Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

FRINGE BEATRICE is Writing DOCK on
lace, to be illustrated by herself
THE Sultan of Turkey takes forty minutes
to say his prayers i'll the morning.
SIR NOEL PATTON, "thc Queens Limncr in
Scotland, "is recovering from n serious illness.
Mrs. GLADSTONE always attends meetings
of Parliament when either her husband or
son Herbert is to speak.
GENERAL f. E. SPINNER, ex-Treasurer of
the United States, is steadily sinking. lie is
now almost entirely blind.
COLONEL INGERsoLI, it is said, believes
that when he lives through February he is
safe for the rest of the year.
Mrs. ORMIsToN CHANT says that she COM
piled with the demands of 1907 autograph
seekers while she WIS in this country and
never once lost her temper.
WILLIAM GRoEsDECK, the man who de-
Tended President Andrew johnson in his
impeachment trial, isat present living quietly
near Saratoga.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, the millionaire pal
nee car manufacturer, is said to work ten
hours each day looking after his enormous
business interests
THE Duke of Portland has interfered to
prevent the abuse of road horses that are
allowed over his private roads, and has set
down automatically on Sunday traffic.
w. S. WILLIAMS, of Cherokee county, Ala
bama, is the father of twenty.eight children,
the eldest OF whom is forty-nne years old, the
youngest six. Mr.. Williams is seventy years
of age.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of Missouri is still o
young man. He is of medium height, with 0
portly figure aud he has blonde mustachc,
light hair and blue eyes. His voice is well
modulated and pleasant.
SENATOR COCKRELL, of Missouri, is de-
scribed as "tull, thin, sharp-faccd, shrill.
voiced Senator, noted MS the most excitable
man in the Senate and good type Of the old
fashioned controversialist."
THE Earl and Countess of Pembroke have
had, GAS You Like 1t" played in the quad.
ranglo of Wilton House, Salisbury, where i,
is said, "a Midsummer Nights Dream" wa,
once played in Shakespcare's time.
COLONEL Tom RUSSELL MARSHALL, who
has just been elected commandment of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, is thirty-cight year.
old, and graduated from that institute in 1880
He is colonel ofthc first Virginia Cavalry.
STEPHEN B. ELKINs' mountain home in
West Virginia is built on 4 peak from which
view Of thirty miles may be had. The house
is more Ikea baronial castle than residence
i llc suIEUuHulIS HIuultuiiiS arc iili VI tIDul
streams and game forests.
MIS-. WINIFIED SWEET, of San Francisco
is one of the most noted newspaper owners Of
the West. Her most important feat was to
visit the lepcr islands of Aloloki, in the llawa.
lian group, where no woman except few
Sisters of Mercy, had ever set foot.
THE Duchess of Sutherland, the lady who
accompanied the Duke and his friends OH o
yachting expedition in Florida waters before
her marriage, occupied for the first time
Friday night seat in the peeresses gallery in
the House of Lords and WIS much observed.
MADEMoIsELLE ROSE MAUKY, who illus.
.rates for five Of the best Partisan journals, is
the daughter Of station master in France,
and protege of Mr.. Durny, Minister of Pub.
lie Instruction, who happened to see her
sketching in the station when she was years
old.
WALTER WEBB, the second vice. president
of the New York Central Road, is man of
medium height and apparently slight figure,
though in reality he is one of the most accom-
plishcd athletes in the city. Hcis especially
noted as lightweight boxer. Mr. Webb is
about 30 years old.