The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-06-16

All the pleasing antiquity and romance
of the s:lverwarc which Sir Guy Garlic
ton gave to an ancestor of Lavinia l.,
Queen of the Holland Danes of the New
Netherlands, were rudely swept away in
the city court by the testimony of her
brother, John \. Dempsey, member of
the state Legislature. Her majesty's
weekday name. as she gives it, is La
vinia H. Van Westervelt Dempsey. Ac-
cording to her version she has one name
i'll Holland and one in Kerry. Her
brother says that her real nameis Livinia
H. Dempsey. The Queens counsel, Ed
win S. Hunt. asked in the city court to-
day that a Judgment against her for
$4,000, obtained by her brother, John A.
Dempsey. in two lawsuits, be set aside.
in reply to the charge that he had seized
the Queens antique silver heirlooms,
consisting of four silver teaspoons, an
ancient coffeepot, an antique teapot, q
more antique sugarbowl, and probably
prehistoric cream pitcher. These articles
were recently displayed at an exhibition
of colonial relics uptown as a gift from
Sir Guy Carleton to one of Queen La
vinia's ancestors. Mr.. Dempsey said
one day i'll 1896 dropped into a second
hand store i'll Fourth avenue that dealt
in all kinds of antiquities. Here the
Queen bought the silver spoons, pots and
bowl. Then she took them to a silver
smiths shop in Fourteenth street. said
MIR. Dempsey, and ordered the silver
smith to polish them up and engrave on
them:
TO MY BROTHER RICHARDS
WIFE FROM
SIR GUY CARLETON.
.......... ......... .............~
The obedient silversmith, it is alleged.
did this. with an antique touch of his
graver.
Five pretty bridesmaids at fashion
able wedding, and in a Baptist church,
too, over in one of our Jersey suburbs
yesterday, attracted general attention by
wearing decOllete gowns. The pastor
was visibly shocked, but the wedding
proceeded without further incident, al
though the guests paid more attention to
the charms displayed by the bridesmaids
than they did to the bride. This will,
tom; but as fashion prescribes high-cut
gowns, it is doubtful if the innovation
will ever make much Roadway. Still, it
can't be construed as uncomfortable,
particularly so. at this season of the
year.
A group of young men in evening
clothes is no uncommon sight on east
side corners Sunday afternoon. They
are animated by keen desire to get
their moneys worth. The garments are
hired for a ball the evening before. The
custom is to rent the suits at 6 p. NJ
and keep them just twenty-four hours
The clothier's idea originally was, no
doubt. to allow his customer to spend the
day in sleep and to return his hired
finery late in the afternoon. But the
beaus of Orchard street do not miss the
opportunity of displaying their fashion
able attire. Instead of sleeping late af-
ter Saturday night ball they are up be-
times, and in low waistcoat and swallow
tail coat they grace the street corners in
groups. The attention they attract and
the satisfaction they feel repay them in
large measure for the expense incurred.
As 6 O'Clock approaches they scurry
away, as did Cinderella just before mid
night, and little later they may again
be seen in the commonplace garb of their
everyday life.
A modern Noah's ark floated into the
harbor the other day. The British steam
ship Cangola arrived from Calcutta,
bringing elephants, tigers, leopards, mon
keys, bears, snakes, sacred Hindo0
COW, four-horned goat, together with
other wild animals native to
the far East. They are consigned to
ZOOS and circuses, and perhaps some of
them will ultimately come under the
watchful eye of Director Bigelow and Sc
cure a berth at Highland park.