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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
Between the Rails"

Engineers and motormen have formu-
lated a theory which, they declare, has
been so often proved that it might be
that any fourfooted animal, be it a cat,
fox, dog, squirrel, COW or horse, which is
surprised by a rapidly approaching loco
motive, will seek safety in straight fight
between the rails, when it could save it's
life by simple leap to one side.
II have started up rabbits said a
veteran engineer, ''and they invariably
keep to the center Of the track until run
down. Sometimes at the very last mo-
ment they will leap to one side, but not
often. Cats, which are pretty shrewd,
in spite Of assertions to the contrary,
will flee between the rails in just the
same way. Once, when l was in the cab
of an engine pulling a way freight be-
tween fast trains I started a red COW,
which had strayed on the track through
somebody's carelessness in letting down
the bars Of her pasture. She had fair
start, and careered down the track about
fifty feet ahead Of my pilot with head
down and tail out straight behind. We
had little time to spare, SO I eased the
engine off bit, and finally the old fool
cut to one side and landed in the ditch.
We must have chased her for mile
Chicago Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
TRIUMPHS OF MODERN SURGERY.
Indian Twins Separated by an Operation,
and One Still Lives.

Prof. Doyen, who separated the Indian
twins, Radica and Doodica, allowed a
correspondent to see the surviving child
in his clinic. Kadlca is doing we'll as to
general health, and is putting on flesh,
but has to be constantly amused in order
to keep her from brooding on the sep
aration from her beloved sister, She is
now being taught to walk, but progress
is, slow, even thought she could walk
when Doodica was alive.
''The two girls" says Prof. Doyen,
were dependent. upon each other when
walking, one hosting the other, so to
speak. AS consequence, Radica has
now to be taught to move by herself.
This she won't be able to do without
assistance for many months to come, as
the curvature of her spine, which pre-
vents her from holding herself erect,
must be cured first. The curvature was
originally due to the growing together.'
The professor denies the published re-
ports that Doodica died Of loss of bloc 4
during the operation: Little blood Was
spilled" he said. "The girl had con-
sumption Of the stomach-that is what
made the operation necessary"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
A Sacred Chinese Coin.

One Of the coins of the Chinese En-
peror Kanghi is very much sought after
by the Chinese, who use it in making
rings for the finger. 1t is slightly diff
ferent from the other cash issued under
the same Emperor in the form of one Of
the characters that indicate the regnal
period. The Chinese call it "Lo-han-
cash. the word Lo-han being tran
script in Chinese characters Of the Sans
krit word Arhan, venerable" the name
applied to the eighteen attendants at
Buddha, vino are frequently seen ranged
along the two sides of the principal halls
in Buddhist temples.
The tradition is that while the EN-
peror was intimately associated with Bu-
ropean missionaries he became imbued
with feeling of contempt for Buddhism
and illustrated this phase Of his faith by
having a set of eighteen brass; Lo-han
images melted down and cast into cash.
This brass is said to contain a consider
able portion of gold; hence the demand
for the cash.-Boston Transcript:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
Advertisement for a Servant.

Milwaukee housewives have trouble
enough in getting servant girls and in
keeping them, but the carrying away Of
table supplies is not often one. of the
troubles they have to contend with.
That is because there is so little abject
poverty in Milwaukee. What the New
York city mistress encounters is indicat-
ed in the following which recently ap-
peared in paper published in that city:
HOUsEwORK-sERVA FOR GENER-
nj Homework; cooking, washing and iron.
ing in fve-roOm apartments; sleep at
home: hours, 1880 a. m. till O'Clock;
dinner dishes are washed; evenings. to
do what she likes with and no questions
asked: every Sunday and every other
Thursday out flom II a. m. to 6 p. m. !;
no one who has seen better days and
with a hard-luck story on tap desired; ;
as the only food quitting the establish
ment leaves in the garbage pail, those
with hungry mouths at home need. not
apply; state references and wages want
ed. Address RIP. World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
An Unwilling Juror.

A New Hampshire judge has in
his possession the following letter
sent to him by an old farmer
who had been notified that he had
been drawn as a juror for q certain
term of court: "Dear ledge: got
your letter tellin' me to come to Man
chester and do dooty on the joory an
| write you these fue lines to let YOU
know that you'll have to git some one
else for it amt so I kin leave home now.
l got to do som butcherin' and sort over
lot Of apples just: about the time the
loory will be settin' in your court. ST
Jackman of this town says that he would
as soon as not go, for he amt got nothin'
else to do jess now, so you better send
fer him. hate the worst way not to
oblige you, but it amt so I kin at pres
sent. Ennyhow I amt much on the law,
never havin' been a jooryman 'ceptin'
when Old Bud Stiles got killed by the
cars here some years ago when I was
one that set on the boldly with the kor-
oner. So you better send for 81 Jack
man, for he has got some kin in man
chester he wants 10 visit ennyhow, an
he'd be willin' to go for his car fare there
an back. ANGER back if you want ST."
-Lippincott's Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
NECESSITY OF SLEEP.
Death by Sleeplessness Chinese Punish
ment.

