Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-14

and, thrust out from the surf, the brcathless
nostril Of riderless charger
MULTuM IN PARVo.
The cuirass is 10 DO abolished in the Ger
man army.
His holiness the pope received during the
jubilee 1000 pairs of slippers.
Terms have. been arranged for railroad in
Siam from Bangkok to Zimme.
The doctors of London have started club
of their own. They call it the Galenclub.
The Mekarski compressed air engines are
being used OH the London street ears. They
promise well.
Refining works have been erected at Santa
Paula which produce fine quality of illumt-
mating Kerosene from California petroleum.
In one. district Of London containing 200
public houses, 7,Of9 children were seen to
enter their doors within the spaces of three
hours. ~ = -. =
s The book Ben Hur, = :, in its brief life Of
seven years, has had .amexcepti sale, bo-
ing now in the two hundred and twenty five
Iienkuifes
were recently SOLD; at uctiolisf or $3.50 sTbef
relics were terribly suggestiyeS the instru-;
ment which caused her deaths, $ !. Z: X;
The profession Of .schirruppern has been
. brought before the courts. a chiTupper en-
courages the singers in music halls, and one
has been sent to jail for blai.hnlail
At a meeting Of the Cork trades council it
was proposed to hunt the Jews out of the
city, on tho ground that they are running
honest trade. There are about 800 Jews il
Cork. "a
A convention Of lawyers will be held in
Washington on Nay % to form national
bar association and to urge upon the several
states tho adoption Of uniform marriage and
divorce laws
Recent parties visiting the volcano Popo-
catapetl report increasing activity in the
crater, with clouds of smoke and sulphurous
fumes. Reports from Central America show
that several volcanoes are Enthusiastically in
renewed activity.
In Mexico Cssy few days ago, they tried
mans courage by shutting him up in
room with six rattlesnakes. At the end Of
six hours they opened the door and he was
standing in window sill, and the snakes had
fought and killed each other.
Rev. DIR. R. w. Dale tells of sagacious
deacon, who said, concerning his minister:
"The trouble is not that our minister isn't
orthodox, or that he isn't earnest, but when
he is earnest he isn't orthodox, and when he
is orthodox be isn't earnest
A school boy of Insterburg, Germany, re-
Gently wrote to the emperor of China asking
for some Chinese p stage stamps for his col
lection A few days ago the Chinese EN-
bassy in Berlin forwarded to him letter
from the emperor inclosing the stamps which
he desired.
Eighty-threc members of the national
house Of representatives were Union soldiers,
and almost all of them are entitled to wear
the Grand Army button. The leading Grand
Army state, as represented in congress, is
Kansas, all of her seven representatives be-
ing members Of the order.
A pamphlet condemning in moderate terms
Russian reactionary policy and predicting
internal disasters is being circulated in tho
highest circles in st. Petersburg. Tho
pamphlet is remarkable for the elegance of
its language. The police have SO far failed
to discover the authors of the work.
The other day, being in ono of those con-
venient marts where everything is sold from
O. carpet to corkscrew, purchased the lat
ter-not from any real necessity, but because
I thought it might "come handy" in the
house. although was not of housekeeping,
and had plenty of those convivial suggestions
in nv deserted mansion by the sea. How
ever. l desultorily brought the article to my
door. where met very dear friend with
parcel, which in shape and bulk seemed to
suggest companionable aptitude to my own.
"Dear friend, have brought you bottle OF
very choice wine," said the bundle owner;
and so the two were at once united. Hero Is
another of very different character: had
invited. a summer since, friend to pass
Sunday with me OF country hotel, where
was in the habit of going from time to time.
We left town together and arrived ut tho
village from whence we were TO take stage
for the hotel, some two miles distant. After
we were seated in the coach coffin was
brought forth and placed on the top, not q
cheerful travelling companion for those on
pleasure bent Nevertheless, it accompanied
us on the journey to the very end, was taken
off at tie hotel ond proved to be the last re-
ceptacle for one T, who had died the day
before, and whose name was the same Us that
of the friend whom had invited Quit What
would the superstitious9 Every male MEM
Der of nv friends family has since died, and
the name is extinct-Co Correspondent Boston
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