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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
Snobs, Cads and Bounders.

A knot of men at a club were trying
to define the exact meaning of the above
terms, and this was the general idea: !
A snob is mildly pretentious person,
negative rather than positive, whose an
tics raise a smile but rarely excite an
ger. He may be extremely well dressed
or he may be a sloven; generally speak
ing, he is bore.
A cad is more active and militant
character, whose entrance in club
causes some dismay but not revolt. In
abiding to him as a bore some rather
warm adjective is prefxed, partly be-
cause he is difficult to evade,. partly be-
cause he is apt to say or do something
for which he deserves to be kicked, and
the practical impossibility Of doing so
inks the others present. He is very dele
ferrous to large eaters after dinner, since
he arrests digestion and sends the blood
to the head
The bounder is what might be called
gorgeous cad beside whom a snob is
rest and comfort. His briskness reduces
you to aphasia and temporary cerebral
anaemia; his laugh curdles your blood.
You cannot be charitable to bounder;
charity stops right there. He empties
clubs and causes ruin to corporations
and vestries by the violence Of the pas
sions he arouses. A noisy, screaming,
superf1uous peacock Of a cad is a bound
er, such as many a captain Of a liner
has longed to put in irons, for, weirdly
enough, he is apt to escape seasickness
in order to harass mankind when most
helpless.-New York Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
Speed of Racing Camels.

The racing camel is very carefully
bred and valuable prizes are offered by
4 racing society at Biskra for the feet
est racer, says Pearson's Magazine.
have seen the start of race and it re-
minded me, in a far-of sort of way. of a
horse race. The camcls were all ar
ranged in line and they shifted the air in
their anxiety to be off. A flag was
waved and they set off at terrible
pace, as if they were only racing for a
short distance. They kept together until
they were almost out of sight. Then
they seemed to settle down to their habit
ual pace and the race proceeded with
l have also seen the finish of a camel
race. and it reminded me of the first
motor car promenade between London
and Brighton. The camels were certain
~ not so broken down and bedra ggle.l,
but they came in at intervals of several
hours and great patience was necessary
to watch them arrive
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
r.. A SKILLFUL TONGUE.
How a Paralytic Sews Without Use Of
-, 49, Hands,. & -

! One of the most remarkable invalids
in the world is Miss Tunison: paralytic,
who resides at Sag Harbor, L.. l., who is
| expected to visit friends in this city this
| week. She has been helpless since birth,
having only the head and upper shoulder
muscle under control, and so wonderful
ly has she trained them to serve her one
remaining member, the tongue, that it
performs with marvellous quickness and
skill the tasks which feminine fingers
alone are wont to do. At her bidding it
traces with a pencil held between the
teeth outline sketches Of flowers and
trees; it grasps needle, threads it and
works in and out the fine delicate
stitches of embroidery 6nery; it writes
letters to her friends, and it guides the
mallet which makes music on her metal
aphone. Miss Tunison's tongue is very
ruly member, indeed. Never having had
the use Of her hands, Miss Tunison has
thrown her full dependence upon the
tongue, which, through the loss of all
other members, is abnormauy acute and
gifted.
Miss Tunison is bright-faced woman
of 80. All day long she sits strapped in
a wheeled chair, specially constructed for
front, something like that Of child's
high chair. This is her work table, and
on it she has her boxes of colored cray
ons, her work basket, filed with spools
of thread, needle books and endless little
odds and ends. There, too. she has her
writing pad and several inch ana half
long pencils, sharpened by some friendly
hand. When only years old Miss Tu-
nison began to train her tongue into USE
fitness. She would pick up buttons with
It from her little table, and with string,
also in her mouth, in some way pass the
cord through the eyelet, amusing herself
for hours stringing buttons. Later she
began to sew.
To see Miss Tunison thread a needle
preparatory to doing her embroidery
makes one half doubt ones eyes. First
she takes the little needle book from out
her work basket, laying it before her;
then a weight, specially made for her
purpose, is taken up by her teeth and
placed upon one-half of it to hold it firm
while she removes the needle desired;
this done, she sticks it straight up in the
table before her. Then a thread is
wound off the required length and cut by
| means of a scissors manipulated in the
same marvellous way. Her tongue takes
up the thread and through its exquisite
sense Of feeling passes it through the eye
of the needle in as short time as the ay-
erage steady hand and eye require.
The bit Of cambria or linen on which
she is to embroider is taken out and un-
folded in the same way and the weight
placed upon one corner of it to hold it
down while sewing. Holding the needle
with her tongue, she places it where de-
sired, then lifts and throws back one
| corner Of the cloth so as to grasp the
needle from the under side and pull it
through, making the stitch complete.
This she does over and over again, trac-
ing and working out the most delicate
designs and nearly always without an
outline, save what comes spontaneously
to her mind when working.-Philadelph
Ledger
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
An Immense Army Breeding Farm.

