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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
PARIS HAS A NEW CRAZE.
French Surgeon elaine to be Able to
Increase the Stature.

French Surgeon Claims to be Able to
Increase the Stature.
Now that the possession of Titian-red
hair has become so common as to be no
longer remarkable or "distingue," Paris
ian ladies have ceased to dye their
tresses to the required shade. But an
other craze has arisen. and today the
one consuming desire of the "petite Par
isienne" is to add few inches to her
stature. For years she has been trying
to do this by means Of high heels and
those artful little contrivances known as
''talonnettes," which when placed inside
her dainty shoes give her the benefit of
an extra centimeter. Now, thanks to
the clever discovery of fashionable
boulevard doctor, there is some hope of
the diminutive fair one realizing her am.
bitiOn. =
By means of an ingenious process by
are daily operated upon with an electric
bulb, the osseous matter at the sections
OF the joints is expanded and the growth
of the bones stimulated. the consequence
being that the limbs are materially
heightened. The doctor also applies the
bulb to the spine, and he says he is able
to prove by satisfactory results already
OBTAINED on patients whom he has
meter (two-ffths of an inch) per month
during a period of six months ii. c., two
and half inches) to the height of any
one submitting to his treatment. After
six months continual treatment the sex
pansion' is stopped for a time and re-
sumed later if necessary.
OF course, the patient must be young
and supple, otherwise grave consequences
might follow the stretching of the joints.
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
consulting rooms If tho clovor ;nuo,+,,
are daily besieged by fair but dumpy
ladies. and that the discoverer of this
new aid to beauty is by way of amassing
q rapid fOrtune,=I1 london Daily Nail
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Bridges in This Country.

The market for bridges is far greater
in the United States than elsewhere The
states have now $50, 600 miles Of railways,
an average Of one span of metallic bridge
for every three miles of railway. This
gives $4,000 bridges OH existing lines,
without including those required for new
lines: The. increase in the United States
of. the weight of cars and engines has
resulted in wonderful economic changes.
This increase of weight of rolling stock
bridges by stronger and heavier ones.
This demand has brought into existence
many bridge building companies, and
they can we'll afford to equip themselves
with the hest labor-saving and accurate
working machinery, regardless of first
cost, as they know it would seldom, if
ever lie idle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
The Mice Boys" Chance.

Nowhere on the surface of the globe
can a bachelor man, from 20 to 80, have
such good time as in this London Of
today, says an English magazine. If he
but have good manners land sometimes
not even that and a tolerably engaging
appearance our youngster may haunt
my lady's boudoir and shoot my lords
coverts at his own good pleasure. At
balls and parties he is literally Tough.
for. II he has aspirations toward n CO.
reer, the well-connected young man, in
a land which is governed by it's upper
classes, has every prospect of success,
not the least among his chances being
that all-pervading petticoat influence OF
which the modern boy knows SO well how
to avail himself '5 l.E&.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
WAYFELLONS,


The crickets sang in the roadside grass
There was no star to see, -
The summer dark was close about 81, e.
The two that Jared with me.
And one was man knew of old
God knows that L loved him, too
And ever his pace kept tune with mine,
Just as l used to do.
And one was girl of that other day: :.
So we Jared thro' the night. we three.
And the subtle perfume Of her dress
Came up thro' the dark to me-
Said the man at my side,, "And did you
think
That l broke my faith with you?''
I had forgotten, too?'
And we three came close-in the same good
way
That we walked in the other years,
And we laughed to shame the foolish doubt
And hushed the baseless fears
The crickets sang in the misty grass,
And there was no star that shone-
Had you met us there on the dusky road
You'd have said I Jared alone.
Arthur Ketchum in Ainslee's Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
DROUGHT IN JERUSALEM.
Pools of Solomon to be Tapped t.
Supply the City with Water.

Pools of Solomon to be Tapped to
Supply the City with Water.
The rainfall last winter was very
scanty throughout Palestine, in many
places less than half the annual average
This was especially the case in Jerusa-
lem, which depends entirely on rain for
its water supply. The inhabitants Of
the Holy City are therefore threatened
by dearth and famine during the forth
coming autumn. The situation has be-
come so serious that the municipality Of
Jerusalem recently appealed to the Sui
tan for grant 70 enable the authorities
Jerusalem from the Pools of Solomon,
about four miles distant, the old stone
aqueduct built by King Solomon having
fallen into ruins The Sultan recentlY
sent Geographic orders authorizing the
expenditure for this work by taking 5000
Turkish liras from the "Evkaf" DEPART
ment and applying the money toward the
object in view.
The water in the Pools of Solomon is
derived partly from ram and partly from
small springs in the immediate vicinity
which lind their way into the three enor-
nous pools. but the quantity collected
therein is insufficient to supply the whole
town OF Jerusalem during the seven or
eight dry. months of the year, not even
Tor drinking purposes. 1t cannot, how
ever, De denied that the measure referred
70 Will alleviate much suffering among
the poorer class. who cannot afford to
purchase water at high prices brought in
jars from the neighboring VILLAGES
Paris Messenger
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Oil for Dusty Streets.

