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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
Origin of the Hiss.

Down to Homeric times the kiss bore a
solely maternal significance. Thus, i'll
Homer, Kuveos: meant only the kiss Of
father to child, or the kiss of the suppl
of Ulysses. The kiss never occurs in the
love scenes between Venus and Mars,
Ulysses and Gree or Paris and Helen
Olaid ill.,, nor yet between Hera and
Laos, who are distinctly depicted as in
the bonds of love Qlaid XIV. In the
scene with Andfomache, Hector consoles
her not with kiss but with d caress of
his hand. Even in the ancient Egyptian
the definitions Of kiss (excepting bach.
which is an obscure point refer fe to | ,!
In ancient Sanskrit poetry. again. the
kiss is always maternal, aid the kusiami
(Sanskrit for "kiss') is exclusively filial;
although later books go so far. as to
differentiate twelve varieties of the kiss.
The wife of Califa in the Ramayana,
bewailing his death, recalls the hand, not
the lips, that caressed her. So also the
wife Of the King Of Cambodia: whilst the
father Bali kisses his son. And again:
"And the mother licked her sons face
with her tongue, and made fermentation
like yearning COW bereft Of her calf,
the father fondling him the while. >
(Gorresio, vol. l., p. 1882 :
1t would seem, them, that the kiss,
which amongst ancient and uncivilized
people is unknown as symbol and har.
binger of, love, sprang from the entirely
maternal act of feeding commonly prac.
ticed by birds, and very frequently, too,
by savages. We are told that the Fue.
gians do not use any kind Of cup, but
assuage their thirst by sucking up water
from the spring through reed. n child
would die of thirst If the mother did not
supply his needs by filling her mouth
with water and thence introducing it into
the mouth Of her babe. From this act
the first kiss was probably evolved-a
kiss not anlorous, therefore, but mater
nal. Children kiss only when they have
been taught to do so, and not before the
age of 6 months,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
MAN A HABITUAL LIAR.
Excessive Use of Superlatives Distorts
All His Statements of Fact.

Excessive Use of Superlatives Distorts
All His Statements of Fact.
Through it's emphasis of the super
lative our age is in danger of losing all
power to tell the TRUTH writes Rev.
Newell Dwight Hills, D. D., of "Thc
Diffusion of Happiness Through CONVEX
sation,' in the Ladies' Home Journal
THE modern collegian has reached such
state Of culture that the positive and
no longer possible for the school girl to
find either an adjective or an adverb to
express her ecstacy of feeling. Absti.
hence and sobriety in speech are rapidly
passing away.
David Swing once expressed the fear
thai: through excess i'll the use of ad-
jectives our generation would lose all
sense Of proportion and symmetry in the
statement of facts. He. noted that the
adjectites most loved by our age are in
themselves gross exaggerations. In
studying the history of language he found
that very early men began to say that
the sun went down in bed Of gold; the
moon turned all things to silver; the eye
darted forth flames; the fdce was bright
er than the sun Having Used such ex
pressions for twenty yeiirs man awukens
to find himself a habitual liar We must
also note that the modern school of wit
does not deal in the pure, delicate lium0r
of Sydney Smith or Charles Lamb, but
for it's effects depends upon gross exag
gerations and word-pilings. Thus, not
only the playground and schoolroom. but
the papers and books also, through ex-
travagances, are teaching men to strain
language to the very uttermost. In lit
erature that style is best which has most
abstinence, forswearing adjectives and
adverbs, and dealing in the simplicities.
That character also is finest which is
simple, and founded on frankness and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
DEWEY AS A LAWYER.
Admiral Chichester Tells Why He Did
Not Consent to "Protest."

