The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-28
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~ - eStiliatetl one fxllXllSl Oer
son i'll every twenty-four has red hair.
The ballet is said to have been in
vented by the Duchess of Maine, in Paris.
-Weber's ''Freyschutz" has Just been
performed for the 6OOth time at the Ber-
lin Royal opera.
neutrality-suspicious. tohypertatos' as
title for the German Kaiser feebly ex-
presses one Englishman's rage.
The Earl of Devon. at Sc years of
age: still breaches and attends to all his
duties as prehendary canon of Exeter
cathedral.
-Berlins servant girls are losing the
maedchen; their average time of service
IN one place is only nine months and
half.
.-\atlcana is the name given to one of
the latest asteroids discovered. No. 416,
i'll honor of Father Boccardi of the Vati-
can observatory, who has computed it's
course.
=! telegraph line recently run to Coo
maSSie from the coast is highly appre-
ciated by the Ashanti natives They cut
OF the wire i'll suitable lengths to make
armletS.
Jenna is going to turn moral, too.
The ballet corps at the Imperial Opera
house has received orders to wear "roomy
white silk stockings" over its tights
henceforth
A British admiral has come to grief
"n horseback. Admiral Sir f. +. Ere
mantle, who is IN command at Devon
port. while riding recently was severely
wounded in the leg by being run into by
a passing carriage.
Herr Dieden. the senior member of
the German Rechstag, is 81 years of age
and has sat in every session since the
empire was constituted. He has also
I,Ex0 ST th<>
continuously since 1854.
-Siegfred Wagner is in Rome at work
on comic opera, the book being on a
story of the Thirty Years war His
music is said to be not of the school of
his father but of that of Humperdnck,
the composer of ''Haensel und Gretel"
Princess Theresa of Bavaria, daugh-
ter of the prince regent. has been made
an an honorary doctor of philosophy by the
member of the Royal Academy of Sci
eneeS. is Is years of age, and a spinster.
Paris police is trying to discourage
murder as Il business by showing that it
does not pay. Out of twenty-one recent
murders the average profit to each as
saSsin was $1G.37. and in many of these
cases the murderer was caught and exc
cuted.
A bill-posting combination has been
turned into a lmited-liability corporation
in London. with a capital of $12,25O, 900.
1t holds out as an inducement to buy
shares number of contracts it has for
bill posting at the rate of penny sheet
per week.
Capt. James Brown. commander of
the " ndward. lately presented to Lieut..
f'rary by Mr. Harmsworth, has spent
thlrty-nine years and made thirty yoy-
ages in Arctic waters His father and
grandfather were engaged in Arctic work
before him.
An amphitheater, several large Ro-
man villas and great many coins. pot
terry. bronze, silver and iron vessels and
implements have been found at Win
"eSch III the Swiss canton of Aargen.
which is regarded as the most important
archaeological discovery in recent years.
southampton is now ready for attack
by sea. the five sunboats that carry the
defense boom having been placed in their
stations: The boom consists of a net
work of wire hawsers running from shin
to ship and connected with heavy balks
Ut spiked timber and to submarine mines
-krefelleat is henceferth the only x1.er=
rect spelling for the manufacturing town
near Dusseldorf. the form Crefeld having
been condemned unanimously by con-
vention of all the school teachers of the
district. TO whom the Prussian govern
ment referred the question for final deci-
sion.
-Russia's press censor varies his Dun-
iShments ingeniously. The Mirayiya OF
gol>she Naroda. the Syn Oletshestva and
the st. Petersburg Leitung have been
forbidden to print advertisements, while
the Russki Listok, though it may re-
ceive advertisements, must not be sold at
retail.
Twenty bicyclists having been killed
during the past year on a bridge at
sharp turn at the bottom of a hill on the
road between Mentone and Nice, net
ting has been put up at the dangerous
point by the Touring club of France to
catch reckless coasters who are hurled
over the parapet.
English wreckers, who were trying to
save the cargo of the steamer Aden
which went ashore on the island of So
cotra last June, after being driven off
forclbly by the natives, discovered that
the SOcOtrans' right to wreckage cast
upon their coast had been recognized by
Great Britain by treaty.
-Prussia's patsrnal government has or
dercd two private schools in a little town
near Potsdam to be closed because they
interfere with a rival establishment One
may oe kept open for year longer pro-
:lded the proprietor engages to take in
only twenty pupils and to teach them
10 foreign languages.
a great imEIot ement has been made
in Partisan dues. The seconds in an af-
fair of honor between dramatic author
and ne of his critics made a mistake
i, the place 0: meeting, thereby sending
their principals TO opposite ends of Paris.
This made sui seQuent meeting at close
quarters unnecessary.
1t took seventy shots at close range.
including a number from the 92-inch cali
Der gun. before the British cruiser Edgar
could sink derelict tank steamer in the
PnI f,.1-s, 30 E<x
ure out low many shots would have been
needed if the Edgar had been dealing with
Il hostile crl',ser of her own class.
Ernest WaterIow, A. r. A., the land
scape painter. whose father is former
lord mayor of London, has been elected
president of the Royal Society of Paint
ers in Water Colors, in succession to the
needed, as the first resulted in a tie be-
tween Mr.. Waterlow and Hubert Herko-
mer.
Princess Thyra of Cumberland, sister
Of the Princess Of Wales and the Empress
Dowager of Russia, who has been re-
Gently in Il private asylum, has so far
recovered her mind and health, owing to
the improvement of her eldest sons con-
dition. that she will be present when her
daughter comes out at the Austrian court
in January.
A cane owned by Chief Justice Way
of South Australia seems to carry privy
councillors place with it. 1t belonged
originally to Mr.. DALEY. the first Aus
tralian privy councillor: he gave it to Sir
Alfred Stephen, the next Australian ad-
mitted to the privy council, and the latter
be1neathed it to the chief justice few
months before the Queen called Mr.. Way
to the council.
Princess Tono Marian of the Fiji ISL
ands, according to the Berlin Boersen-
blatt, is about to visit Europe in search
of husband. She is the heir to the
throne: has an income of $35, 900 a year
from the British government, which, will
be doubled on her accession, besides her
domain lands, and is looking for a we'll
educated man of good birth. as the Fiji
Queens consort is her chief minister and
chief justice. -
While a circus was parading in Tot
tenham road in the outskirts of London IA
baker gave one of the elephants a couple
of loavcs of stale bread. A few nights
after the elephant broke from its fasten-
iups in tho town whdra tho s.;rfrIa fhsn