Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-24
SCISSORS AND PASTE.

There are thirty-seven japanese students
in the University OF Michigan.
Florida nurserymen nre doing large bust.
ness in shipping young orange trees to. Cali
fornia- ~
, The London flremen are to follow their
French colleagues In being dressed in asbestos
CLOTH
The Peruvian government invites offers for
the Introduction Of the telephone In that
country.
In tho diocese of London, with popula-
ton Of 5000, 900, there wero 1854 baptisms
tho lost year. =
-Four sheep and ton bushels OF wheat set-
tied AN lows breach Of promise suit where
e25 900 damages wero demanded.
A club room in Portland, Me-, Is said to be
paved with &, 400 worth OF old lettory tick
cts, noa ono Of which ever drew cent.
BY Queen Victorins orders, no intoxicating
liquors will In future be allowed upon the
premises of tho Peoples palace HI London.
There is In the vicinity OF Vnughnsville, 8.
c., M infant Smonths old whose mother Is II,
grandmother sa, gRandtasAer 81. md great
grandmother 81.
or the seventy-slx United States senators
only thirty bave received classical educa-
ton, and of the 1888 representatives but l0S
have attended college.
1t Ia asserted by those who profess to know
that the entire surface of Raleigh county,
w. Va., Is undcrlaid with coal from four to
twelve feet IN thickness
The lot on which the California theatre
stands, IN San Francisco, which has just been
purchased by Kate McDonough for sl27 900,
was bought forty years ago for SIS.
The presence ot.-eighty-three students IN
electrical engineering at Cornell university
isa1 Indication Of the rapid growth OF the
interest in the application OF electricity to
engineering problems
An electric elevated railway for the con-
yeyance OF small parcels and newspapers OF
high rate Of speed Is under consideration
: by Baltimore capitalists, with q strong PROS
pect that il will he constructed
The story comes from New Leno1, Ills,
that boy there has two big Cochin Chino
ROSTERS which he hos ''broku" so that he can
drive them double to small sled or wagon
The last boy that got into the newspapers for
doing this lived in Maine.
The town of Bellevue, Ills, IS entirely. free
of dogs. Since tho terrific nitro-glyccrine
explosion there some timo ago not n canine
has boon seen on the streets. AT tho first re-
port every one started on g dead run for the
woods and not ono has returned yet.
A company has been formed at Pittsbnrg
with capital OF 100000 to manufacture
brick from blast furnace cinders. Tho IN
dustry is successful In England, aad the pro-
jectors count on turning out O,0OO brick per
day, which they expect to market at s. per
thousand
Tho cost OF maintaining the imperial fam
lily OF Germany, with allits various branches,
is $40, OOO, 600 u year. The sultan OF Turkey
costs the people s15,0OO,O0O annually. The
most economical court In Europe, consider
Ing its size and the wealth Of the empire, is
tho Austrian.
Tho Russians aud Poles ore crowding into
the factories where sewing is done. For sew
eral reasons thcy are strongly objected to by
the othor nationalities. In tho first plaoc
they are inhumanly dirty and vitiate the air
already mono too puro. They will work for
the least possible amount and carry work
homo to be dono at night.