Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-15
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Thomas A. Edison's birthday is now noteo
in the British almanac'
Tennyson is said 10 be forty-two pounds
heavier than h, WAS year ago.
General Lougstreet is now keeping hotel
in the little town of GAINESVILLE, Ga.
Mrs. z iisoa has fine brown eyes, a s ral2ht
face. with delicately acquiline nose.
Mary j. Holmes, tue. novelist, received
roya tics on T10L0 copies OF her booLs sold III
1889.
4 Cardinal Ncwm IN has entere his n'netie.h
year in better health than usuIl anu, prom
iSes to 0utive the Pope.
Senator Ingalls, receives at least ten letters
week from publishers nssinS to see the
manuscript OF b novel;
Misses Margaret aud Harriet Blaine are
usually accompanied by q large masJlH 10
their ramblrs ABOUT Washington.
Senator Hearst, of California, worked on
his fathers farm in Missouri before he went
to San Francisco forty years ago.
Herr Krupp, the gunmaker, is the richest
man in .rmAny. Hisincome last year was
Sl,395 0OJ as against Sl,O5J,03O in 1883.
Mrs. Russ Ill b. Harrison has bad bonnet
named alter her, which is Il modification OF
Oh, designed for Princess Rimsky hortcn-
kciE.
Prof. Anderson, lately minister to Den
mark, began life i'll Milwaukee by peddling
apples about the banks, BoarI of Trade anu
railway Offices.
Clinton Scollard, the poet, is professor Of
English literature OF Hamilton College. He
is young man, rather handsome aud ex-
ceedingly genial.
Joaquin Miller, the poet Of the Sierras,
writes IN almost Eligible hand. IL is said
that this eccentricity DISCUSSES some equally
eccentric spelling.
Captain X, Il. hole, candidate for Governor
Of Georgia, is the inventor of choice va
rieJy watermelon, aud used to bj one OF the
ciief melon-growers in the state.
The young Chinese Emporer has insisted
upon tue closing of & lInolins establishments
in Pekiu and is trying TO cut down expsn.
ses connected With the government admin
istratioD.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes decided after
the death o. his wife that he would do no
moro literary work. Hs has changed his
mind. however, and now fluids in che monthly
letters to tho Atlantic II source of pleasure
that he did not expect n gain u experience.
John H. Inman, the New York millionaire,
is u healthy l0osIng man OF Commercial
prominent goito.. He is the leader Of To.
Southern colony in Now York; owns acres
by tile thousand III Alabama nau Georgia,
and is u keen eyed director Of companies too
numerous to mention.
Mr.. Snowdeu, of Philadelphia, the United
States Minister to Greece, gave u banquet ut
tile United States legation 10 Athens, in
honor OF WushingtOns birthday. Among
The guests we're court officials, Cabinet m!n-
Isters, the entire dlplotn itic corps and many
distinguished Americans.
Count Herbert Bismarck has strongly
chjseled features q heavy cdvalry moustache
and the bearing of the son OF his father He
has never succeeded in startling anyone by
hny especial brlliancy, bus he is Munster of
Foreign Affairs Of the German Empire. An
Irish woman has refused to hurry him.
Judge Mcdonnell, OF Chicago, is u genial
looking man with III elongated bald head
md fringe Of iron-gray hair OF singular
sparsaness. He speaks neasuredly ana with
cool deliberation, but with plentiful inter-
spers;on of rich idioms lie is close on three
score, and has not yet quite recovered from
the strain Of the Cronin trial, over which he
presided.
Henry 1rving's son is taken to task for
calling himself "Henry Irving, Jr." 1t Is
suid that his fathers na:ns being really
Henry Irving Brodrib, he should call him.
self Brodrib. The fact is that the ac-or,
some ten years ago, when about to be made
q .'freeman' OF tue city of Lonl'n. had lis
name changed by legal process FROM Brodriu
to Irving, aud his son is consequently Henry
Irving, Jr
Lord Stanley, OF Preston, the Cover lor-
General OF Canada, is broad-shouldere /,
patriciau- mannered and nine ard forty. File
wears q clossly.cropped black beard; is de
voted to q cold tub, and has taken kindly tc
tobogganng. lie is nota painfully brilliant
man, but he is eminently respectable. II.
also The father OF eight children, and val
one day be Earl of Derby aud one of the
richest men in Europe.