The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-02-11

The ENTERPRISE
W. E. HANNAFoRD. Pub.
V'"Ci"lA. MIMI
This is merry old world, after all.
We all belong now to the class Of
1910.
Conserve also the coal you have in
the basement.
Edward Is in a fair way to become
uncle to all the Kingdoms of Europe
Chicago policemen are shooting
much straighter than they formerly
did
A short-weight coal firm has been
fined 500. Even giving short weight
is not all profit
This is the season when the Missis-
s1ppi levees must brace themselves
for any emergency.
Stovaine may yet be RELOCATED for
use only on the patients pocket while
he pays the doctors BILL
The poultry show is a good thing,
provided it doesn't keep the hen away
from her duties too long
That man who was robbed of 800
just before his wedding was caught at
most inopportune time
Five suspected crooks have been
shot to death in Chicago this season.
Prudent crooks will avoid being sus-
pected
lncendiaries tried to burn down an
engine house in a New York suburb.
This was certainly adding insult to in
jury.
Something apparently has disgrun-
tied the weather man this year, if one
looks at the style of weather he has
been giving us since it began.
Acetylene torches for use in dense
log have been supplied to the Partisan
police stations. 1t would seem that
the London police would need them
more.
Edison believes that the time is
coming when laborers will live as cap
ltalists. This will balance things, as
modern capitalists work as hard as
laborers.
The French submarine that Owed
under a sinking boat and held it up
while the crew was rescued is the
first that really practical use has been
made of.
The governor of New York calls for
stringent automobile laws. They will
have to have them # the metropolis Is
10 continue to lead in the population
of world cities.
In some localities, It Is said, the
farmers are becoming so careless
with their motor cars that a town
man is almost afraid to drive his horse
out into the country
Chicago man in the business says
the customer who asks for strictly
fresh eggs gets charged more and
that's all he does get. Queer no one
ever thought of this before!
Kermit Roosevelt shot three bon
goes, whatever they are. and his ia
Their has not bagged any. Seems to
US that comes pretty near being an
exaggerated case of lese majestic.
The best preparation for I, woman
who contemplates marrying a man to
reform him is to take in washing for
a year. If she likes that sort of
thing she can then set the day.
The metropolis has received bitter
body blow. The wife of prominent
British public man has fled from The
noise of London to seek rest in such a
very quiet, sleepy place as she takes
New York to be- How Chicago will
chuckle and Boston beam!
A prize for one of the best papers on
How Can Clean and Wholesome Milk
be Purchased at Least Cost for the
New York Market?" offered by the
health board of New York city has
been awarded to man who has for
several years been an inmate of the
State Hospital for the Insane at Mid.
dletown, N. Y, and the officials are
wondering where the laugh comes in.
A watchful observer has discovered
that there is "a straight and slender
tail trailing behind the nucleus of
Halley's comet" This is as it should
be. No well-regulated comet appears in
public without such an appendage, and
as the original HALEY visitor was
known to have one the latest discov-
cry appears to be guarantee of good
faith.