The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-01-03


So it came about, you see,
Folly made u fool Of me:
Folly tired of her adorer
When her slave l came to be-
Scoti:ng at the love bore her.
Eexed because boldly wore her
Too familiar livery.
petulant she scOurged and left me
SkOrn Of all my panoply.
So it was when she bereft me
OF her smile. she set me free
Folly made man OF me!
Frank Roe Batcheder III Smart SCI.
VERY interesting scenery, sir, SAID 4
Londoner to grim looking Scot on
board the Loeb Katrine steamer.
Pm pleased ye think sac, answered
Sawney. :,
'Repietc with historical associations..'
Maybe; but l dinna ken onytnlns
ABBOTT them
What" exclaimed the Ens'snman::
''Surely, sir, YOU have read the works o.:
your great countryman, Sir Waiter
Scott the Wizard of the North 90,
'Sir Walter Scott? VIVA was he"
"Sir, this is perfectly incredible. You
Scotchman, AMI never heard OF tie
man who wrote the Wayerley novels;
'Marmion,' The Lady Of the Lake, and
all that sort Of thing"
The Scot only shook his head.
The Disguised cockney turned away
with an expression of contempt for sucl
gross ignorance, and an individual. VINO
had overheard the conversation, biushlns
for his uniformed compa triot, took an
opportunity Of asking whether his con
fession was actually true.
foot, man, was the testy reply, Il
didna want to hear ony O that English
idiots sentimental bletherln'. Heard OF
Watty Scott: For the last twelve
months I've had enough Of Sir Walter
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cr's reader, and our firm have been
printin' new edition O his works. I'm
on my holidays, man, and Gamma ne both
cred speaking about shop"-Tit-Bits.
Representative Joy of st. Louis told
the clcakroom story today that got the
most laughs. This is it:
rant and shouted, 'Where's the head
waiter?' That dignitary came forward
,S S%a{s b h"*a, the man. do you serve
.. "Yes'" replied the waiter;,. urba9ely
yWhat will you have?-Sew York
One evening some time ago there was
an impromptu gathering of story te!lers
in the rotunda of the Phoenix hotel. in
Guiding Senator Joseph W. Bailey of
Texas. eX-Gov. James B. r'cCreary of
MaulSCn county ana jacob l.. 1Atflck OF
publican. Gov. McCreary several times
addressed Mr.. Patrick as Judge" to
which the latter finally replied:
Governor, | am not judge. and new
er was; and more than that. have no
title, military, judicial or professional, |
am plain Jake Patrick, the. ONLY strictly
private citizen in the entire common
wealth of Kentucky l am aot even
Mister"
well, SIR spoke up the Texas states
man, you are unique. l should think
have always understood that in Ken
lucky it is the easiest and cheapest thing
in the world to be a colonel "
''Thcre is something in that was Pat
rick's Quick response; 1T = almost as
easy and cheap to be colonel in Ken
lucky as to be a con FRESHMAN in Texas"
The laugh was on Bailey, and he
squared the matter by asking the crowd
to refresh itself at l:is expense.-L' ing
ton Leader.
There's a burglar down in the
cellar, Henry"
Husband-"Well, my dear, we ought to
be thankful that we are upstairs
Wife-"But he'll come up here"
Husband-"Then We'll go down in the
cellar, my dear. Surely a ten-room house
ought to be big enough to hold three
people without crowding. ''-Pittsburg In
dex.
In certain skirmish an officer got a
slight scratch on the leg. The wound
was a matter Of great glory to him, and
he nursed it through after days, growing
lamer with every fear that the memory
Of his bravery might pass out of mind.
One day, late in life, as he sat nursi ing
his leg and bordering the glorious past !:
young man visiting the family for tn!
first time approached, and sympathcticai-
ly remarked:
Lame, colonel?"
Yes. SIR" after. pause, and with in
exp Eesd S;d T0!sm S3r Il am lame:
"No"-with rebuking sternness- have
not been riding"
"A slip down on the pavement?'
No, SIR with actual ferocity.
"Perhaps' then, you have sprained
Your ankle, STRIP
With a painful slowness, the old man
lifted his pet leg in both hands, set il
carefully down upon the floor, rose slow
ly from his chair, and, looking down
upon the unfortunate youth with mingled
pity and wrath, burst forth in the sub
Unity Of rage:
go and read the history of your coun
try, you COMPOUNDED puppy!'-The Reg
ment.
Sure said the newly arrived immi-
grant from Sligo, "sure, he'd plinty O
money Whin l got off the boat, BIT they
was a divil av shmart man dhere wild
a little tin box, an he SEE t. me, SEE he
IT'S filed wit Crane goods. Do yez
want itY
AN what c'ud thrue son av Erin dc
but show his pathreetism by inveshtin
in tn same?'-Baltimore American.
The German Emperor has been teach
ing his barber a lesson. Very punctua
himself, the Emperor insists that his
servants shall also be punctual, and as
he noticed some time ago that his bar
Der was almost always few minutes
late when the time came for shaving
hm he hm ka so gold no N an{
to his surprise, the barber continued te