Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-10-27
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Oleu III the WOOi-Mdry b idihous
little lamb.
September having an IT" in it, the
New York coal companies are about
to advance the price of coal.
A pretty how d'-y'-do is defined by
the New York Journal as 'the cheer
full greeting to a handsome maiden"
Tilden says that the editor Of the
Louisville Coatrier-Jo,lrnal Is Ken
tucky's favorlte son. Watterson to
have.
The following is extracted from q
smart boys composition on "Babies:"
1.-THE mothers heart gives 4th Joy at
the baby's LIST 9th"
Henry Wizards true name is Helm
rich Hilgard. He assumed Willard"
as a nom de plume when he was writ
ing western letters to the Tribune.
The New York Times suggests that
Mr.. Upper might be induced to
write the poem on the Queens John
Brown. Mr.. Tenuyson being inclined
to shirk the business.
The profits on the sale of Arthur
Sullivan's "Lost Chord" have reached
100000. By St Cecilia, an we have
a chance, we would lose whole wood
yard for half the money.
Russia, like the United States, is
suffering from the destruction Of
forests, the reckless cutting down OF
trees threatening, according to the
NOvoe Vremva, to convert some OF
the best wooded provinces into bar
rem waste.
How much more graceful, elegant,
and superior does the man on the bi.
cycle look than the man with the
wheelbarrow. But wait until they
come into collision and see which pro-
cession turns up in the most hand
some condition.
The man of sixty who has been a
failure all his life is just the man to
take fellow of five and twenty aside
and tell him how to get rich, and
mention what fortune he would
make if he were only ten or fifteen
years younger.
What was in it: MY case is just
here" said citizen to a lawyer.
"The plaintiff will swear that / hit
him. / will swear that I did not.
Now, what can you lawyers make out
of that If we 60 to trialf" "a hun
dred dollars, easy" was the reply.
Shutting the battle-The speaker
who alluded to his candidate as ''the
war horse that snuffed the battle from
afar," climbed up to the composing
room with club after reading it in
the paper as "the ward boss that
snatched the bottle from bar"
Irish attorney Ito his clerk, who
has taken the blue riband, and has
been celebrating the event:"o "Ill
not stand it, surrl Wild yer pledges!
Instid O. takin' plidges ye're always
breakin', ye'd better make no prom
ises at-all at all-and kape emp
A beautiful club house costing $23,- :
600, had just been completed on the
Niagara River near Buffalo, for the
Falconwood Club of that City. It
has been furnished at an expense Of
$1,000, and is said to be one OF the
most complete establishments OF the
kind in the country.
"What remarkable nightgowns
were worn in the early days OF Eng
land" Jones remarked, as he scrutin-
lied tho armor. "Nightgownsp l
exclaimed, in surprise. Certainly"
said Jones, "don't you see they were
only put on knights"
The State OF New York owns about
100000 of the 4, 100000 acres Of land
in the Adirondack region. Much OF
this area has been stripped OF its
timbers by persons who have pur-
chased it for small sum and aban-
doned it to the State for non-pay-
ment of taxes as soon as the timber
was exhausted. Great confusion as
to private titles also prevails in other
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