The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-18

army utllzed Tor telenh0ne lines IN Cuba,
are now serving the same purposes in
munieate with each other over distances
extending thirteen miles The system re-
lieves the monotony and isolation Of life
in the back country. e.
.-Chicago's new crusaders against the
vice which haNnts itself so openly in that
city are called Henry's Rough Riders.
Fhev are a band of young men led by
Kss n a. nenry Who styles ess himself
stir IN the city, much to the ANNOYANCE Of
the police, who, they say, are in collision
with the evildoers.
Tho hull of none Of our, battleships
or cruisers is sheathed with copper. The
guuhoats Newport. Vicksburg, Princeton,
Annapolis. Marietta and Wheeling are
sheathed with copper, and are the only
vessels in the American navy SO treated.
The bottoms of all modern vessels are
steel, and painted to prevent rust and
Santiago We're copper sheathed. ~
. Time was when London was u water
ing place, whose wells, if not rivaling
Bath or Harrowgate, were widely famed
and frequented by people from all quar-
tiers. In South London there are many
sMs-Lambeth Wells, which sold water
FOR y penny 4 quart, and gave it to the
poor for nothing; St. Georges Wells, Sy-
denham Wells and Dulwich wells being
the best Known. =
In ppahannock county. Virginia,
they lately had ''spoonament." All the
participants were ladies. They rode on
dinner spoon with an egg in it. The
one who rode three times around the
arena without dropping the: egg was
crowned queen of the spoonainent. A
world of fun was had by both partici-
pants and spectators. "a
Portland, Or, has what is believed to
be the only military company composed of
Cinnamon outside the Chinese empire. 1t
has thirty-seven members, all fall-blooded
into being last June, when the war clouds
were rather murky. Its captain. Seid
Back, IT.. tried to enlist i'll the United
States Engineer corps, but was rejected
because of defective eyesight.
M. s. Prime of California is a rather
remarkable person in that he is the prcsi-
dent, secretary and treasurer, board Of d.
rectors and manager of the Paso de Rob-
las Street Railway company. He is also
the driver and conductor of the single car
run on the road and is perfectly happy
when the outfit brings him in S1.5O a day.
The road, three miles in length, runs
from, the railroad station to locally fa-
nous mud bath, and Mr.. Prime traded a
house and lot in Alameda county for the
whole outfit.
The red carnation is the administra-
tive flower and the President not only
wears one constantly upon his breast, hut
always has bunch in a vase before him
upon his official desk. This practice dates
back. to the time when he was governor
Of Ohio, when, the students of the Uni
versity ut Columbus started movement
to select a flower for the state There
were several candidates.. and during The
controversy the governor was consulted.
He suggested the scarlet scarnation is the
most appropriate, and it was adopted.
-Epicures in the East are developing
a taste for miniature specimens of the
earth's products. To supply the demand
in the larger cities for young vegetables
such as the French consider the most
delicate and appetizing, the truck farmers
bring to market tiny potatoes, turuips,
carrots, cauliflower and even heads of
cabbage the size of baseball. Such
vegetables are, it is said, more easily Gi-
gested. their fiber being, tender and sue
culent, instead of tough and often a
woody nature, as the growth arrives at
maturity.
The divine Sarah is showing the ad-
miring world once more that custom cam
not stale her infinite variety. She now
takes her bath upon the roof. This is at
her chateau at Belleisle, but perhaps she
will keep the practice up in Paris, where
with screens she may defy prying eyes
and with hot water pipes the winter cold.
Sarah claims that baths taken beneath
the sun and in the air invigorate and re-
juvenate as nothing else in the world.
And Sarah's view is held by many doc
hot y, of
will testify.
Some long-lost poems by Shelley are
to be reprinted from the only known
printed in 1914 as Original Poetry, By
Victor and Cazire," Victor being Shelley
and Cazire his sister. Before the book
was put on sale, however, it was discov-
cred that some Of the sisters contribu-
tons had been copied from other poets
and the edition was suppressed. The
copy from which the reprint is made was
given by Shelley to his first sweetheart,
Harriet Grove, and was obtained from
her grand-nephew.
Munster, in Westphalia, has been
saved from a piece Of absurdity by the in
tervention of the Prussian government.
st. Lambert's church has been recently
restored and adorned with a new Gothic
tower. On the old tower hung the iron
cages in which the Anabaptist prophet"
John of Leyden, and his followers were
exposed after their execution in 1885. AS
the historic cages did not harmonic with
the new tower, the town wished to substi-
tute elegant new Gothic cages, but the
Prussian government has ordered the old
ones to be hung up again.
The varied costumes of the returning
soldier boys have aroused an interest in
uniforms in general. Valerious Maximus,
the Roman emperor. ordered the Roman
soldiers to wear red so they should not
be frightened ut the sight of their own
blood, and even now red forms con-
spicuous part of French and English uni
forms: In our own army red has been
ground that it attracts attention in the
field, though experiments in Germany
prove that a blue target is hit three times
where Il red one is hit once.
Bret Harte's story, ''Tennessee's
Partner is said to have been suggested
to the author by the touching and beauti-
full friendship which binds together two
old men who have lived more than forty
years in the mountains on the route to
the Yosemite. They have little gold
mine which yields an occasional $50, an
orchard and garden. One Of the two
has not seen San Francisco since 1855.
With all their hermit life, however, the
two old gentlemen read great deal and
know what is going on in the outside
world.
The first paper mill in Montana will
soon be erected at Manhattan, in that
state. The material to be used in the
manufacture is the white barley straw
grown in the Gallatin valley. thus utiliz-,
ing q, product Of the state which hereto
fore has gone to waste. The plant will
be the only one Of it's kind in the United
States. as at the present time there are no
paper mills in this country converting
straw into pulp and paper. g.. In Russia
there are few mills Of this sort, while
Germany has more than 100 mills which
manufacture pulp and paper from the
German barley straw. - - ss~,:>7$ !,
In the collection of books belonging
to the late Edward W. Wells Of Hart
ford recently disposed of at auction, was
an old A marienn srpopr. Dh, t1a4inr bo ~