Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-21
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.


Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, is at
/ Bar Harbor.
Adirondack" Murray is preparing for
another trip in his yacht.
Junius Henri Brown says that humor and
inhumanity are antlpodes.
Leland Stafford once.thought he was doing
we'll to earn 81, 800 year.
Duke SaMtonia is only rs years old and hos
nh income Of 100000 year.
Mrs. Cleveland always drinks an Apolli-
oaris lemonade before retiring.
Senator Palmer can write rs beautiful an
essay as tho best of the lterateurs.
Clara Morris uses the photograph for the
pleasure of hearing her own voice.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will go to Eng.
land TO pursue her literary studies.
Miss Hctty Green, twenty times million
aire, will walk two miles to save car fare
Mrs. Sarah W. Coates, of Kansas city, has
S., 900 900 which she can will us she plcases.
Ex-Governor William Sprague, OF Rhode
Island, is chief of police at Narrngansett Pier.
Count Arco, the German minister TO this
country, will spend much of the summer ut
LenoX.
Kojro Matsaga, ono of the Yale Law
School graduates this year, is of japanese
royal blood.
The Rev John jasper, the colored M, ulster
Of ''the sun do movo" fane, has been ,sach-
ing since $40.
Brandcr Matthews gets 500 for Century
article, anu spends $500 for dinner to cele-
brate the event.
Since the beginning of her reign Queen
Victoria has been paid Sl43, 455, QUO by her
royal subjects.
Sarah Bernhardt will play Romeo in Paris
next year to Mrs Potters Juliet-So, ut least
the tragedienne says.
Mark Twain is an enthusiastic adnirer of
| Browning. As reader OF tho poet no is
said to have no superior.
Mrs Evans. who won seat in Parliament
| for Southampton for her husband and the
Liberals is an American woman.
A pipe smoked by General Jackson while
| lie was President, has been presented to the
New England Historical Society.
When u girl, Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor
was tau; hi to ride AMI shoot and climb trees,
and do everything that boys do
The ate DR.. L. II. Lqllngwoll, of New
Haven, had fine collection of autographs
estimated to be worth nearly SlOO,uJO.
Juse Carroll, u young school teacher at
I5irdSeyc, Ind, died recently from fright, some
boys having iixeJ upu "ghost" in her path
Lord Cantelupe is about 10 leave England,
for India, and will be gone two years. Can
telupe is cut w, Of course, about leaving his
friends.
The Austrian Prime Minister'S tailor 70.
Gently had it printed Ill tn, newspapers tina .
he was not responsible for the preniers lack
of style.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. Stanley Brown, (uec Gar.
Geu) have sailed for Bremen Mr. Brown
takes year Mt Heidelberg TO complete his
scientific studies.
Mr. Gladstone has taken to wearing Il new
style ovcrcoat, described as n combination OF
the patterns known us Chesterfield" AMI
"lnverness cape.
Of all his decorations, the late Emperor
Frederick most priced tho medal which wa:
given to him for saving u man from drown
ing many years ago.
Benjamin +. Shivcly, who represents tho
South Bend, Ind, district, is the youngest
member in the fiitietl Congress, having
been born OIL March 70, 1851.
The Hon. Josiuh G.. Abbott, of Boston, has
given to the State of New hampshire copy
OF Trumbulls celebrated painting OF Chief
Justice Samuel Liyermore, of that state.
James Russell Lowell has joined the conf
mlttee Ill charge OIL tile cOinmcnOratlon vi
the bicentenury of Alexander Pope. Mr..
Lowell is II literary man we'll known i'll this
country.
General Robert c Schcnck, soldier, states,
man and diplomat. is living quietly i'll Wash
iDgton He is now IS years OF age, but no
one would suspect it from his appearance
and movements.
Secretary Villas, though very busy man,
finds time to TO u little reading every day
usually just before he goes to bed. HIS fav-
orte authors are Bulwcr, Scott, Thackeray,
Dickens and George Eliot.
DIR. Chapman, editor of the Westminster
Reuiew, who is credited with having dis
covere - George Elliott, lives most OF the tlme
in Paris. He is venerable looking man,
with long white hair and whiskerS.
Professor Sedgwick, the eminent political
economist, is somewhat spare man, oil
middle height, with large eyes and long dark
beard, lecked with gray. He suffers from
an impeachment in his speech, which prevents
him from speaking with effect i'll public.
Hon. P. T.. Barnum has sent to the Bridge
port, Conn, Historical Society, the dress coat
worn by the late Charles Stratton (rom
Thumb of Bridgeport, OIL his first visit to
England in 1873; also the velvet breeches
worn by him several years afterward ON the
occasion Of his fourth visit to Queen Victoria.