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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
A Giant Undertaking.

A remarkable measure for the pro- motion of American agriculture has taken root. Congress has appropriated one hundred thousand dollars for an inquiry into the feasibility of building reservoirs at the headquarters of streams west of the one-hundredth meridian, so that their waters may be reserved for irrigating the vast arid plains below. This preliminary work Is to be uone by the United States Geological survey, and its inception is mainly due to the foresight of Direc- tor Powell. He believes that sys- tenn of storage reservoirs and irrigat- ing canals may be perfected that will water at a profit fully ninety-six mil lion acres of new barren land At thirty dollars per acre, this reclaimed region would represent $2, ,2S0, ,000, 600 of added wealth to the nation. Dis count this literally as roseate esti- mate, and 1t Is still true that the pro- Ject is one that should pay we'll for the millions of money required to car ry 1t out. It is, moreover, a work that no single state can do, because of it's fai-reaching and expensive character.
 Not alone for its direct benefit in re- claiming arid wastes, conserving for esis and developing rainfall, is the pro- posed scheme to be indorsed Every gallon of water thus spread over the desert region means an equal quanti- 1 ty reserved from the floods of the Mis- souri and Mississippi rivers. The effect would be to reduce the oy orhow and the sediment of these rivers, giv- ing their natural flow a greater cur rent with which to keep open chan nels for commerce and free exit for superficial freshets. Under this com pleted system we may hope to see a vast dininution in the flooded area and of tAe enormous damage caused thereby almost annually in the two great valleys of the continent. The Geological Survey estimates that fol every acle reclaimed in the arid region another ,cre will be reclaimed or se- cured against overflow along the lower Mississippi.
 The undertaking proposed is one of the most stupendous projects evel ] conceived in behalf of nations agri 1 culture. It aims to improve and ameliorate the agriculture of a quar
 ter of a continent. The storage works in the mountains of the far northwest are designed to benefit the cotton anC rice planter over two thousand mile, to the south. It is true statesman ship that recognizes the magnificent possibilities of this bold idea It il
 wise conservatism that carefully in vestigates before embarking millions
 insuch an enterprise.
 q Though bold, the conception ap pesrs practicable when we conoide thelimitless power, enterprise resourc
 les md scientific abilities of the Amer ica people. Obstacles that seem in suimountable will disappear befor' Ii American brains and capital. If tn preliminary inquiry gives satisfactor,
 evidence of the practicabiliiy of tn wotz, the young farmer who read thee words may.live to see the culmi naion of the grandest feat in agricul
 tual engineering known to the civihz edworld. But let us make sure of ou grsurd before we start.-Americal [ Agr;culturist.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Your Local Papera.

AS we have many~times stated, this section needs but to be seen to be ap- preciated, and the exertions of few -wide -VFitle- awake s#%skee, practical men who are not afraid to let go of few dollars without having strings tied to them, would soon inaugurate in this section a substantial and lasting boom. And right here we will say that local pa per can do wonders in booming place when placed in a position to do so properly. To the local papers of Los Angeles, San Diego and Riverside, more than to any other factor, is due the inauguration of the great era oi prosperity to those places. But how nobly were those papers supported by persons interested in the advertise. ment of those sections in which they were published. It takes time and money to collect data, prepare ex haustive descriptive articles and pub fish large editions These papers were enabled to do so by the substantial aid they received-Valley Echo, Cali. fOrnla
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
PHILANTHROPlSTS.

