Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-03-31
PERSONAL.

Queen Victoria has twenty-five
grandchildren, and will soon have
twenty four.
During sixteen years OF congress
sional service the late ex-senator Lot
M Morrill, never rode on a railroad
pass.
Girl graduates in England wear
gowns precisely like those worn by
university men, and made by the
same tailor.
The London Truth publishes a re-
port that General Grant and wife in
tend to spend a few months in Eu-
rope this year.
Since Joaquin Miller married a
rich widow, he has written nothing.
Somebody proposes vote Of thanks
to the widow.
The Oldest member of the British
cabinet is Mr.. Gladstone, who is
seventy three, and the youngest Sir
Charles Di Ike, who is thirty nine.
The late George +. Wilson of
Providence, bequeathed hundred
thousand dollars to the Brown Uni
versity and fifty thousand to Dart
mouth.
A statue of Chief Justice Chase,
nine feet high, is incomplete because
an enterprising colored man of Wash
ington stole the bronze head that be-
longs to it.
President Seelye, of Amherst col
lege, spends an interesting hour with
the seniors every Monday morning
answering such questions as they
may choose to hand in.
The intimacy between the sultan
and General Lew Wallace, the Ameri-
can Minister to Turkey, is said to oc-
casion a good deal of jealousy in the
diplomatic corps at Constantinople.
The Emperor of China photographed
his congratulations to the crown
prince OF Germany on the occasion OF
the latter's silver wedding. This is
the first telegram ever sent by a
Chinese sovereign to European
prince.
Certain persons claiming to be the
heirs of the widow of President Mil
lard Fillmore have petitioned the
surrogate at Buffalo to reopen the
probate Of the will, on the ground
that they were not cited to appear
when the will was proved.
A Washington correspondent
writes: "The Chinese minister gave
dinner party last night. The min.
lister is not very hilarious person to
dine with as Chinese etiquette forbids
his addressing a word to anybody
while at the dinner table,
The Marquis OF Lorne, at dinner
given him in Washington by General
and Mrs. Sherman, said: when 1
get out of the harness shall come
to Washington, buy corner lot,
build house and settle here"
The writer of the age is w. S.
Gilbert. His comic opera librettos
have yielded him already half a
million of dollars. He is building
one Of the handsomest and most orig
inal houses in the West End, Lon
don, and is accommodating art treas
ures to adorn it.
Bret Harte, the writer, who is now
United States Consul at Glasgow,
Scotland, has had quite checkered
career for a young man. He started
life as printer boy, became miner,
then school teacher, then an express
messenger, and finally an editor and
story writer.
Mr. George Darwin, who has been
made professor of astronomy in Cam
bridge university, is said to possess
more than his celebrated fathers YER
satility, all his fathers love of
thorough work, and no little share of
his fathers power Of exposition. He
is not merely an astronomer-he is a
geologist, biologist and chemist
and is distinguished in all fields.
Nine. Nilsson is experimenting
with plans to bring on sleep. As
with Herbert Spencer, her worst foe
is insomnia, and she declares to Gin
cinnati reporter that she can sleep
only three hours in the twenty -four.
She is now Hooking up at the ceiling
aud counting perhaps the dollars