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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
Nearly Finished,

John Lafarge of New York has near
~ finished the first of four large lu-
nettes, each thirteen by twenty-seven
feet, for the supreme court room of the
new Minnesota state capitol
Mr.. Lafarge's subjects naturally con-
Germ law. The painted lunette is en-
titled "The Moral and Divine Law"
and shows Moses receiving the ten COM
mandments on Mount Sinai. He
kneels with bowed head on the
shoulder of a great mountain, in the
midst of fire and smoke. Joshua, stand
ing at a respectful distance, warns
back the unseen throngs of Israelites,
Aaron kneels with face covered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11


population of New York when it was
founded. It has the largest teaching
body in the world, 585. 1t has at every
stage of the city's growth been repre-
sentative of the city. In 1774 it was the
steps of Columbia college that Alexan-
der Hamilton, then student there,
mounted, to deliver his famous harangue
to the crowd of liberty boys who had
come to hang DR.. Cooper, the tory presi-
dent. Washington entered his STEP
son, Gusts, as student in the medical
school. De Witt Clinton was student:
so was Odell, the present governor.
Gov. Odell's brother is professor OF
ate.
President Nicholas Butler is man OF
As or so, small and neat of physique,
alert in manner, business man type in
appearance, though he is in fact thor
ough scholar as well. He succeeds as
president Seth Low, afterward mayor
of New York, who was in his time one
Of the notable college presidents of
America. Mr.. Low gave Columbia it's
magnificent library building, costing
100000, the finest owned by any uni
versity. He engineered it's removal
from Forty-ninth street-it had strolled
thus far uptown from below the city hall
to University Heights, and made
broad plans for SO years of growth. He
brought the professional schools closer
under university, management. The
famous Prof. Dwight dean of the law
school, rebelled against this and took
all his students away into a new inde-
pendent school. 1t is still Independent,
trains young grocery clerks and Office
boys into the mysteries of the law, and
thus offers a really useful short cut
into the profession. Columbia has this
year barred out all but college gradu-
ates as law students, a step hitherto tax
en- only by Harvard. $780,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

The aggregate annual letter and
newspaper mail of the world amounts
to 32,50O,000,O00 pieces, of which g..
500, 100000 go through the United
States mails. We have $4,000 post off,
ces, and 100000 miles of postal routes,
with a yearly travel over them
amounting to SOC, 1000 900 miles. The
service costs over $3.50, 100000 a year.
The receipts now almost equal the ex-
penditures, and have doubled in the
last ten years. In 1860, the total re-
ceipts were $s.00o,O 900; $22.oo0,O0o was
spent in establishing the rural free de-
livery. - s,-.~.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

Ten thousand pigeons in one flock
is something not often seen, yet this
is the number kept by E. C. Cummings
on his farm, near North Wales, Pa,
% miles from Philadelphia. Mr..
Cummings does not keep all these
birds for amusement, but for revenue.
He conducts pigeon raising upon sci
entlic and business principles and
makes the industry pay. Twelve
squads year to each pair of old birds
is the output, and an average price of
70 cents pair is obtained for all
SQUADS sent to market.
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of the week.
II can always tell by the smell of
this corridor when Thursday comes,"
said a clerk in the state department
the other day, passing through the
corridor leading to Secretary Hays
Office.
why, you are regular almanac.
How do you do it?"
"Well, Thursday is diplomatic day
and representatives of the diplomatic
corps come to pay their respects to the
secretary of state. They nearly all
wear rank perfumes and by noon there
is smell in this part of the state de-
partment which rivals musk fac
tory"
This habit of using perfume is gen.
eral among the subordinates of the dip
lomatic corps and almost universal
among the representatives of the latin
nations. The ambassadors are not
guilty and some of the ministers know
better, but those from southern coun-
tries in Europe and this continent lead
themselves with various artificial odors
and it is almost possible to loca..:; a
diplomat geographically and t. guess
his rank by the quantity and quality of
the perfume he uses
This perfume habit is so obnoxious
that some of the hotel proprietors de-
cline to have the lesser diplomats as
their guests.
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School Buildings.

According to reports to the state SUI
perintendent of public instruction, the
total value of school buildings in the
state is $ls 567, 6O2. The value of seats
and desks Is 1878, 467. The total mum.
Der of school buildings is s,o61.
During the year ending July 81, 1904,
there were 298 new school buildings
erected, valued at $1,o7e, s4s. There
were fifteen log schoolhouses built, Ave
of them in Beltrami county.
The estimated value of 81 school
buildings in Hennepin county is ST.
$40, 900.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

