Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-04-14
PERSONAL.
William E. Dodge's estate is said
to be worth $15,000,000.

to be worth $15,000,00O.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks is home
sick in India. He writes to Boston
friend that the sun never warmed
dearer part of the earth's crust than
America.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes
with broad gold pen fixed into a
quill handle. The pen is said to have
done duty for twenty years He
writes only in the morning for three
hours day.
William X. Vanderbilt's house is
considered much moro artistic and
elegant than his fathers and is the
only residence in this country where
the servants and lackeys appear in
silk stockings and knee e-breeches and
with coats covered with gold lace.
Richard A. Proctor, the English
astronomer, is indignant because
some Christmas presents addressed
to him by Americans are held for
duty in the New York Custom house.
In his small anger Mr. Proctor sug
gested that the raven. instead of the
eagle, should be our national bird.
Mrs. Augusta Smith of ST. Louis
is one of the lightest of sleepers. She
is awake twenty-five hours out of
every day on the average, and when
she does slumber it is scarcely more
than doze, during which she is
partially conscious of all that is going
on around her. She is strong and
healthy, and has a good appetite.
The physicians are unable to bring
on sleepiness, except with drugs.
A Washington letter says that Miss
Bayarl is not only very pretty, but
extremely bright. She was the
young lady who so astonished Oscar
Wilde by her keen repartee to his
patronizing remark. "Are you going
to the german, Mr.. Wilder" she asked
the night of his lecture there. "Yes,"
drawled the esthete, IF my lecture
doesn't fatigue me too much. "Are
you going, Miss Bayard?" "Yes, if
your lecture doesn't fatigue me too
much" ..t
The richest widow on the Pacific
coast, or in the country for that mat
ter, with the possible exception of
Mrs. Cornelia Stewart is Mrs. Mark
Hopkins, widow of one of the Cen
trail Pacific syndicate Her husbands
estate proved up to S23, 100000, and
the only two men in California who
could Justify on the widows bond as
executrix were Leland Stanford and
Charles Crocker, two of her hus-
bands business associates. They
were compelled to justify in twice the
amount of the estate, and each swore
that he was worth $46,000,00O. Mrs.
Hopkins is an elderly woman. They
had no children, but had adopted a
son, whom Mrs. Hopkins has just
married to Miss Critten den, a pro-
tege of hers, providing her with the
dot of princess. There are other
heirs to the estate, but the adopted
osn, "Tim," will get the bulk of it.
The Marquis of Lorne is a man of
commanding figure and of exception
al beauty of countenance. Tall,
oad-shouldered, with free move
ment, his head is thrown back with a
certain dauntless grace that has in it
no self f-conscious haughtiness; rather
it is the unconscious expression OF
fine character, the fine carriage that
may become the inherited grace OF
lofty race. His features are fine and
strong, especially his brow and chin;
but picture which gives merely the
outline of his features can irapart no
idea of the charm of the face, lit
alike by coloring and expression. So
blonde man is rarely seen, for not
only is his abundant hair golden, but
his eyelashes are of the same hue,
long and curling outward; the deep
gray blue eyes that gaze through
them take on a remarkable express
sion, SO purely spiritual one instantly
ceases to wonder that the Marquis OF
Lorne writes poetry.
Engineer Melville's pretty home at
Sharon Hill is deserted and desolate.
Mrs. Melville and her children are in
West Philadelphia, and Mr.. Melville
is in Washington. Maud, who was
given into the custody of her father
by the Court, has not been given up
The furniture of the cottage has been
seized by the Sheriff to satisfy some
of the debts incurred by Mrs. Mel
vile during her husbands absence,
and the house and grounds are in
possession of the officers, mortgage
of 81, 300 held by Miss Polls having
been foreclosed. Recently a Phila
delphia piano manufacturer took pos
session of the piano in the parlor and
carried it to the city, claiming it as
his property. 1t is said that Engi
neer Melville will apply for divorce
in the spring. The house and grounds
at Sharon Hill are worth considerably
more than the mortgages held against
them, and it is not probable that
they will be sold at Sheriff's sale.