Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-05-05
PERSONAL NOTES.

| Indian avenue, near Sachnest Beach.
1t is expected that President Ar
thur, Governor Butler, Governor
Waller, Governor Patterson and
Governor Cleveland will attend the
celebration of the opening OF the
East River bridge.
Henry Kimber. a solicitor, of Lon
don, has lent f25,000 to the English
colony at Rugby, Tenn. The resi-
dents of the colony think that the
sum is sufficient to place the enter
prise on a good basis.
Oscar Wilde admires America and
Americans just as he would any other
curiosity. He admires bunko men
for similar reason. America ad-
mired Oscar not so much because he
was curiosity as because it took him
to be the missing link"
The circumstances attending the
death of Prince Gortschakoff promise
to reveal one OF the most startling
political crimes of the age. There
appears to be no longer any doubt of
his having been poisoned.
Olive Logan, now in London, re-
Gently answered a Nice florists ad
vertisement and got some flowers by
return post, but declares that she
could have got just as lovely and
twice as many flowers at London
shop, so suggestively has the spring
opened in that much-weathered
quarter of the globe.
Mime. Modjeska is said to intend
retiring to Poland, to live among her
compatriots, at the end of her theat-
rical career; but, Judging from her
age and strength, her frequent new
histrionic triumphs, her great popu-
larity and her constantly growing
fame, such retirement is many years
in the future.
Mr.. McCosh, who is the most re-
markable survival of Scotch theology
of the present age, is always in
trouble with The students at Prince
ton College, of which he is President.
He has now expelled a number of
them for giving wine supper to
guest from Harvard. 1t is understood
that at Harvard the boys can get
howling drunk and never be called
to account, unless it be by the police.
"Blue Ribbon" Stanford. a wealthy
place hunter in Washington. who was
Minister to Belgium during the war,
got his name at dinner party he
once gave. At his dinner he had his
diplomatic guests at one end of the
table and his palmer guests at the
other end. Between the two classes
of guests he had blue ribbon
stretched. He is now worth several
millions and desires the refined so
ciety of foreign court life.
The fire in Chicago was still burn
ing when the late Marshall Jewell,
as representative of the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company, stood on a
barrel amidst the ruins telling
crowd of business men that his com
pany would pay all losses in full;
and on one of their number express
ing doubt, he asked the man for
his policy, which amounted to about
$4,000. Mr.. Jewell took off his hat
and wrote check for the amount on
the top of it.
Part of the English press deride
the idea of police precautions being
necessary to MIR. Gladstone's safety
on his return to London, but in view
of the rampant socialism which is Wis
ible everywhere, these guards against
a possible attempt of the disaffected
Irish to murder the Premier, as they
have murdered some of his represent
atives, are not silly. Mr.. Gladstones
life is really of great value to the ma
tion at present, to say nothing of the
right of protection which he has as
citizen.
A New York correspondent says:
The late ex-senator Morgan Of New
York was very much surprised when
he was beaten for reelection to the
Senate; yet he had the rare revenge
of being able to decline to be Secre-
tary of the Treasury under Arthur.
There is no revenge quite so salts
factory as having been beaten for
one Office, to be strong enough to de-
cline a greater one which costs moth
ing. Morgan's wife and household
would not let him be Secretary of the |
Treasury, because they thought it
would shorten his life. When you
look at this fact there is a great COM
pliment in it; for I know plenty of |
men as rich as Morgan in this city
whose wives and kin would urge |
them to become Secretary of the
Treasury if they thought it would
kill them. To be desired to live and
be around is often complimentary in
this city.
Stephen b. Todd, a wealthy bach
elor of Dunellen, N. j., died recently,
aged 70. He was almost literally
the father of Dunellen, owning all
the land on which the village was
constructed. His reverence for his
parents attracted the attention OF all
who knew him. No creature, not
even a chicken owned by his parents
was ever sold or killed; all were kept
until they died of old age He had
COW % years of age, most carefully
nourished and housed because it was
calf that his mother had raised.
The old rockaway in which his father
and mother rode has been carefully
enclosed in his barn, and to his death
no one had been permitted to use it.
Every little article used by his mother