The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-13

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day is that am strapped" said the sen
ator. Il spent all my money on my va
cation and am shy car fare. l am going
! in here to see if my friend Morgan will
lend me nickel to get uptown
German Mary the largest iioness
in the Central Park menagerie, has been
| puzzling the keepers, who have been Won
dering why she does not obey commands
given to her in English. The animal was
| brought here seven years ago from Ger
years with circus. "Bill'' Snyder, Who
| has charge of German Mary" is the on
| ly keeper who can make the animal mind
| him. He gives all commands to her in
German. When she hears that language
but when anything is said to her in Eng
fish she apparently pays no heed.
! Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal,
| high commissioner for Canada at Lon
don, arrived on the Campania: He vas
Robert Jared Bliss Howard, his daugh-
ter: her husband, and four children. The
| high commissioner was on his way to his
home in Montreal. After few hours
rest the party boarded the Montreal ex-
press OF the New York Central. Because
|
attracted no little attention in the corri-
doris of the hotel. Although 81 years old,
he bears himself like man twenty years
younger. His hair. although snowy white,
is abundant, and he wears bushy white
| beard.
Word has been received from Sag Har-
| Dor that Lorimer Stoddard, the well.
known playwright, is dead. Lorimer
| Stoddard was the son of Richard Henry
Stoddard, the poet He was an actor
before he attempted to write plays. He
was in the original cast of '':The Hen
riett3:' He was for time member
played the Prince of Aragon in Mr.
Manstied's first production of THE Mer-
| chant OF Venice" He wrote Mr.. Mans
fields play Napoleon" for him. The
play with which he first attracted Il con
siderable amount Of attention was ''TeSs
Of d'Urbervilles," which he wrote for
Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske.
After the first Of January it will be
possible to marry in New York state by
! contract. without the aid of preach
err and with only the assistance of the
city clerk and a couple of witnesses. The
marriage will We just as binding as the
tract marriages will be kept the same as
other marriages. The new order Of af-
fairs is the result of an amendment
passed by the last Legislature to the
domestic relations law. 1t will not cost
SO much to be married by contract,
either. The schedule Of prices is: For
administering an oath and taking an OK.
| for filing and entering 4 contract. -:
cents: for certified copy of the con
tract, 10 cents. The whole job can be
completed for $1.33.
New York theater managers are going
in this winter to abolish the free pass
system: OF course, this does not mean
that all free passes will be done away
with. but an effort will be made to abol-
iSh all window paper" by which is
meant the free tickets that are given for
placing Autographs, in windows. 1t is
successfully in other large cities, and the
managers do not see why it should not
work as we'll in New York First it is
to be tried in Brooklyn. If the theaters
there find that they can afford to abol-
ism the window tickets. then the New
suit. The managers do not so much OBJ
Ject to giving out tickets for Autograph
purposes as they do to having the per.
sons receiving them sell the tickets to
scalperS.
| William Frederick Bodley, VINO mar
ried the daughter Of Mrs. Head anG
ward of Millionaire Taylor last week
and who. with his bride, was refused for
giveness by the mother and the guardian
Of the bride. received his check for hi
services rendered to Mr.. Taylor. Mr. ani
Mrs. Bodley left Blue Point to try to SEE
Mrs. Head and endeavor to win her 70:
giveness. They drove to Mr.. Taylor:
place: near 1slip, L. l.. but were sent e
the house of Mr.. Taylor's coachman
There they found George ". Weeks
Jr:. Mr.. Taylor's lawyer. From Mr.
Weeks Bodley received the check. Mr.
Weeks also warned the couple on tn,
part of Mrs. Head and Mr.. Taylor no
to trespass again on Mr.. Taylor's prop
erty. Mr.. and Mrs. Bodiey returned &
Blue Point. They will remain there :
few days and then probably will 90 +,
New York.
In the bar-room Of O'Neiii's hotel or
Broadway the other night appeared 6
long, lank individual who looked like
> and really was. a cattleman from Tex
as. He asked for small glass, of beer
which he drank slowly. Then he pulled
roll of bills as big as mans arm
from his pocket, carelessly pulled one
of them off the roll and handed it tt
the bartender; The latter, as we'll as
the actors and newspaper men who fire
9uent the place, almost, dropped dead
| rendered it declared that he had nc
change and no smaller bills. The bar
tender said he could pay again, but thu
Texan insisted upon paying then. HI
; was so determined that a policeman was
finally called, who asked him tn loova