Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-25
MEN WRITTEN ABOUT.
seha. tho Newspapers Say Of Thcn-Pc

nonal Gossip.
Lord Salisbury is an expert golf player.
NJ Jules Ferry, of France, enjoys being
,zricaturod.
Before paInell entered politics DO was
.r.etty we'll known Us crickster.
R,,billstein viii receive 800, 900 for twenty
performances in tho United Btates.
Archduke Joseph, of Hungary, is deeply
Interested in the success Of q gypsy lore
society.
NJ. Perrotln, French astronomer, says be
MS seen giants building canals on the plane+
ara
Charles @. Leland Nans Breitman) Is max
.:,g Dictionary Of American Words apd
trascs."
Senator Fair, despite the reverses he has
net with In recent years, Is estimated to havs
fortune Of a20, Geo, cO0 left.
The late Engeno Rimn,ol tho famous Lon
OH perfumer, left n personal estate valued
, . 500, CR,0 and rastlo bc7uesaa to al perassa
tx, issre tten IA BIS ez.caay Cor ten yea1z,
2n ting ss cassssa3 easzraA ia IsssssHr=Ss
: .ieey soss Of Ae~svrsss= ess asssy to,ss 81
essass, ami otAeF pyrsSscsss- ir1csissagSSss
/. " use at Lisbon IN the royal reception to
10 king OF Sweden.
Adrian c. Arson, the famous baseball cap-
ain, Is 80 years old. and has been bali
.Ayer since be was 49, In the twelve
cara that lie has been NTH tho Chicago cfub
.sas won tho championship ak times.
Senator Quay, Of Pennsylvania, never eats
i restaurant 1t is not tho ylct!Ials but tho
litter that annoys him. Even the scncse
staurant Is rot secluded enough for hir,,
ii he cats his modest luncheon IN com
= ttee room
Matthew W. Sedan, mn eccentric old nan
% died at Tcrro Hauta,. Ind, last week,
IS buried In coffin which for twenty-five
ls ho h..d kept in his bedroom. The mon
aent over bis grave was erected according
1 lis orders fully thirty years ago.
ADMIRAL Hewets of the British navy, who
ss drowned the other day, was very Sec
,sful blockade runner during our war. So
, IRE Hobart P,sha nnd Capt Gurgoync, who
{ .;,mandcd tue ship Captain, which capsizsd
p.out ten years ago.
Matthew Arnold's will IL one OF Tho short
over put on record. Hero 1t is, vorbatitn
{ Hterntim: ~ leave everything OF which l
., "a possessed to my wife, Frances Lucy Ar
DID" Dus, then, he only left 5000 all told.
ereroic treatment saved tho emperor OF
-azil from death. Oxygen gas and hypo-
.mic injections OF caffeine were used to
,serve the patient from sylnope. On otie
;asion he tool; thirty-onD grains of calEeine
twenty-onc hours.
u. Daniel Wilson does not dare to enter
20 chamber Of deputies, but he holds on to
IS scat for rouraino and pockets tho salary
sachcd thereto; and under the present law
.c-e is no way of getting rid of him.
To Chicago reporter vino was interview
him not long ago, Robert Louis Steven
"a said: DON'T ask NE anything about DR..
.l,yll and Mr. HYDE Pm sick and tired Of
Asl. me anything about my other books,
..s Tve heard DR. Jeky1 and Mr. Hyde
..i.il 1t makes no sick"
The son Of Senator Butler, of Douth Cnro-
IA, has Just been graduated at West Point
4. tho foot of his class. But nc may make q
s,lccessful officer for all that. Lieut. Clark,
yho was graduated some yce-s ago with the
iowest average over made ut tho academy,
,cas tho only officer. in Gen. Miles last casl-
5aign who was mentioned IN general orders.
Bishop Matthew Simpson, it is said, lscver
c.fuscd 70 see u caller, no inut.er how trivial
MS business might DO. He made the study of
.llcal his specially, and so profound was bis
knowledge of the subject that he was con
sanity consulted by people outside as well az
inside the church, mud no one sought his I'D
,.ico more eagerly than Abraham Lincoln
Potter Palmer, the millionaire hotel keeper
f Chicago, lives in an immense green
=tsne tulreted aud lowered castle OIL the lake
saerc. near Lincoln park. His wife is called
the most beautiful woman in Chicsgo. lie is
,.bout 20 years her elder. Eo OWLS five mir
lion dollars worth of real estate, and his big
iiotel is said to bring him in soo0,000 year.
Thomas Hardy, tho English novelist, lives
as Max Hill, near Dorchester, his house being
perched high on hill that overlooks many
OF the real scenes of his Wcsscx stories. He
prefers the quiet Of the country for literary
work, but is by 10 means secluded from Low
don llfc for lie can reach the metropolis by
,ail within four hours.
. Ono of the greatest men Georgia ever pro
nosA ssys Tho BalttRseip American, ftzs-s
Yrzpsresr Scsn Cork. LIS portrait aea+a--as;
ny .sss;s & esees=se k>-za, sra gst ps1:sS,Y
~ O. !-saassa 4 Ia Fs7ssElh l5s-,sesssss Il
As9sy esSisscs os azss Lslaaty, rS.sse ASE
yallow unt chickens scratch aboro his neg
ected grave. a century hence who will re-
member anything of the local celebrities who
low strut vainly on the staSp Of lifel
Chief Superintendent William, Of the Lv-
rpool detective police, recently had bis
,onso robbed. Tho rear Of bis house b
uarded by bloodhound, and the thieses,
,robabiy awaro OF this, entered i'll The front
itchen window and completely stripped thu
.rawing room and sitting room of ell that
;Qs valuable, such rs jewelry, plate and
caring apparel, without iliserrrupting tho
cop OF the Liverpool head detective.