Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-23
NOTED in NEWSPAPERS.
n,en Whom tho World Knows to Be Mt

NOTED IN NEWSPAPERS.
Hen Whom tho World Knows to Be nIcre
or Less Famous
& PIERS Lorillard is crack shot with a
! pistol.
The amecr. Of Afghnnistan will visit Eng.
], land this summer.
The senior admiral of the British navy, Sir
Provo Wallis, is 100 years old.
Alfred Brennan, tho artist, is tho champion.
i pistol shot in New York.
Rear Admiral Hcnenge has forbidden his
j officers. to wear colorcd shirts under their
coats.
Henry T. Coxwell, the bnlloonist, is 70
years of age, and has made 700 voyages in
ssthe'air
: Herbert Spcncer's health is improving, but
he never expects to do much work. Sleep
.lessness and nervous exhaustion arc his bane,
but his doctors arc moro hopeful.
ExPrcsident Rutherford B. Hayes is said
to have 6ramatized SCOTS LADY of tho
Lakon whom hoy of 10, and before he was 1a
hc had read through oil the plays OF Shakes
peare.
Ex-Governor Berry. of New Hampshire,
who is now in his 02d year, organized tho
first temperance society i'll that state at Heb
rom sixty-two years ago.
Tho oldest pensoner on tho rolls Of tho
United States pension Office is John Batchcl-
der, tho dependent father OF Samuel Batcliel-
der, late of Company D, Fifty-third Illinois
infantry. Hc is 1o3 years of age. 4
Ex-senator Powell Clayton, Of Arlansa.
hns fnade NIL his fortune since the war ~
tho close OF the hostilities he had hare, ~ L
dollar in the world, but rented nj nhz tan 2
Arkansas plantation, and in less '0''
years he made 100000. L.
Gen. sBoulanger goes to tho ond T' ";yo s
week, pays the artist ten fr 1 Inv a Enor
five francs to rho ASSIST, ,is ,m ,,niy.
speaks. and tho barber, lns ~, sI prereo
e e;os does %s. s not p Louvre
MARSHALL FieldY Chicago ',s I'd dry y, goods IDS
merchant 1,a .s. has dealer in dry goods in
a., snu rat,S days of A. T. Stewart.
1 W;s e eIun III L. e. Letter, who now lives
in inv W H,.s is worth slo,OOoOOo
MI. ,yl,1on hierarchy is said to pay Mr..
A. M 6fson salary Of $4,000 year to ;
look " tho intcrsts of Zion Mt Washington. :
n >. Square Shouldered, serious faced gen
~ ~ n, dignincd in manner md reticent in
S::-ch, and used to DO newspaper man.
Some time ago tho Zil-cs-Sultan tho
Shadow of tho SULTAN. tho eldest son Of tho
;bah of Persia. was degraded from his post of
ruler Of almost half the empire and the com
nd1i1 OF separate nrmy. 1t is now discov-
.red that he had leanings toward England,
md the shah's course vas in consequence of
ntrigucs by Russia.
Sarah &. Bolton describes VIII Carleton ms
n tall, vigorous looking man, who believes
in outdoor exercise, especially walking, who
Is fond Of rowing, saiingand horseback rid
ing, who uses 10 stinulants, who is kindly in
manner yet. decided in character, who honors
and all that is pure and elcvnting.
md who is fond Of music, playing OIL several
King Oscar of Sweden recently called on
The pope and instead of kissing his hand, as
e his custom, kissed him soundly on both
checks, to the surprise of the courtiers. 1t
was the greatest shock the traditions of the
Vatican had received since Gen. Grant shook
hands with Plus TX and said: elbow do you
10, siry' rxn.srSssz
~, I've 1oe In ~ SScrland is conceded to DIV
Lhe r Uo of the HIGHLAND fling in
I mod ~. Of Scotland. His grace recently
tha. ySfith the duke of Edinburgh on board
80 flagship Alexander Mt Malta, and, rs
Yual, took his piper Allister McAllister,
with him. After dinner the royal admiral
and the Scottish peer danced the "Iulloch-
gorum" for. mn hour by the clock, to the IN
tense c{lifcation nnd admiration OF tho OIL
GERS and ships company.
Tho Rev. Dr. Caltlrop, Unitarian minis
ter of Syracuse, n. T., has won great local
fame MS weather prophet. Syracusans
nlacc great faith in his predictions. About
90 per cent. of his prophecies are fulfilled.
Ho docs not attempt to forecast the changes
for large area Of country, but by keeping
his eye on tile sun manages to let Syracuse
know what the weather will BIO in t at local
ity some days before the weather begins to
weather.
DR.. William A. Hammond is really going
to live in Washington. Ho has cherished |
that design for many years, and was only
waiting until he had accumulated the sum
fer y,jhich ho had fixed his heart, and which.
We bsncvo, was s5OO,0o0. That no has scs
enough nclycs straight to have entitled him
self to this amount his friends hope and be-
love; while all who have personally con-
suited him must feel that he cannot be
entirely at home, even in Washington, with
out the antique chair and the magnifcent
naper cutter which are his throne and scep-
ter.
1t is snid that III tho house of commons
Lord Randolph Churchill usually sits with
his legs crossed and the point of his toe ex-
tended outward, a thing: perhaps, not neces-
sarily very remarkable in itself. bat which
has become SO owing TO circumstances. Tor
this extended toe of his is to those who Know
quito barometer of the noble lords parlia-
mentary llmnor When hc'obligingly lowers
tho toe TO allow fellow members to pass to
and fro, the initiated noto with glce that it is
fair weather in the Churchill camp, hut
when the toe is extended stifIly like the lance
of some warrior dressed fol- the tourney, dc
Ginning to lower or give way an inch, then
people in the immediate vicinity look out for
storms, and they are usually not disappointed.
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
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