
in all parts of the world. is almost in
variably produced from eggs laid i'll heaps
of decaying horse manure. The common
house fly does not sting, but merely puts
it's probOscis on to the skin of man and
animals to imbibe the perspiration. New
ertheless, it is a great pest in our houses,
and irritates horses by settling on their
eyelids. During winter it remains in
torpid state being revived on warm days,
soon regaining its usual activity in the
sun The eggs are laid III damp, spoiled
provisions and dead animals, but above
all in heaps of horse and fowl dung.
The eggs are Matched into little legless
maggots about third of an inch long.
These, when full-grown, lay dormant and
the skin hardens, the maggot becoming a
chestnut brown chrysnlis. In this state
they remain days or weeks, according to
the temperatures, many of them sleeping
through the entire winter. From each
chrysalis eventually creeps out fully
developed and full-grown house fly, with
which everyone is more or less
surprising when we find that
every female lays about sew
enty eggs. The method Of prevention
Of the attacks of the house fly, if it were
generally followed, is efficacious and not
difficult AS miss Ormerod says, the
filthy state in which lower class sta bles
are kept, and the amount of droppings
left on the roads and fields, would breed
enough flies to infest all the neighboring
houses in legions; and the removal of
these would save us from much annoy
ance. For the capture of flies in the
garden, Miss Ormerod suggests two
square hand lights, one set on the top of
the other. The finger-hole on the top of
the lowest allows the flies TO go into the
upper one, which is closed. and the low
err one is raised up on bricks, some at
tractive substance being placed below.
The flies, after feeding, rise up and gain
access through the hole at the top to the
upper case, where they collect in thou
sands.
To keep the flies out of our dwelling
houses Miss Ormerod gives this method:
1t is to draw down the lower sash of
the window so that it is closely shut. to
draw down the upper sash about foot,
so that it is open at the top; then to
draw down the roller blind, so that the
pests are inclosed between the calico
blind and the glass panes of the windows.
when, she says, following their natural
instinct, the flies rise, and, arriving at
the opening at the top, out they all go.
She states that this plan may be carried
out in bay windows, and she says that
it has been found most successful and
great relief to the inmates.-Philadel-
mia TimpS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
INDIAN WISDOM.
Their knowledge Of the Cura.
tive Properties Of Herbs
considered remarkable.
/ nated Professor, DR.. G. Won Spiegel Of
Saratoga, n. T., credits them with
many remedies used by him in efeet'
ing difficult cures.
Useful hints to many who suffer, where
they might enjoy the Indians pro-
verbal good health and longevity but
Tor the prejudice Of Ignorance,

The once existing idea that no possible
good or knowledge could be obtained from
an Indian is fast disappearing,
When such . man as DR.. c. Won Spiegel
OF Saratoga Springs, in All article published
In the daily Saratogiaa Of Sept. II, states
that he is indebted, not only to the North
American Indians kickapoos, Cheyennes,
anchcs, ETC., but to the many SO called uncivi!-
ICED nations Of the most remote corners OF
the globe,-- for his enormous collection and
the knowledge of their virtues, of roots, herbs,
aarks, gums and balsams, by whose use he
has effected the most extraordinary cures in
innumerable desperate cases, it would seem
that the world at large should no longer
hesitate to look for help from such simple
instead of dragging ont miserable lives of
sickness that is aggravated by poisonous
mineral drucS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Possibilities of Arbitr ton.

