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ed; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt lives in
dover house" that has cost with its
| treasures twice as much; Mr.. Schwab's
will have cost more if he ever gets it
finished. There are at least three 9TH
some of them give little exterior hint
of it,
The great cold Italian palace of C.
P. Huntington, the artistic French re-
| Nuisance home of W. X Vanderbilt
the often remodeled brown-stone pack
ing box of Frederick Vanderbilt, are
cases in point.
| But Smith-when an old bachelor of
SO years Ouys 100000 house, peo-
pie begin to ask just what people ask
when a bachelor buys a house any
where in the country for his own USE
Who is she?
Mr.. Smith is the greatest catch in
the country. Many a New York heiress
we'll past her 20 years would willingly
forego the customary baron or duke to
write Smith" on her visiting cards.
There would be incidental advantages.
| too. Mr.. Smith would not beat his wife
as continental "noblemen" have more
than once been known to do to their
American purchases. -.
Smith is more than half English,
anyhow. His uncle, old George Smith,
who lived in his London club for about
$4,000 a year and whose death paid
$4,5000O0 in taxes to the British crown.
was English born and lived but few
profitable years in this country. So
lit would not be just like marrying an
American do you see? High society
is nothing if not consistent in it's un-
| Americanism.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

In the Chinese language every name
is in itself a description of the crject
TO which the name belongs. For in
stance, pei means north; nan, south;
tunE, east; and 81, west, while tsin, kin
or king mean capital or metropolis.
Paking, therefore, means northern cap.
it'll. and Nankin southern capital. Ho
means river, and so does 'kiang; there
fore Pei;ho. is north river, and ST .kiang
west river. Che means seven, and
Che-kiang is seven rivers. Shan means
mountain; Shan-thng, therefore, is
east mountain, and shan:si west noun.
TAIN . -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
Hardin is a modern CITY in the

Hardin is a modern city in the oeart
of Manchuria, on the Sungari river,
$50 miles west from Vladivostok and
600 miles north of Port Arthur. 1t j.
at the junction of the Chinese Eastern
railway with the Siberian trunk line
Population in 1901, 10000! in 1902
10000; in 1903, $4,000, exclusive OF
soldiers. The Chinese number about
10000 of these, in a special settlement
1t is military center, with many pr;.
vate business interests, the money for
which has been furnished largely by
Siberian Jews.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

In dark room, where he could see
nothing but the outline of his machine,
with a stop-watch held on him and
six witnesses present, John A. Shields,
of Ottawa, Kan, clattered off 222 words
on a typewriter in a single minute,
thus breaking the worlds record by
10 words and demonstrating his right
to be hailed as the worlds champion.
Charles McGurrin has for a\number
of years held the worlds record at 212
words per minute.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

Strange as it may seem, a lot Of
money is made out of policemen's cast
off uniforms. Quantities are bought
by African traders and exported 10 VII
rious parts of the Dark Continent"
where they are exchanged for palm ci II,
Ivory, skins and other merchan lisc
II. is by no means an uncommon sight
to see swarthy savage dressed in the
uniform OF London policeman, and
wearing the regulation helmet Of the
force.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

The warrant under which John Bun
van was apprehended and placed in
Jail at Bedford for six months during
the reign of Charles II. was sold at
auction in London for $1,525. The
warrant, which is signed by thirteen
justices of the peace, six baronets and
seven esquires, charged the tinker
with contempt of law, by preaching
and teaching otherwise than accord.
Ing to the liturgie or practice os the
Church of England"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

A widow of comedy figure and tender
age, Mrs. Emma Peake, of Wanatah,
ILL.,, has been courted by two farmers
who raise fat stock, mostly hogs. Mrs.
Peake, being unable to decide between
the two, has offered to marry the man
who has the largest number of fat hogs
weighing over 300 pounds each by De-
cember Is next. This Is the birthday
of the widow, and she has promised to
have great feast on the day when
SHIT will be able to make satisfactory
choice between her two suitors.
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SS~--HN~
The Great Houses of New York.

