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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
A Few Names.

Peter Lombard in the Church Times
has been discussing long names of places,
such as are found in Wales, for instance.
A correspondent in Ceylon, however.
sends him a list of names and villages
from "Waste Land Notices in the Ga
Here are some Of them. which
it would be difficult to match wen in the
principality
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London Daily Chronicle. .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
WCUNN NZEWS RQNXTDT9MWED HU0M A4W q

the holidays with one Of the numerous
relatives that domestic servants always
The yachtsman sent for a faith
full old salt who knew how to cook and
had once in a while waited at table when
anything prevented the Jap steward from
doing so.
ALI went we'll until the yachtsman be-
gan to serve the turkey. It was stuffed
with chestnuts and other goodies, but so
very we'll trussed that he had great diff
fculty in reaching the stufing dressing,
gentle reader, is never put inside of a
turkeyD through the birds side. The
Jack Tar cook-waiter watched the per-
Torrance as long as he could stand it and
then said, in a hoarse whisper, which
audible to guests as we'll as host:
Further aft, sir; further aft!"-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
Some Boston Hu1nor.

Talking about names! Mrs. Longtime
and Miss Lemon, who live in a Western
Massachusetts town, spent Sunday with
friends in another bailiwick. Now l Won
der if the matron has been a Longtime
a long time and if the maiden has an acid
nature. If she has she'll be a Lemon
a long time. And 1 want to know why
the Matted Milk Club of that same town
met with Miss Pearl Fish the other
night. And did Miss Fish and Miss
Lemon go to the meeting of the Eaton
Club another night? Were they a Long
time was there she was q, Longtime
Eaton. Did Miss Lemon have a Lemon-
aid and was she sweet to him
Home Journal -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
Chud was Also a Humorist.

,re M4'f fr;e Sa1sout Wb emu tho oh hnm ny were Fere
engaged in newspaper work and. took a
house on Staten Island the Snowman
went to dinner with him. Nye exploded
some new stories and Salisbury, turning
to his hosts little girl, said:
Every clever papa you've got, my
dear" =
Eyes, responded the sdemure little
miss, ."when : there's company '--SSt.
Louis Star. M>s.: ~ 49,,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
Widow Aphorisms.

In poker a crooked man often gets a
straight, while a straight man gets-leff!
Because a woman takes milk baths it
doesn't always follow that she belongs
to the cream of society. :. -
The eye being the window of the soul
may account for the pane often felt
there. -. II. -
wheel can say that he was in the great
American Revolution.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush, but an elephant in a circus tent is.
worth any number on your hands. @8 /
A young and pretty chorus girl is the
but say, who ever saw a young and
pretty chorus girl?-CornelI Widow.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The actress whose life is threatened by
septicaemia, resulting from the bite of a
pig whose tail she twisted to induce a
.squeal at the proper dramatic moment
for the success of a stage production in
which she was engaged, is a victim of
theatrical realism. The modern stage is
beset with new risks to the persons of
its votaries. Nothing of this sort ever
happened to Mrs. Siddons or Charlotte
Cushman or David Garrick or Edwin
Booth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The statement that the United Mine
workers Association, Notwithstanding it's
expenses last summer to sustain the
strikers in the anthracite region, has
$1,O27, 900 in it's treasury, indicates that
the wages for extracting black diamonds
from the bowels of the earth are not be-
low the subsistence point. .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
Nautical Advice to the Carver.

A certain man who lived for a great
part Of the year on his yacht and is much
attached to several Jack Tars OF his crew
came ashore last week to eat his Thanks
giving dinner. He has bachelor quarters
ina big apartment uptown, but as the
woman who attends to his rooms and
waits on his occasional dinner table did
not expect him, che had gone of to spend
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Something is wrong when a train like
the wrecked Philadelphia & Reading,
scheduled to make over a mile a minute,
meets another, OF catches another on the
right of way supposed to be clear for it's
passage. Such fast time under conditions
other than absolute knowledge of an UNI
obstructed track is playing battledore and
shuttlecock with human life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The effort of the enemies of butter
substitutes to forbid the use of any mix
ture that will give oleomargarine the
slightest shade Of yellow may eventually
result in the framing of a law to prevent
hotelkeepers and restaurateurs from pro-
viding their patrons with yellow spec
tacles while they are eating oleomar-
garine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

San Francisco finds that the existence
of her plague spot is known, and now she
will bestir herself to stamp out the dis
ease. She has been trifing with her
valuable tourist traffic by taking risks
with a disease which would offset the
attractiveness of the GLORIOUS climate"
for many years if it were ever to get a
good hold and ravage "Chinatown."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

One thousand dollars has been paid Ill
England for a single hen. 1t would be
interesting to know the quotation fol
married hens in England.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Hunters who claim that they like to
shoot for the sport that there is in it, and
that the game is a secondary considera-
ton, might try their hands on the fierce
wolves which are said to be roaming
through the timber of Northern Michi-
gan. The game wardens will not inter-
fere.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
A Transatlantic Joke.

