Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-05-26
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ists Of the IaiIy New. papers.
John Ruskin has written sixty four hooks,
and his annual receipts from his publisher
reach $4,000.
Sidney Lanier, the southern poet, is to hive
monument costing $4,000, and Baltimore.
Montgomery and Macon will pay the largest
part Of the bill
Hugh McCulloch, who was I4incoln's, john
sons and Arthur's secretary of the treasury,
is so. He looks to be 60, reads without
glasses, runs around in society, and he and
Mrs. McCulloch celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary recently.
A venerable sou of Maine and e1-cabinet
minister in Washington is Horatio King,
who was among the founders of Tho Port
land ArguS He is nearly n years of agr.
He took a clerkship in the postoffice depar.-
rent forty-nine years ago, and under
Buchanan he became the only postmaster
general who worked his way up from the dc
partmcntal ranks He is still active socially,
and retains his early fondness for tho pen
Robert e. Schcnck is 70, and is still quito
we'll known figure in Washington streets.
! He entered Congress forty-hye years ago,
I, but his last public service was rendered 'es..
I; minister to England, when incidentally he
rendered. little private service to the apt
and eager Britishers in the way Of instruc-
tions in the science of poker playing. 30
says that he has lately cured a bad case OF
Bright's disense l'y drinking milk and eating
almost nothing
Justice William Strong, Of the United
State supreme court, retired, is now 80 years
of age. Flo is tall, fine looking man who
does not appear to he moro than 60. His
clean cut face resembles Gladstoue'S, though
it is not SO wrinkled. Justice Strong seems
TO DO as active cs ever Efe has his salary Of Z
$4,000 year, and good income besides,
but he till lectures on constitutional law in
one of the Washington schools, and some
times gives professional advice
Jesse Lisle, of Cooke, Tenn, is ITO years
old aud has documents to prove it. In boy
hood he worked on a farm. For forty-fivo
years he was Baptist preacher and Is now
farming again He is hnle and hearty. does
not wear spectacles and won't turn over his
properly to his children for fear they will
suuander it. Last winter he cleared two acres
Of virgin forest without assistance. BE says
he remembers when his father came homo
from the Revolutionary war, his feet bleed
ing from long tramp and almost famished
for food
DR.. Vow, the accomplished physician OF
the Chinese legation at Washington, is soon
to wed an American maiden who is described
as :.one of tho we'll known beauties and So
ciety leaders of the capital" Dr. Vow has
been great social pet in Washington. He
is not handsome, but may be called, without
exaggeration, picturesque He speaks excel
lent English, is al accomplished horseman
ard can WELD sword with skill and viSor.
He always wears q Chinese costume. Sky
blue tunic, red silk pautalets and pigtail
give him luxuriously Oriental appearance.
It is told that few years ago, in a North
amptonshire village, Lord Spencer and Mr..
Gladstone were out walking one Sunday
evening, when they heard sounds of singing
coming from an old barn. After some hesi-
tation they entered, and were so Interested
that they stayed to the end Of the service.
The sermon on that occasion was preached ny
Methodist local brother, who was q poor,
hard working, industrious man. Service
concluded, the right honorable gentlemen
Ind conversation with the preacher, and
one of them told him he had never heard the
Gospel preached so faithfully and SO well in
his life before. ., - 80
Representative Alien, OF 5fassach6Setts, IS
devoting good deal Of his time in Wash
ington to amateur photography. Recently
poor widow in Lowell wrote to him saying
that her husband, private in Massachu-
sets regiment, lay buried somewhere in the
National cemetery on Arlington Hill She
hos long wished to see his grave, but has al
ways been too poor to mako the journey to
tho capital. Mr.. Allen thereupon seized his
camera, found the grave and made clever
photograph OF the spot. The Lowell widow
has thus been enabled, to oil practical pur-
poses, to gaze upon her husbands resting
place. Once in while an >.teur photography
redeenls itself.
Mr. Pinero, the London play writer, pro-
duces his dramas after prolonged and abori-
GUS thought When lie has settled the story
itself in his mind lie goes to work upon the
characters, building them up in thought bc-
fore he allows them to say word upon
paper. This process lasts sometimes for
weeks, ard sometimes for months; but when
the dramatist at length sits down to his desk,
the play has already q complete imaginative
existence from the rise to tho fall of the cur
tain. The actual writing bfr. Pinero accom-
plishes as a rule with extraordinary rapidity.
scarcely putting the pen from his hand until
it is finished. TIE longest of all his plays,
~ lords and Commons" WIS written in less
than a fortnight. "Thc Money Spinner" lie
wrote in less than week and u day.
Richard Henry Stoddarfi, the venerable,
gray haired poet, whose songs in the autumn
IF life have oil the mellow beauty Of his
ripened genius is gentle and generous almost
to fault. IIc goes the even tenor Of his way
from day to day, and for oneso far advanced
In years be does an extraordinary amount OF
literary work When n young man he met
the poet Poe and submitted poem for his
perusal. The author of THE Raven" hap
pcned to be in one OF his unfortunate moods
and roundly accused the young bard Of willful
and premeditated plagiarism. When he dis
covered his unjust accusation he sent for
Stoddard, and from that time they wero
friends. Mr.. Stoddard is considered by many
severe critic, but he says his aim is to 10
lust and tell the truth Tho ''chromo liter
nryn set, that turns out the nanlby PANTY
books, mover meet with any recognition from
him whatever. One of bis most ardent adj
mirers is John Boyle O'Reilly, who never
visits the city without seeing or asking about
the grand old troubadour," as he calls him.
An Interesting Geological Experiment.
Ono of the most remarkable experiments
ever modo in tho way OF geological research
is now being carried out at Schladiluch,
near Halle, in Germany. 1t is a gigantic we'll