The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-18
BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES.


.-EN- rresid.nt Casimir-perier Of
France is said to be contemplating a ,rip
to this country.
Hiram Hall. who murdered his wife
10y pushing her into we'll, was hanged
ut Crossville. Tenn.
admiral Dewey's boyhoo,i hero was
Gen. Taylor, and the lads first ambition
was to be Il soldier.
-Ssuatur H.ar has denied the reports
concerning his failing health. and says
he feels as we'll as he ever did in his life
Archbishop Ireland is Il man of many
tastes, chief among which is that for law
which study he has pursued for several
years.
RaroneSS tbrike Won Levetzow.
ioethe'S last love, recently celebrated her
ninrty.tifth birthday at her home in Tri-
hlitz. Bohemia.
Chief Justice Fuller was once quite
a "imr"d, and prizes highly the relics of
his prvweSS behind the gun" which now
atlnrn his home,
Coils T. Huntington has been rec
"mm"n,lrd hy his physician to try golf
fur exercise aud has become very prof
tirnt in the game.
Sidney Webb. the Sociolugist, said
IN Il recent London address that the
purcSt town in America was "the Nor
non Salt Lake City"
ten. Lloyd Wheaton. who cleare.
the PaSig river, entered the service as Il
sergeant in the Eighth Illinois during the
War OF the Rebellion.
t!rant Aliens favorite amuscments
ar. >tullius aud wheeling, while Rider
llaggard enjoys himself by experimental
farming aud gardening.
/, is said that Nelson Morris, the
packer. can tell by the taste of steak
or Il roast of beef whether the steer came
from Texas or from Montana.
Admiral Schley was an officer on the
iriyate Niagara when, III 1859, it bore
back to Japan the embassy sent here to
return the visit of Commodore Perry.
Horace. l. Higgins, director of the
only railroad i'll the Philippines, is an
E,uSliShman by birth, and the husband of
L grand niece of the last King of Spain.
ten. Guy v Henry was recently
asked what kind of Il man would succeed
in Porto Rico. He answered, "One
with considerable money and as much pa,
!lrucC.
john II. Finley. who has for IL num-
her of years been president of kllox col
i place on the editorial staff of McClurc's
Magazine.
toy. W. ID. BloXham of Florida has
frequently navigated his own yacht about
Cuba. and is now said to have IL knowl-
rdyr of those waters better than that of
must pilots.
Mrs. Jnubtrt, wife Of the commander
IT the Tran>vaal forces, accompanies her
husband i'll the field, and mas herself
.Ilinrd Il considerable knowledge OF mill
sarS matters.
Prof. William Cranst"n I.awton, ii,
Rr,.,klsa lecture declared Eiplin- ana
to Itf, ak in III.
'"d'>c> moving the one to song and the
,tr'r tu action.
Rear ADMIRAL Picking, who succeeds
Rear Admiral llnwiSnn, i'll command of
ih" tharl.>town tMasS.) navy-yar,i, is
''r "f the Youngest men to attain tha;
rank in our history.
Though the name of Coils T. Hunt.
'nGt"n Is generally connected with rail
ways, Alr. Huntington OWNS more coal
'nlnrS than any other man in the United
States. if not in the world.
Maj. Lamar Fontaine. the author of
MIS- Quiet Along the Potomac To.
might, is now a civil engineer living il:
Lynn. Miss. He first saw service with
the Russians in the Crimea.
When Sir Rudolf Slatin visited
Queen Victoria ut Windsor castle, it is
said that he presented to her piece of
the wooden post to which he had been
Miss C"ckrcll, daughter of the Mis-
souri, senator and a young women who is
t" chriSten the battleship Missouri is de-
>cribed as beautiful, statuesuue and the
p'SStSS"r OF an exceptionally fine contral-
IT, voice.
CLAUS SpreckelS, the sugar maynate.
has spent MANY years in scientific study
and has become an expert electrician. He
will himself superintend the erection of
he xlspt k,n tr1fe vNIuvNf he
San Francisco.
John w. Mackay. the other evenin.
sent t" the opera in San Francisco fiftI
S'rl employees in the Postal Telegraph
com! any: i'll which he is stakeholder.
Each girl was supplied with two tickets
Il carriage and Il bouquet.
-AugnStus +. Lines of New Haven.
tmn.. discovered the original design for
tn" famous New Haven postage stamp
made by him in 1915. He was the first
man t" make Il die for Il United States
government postage stamp.
Miss Catherine NJ. Tuttle of Column
bus, o., has presented to Hobart college
S2o,ooO. to found schola rships for worthy
Me,lbery Of Rochester, N. Y. and Svi-
vester Medbery of Columbus, o.
While recently duck shooting nea,
MnScatine, Ia. Congressman Lane acci.
,lentally shot Il hole in the boat of which
ne was the sole occupant, and, but for
'ne titne'y assistance OF some farmers.
would i'll all probability have drowned.
Mrs. Leonard Wood, wife of the gem
rral. interested herself in her husbands
work when he was an army surgeon, and
''nder his direction read medicine to such
good purpose that it is now said she could
easily secure Il diploma from any medical
college.
Admiral Dewey's brother Charles is
president of New England insurance
company. which has been advertising the
relationship. Mr.. Dewey has promptly
the objectionable advertisements will be
suppressed.
Pierre Lofts protest against his su.
organization tas Lieut.. Viaud) from the
French navy has been successful, and he
returns to active service. One result is
that he will have to abandon for the
present his projected journey through
Persia and Afghanistan.
One OF Joseph Choate's peculiarities
whenever Mr.. Choatc was studying over,
or working up case, he became ex-
tremely nervous, had to have absolute
solitude until his work was done and 50
would sit for hours ut his desk without
food.
oliver +. Hubbard of New York has
celebrated his ninetieth birthday He
graduated at Yale in 1928. and is the sole
survivor of his class. His wife was the
second daughter of the elder Prof. Sill
man. He filled the chair Of chemistry.
mineralogy and geology in Dartmouth
college from 1896 to 1866.
Alfred Colin, NJ E., graduate of
the Ecole Centrale darts ct Meters,
Paris, late of the United States naval
engineers, and some time professor Mt the
United States Naval academy, was re-
Gently appointed by the French govern
ment Il member Of photographic com
mission to study and perfect methods of
irrigation i'll France and her colonies
The sar'ophagi of the late Prince
and Princess Bismarck have just been
made III the marble works Mt Kiefers.
f"ld"n, III upper Bavaria. Their form is
Roman. That of the prince is go me-
tcrs long. 40 meters wide and 1.:O me-
tcrs high. Small columns, with alter
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