The idea that the sting of bee is
valuable incidentally is very old. The
fact is, however, that bees venom is
rich in formic acid, which is of real
value in pharmacy, although it may
be doubted whether it's virtues depend
upon it's use in precisely this way. For
some reason there has been a revival
of popular interest in the "bee.sting
cure" which is especially recommend
ed for rheumatism. Some persons al
low the bees to sting the affected
parts; others rely on dried stings,
which are collected and sold by some
druggists.
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left that party in 1896 on the money
issue and has since been a most stren-
uous republican. For several weeks
this fall he was assigned to a speech
making tour with Speaker Cannon. It
was a happy combination. Cannon
was the big gun, who fired the heavy,
solid shot, while Bede peppered the au-
dience from a rapid-fire machine gun
loaded with bon mots, jokes and apt
stories. Bede has James Whitcomb
Riley face and would be success on
the vaudeville stage as q comic mon
ologfst. - -
Mr.. Bede's humor is not forced, but
is usually inspired by his surroundings
and some of his best illustrations come
to him on the spot. While addressing
crowd Of working people at noon
day meeting in Wisconsin, he noticed
on the outskirts of throng. q woman
who had evidently just left her kitchen.
She was 4 large, fat female and was
dressed comfortably, II not elegantly.
in q wide-foWing mother hubbard. The
Quaint figure at once appealed to Bede
and quick as q flash he declared:
5ss My friends, the democratic platform
reminds me Of mother hubbard; it
covers everything and touches moth
ING. -,
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dots 81 UncIeE sam B nj itary school are
years younger and POUNDS lighter than
theiropponeIlts Besides, they do have to
study. Harvard had all she wanted both
.of the Indians and Of West Point. The
two military schools are always favor
ties with eastern crowds; but beyond
them and all other teams the Indians
are the peoples prime favorites. They
cannot win too often to suit the pale
faces in the three-story tepees by the big
water. AS for Columbia, with two or
three of the best play ers in the country,
as always, and with Bill Morley, the
greatest amateur coach in the world, she
has shown progressing weakness.
The fact need surprise no one. Cities
donot breed as strongmena as farms. Half
the men even in the eastern teams come
from the West-nOt necessarily from the
farms, but from small places, where outs
of-door-life is possible. Upon this rea-
soning Columbia, which is even more
than Harvard city mans school, might
be expected to show the lack of form, she
actually does. Out OF the imposing num-
Der of 5000 lads in Columbia, large
majority are professional students, an
other big contingent are in the school
Of mines, and have to work, and of the
six hundred or so active boys who re-
main after all deductions large num-
Der are Jews, who do not shine in ath-
letics: Thus the second university in
the country is often desperately put to it
to keep up athletic teams at all, even in
tit shape to be beaten.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

assembly district and send respecta-
BILE delegation to Albany. AS it is, they
are divided hopelessly, some of them
supporting Watson, because of their adj
miration of the man; some selecting
one of the other socialistic' candidates,
and good many dividing between the
old parties for a variety of temporizing
reasons which will not apply whenever
socialism really becomes party and not
group of warning factions.
II that time ever comes, there will be
some anxious moments among the
leaders of the old parties, and some
midnight secret debates whether to try
to form coalitions with the new power,
like the French ministerialists, or to try
to beat them in fair fighting. Already
Boss Murphy has furnished an example
of the tactics that may be used by for
bidding Tammany nominees to accept
socialist or populist Endorsements.
Congressman Hearst, the millionaire
owner of the New York American, has
not only deied Murphy by accepting
q populist Endorsement, but has made
it plain that advanced political thought
will always get respectful treatment
from his papers.
No wonder New York is honeycombed
by advanced political theories! No.
where else is wealth more arrogant, no.
where are social and caste distinctions
more insisted upon, nowhere Is prodi-
gality more reckless, nowhere is poverty
so general as in the metropolis. Add
that it is the first home in America OF
thousands of socialists from the old
countries, and there is reason to >ex-
pect New York to be good ground for
the sowing of the seed of new party doc
trines for the next ten ears.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

Rose cultures beginning goes back
beyond records. The flower is men,
toned in the earliest Coptic manu-
scripts. midas traditions take the
rose to the times of the gods on earth.
Egypt had roses, wild and tame, be-
fore the Roman occupation made it.,
in a way, Rome's commercial rose
garden; yet, curiously enough, there is
no reference to the flower in painting,
sculpture or hieroglyphics. Japan, in
our time, parallels Egypt Roses
flourish there, but do not serve as a
motif for artists.
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corps is equally punctilious in paying
them. On account of the war between
Russia and Japan the relations of the
ambassador and minister are necessa-
rily very strained and they avoid
meeting each other as much as posi-
BILE. The etiquette Of the corps: how
ever, requires greetings between these
diplomats if they should meet in any
public place and the rule is observed,
but not with very good grace.
Both the diplomats have business at
the state department and on Thurs
days, which IS diplomatic day, the en-
counters between them are sometimes
amusing. The Japanese minister has
been known to prolong his visit to Sec
rotary Hay in order to keep the Rus
sian ambassador cooling his heels in
the reception room, and sometimes
Count Cassini get in ahead of Takahira
and then the little Jap has to wait
with as much patience as he can as
sumo. Occasionally they meet in the
reception room or in the corridor,
when the Jap makes his most formal
bow, and the ambassador, with his
English monacle in his eye, returns
the salute rather frigidly.
An arrangement has now been effect
ed that will prevent encounters be-
tween the distinguished diplomats.
The Japanese minister hereafter will
call at the state department in the fore
noon and transact his business, while
Count Cassini will do the same in the
afternoon, and thus they hope to es-
cape each others presence.
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w dSuluStOu L II 3
Russian ambassa-
dor and the JAP
anese minister are
engaged in a sort
of game Of "hide
and seek" Count
Cassini is the dean
of the corps and
Gu st ON requires
that certain court
estes be paid to
him by the other
members. He is
punctilious in re-
quiring these at
%orkioro ora tho
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
Franks Of the "Inmates."

