The Virginia enterprise., 1899-02-17
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Admiral Schley is something of an
artist and frequently amuses himself by
painting III water coiors.
On his own statement the profession
al fees Of the hate Sir William Jenner
amounted to $65,OO0 year.
Alexander Graham Bell, upon his re-
turn to Washington, will build Jap
anese garden ut his residence.
1t is alleged that the Marquis of
Bute's losses owing to the Welsh coal
dispute approximated $15O.OOO.
During his prospective visit to Mas
the guest Of William B. Plunkett Of
North Adams
-iFs. Fuller, wife of the chief JUS
tice, is in very poor health, and during
this season will take no part in the fes-
tivities Of Washington.
Addison C. Harris. the new minister
to Austria. is said to be one of the best
classical scholars ever graduated from
the Northwestern university.
john Hare rarely requires more than
4 month to study part, and while study
ing it'always wears the clothes in which
he IS to appear on the stage.
a discovery Of Oil has been made
in Rio Blanco county, Cal. 1t is stated
that the stuff has very little petroleum
i'll it, and is Il tirst-class lubricant.
-England's Oldest royal postboy, Jonas
Miles, is dead at the age of 93 years.
He served as position for George I'LL,
George w., William ". and Victoria.
The greatest pilgrimages to the Holy
1t is calculated that between 10000 and
10000 Russians visit Palestine every
year.
A. l.. Ripley of Andover. Mass, for
nerIy assistant professor of Yale, has
given Il valuable library of 500 volumes
to the German department of Yale uni
vcrsity.
Rev. J. Hermann Wibbe of Schenec-
tady, \. v, who died the other day, was
a well-known botanist, and at one time
WAS connected with the Smithsonian in
Stltution.
Maj .-Gen. Ludlow. military and civil
governor Of Havana, has for years been
considered as one of the best authorities
on municipal sanitation and engineering
III this country.
Mrs. Schley, wife of the admiral, de-
clared that since her husbands return to
Washington, she has hardly had chance
demands upon his time. ...
James Thackeray Bunce, who has
been the editor Of the Birmingham Daily,
l'oSt, one of the most influential of Eng
liSh provincial papers since it's establish.
mcnt in 1857. has just retired.
Senator Simon of Oregon has been
taking banjo lessons. ''Are you improv-
ing?" some one asked him recently
Either that or the neighbors are get
ting more used to it," he replied.
When the President of the United
Sf1fQS Sif 1t Htnnor toh f1o
host and there are ladies present, he is
always served first, as with all other
rulers. 1t is an old custom observed in
III all countries.
Prof. Richard Claverhouse Jebb of
Cambridge, who represents the univer-
sity in Parliament, has been elected as
Mr.. GlauStone'S successor to the hon
the Royal academy.
The late Gen. Garcia, the Cuban,
was well-read man, and even in his
perilons campaigns managed to carry
about a few books with him, among
whick<vas invariably volume of Cac-
S;,r Commentaries.
The retirement of NJ. Patenotre as
French minister in Madrid is said to be
due to the fact of his marriage to an
Spanish capital to make him undesirab BILE
at the present moment.
RENO Luguet of the Gymnase COM
pany has withdrawn from the stage, hav-
ing reached the age of IS years. He had
Il part In the original cast of LA Dame
aux Camelias." For some years he had
- acted as stage manager.
Senator Davis of Minnesota owns one
of the best private libraries in the coun-
try: His taste for good reading he in
herlts from his father, man now we'll on
III the eighties, who has written histories
of England and Scotland.
Emile Zola's private charities are
said to be larger, in proportion to his
means, than those of any man in Paris,
but he dislikes notoriety, and is gener-
ally unwilling to have his name figure
upon any subscription list.
When the German Emperor travels
on German railways a detailed bill is
made out for every engine and car used
and for the distance traversed. 1t is
estimated that he pays the Prussian rail-
way about $4,000 year.
Only five members of Alabama's Sc
t:"ssion convention are now alive. They
are United States Senator John T. Nor
Ean' Circuit Judge A. A. Coleman of
John W. 1nzey of St. Clair
Leonard ]. G.. Kuhlwein, chief gun
ner on the Olympia, during the battle Of
Manila, has returned to his home in Sag
Harbor l.. l., after an absence Of four
years, to see his son, who was born Just
before he left home in 1895.
-ltepresentative Joseph H. Walker of
massachusetts was asked the other day
why he had been defeated for reelection
and some other things and more things
and votes that defeated me-"
-Lofd Mount-Stephen, the Canadian
mlllionaire, who now lives in England,
has handed over the sum Of $2,SOOOOO to
three trustees to be used for the benefit
of relatives and friends, with the idea
that his heirs need the money while still
young.
In London there is a lady, Miss Pen
man, who has control over more than 500
conductors in the employ of the London
Tramways company, limited. She is the
only woman in England who occupies the
position of superintendent of tramway
conductors.
The PENNSYLVANIA Commandery of
the Military Order of Foreign Wars of
the United States has voted to present to
kear Admiral Dewey the gold insignia
OF the order. which the United States
government permits officers of the army
and navy to. wear.
Gen. Wheeler and Gen. Henry v.
Boynton are so much alike that even mu-
tual friends sometimes mistake them.
w nch DotH were present at recent re-
ceptiOn it was necessary for them to
run sort Of clearing house of messages
one had received for the other
-Chauncey NJ. Depew says that he
was the other day accosted by a. beggar,
to whom he gave a dollar. May / ask
Your name?' said the mendicant. Mr..
DePcW laughed: 'Oh. I'm Grover Cleve-
land he replied. who are you9',
well, I'm only Chauncey Depew."
-Dr. Horace Burr of Wilmington.
PEI, who has just died, was master Of
thirteen languages. He wrote many his
tor!cal records of the Swedes and of the
Episcopal church in the diocese of Della
ware and for TWENTY-FIVE years he had
been vestryman of Old Swedes church.
The King of Siam has ordered q
medal to be struck in commemoration of
ms tour in Europe last year, and to per
peetuate record of his travels in for
elgn parts. .Replicas of the medal have.
hir