HOUGH Mr.. Smith.
who as the pos
SCISSOR of a very
sO1idly invested
fortune of 0,000,-
600 can afford the
h o IL Sc he h a 8
bought, has paid
for it the record
purchase price, he
has not the record
house in cost. Mr..
Carnegie's house
has cost more than
Whitney eXpend-
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WASHINGTON \ : GOSSIP:
MEN AND HAPPENINGS AT THE
I NATIONAL CAPITOL.
PLANS OF THE PRESIDENT
How the Chief Executive Proposes to
Spend the Summer-A Scotch
Gardener Who Dares Defy
Congress.

ington University is to be the some
what cumbersome title of the institu-
ton now known as the Columbian uni
versity, which is preparing for an en-
larged sphere of educational usefulness
by the purchase of a new site and the
erection of new buildings in Washing
ton.
For many years Columbian UNIVERSE
ty has been one of the institutions of
the national capital. 1t has been better
known on account of it's school of law
than for any other reason, but some
other of it's departments have been do
ing memorable things in various lines
OF scientific research. The members of
it's faculty are men of national reputa-
ton and they have added the luster of
distinguished names to the record of
the university. 1t is now proposed that
the undergraduate department of the
university shall become more conspic-
uous and that the institution shall take
rank among the great institutions of
learning which hitherto have been
magnets for the ambitious youth of
the country.
In order that this mission may be
fulfilled the name of the university will
be changed, not because there is any
inherent objection to the present title,
but because of the confusion which
necessarily arises between the Wash
ington Institution and the Columbia
university of New York with older ira
ditions and greater achievements.
The new site for the university is to
be on the banks of the Potomac not
far from the Washington monument
and very near the place which Wash
ingtOn himself selected over 100 years
ago as the site for the national uni
it's home in the national capital. Wash
ington set forth his ambition in sew
eral letters as we'll as in his will. His
motive was one of patriotism rather
than personal sentiment or local pride
1T is my ardent WISH" he wrote, "to
see a plan devised on a liberal scale
which would have a tendency to spread
systematic ideas through all parts of
this rising empire, thereby to do away
with local attachments and state pref
JUDGES as far as the nature of things
would or indeed ought to admit from
our national councils" To this un;-
versity he planned that the youths
from all parts of the union might be
sent for the completion of their edu-
cation in all branches of polite litera-
ture, in the arts and sciences, in &C.
Quiring knowledge in the principles of
politics and good government and las
matter of infinite importance in my
Judgment by assQciating with each 9TH
er and forming friendships be enabled
to free themselves in a proper degree
from those local prejudices and habit
ual jealousies which carried to excess
are never failing sources of disquietude
to the public. mind and pregnant with
mischievous consequences to this coun-
try"
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000,OO0 the home on Fifth avenue of the
late William c. Whitney.
This is the largest price ever paid in
America for secondhand" house. AS
rule, if man has $4,000, 900 to pay for
house with, he prefers to have one
made to suit his own ideas. Often
man in a hurry comes out of the
west who has made his pile, and can
not afford to wait a year before settling
down to enjoy it. Such man can
sometimes be fitted with a cast-off
house, but no one has ever paid $2,O00,-
900 for one until Mr. Smith. AS rule,
such transfers are limited to the half
million class.
Mr.. Whitney was relatively house.
and land-poor. He has his place on
Fifth avenue, which with the contents
cost nearer four millions than two. He
had great establishments in LenOx, on
Long island, in the Adirondacks, at
Sheepshead bay, in Aiken, S. c. The
Fifth avenue house was built for a
sugar refner who never lived to occu-
py it. AMI Barber, the asphalt man,
ucAI wv uou ~ duu SO1u IL " NIL " StAI~
ney for $650,000. All the rest of its
cost of more than $3,500,000 was put
into the place by tearing out the in
terror, by rebuilding it and by lavish
furnishings. But the house remained
out of the mode as to its exterior; it
| was and is a brown-stone affair which
the unobservant pass unnoticed. Its
great size, SIS feet by 200, does not
seem remarkable in street of palaces.
1t is only when one enters that he sees
what a fairyland the architects made
of the sugar mans home. And this
| contrasted exterior and interior in
stance the growing readiness of the
rich to hide unsupported riches of in
terror decoration behind a plain ex-
terror. This is an oriental trait not IN
natural in an age of oriental luxury
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

