The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-04

THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE
VIRGINIA. M 4 n -: NJ
". E. HANNAFORD. . - Publisher.
In the discussion with fists, in London
the Hon. Mr.. ShaEkey took the floor and
held it.
A great many men would be able to
afford Panama hats if it wasn't for the
cost of their wives bonnets.
Gossip AYERS that the boy King Of
Spain is acting like a bad boy; but gos-
sip is responsible for many untruths.
According to that story telegraphed
from La Porte, Indiana, Prof. Root of
Milwaukee, who ran away with $1,000
was determined to hog or die.
Appleton's school authorities are ac-
cused of raising chickens in a high school,
instead of incubating ideas, and there is
a great deal of cackling in consequence.
Humanity generally will pray that
there is truth in the report that a Danish
professor has succeeded in giving cancer
''cold deal' by freezing the diseased
tissue.
After all, for real tastefulness and be-
comingness, the plain straw hats that
used to be had for all the way from 50
cents up, were long distance ahead Of
the costly Panama.
Hamlin Garland says that "Wjittier
was not a scholar nor an artist, nor a
great poet" which may lead some people
to recall the remark concerning the live
animal that may kick dea ! lion.
Meat consumers will regret to learn
that the great packers are compelled to
combine more extensively for the pur-
pose of making it possible for them to
secure adequate profits. This is cruel
world.
An appliance such as has been an
nounced by French officer that would
make the explosion of ordinary powder
in guns, fashless noiseless and smoke
less, would make the fighting Of soldiers
disturbingly silent for the contestants.
The weather this year recalls the story
of the old medical practitioner who was
asked to name the dates between which
the wearing of heavy fannels might be
safely dispensed with. He said: I'm
this climate, take them off on the Both
OF June, and put them on on the list Of
july"
The Cleveland councillor who handed
to the clerk of the city legislative body
$1,000 that had been offered him for
bride set good example to lefty faith
ers," and the. courts should now match
his action with a good example by pun
ishing the alleged Briber, who is now
under arrest.
William Lightfoot Visscher, of Chicago,
says that the volumes of his verse which
have been published exist in despite Of
the fact that he never sought fame, hav-
ing been printed and put into covers by
his friends, without his connivance. Be
sides being an Industrious versifier, Mr..
Visscher is an imaginative raconteur.
According to Coach O'Dea it was the
long ride to get to Poughkeepsie rather
than the long pull after they got there
that kept the Wisconsin boys from win
ming the race. This is all speculation,
but there is no doubt as to the advan-
tage which home crews have in races
which include participants from distant
points.
A German torpedo boat which was
sent to the bottom by collision at the
mouth Of the Elbe increases an already
long list of disasters to such craft. The
torpedo boat has a low-lying hull that
is difficult to see and that is readily
swept by the waves, and she is so fast
that miscalculations are made in emer-
gencies.
The proprietors of the Chicago inebri-
ate hospital who have been held respon-
slble by the coroner's jury for the loss
of life incident to the destruction of the
institution by fire, may escape punish
ment after undergoing the worries of a
defense, but the example set by the au-
thorities in prosecuting them will make
life safer for those who are undergoing
treatment in similar institutions.
There is pathetic significance i'm the re-
quest which Lord Roberts makes of the
British public. AS COMMANDMENTS chief
of the forces returning from South
Africa, he bcgs his countrymen who
seek to honor the victorious soldiers
not to ask them to drink. They have,
he says, ''worthily upheld the credit of
their country" and he is solicitious that
their welcome home may not be the
means of srllying their fair fame" of
which he is as jealous as he is proud.