The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-31

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1t is evident that the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy's fast coast express isn't
quite as fast as the rascals who held it
up at Woodlawn. Nebraska.
The strike Of the train robbers, on the
Burlington road, was short in compari-
son with the coal strike, and the opera
tors are undoubtedly glad it is over.
The discovery Of what can be done iii
the way of heating and cooking with
bricks soaked in oil will give the oil can
fresh opportunities among the careless.
Only gold and silver have been found
in Dunn county, Wisconsin,, and there
is great disappointment. But perhaps
coal may be struck after more digging.
If Admiral Casey can get Gen. Herrara
and Gen. Salazar to agree upon terms Of
peace, he should be ordered to sail for the
coal regions at once, to try his skill there.
With so much in the way of confrma-
ton that Yohe is again married, it might
be inferred that the public doesn't know
that she is used to matrimonial ventures.
Santos-Dumont is in the air again, like
veteran flyer, making offers to per-
form long airship voyages. He seems to
be ''well up" in the advertising business.
The Presbyterian minister who has
been unfrocked at Minneapolis for writ
ing brewery advertisements may have
found it necessary to ''piece OUT small
salary. ..
The Brooklyn waterworks may have to
shut down on account of the coal strike,
but the rumor that the Milwaukee brew
cries are in similar plight is without
Foundation.
Meanwhile .the sound OF the coal shovel
IS not ringing in the furnace: rooms, to any
great extent; not because the weather IS
mild, but because there is. nothing to
make the Shovel ring.
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AS an evidence of the way in which
the coal famine affects every household
in the land. it is announced in New
York that bread has been raised one
cent loaf because the fuel to bake the
bread has become so expensive.
The way seems to be clear in Den
mark for the formal cession of the Dan
ish West Indies to the United States,
which will then own quite batch of
insular property upon which the growing
navy must keep it's weather eye
The big steel steamer Kanawaha struck
something on the bottom of Chicago
river and suffered damage to her bottom
that will necessitate a $4,000 repair
bill. Chicago is getting notorious as
port wherein the bottom of the river is
invariably too near the surface.
The railroads which have been hauled
onto the carpet by the government, for
granting preferences and cutting rates are
not in the position enjoyed by the coal
roads, which instead Of granting favors
and cutting rates persist in the bad habit
of overcharging shippers for the carrying
of anthracite coal.
A new steamer just launched at Cam
den, Delaware, is prepared for future
strikes by having fre-boxes that will ac-
commodate either oil or coal. However,
there need be little fear, if she ever takes
to oil, that she will have to revert to
coal, as strikes in the oil regions are
generally those classed Us lucky"
Marie COrelli, whose name was omitted
from the list of persons who We're hon
ored by admission to the royal enclosure
at recent gathering in Great Britain,
much to her disgust, should be proud
that she has been taken at her word.
She has frequently in her books pro-
nounced against newspaper puffery.
Wilhelmina and Henry ought to get
along without quarreling if their family
life in the future is to be a matter Of
only few days each year. They will
be like the couple who lived together for
sixty years without quarrel. The wife
went out washing each day, from morn
ing until night, and the husband was Il
night Waterman.
The nine chemical companies which
have petitioned the German reichstag
against the bundesrath's prohibition of
boracic acid in the preservation of meats
reveal the usual character Of nrotast in