Admiral Chichester Tells Why He Did
Not Consent to "Protest."
Il didn't help Admiral Dewey he be-
gan with cherubic look on his face. "In
the first place. | was not allowed to do
so, and i'll the seco11d Dewey is man
who helps himself" (Chuckle and
laughter froti1 the 1udience.) "No: it
was the other way about. Admiral
Dewey helped us, for he gave us fresh
chow fresh beef when we hadn't any;
d pound Of fresh chow day to every
man on otir ships" (Chuckle) II don't
know how, he got all this fresh chow;
Often Nofldered.' (Chuckle and appre
ciative laughter.) Amazing man,
Dewey seemed provided for ,nii contin-
gencies. | wanted to assist the German
Admiral, but Dewey was always so cor
rect in everything he did that he gave i1e
no chance (Chuckle.) when the
German admiral sent me word that he
was coming aboard my ship to get me to
join him in protest against Admiral
Dewey's action, I looked up international
law and spread the books out on my
cabin table, with the pages open and
marked-all in row-and when he came
| said: What can do? This American
admiral is so deadly right in all he has
done, and all he proposes to do, that if we
protest we'll merely show that we don't
understand the law. And, of course,
there was nothing to be dope, and l did
it," (Chuckle and roars of laughter.)
I'VE had to cling to international law,
YOU know" Admiral Sir Edward Chi
chester ut the Wlitefriars club, London.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
DANCING EGGS.
Strange PHENOMENON Of Insect Life
Discovered in California,

Strange Phenomenon Of Insect Life
Discovered in California.
The sulphur smoke and arsenical fumes
thrown off into the otherwise clean at
mosphere Of Shasta county by the smelt-
ing and roasting operations of the Noun
tain Copper company have been respon-
sible for more than one strange pho
nomenon in plant and insect life, but the
latest expression is perhaps the greatest
novelty of all, says. the San Francisco
Call
1t has just been discovered that the
leaves Of the common oak tree here
abouts are sWarming with embryonic
life. Masses of eggs, so small as to give
the appearance of an unhealthy splotch,
adhere to the under side of the leaf, and
as they advance toward maturity they
drop to the ground and dance about like
electrical automatons. BY holding an
oak twig containing any number of eggs
to ones ear cracking sound may be
heard like the splitting Of electric sparks.
The shell contains tiny grub, working
for release, but what shape it takes upon
reaching maturity is unknown.
The curiosity is attracting great deal
OF local attention. In many places in
hibition. A quantity is laid on table
and immediately they begin to disport
themselves, bounding about and spring
ing into the air sometimes to q height Of
sixteen inches. They are particularly
active i'll the early morning.
No one is able to account for the phe-
nomehoh. A theory is advanced that this
embryonic parasites presence in such
abundance is probably due to the absence
Of its natural enemy, the conlmoner in.
sect life, which long ago fell victim to
sulphur smoke and arset1ical fumes. This
latest insect novelty tai es rank with the
sulphur bug, which is at home in the red
hot rooster piles stretching along the
mountain side above Keswick.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
A GOLDFISH FARM,
An Indiana Hatchery that Cover
Several Acres of Land.

An Indiana Hatchery that Cover,
Several Acres of Land.
Shelby county, Indiana, claims to have
the largest goldfish farm" in the world.
The farm is conducted upon strictly
scientific principles, and the most beauti.
full specimens of the little, cold blooded
vertebrates to be found anywhere are at
all times on exhibition at this farm.
The farm, which is known as Spring
Lake Fishery, consists of many small
ponds, especially constructed with due
regard to shape, size and depth and
height of embankment also the disposal
Of trees and shrubbery on the banks.
These small ponds are all connected by
channels or sideways fitted with gates
to control the flow OF the water, and
these channels afford communication be-
tween the ponds. The fish are so deli
cate that they may not be safely handled,
and so they are conveyed from one pond
to another as desired in the gently flow.
ing water of the channels.
The breeding ponds are especially con-
structed, with high embellishments to pro-
tect them from the force of the wind as
we'll as from cold None of the ponds are
under roof, neither is the water in the
hatchery warmed in any artificial man
ner nor given other protection than the
high embankment. The little fish even
In winter do not require any other pro-
lection, and while they soon succumb to
frequent handling they are very hardy
IN their endurance Of cold
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
A HOSPITAL FOR BIRDS.
Where London's Disabled Feathered
Creatures Are Reinforced

