The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-03

The Enterprise.
W. E. HANNAFoRD, Pub.
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA.
Football should be fitted out with
tenders.
Pugilists first agree to fight and get
into quarrel afterward.
Polluting justice is just little bit
more Objectionable than anything
else.
Did you ever see six women SO dis
pose themselves as to fill entirely one
side of street car?
This country is prosperous again,
but there are widows and orphans
who have not noticed it.
An Ohio man who had his pockets
full of dynamite was run over by q
hearse, but nothing happened.
A University of Chicago professor
holds a grievance against the poets.
Perhaps he was formerly an editor.
Half of the Turkish navy has been
sold as junk. Presumably the other
half is not marketable as anything.
Statistics show that Americans are
the best-fed people in the world.
Still, sad to say, some Of them 60
hungry.
A Los Angeles schoolmarm has quit
teaching to become chorus girl. Pos
sibly she'd passed the age limit as a
teacher.
Diamonds are rushing into this
country again. Somebody must have
. circulated the report that Christmas
is coming.
When flying machines become nu.
merous the top floor of skyscraper
will be no more private than the
ground floor.
A Pennsylvania man thinks he has
discovered perpetual motion. How
many men have made the same mis-
take before?
Women are applying for jobs as
census takers. They feel that their ex-
perience In asking questions should
count on their side.
Well guarantee that no man ever
sampled a greater variety of foods
and dishes of all kinds than Taft has
In the past few weeks.
Halley's comet has been observed
again. Perhaps it is responsible for
the remarkable outbreak everywhere
of all kinds of scrapping.
Some Wyoming thieves carried of
a big barn, 100 acres of fencing and
ton of coal. Why they left the
ranch itself is inexplicable.
Mexico has suffered another calam-
ity. The corn crop, valued at $780,
100000, has been destroyed by frost.
More sorrow and suffering for the
toilers of Mexico.
According to Secretary of Agricult-
ure Wilson the soil of American
farms is sufficiently productive, but
the crying need is for more men who
know how to farm.
In proportion to the large public
service they render, most teachers
and preachers are underpaid. There
are some, however, who would be
oVerpaid at any price.
A cobbler in Milwaukee has a new
theory about the circulation of the
blood. He says it flows because
germs are chasing it through the sys-
tenn. His idea is that sort of free
for'all race, with no handicaps, might
do much good for the whole race.
A Chicago man unkindly asks the
courts to order the taxing authorities
to compel certain men in that city to
pay something like $4,000, 900 in back
taxes which he alleges they have
lodged on their stock and bond hold
ings for the last ten years. Evidently
this individual does not realize there
are privileged persons in this coun-
try.
With hundreds of letters reaching
the royal palace in Spain, no wonder
that young King Alfonso is detected
over the Ferrer agitation. He started
his reign with the prospect of being
one of the most popular of contem-
porary monarchs, but is now in a fair
way to lose through the blunders of
his ministers. And the loss of popu.
larity in these days, when revolution
and republicanism are in the air. is
serious matter for royal ruler.
German textile experts are turning
attention to fibre obtained from the
kapok or silk cotton tree of the tron-
les, with view to ascertaining wheth.
er substitute for cotton may thus be
obtained. No doubt experiments will
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