Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-02-25
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What the Newspapers Say About Mon and
Women Who Arc Famous
/, kossuth is the healthiest man forhis age in
| Europe He is SO.
!! Sam Small says that nine:tcaths Of tile rows
at home among tho children, are started by
the. girls. 1.a a 35.4,
I ( Senator Coclrcn IS credited with having
used three gallonsof ink: in his private cor
!. respondcncc Inst year.
George Gould's. head is. larger than his
fathers Tho son wears rs hat, willie that
of Gouldipere is onlya IA. s;eiAa
Bismarck has boycottcd James; Gordon
Benefits Gable Company because James
Gordon .Bennctt's Paris. PAPER abused Dis-
marck., i;.,is.yrlr .Sies Ri,fa
Tho Marquis OF Ailsa is the only noblor,nn
in Scotland who can style himself ship
ibuilder,if For years tic marquis has carried
on business OF this kind at Culzenn, on the
Ayrshire coast He does rot care whether
the lords, school keeps or not sssti
!. Nine. Christine Nilsson Gays in letter to
Philadelphia friend that she is q constant
rheumatic sufferer, and sbe fears that she
= WILDE QpilVQtO Citrse slltOleeSiOnut
reer;at once. She;ad S tbaT she has not syent
whistler has published % scts
/, of Autographs engraved ons tho; stono with
his own hand and printed by Way. Flo is
said to have shown his usual spirit and art
istic worth in this revival Of ain art almost
extinct III our. day among artist of rcputc.
Although Miss Louisa II. Alco.t lives in
that town Of literary inspiration, Concord,
Mass, sl,o does most of her writing in Dos-
ton. There she takes room whero sho can
abc perfectly:rctircd' and quiet, and with u
bottle OF ink by her side and lap tablet on
her knee, she writes until her task is done.
She says'that there is something in the east
winds of Boston. TINT stimulates her brain.
Frank R. Stackton,, the novelist, said re
Gently that he first worked on Tho Philadcl-
phia Post and found the work not very hard.
Then no went to New York as writer Of
short editorials on weekly called Hearth
and Homo, and he found the work there
much harder Thon he tried Scribner's
Monthly, where the work became hardor
still; and he feared that no night lie cin-
ploycd on an annual and break down,
The Safety Valve says that the Chemist Of
tho Alpha Oil company, of Port Sarnia, Ont,
is q young lady, Oh adopted daughter of Mr..
Hall, whose process Of refining is IN use in
the establishment She is very skillful'in her
profession, and recently succeeded III anal
yzing the oils treated at the works, by means
Of spark from B,inscn battery, in On ap-
paratus of her own design. She accomplished
the separation of tho carbons into grains
while collecting the gases in separate cham
ters." -1Ei9 CTS s;si
Harriet Beechcr. Stowe is intensely inter
ested in the ministerial work Of her son, the
Row. Charles Stowe; who has church in
Hartford Conn. Mr..Stowe is IL CongrcSa-
tionalist, with radical tendencies. 30 is o
strong preacher, and his mother, who Is now
all old and feeble woman, finds 'hcr greatest
pleasure in life in listening to his sermons.
His church Is some distance from Mrs.
Stoves house, but, no matter what may be
tho weather, the famous writer of "Uncle
Toms Cabin never fails to occupy her pew
on Sunday morning. Alzi 800
Harry Harland, the young gentleman who
writes over the pen name of "Sidney Luska,"
has been accused of being unfricnHy to the
Jews, and few nights since, he appeared in
his own defense before society Of Jewish
young men in New York. Theamusing part
Of this accusation is that Mr.. Harland writes
SO enthusiastically of the Jewish race, and
makes tho heroes and heroines Of oil his
novels of that faith, that those who only
know him by his writings supposed OF course
that he was Hebrew. He is not, however,
but comes of an old New York family. lie
did not even marry into the race lie admires
so much His wife is the daughter OF Mr..
James S. Merriam, well known New York
lnWyer