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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04

70 the cubic yard. It Ia said that ex l1s-.
rienced miners Gun pan $40 a day.
The sale Of the Mexican Inguaran cop-
per mines to Rothschild and Mira beaud
of Paris for several million dollars has
been the result of prolonged aud thor
ough investigation Of this great copper
deposit. The experts have all agreed that
there is an enormous quantity of ore Of
fine quality in the mines. Messrs. Roth
schild and Mirabeaud viii build two lines
of railroad, one to, connect with the west
coast and the other with the western
branch of the Mexican National RAILROAD.
The department Of mining and geol-
ogy of the Wyoming State university has
just given out ten relnarkabl assays of
surface gold ores from the Grand En-
eeampment mining district in Southern
from widely different parts Of the dis
trict, no two samples being from any
one prospector or miner. The phenome-
nal average of $461.S2 resulted from
them. The best ore ran $15l6.35 per
ton, the lowest grade being $13.66.
An Eastern company now owns the
opal mines on Snake river, Idaho. The
ago and large numbers of the beautiful
stones were placed on the market. The
owners Of the mines, not understanding
how7Eto care for the gems, did not give
them a chance to harden in the dark,
and large percentage of them cracked
and went to pieces. This gave our opals
q bad reputation, but, with the mines in
the hands of experienced operators. there
is no doubt that the glittering gems viii
soon find ready sale
C. III. Weber, a ranchman near Du-
range. Col, short time ago went into
the La Plata mountains on a prospecting
trip In ten days time he had discovered
q vein, the first shipment of two tons re-
turning $1OO> He sold half interest to
a Chicago man for $500, and the latter
soon after sold one-haf of his share for
$4,000 to7a banker Of Durango, who now
holds 4 lease and bond on the entire prop
erty in the sum Of $4,000. An ore chute
lI6 feet long and So feet wide has been
developed and is supposed to contain val
ues to the amount of 100000.
Samples of copper ore brought to
Denver from Aliens Park, a new mining
camp nine miles from Ward, COL, at the
base of Longs peak, show from $40 to
SIG in copper, which is almost double
the value of any other copper ore in the
state. In addition there is peacock gold
in the ore, which i'll these runs has
shown from So to $25 to the ton. The
ore comes from Bland, property which
is owned and is at present being worked
by Albert Newton. He has been operat-
ing on this property for nearly Il year
and has at last made his strike. The
rich ore has been found at a depth of
ninety feet. The vein is apparently in
eNhaustible. A strike that is even richer
than that of the Bland, but in gold rath-
er tan in copper, has been made within
the past few days in the park. 1t is on
property three miles east of the town,
where strong vein of 5000 gold ore has
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
Johns Mistake,

The students of one of our well-known
colleges for women. says the Portland
Transcript, are accustomed to do their
shopping in town through the medium of
a certain John. who, lacking intellectual
gifts. has faculty for doing errands.
John writes down his orders himself.
One day his list closed with:
''tub roz madden 1"
''choc cream 1p'
''git string"
John pondered: Get it where? What
kind: Who had ordered it? Was it for
an eyeglass. picture-cord. corset-lacing"
He couldn' t remember. couldn't :::git" it,
and went back without any.
But the moment he saw Jenny Peters
tuning her guitar at the window and
heard her call out, 80 John. did you do
my errand?'' he remembered all about it,
and said to himself:
'sThere. now. why couldn't "a thought
of her gita' String-and written out SO
plain. too. Strange | couldn't "a thought
~ that"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
Miss Gould a CRYSTAL Gazer

Miss Helen Gould is said to have Joined
the fastest society cult, crystal gazers, "
and to have just paid $4,000 for what
is regarded as the most perfect mystic
globe in existence. 1t comes from japan.
where three illuminate spent their lives
in polishing the giant, rough crystal into
the perfect sphere it now is.
1t is as clear as the air itself, vet the
initiated claim to be able to see within
its depths the events of the past, pres
ent and future. and even the imma terial
entities who inhabit space or the un-
known spirit land.
The crystal globe itself, which is eight
inches in diameter. is said to have cost
upward of $4,000, and Miss Gould has had
it mounted in a gold and crystal setting
worth $1,000 more
In addition to this, she has had spe-
cial room constructed in her, residence at
Irvington-on-Hudson to contain this mys-
tic treasure. The room is circular, with
arched ceiling, and is draped throughout
in black velvet.
There, when the crystal is unveiled and
the electric light turned on, it flashes with
an intense iridescent splendor only COM
parable to that of large diamond, but
the difference that it's. radiance; is soft
and pleasing, instead of dazzling to the
Philadelphia Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
FARMER AND MEGAPHONE.
A Plot ON Boat Stops Horse in


