Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-19
Personal Gossip.

Vice President Morton reads more news papers than any man in Washington.
 Emin Pasha gets s5O,OOO year from his German employers for his services in Africa.
 Seth Low, president of Columbia college, eats nothing but oatNeal for breakfast and always smokes a cigar thereafter.
 Mayor Lewis Ginter, of Richmond Va, is said to be worth quite s7 ,0O0 900, all accu- mulated out of the cigarette business.
 Capt. White of the English army, well known as one of the hardest riders in Eng land and an able officer, has accepted a colo nels commission in the sultan of Turkeys army.
 Buffalo Bill has purchased house in Na- pies. He has become an enthusiast regard ing life on the continent. and he was offered an old house in Naples at a ridiculousy small price.
 The Duke de Veragna Spanish minister of public worship, has taken the presidency of society formed for the purpose of populariz- ing bull fights among the highest circles of society.
 The late Benjamin Darling, of Woonsocket, R. l., aged S2, invented the revolver type of pistol half a century ago. He manufactured the arms at Woonsocket, but they failed as a business venture in his hands.
 Samuel J. Randall always lived in the most modest and unostentatious way at his little country place on the Pennsylvania railroad, a short distance out of Philadelphia The house was no larger than many laborer's, and was furnished ill the plainest and most unpretentious style.
 When Lewis A. Grant had ordered pri. vate in his regiment, during the war, under arrest for some ofTense, the soldier remarked: You remind me of my Aunt Liddy,n and as Aunt Liddy Grant" the new assistant secre- tary of war is said to be the best known tc Vermont veterans to this day.
 Gen Jubal Early, one of the pet cavalry leaders of the Confederacy, lives at Lynch burg He has suite of rooms, fitted up with a fine library, choice oil paintings and hand some steel engravings, but boards around at different restaurants, paying for his meals as he goes and running up no bills.
 Mr. Macdonald, one of the Irish members of the British house of commons, is totally blind He is brought into the lobby by Mrs. Macdonald every night, and given over to the charge of one of his colleagues. She returns almost nightly to lead him home to dinner, and restores him to his parliamentary work when he is needed at 10 o'clock.
 Isaac Pitman, the inventor of photography, is hoary haired man with scholarly stoop, and still presides over the Phonetic institute at Bath, England, where he has resided un- interruptedly for more than half a century, He is rising 78, yet he supervises a core ! spondence of 30, 900 letters year, besides ed / iting The Fonetic Journal and compiling the numerous books which he annually publishes.
 NJ. Bartholdi, the well known architect of the American figure of Liberty, is engaged ill designing a monument to commemorate the balloon service of the Franco-Prussian war, which is to be erected in the square of St. Pierre, Paris. He proposes to construct q model of balloon out of thick glass, with an iron work netting. An electric are lamp will occupy the center and light up the whole interior.