For several years oil has been used in
southern California towns to lay the dust
in the streets in summer and on the
roads in the country. There oil has long
ago ceased to be an experiment as dust
layer, and the people say it is a splendid
road-maker. When the oil first touches
the dust-covered street it spreads out
among the tiny atoms pretty much as
does drop Of oil precipitated to the sur
face Of water in a bucket. When a
quantity of oil has been spread and the
surface of the street is covered the oil
gravitates down through the dust and
dirt and solidifies or cakes the entire
surface of the street. The sun dries out
and hardens the surface, almost as hard
as asphalt, and with all the dust and
crust made by the hardening of the OIL
soaked top dirt and dust.-National Oil
RenOrter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
THE ENGLISH OF THE ENGLISH.
Britons Call Common Things by Dit
ferent Names than We DO.

If You ask guest at your home in
England whether he likes his meat rare
he asks what you said, because he does
not understand you, writes Julian Ralph
in Harper's Magazine. He calls meat
unoad when 1T, it is S not theroushly
asparagus is canned he is at loss again,
because he would have said it was timed
win again set MIN to wondering, for he
calls it icing sugar, generally, though he
knows that it is sometimes called caster
or sifted sugar. And if you have candy
on the table you may not call it so with
out betraying your foreign origin, for
he calls candy Sweets" abbreviated
from ''sweetmeats," and used to desig-
nate all preserves, buildings, pies, can
dies and jams.
To go farther along the ecceEtricities
of English at the dining table. most per-
sons know, l suppose, that the beet is
called beet root, corrstarch is corn flour,
corneo beef Cor a particular cut of it, is
called ''silversides of beef" and napkins
are Serviettes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Echoes and Their Oddities,

A writer on the phenomenon of sound
in Pearson's Magazine says you may
often notice, when standing in a field
skirted by a wood, that a clap Of the
hands will awaken an echo, though you
may shout ever so loudly without re-
Spouse. This is because clump Of trees
cannot appreciably arrest the full, deep
tones Of the human voice. while at the
in motion by short, sharp clap are read
lily returned off every twig. So certain
surfaces, as a plaster wall, may absorb
certain waves Of sound. Years ago the
London Stock exchange was faced with
lath and plaster. No sooner was this
replaced BY smooth marble than the
voices Of the dealers began to echo in the
most distressing manner.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Elm-Leaved GOldenrOd.

1t is we'll known that when a plant
grows in shady places it is likely to have
a greater leaf area than when it grows
in the open sunshine 1t must have a
Larger surface to collect the light when
the latter is comparatively dim. Now,
most OF the goldenrods live in the open
the exquisite elm-leaved goldenrod lives
in woods and copses. where the shadows
are thick and direct sunshine is a fleeing
thing. And so we find that this snecies
has the broad, thin leaves of a shade
plant, leaves with well-developed stems.
but otherwise 50 similar to those of the
elm tree as to give this goldenrod it's dis
tinctive name. But it gives touch of
color to the somber shades Of the woods
that we would not willingly do without,
Home Communion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Roof Dwcllers in New York.

Perched high up in midair, atop the
lofty Offices buildings, are little homes
as quiet and secluded as though they
stood beside some country lane. instead
Of directly above throbbing, hurrying,
ago some inventive architect devised the
plan of locating the caretakers and their
families on the roofs Of the buildings Of
which they; have charge. The plan was
50 satisfactory in every respect that it
has been very generally followed. With
in an area Of few blocks in the down
town district dozens of families are liv-
ing thus, above the caves of the tal!est
buildings in the world They form 4
quaint and interesting >colony.-Ledger
Monthly. sr: ~ -:E ! z.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
One of the Little Things.

Science reverses the legal maxim :'de
minimus' and has an eye for the small
est things. Among such may be reck-
9ned the paper submitted to the ROYAL
Society on the small vertical movements
OF stone laid on the surface of the
ground" by Horace Darwin. The
investigations showed that a stone weigh
ing about twenty pounds and about a
foot and half in diameter, which was
placed on the surface of the ground a
quarter Of century ago. gradually sank
and is sinking. The stone sinks about
the one, CT. hundredth of yard in a
regular, varying somewhat with the yary
ing dampness Of the soil. The effect Of
frost was to raise the stone; it fell ran
idly during a thaw-a whole years dis
lance on one occasion in less than FIVE
hOurs.-LOndOn Post,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Berlin is Commonplace.