A Plot on Boat Stops q Horse in q
Cornfield Near by.
! was on the upper Ohio this summer
when the river was low, and was much
amused over the use to which pilot nut
a megaphone. He bought the thing to call
ashore any message that might have been
given the boat to carry. This was to save
time, for those. little boats in the local
trades are great deal like the ld-fash-
Toned mail carriers, anything to accommo-
date the people along the bank,
We were in the pilothouse, and the
boat was running up a chute near the
west Virginia side of the river. In a
corntield was an old farmer, who was
following plough behind an old hea-bit-
> ton to stop at any time. The pilot put
the megaphone to his mouth and shouted
Whoa! and the old gray whoaed.
The farmer heard the sound. and he
thought, evidently, that a neighbor was
there or thereabout, for he looked around
to see whence the sound came. Then he
tossed clod at the old horse and started
"'Whoa,' said the pilot, and again the
old horse stopped. Then the old Rube
went to the river bank and looked down
in the willows, but not soul could he
see. He looked up and down, and then
at the steamboat and scratched his head
IN surprise. He couldn't afford to waste
any time in looking for the ghost, for he
went back to the plough and started on
with his job.
"Once more the joking pilot said whoa,
and again the horse stopped dead still.
You could see from the boat that the old
fellow was all mixed up, for he looked
up and down the river, and then at the
hillside behind him to see if he could find
the man who was working him and his
old horse. He made up his mind that he
would take it out Of the old gray, and to
fix for the occasion he went to the under
brush and cut stick that was ten feet
long. He started the horse with a ven
geance. When the pilot hollered whoa
again the old man gave the gray a lick
that sounded clear to the boat. We could
almost hear him say:
Thar, gol darn you, I'll teach you to
stop when you hear a spoOk hollerin' at
ye.'
'But the pilot kept up the good work
and hollered whoa, whoa, whoa, and
again the old man hit the gray. Finally
it looked as if he had caught on, for he
let the old horse stop while he watched
the boat.
'Then the pilot thought he had had
enough fun and he called out:
"'Feed the old gray; feed him. He's so
hungry that he can't work. That's all
the matter with him.
'"Then old Rube got his voice and we
heard him say: You go to thunder with
your old voice. It'd stop a railroad train
ANYWHERE -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
FINISHING SCHOOL,
Good, Practical Institutions Found in

Good, Practical Institutions Found in
South Germany.
Too many Of what are known as finish
ing schools are of doubtful utility, though
many of those found in south Germany
are developed on the most practical of
lines, says an exchange. Before being
admitted girls are supposed to have
been thoroughly we'll educated. They
come to the school mainly to learn house
keeping. The schools generally number
from ten to twenty boarders, each of
morning after breakfast the girl has to
make her own bed and dust the room.
Once or twice month she is obliged to
alter the position of the furniture, so
that she may know how to arrange
things. Every week she is called upon
to take her dresses from the cupboards,
where they hang, and pack them in a
box, with everything else she may re-
quire for long visit. This done, the
mistress inspects it, and points out the
many ways in which she may save space.
pills are admitted, and two housemaids,
and one cook are kept. At the COM
mencement Of the term the girls are in
formed by the mistress that four of them
are required every week to take absolute
charge of the house. They have to rise
early in the morning and see to the prep
aration of breakfast. When this is
finished they make their beds and tidy
their rooms, and afterwards 60 around
the house to see that the servants have
done their work. Then they are told by
the mistress what the midday dinner
will consist of, and this they have to
prepare, though the cook will supervise
what they do in the kitchen, giving hints
and preventing waste. One Of the four
girls will have to sit at the head of the
table and serve the soup, carve the poul-
try or joint and help the sweets. This
meal over, those on duty have, after
short rest, to arrange afternoon tea,
which they lay in the drawing room. and
at which they have to wait upon their
companions and any. visitors who may
happen to call. In the evening there is
frequently some music or light recrea
ton, where the four girls have to act as
hostess. They finish up their days work
by arranging supper, but are not allowed
to retire for the night until they have left
the kitchen in perfect order and have
seen that the doors and windows all over
the house are properly secured
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
Religious federation in japan.


