Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-27
MEN OF NEWSPAPER NOTE.

what tho Press Says in the Way Of
GoaxIp-InlercstIng Paragraphs.
Henry Bergh wrote four playsin his youth.
Tho Prince of Wales favorite author is
Macaulay.
Gladstone is said to havo got a25O for a
magazine article
The sultan went into mourning for EN-
paror William, although it is contrary to
Turkish custom.
Bronson Howard recently mado tho witty
remark that he would rather bo playwright
than DO president.
Gen. Won Moltko says that Gen. Boulanger
knows something" From such a pcssimist
us Won Moltkc this Is high praise.
A peer of England, who is somewhat hard
up financially, lv.s accepted Gil engagement
ms travelling man to vol known nrm OF piano
mukerN
Oscar Wilde has had hin diniag room and
nil the furniture In il paintad white, for tho
reason that dead white is the only back
ground against which man looks pictur-
esauc in evening dress"
In nm interview between Henry NJ. Stanley
and newspaper correspondent tho distin-
,.,lishcd explorer said: 81 lave been in
Africa seventeen years, and | have never
met IL nlru who would kill mo if folded my
hands,"
Mr.. Labouchcre says tho prince imperial Of
Russia is so weak, both mentally and physi-
cally, that III less exalted circles he would be
regarded as being within measurable distance
of congenital idiocy.
Emperor William was chivalrous toward
| woman of all degrees. Flo kissed tho hands
of Indies who were Of his circle when lo met
them In private, uud like Louis XIV, he
would stand aside to let house maid go
past him.
The great Hungarian patriot, Louis Kos
suth, believes rhnt his lito is nearly ended.
lie has been residing for the last IS years
at Turin, Italy, engaged in completing bis
biography. lie is nearing the S6th year of
his age.
Although Robert Bonner has owned the
fastest horses i'll tho country, and is ever on
the alert for new acquisitions, it Is said that
he rarely goes to witness q horse race and
never bets OH ono He never drives horse
OIL Sunday, e,;d never permits ono Of his
horses to be driven on that day.
NJ. Bapst, Paris jcwelcr, in recent lect-
urc alleged that tho sacredly guarded baton
of Chuilomagne is nothing more than mu-
sici:,n,s. baton, and that underneath the red
velvet surrounding the handle arc engraved
the words: "This baton is my property,
=, singer in Nstre Dame, 1850"
Count Fang, who died in Vienna recently,
made a fortune of SS,OO0,0OO by tho sale of
Vienna bread In 1872 no opened the first
shop in Paris for tho production Of Vienna
bread, and the bakery still exists OIL the Rue
Richelieu under the name of tue MuiSoI;
Znng. Fang was sometimes spoken OF Us
"tle well-bread count"
i. lisa somewhat singular fact that Adj
ulirrl Porter the head OF the navy, should
receive higher salary than the commander
of the armies Ho is paid $4,000 n year,
while Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan receives only
s1l 900 although the latter is allowed u COM
mutation of 500 month for quarters and
forage for four horses. Gen. Sherman, as
general of the army, and Gen. Grant also re-
ceived $4,000
Emperor Frederick rises daily ct 7:3C
o'clock, when he takes q cup OF peptonized
chocolate. At $50 o'clock he has breakfast
which consists chiefly OF fish, poultry OF
caviar At | o'clock he dine1 on soup, fish, q
Joint and u sweet At 1 o'clock he takes cot
fco and ut o'clock ho has a supper Of meat
or poultry. The emperor drinks rauch milk,
which is sometimes qualified with little
whisky. lie also drinks much mineral
wnter, which is said to be very beneficial te
him, but lie drinks little vino.
Now Explorer De Brazza turns up in Pari:
aud confuscs tho runlor niongers By declaring
tint he Is not dsad, that no has not been
lighting the Ogowe natives and that he has
not spent in seven months oil tho money
voted him for twclvo, all Of which interest
ing items tavc been spread abroad within
the past year. The governor Of the French
Congo says, moreover, that the trade with
the OGowc tribes last year reached the rcspec'
| table total of $40, coo, more than double the
| amount of 1883; that he is ut pence with cy-
erybody, has two steamboats, running, and is
| getting part Of the Congo ivory trade
! awny frem the Congo State.
| Couae Herisson, in his recently published
| sasberses asfenas Of MarGanl Bazaine, enti
tied Ella Losondo do Meta" points out thai
| q eruol rnes has ovortalioa all the principal
sectors In the trial Of that general. Dan
dlau, the chief witness against him, has just
Ioen sentenced to 0vo years imprisonment
as Il trader in decorations; the Due d AuInale
reao pi>estdeA over the court martial is OK
/ jlei Col Rossel was shot as a Communists
| Gsmbetta died O tragic death; Goyenva
committed suicide, and Valcourt, Gambottas
secretary, was sentenced to ten years inpris
! onr,ont for froids committed In Belgium
All the generals composing the court which
tried Buzaine either arc dead or have beet
retired.