The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-19

1t is of course reassuring to know that
<herc were no dogs on young Teddy. 1t
has all along been known that there were
l,o flies Oh him.
Duluth reports the killing of fifteen
bears within her corporate limits, and
therefore makes herself the Zenith City
for bear stories, and the like.
According to St. Petersburg dispatch
the Car will permit Grand Duke Boris
to tlirt with everything but the wicked
automobile, which is so cratic in it's
behavior
Chlcago's continued discoveries of Sc
cret graveyards in backwards and cellars
are giving her claims to recognition as
darker and bloodier ground than old
kentucky.
The New York justice who married
himself to widow while standing before
4 mirror, OF course intended to imply that
he had given due reflection to the step
he was taking.
Martinique ought to be permitted to 90
it alone until it is definitely ascertained
whether she is going to stay or depart
by submarine route, amid a cloud of
steam and smoke
The Missouri is showing so great an
inclination to throw a sandbar in front of
ST. Joseph and get from under $5OO,OOO
railroad bridge that the authorities may
have to coddle it into humor with a
lredGc.
Nesuvius is sending out just enough
smoke and flame to prevent it's being
counted out entirely as a back number,
by the activity Of Pelee, Soufriere, and
the Japanese volcano that wiped out an
island.
The coal strike may end shortly, but
every time householder runs the poker
through the high-priced fuel in stove or
furnace, next winter, he will stir up
memories of the struggle between the
miners and the mine owners.
When the Kaiser comes he will of
course have to visit Milwaukee to see
the pretty women of whom he has I'M
doubtedly heard, from Prince Henry.
But according to the report of his in
tended trip, his wife will be with him.
Lake Forest is experiencing the con-
corn which is the lot of all who find
themselves in the way Of short cut meth
DDS in these rapid days. She cannot hope
to maintain "keep-off-the-grass" signs on
a more direct route between Chicago and
Milwaukee.
The saying that the automobile has
come to stay will not be verified until
the amateurs and professional chauffeurs
become more careful. Just now, instead
of staying, the automobiles are going -
into kindling wood and junk-and taking
some Of the reckless owners and their
victims with them.
\ Chicago woman has brought suit for
divorce, alleging that the last pair Of
shoes her husband bought her are now
seven years old and beginning to look
shabby. The husband, who is eco
Ecmically inclined, will probably resist
the suit, as he would find it difficult to
get another wife who would make a pair
Of shoes last seven years.
The Kansas real estate agent who is
showing Posen how to expand to fill the
space formerly occupied by the fortifca-
tons that are to be RACED is probably
giving the people there an exhibition of
real estate push that gin many cases is
responsible for miles upon miles of rot
ting sidewalks along grassgrown streets
in the suburbs of cities.
The passing of a $3O,OOOOOO bicycle
corporation into the hands of receiver
is one of the logical results of the passing
Of the wheel craze. Some of the money
that was picked up rapidly when every
body was buying a wheel each season in
order to get the latest pattern has been
dropped through ort-sightedness in adj
herring to belief that the chaze would be
permanent.
Grand Rapids dispatch notes the
fact that $500 bushels of frst-class Bar
nard and Crawford peaches were sold to
the commission houses Of that city for
from 80 to 50 cents a bushel, and that sew
eral hundred bushels of fairly good peaches
sold for Is cents bushel This will
interest housekeepers who are looking for
frult for preserving and picking. But
the low prices mentioned were the result
OF corner on baskets and covers by the
commission men who profted by the de-
preston of the market. The peach grow
ers are contemplating the establishment
of basket factory in order to prevent
future robbery by the middle men. and
if they should make their own baskets
perhaps the fruit consumers might be
able to share in the benefits Of big crops.
The growers are having unmistakable
evidence that monopolists are not philan-
thropic in their tendencies.