A correspondent in the Brooklyn Eagle
says that Berlin, as compared with Lon
don, is an upstart city; and the Berlin
crowd suggests the appearance of peo-
pie of some great village. They look
commonplace. as if just taken from the
ranks Of toilers that have not yet had
time and money to cultivate the more
graceful arts of life. The dressing
Of Berlin women is mostly execrable, and
wonder that so much Of ugliness of at
tire, SO much commonplaceness in the ap-
pearances of men and women, could be
got together: 1t is in such a moment
that you feel the full difference between
London and Berlin.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
A Beetles Means OF Defense,

The disagreeable smell of the common
black beetle is familiar in too many
households, and mournful interest,
therefore,, attaches to the erudite re-
searches Of 4 French entomologist, NJ.
Bordas, who has minutely described the
ramiied, dichotomously branched glands
that secrete the disgusting volatile liq-
uid that provides the insect with an eff
fective means of defense against its
smaller foes. Tested by limtus paper,
the secretion is shown to be strongly al
kaline, as are the majority of similar
pungent substances with the object of
repelling animal enemies. Its formation
is continuous, though the approach of an
enemy accelerates the professionalism
Post
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
AS to Fi6h.HOOkS.

Hooks for catching fish are as old as
Adam, made of stone, bone and thorns.
not to mention deer horn and bears
tusks. The bronze hook Of the bronze
age was succeeded by the hook of iron.
The aborigines of Colombia used gold
hooks, while the ancient people of Peru
Of today is considered an expensive luxu-
ry. For years the most important seat
OF hsh-hook manufacture was Limerick.
Ireland, but the once popular Limerick
has been superseded by several styles of
American make that are not only much
cheaper but are not inferior. AS for
o9r fine rods-well, we have them from
them can be tied in bowknots. OF course.
our lines are uneQualed.-New York
Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
derful: Michele Del Sassari! And he

derful! Michele Del Sassari! And he
loved her--a poor girl OF plain family.
When Father Joe heard Francesca
blushing request, he refused point blank
But. father" implored the girl, ''they
one will tend him save me. The Buon-
arotti say he has stabbed their Clio
vanni. 1t is a lie, | know, but nobody
will come near my Michele. Father, he
said was to tell you that he is Del
Sassari Of Caltanisetta-the last of his
race"
"Ah!' cried the priest, sis there vet
one? A Del Sassari! will 90 to see.'
They We're soon at the bedside Of the
'Frendless." \
Father Joe went downstairs and soon
returned with Francesca's kin, their
fears strangely disslpated. 1t is good
that certain things be known. A mes
senger was sent to the priests house for
In a quarter Of an hour Francesca and
Michele were acclaimed in Jerome street
as man and wife.
On a certain sunny day, Father Joe
met Luigi Buonarotti, the head Of that
family.
1T is a fact that Michele Blanca is
well again. !, said the priest; lis it not?"
so''
:The Buonarotti are a proud people,"
said Father Joe-''yet they are not Of
Caltanisetta, I believer"
Luigi bowed.
Evidently we understand each 9TH
err"
"Capisco. I understand"
"God be with you!'
God be with you! Keep well"'
1t was understood that the Buonarotti
desired quietness, and things remained
quiet in Little Italy for the longest
stretch of time known in years.-New
York Evening Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Australian Nick-Names..

Australians have some fIqueer, nick
names for different states and for one
another. q The Queenslanders are dubbed
'banana-landers:" western Australians,
now abbreviated into Westralians, are
known as "sandgropers' or '.gropers. .
The Westralians class the whole Of the
other states in one group and call them
''t'other side and the inhabitants "t'oth-
er siders.'' Tasmania. so much like Eng
land in climate and other characteristics,
is usually regarded as little behind the
times and referred to as "the land rof
lots o. time. > ''the land Of sleep q lott
and SO on Tasmanians are called Tass
sizes, also "jam-eaters," jam being one61
the chief productions Of the tight little
island" -. '"@ <S = :. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Tennessee Coal and Iron.

Changes have been made in the admin
iron company and the new general man:
ager, Charles McCreery, has arrived at
Birmingham, Ala, and assumed charge
Of his Office. With the changes that have
been made under the direction of Don
81. Bacon, formerly with the Minnesota
Iron company, now chairman Of the
board of directors of the Tennessee COM
pany, during his six months incumbency
of that ONCE, Nat Baxter, Jr.. president
Of the company, is the only one OF the old
odlcers at Birmingham now retained. So
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

In exhibiting their confidence in the
challenger by offering to bet all their
wages on the result of the races. the
crew Of Shamrock II. are tempting Amer
leans to be inconsistent with their
traditional hospitality by sending the Wis
itors home not only beaten but empty
handed and hollow in pocket.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
gold; when the gold fever subsidies there
will be more grubbing Of lands for the
purpose of starting farms.

