The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-11-28

THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE
VIRGINIA. MiNN. Z
W. {. HANNAF0RD, Publisher.
The English Parliament can say to
the Austrian Reichsrath: you're an
otherv'
Q.-Why is Carrie Nation like rheu-
matism? A.-Because she makes trou-
BILE in the joints.
The admiral Of the Swiss navy might
pick up the job lot of obsolete warships
that Great Britain wants to sell.
Now it transpires that people can be
made fresh with salt. which has hereto
fore been regarded as a picking agent
only.
None of the bears in the Mississippi
swamp country rushed for the honor Of
being killed by President of the United
States.
There will be no scramble for the small
quantities of anthracite on the way to
consumers, unless the weather gets a win
try edge.
The airship Of the brothers Lebaudy,
at Nantes, recently made good speed.
Speed is excellent in an air-ship-when
in the right direction
Well, there are places not afflicted
with soft coal smoke where the air is
obscured by dust from volcanic erup-
tions-and that is worse.
When J. P. Morgan finds it necessary to
take pill, Wall street prices go off sew
eral points. They go up again, however,
when Mr.. Morgan is in perfect health.
Europe is having cold weather in ad-
and nobody will begrudge her the ex-
perience,-not while the shortage of coal
continues.
One Of the reasons why meats have
been dear was the shortness Of the corn
crop Of 1901. The mammoth corn crop
Of 1902 may be followed by lowering
Of the price of meats.
In order to give the German Emperor
score OF eighty-four rabbits in twenty
minutes, the gamekeepers must have
fixed things for wholesale drawing Of
the bead"
The Chicago people who threaten to
sue for damages because they went to
football match and came away with a
stock Of bruises must have a sort OF par
]or id"a of the game.
The old exclamation, "What a coun-
try! What people!" may be extended
when the Kansas jo6nt-smasher appears
in her new play. what country!
What people! What Nation!'
Presumably Wu Ting Fang left with
us the American clothes which he has
recently been trying to wear. He won't
need them in China, to which country he
may have been recalled because Of his in
clination toward new fashions.
Prof. Loeb's discovery that you need
not die if you have pinch of salt in the
house has not so far induced the life in
UNI rates. They seem to take the an
nouncement with a grain Of salt"
The record Of forty miles an hour by
an electric car, on the run between
Cleveland and Toledo, foreshadows
closer competition with the regular
steam lines through a general improve
ment in speed on the electric lines.
Gen. Bragg is now in position to talk
concerning Cuba, but he won't do it,
because some newspaper fellow might
construe it as Chinese, among whom the
General isn't inclined to cultivate love by
the making Of enemies.
Ex-Minister WI is going back to China
with that tired feeling superinduced
by the activity Of American reporters in
trying to steer not only China but the
whole world. WI takes things too Sc
riously.
The injured brakeman who revived at
I IN +h1 MI oF
burial alive, had much closer squeak"
with conventionalism in regard to the
disposal of the supposedly dead than he
had with the bridge that struck him
down.
The express messenger who pinked the
train robber near Trinidad, Colorado,
should receive something more substan-
tial than medal, from his company, to
encourage other messengers to utilize