But if sleep in some cases may cause
death, lack of sleep is sure to do so. A
person absolutely without sleep for nine
days will die. Sufferers from insomnia
sometimes maintain that they have gone
for weeks without sleeping, but it has
been proved that they do sleep without
being aware Of it. At certain point
sleep is inevitable, no matter what the
bodily condition, the alternative being
death. Prisoners have slept on the rack
OF the inquisition. And the Chinese
found that only the greatest ingenuity
and vigilance could carry out sentence
of death by sleeplessness. This mode
OF capital punishment was long in favor
IN China, and is said to be SO today;
while as form of torture, deprivation
Of sleep is considered one of the most
eftlcacious weapons in the Chinese judi
clal arsenal. In some such cases the
prisoner is kept in cage, too small to
stand up. or lie down in, and constantly
prodded with sharp rod. Death by
method, is a slower process, and there
fore, one would think, more calculated
to appeal to the oriental mind, if it were
not that death by sleeplessness is thought
so much more painful. In the latter
case, the brain is the first affected of all
the organs of the body; while in case
Of starvation. the brain longest retains
responding mode Of tanning wild ele-
plants is said to be depriying the ami
mails Of sleep when first caught. In a
few days they become comparatively
spirtless and harmless. The brain Of
the elephant is held to be more highly
developed than that Of any other wild
animal, but, of course, as compared with
q human brain, can be easily fatigued
by now impressions, and so made very
dependent on sleep. The wild elephant
in his native jungle, however, is said to
sleep very little-a further point for the
theory Of the universal ratio Of sleep to
intelligence. A man taken out of his
habitat and placed in conditions which
he never could have imagined-if trans
ported to Mars. say-would doubtless
need an extraordinary amount of sleep
at first. There is the almost parallel
case OF a German boy, Casper Hauser,
room where he had no intercourse with
human beings, or sight Of any natural
object, not even the sky. At IS he was
brought to Nuremberg and abandoned
in the street. For the first few months
of his life among men he slept almost
constantly, and SO soundly that it was
very hard to wake him.-Ainslees Maga-
zine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
Epigrammatically Incorporate.

English newspapers comment on the
attack recently made on Gen. Funston by
United States Senator Carmack Of Ten
nessee, and express establishment that a
man in his position would allow himself
to speak of an army officer as 1.-THE Jay
hawker brigadier from the wind-swept
plains, the mightiest Samson that ever
welded the jawbone of an ass as a
weapon of war" One London writer
contrasts this outburst with Disraeli's
famous remark when he described Glad
stone as "a sophisticated rhetorician in
toxicated with the exuberance Of his own
verbosity."-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
CAVE JEWELLERS IN CHINA.
A Large Number on the Hill Slopes Along
the Yellow River.

The fact has escaped attention until
recently that there are many cave dwell
ers along part of the Hoang Ho or Vel
low river. It happens that they are
found on that part Of the river where the
bridge on the railroad which is to con-
meet Pekin with Hankow on the Yantse
is to be built, and August Slosse, a Bel
gian engineer who lived among them for
six months while making studies for the
railroad in that region, has been telling
some facts about the troglodytes.
Along the banks Of the river the people
live in clay huts, but higher up, among
the hills, only a short distance from the
stream, they make for themselves per-
manent habitations dug in the hill sides.
There are many villages of these caves,
not only. the hahtations, but also the
temples, the shops and the store houses
for grain being nothing more than these
dark artificial caves. Many of the caves
are nearly as spacious as the smaller
New York fats. They are about 9 feet
high, 10 to IL meet in width and have a
depth Of so to- so feet. They are dark
and gloomy abodes, but the people who
live in them think they are much prefer
able to the clay huts in which their neigh
bors live on the river bank. No, adorn-
ment Of the interior is attempted, ex-
cepting in the temples, whose walls are
whitewashed and covered with rude
paintings in lively colors, that under the
bright light which is constantly burning
gives these sacred rooms quite a gaudy
appearance. 5,. I. " =, -, !.
The only particular advantage the un-
derground rooms seem to have is that
they are cool in summer and"warm in
winter. The inhabitants are gentle and
even timid, and Mr.. Slosse said that be-
ing unaccustomed to seeing whites they
almost invariably disappeared into their
caves when they saw any Of his party
approaching. 1t was curious to see them
at distance working in their little fields
above or below their dwellings, only to
find not soul in sight upon nearer ap-
proach. They would all mysteriously
sink into the ground, and apparently
there were no human beings for mile
around, though undoubtedly there were
thousands Of the troglodytes in their bur
rows listening at their doors for the foot
falls OF the intruding strangers.-New
York Sun. '3t, Il j.. t4:E<
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