The possibilities OF. international arbi-
tration are simply beyond computat ton.
They are infinite. If they should be car
ried out only in part they would mock
the pessimists, bring sunshine upon those
who take dark views of humanity and
make the optimists. too common for no.
tice. All the evils of the world are
crowded into war. 1t is the parent of
every violation of law, human or divine,
the apologist for excess, the friend of
brutality, the advocate of sin, and the
father of bankruptcy. 1t is the black
cloud that darkens the whole world at
this very moment. -
What is the object of war? If it is to
settle questions between nations, when
has it ever settled themy If it is to do
justice, when has it ever done justice
If it is to settle rights, who will pretend
that war can settle rights or adjust hon
est differences as thoroughly, as well and
as safely as court composed Of wise
and experienced men who are anxious to
do right ?-Frederic !, r. Coudert in the
Penny Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

drinking. began It regularly In Japan,
and later, when / set up a studio in Lon
don, found that everyone drank ten in
the afternoon there. Men who dropped
In to see me late in the afternoon ex-
pected that ten would be offered to them
as a matter Of course. remember be-
ing very much amused by two workmen
who We're repairing some frames for me.
About 4:30 in the afternoon they disap-
peared for half an hour, and when they
returned they told me that they had gone
first, but I discovered later that they had
told the truth. Even the workmen drink
tea in the afternoon. / make my own
ten in my studio in Il pot that brought
from Japan, and enjoy it."-New York
Sim
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Kansas Legislation.

Senator Forney of the Kansas state
Senate has a Young daughter VINO tells
why her father introduced so many freak
bills in the Senate. "Whenever pa ran
up against anything he didn't like she
says, "he would come home and write a
bill against it. There is one of his rail-
road bills, for instance. We drove to
town to church one night, and there was
a freight train on the crossing, and it
kept us there for twenty minutes. 1t an
noyed pa dreadfully, and he went home
and wrote that bill to prohibit trains from
obstructing the crossings more than five
minutes. Then, one night, somebody
stole all our chickens. The next day pa
wrote his chicken bill. But you will no
tice that the bill doesn't protect ducks.
1t says except ducks Pa don't like
ducks. And he said if anybody wanted
to steal them it was all right-the ducks
was punishment enough. Whenever pa
sat down to write bill we always knew
that something had happened to him."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
You Have Waited for This.

There are many people who would be
glad to abandon the habit of drinking
coffee II they could only find a substi-
tute for it. That substitute is Grain-O,
made from pure grains and beverage
in every way preferable to coffee.
Grain-O is not a sumulant-it Is some
thing better. 1t is cheering, nutritious
and Strengthening. In other words 1t
is food-drink, as coffee is not. 1t is
acceptable to the most delicate stom-
ach, and agrees with confirmed dyspep-
tics. Unlike coffee Grain-O produces
no nervous action. 1t never interferes
with sleep. As for the flavor Of Grain-O,
people who use it say that after using
it week or two they like its taste bet
ter than that Of coffee. Grain-O is sold
by all grocers at 15c. and Csc. per pack
a NN,.xx Il
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
"A Birds Curious Prison.

In chopping down a tree the other day
a Sherman county farmer noticed Il limb
with a cavity some two feet III length
and three or four inches in diameter, in
which were two large, full-grown birds.
There was small opening, through
which the birds received food from their
mates. The limb was cut and the birds
liberated. Neither was able to fly. hay
ing never been out of it's place of impris-
onlnent.
1t is probable that he mother bird was
small, and though able to make her nest
in the hollow of the tree and rear her
young, could not extricate them, as they
did not have strength enough to help
themselves until the hollow SO closed as
to make escape impossible. Those WHO
have examined the birds think they are
about , years old.
They have been fed from their birth by
their bird fellows through the aperture in
the limb of the tree.-Special Telegraph,
New York Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Milton's wives and Daughters.

Of Millions three wives, and his rela-
tons with them, enough has been writ
ten. 1t was hard thing to be Millions
wife or Millions daughter. He was
stern, he was austere, he was self-cen-
tered; his impeccable strength was pur-
chased by sublime and monotonous
egotism-which is the name they give to
sel6shness in poets. Very chill must
have been the life of his girls in that
Puritan house, reading to the inwrapped
Puritan father from languages they did
not understand. and taking down from
his lips poetry they understood still less.
Milton found them undutfful. Poor lit
tie .'undutiful' daughtersl Fathers had
terrible conceptions of duty in those days.
Did anyone ever not want to know
Shakespeare? Doubtless there are read
ers of the Exeter Hall class who would
have yearned for the cody company of
whole, how thankful one should be that
Shakespeare was not "Christian poet"
LES vrais artists sont toujours un pen
paiens.' said poor Stephen Heller to Sir
Charles Halle: in no invidious sense, for
was he not Catholic writing to Cath
Olic2A cadpmvS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
The Women OF Guiana.