The British authorities have decided
to have immense stud farms here, be-
ginning with horses and afterwards ex-
tending the breeding establishments t.
cattle, sheep, goats, .donkeys and mules.
The first order for brood mares will lie
given in this country to the military
authorities, who will sell them to the
civil authorities. 1t is ascertained that
1000 mares are thus to be acquired, with,
of course. stations. After time these
will be imported from good stock, but
there is plenty of blood in the country
to make beginning.
The mares to be handed over by the
tiled now. Many of them will be of the
Boer mare breed, a hardy light little ami
NAL, which breeds we'll and is very use
full in the long grass and stony veldt
and kopje-just the animal, in fact, to
carry a man around his farm and bring
his produce to market in quick time over
long distances.
One of the largest breeding establish
ments will be at Standerton. British
and Australian men versed in horses are
to be appointed to take charge of these
breeding depots, and several well known
men who have made the horse a study
have already been appointed to select tic
mare and stallion grounds for the CON-
Observation-Disclosures Cor. Of the Pail
Nall Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
Spiders as Medicine.

The article in the Tribune on the SUBJ
ject of using as a medicine the poison
extracted from the fangs of the ella
monster has inspired a writer in the
Rochester Post-Express to tell some in
teresting facts about the use of spiders
in popular medicine. In New England
cobweb pills are supposed to cure the
ague. and in the South certain
knucklc bone in a pigs foot is sure
cure for rheumatism. if it be carried in
the pocket or worn suspended from a
string around the neck. Tracing the
spider web pill. it originated in China,
where all species of insects have certain
positive or negative values in medicine
In Pekin it is customary to give two or
three scorpions or spiders to patient
ill Of fever. In Ireland the peasantry
swallow small spiders alive to effect
cures. From these the cobweb pill of
the New England native was easy. In
Flanders the live spider is fastened into
the empty shell of walnut and worn
around the neck of the patient. As the
creature dies the fever decreases until it
is gone entirely.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

In her company Nine. Duse is regarded
with an admiration that is close upon
worship, with an affection that is tinged
with awe, says the Brooklyn Eagle
While there is no evidence of intentional
aloofness, no desire to keep the others
i'll subsection, they are all subject to her
genius: And pernaps-who knows?--
there is something in Carlyle's definition
Of genius as an infinite capacity for tax
ing pains. Certainly Nine. Duse pays
the greatest attention to detail on the
stage. She never neglects to examine
the stage setting carefully before begin
ming performance. 1t is told that one
night when playing LA Femme de
Claude" she suddenly discovered plas-
ter statuette of a bacchante in the room.
"No, no. nov' she exclaimed ''it must
not be there. In the home Of Claude
a severe, brusque,, austere man. Get
something heavy like himself bronze, Il
bust, not a piece of frivolty like that. 1t
would offend his Puritan soul"
Another of her marked characteristics
is a great dislike for rehearsals. She
declares that they tire her far more
than performances In Berlin last win
ter the company received a call to re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
Some Big Dumb-Bells.

Some pretty big dumb-bells are re-
,uuired to exhibit the strength of the
modern strong man. \ visit to a works
where this line of business is specially
catered to discovered some remarkable
weights. A pair Of siDglc-grip dumb
bells with hollow balls, weighed thirty
eighty pounds when filled with shot.
which is the usual method of increasing
the weight. A half bar-bell. or double.
grip dumb-bell, weighed 24O pounds,
while full-sized 15-inch bar-bell for a
modern Hercules weighed 600 pounds
when fully loaded. The record bell made
bar which weighed 316 pounds when
empty. Besides these giant playthings
the standard sizes, from two pounds and
upward, look like those designed for some
kindergarten or pigmy race.-Philadel-
phia Record. f.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

hearse "Gioconda," in which she opened
the other night in New York. She came
an hour late, and then when her Lucio
was making one Of bis important
she suddenly stopped short with the re-
mark, 1--WE will go on to the second act -
And in every subsequent rehearsal she
stopped short at just that point. The
end of the first act never was rehearsed.
One of her leading men tells how, in
addition to his own part he took the part
of a messenger, in ..'Antony and Cleo
patra' because the minor actor originally
cast for. that and another unimportant
part declined to play both. In one of the
Egyptians explosions of savage wrath
the actor was so bewildered and fascinat-
ed by her fury. that he forgot short
speech with which he should have inter
rupted her till Duse prompted him in the
sentlest tone and then went on with her
TRADE in the tones at once high and
hoarse, in which she was roaring forth
her rage. He tells too. that her hands
acquire such strength in this outburst
that it is no fun at all being the luckless
messenger of Antony's marriage to o.
tavia and being held down to the floor
with those hands at ones throat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
Two Lowell Stories.