marry you, I am sure. They are both
nice girls, and you're bound to like
them!" She blurted out the words in
the most astonishing way, and then fin
lshed by bursting into fit of crying.
But don't want Sallie Green or Nav
Gardner! l want you, or nobody, for my
wife!" Jonas said bravely.
The sight of her tears had made him
bold, and he was holding her hands now
in the tenderest fashion
And before IL o'clock she was his
promised wife, and when he left her there
was only one cloud upon her happiness.
1.-The girls will be awfully mad" she said
over and over, ''but, anyhow, I have kept
my promise am going TO give Jonas
a wife for his birthday."-Ne York
Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
Millions in Popcorn.

The retailing of popcorn doesn't look
like an especially digni6ed or promising
big money in popcorn. if you can only
sell enough of it., is proved by the ex-
perience Of the Humphrey family of
Cleveland. In 1891 the Humphreys, four
of them, were worth $4,000 less than
nothing. They managed to secure the
small capital necessary to start them in
the popcorn business on the ha9d-bask-
popcorn, but they managed to keep alive
and stuck to popcorn. Today they are
worth something like million dollars,
all made out of popcorn. So don't de-
spise the popcorn boy when he comes
through the Charlotte car crying his
wares.-Rochester Democrat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The safe arrival at St. Michael's of the
steamer Portland, after a bit of Arctic
experience, should relieve those who were
permitting themselves to become anxious
as to the fate of the Jeanne, another
steamer that was caught in the ice at the
same time. Ice packs generally protect
imprisoned vessels from the force of the
waves, and unless there is real open
sea Arctic foe there is little danger of
disastrous nipping.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Life is becoming more complex i'll the
East. 1t is only little while since New
Jersey station agents received orders to
prevent the exchange of goodby kisses
between passengers on the railway trains
ond people seeing them off; and now the
school board of New Castle. Pennsyl-
vania, is considering resolution provid-
ing for injunctional proceedings to pre-
period for which they are under contract
to the hoard
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
Mountain Laurel.

E The present season is one Of the finest
Of recent years for that magnificent flow
er of the fields and forest, the mountain
laurel, and there is no geographical To-
cality in which it finds better develop
ment than in Northwestern Massachu-
sets. In the range Of towns from AthOl
to Greenfield, including much hill country
IN the more remote regions from railroads
it's Towering is simply superb. One may
travel many miles and find it as far as
the eye can reach, in its luxuriant splen-
dor. on every hand.-Boston Herald. sss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The hail storms which battered vegeta-
ton into the earth in part Of Mime
sofa and South Dakota were the natural
concomitants of severe meteorological
commissions. The summer of 1902 bids
fair to go on record as one Of the most
peculiar summer seasons ever known.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The haste to blame Rear Admiral
Crowninshield for the injuries the battle
ship Illinois suffered by striking bottom
in the harbor Of Christiana, Norway. is
causing the display of a great deal of
ignorance as to the duties of an admiral
on board the ship that carries his flag.
He is too high OH the roster Of officials
to be charged with all the details OF tax
ing a ship into port,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

nea native ancestors, which have orna-
mented the poles Of native dwellings in
New Guinea, that the Australian govern
ment has inhibited the trade Large prices
were offered the blacks for the strange
relics, and it was feared that the temp
tation was becoming so strong that as
the supply of genuine ancestors ran low
illegal methods of procuring spurious
ones would be adopted.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

=. What may happen any dag where
there is no fire protection, occurred when
the business section of the village Of
Bear Greek, near New London. Wilson,
sin, was reduced to ruins by fire. \
hand force-pump would be better than
nothing, as sometimes few pailfuls Of
wafer applied at the right place at the
right time will avert contia gra ton.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The rich young woman who turned
from the altar and refused to be mar
ried, when the minister asked for her
eyes," on the ground that the matr-
monial business is too serious, will be an
old maid if she expects to marry only
when matrimony has assumed the char
acter Of a joke.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The indictment Of Mayor Ames of
Minneapolis for grating" from the resi-
dents of his city's ''tenderloin" is case
that ought to create fellow feeling be-
tween the mayor and certain dethroned
Tammanyites in New York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The only particulars obtainable in re-
gard to the blowing up of the Chinese
cruiser Hal Chez is that her magazine
exploded and destroyed ship and crew,
leaving only two survivors. Particulars
are always small under such circum-
stances, especially when dynamite is in
yOlypd
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Gen. Braggs experience tends to show
that even when Americans representing
their country abroad are corresponding
with their wives, it is the part of pru-
dence to employ diplomatic language.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