One of the first acts of the Emperor
after the Restoration was the promulga-
ton of an edict abolishing the laws
against foreign religions and their propa-
CATION among the people. Hence it came to
pass that for the first time in centuries
the doctrine and tenets of Christianity
could be freely preached and taught in
Japan. Mention of this momentous event
naturally suggests some consideration of
the question of religious faiths in japan,
and of their influence upon the intellec-
tual and moral growth of the nation. One
interesting fact Immediately discloSes it.
self, and that is that up to the time when
Japan was closed to the world foreign
religions had not only been tolerated, but
had even been eagerly welcomed and
espoused. This is notably true of Chris
introduced about 552 n. D. Until that
time ShintOism was the only religion of
the people. 1.-The coming of Buddhism
as one of our historians says, wrought
a complete change in the mind of the ma
ton. Hitherto the peoples conception
of religion had been of Il most rudimen-
tary character. They merely believed
that the gods must be revered, relied OH,
and feared. In their simple faith they
attributed every happy or unhappy event.
every fortunate or unfortunate incident,
to the volition of the deities. to whom
therefore, they offered sacrifices that evil
might be avcrted." The transition from
pantheism of this description to belief in
faith which inculcated virtue and we'll
doing, and announced the doctrine of flu
ture rewards and punishments, might
naturally be regarded as difficult, but it
was accomplished in Japan in surpris-
ingly brief period. The introduction of
Buddhism did not, however destroy rev
crence for the ancient Shinto faith. The
two existed side by side; in some cases
they were even partially amalgamated
through the skillful adoption by Buddhist
propagandists of some features of the
Shinto belief as Il part of the Buddhist
tenets.-From 1.-THE New Japan" by Turo
Hoshi, in Harpcr's Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
THE BIRD IN IT'S CAGE:
dience will see bird in its cage; where
before they saw an empty cage:

dience will see bird in its cage; where
before they saw an empty cage:
The simple trick of putting a needle
through a nickel can be done without
private rehearsal. Take a cork and run
a needle through it; leaving the point
flush with the cork. Now place a nickel
between two blocks of wood, put the
cork upon it and give the top a sharp
blow with a hammer. When you have
pulled the cork off the needle the point
Of the needle will be found to have pene-
trated the nickel. This is most success
fully accomplished by taking a marked
nickel from anyone i'll the company.
Disappear and return minute later
with the needle driven through the nickel.
The very attractive feature of causing
a label to move can be done by means of
thread attached to the trousers leg of
the skillful operator. Let the thread be
caught also around the leg of the table.
During the evening as the conversation
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04

turns upon peculiar phenomena, the SUBJ
ject Of table tipping can 6e introduced.
The willy operator, sitting by table, sug-
gests that he can make the table move.
All are anxious to see him do so. He be-
gins by rubbing the top smartly with a
silk handkerchief to generate the electrici-
ty. Then he makes peculiar passes over
it; and finally. steDpir.- backward. he
commands it to follow him. Needless to
say it obeys him, walking faster or slow.
er, according to his demand. If this is
practised upon a dark floor with a slender
black silk thread the deception is perfect.
The most interesting trick is the soap,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
New Tyne of Engine