Stephen Girard gave ss,oO0,Ooo to Girard college.
 Asa Packer gave $, DOC, 900 to Lchigh uni versity.
 J. B. Colgate gave sSoo, 600 to Madison university.
 George I. scncy gave s4oo,o 900 to Wesleyan university.
 Theological semiuary---,-- --,-----.---.s J. B. Trevor gave s179, 900 to Rochester Theological somiilary.
 Benjamin Busy gave roni estate worth s5OO,0C0 10 Harvard university.
 " W. Corcoran gave ST, ,O00 to Cotun. 5ian university In money and land
 Amass Stone gave &Goo, 900 to Adelberi ,olese by direct gift and by bequest-
 Whitnler Fl,oepi1 gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about Sij4o, 600, tc Columbia college.
 A Mir. Clark recently gave q ,0G0. .00O for the founding of Q university in Massachu sctts to bear his name.
 Samuel williston, William J. Walker ant Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between elO0 ,0Ol hbd NpSO,OO cS4C1 LO
 Cornelius Vanderbilt gave s1, ,000, 900 to tn, Vanderbilt university, to which William II Vanderbilt afterward added S500, ,OO0
 Johns Hopkins gave 8, l4S, 900 to the uni versity which bears his Racle His gifts fol benevolent purposes amounted to $S, ,00J, ,0J0
 John C. Green and his residuary leSatee gave 6I 100 900 to Princeton college. Ezrs Cornell gave e1 ,ooo,Oo to Cornell univer sity.
 Senator Leland Stanford has given a vas estate, amounting to e3o, ,00J, ,O0O, to found . university in California in memory of hi deceased son.
 Matthew Vssssr gave eSo0,ooo to Vnssa college Gardner Colby gave sl70,o0O |. Colby university and slOO,0CO to Newto, Theological seminary.
 Isaac Rich bequeathsd the greater part o bis estate, which was appraised at S1, ,7o0, ,OO0 to Boston university. On account of tn great fire and shrinkage in value, and othe unfortunate circumstances, the universit, will realize less than S7oo, 900 from this mag riflcont bequest.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
THE LATEST IN JEWELS.

Vienna smoking and writing sets are nev and useful
 The latest importations for desk furnish ings are in gilt bronze.
 For fancy tables, brass and onyx in plain designs are the fashion
 Flower vases ia cut glass of the finest crys. tal, ere growing in favcr.
 massive baccarat inksfand with gold top is the latest desk ornament
 A useful picnic set containing articles of tableware is made up of lizard skin
 A new portfolio is covered with lizard skin and lined inside with pink damask silk.
 A pretty paper knife Is of carved wood, the handle being finished with fox's head A pretty candlestick in nove ware, al- though simple in design, is the latest novelty in it's class
 The latest table lampsare of oxidixed silver in antique design and of gold and silver combined.
 A serviceablc hand glass, with bronze franc of rustic work, is ornamented with hand painted field flowers.
 A convenient cologne case has three cut glass bottles of varying sizes, with gold stop pers and Q lizard skin case.
 For decorating Worcester ware hand painted norrl drsigps seem to be selected in preference to landscape scenea-
 A handy dice box Is a metal disk with 6 glass cover, the dice being shaken by means of a spring touched by the finger from the outside.
 A tiny revolver complete in every detail makes novel cigar cutter. The end of the cigar is put into the barrel and cut of by pulling the etrigger.-Jewelers'W Weekly. Food for . Lover. Hc-Amanda, this is the neat little restau rant where ! have those delicious lunches have mentioned to you but could not de scribe, and this is Tom, the waiter whc serves me my favorite dishes so nicely. She-How sweet. Adolphus. He-What wiI. you order, Amandai They have birds, oysters, and all the delicecies oi | the season.
 She-Your favorite dish, Adolphus, oi course. Waiter, you may fetch me Nr. Wig wag's favorite order which he says you serv, so nicely.
 Waiter-Yes. lady, giving orderI. Draw one in de dark. Soused pigs feet on de iron 1 New York Sun.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
 Col. c. s. Moods Luck.

Colonel Charles s. Wood, the tall and handsome manager of the Eutaw House, is in great luck. He is wealth. fer to-day by the sum of $5,O0O than he was week ago He bought one twentieth of ticket in the Louisiana State Lottery. He put it sf his pock- ct and was notified that the ticket of which he held fraction-it was No. 73,946-had drawn on October 9th. $100,000. The Colonel was not slow in communicating with the lottery people, and on Monday he received a certified check for his share of the wealth, namely, $5,000.- Baltimore, (Md) Herald, Oct. 24. On December 18th occurs the mammoth drawing in which the first capital prize is $60O,. GOO. All information to be had by ap plying to NJ. A. Dauphin, New Orleans La
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Yuma Items. TSentinel.l

