Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-24
PERSONS AND THINGS.

! lti'llt NPbIldTut IT1clluS say liliit
l.angtry did not make II fool OF him.
She found him that way, and simply took
his money because it came easy.
On account of its representation of a
conspiracy, Strauss operatta, "Prince
Methusalem," has been interdicted in
Russia.
The last man knocked down and
robbed in New York had his mouth
forced open and the gold plate of his
false teeth jcrked out.
Mary Andcrson's alleged refusal to
see the Prince of Wales should serve as
"pointcr" for John l.. Sullivan dur
Ing his tour abroad.
"What is laughter?" asks the Brook
Ign Eagie. It's the sound you hear all
over the restaurant when the waiter
dumps plate of hot soup down your
back.
a Paris letter says that City is very
dull; there are no great scandals this
season. This is IA severe slur on that
Unsuitable thirster for notoriety, Mr..
Frederick Gebhardt.
"Yes," said Amy, 81 went to the
telephone and put the thingumbob to my
ear -" "Thingumbob?" screamed
the High School girl, "you mean the
auditent tube"
Fred Douglass declared at Louisville
that his is the most despised and abject
race on the face of the globe. Is it pos
sible that Mr.. Douglass never met Il
sleeping car porter face to face?
A large cat sprang from the roof of Il
three-story building in Cohoes, N. Y,
and caught a sparrow, but fell to the
pavement and broke her back, and the
sparrow flew away. A sparrow has
nine lives.
The hotel walters costume still re-
mains the standard for an American
mans full dress. TO prevent mistakes
at parties, however, the waiter is di-
rected to carry towel on his arm in
stead of a young lady.
Robert Comwell, of Henrietta, N. Y,
had an accusing conscience His wife
unsuspcctingly joked him about his fond
ness for the hired girl, and he, thinking
she knew all, eloped with the young
woman.
Twelve locomotives complete, al
though in detached parts, were shipped
from Philadelphia to Brazil. The cargo
was boxed before being put on board
and will be put together by Philadelphia
workmen on arriving at Rio Janero.
L.. O.,
was preparing some chickens for dinner,
he discovered about $40 worth of gold
nuggets and four ounces of gravel in
their crops. The fowls had been recent
| ly purchased from. farmer, but the
cook does not remember his name.
Prof. John Lawrence Sullivan, OF Bos-
ton, is now said to be worth $4,000.
He is weary of prize-fghting and GIN
milling, and he told friend the other
day that he intended next summer to
buy little yacht and spend most of his
time on water. He will call his lugger
the "Slugger."
1t is astonishing how many parents OF
grown-up unmarried daughters are in
favor of the general adoption of the
"24 o'clock" time dial. They seem to
think when, late in the evening, the
hour gets around to such an alarming
| figure as % O'Clock the tireless lovers
will conclude it is time to leave.
Albert. Bierstadt is engaged upon n
large canvass entitled, ga View of yell
| lowstone Park" One of the features
will be Mike Sheridan toiling up preci-
pice with big bundle of luggage on his
back, while at table in the foreground
sits patient-looking mule penning a
dispatch to the Associated Press.
The man who was observed on State
street this morning with three-cent
stamp on his ear, endeavoring to climb
into letter-box and clamoring for them
| to "fesh on their Postoflices, Gosh he
wash so drunk he couldn't go to them,"
is believed to hold the theory that the
office should seek the man, and not the
man the office.
a misinformed Southern newspaper
speaks of Henry Irving, the actor, as a
"scene eater" He is in no sense a
scene-chewer or ranter. His acting is
marked by quiet dignity and composure.
In fact, we are told that in the character
of Hamlet he looks as solemn as mule
| in snow-storm.
1t is mistake that coachmen know
nothing about poker. In the East a
coachman gains the affections of his
lords daughter and marries her, and he
and she make pair. He then makes
his blind good by drawing the old gent
and lady, which makes two pair. He
fills with the Doodle, which the old gent
always carries, and consequently rakes
in the pot with full hand.
Mr.. Edwin Booth is to make his win
ter home i'm Boston. Some weeks ago
he asked friend, Mr.. T. b. Aldrich,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly, to find
him suitable house to purchase, and
that gentleman has just secured for him
pleasant, oid-fashioned dwelling stu
ated in the comfortable and convenient
section of the City known as the West
End.
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