''There's a peculiar thing about the
London fog" remarked. the returned
tourist.
"What's that p inquired the inqquisitive
man. T.. =
why: when it's gone it's never mist"
-Philadelphia Press
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The cooperative coal company formed
in Cleveland proposes to let it's stock
holders in some distance below the
ground foor-as far as it has to go fol-
the product in it's mine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The action of Francis Joseph toward
the crown princess of Saxony is like eff
fort to prove that royalty are common
people when stripped of their titles. But
it never required much to prove that.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Chairman Gray's confidence that mod
ern science will be able to find a way
of mining coal at small cost is probably
justified; but what the public yearns for
is a chance to buy it at small cost.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Thnse who have been so SURE that
Great Britain has no anthracite coal will
be interested to learn from the st. James
Gazette that an Anthracite Trust has
been formed with a capital of $l5,O0O,-
OOO.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The Member of Parliament who has
been convicted and condemned for trea-
son undoubtedly regards his trial as an
application of Lynch law.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Hygienic conditions rather than con-
siderations Of delicacy Of course dictated
the order Of the authorities at Guaymas.
Mexico, that fishermen shall hereafter
bring no undressed fish ashore.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

An Oshkosh man has just received a
letter which was mailed to him in 1868.
For slowness of delivery there is no tele-
graph messenger boy living who has
made a record equal to that.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The Negaunee, Michigan, man, who
married his housekeeper rather than pay
her the wages he owed her, had prob
ably heard that old saying, Two can live
cheaper than one"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Denver bars seem to be no obstacle to
thieves; three saloons have been ''held
up and robbed of $1,000 in the aggre-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

The population Of the world has
doubled since 1880. Modern methods Of
production and distribution have had
more to do with this than any other
cause.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

Chicago will introduce automobile fire
apparatus for the purpose of doing away
with the ~plunging horses on crowded
streets. But what about the plunging
autOS2
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
MARCONI'S RIVAL.
Lee De Forest, Young American Inventor
Who Has Perfected Wireless System
Which He Claims Beats Italians.

Lee De Forest, a young American in
ventor, is Marconi's most successful rival.
He has perfected a wireless telegraph
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13
A Missouri legislator is the first one to
attempt a goal kick with an anti-football
bill.

When the trunk combination is formed,
its first act should be to provide pen-
siOns for baggage-smashers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

system which, he claims, gives better re-
suits than the Italians process. Within
eighteen months De Forest promises t.
have his system running for commercial
use across the Pacific to the Philippines
and China.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24

suSied to insure fer a good deaf mcfa
than is strictly necessary" was the
reply.
Next 1 called on an ardent member
of Sillitoe's congregation, whom ]
happened to know, and in the course
of chat about the church, inquired
if Mr.. Sillitoe were going to take a
holiday during the summer.
"He's going to the Highlands, to
kind of retreat" said my friend.
I'm fact, he's taking some new con-
vert of his there-some one who's
been in Society," but is pretty black
sheep now, I've heard"
/ ascertained that Glasgow was to
be the first stopping-place on the
journey, and as / was about to take
my holiday, l determined to follow
the travellers and Illustrate Haigh's
scheme at the moment when he was
about to carry it into execution, so
that there should be no question of
bringing the guilt home to the two
villains concerned.
was unknown personally to either
of the travellers, and l was able to
ascertain all particulars about the
journey from my friend, so all went
well till we reached the hotel at Glas.
gov where they were to stay the
night.
Then something happened which
perplexed me.
l had contrived to engage bed
room next to that of Mr.. Sillitoe, and
hearing Haigh talking to Sillitoe,
slipped out to ascertain if they were
making any change in their arrange
ments for the start next morning.
As l opened my door man glidet
quietly away from the door of Sill
litoe's room. l had only time to see
that he was tall, and that hi; swift,
vigorous movements belied his gray
hair and STOPPING figure.
'What can be the meaning of this?
Does the insurance company suspect
something, and is there somebody
else on Haigh's track?" l wondered.
Then / reflected that, after all, IL
might be mere curiosity which had in
duced the man to listen at Sillitoe's
door. especially as Sillitoe was re-
lebrity in his way.
I didn't venture to remain at The
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24