J. J. Stein has been confined to his room for several days with the fever.
 Hon. Thomas Gates contemplates making extensive improvements upon his Main street property.
 Miss Cora Anderson arrived on Mondays train from Kentucky. She Is visiting her sister, Mrs. B. F. Hart lee.
 The government now allows old and infirm Yuma Indians regular rations of coffee, sugar, beans, bacon and flour. The provisions are issued monthly.
 We are pained to learn of the death of Major Sisson, of the firm of Sisson, Crocker X Co.,, which occurred a few days since, at Bryon Springs. Califor- mia.
 Colonel T. D. Marcum, U. s. Indian Inspector, left for California on Tues day. MT. Marcum is highly pleased with the management of the Indian school and the success ill educating young Indians.
 We learn from excellent authority that Governor Zulick will promptly hand in his resignation to the federal authorities on the 4th of March next
 Mark the prophecy! Before an other year has passed Yuma county will have doubled its population, great ly increased it's taxable property, and rank second to no Arizona county ill point of prosperity.
 Captain Peter Mackie, the success. ful and well known mining expert came to Yuma few days ago from g trip to Cargo Machacho district. Capt Mackie reports the Cargo Machacho district as being one of the best gold fields on the Pacific slope
 Editor Sentinel-In "Vacaville Notes ] under date of November 12th, pub 1 lished in the California Pacific Rura Press of the 17th inst, the following items appear: "We had cold enough one night last week to kill most of tn, grape vines in the valley Ice form ed in dishes around the pump"
 What a contrast this is to the eli mate of our "sun kissed land" Her, not a vestige of frost, and the loves register of the thermometer at o'clock in the morning 42 degrees AS is well known, Vaca valley is the favored spot from whence comes tn, earliest fruits in the San Francisco market, and where bearing vineyard, command from $600 to $1 900 per acre The summers there are as warm al those of Arizona, at which so man, Californians rail with bitter vitupera ton. Vaca valley is weeks earlie with all the deciduous fruits thal southern California yet, early as it is it Is six weeks behind Yuma in tn ripening of those productions. Thi is an uncontrovertible fact and is fact worth millions to us-Chrystova Correspondent.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Gravity system for Rapid Transit.

A now system of operating passenger rail roads fin towns and cities Is now attracting attention. The operative features of such a construction have had numerous illustrations in various switchback railways and coasting tracks at seaside resorts and other places, not to mention the famous switchback road at Mauch Chunk, Pa, which was used for many years to convey coal from the mines to tie banks of the Lehigh, and where tho inclincs gre extensive It has, however, remained for Mr. L. A. Thompson, of Philadelphia, to per foot the working details for the operation of a city railroad on this plan, for which letters patent have been granted to him hero and in all the principal countries of the world. In this now system tho locomotive Is dispensed with, and the distances apart of the stations arc approximately such as would be repre- sented by the passenger stations on a city railway
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
GlObules. IC5I-ar Da1+ l


 Attorney E. H. Cook went to Flor ence on Thursday and may extend his trip to Phenix before returning.
 The Chino Valley Champion is our authority for the anpouncement that the San Diego National Bank, D. Hen derson, president, is4s Surrendered its charter and gone elit of bpsiness.
 The heaviest fAiz' q {Ile year set in last evening and conti1 qsd without intermission durin8 <he 6iEhk At [ 80 this mornin tIle rs5n Hal1fe in dicated fall of l .2S in< &E pres- ent writing the storm slz<lsbs no sigE of abating. IF. 2.
 The five Apache Indians who were retired from public gaze by js16sn<aiaE E of court-martial, and releassd from confinement at Alcatraz, CadfofniA. and returned to the San Carlos fudial1 Agency, by our benevolent President. Grover Cleveland, have been re-arress< ed upon anothee murderous charge. One of the five being youth and un- accustomed to deeds of blood, was not held, as the others were, to answer the charge of murder before a Territorial court and beyond the reach of Cleye- land.
 We learn from San Carlos that Dr. S. D. Pangburn, who has charge of a band of Indians on the Gila, about fifteen miles from the Agency, was shot by treacherous Indian recently but fortunately escaped serious injury The Indian, who is supposed to have borne the Doctor some unexplained grudge, came to his cabin and wher the Doctor opened the door to see what his nocturnal visitor wanted, ht was fired upon, the ball taking effec in his hand, and making painful wound. The culprit was captured ane is now a prisoner in the guard-hous, at San Carlos.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
STRANGE MARRIAGES.