IL new GROUNDS OF
t b e university
were bought from
the Bloomingdale
/ n s a n e asylum.
The old gardener
went W / t;h~the
ground-or rath-
er stayed with it.
He always speaks
of the boys as ''in-
mates. They act
ed like it, They
ora tho 1{fa ~ IN
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

Harvard has secured the largest tel
escope in the world. 1t will soon be
shipped to Cambridge from England.
It was made by the English astrono-
mer, A.: A. Common, who died not long
ago, and who wished the telescope to
go to Harvard. The telescope has a
five-foot aperture, while the lens Of
the telescope at the Yerkes observa-
tory is 40 inches, and that of the Lick
observatory, Sc inches
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

@1{@asSa
Though the ocean covers about
three-fourths of the surface of the
earth, it does not, in the same pro-
portion, provide for the wants of man.
It.is estimated that only about three
per cent. of the people in the world oh.
tain their living directly from the sea.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

"oA06C1 - AdVC u1o"
covered the value
of q humorist. In
most of the parties
of spell binders
sent out over the
country one men,
Der has been Sc
lected for his abil-
ity to entertain and
amuse the audi
ence. One of the
best In this line is
T. o n e reSSman ],
Adam Bede, of
M | n n esota. Mr..
-Bede was a Cleve-
land democrat HIT
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

The development of the dairy in
dustry in the United States is scarce
ly realized by business men. In 1898
the butter haul over the Minneapolis
and St. Louis railroad was four hum
dred thousand pounds. Last year it
was nearly fourteen millions, the gain
coming wholly from developments Of
creameries along the line of road.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
In q TIGHT Place.

TO save himself from being crushed
to death by q Great Northern freight
train, James L. Farrell of Austin leaped
from the railroad bridge over the Mis-
sissipi at st. Cloud, falling fifty feet to
bank of the river below. Both of his
wrists were broken, his arm dislocated,
a rib fractured and his face and scalp
cut and torn He was conscious when
picked up, and as soon as his injuries
were attended'to, left the hospital
Farrell and William Connolly, also of
Austin, had cars of movables in the
train and were going to Gray Eagle.
The freight stopped upon the bridge
and Farrell left his car to go to the car
of his friend. He had not accomplished
this when the train started and left
him the alternative of dying on the
bridge or jumping for his life to the
ground below.
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per1mentS to de-
termine the sue
cess of artifcially
Matched salmon in
the rivers of the
Pacific coast. This
year a lot of young
Chinook salmon
were selected for
special experiment
tation with a view
to d determining va
rious points in the
life of the fish.
Before the young
salmon were re-
leased they were
tagged SO that
thew cOnld he rec
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Columbia's Century and a HALF.

IL OlU dH
we'll as big. Last
week it celebrated
it's one hundred and
fftieth anniver-
5 airy. 1t W q 8
opened in 1854 by
Samuel King as
president and only
instructor, W 1t b
eight students. 1t
uow has over 5000
students, half as
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

doris, ministers or
their representa-
tives call and pay
their respects to
the secretary of
state. The gather
ing of different
nationalities is in
teresting, tn e ir
manners diverting
and their dress of
varied cut and de-
sign. They are q
sight for the lady
clerks in the de-
partment, who find
m UGH entertain
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

A grain elevator and warehouse
combined, the construction of which
was begun about three years ago, has
just been completed at the east end of
Edinburgh Dock, Leith, Scotland, on
ground leased from the dock commits
sion. The whole of the machinery is
driven by electric motors The cost
was 100000. It was built by a Port
Huron, Mich, firm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

Though but few alligator skins are
sent abroad from Venezuela, it is not
on account Of scarcity of alligators. It
Is strange that nobody has taken up
the hunting of these reptiles. They
are there in the lakes and lagoons and
rivers in untold numbers and Of all
sizes. The skins are we'll worth Sc
curing, and alligator oil brings high
price, being used for medical purposes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