~ One useful element of a literarv
style is suggestion. The author does
not tell laborious story. He pre-
sents picture in as few words as pos
sible, allowing the reader to fill in
the details for himself. This was the
unconscious method of little Marra-
ret, who had had present of some
sugsred almonds, and was laboring
under an impulse of generosity.
"Aunty," said she, don't You went
some of my almonds?"
Thank you, DEAR" was the prompt
reply, II will take one or two.
Sugared almonds are fsvorites of
mine"
We'll, which il the most favorites.
the pink ones or the white ones?"
II win take the white ones, please;
that il. If you don't mind"
"That'll be just right, aunty. You
take the white ones, and will keep
the pink ones. They were eli pink q
ssst." -PhilsdslPhis TelegsspA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

It's wise clerk who laughs at the
proprietor's fool jokes.-Chicago
Daily News.
Judge-'I just received my light
bill from the gas company. Gracious,
it's steep!" Fudge-"Well, in that
case it's not a light bill "-Cincin-
natl Commercial Tribune.
AThe Kinship Gouge.-"Wasn't that
a pretty high rate you paid for
those goods you bought OF your
brother-in-law?" "Oh, yes; relative
ly high, of course."-Indianapolia
News.
Her Coffee Characterized.-"This
coffee" remarked the boarder, sis
like the quality of mercy" "So?"
queried the landlady, with a show of
interest. Eyes; it's not strained."-
Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Korsley-"I don't see your
lady friend with you any more"
Miss Cunnen-"No, but you may have
noticed my lady friends gentleman
friend with me, so she's my lady enc
my now-"-Philadelphia Press.
His Mean Retort.-"You married
me for my money" she exclaimed
angrily. AS for him, he refused to
lose bis temper. "You must have
been looking at yourself in the glass;"
was all he said.-Chicago Post.
"It's a good thing for man that
woman is not logical being" what
now?" IF she were he could never
get her to tackle the job of keeping
up appearance and keeping down ex-
penses."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Two men, meeting each other IN
the street, clashed together for no
apparent reason. each having tried to
avoid the collision. After a deal OF
questioning, however, the mystery
was solved. One of the men was
lecturer, with a magnetic eye; whilst
the other man was a detective, with
nerves of steel.-London Answers.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In the new Dessolle process of cop
per plating, the cleansed metallic
articles, first subjected to an electric
current in preparatory adhesion
BATH" are placed in the usual plat
ing bath, and the latter is driven
forcibly in jets against the articles
and the anodes. This removes gas
and impurities from the bath. The
result is perfectly smooth deposit
of copper, which can be given unusual
thickness with great durability.
A German motor wagon for mill
tary use, known as the Kellar wagon,
has the novel feature of a movable
railway track under it's wheels. The
wheels are two feet in diameter, and
each is surrounded by a rail in the
form of a hoop seven feet in diam
eter, with a broad and fiat outer sur
face. Each rail is held in place by
two Hanged guide wheels. by which
the steering is done. With a fair
load the 2s-horse power engine gives
a speed of eight miles an hour.
Non-explosive celluloid is among
the important products of the new
artificial or-hydrochlorate of
turpentine-of Callenberg. Celluloid
is mixture of camphor and gun
cotton, and the use of the artificial
camphor-a white, transparent mate
rial, costing less than the natural
substance-greatly increases the sta
bility and lessons the inflammability.
The artificial camphor has another
curious advantage in making all gun
cottons soluble, so that it is no long
er necessary to select for celluloid
gun-cotton of special degree of
nitration.
SpectroscOpic observations prove
that auroras occur much more fire.
quently than has been supposed. At
a new observatory near Gottingen
the auroral line was distinctly seen
in the northern sky by f. Wiechert
from November 1 to 9. and he was
led at first to suspect that the phe-
nomenon is always with us. But IL
could not be detected on clear even
ings of December and January. The
line again appeared in all parts of
the sky on February 90 and March 8,
and it was calculated that if the
aurOra's height was not less than 30
miles, the same method should de-
tect it as far as the south of Italy.
In all these observations the naked
eye showed nothing but faint gen.
eral luminosity of the sky, not half
as bright as the Milky Way.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24
Conditions Tending Toward
AnarChiSm
BY RI. REV. JOHN H. WHITE,

