Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-03-24
FACTS OF INTEREST.


Mrs Rosecrans' condition con
tinues to improve. She ID NV re
garded out of danger.
The Maine Assembly ordered en-
crossed the prohibitory amendment.
An attempt to except cider failed.
indianapolis has finally decided to
allow telegraph and telephone poles
to stand in the city limits, but it has
also decided to charge two dollars a
year per pole for the privilege.
About 100000 in various amounts,
is the footing of list of moneys be
longing to the estate of people, de-
ceased at the Cape of Good Hope,
for which no claimants have APP
peared.
John Splete, young mechanic in
st. Louis, has perfected an inven.
ton which will automatically indl-
cate on dial the name of street or
station approached by horse car or
railway train.
Seven private companies have ap-
piled to the authorities of Edinburgh
for permission to supply electric
lighting for the city, and all have
been refused on the ground that it
was undesirable that any power over
the streets should be given to any
one but the corporation itself.
The colony of Russian refugees in
Middlesex County, Virginia, com
posed of eighty people. has been
prosperous from its start, several
months ago, and will soon be self
supporting. The colonists, who are
said to make good citizens, will soon
be joined by another large party.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that Chinaman now re-
siding in Pittsburgh, Pa. cannot
bring into this country, under the
Chinese Restriction Act, wife whom
he intends to marry in China, though
il he was already married, and his
wife was in China, she could come.
The Grand Jury of Chicago re-
ports the jail building in such SAM
tary condition as to warrant any
Board of Health in promptly closing
it, and that there is general looseness
in the manner of keeping the books
of the County Hospital. Indictments
have been found against the Warden
and one Of his assistants for miscon-
duct in Office.
A National Fish Culture Associa-
ton has been successfully formed in
London, in imitation of the American
institution. The Marquis of Exeter,
who has naturalized the American
black bass in his own ponds ut Bur
leigh, is the president, and the move.
ment is supported strongly by Pro
lessor Huxley, and large and in
fiuential body.
China possesses the longest bridge
in the world. 1t is at Lagang, over
an arm of the China Sea, and is five
miles long. built entirely of stone, 70
feet high, with roadway 70 feet
wide, and has 800 arches. The para
pet is ballustrade, and each Of the
pillars, which are rs feet apart, sup
ports a pedestal on which is placed u
lion q feet long, made Of one block
of marble.
There is bill before the Illinois
Legislature to establish the whipping
post for wife beating. The Chicago
| Herald wants to see it become law
and remarks: ''To the brute who will
beat his wife, there is no punishment
or ignominy which can reach his
callous feelings except the lash upon
the bare flesh. No man who honors
woman can have any sentimental OBJ
lection to the wnipping-post for
wife beaters."
The Dismal Swamp, Virginia, has
been greatly reduced by the canals
and bitches that drain it, and now
contains some of the best farming
land in the State. A railroad runs
across it, and 1t is on its way to final
extinction. The great industry of
the swamp is numbering, The lake
itself, however, with its almost i'm
penetrable fringe of cypress, and its
projecting roots and broken stumps
is quite as dismal as ever.
In refitting and refurnishing the
White House, the carpet which the
Shah of Persia presented for the
great East room, and for which it was
not suited as well as the carpet laid in
that room, became useless, and would
ordinarily have been bundled off to
the auction room to be sold for a
song But the President had it cut
up into rugs with tasteful borders,
and sent them to the Soldiers Home,
where they apper as good as new, and
far prettier than they were in their
original shape.
The Southern exposition will be
held at Louisville. Kentucky, begin
ming August l, 1883, and continuing
one hundred days. At the time of
this writing over 1882, 900 have been
subscribed by the people of Louis
vile, and is now being paid in, and
new subscriptions are being received
daily. That Louisville is in earnest in
undertaking the greatest exposition
ever held in this country, except the
national centennial exposition Of
1876, is evidenced by the fact that
her own people have freely supplied
all the means required, and no out
side assistance has been solicited.