The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-08-09

But l think he does. you see,
Cause he has to work 4 heap
Maxim handy things for me.
-EdwiD L Sabn in New Lippincott.
Horace Walpole humorously described
as 'tripto]ogy' George Ills habit of re-
peating three times any remark he might
make, 1t was emphatic thinking aloud.
and the author of Gossip Of the Cen
fury gives more than one instance of
the "tripological' habit.
The King was very fond Of the Weld
family, and frequently staid at Lul-
worth castle, their family seat One
the daughter of the house, handsome
woman. danced so gracefully that the
! klng expressed aloud his admiration in
the characteristic form:
Flne woman, tine woman. fine wOn-
an; dances we'll, dances we'll. dances
| well.''
The habit ran in the royal family. and
MS son. the Duke oe Cambridge, inherit
el II. When the duke attended church
Il: would express in an audible tone. and
VIII tA:cefcld repetition. his appreciation
or int services and opinion of the SER
mon Or one occasion The officiating
clergyman pronounced the exhortation.
LET us pray
.Aye: to be sure. why not? Let us
the duke from his pew.
On another occasion, when the Ten
commandments were being read. the
eighth:
Steal! OF course not! Mustn't steal
| mustn't steal, mustn't steal''
William ~: did not inherit his fathers
'triptology." but when any question was
| brought before him on which he was not
prepared to express an opinion he would
| say: That's another matter"
On his deathbed, watching through an
| open window the sun sinking below the
horizon. he said ref1ectively to the Arch.
bishop Of Canterbury. who stood near:
"Ah. my friend, | shall not see an
other sunset
I'VE don't know that. SIRE" answered
the prelate. land l pray heartily that
Your majesty may see many more"
'That's another NATTER" replied the
| King. '-Tit-Bits.
"Heres another letter from that new
tenant" said the secretary.
whats he want now?' inquired the
proprietor of the Hghuppe Apartment
house,
Says he's got to have more room in
his fiat. Says it'll help some if you'll let
him scrape the paper off the wallis
| Catholic Standard and Times.
| The customer wore the SLOUGH hat aud
dropping mustache affected by Western
ers and Southwesterners; the bartender
presented the impressive Teutonic front
that had evidently come from a le.erm-
nation to quit being surprised.
..G1' horn'' quoth the customer.
is?' -
No: it is mixed drink; yes?''
No: ITS just plain whisky that's all,
and | don't want to wait all day. Never
mind the water"
"Curious.' commented the Nestcrner.
how people in this section can't under
stand plain English. Anybody down in
Kentucky knows what a horn is, aud
how it got its name.'
How did it get its name:" inquired Il
bystander.
well. along about 100 years ago the
first distillery ever established in Ten.
ne>>ee was set up in Davidson county.
customers who assembled at the still!
especially on Saturday afternoon. to
drink and gamble. got in the habit Of
| speaking of a dram as a horn of the
heifer.' AS Tennessee was the first state
to he settled west Of the Allcghanies, the
| phrase spread all over tine West and
Southwest: finally being contracted iin:,o
| Times.
Bookbinder-"Win YOU have this book
bound in turkey or Morocco"
81 Purchase Sc mercy. no; What is is
bound in London. '-Tit-Bits.
3.4s0.0oo acres. over one-ith of the
kingdom. 1t is richer. comparatively
| than any crown in the world.
Ex-Sherif Thomas Dunn, story teller
Of Tammany hall, seldom turns the Joke
on himself. Hi: good-natured raillery
generally starts the fun. At the Demo
cratic club few evenings ago Mr.. Dunn
told of how a newsboy played him. He
said:
newsboy. A little lad, with marks ike
the Lakes of Killarney over his face,
jumped aboard a car. He yelled ont
'Wuxtra! Five hundred souls lost in a
shoe factory: l grabbed the paper at
waiting for the change l glanced quickly
to see where the catastrophe had oc-
CURED. There was nothing in the paper.
and said:
shoe factory?'
".'Ah, gwan: who said anything about
He. sdlu 1VO SO1eS lOSt IN ShOe
factory. Get up! Want any ice? Say,
boss, you're Slow
when that boy jumped off the car
thought l was pretty Slow said ex-
Sheriff Dunn when telling the story
New York Tines
Imagination -Bill;ins-':You
friend Scribbler seems to be always shor;
Of funds. If his books don't sell, wny
don't you try him at Office work when
you need new man?" Boomer-"No