The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-06-05

produce the composition season after
next. The prize of $4,000 will be divided
equally between the librettist and COM
poser.
-Four thousand of Washington's SOL
dlers,. captured at the battle of Long
Island, were confined in these hulks, and
subsequent captives were added to their
number until a considerable feet was en-
ployed for the purpose. Release was con-
tlnually offered to all who would for
swear the cause for which they had
cepted liberty on that condition, while
more than $1,000 died in their floating
prisons.
The ''loidy" bootblacks did not make a
sensational hit in Wall street. Most of
the brokers shy from their advances as
they would from dentist chair or an
operating table. A number of half-baked
young men seized the opportunity that
they might make it an occasion for boast
ing later. The girls, who say they have
operated successfully in Pittsburg, Phila-
delphia and other cities, are quite pretty
and hastily dressed. They say it is their
intention to open a manicure parior with
the money made on their tour.
One Broadway restaurateur gives a
ness his place enjoys during Lent. He
has heard numerous confessions from
married men and he knows whereof he
speaks. 'Pious wives," says the dissem-
inator Of light, put their husbands on
short rations, and the men pretend to ac-
cept the restrictions in a religious spirit.
When they leave the house they head for
the nearest restaurant and proceed to
crawl outside of steak" It is another
proof that lbsen knew thing or two
when he wrote "The Dolls House."
Broadway's astronomer, who can be
found every bright night at either Twen-
ty-fourth or Thirty fourth street selling
peeps at the heavens through his tele-
mans honesty rudely shaken few
nights ago. Somebody, while looking at
the stars, unscrewed the lens from the
telescope and made away with it. The
owner of the telescope didn't discover his
loss until he was ready to quit for the
evening. The loss of the lens caused his
retirement for two nights from his accus-
Pedestrians missed him. The lens was
worth SIS.
Eighty pictures belonging to the J. D.
Ishenhauser collection have been sold at
Mendelssohn hall for $50, Jos. This was
just about as much as three of the best
paintings were valued at by the owner
Old masters sold at $500 and up: Turn
e er .s and Gai9sboroughs were in the 500
The best price was for a landscape and
cattle, by Paul Potter, which was 5000.
The next highest price was for Sir Josh
ua Reynolds portrait of Richard Gren-
vile, the first earl of Temple. bought for
$4,000. A Rubens sold for $225O, though
it was described as one Of the finest ex-
amples Of the great painter.
Borough President Cantor has an
nounced the plans for the rearrangement
Of the paths in Union Square park and
the moving of the statues of Washington
and Lincoln. The plan as prepared by
Mr.. Martin, chief engineer of subsurface
structures, is for a broad path coinciding
with the center line of Broadway for the
west side and another similar path on
the east side. At the apex of these two
paths and in the center Of the view look
ing north in Broadway it is proposed to
place the equestrian statue If Washing
ton, now at Fourteenth street and Fourth
avenue. The Lincoln statue will be
moved from Fourteenth street and Uni
versity. place to point just north Of the
fountain.
Cora, Countess Of STAFFORD formerly
Mrs. Samuel Colgate of New York;, has
just undergone a severe surgical opera
ton on her knee at the nursing home in
Bentinck place, London. She had been
troubled by her knee ever since she hurt
it two years ago, and when going to the
durbar she slipped on the wet deck, twist
ing it badly. She suffered intensely at
Bombay, but could not return home then,
as her daughter, Miss Colgate, took q
in
night ago. Expert advice was taken and
an operation was performed. A small
piece of bone was removed from the knee,
and the operation is considered success
full, but it cannot be said yet whether the
joint will be permanently stiff or not. 1t
will be i've weeks before the patient will
be allowed to stand.
Mrs. Washington A. Roebling, wife 81
the engineer of the Brooklyn bridge, who
became famous for the part she took ID
j., OF a general decay Of the muscular
system. She was 60 years DID,. Col.
ROebling spent days in the caissons in
preparing the bridge foundation, and in
time his health became shattered and lie
fell victim to fever. It was then that
his brilliant wife sprang into prominence.
She carried on the building Of the bridge
by communicating to the workmen on the
bridge what her husband had planned in
bed. Seated in her husbands room,
which overlooked the East river, Mrs.
Roebling, day by day, surveyed the worts
through a telescope, explaining its prog
ress to her husband. The bridge was
completed May ~, 1888. Mrs. Roebling
was the first woman to cross it.
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