Chairs were in use in Egypt, SO long
ago as 1899 B. c. The Chinese EN-:
ployed them from about 1900 B. c.. In
India they were used, and are me2.
toned as dating from 100 y. c.
House chairs with backs were in use
in India A. D. 800. They are known
to have been employed in Rome SC
early as A. D. 70, being mentioned by
Pliny at that date. Chairs with foot
rests were used in Rome A. D. $50.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

opening of the opera. Boxes were sold
at auction as high as $3.50. Everyone
was there. Throughout the season peo.
pie of wealth paid high prices to see
what was after all only variety show.
Charles Belmont Davis, brother of
Richard Harding Davis and son of Re.
becca Harding Davis, was the business
manager. He meyer appeared at the
box Office except III dress suit and was
hail fellow with young men about
town.
Weber & Fields are funny. Fields
is tall and lank, Weber a little fellow
plainly doomed by unkindly fate to
wear pillow in his waistcoat. His
was the luckless lot to sputter bad
German dialect while Fields parodied
the stars in burlesque and got compli.
ments upon his acting. Jealousy did
the rest. Fields keeps the house. He
is good business man and may make
money with it. He may not. Fash.
ion may move as suddenly and IRA
tionally as it has done before and leave
it stranded.
But what galaxy of stars the little
house has boasted while it was drawing
real money at everv performance! Be-
sides the actor managers themselves
there were Lillian Russell, Dave War
field, Pete Daily, Fay Templeton, VIII
lie Collier and others only less known.
The very chorus girls had their little
local fame. Not to know frankie
Bailey was worse than to confess ig-
norance Of the philosophy of Nietzsche.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
The End of Weber-Fields.

T the end of this
theatrical season
t h e w e Der &
Field music hall
goes the way of
all things theatre
cal.
1t has been a
wonderful money
maker. Opening
night at the little
music hall has for
several years been
as distinct a So
ciety event as the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
Dares Defy Congress.

There is one reservation in Wash
ington which is to al intents and pur-
poses outside of the jurisdiction of the
United States government. The Ma
tional botanic garden just at the foot
OF the capitol where Pennsylvania
avenue runs up against the capitol
grounds, is presided over by William
r: Smith, the superintendent, who is
! law under himself.
Smith is Scotch gardener with a
pronounced burr, who got his early
training in the Kew gardens in. London
and he has been in command in his lit
tie domain for so many years that
members of congress, who are nomf-
! nally his superiors, would not think Of
/ interfering with the old mans wishes.
So it happens that with the exception
of the white house grounds the botanic
garden is the only public reservation
in Washington which is now enclosed
by fence
Years ago high iron fences surround
ed every park and public place in the
national capitol, but by order of con-
gress they were taken down one by
one. Congress c1ally landed on the
botanic garden and somebody Thought
lessly considered in an appropriation
bill a provision for tearing down the
fence. Smith calmly ignored the law.
When the officials came to him to car
ry the law into execution he ordered
them OF and infor. med them that so
long as he remained superintendent of
the botanic garden it was going to be
inclosed by q fence as it had been ever
since he was put into control. When
congress came back they received the
old mans ultimatum with amused toll
erance and he received assurances that
he would never be annoyed again.
But a few years later somebody else
absent-mindedly inserted a seconu.pro-
vision for tearing down the fence and
again the canny Scotchman ignored
the law Of congress. This time the
thing went so far that the members of
the appropriations committee who
were responsible for the slip came
down to the botanic garden and apollo
i gized for their mistake
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GROUP UNIVERSITY

tary Loeb thus far has displayed equal
talent. But all the same he does not
relish two fittings within a short time
The president does not expect great
many people at Osyter bay. The facil-
tiles there for entertaining strangers
are very meager and it is both the re-
gard for his own comfort and for that
of the people who wish to see him that
he has decided to make his headquar-
tiers during a good part of the cam
paign right here in Washington.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
The Botanic Garden.