The Chicago & Erie railroad is building
forty locomotives of an entirely new tyne
for use on the main line between Chi
cago and New York. The most striking
feature in the new engine is the position
of the cab, which is placed in front of the
steam dome, leaving the boiler and fire.
box Immediately over the driving wheels.
Several advantages are claimed for this
arrangement. The engineer is given a
much clearer view of the track ahead,
and has better control of the machinery.
The heaviest part of the locomotive is
over the driving wheels. The area of the
boiler is considerably increased and the
cost of fuel is greatly reduced.
BY an improved arrangement of the
frebox the cheapest kind of fuel can be
used, and the saving on that score is
said to be considerable The new engine
can also be built for Is per cent. less
cost than the old type. 1t is lighter and
the wear and tear ON the tracks is ex-
pected to be much less in consequence.
Two iremen will be employed on each
engine, one to shovel coal and keen up
steam and the other to assist the engi-
neer. The new engines will attain much
greater speed and do more work ut less
cost than the present locomotives. The
Erie adopted the new engine after test
Of several months. Some old locomo-
tlves were remodeled on these lines and
employed in freight and passenger serv-
Ice with satisfactory results.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
Large Cedar Trees,

branch of the Chicago & North Western
railway, can boast Of larger cedar trees
than found anywhere else in the upper
peninsula, says the Escanaba Mirror.
The Northern Single company. which Sc
cures the necessary material along the
creek for stocking its single mill at Per-
frequently cut down trees that
measure 1 feet at the butt. and one day
recently q tree was felled that measured
8 feet. 8 inches 1t was sawed into two
16-foot logs and then enough remained to
make Sood-sized telephone pole, -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
Showed the Martial sn,rit.

The late Gen. Havelock-Allen early
showed the martial spirit of the soldier.
Nearly fifty years ago, when he was only
IS years of age, he was stopping with his
father. in London. His father had some
very important business to transact at
ment accompanied by his son and the
minister they We're visiting. On passing
over London bridge Havelock told his son.
to wait in a recess on the bridge until he
returned for him. This was about II
O'Clock in the morning. At6 in the even
Mr.. Havelock that dinner was waiting.
A reply came that he had not been seen
all day. Il Talking the matter over, the
minister recollected the father telling the
son to wait on the bridge. The general
jumped into a hanson cab, drove to the
bridge and there found the boy, tired and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
The Ring was in the Glove.

About month ago Mrs. Willis Folks
of Wellington lost the gold ring which
had been given to her by Mr.. Folks at the
time they became engaged. She adver-
tised for the trinket. and offered rewards
greatly in excess of it's value, but with no
result. On Wednesday another lady of
Wellington went into Il store and com
menced to try on kid gloves. Her sur
prise may be imagined when. in removing
a glove from her hand, she found a
strange gold ring upon one of her fingers
The ring was engraved ''From Willis to
Emma," and was ut once recognized us
the one lost by Mrs. Folks. She had
been trying on gloves in the same store.
and left the ring in the glove when with
drawing her hand-Kansas City Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
THE EMPTY CAGE.

one one side of it draw canary bird.
If you cannot draw you can cut a small
bird out of picture and paste it on the
card. On the other side of the pasteboard
draw cage.
When you show this card to the audi
ence show them. the side of the card only
upon which the cage is drawn, yet do it
in such way that they imagine they
have seen both sides of the pasteboard.
Tie a piece of thread through opposite
sides of the card and twirl rapidly before
the eyes of your audience The bird and
the cage will move so rapidly that the au-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
CANCEL OF THE STEERAGE."
Miss Marie LowenthaI of Amsterdam
Aboard Shin.

