The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-11-30
IN GAY NEW YORK.


tanbark at the horse show last night in
company of twenty-five equally we'll
groomed thoroughbredS competing for
blue-ribbon honors in the saddle class.
a glance ut the catalogue showed the
following entry: "Tuldeka Orphan, by
Metropolitan, dam Electricity Had
noticed that Puldeka Orphan is in
rhythm like "pulled a car often" and
have learned that ranker counterfeit ney-
err figured in a horse trade than Puldeka
Orphan, reincarnation of carhorse aud
relic of the metropolitan Sire t Railway
place OF horse motive power. Brian &.
Hughes, practical joker, had foisted Pull
deka Orphan on the horse show mana
gers, fooled a credulous public and
scored another joke But his horse won
no prize.
So completely had Mr. Hughes carried
out his plans that after the exhibition the
judges were still unaware Of the trick
perpetrated on them. He succeeded in
placing as his entry in competition for {,
prize against the highest class horses in
the country, a steed which formerly
romped in front of a Fifty-ninth street
cross-town car from East to North river.
Mr.. Hughes bought the horse last Sep
TENDER for $11.5O, and has been feeding
the animal up ever since Miss Clara
Hughes. Mr.. Hughes daughter rode the
"Orphan' when exhibited.
Mr. Hughes once successfully exhibited
at the catshow a Bowery cat described
with a bogus pedigree, which took first
prize. He has perpetrated various other
jokes which have received much publci-
ty.
An aged w;dowera who lives on the
Heights and is reputed to be wealthy. is
in the habit Of taking his simple break
fasts i'll a swell restaurant in Fulton
street. The old man is as eccentric as
he is plain in his tastes. His regular or
der is toast, boiled eggs and coffee, but
it causes the walters and cooks more
men, If things do not go to suit him he
does not hesitate to swear roundly. Aft
er fusSng over his meal for a long time
the old man amuses the other patrons of
the restaurant by piling his dishes and
the table furnishings in grotesQue heaps.
One day he covered his coffee cup with
a saucer. On that he placed a salt cellar
capped with 4 butter dish. and upon it
all he carefully poised his napkin.
1t was in a Broadway pharmacy. \
Mail and Express reporter was waiting
with others when the druggist stepped to
the telephone, and after getting the num-
Der ne called for, said:
'What is that t0mcat doing?'
He listened with apparent excitement
and added:
How is spnach?'
After holding the receiver to his ear
for Il few moments, he rang off, started
to attend to his customers. He seemed
nervous, however, AMI finally excused
himself in the midst OF filling an order,
and called up the same number on the
telephone again.
Sell my tomcat at the Market he
said, as soon as he had someone at the
other end.
Then he returned to his customer with
apparent ease Of mind. The reporter
wondered what the druggist meant bv
this strange conversation until it was ex-
planned by a Wall street speculator.
:Tomcat,' it seems, is pet name among
brokers for Tennes see Coal and iron
stock. "Spinach'' is the familiar name
for Southern Pacific. The druggist had
evidently bought "tomcat" low, and his
excitement was caused by his eagerness
to take profits
have pet names in the street.'' Pto-
pies Gas of Chicago is known as "Post-
Office and Brooklyn Rapid Transit is
known among many as Little Manhat-
tam The names are not the same in all
brokers' offices: The jargon enables
cuSlOlHeis 70 give oruerS over the tele-
phone to their brokers with certain
amount of secrecy: The practice is as
old as the market
More than ever the trail Of the SER
pent is over woman's jewelry. Extreme
~ popular are Cleopa tra's rings in chased
gold or set with stones which form the
cleaning eyes of the serpent. Bracelets,
necklaces, brooches-all show the ser
women, who seem to have lost all
squeamishness that they ever had about
coming in contact even with the sem
blance of reptile There is a present
fad for roug h-cut jewels. The matrix
turquoise, showing the vein OF quartz
just as it is found in nature, is much in
demand. This is set frequently in the
rose gold coiled artistically about the
stone, serpent fashion. Rough opals set
in the same way are also among the
most popular ornaments of the hour.
The American Dramatists' club gave a
dinner at Sherry's last night, celebrating
the achievements and prospects of the
American drama. About fifty American
dramatists, novelists and actors were
present. among them ,, Sidney ", Rosenfe!9'
Hopkinson Smith, John Philip Sousa, w.
A: Brady, Edward E. Rose, Augustus
Pitou. Paul NJ Potter, Joseph Jefferson,
De Wolf Hopper, Paul Leicester Ford,
A. NJ. Palmer, Kirk La Shelle and Clyde
Fitch.
Joseph Jefferson responded to a toast
as follows: Il feel very much cmbar-
raised tonight, because l am the only
actor present, and possibly, too, the only
American actor who has never encour-
aged the American dramatist at all. The
fact Of the matter is that l have feared
to do SO. Failure in part to a man of
30 or 40 may mean little, but to man
Of my years to fail in a new creation
would have meant ruin, and to tell the
truth; have refrained from attempting
any new roles for fear that l might fail.
TO my mind the great power of the dra-
ma lies in the fact that it appeals to two
senses. You cannot see music and you
cannot hear painting, but drama ap-
peals to both senses equally
Relic hunters were in the wake of the
destroying force at work on the Dewey
arch as usual. Fragments from the bat
tered statue of Victory and Farragut's
head was auctioned in front of the Hoff-
man house, being knocked down for 40
cents to German from Jersey. The
pitiful himsiness of the Dewey memorial