The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-04-12
i. SPINNING WHEEL.

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THE LENGTHEN1NG DAYS.
folks who wake at dawn
And can't sleep ii there is any noise
Soon will hear. the: merry clatter Of the
mower on the lawn
And the garbage man who rolls the bar
: rels out.
How they'll toss and turn and tumble in a
w vain attempt to sleep,
When the rising sun shines in at four
How they'll growl and groan and gumble
and they'll curse both loud and deep
AS they hear the milkman coming down
There's a moment then, of quiet, and one
Then a crash against the door-you'rc
wide awake!
1t resembles bombardment, but, as every
It's the way the newsboys leave the Daily
Fake.
It's no use to try to slumber for the world
The trolley gongs are changing as they
The flies are buzzing fiercely and the neigh
bor.s yelPing pup
Oh, we're glad the summers coming, when
the snow will disappear.
And when it comes we'll wish the winter
back,
And the moral seems to be that every sea-
son of the year
Has advantages that all the others lack
Buffalo Express.
Senator Hoar has never been accused
of being numorist. In fact, he is, as a
rule, the gravest Of all 1.-THE grave and
reverend senator's" relates the Chicago
Chronicle. But occasionally he shows
that he has q spark of the humorous in
his composition. One day recently the
Massachusetts statesman, "Uncle Joe''
Cannon and several others were talking
about a certain speech attributed to
Charles Sumner. Senator Hoar ex-
pressed the conviction that Mr.. Sumner
uted to him by the record, and Uncle Joe
contended that there was no sort of
doubt about his having said them. The
discussion was becoming very warm and
interesting, when Senator Hoar, as if to
bring it to a close, exclaimed:
When | die and go to heaven, I will
look up Charles Sumner at the earliest
possible moment and say to him: Char
lie, l am sure you never said the things
attributed to you by the record"
But suppose you do not find him
there" ''Uncle Joe" asked, with his
DlanueSC SIlllle.
In that event, Joe," said the veter.
an Massachusetts statesman, without
moving muscle of his face, II will have
to beg that you deliver the message to
him.
Prof. Garfield of the Columbia univer-
sity law school has kindly humor which
light Of the students. The other day sew
eral Of the embryo lawyers were Willing
away en- unintcresting lecture on agency
by matching pennies in the rear OF the
room. Suddenly the pile of pennies fell
to the floor, and there was much laugh,
looked up, with panied expression on his
'ace. Young gentlemen" he said, do
not allow yourselves to be disturbed by
the sound Of money. Members of the
bar unite in saying that there is no
money in it,
The story about Secretary Long for
getting the name of his grandfather re-
calls an expensive mental lapse on the
part Of Senator Stanford when be was at
the height of his popularity here. Sen
ator Stanford was taken down into 4
restaurant where al, SORTS OF German
delicaces were dispensed and given q
LmDurger cheese. sandwich, which he
enjoyed very much. When starting for
home, the senator was given a chunk of
tAC 'HtSSS "ldppCu III tlulOll LIS I!E
carefully placed in the pocket Of his seal!
skin overcoat. \ week had not elapsed
until the Stanford mansion was pretty
we'll dissected. The walls were ripped
out, the flooring was taken up, the plas-
tering was knocked off as plumbers and
carpenters searched for the supposed
dead rat. An overpowering odor had
taken possession of the entire mansion.
After the house had been dlsmantled, ut
great expense. Mrs. Stanford found the
S,,,l 111 h.
ator's pocket.
For the lands sake said the woman
in the blue Mother Hubbard. as she fas-
tened the, clothesine to the division
fence, what do you think of them
got in their house an stole the family sill
YER? Family silver! Huh"'
Its so. though" said the woman in
the next lot. They had dollar an a
quarter piled on the mantelpiece for the
grocery bill, an it was all in silver
An EnglishwOman who has been
spending the winter in New York city
tells this story in an English paper: One
day she took refuge in a Fifth avenue
drug store during rainstorm, and going
up to the young man who presided at
The soda tH Wn5ef sonnter she asked him.
40 YOU tuluh tOuitl pOSSlDly get Il nan
som cab?' He looked at me- she
said, land Selling a tumbler in his hand,
No, ma am he said, but can mix you
a horses neck He thought I was mad,
and l though, nc was rude, but after ali
it was nothing. for one of the most IA
nous drinks in America is literally called
Il horses neck and, as 1 subsequently,
found, it is extremely good. 1t is com
posed Of ginger ale with the entire rind
Of a lemon and we'll iced, and as the
man thought my hanson cab was a
drink he imagined a horses neck would
do quite as WE'LL"
Secretary Long was writing at his