Arbitration as means of settling
international disputes is apparently
coming more and more into use. A
treaty with this purpose in view has
just been signed by Great Britain and
GernhA,. IL provides for the settle
ment of legal differences that may
arise regarding the Interpretation Of
existing treaties between the two ma.
tions~ The treaty does not apply to
larger political differences, but SINH
lar in nature to those treaties lately
concluded by Great Britain with
France, Italy and Spain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

An agreement has been made by the
acting governor of British Honduras
with Mr. Buckner Chipley, of Pensa-
cola, Fla, by which the latter is to
pay one cent each for the privilege Of
tapping 12,5OO,OO0 pine trees for tur-
pentine. For the concession, which
runs number of years, Mr.. Chipley is
to pay $125,0OO within little over two
years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
The Millcreek PHILOSOPHER.

It doesn't make so, much difference
what kind Of q job man has, as how
we'll he holds 1t. II 4. p Fix; +; 5.*gzz
An advantage in having real troubles
is that you don't have to worry about
imaginary ones. : !: s.es7 e Y !.
The more honest a man Is the less
no says about 1t. [.s.ss..z :. ]: zsz5 #ess
II believe I'd rather lose fat steer
than feel @ badly as some men do
when they have to spend dollar.-
Cincinanu Commercial Tribune.
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The Socialist Vote.

HAVE said that
the. vote records
the real preference
of the city. In one
respect it does not.
Ii the socialists
had anything that
oul d be called
leadership if they
could agree upon
candidates a n d
platforms, t h e Y
would carry more
than one IA ef siIo
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
West and East at Football.

is
still some weeks
away, but it is ap-.
parent now that
the prestige a:
football 9 of the.
great eastern col:
leges rests in large
part on geography.
Il they could with.
out too great neg.
lect Of 1essonsm meet
the western col
3legea tSere'd he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

Japan has the cheapest postal serv-
ice in the world. Letters are carried
all over the empire for two sen, about
seven-tenths of cent. This is the
more remarkable when we consider
the difficulties Of transportation over
mountainous and irregular country
that has only about a hundred miles
of railway, while only few of the
chief roads can be used for wagons
and the steamships connect only a
small number of stations on the coast.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

little left Of the 'invinciblef' Idea about
Yale, Princeton and Harvard. AS it Is
Yale has been beaten by West Point and
Princeton By Annapolis. though the ca
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
Ne YORK ELECTIONS
METROPOLIS "A QUIET PLACE ON
y. voTINa DAY.
DISORDER RARELY KNOWN
An Army Of Voters That Would Reach
from Cleveland to Chicago-The =.
Socialists Lack Leader
-.- in the City. =,

e w YOR K.-Or
election day New
York is. q pretty
quiet city. There
is little disorder.
Considering that
its army of voters
would reach from
Cleveland to Chi
cago>in the usual
formation of a
tOrchllght process
sion, there is also
little repeating.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11

terror pays q good
deal of attention
to one of the terri
tory's new indus
tries, that of os-
trich farming. Ac-
cording to his pre-.
dictions the for
tunes to be made
out Of ostrich
plumes are more
certain nd in
time will be great
er than those dug
out Of the gold
bearing hills and
mountains of that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
D|P[0VAT |
RELATIONS IN THE
S. CORPS AT WASHINGTON.
JAP AND RUSS ARE FRIGID
South American Representatives Are
Given to the Use of Strong Per-
fumes That Are Obnoxious
Other Capital Gossip.

Washington.-Now that most of the
diplomatic corps have returned to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
A Salmon Experiment,

United States Fish Commissioner
Bowers is conducting series of ex-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-11
Use Strong Perfumes.

Diplomatic day at the state depart
ment is quite an event. The ambassa-
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Ostrich Farming.

The governor of Arizona in his an
nual report to the secretary of the in
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Value Of a Humorist.

In the general apathy that has pre-
vailed during this campaign political
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1T. mountains of that
country. Even
now ostrich farming is represented as
one of the most profitable Of the indus
tries of Arizona. a farmer on Salt
river has q flock Of 1000 birds, from
Bisbee daily review., 1904-01-21
Douglas MidWinter Carnival.

Geronimo Tribe No. IA. I. 9. R. Nj. at Douglas, is making great prepara tions for the Midwinter Carnival to be given in that city commencing oI January 26, and lasting for five days The carnival is being given under tht auspices of the lodge, which has had wonderful growth in the smelter city since it's organization about six months ago. The Dixie Carnival Company has been engaged for this occasion with their high class artists, including Dan Thompson. the famous high div CT. with his thrilling leap head fore most from a ladder no feet high into a tank of water forty-two inches deep
 In addition there will be roping con tests end bull fight at Agua Prieta across the international line.