Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-14
MEN OF NEWSPAPER FAME.

What Press Photographers Have to say
of Thom-Bits OF Gossip.
Speaker Carlisle smokes Pipe In his study.
Gen. Sherman has given his portrait to
Hnrvari university.
Mr. Gladstone plays the violin-with no
greet success, however.
q. Rider Haggard is said to cnt onions
when composing his narrowing tales
President Charles Z Adams, of Cornell,
declares that co-educatton is O success.
Mr.. w. II. H. Murray is going on tour of
exploration to the extreme north OF British
America
Tho ladder Of fame possesses many rounds,
1t IS said. Charles Mitchells ladder contained
just forty.
Louis Koasuth Is still living OF Turin with
his sister, in good health and busy With his
autobiography.
Fras william james af Harvard, Is guing
to Try 10 ruviyo the fashion Of e1pcrsrcnt-
ing with planchette
Joel Chandler Harris became tho father Of
ten children boforo he named ono OF them
xSter himself. Admirable modesty.
81. do Brazza, tho African explorer, is re-
ported to BIO almost hopclessly i'll. Els e1-
poriences on the Congo ruined his health.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented
his largo and valuable collection OF medical
and surgical books to the Medical library Of
Boston.
Mr.. Herman Mcrivalo relates that onco on
first night ho thought tho play so bad that
he groanud aloud, and SO loud TINT the audi
ence cried: Turn him outln The play was
his own.
Urban Olivier, tho Swiss novelist, who re-
Gently died ct the ago Of rs, conscientiorely
produced ono book year and at the same
time cultivated farm. He was very suo-
cessful farmer.
John Lamar Acree, Of Lower Lee county,
Ga, died recently from o brass harmonica.
The harmonica was Christmas present, and
in blowing it tho harmonica poisoned his
mouth and lungs. .
Richard Mansfield, the actor, though not
legally bound to pay royalty to Robert
Louis Stevenson for tho uso Of dramatized
version OF "Dr Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" never
theless sends a lnrge check every month to
the famous author.
Jacques Hartog, who acted ns courier for
Jay Gould In Europe, says in @ newspaper
interview: "Mr. jay Gould is ono OF the
incest mon ! ever came across, and all the
members Of his family arc extremely courto-
GUS and generous in their treatment" Here
Is one man who Is a hero to his valet.
John f. Fitzgerald, the president of the
Irish National League Of America who lives
at Omaha, was for timo common laboror
on Nebraska railroad at salary Of fifty
cents u day. He is now president Of several
banks, Is ut the head of the Nebraska stock
yards at Lincoln, and employs about 1000
men. His fortune runs into the millions.
N. Georges Ohnet, author OF lie Maitre
de FORCES, Serge Famine, otc., used to BIO
a lawyer, and then journalist He is
small, nervous man, talkatlvo and pctnlant
For short time in the winter he lives in
Paris, but spends most Of the year at his
country seat at Abymcs. ~ am," no says,
THE LATEST of Lazy people. have only ono
pleasure, ono ambition; and that is to sit in
the sun end do nothing Yet he Is prolific
and most successful author.
~ happened to catch Ingersoll alono the
other evening"" said one Of the best known Of
New Workers. He spoke to me Of Shakes
peare-spoke three hours, spoke as he never
spoke to all audience. He knows Shakes
pcare by heart, Knows the familiar and the
slightest plays, knows that era, and declares
that it was one OF the greatest intellectual
achievements since history. He not only
asserts 1t, but proves it with quotations,
references, examples" Ingorsolls agnosti-
cism has been practically forgotten here.
He is ready to declare himself if asked, but
he no longer, except incidentally, speaks Of
these views. He shuns show of occasions
and declines invitations to formal dinners,
which he abominates, by the score every
month But he delights in having wit at
his own table, and the sparks fly when he
gets one.