The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
= SNAP SHOTS. =
\ trim tigur-the milliner's bill.

y trim tigurc-the milliner's bill.
Even fat men may have slim chances.
Through thick and thin-the BARRIERS
comb.
Both in music anu rama, 1.-The plays
the thing"
Even !: poor penman may use his pen
and ink well.
Il picture hat.
The matinee girl finds pleasure in the
afternoon Of life.
Why shouldn't the lightning express go
laundering along!
Does the sharper who cheats minis
ter do Il good thing?
You might call the tattooed mans
form picture frame.
Or course, the man with sore feet has
llkln. for corn dodgers.
Il feel crawly-like,'' thought the old
bedStead Il hope I'm not a bug bear.
Wonder if it worries the elevator boy
to be responsible for so many people's
bringing up!
1t is not necessarily the woman that
hangs who is the best qualified to teach
the young idea how to shoot.-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
Photographer Took Them, Or Course
One of the congressman from the mid
die West is not accompanied this winter
ny his family, the health of his wife not
permitting her to come to Washington,
says the Post of that city. Scarcely a
letter from home, however, so that he is
enabled to keep track of all that goes on
out there. Sometimes his wife doesn't
express herself quite as clearly as one
might wish. Very recently, for example,
the congressman received brief note
from her.
We are all well," she wrote, 'but l
haven't time to say more Johnnie is
planning surprise for you. While l was
downtown today a man came and took
both horses
The congressman bounded from his
chair when he read that, for his two
horses are, next to his wife and children,
of course, the pride of his heart. He did
not wait to draw a breath. He simply
galloped to the telegraph office and
dashed off message:
Have you given sheriff particular
If not, do so immediately"
An answer was returned in a very short
time: 1t was signed by his wife:
Particulars about what?" it read.
The congressman gritted his teeth. Per-
haps the message was sarcastically
meant in token of his wife's displeasure
at his fancying she wouldn't know what
to 40 to recover lost property unless he
told her Perhaps it was just an example
Of the incurable and besotted idiocy of
all womankind. The congressman per-
spired freely, but horses are horses, so he
Gained himself and sent another tele-
gram.
About horses" he said. do you
know who took them. Wire reply"
The wife did wire reply. This is the
reply:
Johnny wanted to surprise you. Will
hanson, the photographer, took them"
Easy Way to be Generous.
In the Baptist church of New Eng
land village was IN old man who had
all the Christian graces save one, and
He would do anything in the world for
the cause Of religion but give up his
money. At the close of the financial
year of 1860 the church found itself $4OO
in debt. \ church meeting WIS called,
and it was voted to circulate a s,,bscrip-
ton paper. This was done, and the old
gentleman did not put his name OH the
paper. The result was rather disheart-
rning, $500 only having been pledged
Silence reigned for Il moment, when one
of the most generous men i'll the church
moved that I'VE double our sr1bscriD-
TONS Instantly the old gentleman was
on his feet. and with extraordinary fer
vor cried. Il second the motion."
lie evidently felt that he was thus do
ing his part in, Christening most desira-
Die result.-Harper's Round Table.