Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-24
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

THE first woman to apply for admission to
Miss Flora w. Tibhitts of Ann Arbor
EX-SENATOR SAWYER, of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as second-class clerk
in the War Department at Washington.
A. S. MURrIIY, keeper of the Greek An
tiauities in the British Museum, and one of
the foremost psychologists i'll Europe, is now
in America.
PROFESSOR FORSTER, of Breslau, has had
300 cases of affected eycsight due to disturb
amcc of the circulation caused by wearing
tight collars.
PROF BOONE, of Indiana University says
that of $500 theological students in the
United States, less than onc-iourth are college
graduates.
EX-GOVERNOR LOWRY and Col. William
H. McArdle are engaged in the preparation
of history of Mississippi, from its earliest
settlement to the present lime.
EDWIN STEVENS, the newly-appointed Con-
sui 10 Pcrnamluco, was ma or of the Seventy
seventh Illinois during the war. lie was five
years Consul at Ningpo China
CHARLES NEGLEY, who succeeds NIr. Ben.
nington, of West Virginia, as consul to Rio
Grandc do Sol, Brazil, is one of the proprie-
tors OF the Hagcrstown Md lronworks.
HON. DAVID. DUDLEY FIELD, of New
York. heads the delegations of the American
Peace Society 10 the Universal Peace Con-
eress at Westminster Hall, London. July 14-19.
Mr.. WILLIAM /. ALDEY, the late consul
general CT the United States for Italy, has re-
ceived from the King Of Italy the cross Of
Cavalicrc della Corona d'Italia in recognition
of his kindness TO Italians.
"NlY SoN,'' said Senator Brown, of Georgia,
10 a reporter who asked him if he was, as re-.
ported, worth million collars; "ny son, a
million dollars is mighty big lot of money"
and that was ali he would say.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, who is now
seventy, declares that his sight is growing
feeble, and the fatigue Of writing is wearing
upon him. and he must hereafter place all OF
his correspondence, except that of old friends,
in his sGretary's hands.
JOHN @. HART, OF County Clare, Ireland,
an aged author, publicly acknowledges the
receipt of an annuity donated by George w.
Childs, to the end that "the declining years Of
the writer may be free from carenid anxiety"
Mr. Hart is the author Of Irish Pedigrees."
THE monument to the late Mr.. Hendricks, Of
Indiana, designed by r. H. Parks consists of
q pedestal twenty-Qne feet high and bronze
statue thirteen feet in height. Doric columns
stand at the corners Of the pedestal. In niches
OH the sides are figures of History and JUS
tice.
Mrs MARY MILLER, of Western Pennsyl-
vania probably the wealthiest colored woman
in the country, died the other day. Her in
come was 500 day. Four years ago she
owned barren piece of ground, but there
was oil beneath its surface which made it oil
right
SENATOR EvARTs' living expenses arc esti-
mated ut 100000 year. He has three houses
which he keeps open all the time-one at New
York, one at Washington and meat Windsor,
VT lii each he has library-almost dupli-
cate of the other two-tilled with the best
works of law, history, political economy,
his comfort, and his ambition and satisfaction
are to live like an English gentleman, on
luxurious and liberal scale, without any re-
gard to the petty economies of life.