The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-04
BRIEF NOTES OF N0TABLES.


ry SienkiewicZ. the author of "Quo Va
dis will be the guest of relatives.
Queen Victoria is believed to be seri-
ousiy considering the advisability of pub
fishing third instalment of her journal.
Theodore Camp of Mount Vernon,
y. Y, has been teaching school for sixty
two years, and is still doing as We'll as
ever
-Mommsen. the historian, has declined
canse Of what he calls the poets shame
full life
Prof. Henry Snyder Of Miami, O.,
who died the other day, was one of the
hest-known educators of the blind in this
country.
The eldest unmarried daughter of
Capt. Sigsbee, Miss Mary Ellen Sigsbee,
is doing good work as an Illustrator of
magazines.
Miss Edith Mosler, who is to be mar
ried very shortly, is the daughter of the
artist. Henry Mosler, and herself paint
or of promise.
-Sergt. James McInilney of Co. E,
Ninth United States infantry. claims to
be the man who picked off, Gen. Lin
ares at San Juan.
Paul Laurence Dunbar says that un-
til the publication of his latest book few
of his readers knew him to be of un-
mlAeu negro hlOOu.
$. y. D. North of New York says
teal business use of the typewriter. He
used it first in 1872.
Private Leroy Wiley of Paris. Ill.,,
ut the recent convention of soldiers of the
Mexican war, was the only veteran out
of 15o to use crutches.
-Ex-Postmaster General William L..
Wilson's grandfather was farm hand in
Jefferson county, Va. His father was a
country school teacher.
Miss Martha Baker, teacher in
Roston's public schools. is now enjoying
her first extended vacation after a serv-
ice of forty-SeHen years.
aid. who was Edward Bellamy's associate
and friend. has nearly completed his biog-
raphy of the dead Utopian.
Joel Chandler Harris is said to be the
hardest literary man to interview in this
country. Il don't know anybody" he
says. and don't care to-"
Lord Crawford and Balcarres has
just celebrated the 5OOth anniversary of
the creation Of the earltlom of Crawford
i'll the peerage of Scotland.
-Ouida's dog cemetery near her Floren-
tine, home has received another resident
in the person of a favorite mastiff Of the
Eovclist's which died last week.
Mrs. H. E. Wright of Chicago has
come into possession of kettle oven
which was once given Martha Washing
ton in payment for knitting task.
-Stephane Millarme, the French poet,
who has died recently, was 8 constant
cigarette smoker. The best likeness of
him is said to be that painted by Whist
Ter.
Hindu young men are turning to
Rama kanta Raj Of Sylhct, who wants
to be a mining engineer. has led tho
way.
DIR. Minot ]. Savage of the Church
If the Messiah. was the first minister in
this country who openly accepted the the
"dy Of evolution and preached it from thu
pulpit.
painted woman. Miss Fannie V. Mudd
inspector of oils for the city of st.
Charles. in that state, to succeed Jules
Rauch.
James l.. High. the Chicago ::urist
who died the other day, first became ia
nous through his edition of Lord Frs
kine's works and his own book OH In
functions"
John 3. Parsons. the new president
of the Union Traction company of Phil
adelphia. began his street railroad career
in a railroad company.
H. W. Berthrong of Arlington, Mass.
who has been put in charge of the Gus
toms service at Manzanillo, Cuba, has
been connected with the customs service
for twenty-eight years.
-Swinburne, the poet, is said to be
growing very eccentric as he nears his
eightieth year. He is rarely seen in so
cety. but has become intensely fond OF
the company of children.
Henry Dunant, the founder of the
Red Cross society, put half his fortune into
The su.iety's work and then lost the Other
half in business. The citizens of Stuff
CART are raising fund for him.
queen Louise Of Denmark was very
particular as to what her daughters read
an,l it is said that the only novel the
Princess Of Wales perused before her
marriage was The Heir Of Redclyffe."
The Crown Prince of Siam, who can
write fuently in three European Ian.
suaecs, is boy author of some note
He has written several stories for chill
tren's magazines published in England.
A letter from Park Benjamin to r
". Griswold has come to light SAYING
that if the publisher would like a poem
from Prof. Longfellow the writer car
secure it for $40, though the poet asks
S25.
Miss Estelle Peel, as Wyoming's SUI
p,erintendent of public, instruction, has
charge of all the buying and selling OF
school lands and has increased in this line
to the states income from $500 to $1,000
Il week.
french papers say that Sir Herber,
Kitchener fought on the side of the tri
co!ors in the Franco-Prussian war, hay
ing enlisted as volunteer in the army
of the Loire. He was, they add, twice
wounded.
Col. John \. Watkins, the Indiar
historian. who died in New Orleans the
other day, was a veteran of the Mexi
can war. and was direct descendant OF
Joseph Watkins, the follower of Cant
John Smith.
Nine. Ristori, otherwise the Mar
qnise Capranica del Grille, is in her It'll
year. and is lying critically i'll at Rome
being unable to accept the invitation OF
the Queen of Italy to pass a few days
with her at Gressony.
The virtuous village of Conde-sur-Es
caut, near Falenciennes, France, has for
hidden the erection there of monument
to the famous actress Clarion, because
though native of the place, her life
after leaving was not exemplary in al
respects.
Although the Mahdi's body was dc
stroyed, some enthusiast has secured his
head, and is sending it to London to the
Royal College of Surgeons. The skull is
large and well formed. The Mahdi was
buried in his jibbeh, and small sum OF
money was found in the tomb.
The fact is noted that the Collar Of
the Golden Fleece which has just beer
conferred upon NJ. Felix Faure was the
one which had belonged to Bismarck. II
is also said that the one now worn by
King Humbert once adorned the Shout
d'rs Of Christopher Columbus.
Joan of Are is still being exploited by
jealous and chauvinistic Frenchmen. The
latest development of the mania is the
formation Of society or cQnfraternity
which proposes to organize d cavaIcade
and to rrtrace the memorial BILE progress OF
the Warrior Maid from Domremy tt
Compicgne.
Owing to the controversy that has
cnsu'I over successor to the title Of
"Daughtcr Of the ConfcJcracy." Mrs
Jefferson Davis is said to have renowned
her original intention to have TINT in
*rripiion placed on the gravestonc of he,
laughtcr. Miss Winnie La yis in thc EIoI