The hypnotist of Reading, Pennsylva-
MIA, who claims that he can make his
subjects fire-proof, might be able to pile
up fortune by travelling about the coun-
try and converting members Of fire de-
partments into immunes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06
Uncle Sans Apple Crop.

Though it does not cause so much ex-
citment in the world, the apple cron Of
the United States exceeds in value even
its wheat crop. Last year, for instance.
the apple crop was 215.OOO, 600 barrels
or 53S, 600 600 bushels. At a basis of s.
per barrel, which is considered a conserv-
alive estimate, the crop netted $3.50, 900
OOO, or nearly 800, 100000 more than
the value of the wheat. : :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The business portion Of Seaton, ILL
nois, was destroyed by fire caused by
the kicking over of lamp at dance.
A similar lamp incident was the cause Of
big job for the Chicago fire depart
ment, thirty years ago, but the kicking
was done by Mrs. O'Leary's prosaic COW,
instead Of a light, fanta site heel.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

There is certain class Of male human
beings that will never be satisfied with
the extent of the progress in legislation
relating to women until it becomes posi-
BILE for husbands to bring suits against
their wives and recover damages for fail
ure to support.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The people in France who are agitating
for government suppression of dueling
won't get much encouragement out of
the fact that the effort in this country
for the legal suppression of football re.
suited in fiat failure. Compared with
French ducling, American football is a
dangerous sport
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

Capitalists have been refused a permit
to build a big hotel on the disputed
Streeter lake front tract at Chicago, on
the ground that the tract is not a part
of the city. This is the first time that
Chicago has ever refused to claim every
thing in sight
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The Mississippi court scene which end
ed with the defendant and the chief wit
ness and two others lying on the floor
with bullet wounds is evidence that they
do sometimes try to so through the forms
Of law in that section.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

hand in marriage she said: Il can sew.
l can cook, can bake bread, can scour
and l can sweep" Her coffee was
world-famous and Dom Paul always
averred that she could make more coffee
from given number of beans than any
other woman in the world.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The man who slapped Mrs. Nations
face when she snatched his cigar from
his mouth. apologized when he had re-
covered from his surprise, but, at lat
est accounts, Mrs. Nation had not apolo-
gized for snatchng his cigar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The census bureaus agricultural sta
tistics from Alaska show that the farm
wealth Of that territory in 1900 was only
$15,6S6; but as only a few years ago
Alaska had no farm wealth whatever.
this showing is quite satisfactory. Just
now Alaskan soil is dug over chiefly Cor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The discovery that the razing of the
Taku forts was not provided for in the
peace protocol signed with China should
cause no alarm. No works at Taku
could long withstand a punching from
the combined navies of the signatories.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

Bob Fitzsimmons has let up on the
solar plexus, and is now trying to pound
common sense into The Youth of Ameri-
ca, -partcularly the youth of the cigar
cite variety.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

Missouri has secured an excellent state
geologist in the person Of Prof Buckley,
and Wisconsin will lose by his departure.
It's pity that the Legislature last WIN
ter was not more liberal to the Geologi-
cal Survey
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The sensational stories of an impend-
ing famine in Russia were certainly not
penned by the travellers who have re-
Gently written books in which Siberia
is pictured as a fertile land swarming
with Well-fed cattle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

France has placed Lieut.-Col. Mar
chand, Of Fashoda fame, in command in
China, because he likes to penetrate
heather countries" so far beyond the
lines Of communication that he can be
all France stuffed into one Frenchman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

IT there is anything in the wave theory
Of happenings, often discussed by report
ers and others who keep close tab on
the news Of the day, a vcritable tidal
wave of trouble is sweeping over the
country at the present time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

Criticism Of Count Waldersee by the
Berlin press may be due to the nation
allty of his wife, as the Countess is an
importation from America, and in a
sense like the late Empress Dowager,
IAN Englishwoman.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The Cuban thieves who carried off two
modern guns of the punta Gorda bat
terry are advocates of peace who believe
in turning swords into pruning hooks
and cannon into Junk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

German workingmen will not agree
with the agrarians. that farm products
should be protected by double tariff,
and industrial Germany is a big part of
the kaisers cmpirc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The practice of editing speeches before
they are published is not to be utterly
condemned. There have been cases, how
ever, in which they might have been bet
ter edited before being delivered,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

The merrimcnt of the Kansas & Texas
train robbers was due entirely to the
ease with which they performed their
trick and the promise their success CAV,
OF future operations
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-06

You can tell the breed of a mosquito
by the way he squats on you when he
bites. If he stands square and fiat, he is
a culex; if he sticks his hind feet into
the air, as if preparing for handspring,
he is an anopheles-the fevcr-spreading
kind. But kill him. ANYHOW.