Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-11-23
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Baldwin, the balloonist, has made $60, 900 by his parachute descents in England.
 The Duke of Fife is one of the incorpora- tors of the British South African company. The venerable Professor Sir Richard Owen has entered his Seth year in excellent health. Dr. Brown-Sequard is not, as is supposed, an out and out Frenchman, but is the son of a Philadelphian.
 Owen K. Studebacker, the well known brewer of San Francisco, wants to be gover- nor of California.
 MT. D. c. French, the sculptor, has com pleted his model for the Starr-King monu- ment at San Francisco.
 A 16-year-old boy, "Professor' Franken- stein, yields the baton at the concerts of the West Side park in Chicago.
 Ferdinand Guzman, the most famous ban dit in Spain, is a dwarf, who at one time kept small store in Granada.
 Hon. Samuel s. Cox is said to be the only living man in public life who voted for the admission of Oregon as state Feb. IA, 1859 Thomas A. Edison rarely sleeps more than four hours day. He says that when he sleeps eight hours he feels badly when he wakes up.
 Senator J. P. Jones, of Nevada, and D. o. Mills, of New York, own gold mines ill Alas ka which are said to yield net profit of $1, 500 day.
 The leading tenor of today, Tarnagno, is about 40 years of age, and originally assisted his father in the manufacture of mineral waters in Turin.
 Ronald Mcdonald, son of the distinguished English writer, George Mcdonald, has been appointed head master of Ravenscroft school, at Asheville, N. c.
 Gen. Gordon's cook has turned up alive at Assorean, having come into the English lines from the Mahdi's camp. He has blos- somed into q doctor.
 The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale says that when he was college student he and his chum took the first daguerreotype picture ever made in Boston.
 Ivan Stepanoff, of Tobolsk, Siberia, was at one time governor of one of the Siberian provinces. He is about feet g inches in height and weighs 150 pounds
 Ex-Congressman William L. Scott has ac- quired another large tract of coal lands, and l is said to be the largest owner of this species 1 of property in Western Pennsylvania.
 Dr. Charles G. Flames, of New York city, owns an old stone house in Berkshire county, Mass. and close by it is the veritable black smith shop of Elihu Burritt, the linguist
 Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, deter mined when he assumed his present office to visit every county in the Keystone state. He has just completed his task by his visit to Pike county.
 According to Mr. Ruskin's recent criticism there is no genius about the English Ian guage. He defines the Welsh language a: the language of music, the Scotch of poetry and the Irish of wit.
 The pope recently gave Archbishop Corri gan, of New York city, two of his jubilee presents-a chalce and a ciborium-both ot which are of gold, while the chalice is studded with amethysts and rubies.
 W. T. Anderson, of Warwick, N. Y, ha. in his possession hintlock musket which ha curious history. It was gift of William ", king of England, to Kamehameha II king of the Sandwich Islands.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in re viewing his life he finds that he has takel more interest in surgery than in poetry, but he realizes that his fame will rest upon tn efforts of his pen, not of his knife
 The next candidate for literary honors o the historico-supernatur school is said to b son of Sir Edwin Arnold, Mr. E. L. Arnold His story is entitled ''The Wonderful Ad ventures of Phra, the Phoenician.n
 John Huntington and his son, W. T. R Huntington, of Cleveland, own two of tn best watches in the world. They are dupli cates and were ordered by the senior Hunt ington in 1881 in Geneva, Switzerland.
 loe of @Aa He keeps no diary and has destroyed his COT respondence and all records of it. He is re ported to have said to friend recently ''When am dead will take good care the shall not rip me up like pig"
 Prince Bismarck's special medical attend ant. Professor Schweninger, who cured tn chancellor of his too pronounced tendency t stoutness, Is, by particular desire of the sul tan, about to instruct two Turkish phys cians in his special method of treatment
 Mr. Gladstone had been acquainted wit his future wife for five years before the were married. Their first meeting too place in 1884, at the house in Tilney street Park lane, of Mir. Milnes Gaskell, who wa an intimate friend of Mir. Gladstone at Eto and Oxford.
 MT. Laurence Hutton has hit upon a move idea for decoration in his study. The friez that runs around the room is made of th death masks of distinguished men and womer The effect is striking, and not unsuggestiv of the famous room in Bluebeard's castle
 Sir Edward Watkin proposes, if ever b gets his Channel tunnel cut through-an that's big, big if-to run trains direct fro1 London to Gibraltar, transfer cars by boz , to Tangier, and thence along the north coas of Africa, through Egypt, down the Persia gulf to Kurrachee, and so on to Calcutts without change of cars.