The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-23

Lest we forget Round these words the
'Recessionap was written."-London Mail.
QUEEN WINS PRIZES.
Blue Ribbons Decorate Some Of the
Stock Owned by Great
Britain's Ruler.
London, Dec. 1O.-The weather in
Great Britain is still marked by excep.
tional mildness and a plentiful rainfall.
The event Of the week has been the
centenary of the cattle show at Islington,
which was opened by the Prince of Wales
with a record entry. The Queen won
several Of the prizes and Viscount Port
man, the Earl of Coventry, Baron Roth
schild and Lord Rosebery were alsu
among the prize winners.
The council of the Royal Agricultural
society has brought maledItions on it's
head by what the newspapers character,
ize as discreditable resolution rescind.
ing the recent rule against docking horses
tails. The royal family and the leading
members of the aristocracy and army
have set good example against THE So
called barbarous custom, but many of the
smart people refuse to purchase un-
rule has thus been aroused among breed
ers and pressure was put upon the Ag-
ricultural society to rescind the rule. The
newspapers now demand that Parliament
intervene and absolutely prohibit docking
Husband for Queen Wilhelmina,
The Queen mother of the Netherlands
Wpittpn n nuoon Vinfp ri,
definitely announcing her daughters be-
trothal to Prince William of Wied. An
official notification On the subject will be
made shortly The question of the status
OF Prince William has not yet been set
tied, but it is now believed Queen Victo-
ria's precedent will be followed.
Miss Weston, who is well-known for
her work among sailors, has just had an
interview with the Queen at Windsor,
who is keenly interested in her labors.
Her majesty recently gave cabin to
the Sailors rest" at Davenport, and Miss
Weston related to the Queen an instance
of a sick sailor. who, after having been
PLACED in the cabin, asked if the Queen
really gave the ca bin out of her private
pocket: When told it was true the sailor
said: II would not have believed it unless
had seen it. She. has been my Queen
always. Now she is my friend.'' Miss
Weston says the Queen wept on hearing
this simple story. Her majesty has con
tributed $3.50 to the Gordon Memorial
college. fund which is now fully sub
scribed
Kitchener Wants Young Men.
Gen. Kitchener. who resembles Cecil
Rhodes i'll several ways, is insisting that
he should have only young unmarried men
with him. He called at the foreign office
before he left London and said he want
cd somebody to take over the financial
department of the Soudan. When he was
asked what kind of a mah he wanted
Gen. Kitchener replied: Il want man
thoroughly up in all finance problems and
not over 25 years old The general is
still waiting for this financial prodigy.
Rudyard Kipiing has published in the
Times poem supposed to be the transla-
ton of a song by Sikh infantryman, on
hearing that Gen. Kitchener is about to
cetabli tho Gordon college ot ISlau1 tu,,1lI
The last verse, speaking of the English,
runs:
They do not consider the meaning D:
things; they consult no creed or elan;
Behold, they clap the slave on the back and
behold he becometh man;
They terribly carpet the earth with dead,
and before their cann0ns cool
They walk unarmed by twos aud threes to
call the living to school.
Kipling has accepted the vice-presidency
of the Navy league and proposes to take
an active part in the movement, to which
the present efficiency of the British navy.
it is generally admitted, is in large
measure Indebted.
Gear Likes to Hear Himself Sing.
A letter from St. Petersburg relates
that the Gar. who is rather proud of his
tenor voice, which is sweet and admira-
bly, trained. though not of great volume,
was in very gay spirits and in excellent
form at a recent musical party at the i'm
perial villa at Livadia. He sang cou-
pie Of arias particularly we'll and was so
the piano to an appreciative court audi
ence, he laughingly exclaimed: "Well.
my children, my enemies may say many
harsh and unkind things of me, and ac-
cuse me of being destitute of many ca
pacities, but defy them to say cannot
sing as we'll as the best of them
Although the subscription list to the
fund of 100000 guineas which the
Wesleyan Methodists are DESTROYS of rails
ing next year will not formally open until
January, a fifth part of the total has al
ready been guaranteed. Central meet
ings have been held in six out of the
thirty-four administrative districts into
which Wesleyan England is divided
Three London districts guaranteed ETC.,.
600. Birmingham guaranteed ESQ, 1000
Leeds 100000, and Manchester 100000
Twenty-eight districts have not vet been
heard from.
The auction sale of the Lorillard-B eres.
ford American stable did not evoke the
however, was bought in for 1850 guineas
and Elm was bought in for POO guineas
Dracco fetched 500 guineas and Bayara
II. was sold for 27O guinens.
Fortune for Unknown Heirs.
The United States embassy was recent
ly asked to make known the fact that
aving $4,000 to heirs unknown. The
embassy officials published this and ever
since they have been inundated by thou
sands of letters from persons claiming re-
lationship with the deceased or asking for
particulars about her. One letter came
from a Glasgow lady, who wrote that she
had lost sight Of her sister years ago, and
named Kelley. Would the embassy kind
~ investigate the matter?
A parallel of the bruce case Is all
nounced in dispatch from Johannesburg,
South Africn, where a man named Charles
Gum has been arraigned on the charge
of fraud. He declared that he was a
brother of the late Duke of Hamilton and
left England after hghtlng duel. For
private reasons, he added, his death was
formally announced; there was sham flu
neral and his coffin was placed III the
mausoleum ut Hamilton palace, Lanark'
shire. Gum asks that the coffin he
opened in order to verify his statement
The story has aroused a great deal of
interest here. as it is tantamount to Il
claim upon the dukedom of Hamilton, the
present duke only succeeding to the title
owing to the absence of a nearer next
Of kin than cousin. The late dukes
brother, Lord Charles George Archibald
Hamilton. was supposed to have died at
Nice in 1856. His death was registered
at Somerset house. but the cause Of his
death was not given.
Unprecedented secrecy obtains as to
the conditions of the construction of the
Shamrock, the challenger for the Ameri-
Gu cup: Not merely are the most strict
precautions taken to prevent leakage
of the details of her construction, but
even the place where she is being built is
kept secret.
Honolulu Beer.
The Kansas City Journal thus quotes
the letter of soldier in. Honolulu to his
friends: "The New York regiment here