The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-05

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But Pm mad enough to kill him when
He calls cleek Il "cleat.'
Town Topics.
IIong-distance telephoning has to some
extent reduced travel by rail- Merchants
formerly in the habit of taking long trips
between East and West to hold neces-
sary conferences with regular customers
have found that long lover the wire"
will frequently serve the purpose.
The polonaise is worn, and though new
er a great favorite and not any more
becoming today than it was fifteen years
ago, bids fair to press the redingote for
first place this summer. The polonaise,
with all it's faults, so the modistes say,
is preferable to the long double skirt,
tached underskirt which sweeps the
pavements.
The Morse building at the northeast
corner of Nassau and Beekman streets
was sold under claim of the Washing
ton Life Insurance. company against the
property for 100000, and which event
ually bid 1t In for $6O1 900.
latest Parisian Wrinkle for buildinr ye ny
q comprehensive and undulatory jag.
There are but two shops in towii. both
on Fifth avenue. where these seductive
SWEET. cat. be obtained. They are the
most harm! ess-appearing bonbons mag
Unable. They look like candied rose
leaves and .violets; but lurking in their
saccharine depths, like the serpent under
sinthe and the red ruin Of rum. A pref
ty girl made the most dreadful spectacle
OF herself in box in prominent up
town music hall the other night by sud
denly evincing a quenchless desire to
climb down and treat the leader of the
orchestra to all that renained-a half
hai1dfq iEof a box of these wicked
booze bonbohs. to W hich she had de-
capsule bohbons are very fascinating and
seductive, but u too liberal indulgence
in them causes a d emand for hot towels
the following morning.
Coney island is in the throes of gen.
eral cleaning up and it submits to it
with something like the ILL grace of d bad
boy who is having bis face washed under
compulsion. Barrels Of lime are sprin-
killed. over the haunts of summer revelers
and while the peanut nleh, the sandwich
vendors. the restaurant keepers and the
dance-hall prOprietors cry out in vain
protest, the health authorities go right
ahead, Staying germs right and left and
destroying the danger spot from which
contagion is feared. The soubrettes are
not molested. when the department gets
through with the famous resort every
thing will be clean but its morals.
There are emant women who are as
expert at billiards as men and make fan
cy shots that are rightly considered won>
derful. Abroad billiards is Il part of the
education of every woman Of rank. The
Queen Of Italy plays a fine game, and
among English women the Duchess of
Teck was noticeable; The Duchess Of
csS s ns Ct M y was hs a eSs
Of marlborough, formerly Consuelo Van.
derbilt, sometimes beats her husband at
billiards. The Countess of Castcllane
and her sister, Helen Gould, know how
to handle cue. The game is said to
be increasing in popularity among the
society women of New York.
Not fguratlvely but literally Dickens
is shattered idol to Col. Robert G. In
gersoll. A statuette of Die kens was I'M
fortunately broken. and the SCATTERING
of that statuette Is costing the colonel a
lawsuit. DR.. Bristol. who rented Col.
Ingersoll house where he lived until
recently, Is the claimant. The house
was rented furnished, and on the colo
nel's departure the statuettc was found
to be broken. Col. 1ngersoll offered to
pay $40 and declared this was twice as
much as the statuette was worth. DR..
Bristol claimed $135. Col. Ingersoll of
fered to duplicate the statuette. DR..
Ingersoll tucked the statuette under his
arm and went from store to store in
vain. When tired out he sent his pri-
vate secretary OH the same errand, but
the secretary also failed. ct can't be
duplicated and you will pay me 1885,"
said the doctor to the colonel. The colo
mel offered to have committee of art
dealers pass OH the value of the broken
statuette. but this offer was refused Dr.
Bristol insists that the value be decided
legally.
o. H. r. Belmont. who was recently
the guest of the Correspondents club at
its annual dinner, returned the compli-
inent by entertaining the members of
that organization at a beefsteak broil.
The corporation counsel notified Presi-
dent of the Tax Board Thomas l.. Felt
ner that William Waldorf Astor of Lon
don, Eng, could not be assessed for per-
showed that he was a nonresident, and,
therefore, not amenable to the law bear
ing on the past taxes. This decision re-
lieves Mr.. AstOr Of the payment into the
city treasury of about $4,000. The
value of his personal property was placed
by the tax department at $4,000, 600, and
he was in arrears for last years per-
sonal taxes about $4,000. This year,
had he been taxed on his personal prop
QrfV no wOn1h have hNd to nav NhOut
$4,000.
Fayne Strahan Moore, the Tombs pris-
on beauty, will make her stnge debut
next week. This does not mean she will
be the attraction ut one of the leading
theaters, but instead she will simply pose
as the figure around which will be per.
formed a burlesuue of her recent adven.
lures.
Emma Eames, with her husband, Ju-
liam Story, has sailed for England. Nine
Eames says she intends taking long
rest this summer. She will not sing ut
Covent garden, London, this season, and
whether she will return for the Metro
politan season next winter has not yet
been determined.
Mrs. William Rockefeller has inst 70.