The wife of the coolie in Guiana is a
woman who is very much to be envled.
Every gold or silver piece her husband
receives for his services is heated up into
personal trinkets to be worn by his bet
ter-half. In this condition it constitutes
the cash wealth of the family. 1t is per-
fectly safe, as it is as much as any mans
life is worth to touch them so long as the
woman wears them. These same women
are also noted for their beauty. Their
features are straight and perfect; their
eyes beautiful in color and their forms
perfect models of symmetry and grace.
Dressed in soft filmy materials, rich in
color and Eastern figures, they pres ent
strangely Oriental and fantastic appear
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
The Ghost Of Jerry Lynch.

England is great country for sprcters
There is scarcely a part of it that is not
haunted or afflicted by ghost of some
kind or other. In Essex is the spirit of
Gabriel Craddock, a highwayman famous
in the last century under the name of
Jerry Lynch" Gabriel was finally cap
tured, wounded and drowned in a pond.
but his ghost still marches on. 1t is sen
only on the widest and stormiest nights.
bandy-legged and mounted on an carless
mare. fleeing from his pursuers. who fcl-
low him from the village of Shenfa!d,
Ingraye. Horndon. Larndon and PiTsca
Topwater hall, big building near Leigh,
is said 10 have been built by Gabriel
from the proceeds of his robberies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Frances Colony Of Anarchists,

The spirit of active Anarchy is much
more common in Europe than most peo-
pie imagine. There are 1000 persons in
France who are set down as Anarchists
and are constantly watched by the police
of the various European countries. 1t is
estimated that three-fourths of Frances
Anarchists are of foreign birth. Italy
contributes the largest number, ind
Switzerland comes next, with Germany
and Austria following. The Anarchis+s
are made up from all classes, varying
from day laborers to highly educated pro-
fassiona1 men,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
The Future Queen OF italy.

ltaly's next Queen will be the most re-
markable woman ruler in the modern
history of the world. She has the cour-
age of lion. the ply of an Amazon.
the spirit of Joan dare. She is perfectly
at home in the saddle and an expert with
the rife. The princess, moreover. takes
keen delight in shooting birds with a
revolver, and so great is her skill with
that weapon that even the smallest AMI
NAL falls an easy prey to her unerrng
aim. The number of languages with
which she is thoroughly conversant is
halt dozen. and she knows the political
intricacies of Europe as well as a prime
minister. Though lover of the wild
and ferocious, she has enough in-ell;-
gence and training to make her a finished
woman of the world
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

An elegant art gem, illustrated in
four colors, and otherwise attractively
gotten up, is being sent out by large
Chicago wholesale clothing firm. The
firm is not in the mail order business,
nor is the booklet a catalogue. From
Fold to Solons" is most accepta bic
gift for anyone. 1t will be sent free
to anyone asking for it from Kohn
Bros, Chicago, III.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
NEW IDEA IN ADVERTISING.


Paris is threatened with dreadful
visitation III The shape Of pavement ad-
already decorating the streets Of that
city insprofusion. Is just like an ordinary
harmless hanging lamp. and not at all
aggressive. But its interior harbors
clockw0rk iniQuity by which lettered or
pictirial advertisements are @smagnitied
and thrown on to the pavement and floor.
Each contains number of advertise
ments--stWenty-six is the most cOnven'
for half-minute or one-minute exhibition
of each advertisement. The reflection on
the ground makes clear and hold pic
ture of from 8 feet to / feet inches in
diameter, according to the height of the
lamp from the ground.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
There Ii q Class of Peop

There Ia Class OF People
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re-
Gently there has been placed in all the gro
Gerry stores new preparation called
GRAIN-O, made of pure grains. that
takes the place of coffee. The most deli
cate stomach receives it without distress,
and but few can tell it from coffee. 1t
does not cost over one-fourth as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit.
15c and 25c per package.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Wisconsin Patents.

