The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-29
N GAY new YORK.
Scenes and 1neiaents Of Everyday
Lie in the Pari; ofSAm:riea. -

vas that T saw she had ki1aki aes.zszs
'fechies Upon her nose! Fun.
LAY OF THE WILD WAVES. s*~.
What are the wild waves saying,
AS they break on the sandy beach?
'ReWare the baron landlord
lie grabs everything in reach!,,.. 1
philadelphia North American.
=; FREE LUNCH.
The long-haired poet has a scheme;
Hunger he no longer feels;
LIS room is above Il restaurant
And he now inhales his meals
Chicago News.
Bettina GiTard has appeared in the
Lion Palace Roof garden for the first
time in public since her severe illness
She seemed like her old self.
ne craze for jcweled effects has
reached even slipperdom, and all sippprs
are decorated with buckles as ornate ~
~ the halycon days Of paste ornament.
they may be brilliants or TURQUOISE hnt
buckles there must be of some sort.
When Mayor Van Wyck of New York
met Col. John F. Gaynor the other daT
ne sad: All, colonel, how do you do? 7
see YOU and are getting our names in
the paper good deal of latc,' to which
the quick colonel replied. Eyes, So 70.
H. MIR. Van Wyck did not think This
as funny as others who heard it.
The electric light as adapted to candle
sticks IS an old story. A rather new idea
IS, however, introduced i'll a cut-glass
fruit dish that has some tiny electric
lamps, deftly fixed in such a wav ns to
bring out all the brilliancy of the cent,
glass and the coloring of the fruit with
out betraying the method of their intro
duction.
"Seclcy dinners will not do in New
ark, any more than in New York. it
seems. Henry Negbauer of that CITY on
coming OF age, gave a dinner to some
New York friends lately, at which some
questionable features. were provided, and
today he was fined 5000 and told that
he had narrowly escaped Il term in prison
without the option of fine.
Mrs. Russell Sage mt with a peculiar
accident. After having been out shop
ping she returned to her home, 5OG Fifth
avenue. She carried her own bundles
and rang the doorbell to be admitted.
The wire to the bell broke and Mrs. Sage
fell backward down the stone steps. She
fell upon one of the bundles she carried
and, therefore, escaped serious injury. 1t
is feared, however, that her left arm is
sprained.
One of the events of the season in
Paris was the ball given by the Countess
de Ganay. The countess, who is very
wealthy, is the daughter of a South
American banker. She married the
Count de Ganay, we'll known in America,
which he visited some years ago The
Count de Ganay is half an American. his
mother being a Miss Ridgeway of Phila-
delphia. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who is
cousin, was one Of the guests at the
ball.
Fanny Ward, the American actress,
who served as a barmaid at the opening z
of the National bazar in London, sue
ceeded in selling a Manhattan cocktail
at what is undoubtedly the record price
1t was a matter of thirst and Il great
crush of patrons, and when yMiss Ward
found so many waiting; toSbes served She
said she would wait on. tile highest bid.
der first. When the price was run up L
1925 the gentleman Offering that sum got
his cocktail first.
When yea buy your steamer rug this
summer you should insist on it's being of
Scotch paid pattern, if you wish to be
strictly in fashion. a rug is indispensa-
BILE for comfort on an ocean voyage, and
it is just as easy to have one of the pre-
vailing style as not, provided one has to
buy a new one There are rugs of other
patterns in the New York stores, one of
striking design being in black and white
diamonds, but the Scotch plaid is the ia
vOrite. judging by the number of them
placed on exhibition.
The modern skyscrapers in New Yorl
are responsible for 4 new disease. Ply
sicians call it Elevator heart" 1t is
confined to elevator conductors. Several
men who follow this occupation have
died recently of heart failure, and med
ical men declare that it was sudden as
cent and descent all .day~long which af-
fected the heart. The faster the elevator
goes the greater the danger. The air in
the bottom Of the shaft in high build
ing is more dense than at the top and the
rapid change from one to the other has /,
weakening tendency.
Two Of the; coolest spots in downtown
New York in summer time are the church
yards of Trinity and old St. PaurS. In
side the thick brown walls a dense and
quiet GOODNESS prevails, and many a.pass-
erby snatches few moments from the
nOcnday lunch hour to step inside the
hallowed walls and forget the noise and
heat Of the. busy street outside. The
stone walks - in the shadow of the
churches and the steps of the various en-
frances are we'll peopled during the mid
day hours by men and girls, who find a
pleasant shelter under the protecting
walls of these two old-time churches.
The Mexican Herald reports an acci
dent to Prince Poniatowski of Poland
and Mexico, well known in the most ex
elusive society circles OF Newport and
New York. The Prince received from
friends in America new revolver of the
latest complicated resign. "He didn't
know it was loaded" and carelessly
snapped the hammer. The bullet dis
charged carried away the fleshy part OF
the Princes nose. He is not dangerous
ly injured but his good looks are spoiled
Prince POniatOwski was two seasons ago
one Of the stars of Newport society. HI
highly connected among the 1mperialists
OF MEXICO. - ss.ss
A suggestion of summer is found in the
new toys the sidewalk fakirsA of Unior
square and Fourteenth street sexhibi1
these days. The fayerite is mechanical
bug, which moves its eight struggling
legs deliberately over the flagstones AND
shakes its antennae at the same time, ir
painfully-natural manner. The crea
ture looks like potato bug, but it NIGH
be something eelse.,~At. all events, it re
minds the city dweller that such things
are abroad in the country, and hence tina,
summer really is here at last. The side
walk. peddlers procure most of these
Clockwork toys,.and other queer thing
they sell from an Individual known fal
and wide as the King Of the Fakirs, wht
has little xwareroom, downtown, and has