There is no more int! esting spot in
! Washington than this same botanic
garden which Superintendent Smith
guards SO jealousy. There is a flavor
OF old time about it which makes it
, different from any other spot and
which the fond superintendent protects
with all of his might. ); .--
Every tree in the place has history
Most of them were set out by distin-
guished people to whom the old Scotch.
man has taken a fancy. One magnifl.
cent water beech was planted IS years
ago by John A. Bingham of Ohio
nearby it are two poplars, one of which
was set out by Edwin Forest, the ira
gedian,, the other by his friend. John
W. Forney.- The wife of Jefferson d.
Wis dedicated one tree still standing
when Davis was secretary of war. + In
short there are not many men. who
have gained great distinction since
Smith has been superintendent of the
gardens who have not been flattered
by him with an invitation to plant a
tree.
OF equal interest with the garden it.
self, as may be imagined, is the old
Scotchman who is it's presiding genius.
Not only is he a horticulturist of rare
devotion, but he is .religiously attached
to his national songster, Robert Burns
and he possesses the finest collection
Of editions Of Burns works which can
be found in the United States. ri.
TO the mind: of Superintendent Smith
the, greatest of all public men within
his memory was William Pitt Fessen-
den of Maine. He ranks Fessenden on
level with Lincoln as one of the two
men who saved the nation at the time
Of the civil war and he has a standing
grievance against every other native
Of Maine because none Of them has vet
shown sufficient devotion to Fessen-
denis memory to write his life: H..
In Smiths mind the greatest
achievement Of the Maine statesman
was il securing an appropriation for
erection of the Conservatives in the
garden. which are the apple Of Smiths
eye. Fessenden was chairman 0f the
library committe In the senate fust
at the close Of the war. When Smith
went before the committee timidly ia
get small appropriation to begin thu
work, the Maine senator bluntly asked
how much It would cost to comp1ets
the Job and. then insisted on maxine
the entire appropriate on of $4,000 al
once OF Lo yIssA COOLIDGE
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The Man from Somewhere.

X-SPEAKER DA-
VID B. HENDER-
S o N as got
enough OF New
York. He says
he's going back
to "Ioway" il the
fall.
Now this is an
interesting item.
For the city is full
of ex- go vernors
from somewhere
0n6 uy@,,1L - A..YN
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27

There were 6,537 potato distil'eries
in operation in Germany in 10000;
the output of pure alcohol was 93.-
9e5,940 gallons. The production Of the
potato distilleries amounted to - per
cent. of the total production of alco-
hol in the empire. The quantity OF
potatoes used amounted to 113,475, S48
bushels
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The Weddings Of the Roosevelts.

ERHAPS 1 should
take, that back.
Hasn't the presi-
dent'ss-nephew and
na!mesake, young
Theodore .Roose-
welt Douglas Rob
inson, just become
engaged to Miss
Helen Roosevelt
Roosevelt? You
will ! observe that
Roosevelt" occurs
three times in
their seven names
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|Nl|I|''|| lt)RK ( SOCIETY Y
COST OF THE HOMES OF THE
~ : WEALTHY LEADERS. s. HI !:
Z. 9@F+I,.-- u
THE ELABORATED INTERIORS
Extravagant Magnidcance Hid Be-
hind Plain Walls-A Roosevelt
Wedding and an Interesting
Roosevelt-0ther Gossip.