Gen. James Grant Wilson tells these
two stories of James Russell Lowell:
Another autograph collector wrote a
short note to Lowell describing his col
lection and concluding with the remark:
4 would be much obliged for your auto
graph The reply came, bearing with
it lesson on the correct use Of the
word should and would which deeply
impressed itself on the mind of the re-
cipient. The response read: Pray do
not say hereafter Il would be obliged. -
If you would be obliged, be obliged and
be done with it. Say Il should be
obliged" and oblige yours truly, James
Russell Lowell " ss9
The other story is that once a lady
a copy Of his last book, Is which he rs!
Piled: II could mot safferd te. ! IL nv
friends do not buy my books, who, pray
tell me. will buy then? '-Exchange
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
SMALL FARMS IN THE SOUTH.
They Are Net Likely to Discard Work
men and Horses for Machines.

\ Florida man who has been travelling
in the West-the section of great farms
and prodigious ranches-brings back the
rather startling information that the
farm hand is doomed and that the farm
horse will disappear with him. Indeed,
the Florida man is quite sure that the
farm has already begun, and is quite well
advanced. Machinery is taking the place
CT man and beast. Traction engines aud
electrical motors are doing the work
formerly performed by hands and horses,
he says, and they are doing it at great
saving to the farmer. We learn from our
Florida friend that recently perfected
from gasoline, is proving very popular
on the big farms. This engine is small,
compact and easily managed. 1t is not
half as large as the old-style steam trac-
ton engine, but is twice as strong and
very much more economical. 1t will pull
a gang of five or six subsoil plows, such
rs are usually drawn by two horses each,
and, because of it's steady. untiring, I'M
baking work, will accomplish more in a
day than could be done by ten horses
and as many men, and it requires but
three men to run the little engine. Not
only will it pull plows, but it will run the
reaper, binder, thresher, feed cutter and
otAoi AAaSAiuelt, anu Nnell the harvest
ing is over it will pull a train of wagons
from the farm to the market.
With the substitution of machine labor
for Animal labor there IS no necessity for
the farmer to employ hands to get up at
5 in the morning and feed the horses, in
anticipation Of their hard days work,
since no horses are necessary. All the
farmer has to do is TO pour some oil in
the tank of the machine, strike match,
and his motor is ready for the. duty be-
fore it. The cost of the gasoline traction
engine is about $1,000. but after the first
cost the expense is slight as compared
with the keep of horses.
1t may be true, as our Florida friend
concluded, that farm hands and farm
horses will become fewer year by year
on the great farms Of the West, where
machinery can be proftably employed.
In this section, however, we expect to
see the "hired man. and the "critter'
engaged for many years in tilling the soil.
The tendency in other than the great
prairie sections, as shown by the recent
census, is rather toward small farms
than great ones. In the South the great
plantations of years ago are being broken
up into small farms that are cultivated
by families. Machinery to replace ami
mails cannot profitably be employed on
such farms. Meanwhile it is fact that
the Southern farmers, and especially
those OF Georgia, are keeping we'll up
with the march of progress in the use of
improved and labor-saving devices for the
preparation. of their lands and the cult
day may come when Dobbin will be
turned out to grass for good and all, and
when the automobile will do all the plow-
ing, grinding, hauling and CARRYING the
folks to meeting, but the time is not
yet.-Savannah News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

four different courses. According to one
guest it was transparent, tasteless, ut
tcrly unillviting, and more like wall
paper paste than anything else. Chinese
nuts took the place of sailed almonds.
Then there were dried cells sliced in
CHICKEN bGoth sharkS s. cooked IN dozen
"lotus flower,'' consisting of slice of fat
pork, slice of dried duck and piece
of preserved watermelon, so arranged
that one could take bit of all three at
once; dried mushrooms, turtles, preserved
ducks eggs, sharks air bladdcrs in oil,
abalone meat, dainty worth it's weight
III gold, being a tiny part of little sea
animal; the web Of ducks feet, duck
which had been baked, stuffed with mush-
rooms and steamed, and almond Cruel
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
An Unlucky Citizen.

