Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-02-04
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.


Mr. Flngler, the Standard Oil millionaire,
who has hcen spending fortune in building
hotels in Florida, says he did so to amuse
himself. lie had been close business man
for forty years, and determined to take va
cation and build hotels.
Friends in Pit.sburg of Burtley Campbell
are authority for the statement that tho
playwright has entirely recovered his mental
balance, and that he will be able in a very
short time to be with his family and friends
again. The most remarkable thing about
b1r. Campbelis recovery is that he has not
only improved metSally, but has made
wonderful improvement physically. He
looks almost as we'll IS in his moro youthful
days.
Nearly year before his death Ger. Logan
was on the point of sitting down to dinner at
the house of a gentleman in Quincy, Ills,
when it was remarked that there would he
thirteen at the table. The general said he
would rather not sit down with that number,
and the matter was arranged by one of the
manipulating scat at side table
Miss Jessie Green, of Chattanooga, one Of
the victims of tho recent railroad accident ins
Kentucky, proved herself heroine in u SIM
pie but remarkable way. when tie surgeon
cano toher side she begged him to give his
attention elsewhere, saying: PLEASE leave me
amigo to those who are less hurt and for
whom something may be. DONE am going
to die and it is 10 use to waste valuable time
on me. Tell my family died a Christian"
George W. Rosure, known as the cowboy
evangelist, is said by an Arkansas newspaper
to be worth 100000, which yields him an in
como of $3.50 u day. His fortune was made
in cattle ard by lucky investments i'll real
estate lie is just 40 years old, and in his
youth was reputed to be one of the most
lawless of the desperadoes of the plains.
Guy dc Maupassant wants The Paris
Figaro to pay him 10000 francs damages for
publishing mutilated copy of the preface
of his latest novel In this preface Guy
kindly gave the public his theories on novel
writing lie claims that The Figaro should
have printed his views entire, and should
have made 10 alterations in the essay. Bat
just how lie could have been injured in this
way to the extent of 10000 francs is hard to
comprehend. His novels, not his views upon
novel writing, affect his reputation.
Not cowhiding, but regular beecbing,
was inflicted upon all editor in the city of
Lcmberg, Austria, the OTHER day. Ludwig
Malovski started in life as all enthusiastic
Radical. But when Count Protocki founded
The Przeglond Malovslli undertook to edit it
as on ultra-Conservative newspaper, which
made him great many enemies Herccently
walked with Count Wodzicli in public
garden, when he was approached by a num-
Der of young men, who stretched him OH a
bench, where four held down his hands ard
feet and the remainder Of the men beeched
him with their canes counting the strokes
until twenty-five hal bcea administered A
large crowd of people witnessed and up
plaudcd the castigat;on.
Mrs Henry Ward Bcecicr has no indication
Of wilowhood OF bereavement in her dress,
for she shares her dead husbands disbelief in
the propriety OF NJ BURNING garments. She
looks exceedingly venerable, however, and a
little less austere than Of yoro. Hcr snow
white hair and dark dress arc in striking con-
trast of colors, and her manners, although
polite, are quito Us positive rs the
two hues that she wears. Mrs Beecher nov
u floor in the residence of q son in
Brooklyn, and has sufficient fortune to &.
keep her comfortably She gets large mail
every day, and most of the letters are from
strangers, who usually write for advice on
some personal subject, trivial Or consequent
tinl
Prentice milford, who was condenser on
The Graphic for nearly ten years, and is
known from the Atlantic t., the Phcific coast
us Orru lrDn..-Slv- rrUer---
esting of newspaper. correspondents, is spend
ing the winter in Boston, dcvotiug himself
heart and soul to metaphysics Altogether,
be seems to have cut the world dead and gone
over to the things OF the spirit with the IN
t,ntion OF staying there. Milford has several
distinguishing traits and tastes He is only
entirely happy when he can break away from
O high civilization and live in q tent or shanty
in the wilderness, do his own cooking, write
philosophical things, commune with spirit
Influences and soak the troubles OF daily city
life out of him. Although fond of outdoor life,
he has some feminine accomplishments, nota-
bly, knitting and embroidery. He is one of
the clevcrest of after dinner speakers but re-
fu.es to don Il swallow tail coat for anybody
or bodies.