How many Londoners know Of the
birds hospital down at Norwood? A ca
nary with broken leg, your seedy par
rot. Jour prize poultry with tuberculosis,
your racing pigeon with a touch Of
"liver'-each is welcomed there and re-
stored. This odd institution is in charge
Of Prof. Vale. who was led to the, closer
study Of birds ailments from the fact
that his own died under the ordinary
treatment. He made frequent expert
E"ntsa with medicines, ard now, after
fourteen years Of study, he considers
himself capable Of curing almost any
feathered creature suffering from acct
winged biDeds get it-cAn be banished,
"swelled head can be reduced, tubcrcu-
!osis can be cxterminated, while minor
ills have all their cures. / cured yaIu-
abie racing pigeon few days ago." said
the doctor. 1T came here i'll and wasted,
and when | sent it back it was gaining
flesh and ready to fly for a cup. Larger
BIRDS! Yes. swans and turkeys. / have
attended both.
Il haven't any canaries on wooden legs
here. but l have often set broken one
l use large quill, split open, and lined
Win cotton wool, as splint: it keeps the
limb quite firm. Many canaries that !
treat are suffering from wrong feeding
Most books on canaries say that canary
seed is the best food, whereas it is about
the most unsuitable. with perhaps the
exception Of millet.''
MI. Vale explained the various con.
stltuents of canary seed and demon.
strated that they were in Il very different
proportion from that required by nature
starch Is the great enemy of the human
race, according to Mr.. Vale. If the sys-
tenn was entirely free from starchy foods
one would throw off disease without eff.
Tort, and the modern Briton would live
as MS forebears. to 12O years. Mr.. Vale
recounts with glce the history of white
owl which he owned that simply reyeled
IN diet consisting of the r'.mains of
BIRDS that had died of different diseases,
sent TO his master for post -mortem pur-
poses' and yet remained healthy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
The Men Went Bareheaded

- At the dinner to Mark Twain by the
New Vagabond club the other night, /
notlced new wrinkle in masculine eti-
quette, 1t was the appearance of many
men as bareheaded as the ladies whom
they brought to the restaurant. They
came in cabs, without overcoats or cans
IN all the stunningness of tlaring shirt,
bosoms and barbered hair As the trick
IS new, and experimental, they came in
tour-wheelers, or GROWERS, as these cabs
are called here, not daring to risk the
consequences of a public exhibition Of
themselves in hansoms on an evening So
daylit as these nights are just now. The
fair sex has long made it a custom To %
unbonneted to dinners and theaters, and
the swells of the sex all use the open
hansoms in preference to hiding their Of
ten rather startling charms in closed con-
yeyances.-London Letter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
Military Plll,ues

Osprey plumes as a military decoration
In the British army are doomed Besides
all the hussar regiments, the rife bri-
gade, which also wears osprey plumes,
is affected by the change. Public inter.
est against the cruelties involved in the
Use of osprey plumes moved the war of.
tce to decide in principle some time age
that the plumes should be discontinued
Since then efforts have been made to find
a suitable substitute, and a specimen
plume recently submitted for approval
by leading firm of London naturalists
has been received with such satisfaction
that its ultimate adoption is regarded as
certain, though the necessary order has
not yet been issued by the adjutant-gen.
eral. The new plume will, in point Of
fact, be composed of very short ostrich
feathers. 1t is exactly the same length
as the present plume. and by it's grace
full wavy lines and tendency to curl is
pronounced to be much prettier.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
EATEN BY BEARS.
A Disabled Prospector Devoured BY
Deuizens of the Forest.

Recently. some loggers, returning from
Shoal bay. brought to Provincial Consta-
Die Lister at Vancouver. s. c., the de-
1ails-meager but undoubtedly authentic
of the terrible death of lone prospec-
tor, Allan Cameron by name Cameron
had been spending some time prospecting
alone in the rocky wildernesses back Of
Shoal bay. He lived alone in a cabin
he had erected for himself, and no eye
saw him in his last days, and no human
aid was near when he was called by
death.
The evidence gathered by the provin-
clal police and the loggers tends to show
that Cameron, while away from his camp
on prospecting tour took sick or sus-
tanned some injury which disabled him.
lie was attempting to drag himself to his
camp, and all indications point to the
fact that the unfortunate prospector was
killed and eaten by bears. Fragments of
clothing, together with unmistakable
signs Of struggle. are evidences that
the poor old miner fell a victim to fierce
denizens of the forests, and the marks
indicate that he was defenseless and dis.
ableu when attacked
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
Hin(lOO Women rs Servan+e

According to the custom of Hindoo
households, where the women servants
call their master and mistress father
and mother" and the daughters Jewel
sisters nothing is commoner than for
old attendants to attach themselves to a
family as grandmother, claiming the priv
spelling those employers children to the
end Of their days. In such cases. the So
cial inferiority Of this member of the
family group would not be easily per
ceived by a stranger. The mistress pre
pares her servants food and gives it to
her with her own hands Ia curious inyer,
sion of our notions), and when the latter
dies, in the fullness OF. time, she ia
mourned by these kindred of her adoption
as one of their own blood. Church Ca
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
FOR THE FARMER.
In Exile.