States himself The
hN "a American rsh toward gilded goal HE is HEED
pN L LESS OF HOW HE ACHIEVES HIS END Those that
E come in his way are trampled Even life
seems of little value him compared to his selfish
this lack of respect for the wishes and rights of others that has brought
about conditions this country that border the anarchsc
Without wishing to be thought lacking patriotism desire to
advance the statement that THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE
TIE REVERENCE FOR ANYTHING OR ANYBODY. Our in
situtons have had such rapid growth and progress
wonderful that filled with admiration of ourselves
passes admiration for anything else. 80 "5"
The American boy is irreveent the beginning
his delight destroy life The crushed foot and
the bird falls before his He consider
destroying life he has destroyed mission assigned
Deity AS he grows he begins consider his abi
tons He has for the head of the family
matters him whether his parents pleased with his
whether he is depvng his brothers pleasure he is
satisfied it is all right.
little later life he the employ of business house
Do wonder that after he has become mbued with
he shows the welfare of his only in the
welfare of himself? He forg his duties employer and thinks
only of his rights There is much of tendency among
American people emphasize word. OUR RIGHTS and forget
the other words OUR DUTIES"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24
A distressing case of Fibroid Tumor,
which bafaed the skill of Boston doctors
Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, Mass, in
the following letter tells how she was
cured, after everything else failed, by
Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound.

Mrs Hayes First Letter Appealing Pnkham for Help.
DEAR Mrs PNKHAM-I have doctors treat
ent for long time without relief They tell have brod
tumor sit down without great the extends
domen swollen and have had flowing spells three My
petite not good cannot walk length of time
The symptoms of Fbrod Tumor given little book
curaey describe write for adv"-Cigned) Mrs
+. HAYES 252 Dudley St, Qaoxbury) Boston, Mass.
Note the result of Mrs. Pfnkham's advice-aI.
though she advised Mrs. Hayes of Boston, to take
her medicine which she knew would help her
her letter contained a mass of additional instruc.
tions as to treatment, all Of which helped to bring
about the happy result.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-S Sometime ago you descrb-
and asked advice You replied followed
all your directions carefully and to-day am well
miles
"Lyda e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is worth five dol
lars drop advise all who afflicted with tumors
f. +. HAYES, 252 Dudley St, (Roxbury) Boston, Mass
purchase
Of the health happiness which Lydia E. Pnkhams
Vegetable Compound brought to Mrs Hayes.
Such testimony should be accepted by all convincing
evidence that E. Vegetable Compound
ovarian troubles; tmors liberation falling and dis
placements of the wob backache Irregular painful
enstraton Surely the volume and character OF the testimonial let
daily printing the doubt
which sick write for fuller information about her illness
Her gratitude Mrs nkham and Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable
Compound genuine and heartfelt that she thinks trouble too
great for her to take for her health and happiness
that curing other medicine don't for
get this when druggist wants to sell something e
WOVVV z Medic NO Co. LynnMa
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1903-01-24
RELICS OF ST. PIERRE.
Collection of Household Utensils
from the Buried City for
Boston Musegw.

DR.. Thomas A. Jaeger, of the Har
vard department of geology, who has
been engaged in scientific researches
at st. Pierre, among the still smoking
ruins of the demolished city, will be
the means of placing on exhibition at
the Agassiz museum over 800 relics of
the great volcanic calamity, sayy a
Boston report.
This collection is made up of knives,
forks, spoons, coins, glassware, plates,
platters, and many other objects of
daily utility, some of which DIR. Jaeger
picked up in the ruins. However, the
greater number of these souvenirs
were. received as gift from the French
government to the Harvard museum,
and were selected by DIR. Jaeger from
mass of similar material collected
Immediately following the full hor-
rors of the catastrophe, and stored for
safe keeping in the government vaults
ut Fort de France.
To those viewing this collection the
personal character of the different OBJ
jects gathered renders it of more than
ordinary interest. In it are many
strange freaks caused by the action of
the molten lava and the different gases
upon the different utensils gathered
after the eruption.
Some of the knives, forks, and spoons
are melted together by the tremendous
heat, and many are stained in various
colors by the oxidation of iron, silver
and copper and by the overflow of the
lava stream in which all the elements
were combined. Glass vessels, pit
cheers. fruit jars, and other objects,
which can only be guessed at, are run
together by the heat.
Half melted candlesticks, coins
welded together in indiscriminate
chunks of metal, metal pitchers, sugar
bowls, jars and platters are all in evil
dence among this strange collection.
Many of these household utensils bear
the monogram of their former owners,
who were lost in the awful destruction
following the eruption of Mount Pelee.
In the collection are plates still covered
with fine gray dust, some melted into
almost unacceptable masses, others
separate and still unbroken. Added
to these articles is a cross fallen from
a private shrine and two American gold
pieces.
Nearly every article collected shows
evidences of the tremendous heat
which brought death to every living
thing within the vicinity of the des-
tructive mountain. Much of the metal
in the collection has been changed
from its customary coloring to an APP
pearance of great age. One of the
most interesting and unique articles
OF this collection is a copy of the last
issue of Les Colonies, presented to DR..
jaeger by French planter. This copy
is most valuable accession to the col
lection which the Harvard scientist
obtained.