Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-12-08
PERSONS AND THINGS.

your handkerchief is doing service.
General Shermans lips are in con-
tinual state of pickering,
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes can write
poetry with his left hand.
Quarreling avails nothing. The 40
thieves came to grief by jars.
The Duke of Argyll takes great inter-
est in the acclimatization of Canadian
animals in Scotland.
NJ. Jules Verne is so years old. His
hair and beard are turning white, and
he is growing fat.
Congressman Andrew Ct. Curtin, OF
PENNSYLVANIA, is erect as an arrow and
his hair as white as snow.
Twenty-Five hundred negroes have
left South Carolina during the past
four weeks for Arkansas and Texas.
The powerful electric light at the
Calumet and Hecla mines can be seen
~ miles away by vessels on Lake SUI
perior.
Be careful how you handle matches.
When you strike them they always flare
up. Fuse see this. Keep it dark.
A Michigan man who lost both legs
in a saw-mill now sits around and tells
about the terrible battles of the late
war. That's the sawed-off man he is.
The number of pupils who are now
studying German in the public schools
of st. Louis is over 10000, or more
than half of the whole number of
pupils.
A Vermont editor, in publishing one
of Byron's poems, changed the words
"Oh Gods, to "Oh gosh because the
former was too profane for his readers.
Japan il unnecessarily cruel to her
police. A late press regulation compels
editors to hold original manuscripts
three weeks to permit their perusal by
the police.
"Isn't it singular" said visitor
gazing at the Niagara Falls, "that the
little moisture that arises from that
vast cataract should be mist? '
1t is believed that dude could gather
cocoanuts without danger of bodily
harm. 1t would be a mean monkey
that would fire a cocoanut at dude.
A Toledo man knows how to play on
two comets at once. The neighbors say
they don't object to his knowing how,
but he had better not try to do it,
Mr.. John C. Jennings, Mayor of Salt
Lake City, appears and acts like an
Englishman. He is large stakeholder
i'm the Cooperative Store, which has
business of 81 900 900 year.
One of the most interesting historical
curiosities at the fair recently held in
Canton, CT, was vest made in 1875
from blue-striped bedticking spun and
woven by Miss Rosannah Ferry, of
Simsbury.
A scientist says that in the moon a
hickory nut falling from bough would
crash through man like mimic ball.
That settles it. We shall never go to
the moon to gather hickory nuts.
Professor Paul Passy, of Paris, thinks
that America is the busiest country he
ever visited. He thinks that our high
schools are not practical "Too much
Latin" he says, sis the bane of modern
educational institutions"
"This is the time of year." says Il
New York paper, "when the baby
should have ride every morning."
eyes" murmurs the bachelor who
lives next door to a cross youngster,
eyes, put it in the dog-catchers
wagon"
The Rev. Phillips Brooks increased
his great size while on his journey
round the world. lie is modest and
courteous, and is liked by reporters.
He refuses to give away his portrait,
and destroyed the only negative ever
taken.
IL is stated that hen set for three
days on nest full of hailstones before
she discovered they were not eggs. The
funniest part of the story is that she
didn't hatch out an ice-house or two.
But perhaps the Texas liar was not en-
joying good health.
"Behold my whacks nosep ex-
claimed knock-kneed bar-room bum
mer, as he emerged from free fight.
"Hear my glass sigh" CALCULATED
cork-legged comrade, as he put down
an empty one and moaned. "If you
have no tin near" said the bartender,
''then you can peg out"
The other day farmer living north
OF Streator, ILL.,, sold quantity of rags
to a dealer A few days afterward he
was in town, and, after searching for
some time, found in his discarded gar.
ments $500, II number of notes, and
some deeds, which had been put in the
rag bag for safe keeping.
The police of Cambridge, Mass, were
called to save man from being muir
dered by his wife, and on repairing to
the place of the butchering found
newly married couple, where the young
wife was spanking her husband with
various kitchen utensils, including the
pancake turner, for coming home drunk.
THE NIGHT SHOOTER.