In Exile.
The noise Of hurrying crowds all day
Has driven up against my door;
Yet have l wandered far away
Along Il sunny silent shore.
scaward sloping meadows wide,
Q hnppy waters, far and blue!
Where white sands wait the swinging tide
My homesick heart has gone to you.
All day my window blinds have stirred
10 Earring hoofs and wheels below;
Yet ain listening for Il bird
That sings beneath a tree know
slender tree against the sky,
An orchard paling brown with years,
hackbird's whistle, clear and shy
Why do my eyes grow dim with tears2
The crowds 60 back and forth all day,
The sun burns fierce along the street;
But l haye found a shady way
With cool white clover ut my feet
Far off bet1eath the branches low
The foot-path wahders, still and fair;
NY feet are fast with toil-but Oh.
Today my heart Is walking there!
Mabel Earle in Youths Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
REMARKABLE CASE.
Cloth Removed from Mans Nose
After Thirty Years.

rather remarkable medical case has
been made public at Battle Greek, Mich,
by Dr.. Wesley McGutfin Thirty or
more years ago Alkeney Soules. then =
small boy, pushed a piece of linen cloth
into one of his nostrils, and he was nm.
able to remove it. AS years went on a
bony formation grew around the piece of
cloth and finally the youth lostGthe use
This bony formation has decayed and
become offensive. and this caused the
physician to work upon the case for ca
tarrh. He accidentally located the cloth.
which recalled the instance of thirty
years ago. 1t took week to extract #.
with the accompanying bone salts" bnt
when 1t was accomplished the patients
nose was perfectly useful, as if nothing
had ever happened.
But the remarkable thing is that the
cIotn when removed was as perfect as
good condition. ne !"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
Patents to Inventors

Messrs. Benedict & NIorsell, solicitors
of patents, Old Insurance building, Mil
waukee, report patents issued to West
ern inventors August as follows:
J. B. Bailey, Cedar Rapids, Ia, nutmeg
CRATER; Alexander Bastam, milwaukee,.
Wis, street sprinkler; JOS. E. BENJAMIN
Hubbell. Neb., churn; A. ]. Colburn Green.
vile, Mich, potato planter; II. w. Con
mann, Whiteish Bay, Wis, printing tele.
graph; Paul Klumb, Sheboygan, Wis, re-
volving chair; Jacob Kramer, Alvord, la,
draft equalizer: Edgard Lachance, Pitts.
burg Kas., washing machine; F. r. Morris.
Milwaukee, Wis, drying kiln; f. G. Ho.
bart, Beloit, Wis, gas engine ignitcr: c. A.
Shaler, Waupun, Wis, detachable umbrella
cover: G. NJ. Stock, Milwaukee, Wis, mo-
tor; II. Stole, Jr., Manitowoc, Wis, candle
holder for Christmas trees, and Adolph
Swain, Ellsworth, Wis, tire fastener
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
STANDING OF MICE IN LAW.
Their Presence in a Bed Proved Actual
Residence in a Land Case.

