Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-01-21
PARAGRAPHS WORTH READING.

HHf1H0lfAFTI'o WOh n nEHOllfSs
Mr.. Marshall p. Wilder goes to China,
Japan md India to teach The orientals how
TO laugh.
Ex-Prcsident Grevy is about to writo q
book about his career as president Of the
French republic.
Patti has been giving "farcwells" in Lon
America, where she expects another hundred
thousand or two.
Mr. Richard Schultz of tho Hamburger
Bicycle club rode nearly four and one-half
miles i'll half an hour upon unicycle fifty
two inches in diameter.
Historian Bancroft says that it would be
prcsuInptuous for man of IS to attempt q
history of President Polk and his times, a
work which he has been asked to undertake.
Augusta Evans Wilson, "Bculah,n was O
Florence Nightingale during the war and no
name is more rcvered in the south. She was
the friend Of the sick and woundc1 and the
beloved of all.
Bernhardt has lost her pet tiger cat, Tig-
rette, Which she brought from America.
The animal had swallowed piece of the
rough outside covering of Il cocoanut. Its
stomach at once swelled to great size and
death soon cnsucd.
:. Tho greet financial king of New Zealand is
Johnny Jones, OF Dunedih. Ills wealth runs
up Into the millions, and the greater part
was lnadc in steamboatfng. Lie is native,
and once earned scent wages as on oarsman
on a ferryboat
Baron Hirsch has actually given s100n0,-
LOO, deposited in the Bank of London, under
Gle trustecs!ip of Baron Rothsclild and
Baron de Worms, for tho education of tho
poor Jews of Russia. 1t is the most munili-
cent gift Of charity i'll tho history of the
world.
TWAS queer coincidence that tho vencr-
able DR.. John D. Ogden, of New York, should
have died tthc night before Christmas" lie
was twice married, both OF lis wives being
the daughters of Clement c. Moore, the
author OF the poem, "Tho Night Before
Christmas
Frederick Villicrs, the well known war cor
respondent and artist of The London Graphic,
has entered the lecture field lie went with
Archibald Forbes through tho Franco-Ger-
man, Scrvian and Russo Turkish wars, and
has n great fund of interesting experiences,
which he relates with graphic eloqucnco
F. A Merrill, called by certain African
tribes Little Livingstone" has como To
this country from Bechuanaland to sell q VAL
uable collection of elephants tusks. lie says
that the queen Of Tongaland, with whom
England has just completed u treaty, is the
original of Haggard's ''Shc.m She is hand
some woman in feature and not very dark in
complexion.
Sir-Kenncth Cummings tho son of Gordon
Cummings, the great lion slayer, is back in
which lie visited Central Africa and killed
three lions and several leopards and other big
cats. lie is largely interested in land schemes
near the City of Mexico.
Engineer Kittridgc, inventor of the cam
tlever bridge, is living in Hartford, Conn.,,
in handsome style His wife is native of
that city. Mr. Kittridge's success as an in
ventor has made him rich. He began life in
an humble way, but by energy and ability
has gained high place Ill the civil engineer
ing profession. lie is tall, fine looking man,
and he has Travelled extensively in this coun-
try and Europe
John L. Sullivan recently said to friend
that he had never resisted policeman. With
O thorough appreciation of his own proves
he remarked: I'm different from every
body else in that If q policeman should try
to arrest you and you resisted no might
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mo and 1 resisted he would shoot me the FIRST
thing. No man would tackle mo without bis
hand on his revolver And SO l go with
policeman quietly tho first timo he speaks to
me, without making any fuss"
? Both the sons of Garibaldi are now dopu-
tics, Ricciotti, the younger, having been
elected to represent Rono in May, 1851
Mcnotti Garibaldi, who for many years has
represented the district Of Vcllctri, is gen
orally popular with men Of all parties, and
is q plain, honest soldier, who, although of
course member Of the Left, is distinguished
for good common sense rather than extreme
radicalism. Ricciotti Garibaldi was cdu-
Gated in England and has an English wife.
He entered parliament as workinGnlan's
candidate; but it remains to be seen whether
he will really prove to be as much OF q
radical after his election as he was before it.
Mr.. Manton Marble, formerly chief editor
and proprietor of Tho World is one Of the
very few men in this city who have ever
retired from the editorship of any daily
paper under their control. Greeley, Ray
ilond and Bennett, who were Dir. Marbles
contemporaries quarter OF u century ago,
worked in harness to the last So did
Bryant Brooks and Hastings. Not only
did Mr.. Marble himself retire from daily
ncwspapcrdom, but nearly all the chief mem
bers of his editorial staff did the same thing
about the same time, such men as Hurlbut,
Evans and Croly, oil Of whom ere yet alive.
Ir;1IoJ /, Jyhita Haor