The Virginia enterprise., 1900-01-05
BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has sent to
the New York police pension fund her
check for 5000 in recognition of the
services Of the police on the occasion OF
her husbands funeral.
Roger Walcott. Jr., son Of the gov
ernor Of Massachusetts, having gradual
td from college. is now a student in the
law school at Harvard. He has decided
literary tastes and is il frequent contrib
utter to the university magazines.
The report comes from Paris that
Gen. Mercier. who figured so prominent
Iy III the Dreyfus case. is Il candidate for
senator at the approaching January elec
tionS, from the department Of Loire inferi-
cure. 1t is generally believed that he
will he elected.
Baron Leo Skrbensky. the new
prince archbishop of Prague. is probably
the youngest metropolitan in the Roman
church. He was ordained priest in 1889.
and he only became parish priest in
1875. so that his promotion has been ex-
ceedingly rapid.
-Ionkers has chosen ii woman as Sani-
tary inspector. She is Mrs J. Van Wag-
ner, trained nurse, who won from two
competitors after passing the civil service
examination. The citizens hope that
be stopped. if nothing else.
Miss Marie Tempest. the actress, is :;
great reader of English, American and
French novels. and gets through nearly
all the new novels Of any merit as they
are published. Her favorite novelist is
Rudyard klpling. so. needless to say.
nothing of his ever escapes her pcruSal
1,,,George Lynch, correspondent of the
Echo, who has been captured by the
Beers outside the British lines at Lady
smith, is a bright journalist and an ex-
cellcnt artist, who did good work in the
Santiago campaign, and who left London
on twenty-four hours motive to represent
three journals.
Since the death of his wife. Lord
Salisbury is leading Il life so retired as to
be almost that of a hermit He will snt.
only his oldest and most intimate friends,
or those who call Oh business of mast
paramount Importance. Business, too, is
the only thing that takes him ont of his
house.
Emperor Wilhelm has ordered hi.,
court to learn the koermagyar, Il sort of
mlnuet. 1t is an extremely difficult
dance to master, and Prof. Louis Pottak,
who is a justice of the peace at Miskolez,
Hungary, has been ordered to Berlin to
teach the court. He was recommended
to the Emperor by the leader of the
opera.
John Jacob Astor OWNS one of th:.
most val luable manuscripts in this coun-
Try. IL Is tue IiIuOllS ClOfZi ullSStl. ana
was bought for $4,000. 1t measures
1875 by 93s inches. has 184 pages of vel
1um and is bound in red morocco. 1t WAS
made and decorated for Galeazzo Sforza
by the great Florentine artist, Francesc;,
Filippo Lippi.
The resignation of II. w. Massing-
ham from the edtorship of the London
Chronicle, because Of disagreement with
the LlOyls as to the war policy of the
paper, may lead to the establishing of
another daily i'll London to support the
anti.war opinion. Sir Charles Dixie is
credited as being in sympathy with the
plans for the undertaking.
Many of the nurses who went to
South Africa with the Canadian troops
are members Of well-known families in
the Dominion. The head nurse. for cx-
ample, is the youngest sister of Joseph
Pope, under secretary of state. She has
been nurse in at least three United
States hospitals. Another of the Ca
madam nurses is the daughter of Judge
Forbes of Halifax.