Their Presence III a Bed Proved Actual
Residence in a Land Case.
The land contest case in which fam
lily Of mice played prominent part has
been decided Oh the appeal of Binger
Hermann, commissioner of the general
land office at Washington. The rodents
are not mentioned in the decision, but
the man who it was claimed allowed the
mice to establish residence in his bed
is allowed to retain possession of his
homestead, the ruling of the local board
being reversed and the contest dismissed.
A peculiar feature of the case is that
when the family of mice was first men
toned it was contended that their pres
ence in the bed Of the entryman argued
an abandonment Of the homestead, and
the local land office apparently took the
same view of the matter. But when the
| decision was appealed from 1t was set
up that the presence of the mice was an
argument III fdyor of the homesteader.
Fred O. Grutt was the ehtryman, l1av-
L ing taken up-a~ homestead hear Davenport
three years ago. La t August John
ONeil instituted a contest to the home
stead entry, alleging that Grutt had
abandoned his claim, did not KEEP up
continuous residence thereon, and that
the only inhabitants of the shanty on the
!oAeH NSlC VI nice. AFTER near
ing the case the register and receiver de-
clded that Grutt's entry should be can
celed. From this decision Grutt had six
ty days in which to file an appeal to the
commissioner at Washington.
The appeal was filed by Leo Walton,
attorney for Grutt. In the appeal the
mice family was referred to as follows:
III there were any mice in the entry
mans bed, during the early part of Sep
TENDER, 1898, it pralnly shows that the
entryman did have a bed on the land
at the time.
The house mouse is known to be do
nestle animal that multiplies in a few
weeks, and which has been known to
have slept and given birth to it's young
not only in the same room, but actually
! in the undertaking of the same bed with
very respectable ana otherwise laval bid
| ing citizens, who were seldom absent
from their homes at night. Indeed, the
house that is free from this little pest is
the exception, and, as a rule, would speak
eloquently for the service rendered by the
feline members of the household The
careful housewife who moves a small
piece Of furniture Or other article in her
rooms which has been permitted to re-
main in that position for a few days, and
| who has not been compelled to hastily
mount chair in the middle of the room
and remain there until rescued, by reason
| OF the sudden appearances, or, rather dis
| appea rance, Of d MOUSE, must always
| have been resident Of Mdrs-that. beihg
one Of the very few places which, the
| naturalist tells us, is not adapted to mice
or stray beds. '-Spokane Review.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
When Coffee is Left over,

With the most careful calculation, says
Mrs. Lincoln, there is +frequently coffee
left over, not enough, perhaps for an
other serving as a beverage, but too much
to be wasted. Do not leave it in the pot
with the grounds but pour it off or strain
it carefully, and if it be used again ho1
let it just come to the boiling point. This
will be much nicer than to rehcat it with
the grounds. 1t may be used to dilute the
egg for the next mornings coffee. or as a
fiavoring in custarls and creams and
ices: or as the liquid in place of or with
milk in gingerbread, cookies, cakes. etc,
or when there is sufficient quantity it can
he made into jelly
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-25
The Vlvlsection Glass.

There lay the tiny creature, so daintily
reared, so passionately beloved; he who
had been sheltered in the heart of luxury
like the little daughter of the house her
self; he who used never to know pang
that love or luxury could prevent or cure;
he who had been the soul of tenderness,
and had known only the soul of tender
ness--there, stretched, bound, gagged,
gasping, doomed to doom which the
readers of this page would forbid this
pen to describe, lay the silver Yorkshire;
kissing his vivisector's hand.
In the past few months LONELINESS had
known to the uttermost the matchless
misery of the lost dog; he had known the
miseries of cold, of hunger, Of neglect, Of
which it is as we'll not to think; the suf-
ferings which ignorance imposes upon an
lmals. He was about to endure the worst
torture of them all, that reserved by Wis
dom and power for the dumb, the unde-
Tended and the small
The officer seized the scalpel which
the demonstration had laid aside and
s,iashed through the straps that bound
the victim down. When the gag was re-
moved, and the little creature, shorn,
sunken, changed almost Understandable,
looked up into his masters face, those
cruel walls rang to such cry Of more
than human anguish and ecstasy as they
had never heard before, and never may
again.
The operator turned away; he stood In
his butchers blouse aud stirred out
through the laboratory window, over the
head Of the lily which regarded him fixed
~. The students grew rapidly quiet.
When the professor took LONELINESS into
his arms, and the Yorkshire, still crying
like human child that had been lost
and saved, put up his weak paws around
his masters neck and tried to kiss the
tears that fell sunashamed down the
cheeks Of that eminent man, the lecture
room burst into storm of applause, then
fell suddenly still again, as if it felt
embarrassed both by its expression and
its silence and knew not what to do.
Has the knife touched hin--any-
where?' asked the professor, choking.
mo, thank God!" replied the demon
stratOr. turning around timidly, "and l
assure you-our regrets-such a mistake
---,s 49,
"That will do, DOCTOR" said the pro-
fessor. Gentleman, let me pass, if you
please have no time to lose. There is
one waiting for this little creature who
& He did not finish his sentence, but went
out from among them. As he passed
with the shorn and quivering dog in his
arms the students rose to their feet.