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventors are reported for this week by
Erwin, Wheeler & Wheeler, So and 50
Loan and Trust building, Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook free:
N. A. Christensen, assgr, Milwaukee,
valve for air brakes; A.. M. Dworschack. In
dependence, whifnetree; c. II. Herwood.
milwaukee,, elevator for feeding sheets Of
paper; A. G. jacob, Middleton, milk meas
urer; H. w. Falk, assgr:, Milwaukee, meth
Morrison. Eau Claire, logging sled; w. E.
Penn and NJ. A. Guild, :assgrs., Lake Mills,
combined churn and butter worker.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
AN OPEN. LETTER.


The following Communication was re-
Gently received by the manufacturers Of
Dr.. WilliamitPink Pills for Pale People:
I was b0EH In Germany and am 81
years old. Live with Iy husband on q
farm For tsH years Suffered with leu
friends and myself also! l had tried a
great many doctors and different kinds
OF medicines without securing any benz"
fits. My condition had become 10 deplora-
BILE that had almost given up hope of re-
covery, when one day l saw in the Sank
Center Herald an advertisement of DR..
Williams Pink Pills, and ns a drowning
person catches ct a straw 80 l grasped
this chance and: purchased from Hanson
Il Emerson 4 box of Pink Pills. COM
menced taking them in March, 1896, and
after taking one. box felt 80 much i'm
proved that l bought more.
'After taking, them for a time found
to my surprise that was entirely cured.
Ever since then. have been as strong
and well as eyef was, and am able to do
the ardous duties which fall to the lot of
y farmers wife without feeling the least
fatigue or Inconvenience
Il hope this will be the means Of placing
your wonderful pills in the hands of some
sister sufferer, who may rejoice with me.
l am satisfied that no woman need suffer
SO close ut hand.
mrs. H. srENERNAGEL,"
Subscribed before me this 10th day of
December, 1885,
CHAs. f. HENDRY, Notary Public,
DR.. williams Pink Pills Contain. in a
condensed FORM, all the elements neces-
sary to give new life and richness to the
h(nn6 md hot
IRE also specific for troubles peculiar to
females, such as suppressions, irregulari-
ties and all forms of weakness. They
build up the blood, and restore the glow Of
health to pale a9d sallow cheeks. In men
they effect radical cure in all cases aris-
ing from mental worry, overwork or ex-
cesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills
are sold in boxes never in loose bulk at
80 cents a box. or six boxes for $3.50, and
may be had of all druggists, or direct by
mail from DR.. Williams Medicine Com
pany, Schenectady. N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

The Anglo-Saxons double their popu-
lation in Europe in Sc years; in the col
onies in 25 years; while the Germans
take 100, and the French 14O years to
double theirs.
We anticipated largely in Carpets,
Rugs, &C., and the tariff is not going to
effect our retail prices. Don't delay. Let
US figure with you.
ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO.,
Milwaukee. Wis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
WINGS OF A DOVE.

At sunset, when the rosy light was dying
Far down the pathway OF the west,
] saw Il lonely dove In silence flying
49, To he ut rest. XII
Pilgrim OF air, cried, could / but borrow
Thy wandering wings, thy freedom blest,
I'd dy away from every careful sorrow
,.%a And find my rest. 49,. -
But when the dusk filmys veil was weav-
ing, .-'..& ...~
Back came the dove to seek her nest.
Deep In the forest where her mate was
grieving-
There was true rest.
Peace, heart Of mine! no longer sigh to
wander;
Lose not thy life in fruttless quest.
There are no happy islands over yonder;
Come home and rest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
His Fair Wife.