Peter the Great married peasant, who was his best counselor and truest friend.
 NJ de Lesseps married at the age of 62 Mile de Braga, who was not quite l9 years of age. The wife of Jeremy Taylor, the great English divine, was the natural daughter oi Charles l.
 The countess of Waldegross has been mar ried four times. Her present. husband is tho famous Lord Coliin9sford.
 Shakespeare's marriage to Anne Hathaway was an example of inequality, both in age and in intellect. He was IS and she 25 when they were married
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
A Nnrr Ice NInchina

The new fec machine devised by M Pictet, of Geneva, and on exhibition at the Jubilee exhibition at Vienna, is attracting considera- ble attention. In general principles the ma- chine does not differ from others, but there are some important notifications in detail Instead of using sulphurous acid, as in his pre- vious machines, M. Pictet uses a mixture of sulphurous acid and carbonic acid, which has received the namc of ''liquide pictet."
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Albert Faqer well known in Pb

Albert Eager, we'll known in Phe- nix, at one time having charge of the chain gang, left this city few days after the election for the purpose of going to the Todd camp, in the Phe- nix mountains, six miles away. He never reached the camp, and has not been heard from since that date. As he had considerable money about his person, his father is greatly alarmed for his safety, and any one knowing the whereabouts of the young man should send information to this city and relieve parents anxiety.-Ari ZOnan
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01

NO. I-DINNKh AND CATOGAH kEADDRESS.
 In the first cut arc illustrated two of the latest modes of French hair dressing. In the dinner cOiffure is shown a new way of ar ranging the front hair. The parting is vis- iblo and space is left in the center of the forehead uncovered with the fringe. Small curls sparingly ornament the sides of the forehead, and where the hair is not abundant the Louis XIV toupee is utii- ized In this connection 1t may be we'll to
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
oil for Lubr,eatinr rurDcsc..

The Italian admiralty have recently caused to be carried out a number of experiments with a view to testing the comparative merits of castor oil and of oliveoil for lubri- eating purposes on boardship. From the se- suits obtained they have given orders thnt benceforth all exposed parts of machinery are to be fabricated exclusively with castor oil, while mineral oils are to be used for cylinder and similar fabrication.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Drunkenness Increasing.

What Is called "the miserable drunk enness" of the people of England grows more widespread every year, and the temperance societies, church. es, etc., confess their utter inability to cope with the evil. The excise com mission is also in despair. A few years since parliament, undoubtedly with the best intentions, passed law permitting retail grocers to sell spirits by the bottle. It was passed as safe guard, but the intoxication of women of all grades has increased tenfold as the result, and the grocer who has a good customer in d female gin bib Der reaps good financial reward and plays havoc either in the mansion or the hoyel.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
eNoLlst,MeN weLDeRs OF THE PEN

Miss Brnddon writes very small hand.
 Professor Blacsie sings while he writes, as well as at almost all other times
 Jnrncs fayu took but one holiday of more than three days during seven years of hard work.
 Mrs Oliphant lives on the Thames, near London Her son assists her in her literary labors.
 Before Herbert Spencer became an invalid he was quite an expert at lawn tennis and was very fond of the theatre.
 Carlyle was great smoker, but he threw himself too thoroughly into bis work to be able to keep his pipo lighted.
 Grant Allen snys he was glad enough to lay down the pen out Of my aching fingers as soon as the days work is fairly over"
 well known historian uses while he ls writing cigar holder with branches, which enables him to smoke several cigars at time.
 Saln Is an English authority on cooking He accomrlishes much more work than he Is given credit for, as he Is great society man.
 Andrew Lang never smokes while he is writing. He is too busy to light his pipe. He does an astonishing amount of work ID day.
 Jones, the playwright, loft London as soon IS he had mafo some name by his dramas, and now writes all his plays in house in the country.
 Mir. Blackmore is ono of the men who can only write when they feel like it, ccnse- quently he combines literature aud market gardening.
 Several of the best known editors of great newspapers are such confirmed sIn okers that they all and reiight their pipes without knowing it
 Many literary Londoners live in other places. Brighton Is the home of Herbert Spencer, William Black, Edmund Yates and several others
 Trolopc worked anywhere and every where. One of his best novels was written on an ocean steamer. Another he wrote while travelling on railroad trains.
 A London editor who sinolzes cigars while he writes hes trick of sticking the nib of any pen that he happens to see into his cigar as holder. His staff hides their pens on his approach.
 Robert Louis Stevenson works out some oi his best ideas in bed. He cannot always hclI himself, but does 1t from inclination as vel as necessity. He dreamed the plot of ''Dr Jekyn and Mir. Hyde" Mir. W. & Gilbert finis a piece of plotting paper by his side a great help when he i writing comic operas This is not for blot ting his manuscripts, but for drawing pict urcs ou. These are caricatures, and oftenel the sketch suggests quaint thought than thought suggests the sketch.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01