New York city is guilty of reporting
hailstones as large as walnut, and now
the Munchausens of the wild and woolly
West can use the cantaloupe or the
pumpkin for comparison, in their next
hailstorm reports.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

sissippi river steamer, dicovered that the
imam behind the gun" who does the
quickest and most effective work is not
necessarily spectacular wild west" in
dividual after their own pattern.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The breaking out of giant geyser at
Salina Cruz, on the Pacific side Of the
isthmus of Tehuantepec, following an
earthquake, is an incident worthy of note
among those who advocated the Tehuan-
tepec ship railway proposition as a solu-
ton Of the isthmian canal question.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The German naval annual for 1902 ad-
mits that the Americans are the best
gunners in the world, but expresses
doubt as to the efficiency of their work
with the many guns with which our ships
are armed. The sailors of Cervera's feet
arO
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Through a temporary failure Of her
steering gear, the battleship Illinois
rammed Norway squarely upon the king
dom's port bow, piercing her own bot
tom plates. But this does not prove
that kings are safe from attacks from
the sea-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

1t transpires that the wrecked Chica-
go skimming dish yacht had a cabin.
and that the members of the party who
lost their lives were drowned when the
yacht capsized. Next to being out OH
deep water, it is bad for modern rae
ing yacht to be out o. nights.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

be insane because he is so clever in out
whiting his pursuers may be useful to his
lawyer in habeas corpus proceedings aft
er he is caught.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Texas has an imitation volcano in a
burning lake Of oil covering five acres.
in the middle of which there is plugged
"gusher'' that would cause an eruption
Of flame if the plug should be fused by
the heat. There is nothing small about
Texas
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

There are suspicious that Mary Mac
Lanes publishers have taken hint from
the late ingenious P. Il. Barnum's inven-
ton and exploitation Of the Wild Man
of BOrneo
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

And it is only few months since Wis
acres asserted that the rainfall was
steadily diminishing, and that the south
ern half of Wisconsin would become part
of the arid region of the United States!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The new directory Of Chicago shows
that the number Of churches in that
wicked city is 951-which recalls the
proverb that you may lead horse to the
water, but you can't make him drink.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Chicago's newspaper reporters are ex-
plotting Mary McLane as though they
were paid to advertise her for the pur-
pose Of increasing the publishers sales
of her ''story.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The question MAJ now be raised
whether ). Pierpont Morgan's denuncia-
ton of poker is an indirect drive at
young Mr.. Schwab, who was said to
have taken flyer at Monte Carlo.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Evidently the snake stories from Wis
cousin and Illinois have aroused emu
lation on the seaboard. Now comes q
dispatch from Halifax declaring that on
recent afternoon a sea serpent 800
count them, 5000 feet long was seen
off Cape Breton by South Bar pilots.
Probably the monster would have been
400 feet long if they could have got a
second glimpse Of it after taking an
other drink.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

There has been rain enough in Iowa
to enable the residents of the interior to
enjoy yachting, if they confine their
pleasure to the navigation Of the mod
ern skimming dish.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Mary MacLane's discussion Of thu
problems of life is just as reckless as i
she We're professor in the University
of Chicago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Reports concerning ruined potatoes
will be as numerous as wet spots in the
agricultural sections. The tubers are
said to be doing remarkably we'll Oh land
that is not naturally soggy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

\ down-grade trolley smash-up in New
York city accentuates the demand for
something that will put the trolley car
under control of the motorman when the
motive power fails to operate. So many
accidents Of similar nature have oc-
Cured Of late that people will become
timid Of trolley travel where steep grades
exist, unless something is done to safe
guard them against down-grade plunges
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

The two long-haired medicine men"
Of fighting inclinations who fell before
the craftsmanship of the mate Of a Mis-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25
Skulls in Commerce.

"a; Human skulls are a strange article Of
commerce. Yet such is the demand
which has arisen among curiosity deal
ers IN Europe for the skulls Of New Gui-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

If there is any truth in the stories
from Madrid as to the eccentric be-
hayior of young King Alfonso, the royal
kid ought to have a spanking and be
put to bed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-25

Bertha-Can she remember what hap-
pened on her 26th birthday? Bella
Yes; she was just 18.-Yonkers States
man.