EW YORK, - Often
in this city of build
ing mania does a
good Society ITEM
come out of the dull
column of real es-
tate transfers. This
happened the other
day when the an
nouncement came
that James Henry
Smith, the silent
Man of w a l |
Street" had bought
f0~ 0r1 fhor 60
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NE
u Gen. John ii. Sanborn.

q Glen: John 3. 5sanb born, one Of the
most prominent among I'LL the pioneer
g 81 81 this state, and one Of the
most 2 distinguished Of, the Minnesota;
veterans Of the civil war, died the 10TH
at his home in st. Paul. > ;:555 ..5s# 5s:s
Is General Sanborn was Is years Of age
but it was not until the last year of
his, life that he showed any of the in-Sa
ttrmities of old age. .,.s5 81
Perhaps no portion of the life history;
Of General Sanborn is more creditabl
than his war record. He was appoint
ed by Gov. Alexander Ramsey in 1861
as adjutant general and acting quar-
.termaster general Of the. state, with
the rank of brigadier general, and .en-i
trusted with the organization and:
equipmentof the Observation-Disclosures
: He took an active and distinguished
part in the making,of history Of the
epoch from 1861 to 1865, and from the
grade Of colonel he rose to the highest
rank achieved by any Minnesota Off
Ger. in the civil war-that of brigadief
general. . -
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and they are both strenuous Ameri-
cans. Youns Robinson is a football
payer and his inamorata is the grand
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
Attempted Suicide.

Soaked in blood which flowed from
several jagged wounds II, his throat,
Hans Olson Of St. Paul was found ~
a small newsboy, lying unconscious
behind one of the large billboards on
Wabasha street, just across from the
new capitol. -
In determined effort to end his life,
the man had gashed his throat in three
or four places with a piece of brc.:en
glass which he had picked up on the,
street.
Some of the smaller arteries had beer
severed, the jugular vein laid bare,
and the flow of blood from the wounds
was SO profuse that Olson must have
died in a very short time had he not
been given prompt attention.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
Gentlemanly Burglar.

=
=. Another Of those gentle and accom-
smodating burglars entered the resi-
dence Of Mrs: s. j. Reed, Minneapolis,
ransacked. all the rooms on the first
floor while the family slept, and then
began search Of the sleeping rooms,
when he was asked to desist. .1.:.,
Mrs. Reed was awakened by some
one coming quietly up the stairs, but
hadn't time, to investigate before a
dark lantern was flashed in her. face;
*'Go away from here" said Mrs.
Reed. cor my sons will shoot you"
''All right said the burglar, and he
walked quietly down the stairs and
out of the front door.
The man had turned everything
topsy turvy, but found only a few
trinkets. He overlooked $50 in cabi-
net. Mrs Reed saw the mans face
plainly and was able to give a good
description of the man to the police.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-27
Scoring Postponed.

w. w. P. Mcconnell, state dairy and
food commissioner, has decided to
postpone the May butter scoring
contest and the first 'cheese-scoring
test of the proposed six-months' con-
test, until the first week in June. 1t
was originally intended to begin the
cheese-scoring contest at the May but
ter-scoring, but many cheese factories
were late in starting, and Mr.. Neon
nell decided to give the cheesemakers
more time.
The dairy and food commission will
issue a circular explaining the cheese
scoring contest. Prizes will be offered
at each monthly test, IS in cash for
the cheesemaker making the highest
score; So for the second best score, and
81 for the third best score Costly sill
yer cups will be awarded at the enc of
the six-months' contest to the tlsree
cheese-makers making the highest
s0nroo
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Hurt by Dynamite.

A gangsof men were blasting rock
on West Seventh street, st. Paul, when
they exploded an old charge of dyna-
mite left in place by a former crew.
Three men, were hurt. Ealmissano
Tasquale, left arm from wrist to ell
bow, flesh torn to the bone; Charles
Vonchini, eye knocked out and badly
burned about the arms and face; VIM
Solbig, arms and face burned. 49,. ~.-g I