The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-26
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST,

Some letters by George Washington
to Arthur Young, the economist, on the
subject of agriculture are about to be
sold i'll London. + Is
Greece has a population of 2.41S, 600
according to 18th the eo census Just taken; an
has now 12S,OOO inha bitants. j
English place names are rs interest.
ing AS Americans. The Bishop of Wor-
cester is trying to unite against their will
the parishes of North Piddle aud Up
ton Snodsbury. 4
Queen Victoria has been substituted
for Sardanapalus in the new ballet that
Sir Arthur Sullivan is composing for the
London Alhamhra. The ballet will be
descriptive of the longest reign OH roc.
ord. -
Baroness Hirsch has given 500, GOO
to establish pension fund for the en-
ployes of the Oriental railways who
were in the service up to 1850, when her
late husband gave up his connection
with the roads.
Oxford university has conferred the
degree of Doctor of Music on Rajah Sir
Sourindro Mohun TAgOre Of Calcutta in
recognition Of his talents as musician
and of his efforts to promote the cultiva-
ton of music in India.
Anton has managed to astonish Paris
without making any Panama revela-
tons. At his trial it came out and was
admitted by him that he was maintain
ing twenty-five miStresses at one time as
well as supporting his legitimate family.
Maj. Won Wissman, late governor of
German East Africa, has just been
elected president Of the Berlin Geo
graphical society in place of Baron von
Richtkofen, who has taken DR.. Kayser's
place as head Of the German colonial de-
partment.
Midway plaisances" and ''Streets
Of Cairo" have become indispensable fea-
lures of universal exhibitions since the
Worlds fair at Chicago. Paris pro-
poses to startle the world in 1900, ac>
corGing to the London Figaro, with 'the
most outrageously immoral ever toler~
ated."
only seven peers have been chosen as
mayors in England this year. while elev>
en- were elected last year. The Duke of
Norfolk. postmaSter-general,i is reelected
at Sheffield and the Earl of Dudley,
secretary of the board of trade, at Dud-
ley. The other mayors are the Earl of
Warwick at Warwick, the Marquis of
Zetland at Richmond i'll Yorkshire Lord
I4langattock at Monmouth and Lord
Winborne Mt Poole.
Johann Orth, the lost Austrian
archdukc, has been declared dead by the
tantonal court of st. Gallen, which has
ordered the Bank of st. Gallen to pay at
once 100000 francs deposited in it by
the arch,luke, to the relatives of his
wife. Ludmilla Strubel, for whom he
gave up his rank and who disappeared
with him. The bank claimed the right
70 keep the money for thirty years after
the disappearance. Another 100000
francs, deposited in the Freiburg bank,
was paid over on demand.
"A number of pictures by old masters
were recently transferred from the arch
bishops palace in Milan to the Brera
gallery. where the public will be able
to see them. Among them are a beauti~
full Last Supper. by Titan. an "Adora~
gin and Child" by Paris BOrdone, and
three small pictures by Lucas Won Ley
den. Cardinal Fcrrari, through whose
generosity the change was made, received
other pictures of less value to fill the va