The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-25
s FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

There are 1851 students at the Pope's
Gregorian university at Rome this year,
500 more than in the last year before the
Italians took the city. OF these, 6Gti
study theology, 3o7 philosophy and IS
canon law.
M: Frederic Fargeon, the oldest menu
Der of the French bar, died recently at
Mines at the age Of % years, He was
counsel for the PARISH Lyon NJ editerranee
railroad, and appeared in court till he was
W years old. *
Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonder
the establishment Of cot after him II; r;
the London Children's hospital. for which
purpose subscription of $4,000 is being
raised.
Though the French bounty ON ship
building amounts to $4,000 for 1000
ton ship. the Rouen shipyards are refusing
all orders, as most of the ships they have
launched thus far have been constructed
ut loss.
Near Durlach in Baden the tombstone
of hundred-year-old Roman veteran has
been discovered. 1t was erected. prob
ably. i'll the third century after Christ, to
Flavius Sternis by his son and heir, Flav-
it1s Vehetnens.
Sir Walter SCOTS gold watch, given
10y him to his servant, Nicholson, was re-
Gently sold in Il London auction room for
$12o. Mrs. Siddons' signet. with which
she sealed the tickets for her farewell
performance. was sold for 500.
instruction in art is given to 2.445, 7S5
persons a. year i'll England and Wales
through the department Of science and
art. This, however. includes drawing in
the elementary schools with their 1850
GOO pupils at a cost of $ssO,OOO year.
DIR. August Potthast. late librarian of
the German Reichstag,. died recently at
the age Of q years. He was the autho,
Of the "Bibliotheca Historical Metii Aeyi. !"
one Of the first and most useful guides to
the scientific study of the history of the
Middle ages.
British trade ethics are about to apply
to the klondike. Liverpool has sent ont
on the steamer Manuense, bound for st.
Michael, the largest cargo of liquor ever
shipped. 1t includes 14.OO0 cases and
1000 barrels Of spirits. chiefly whisky.
and 1000 barrels Of beer.
~ new addition to the fighting
strength of the British navy is that of the
clerks on board ships, who have hitherto
been non-combatants. An admiralty or
der directs them to be put through a
course Of revolver, sword and rifle drill
ana to be trained III rewing and sailing
boats.
High prices were paid for mezzotint
engravings at a recent London sale.
Hoppner's picture of Sir Thomas Frank
lands daughters. engraved by w. Ward,
brought $500. and Sir Joshua Reynolds
portrait of the Ladies Waldegraye, en-
sIavtd by Valentine Green, Il proof,
$176O
After eight years work the five-mile-
long tunnel through the Col di Tenda, in
the Italian coast Alps, has been pierced
through Ill spite of serious engineering diff
ticulties met with in the interior of the
mountain. The railroad through. the tun-
nei will be open for traffic at the begin
ming of 1900
Mile. Reichemberg. the ingenne and
senior of the Coincide Franchise. will
bave at her farewell appearance the as
slstarcc Of Eleonora Dus2. who will APP
pear for the first time in Paris in the last
act of "Adriennc Lecouvreur.' when her
performance may be compared with that
Of Sarah Bernhartit and Of Adelaide Ris-
tori:
PORTRAITS of Emperor Menelik and of
Ras Maconnen will be exhibited ut the
reSt Paris salon by NJ. Paul Buffet. the
younS artist who went to Asyssinia in
stead Of Rome on winning the 10000
frame pr re last year. He tried to paint
q portrait of Queen Ta!tu. but after pos-
ing for one day she refused to continue.
as she could not sit still long enough.
-Philaes ruins are doomed. the con-
tract for the great dam across the Nile
valley at Assouan and at Assault having
been given to an English firm. The AS
sonan dam will be of solid granite, 16
feet hi CHER than the river bed at its low
tst point. 5000 feet long, and must be
completed i'll five years The work will
BE- paid for in annual installments of
$Stn,eoO. extending over thirty years.
Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg's seri-
Gus duel with Hungarian lieutenant ut
Vienna has attracted attention. as it is
to fight with private persons. 1t is strong
ly limited that the woman in the case IS
the princes wife. who is a daughter of
the King of the Belgians and sister Of
the Grown Princess Stephanie of Aus
tria. and who has been on bad terms with
her husband for some years Last sum
MGR the story that she had eloped was
widely spread. but was put stop to by
her appearing in public with her husband
soon after. The princess is 10 years of