The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-02-15

or their happiness of her subjects, the
her -consort to enjoy her honeymoon in
Loo
independently of the vaudeville syndicate
The syndicate threatens to fine any man
agcr $1,000 who will break the rule.
A man Of New York one day, in the
country. toasted some meat over the
| forge Of a blacksmith shop. He found
to his surprise that the intense heat had
brOiled the chop or steak more quickly
than did the range in his own house.
1t occurred to him that chophouse fash
toned like blacksmith's shop would be
an extraordinary novelty. He thought
the matter over and evolved many de-
tails: at last he protected his IDEAS by
cCpyrjghting and patenting whatever he
could. The project as it now stands
involves the imitation Of snithy for a
restaurant. The FORCES worked with
automatic bellows, are employed for pre-
pairing steaks, chops and kidneys. The
anvils are hollow, and inside Of the horns
have a faucet from which malt LIQUOR,
really hollow tubes through which min.
eral waters, wines and other fluids can
DC drawn from barrels hidden in the gar.
ret or connected by force pump with
the cellar. A wooden horse serves as a
closet in which bread and rolls can be
kept warm and fresh for hours at a
time The plates are made Of wood hut
resemble pieces of blacksmith's apron.
Tee New York Evening Post says the
ingenious inventor proposes to raise capt.
tai and to erect smithy chophouses in all
t.f the larger cities of the country.
There is sincere mourning on the Bow.
cry, for Steve Brodies death. The little
bridge jumper was an eccentric charac-
ter, but he had a warm heart and will be
missed by many who were recipients Of
his bounty. Brodie's bar-room has been
fer years one Of the sights of the city.
and even now it's fame bids fair to con
tinue. Hardly bigger than bandbox,
the walls are plastered with autograph
portraits Of celebrated prizefghters and
turfmen. Brodie took great pride in these
decorations and spent years in their COL
lection: He willingly posed as the typi-
cal 'Bowery Boy for the benefit of
strangers, and the dialect popularity at
takingly acquired by him. 1t added to
his reputation. The smart set Of Tuxedo
was Mortified when Brodie purchased =
cottage in the village. "Weli. I'm an ic-
tor was Stephens ultimatum. III Tux
edo can stand, Richard Mans6e Id. who
stand good bridge jumper And he
lived in Tuxedo. despite the dialect and
the bridge-jumping record. 4 committee.
including Sinkers McKenna Riddles
Finkelstein: One-Eyed Reilly, Louie the
Rabbit and Gas House Jimmy, all an
Gent and honorable members Of the Bow
cry craft, will see to it that Brodie has
the biggest funeral held in years. Prize
fighters will be in attendance, as we'll as
sporting men from Chicago. st. Louis
and New Orleans. Brodie leaves about
$500 900 and a saloon business which is
worth tidy sum.
The amount Of eating done in New
York city only pales in insigniicance be-
side the fact that most of it is done by
persons from out Of town. says writer
in the New York Evening Sun. Al,
spring, autumn and winter long-and for
large part of the winter. indecd-the
town is crowded with strangers who, if
rants, be any gauge. have come here
largely to eat. A favorite trick is to
put up at some inexpensive lodging
place and go out for all meals at places
anything but inexpensive. In any case
the expenditure is in the same direction
in New York during their annual week
or fortnight than they do at home in a
year-and all. mainly. upon things to eat.
You can usually spot the Westerner or
lnlander in any restaurant by the amount
of shell-fsh he orders. Oysters. clans,
had chance to taste any: Of them since
his last visit to New York, which is
probably true \ St. Louis girl here not
long ago confessed to having had lobster
for breakfast. luncheon, dinner and sup
per after the play, during the entire three
in New York don't taste one bit as they
do at home,' complained a Louisville girl
adding that though Louisville was pretty
nice in most things, she must say New
York was ahead on oysters. OF all the
vast sums expended in eating by
that more than half of it goes in she'll
fish.
The invention committee of the Bar
tenders association has invented three
new drinks out Of compliment to Mrs.
Carrie Nation of Kansas, who is soon
to visit 'our thriving little city" if cur
rent report be founded on fact. The com
mittee was instructed by resolution to
get its wits in working order several DAYS
ago.
The committee consists of Frank Curtis
Of the Gilsey house, inventor of ssLong
Branch punch" J. e. O'Connor OF the
Waldorf Astoria. inventor of the 'Bronx
cocktail and William Gilbert Of the
Manhattan hotel, inventor of the :sClover
Club Mystery" Meetings were held
daily all last week. with the result that
the following recipes were submitted.
tested in q practical way, officially en-
dorsed, and the committee released: -
1. To be known as the "Carrfe Nation
S COCK invented by Frank Curtis. One
oasn PeEcnaud bittefs, one-half Geneva
anisette "o -. uA t.l7s
2 To be known as the '.Kansas cyclone. :.
pepsin bitters, one-fourth French vermontH
t th,lsse.fourths Plymouth gin. dash Of as:
3 To be known as the ..hixhstepper., 8