The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08

cheerily. You'll be out Of the wet, and
can have seat while you're waiting
for it to clear"
''No, thank yez"' said the Celt. emphat-
me inimiesr'
We'll. that's rather harsh answered
the clergyman. ''When our Lord was on
earth. did He not 80 among His enc
| mies?"
.'Yis-he did that a<sented the Celt
with growing w;armth-'.,and1, yez didn't
do ting to him, ayther!" -Philadel-
! phia Times.
The Beauty of 1T Saw old Skrooge
admiring the sunset yesterday. 1 didn't
! think there was that much sentiment iii
him."
He told me afterward that the sun
looked for all the world like twenty
1t seems as if the acme of frugality had
been reached by a French officer who
explained, with MANY appropriate gcs-
| lures, his system Of sustaining life on !,
pension of five france week.
1T is simple, veree, veree SIMPLE" he
| said to the friend who had expressed
amazement at his feat. "Sunday l go to
re house Of good friend, and zere I
dine so eNtraordinaire: and eat so veree
| much, Eat l need no more till Vednes-
| day.
"On Eat day l have at my restaurant
one large, veree large dish of tripe and
some onion. I abhor re trpe, yes, and
re onion also, and together zey make ME
so seek as l have no more appetite till
Sunday. You see, it is veree simple"
| Benevolent Old Gentleman (pointing a
moral to village school children)-Now
why do l take all the trouble to leave NV
house and come over here and speak to
You thus? Can any boy tell me? Bright
Child Gnnocently)-Please. sir, it's be.
cause We like to hear yersel' talk.-Tit.
bits.
Capt. Groome of the City Troop once
rode from Galveston, Texas, to New
York City on the Mallory line steamer
ful but gruff and brusquc Capt. Sam
Disk. Several slight mishaps had put
Risk into very bad temper, which was
not mellowed when they ran into a dense
fog off Cape Hatteras. One of the
women passengers who had been gushing
considerably during the voyage ran up
| ooh! Captain! Isn't this an awful
| fog? Is it always as bad as this out
| here?"
How should I know snorted the old
| skipper. Il don't live here"'-Philadel.
phia Times.
"Brer Williams wuz allus a-prayin' fer
de angels ter come fer him, but wen he
learn knockin' at de do, Ell dey toll
| him hit WIZ de angels, he say fer de
| angels ter go long whar dey come from
kase he so black he 'fraid he'd smut dey
wings. Atlanta Constitution.
| An engaged young gentleman got
rather neatly out of a little scrape with
his intended. She said she had heard
that he had kissed two ladies at some
party at which she was not present.
He owned it, but said, laughingly, that
after all. their united ages made only
| twenty-one.
The supplemented girl thought of ter
and eleven and laughed off her pout.
He did not explain that one was 1c
and the other years of age.-Tit-B Bits.
inducements Held Out-Harriet-What
shall say in the advertisement for a
cook?
Harry Well, say that We'll take hel
| with us to any summer resort she may
prefer.-Detroit Free Press.
BY way Of illustration this story. was
told the other day by a lecturer at thu
Briarcliff school Of Practical agriculture
4 An old lady decided that she was over
feeding her hen that was doing nothing
more arduous than ''set'' upon ,dozcr
eggs, so she mixel sawdust with thu
hen's food. making it about half an6
half. When the eggs Matched eleven OF
the chicks had each a wooden leg, ant
the twelfth was woodpecker. ii. "
-:o:-
Going through store today the eye
was. caught by four remarkable things t.
be had for 10 cents. First, little round
cast-iron gas stove that is just the thing
to heat a little water in a fat, cook al