The Maharajah of Pattiala was one
Of the distinguished visitors to the
Worlds fair. The visit of an East In
dian prince is an event somewhat I'M
usual in this country, especially one who
is the almost absolute ruler of a district
containing popula ton of nearly 1,5OO,-
600 people. OF course, his royal high
ness was made much of, both in and out
of society. 1t was probably not very
generally known, however, that the
prince, dusky Of skin though he is, has
one of the fairest of European ladies for
consort. His wife, usually known as
the Queen of Pattiala, was formerly
Florence Bryan, sister to Charles Bryan,
an Irish gentleman we'll known in Indian
r0pinp oirolns
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

Ham N'Ghi,, ex-King Of AMMAN,
whom the French are: keeping as a pris-
oner of state at Algiers, occupies his
leisure with painting, and intends to send
also a musician, :and regrets that he is
unable to appreciate Wagner.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

Send us 25 cents in stamps and we will
send you pure linen hemstitched hand
kerchief-hand-embro work in four
corners. done by the peasants III Ireland.
ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
A Strong Point for the Winchester

In time everything breaks or wears out.
proper means are at hand. One Of the
many great advantages of using Win
chester make Of rifle or repeating shot
gun is that, if any part Of the gun is
broken, it can be easily replaced at
trifing cost. All Winchester guns are
made by a system of interchangeable
parts 50 that part will fit any Winches-
ter gun of like model. This permits the
owner of Winchester to renew any part
Of the gun without the aid Of gun
maker. Parts can be obtained through
any gun dealer in the country. This fea-
ture alone should recommend strongly
guns made by the Wincheste Repeating
Arms Co., New Haven, CT. Send for
their large illustrated catalogue free.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

"A third shipment of jutc from Calcut-
ia by steam to Galveston, Tex, is to be
made, the railroads having made the rail
rates from Galveston to St. Louis the
same as from New York to st. Louis,
and so made it feasible to ship via the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Wise i n Their Generation,

The above class of scientists recognize and
nave repeatedly borne testimony to the ef-
ncacy OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as
remedy and preventive OF fever and ague,
and some other ailments and infrm con
ditions OF the system. Experience and OBJ
sservation have taught them it's value. They
by the public and the press. Only the be.
nlghted now are ignorant of Americas tonic
and Alternative
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

The Connecticut Senate has voted
$4,000 to DR.. Henry Barnard of Hartford.
the venerable and widely known educator,
whom the House has refused to pension.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

PINKHAMS INVITATION.
Women suffering form of female weakness invited promptly
Pnkham All
opened read answered by only freely talk of
established
which she has
gained the knowledge that will
She nothing in return goodwill and her
of observation-disclosures E. Pnkha
Medicine Lynn,M
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

The town of Prospect, Me-, ballosed
nine times before it could decide who
should have the 81 that goes with the Of
fee of town constable,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
Could Not Awe american Woman.

Justin Huntley Mccarthy was once
showing a young American woman over
the House of Parliament. In escortiny
her through the library of the Commons
he casually mentioned as a more or less
interesting fact. that it was against the
rules for women to sit down there. rs
that really a law of the place?'' asked
the fair American. "That is So" an.
swered Mccarthy, gravely. 'Then,"
said his visitor, you just see ME break
it" and, drawing up chair, she sat
resolutely down at the table.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

Santa Barbara, CAL, citizens are COM
planning of the general slaughtering of
seals going on in the Santa Barbara chan
mel. Some 5000 OF the animals have
been killed by sealers there in the last
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14
The Queens Peraufsitfes.

Among the queer perquisites belonging
by right to Queen Victoria of England
are every whale or sturgeon captured on
the coast of the United Kingdom. The
right dates back to the time Of the Nor
man kings. when it was the custom for
the sovereign to take the body and the
queen the head of the sea monsters.
Each year the Queen also receives as her
perquisites a certain number of magnifi-
cent cashmere shawls from the Kingdom
$500 to 5000 each, and are given as
wedding presents to the young lady aris-
tocrats who enjoy the Queeu's favor.