Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-12
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
QUEEN vrcronIA's dinner hour is net until

QUEEN VICTORIA dinner hour is net until
in the evening.
GAIL HAMILTON recently sent for we'd
ding present Il complete set of her own books.
LEWIS RAISroN, Il Cherokee, is the Indian
TO be granted citizenship under un act OF Con-
grcss approved May -, 1879.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has had an electric
railway built for bringing dishes from the
kitchen into the dining room.
Pro PICo, known us the last Mexican Gov
crnor Of California, is living in great poverty
in that State. He is % years old.
Mrs. REAGAN, wife of the Texan Senator,
learned shorthand, withouta teacher, i'll order
TO become her husbands private secretary.
REV. HERMAN HALsEY, of Niagara county,
\. y, now claims to be the oldest graduate.
He took Il degree from Williams College III
1911.
TIE PORE recently administered frss com-
munion with his own hands to the son OF Zen
eral dc Charctte, TIL well-known French Lcsi-
timist.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the venerable poet, has
left Danyers, where he has been spending the
Winter with his cousins, and has returned to
his home i'll Amesbury.
REV. SAM SMALL, who recently accepted
now SAYS nc will run for the Georgia l4cgis'a-
turc if his friends desire it.
Miss HANNAH PURvIs, of North Lewis.
burg, O., is one of the few women who arc
authorized to solemnize marriages. She is a
minister of the Society of Friends
UBERrETEEKoMERt he distinguish lEr.t-
ish artist, who is almost equally famous as a
composer of operas, an architect and prac-
teal wood:carver, was at one time an OHIO
boy.
DONALD G.. MITCJ SsLL, ok Marvel, is now
sixty-eight years of age. lie lives quietly at
"Engewood" which has been his home since
1855, and which he has rendered so we'll
known by his writings.
Mr. GLADSTONE, while recently walking in
Hawarden village, wasapproachcd by all anna,
tour photographer, who begged MIN to stand
still while his picture could be taken, and the
&. 0. NJ. good-naturedly complied.
Mr.. GEORGE VANDERBILT keeps adding
to his land estate in Buncombe county, n. Z;
His last purchase is twcnty-eight acres OF land
adjoining his place, Biltmore, for which he
,aid $50, 600, being ncar.y $1,000 per acre.
DIR. JOHN HALL, of the Fifth Avenue (New
York; Presbyterian Church, has been nearly
twenty-threc years its pastor and in that time
has been absent from the pulpit but twice on
occount of sickness.
SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, president of
the British Royal Academy, is one ofthe hand
soonest men in England. An enthusiastic I'D
mirer describes him as having q head IKE
that of a Greek god and bearing like that OF
al ideal prince"
GENERAL GLINGMAN, an ex-senator from
North Carolina and major. general III the
Confederate Army, is now Il tall old man with
an erect figure and thin white hair. White
whiskcrs cover his hollow cheeks ana he is III
every way a conspicuous parsonage.
LORD TENNYsoN's health is fairly e-estab-
lished The Laureate is able TO take his two
hours morning walk without fatigue, and we
may hope for more poems from his hand. HIS
elder brothers. poems arc shortly TO be pub
lished. Frederick Jennyson, who is 81 years
old, lives in Jersey.
VERDI is reported from Geneva to be in eX,
cellent health and although his white hairand
flowing beard give him Il venerable, appear
ance his eyes are full of fire. lie will not ad-
init that "Othcllo'' is his last work and says
there is no telling what he may DO yet il the
inspiration comes to him.
JUSTIN IluNrLY MCCARTHY, author OF
"Thc French Revolution is not the entertain
ing novclistand historian of Our Own Times ,
and "Thc Four Georges" but the son OF the
latter. He is, like his father, Il Pafnelllte
member OF Parliament lie is Il successful
playwright The Candidate" Charles Nynd-
hams comedy, being from his pen