MISS Marie Lowenthal of Amsterdam
Aboard Ship.
Over the seas from Holland came the
big steamship Werkendam, bearing a
host of round Dutch cheeses and a reci-
ment Of round Dutch. faces. She was
safely docked in Hoboken. The cabin
passengers shook hands all around, paid
their tips to the stewards and stepped
ashore to wrestle with the agents of
Uncle Sam. The steerage passengers
waited for the boat which was to bear
them to the barge office and to the scru-
tiny of the immigrant officials.
Among them was a curious figure. 1t
was woman young and beautiful. She
wore gown of silk and costly furS. She
was evidently woman of wealth and
culture. But she waited patiently with
the simple peasants, save when she
stopped to soothe some crying babe or
speak word of encouragement and
cheer to some down-hearted yokel.
Capt. DE Vries gazed at her in ad-
mlration and spoke to her as he might
have spoken to the Queen of Holland.
she is the angel of the steerage" he
travel that way. but she prefers to do it,
partly because she wished to save money
and partly to be among the poorer folk,
whom it is her delight to serve
Stingy? Not bit of it. Miss Marie
Lowenthal is one of the most generous
women alive. 1t is her delight to give to
others. to relieve distress.
Miss Lowenthal is the daughter of
one of the richest fnrriers in Amsterdam
She has a large allowance, but spends
most of it in helping the poor: She spends
her life among them and is looked upon
as a sort of guardian angel by the poor
of her native city. One of her fads is to
travel as cheaply as possible in order to
save money for philanthropic work. That
is why she has come over in the steerase.
She has crossed the ocean several times
that way, and if you could see all she
does for the poor. frightened emigrants
YOU would not wonder that they call her
he Angel of the Steerage"
Capt. De Nries said that Miss Lowen.
hal had come to New York on business
of her fathers. She is a keen business
woman, and the father ascribes much OF
his success to her business acumen. In
spite of the fact that she travels steer.
age her clothing fits her like a glove, and
many woman in the first cabin cnvies
the set and style of her gowns and the
richness of her furs.-New York World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN.
Their Heroism Shown in Saving Hum,


Their Heroism Shown in Saving Human
Life.
That women are capable of rising to
an emergency and showing rs great BRAY
cry as the other sex has been proven so
often that it is with no attempt at argu-
ment that we relate one or two records
of Woman,s heroism in trying circum-
stances. Women are less often, perhaps,
placed IN positions calling for physical
strength and courage tina II are men, hence
these few anecdotes are of interest.
The dowager Queen Pia of Portugal,
who IS as fine swimmer as the Queen
regent: of Spain, or Princess Helen of
orleans, says Household Words, possesses
2 highly-prized badge, won by her hay
ing at La !Granja, some years ago, swan
out into the sea, fully dressed, and res
cued two children whose boat had can
sized. wy
In an Irish adventure chronicled not
long ago, young lady distinguished her.
self by very heroic act, quite putting
to shame the men of the party Some
young men and women We're taking an
evening ramble near Claudy, County Der
ry;, when a young man from Belfast,
VINO had come to marry one of the girls,
missed his footing in crossing Il wooden
bridge over the River flanagan, and fell
into twenty feet of water. The girl, dis
tracted by the terrible occurrence. be-
sought the men around her to rescue him,
but IN valn-none of them was willing to
risk almost certain death. Her lover had
come to the surface for the third and last
time, when she leaped into the river her
self, and clutching the now exhausted
man with one hand, managed with great
difficulty to swim to the riverside, where
hands, now willing enough, received them
both.
Something of the same kind took Mace
at Canterbury. While a young miller
was assisting Miss Mason, daughter of
the ex-mayor of Canterbury, to launch a
canoe, he accidentally fell into the river
at spot just above the fioodgates of
the Black Mall, where the river is very
deep. He could not swim, and Miss Ma
son, who is noted locally as splendid
swimmer, unhesitatingly plunged in and
managed to keep him above water until
safely to shore. -. 80.
A very touching instance of the devo-
ton Of a mother occurred at Colches-
ter. The wife of sergeant-maiOr of
the Kings Dragon guards was wheel
ing her baby in a perambulator in the
cavalry barracks when the carriage and
its occupant were knocked down by a
FESTIVE horse ridden. by a soldier. The
mother crawled on her hands and knees
and had scarcely covered the infant with
her body when the horse backed and
trampled on her. The brave woman had
several ribs broken and her right lung
injured: while her face was much cut
and bruised. She was taken to the hos
pital in a critical state, while the child.
which would certainly have been killed
but for the mothers prompt and devoted
heroism, escaped with only a shaking
Springfield Republican.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-04
A Few PArl0r TrIcks

There are four little tricks which are
said to have originated with the late
Hermann, and which for awhile baffied
those who saw them performed by him.
Indeed, they continue to be battling, for
their SECRET is sleight Of hand as well as
knowledge.
The easiest of them is the putting of a
bird in It's edge by an optical delusiop.
Take round piece of pasteboard and