Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-17
TALK ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Personal Paragraphs OF Interest Clippe
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Personal Paragraphs OF Interest Clipped
from the Newspapers-Gossip.
Queen Victoria is to receive the first bar OF
gold taken from the newly discovered mine
at Dolselly, Wales.
Professor J. G. Lenmon, of Oakland, is
making thorough botanical survey Of Cali
fornia, including Lower California.
The late David Whitmer "the last witness
to the divinity OF tho Book of Mormon, u with
his last words declared that hc had just had
another vision confirming his belief In that
book.
Mr.. George Meredith, the novelist, does ell
his work in little chalet which he has built
in his garden, and sleeps in a hammock swung
there among his books. with the windows
open. When he is scepless he wanders out
into the woods.
Editor Latimer, OF The Lumpkin (Ga.) In
dependent, is noted throughout Georgin for
his chronological enthusiasm and his large
/; collection of bugs and beetles lie has at
least 10000 specimens, some OF them very
beautiful and rare.
The Ducr ,Aumale swns. .banished from
;IsFTance not because he was an Orleans prince
but because no did NOT treat NJ Greyy with
the profound respect which that bourgeois
! president deemed his due Now, therefore,
that NJ Grevy has been degraded and repudi-
( ated by France, there is loud and wide de-
mand for the return of the illustrious aud
honorcd exile.
Zel Bahia, the last of the Janissaries, died
recently i'll Serajawo, at the age OF l0s When
the Janissarie5 were massacred, in 1926, by
order of the Sultan Mahmoud II, Eel Bahia
alone escaped and fled to Russia. He subse-
quently returned to Sernjawo, where he
earned living MS schoolmaster. He was
the author of book Of Persian poems, which
is much read in the east.
Del Vale, Paris journalist, who writes
under the pseudouym of "Zulu,n and who
was onco all African correspondent, went
into circus the other day and tried to Join
the keeper in the lions cage A policeman
endearored to prevent him, but Lie pushed
him aside and entered He remained several
minutes and on coming out was arrested.
Tho audience had meanwhile dispersed in
alarm. The foolish experiment is supposed
to have been the consequence of bet.
Rev. Heber Newton doesn't in the least
mind telling the rich people wherein they
arc derelict. In his recent sermon on "The
Social Functions of Wealth." he reminded
his people that tho rich man was not the ia
vorite of Mother Nature, loaded with good
things for his own enjoyment, but her stow
ard, intIustcd with tho power to secure
wealth for the benefit OF mankind He says
there is an unearncd incremen. ia all wealth.
Society gives the power to get wealth. New
York made tho fortunes OF the Astors, the
Stewards and tho Vandcrbilts quite as much
as they made them. Society demands the
right use of this wealth getting power.
The queen of Sweden is, by order Of her
physician, courageously leading o life Of
physical exercise and labor for the cure Of
that nervous lnnlady by which she is at
tackled. Her majesty, with a fortitude that
might well be initiated by gently reared la
dies unnerved by late hours and the UNI
wholesome artiflciality Of social life, rises
early uses cold water for her additions,
makes up her bedroom, goes out for a morn
ing walk ut q time when many of her sub
jects are still asleep. The day is spent in a
round of healthy and fatiguing employments
and recreations, taken as much as possible in
tho open air; her dict is of the most frugal
kind; she goes to bed early. Under this
bracing regimen, supervised by the ablcst doc.