"1es, SIR said the town story-teller,
che wuz the onluckiest Teller that ever
drawed the breath O. life an weeks
wages
"You don't say?'
"Fact. Clumb a pine tree once when
he seen the sheriff comm to levy on him;
harricane come along. blowed the tree
down, an landed him in the only vacant
seat in the sherif's buggy; sheriff started
who mistook him fer mother man, an
strung him up; an he'd almost quit
kickin' when some I'm cut him down an
hauled him home jest as his mother.in-
law had finished writin' his obituary an
wuz standing before the glass to see how
we'll she looked in mournin'. ATLANTA
Constitution. E.s. ~ 2,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

q mere fraction of the surface system.
Unlike the ''two-penny tube in London,
which runs from so to 100 feet under
ground, the New York subway runs near
the surface all the way, and can be
reached by descending a few steps.
People are apt nowadays to associate
tales Of "shanghaing" with the extinct
trade Of the pirate, but right here in
New York this practice is being carried
on under the guise of employment agen-
cies. Greenwich street, between the Bat
terry and Albany street, is essentially a
mariners thoroughfare, the haven of ref
uge Of those birds of passage called cat
tie tenders, and the first American home
of the immigrants who come hither to
seek, if not fortune, at least compe-
tence. One Of the pet schemes is to adj
vertise for all sorts Of help, and when
the prospective victims show up they are
told that the places are in some far
away Observation-Disclosures let US say-which
necessitates a sea voyage. Then once
On board the tramp steamer the dupes
will be lucky if they see shore again in
six months. OF course, the agents get q
bonus on each man and the tramp steam
ers get their cattle tenders.
MI IreSS "A. GenC Is busy man these
days. Following the clever and veracieus
talk of how Mrs. Carter and Lillian
Russell had funny impromptu meeting
in the lobby of Belasco's Theater, and
how the brilliant Italian artistic had to
pick up her skirts and flee from the mob
Of admiring onlookers, comes the equally
truthful narrative that Mary Manneriny
has had her very stunningest gown
(Which she creates such sensation with.
etc.. in her wonderfully successful
play stolen by bold midnight
maurader in Broadway. OF course, it
was not taken directly off her person, but
the box containing it was snatched from
the arms Of her maid. who was on her
way to the theater. Then, Of course, fol-
lows the story of how seventy Or eighty
dressmakers were at once put to work to
create duplicate Of the gown in twelve
hours and how she twill appear before
an unsuspecting public who will know
nothing, etc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
A Curious Recovery.

Mrs. Anna n. Scott Of Denver, while
returning from q party five years ago.
l0gt agvahda6le dm1nOhd alafAad4s1h She was
wearing: A few days ago she was look
ing for little ring her daughter had
lost. She did not find the ring, hut did
find the diamond earring where five
years before she thought she had lost it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
.fssl ln's Nv Fleet q

Under the japanese flag there are now
$50 steam vessels Of 81, eco tons and
1865 sailing vessels Of 126, 618 tons, max
ing total Of 1884 vessels Of 904, 278 tons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
A Chinese Dinner.

At Chinese dinner given in San
Francisco in honor of Mrs. Robert Louis
Stevenson these were among the queer
things served: Birds nest soup came in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
Peculiarities Of the Memory.

It is instanced as one Of the curiesities
of the memoTynklnt people who know
long pieces Of verse by heart frequently
s se9aat 5s'1 n1 fEa t1a'E =. mum,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

Former Congressman Felix Campbell
president of the Peoples Trust Compan,
Of Brooklyn. died at his residence il
Brooklyn. He was Is years old. HI
served four terms in Congress.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

A Berliner takes on the average 129
street car rides q year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

j. +. Morgan has bought the manu-
script Of Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Ar
chitecture" at private sale, and is sal,
to have paid $4,000 for it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

Carl Schurz, who was reported serious
ly i'll, has recovered sufficiently to dispe
alarm; Mr.. Schurz was suddenly al
tackled while attending a festival in hon
or OF Andrew D. White, former ambas
sador to Germany.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

ha*sine IN sseass4or six
months in plaster cast, which covered
his entire body: except his head and the
lower parts of his legs, Rev. Horace Por-
ter, victim Of a bicycle accident, has re-
turned to Plymouth church, where he is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

Announcement is made of the engage
ment of Miss Mildred Howells, daughter
OF mr.. and Mrs. William u. Howells,
to Prof. David Fairchild of the Smith
sonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05
N GAY NEN YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Lie In The PAeis q America. -

December 16 is the date set by Mrs.
+. Fulton Cutting for the dance which
she will give at her house for her daugh-
ter, Miss Cutting.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

Miss Helen NJ. Gould has returned to
town from Lyndhurst. her country place
at Irvington-on-the-H Hudson, and will
open her house in Fifth avenue for the
winter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

Robert W. Goelet, who was arrested
by Policeman Mallam Of the Thirtietl
precinct November 5 for speeding hi.
automobile on Central park west, wa:
convicted in the court of special ses
slons and fined $50.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-05

Mrs. Helen Potts Hall, who is suing
the blood heirs of George Il. Gilman, who
died at Bridgeport. Conn.,, has filed an
application In the Brooklyn supreme
court for permission to add the name Of
Anna *. Gilman as a party defendant.