Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-27
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Mr.. James Russell Lowell will sail for home
on November %.
General Fitz-John Porter says he takes 10
inter, st in politics.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of London. says;
"The pulpit is tho pail slave OF respectable
society,"
Minister Phelps is being entertained BY
the Duke OF Cleveland ut tue latters family
seat Raby Castle.
The Princess Sophia, of Prussia, is learn
ing Greek, and the Grown Prince OF Greece
is helping her. They are to be married
Kate Field, though re.nanins single her
self, Is decidedly of opinion that marriage
is not failure.
DIR. Archibald Geike, the eminent Scotch
geologst, is a little man, with big, nearly
bald hca1 and a thoroughly Scotch counte-
nance.
Mrs. Sally Crandall, who for twenty years
has been keeper Of the Watch Hill, r. L.
lighthouse, has just retired, having grown
tired of the life.
Richard Clifford Palgravc, the Arabian
traveller, is deal. According TO the Jc,cish
Chronicle he was born jew with the natle
of Cohen, but changed it when he married.
At General Sheridans funeral Representa-
two Wheeler Of Indiana, attended Roman
Catholic service for the first time and was
so pleased with it that he has attended the
church regularly over sine
Mrs. Martha Strickland, who argued mo.
lion in a divorce suit before th, Supreme
Cour- of Michigan at Detroit recently, is the
first woman to appear before the tribunal
in the capacity of an attorney
Donna tsidora Cousino, of Sonth America,
ic chi RI N
tho richest woman in the world owning nine
mines, steamships and immense possessions.
AIR. Gladstone who is one of the, best ex-
amples OF physical preservation eXt +. eats
simple meats with claret for lunch, ailt, ret
or champagne and always port for dinner.
a formula of his is to chew every morSel
S3 times.
The finest collection OF rubies in this
country Is saii TO be owned by Mrs. Davis,
wife of Senator Davis, of Minnesota They
worc. inherited fl ON Scotch relative, who
collected them before they became SO highly
priced.
Reers, the. Australian Yacht builder. is now
in California on mis- way to New \ DIRK. lie
comes to study our yacht models and repro
sants all Australian syndicate, which is anX-
ious to build boat which will BEAT our VIC
torious sail carriers.
Hon. Wendell Holmes says that he mas not
felt able to writ, anything for tue public OF
late, but" he adds, "in the sweet by-ard by
Gf q by-and-by l am to hnve), l hope to please
my friends by once moro using my pen for
them"
Caleb Foote las just retired from the
Salem. On ss.l Gazette after continuous
service in the office of sevcnty.onc years,
during sixty three years of which time be
was editor and part proprietor. The record !o1
cannot probably be equalled in the United
States, if, indeed, in the entire history OF the
profession.
The Bishop of New York has the largest
personal revenue in this country: 1t is $40,
zoo year. The Bishop of Maine has the
smallest. It is $1,000 q year. Tho B!sh hops
of California, Chicago, Long Island
and Massachusetts have each $4,000 q
year Others have incomes running from
5000 year down, while eight OF he Amer
can Protestant Episcopal prelates are con-
tent with 81, GOO L year ea:h.