Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-17
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Mrs. HARRIET A. KETCHUM has won the
prize for the best design for Il soldiers luouu.
ment offered by the State OF Iowa.
Miss FLORA WOODWARD TiBDlTs, of Ann
Arbor, Michigan, is the first woman in the
State to apply for admission TO the bar of the
Supreme Court.
DR.. C. T. PARKEs, a Chicago physician, has
received fee of S25, 600 for less than Il mouths
attendance on patient who wasaiilicted with
q cancer in the face. ---..~..I,,uIi -IiUiStelL,
the younger daughter of Prince and Princess
Christian, is to be presented to the Queen ut
the next druwing-room.
TIP. O'CoNNoR says he has learned from
Gladstone's halter thata contour Of the Grand
Old Mans head transferred 10 paper makes !,
very fair outline map of Ireland.
ACTING GOVERNOR TAGGAET, of New
Hampshire, who was born i'll 1855 and grad
uated from Harvard in 1878, is the youngest
Chief Executive in the United States.
SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, the famous
painter, is man with curly hair and ruddy
face that is fringed with thick beard. He is
80 years old and has painted about 100 pic
lures.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the British jour-
nalist, is a man Of small eyes red cheeks and
sharp nose. He gets $4,000 year for con-
don Telegraph.
EX-SECRETARY Thomas F. Bayard uses
cards that are simply inscribed "Mr Bayard."
The style is English and it created much con-
sternaton in the South when Mr.. Bayard
travelled there.
carmen SYLVIA" the Roumanian Queen,
IS said 10 be an lluStrious epicure. She has in
vented a number of palatable culinary conf
positions and occasionally cooks ndish for the
King with her own hands.
PRINCESS VICTORIA, of Sweden and Nor
way, wife of Prince Oscar Gustavus, is very
i'll at Niece, and during.the past few day. her
condition has given rise TO the greatest anx-
iety. Her husband is with her.
JOHN THOMAS HElsoP, of Birmingham,
England, has such marvellous power of vision
that he is known as "the living microscope"
He can distinguish the animal life in water,
and 50 does not drink water.
NATHAN HARVEY, of Topeka, Kansas, has
in his possession his wedding suit, which was
made in Richmond, Ind, in 1882, in shop in
which Schuyler Colfax, General Burnside and
ex-Congressman ShryoclS were journeymen.
MADAM CARNoT disarmed the opponents
Of her husband, who intended making dem
onstration against him at the horse show, by
q timely and memorable visit to the day-nur-
sery for poor children in the Rue Bascom,
Paris.
The Empress Eugene has gone 10 Niesbaden
for three weeks She looked far from well,
but spoke hopefully of the beneficial effects
she anticipated from massage cure nher rheu-
matism, which has of late occasoned such
acute suffering
CAPTASKAyE, commander of the Caliope,
who so bravely saved his ship at Samoa over
year ago, is now at Spithead, England. He
is all Irishman and as sovn us he can get to
his native couutryan enthusiastic reception is
awaiting him.
KING LEOPOLD, of the Belgians, is said to
contemplate q journey to America in the Au-
tumn with view of arranging for further
developments Of the Congo, but the ultimate
decision OH the subject great depends on the
amount OF support accorded by his subjects
TO the scheme now under consideration by his
ministers