The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-13
BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES,

--kosa Ronheur earned her first money
10y copying paintings of the old masters.
-NiceP President Hobart is fond of
walking and never rides when he can
avoid it.
Senator Baker of Kansas is con-
tinual smoker, and is rarely seen without
cigar or pipe.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is a woman
in her early thirties, of medium height,
fair complexion and dark eyes and hair.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is
regarded as one of the best whist play
ers in Boston, but his favorite game is
chess.
Peach stones find ready market in
New York city. where perfume, flavoring
extracts and prussic acid are distilled
from the kernels.
John E. Searles, who has signifed his
intention to retire from active part in
the Sugar trust. aScriheS his failing health
to excessive use Of tobacco.
Gen. Wheeler carries handsome
gold watch which he picked up at San
Juan. 1t evidently belonged to Spaa-
lard. but the owner could never be dis
covered
Lord Kitchener is engaged to be mar
ried to Miss Marie Evelyn Moreton,
whose father was private secretary to
Canada.
The political term dark horse" orig
mated from the habit of jockeys paint
ing some fast racer in dark colors and
entering him i'll Il race under a fictitious
name and thus winning
Andrew Carnegie is to give $4,000
organ to the Presbyterian church IN
Boulder. Col. The pastor of the church,
Rev. DR.. hoffman, was born near Mr.
tarnesie'S old home i'll Scotland.
II suffer Il great deal from cold" said
Gently, but l don't know whether it's
because really feel it more or just be-
cause l make more fuss about it,
The Duchess of Westminster still
wears the largest tlawess turquoise owned
by any private individual; and the
Duchess of Sutherland possesses the only
complete necklace Of black pearls.
Emperor William has donated to the
froteStation church at Speyer, Palatin-
ate. 10000 Kilograms of the metal from
the captured French cannon for the p,lr-
pose of casting an immense imperial bell
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the senator
from Indiana, gave a novel entertainment
the other day to several of her Washing
ton friends. \ troop of Virginia negroes
were engaged to give minstrel perform
ance.
Rev. DR.. John Snyder has resigned
the passionate of the Church of the Mes
siah, St. Louis, after having held it for
twenty-six years. He is ranked as one
of the most scholarly and progressive.
clersymen in the West.
M. Francois Millet. a son of Jean
Francois Aillet. the famous French art
ISL is visiting in Baltimore with his wife.
In type. he is truly French, and he speaks
very little English. mis- wife doing mos.
of the interpreting for him.
-Adolphus Busch, the st. Louis
brewer. recently gave some money to a
Congregational college in Oklahoma: and
now the Woman's Christian Temperance
union threatens to boycott the college IN
less the trustees decline to take the
money.
Sir Martin Conway has succeeded in
climbing 1llimani in Bolivia and Aconca-
qua in Chilli. and ut last accounts was on
his way to TERRA del Fuego for the pur-
pose of ascending Sarmiento. the loftiest
summit 5000 feet south of the straits of
Magellan.
M. Vernon, the French engraver. has
received an order from the King of Den
mark for medallion of Queen Louise, t.
be prepared from the best of the family
photographs. Small reproductions of the
memorial are to be prepared for distribu-
ton in Denmark.
Admiral Schley is a grand nephe,v.
en- his fathers side, of the famous Ad,
miral Parkhurst of the English navy.
and on his mothers side is descended
from Francis Scott Key. who wrote the
Star Spangled Banner in Baltimore
harbor. September II, 1914.
Edward S. Hosmer. chief of the fire
department of Lowell, has recently come
into possession of a small door 1Sx2O
inches. The door was once in the house
Of Jonathan Hosmer, father of Abner
Hosmer. who was killed at the North
bridge. Concord. April 10. 1915.
The late William Black, the novelist,
liked to attend the Scotch dinners in Lon
ZION. If it happened that he was asked
to reply to the toast Of ''Literature' the
blood rushed to his face. and no one a
dozen seats behind where he sat could
hear word he said. He rarely went be-
yond half a dozen sentences.
Col. Charles Marshall, the eminent
lawyer of Baltimore, is writing life of
Gen. r. f. Lee, uon whose staff he
served during the whole Civil war; Col.
Marshall wrote all the official reports of
the army Of Northern Virginia, and with
Gen. Horace Porter arranged the terms
of surrender at Appomattox.
The young Chinese Emperor, having
outllved the reports that he had commit
ted suicide or been assassinted, is now
described by DR.. Dethere, Frenchman,
who is one of his physicians, as merely
a sufferer from fits Of depression and las
Is any being abnormal melancholia.
The Grand Old Man of the Roma n
church is not the Pope, as most people
suppose, but Cardinal Mertel. who is in
his 9oth year, and SO active and energetic
that he bids fair to see the Nineteenth
century ont, and the Twentieth in. HI
has just returned to Rome from a holiday
visit to his native town of Allumiere.
1t is suggested that when the English
people set up memorial to Gordon at
khartoum they should not forget the
Frenchman. NJ. Herbin, who, holdinr
some ill-de6ned diplomatic position, was
shut UP in the beleaguered city from
early in 1884 to October in that disas
trous year, and shared the fate of the
other Europeans who stood by their gal
liant chief.
Timothy B. Blackstone of Chicago,
who gave the Blackstone Memorial Ii
brary. two or three years ago, to his
native town of Brandford. Conn, has
now added $4,000 to it's endowment It
is one Of the finest public libraries in the
United States. and cost more than $500.
600. Mr.. Blackstone's first endowment
gift was 100000, so that the aggregate
OF MS bencfactions is more than $500, 900.
1T is seid," writes Secretary Long,
in the Youths Companion. "that to Ful,
ton is due the credit Of inventing the tor
on spar 96 feet long; but it's practical
use dates from our Civil war. It was
first tried by the Confederatcs in the ac-
ton between the ram Atlanta and the
monitors Wchawken and Nahant, June II,
Sir Richard Webster. the English at
tt"rney-senrral, is as proud of his resonant
baritone voice as of his forensic success.
For many years he sang regularly, in n
church choir and has donned Il surplice
more than once since he has been attor-
ney-gencral: Sir Edward Clarke, too. is
an agreeable singer and Lord Herschell
ls welded to the violonce,lo, which he
plays with uncommon skill.
Mrs. Solomon Gossoon, the managing
partner of a well-known Hebrew firm in
Bombay and president Of several compa-
MES i'll which the firm takes an interest.
has been proposed for place in the gov
ernor-seneraPs council The proposal
comes from leading Indian paper, and is
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