A few days since, tramp who car ries his gall with him, entered the Wilcox House and requested that the hostess give him something to eat. Being very busy at the time she re- piled in the negative, whereupon his trampship turned and went, taking with him clock, which was not mo- ticed until he was out of reach. Just why clock is necessary in his profes- sion is beyond us, unless, perhaps, he has failed to be on hand for break fast.-Wilcox Stockman.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01

YIo. 2-How THE BUST IS OBTAINED.
 After the negative is developed the figure chat 1t is desired to present Is cut around with penltnife, and the arms and all the portions not wanted are scratched out. The glass thus becomes transparent where the scratching has been done, and in the positive tho bust stands out from a black back ground
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Strained Relations.

Brown to Robinson)-Why, l thought you knew Dumley, that gentlemanI just bowed to.
 hobinson-l've known him for years; but he never speaks to mo now ss we pas by. 1
 brown-hed a qua-reli
 HoDinson-No; he owes me a littlo boe- rowsd money.-The Epoch.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01

It has been demonstrated in Japan that irrigated lands require only about two-thirds as much fertilizer as non- irrigated lands. Thorough tillage, combined with irrigation and drain age, enables Japan, from only twelve millions of acres under tiilage to feed and clothe thirty-eight million peo- pie, to say nothing of exporting an- nually forty million dollars worth of silk and large quantities of tobacco and rice.-American Agriculturist.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
New Observatory,

Denver is about to have an astronomical observatory that will rival the fame of Lick observatory in California. Its dome will risc from plain and havo 1000 feot greatsr ole vation- Tho building and instrument have been provided for through the Hberality of ". D. Chemberlin, of Denver
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
Linen Collar. and Cum.

Linen collars and cuffs have been ai1nost entirely abolished for travelling The long gloves are best without them. but many women, who like little dash of color, tack in narrow ribbon with fancy sdee at the throat and wrists. A few yard lengths scf different colored ribbons 30 6 long way, and vary and effectively brighten many c cos tuuaA
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
WHAT SHALL WE WEARf
NEW FASHIONS ANNOUNCED FOR
 THE AUTUMN SEASON.

A New Era in Hair Dre~sinx-Styies An
 nounced by Paris and New York Hair
 Dressers for Fall and Winter-The
 Bang Must go.
 Tue elegant and elaborate toilets that all full dress occasions demand call for a cor respondingly elegant and ornate coiffure. This means that the severe fashions of the simple Grecian knot and the close cut hair, lately favored, must go.
 Numbered with incoming cultures are re vivals of tho styles of old days, including 8 modification of one of the many coifrures in- troduccd by the Empress Eugenie during her reign at the gay capital In this the hair Is brought high on the head and allowed to fal in graceful twist over the back of the head, the curled ends touching the neck below the coil and nnngling above with the crimps, curled bang or front piece, which latter is left to the pleasure of the wearer
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01

explain that these ornate cultures de mand in most in stances aid from the wig-maker, few ladies having suM- cient growth of hair to meet the de- nlands of fashion.
 The catogan head dress shown in the same cut illustrates c style Of arrang- ing the hair, is much adopted by Parisian eleganta for morning and afternoon ar. There is no doubt but that either low plaited coils On
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
The cur.ou. compo.,tiOn of a Tear.

The Curtous NohpoeitiOn oh IehTs
 The principle element in the composition of a tear, as may readily be supposed, is water. Tho other elements arc salt soda, phosphate of lime, phosphate of soda, and mucus, each in small proportions A dried ter seen through microscope of good average power presents a peculier appear ancs. Tho water after evaporation, leaves behind 1t the saline ingredients, which anal gamato and form thsmselves into heightened CTsss lines, and look like a number of minute Hkh hOuna
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
sIr.. rat.sn.. Investments.

Mrs Patten, the wife of the California millionaire, Is investing a part of her prop erty fin Washington. She owns a house which cost sioO, 900, and she has bought great quantity of suburban property.