The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-04
AMtMAnn of the district had bought the
bears from Il Snowman in order to crafty
the princess wish,

don in 1902, In polemical controversy
with Bishop Woodward, he wrote: 80 His
lortlship says he does not believe in the
Papist .purgatory. Well, perhaps he may
50 further and fare worse"
Miss Mauri, ballet dancer, is the
first woman to become professor Of the
| art. The National Academy of Music,
Paris, has established chair of ballet
dancing. with Miss Mauri as the occu-
pant. She won her great success at La
Scala, III Milan, having attracted the at
tention of Gounod while dancing there,
| Miss Margaret j. Evans, who has just
been elected u member of the American
board, being the first woman to be so
honorcd, is principal of Carleton college,
Congregational Woman's Board of Do
nestle missions for fifteen years. She has
studied ut Oxford, Berlin and Heidelberg.
-,Signor Francheschini, the Italian his
torian, has just found in the old cemetery
| of the Church of Santo Croce, in Flor
ence, the tomb of Ghiber.i. the celebrated
| sculptor and architect. He was the de-
| terry ut Florence, of which Michael Ange-
10 said that they We're ''worthy Of Para-
| disc
Laurent Perosi, the young italian
priest, who is counted among the mu-
seal prodisies of that country, is but %
years old. and is the musical director of
st. Mare in Venice. He has already
composed three oratorios, to which form
of composition he confines himself the
Passion, the TRANSPORTATION and Resur-
rectiOn.
The Minister'S institute will hold it's
eleventh biennial session ut the Church
of Our Father, in Buffalo, from October
"a to -. Among the distinguished speak
ers will be DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
Prof Hugo Munsterberg, the well-known,
psychologist of Harvard university; DR..
Minot j. Savage of New York, and Rev.
Charles E. st. John of Pittsburg.
Sir William White, the chief con-
structor of the British navy, is going to-
Egypt on a visit which will probably ex-
tend over Christmas. Now that Khar-
toum has fallen and the whole navigable
| has become practical necessity to main
| tain on the river considerable feet of
gunbOats for the maintenance of the Khe-
dives authority.
- There seems to be some mystery as
to the whereabouts of DR.. MoritZ Busch,
the Boswell of Prince Bismarck, whose
biography of his hero was published by
| Messrs. Macmillan week or two ago.
1t is not surmised that the Emperor has
Pepys placed under lock and key, bnt
none the less the doctors usual haunts
know him not, and even his publishers
cannot trace him.
When Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Pol
ish author, comes to this country for the
| second time, which he proposes to do this
month, he will make Washington, D. c.,
his headquarters. He has two friends
| there, Thaddeus Tyssowski and Pelagia
| Galeski, with whom he will visit for sew
eral weeks. Jadwiga, daughter of the
novelist, will accompany her father,
! whose first visit to this country was made
some twenty years ago.
| The collection of pictures at Yer
salles has received valuable addition in
the shape of remarkably fine Holy
Family" by Nicholas Poussn, a gift to
Duchesse de Tremoille. and it has been
placed in the Cabinet du Conseil This
picture is in frame bearing the cipher of
Louis XIV, and during the reign of his
most Christian majesty it belonged to the
| gallery at Versailles. but was taken away
during the revolution.
| Senator Simon of Oregon will not be
the first Hebrew to hold seat in the
| United States Senate. three others hav-
ing preceded him. The first was David
l.. Iulee of Florida, whose fathers name
was Levy. He was elected Il represen-
:ativc in 1915 as David Levy, but when
his term expired he had his name changed
to David Levy Yulee. The second He
brew senator was the famous Judah P.
Benjamin of louisiana, and the third was
Benjamin Franklin Jonas of louisiana.
| The Rev Dr. Lewis Crebasa Browne,
who has just died at Honeoye Falls, N.
Y, was the oldest Universalist minister
in the state. He was frequent contribu-
tor to the periodical literature of the
| Universal denomination, and for nineteen
years had been an associate editor of the
Christian Leader, published in Boston.
He occasionally wrote poetry. some Of his
Harper's Bazaar and in large octave vol
ume, entitled The Poets of New Hamp-
| shire"
| All the members of the Bismarck fam:
! lily are great in stature. Besides a u.s,u
in Friedrichsruhe is the following i.tv.d
in pencil, dated December 81. 1870;
prince Won Bismarck, IN. SS Il meter
So centimeters. or 6 feet 2 inches); Her
bert Won Bismarck, M: s6 6 feet II!
NJ re- ia meter ia 1 @1limete ns't Or
feet ~ inchcs): Countess Won Rantzau,
k; %; ZIG G? feet m e jneAes' Princess Won
| -Thcobald Chartran, the portrait
painter, has returned to Paris from
Rome where he worked on portrait of
the Pope. He gives good reports of the
Pope's health: His holiness, as usual,
three hours night. but his mental vigor
is surprising, and he has no physical all
ments. Mr.. Chartran, who painted Leo
| XIII. seven years ago, recognized very
little difference in his subject. "His face
is not more wrinkled, he has the same
welcome smile, the same sonorous and
musical voice"