Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-08
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A land owner at Ell,o, New, is seeding bis
ranch to tea
The Finnish diet has decided TO adopt
CAPITAL punishment for the crime OF murder.
Blacl. necsties will succeed 'Tlite in Paris,
except upon the grandost of occasions.
Tho income of the University Of Cam
bridge of this year will DO $lSo,0OC, md ex-
penscs $4,000.
The Austrian government hos adopted the
automatic Maxim gun. which is considered
the finest In existence.
The largest railroad system in the world Is
the Atchison, Topeka nnd Santa Re, which
operates about :, 0O miles Of road.
Asbestos clothing has been used by the
Paris nre brigade with success. aud is soon
to be adopted by the London firernen.
A well known London firm Of refrcshment
contractors recently advertised for 4,0UO al
ditional walters, and 10000 applications
woro received III RESPONSE tie whulo OF the
candidates claiming to have had experience
Tbs win II Buffalo physician hos re-
Gently been adjudgcd insane because of a
strange mania for fms. Sho was accus-
toned, when out shopping, to purchase every
fen she saw, regardless of cost, and accumu-
lated n magnificent collcctks.
A monument Is to be erected near the
arsenal at Yeddo over the recently dis
covered grave of William Adams tho Eliza-
bethnn mariner and pilot who WINS tho first
British resident Of Japan. 1t was no who
opened tho ports Of Japan to British COM
MERGE.
The dofunct Maritime bank Of ST. John,
~ B., had bookkeeper who was jewel in
his way. dc kept two sets Of books--one to
show to the directors and another to show
the real condition OF the bank funds, with
which he was specializing. The deficiency
Of tho bank is over Sl,300OOo.
Tho Upper Appomattox canal property In
Virginia, which is considered the most vnlu
able water power in the state, has been &c
qu;red by Now York and Boston capitalists,
who will oxpcnd over SEQ, Geo in the erection
Of mills of various kinds along its banks
William E. Gladstone has been warmly
praisiug both in print and in speech tho
novel Robert Elsmere," written by we'll
says of it: "a moro tiresomo book have
seldom come across, nor one moro thoroughly
dull and drcary"
A horse ut Fitchburg that had worked for
many years in coal team was sold, and his
now owner put him with another horse to
draw sard. but he refused to work anywhere
and bad to be returned to his former owner
as soon os he was put in u coal team all
trouble ended.
Tho famous old Gen. Wayne inn, in Balti-
moro the lust OF the old Maryland hostelries
of the days OF pcriwigs and three cornered
hats, Is soon to I've sold. In its day it WIS
one Of the fashionable inns OF Baltimore, and
during later years it has been the favorite re-
sort of horse dealers and cattle drovcrs who
came to Baltimore to sell, trade or swap.
Lightning recently Mt Halsvillo, near Cell
5raiin, Mo, struck the smokcStack of a mill
owned by Carpenter Bros On tho win
dow of the mill the stroke Of electricity
plainly photographed the numerals 1885,
Between the figures wGs zSzag line. On
the wall opposite hung o calendar for the
present year, from which the photograph
was supposed to have been copied
The gold washiuss of the river Nus, In
Colombia, are soiti TO promise such enormous
returns that when the news reached France
that the river had been turned and the bed OF
tho river exposed, tho 800 franc shares rose
to 500 francs Subsequently, tho dam broke
away, and money being required tc rebuild
it, more shares were offered and were eagerly
rendered for, premiums being offered Of
from 80 to 100 per cent. by those anxious to
become stockholders
An English paper alleges that 40 new style
Of bonnet trimming has now, 1t appears,
captured the female heart in the United
States. and as it makes victims Of pecu-
liarly noxious species of creature, the eNter-
nLnntion of which no one would regret, it Is
not so Objectionable as the stuffed bird craze
Baby alligators have become tho fashionable
garnituro Of the ladies' hats and bonnets in
the southern states. Tho young alligator
used in this way is from six to ten inches in
length; they are stuffed, provided with bright
glass eyes, and are arranged SO as to appear
to be crawling up the front trimming OF rib
bon bows
Not long ago some ono entered II. Carolus
Duran's studio and found him gazing at an
illustrated paper which contained large
picture of tho wife CT Il rich bourso specr-
iutv. 'sT',at Go you End In that to tliserea
sSsxF ass-ca ths visssr1. 81 was wtaafzss:, y
said the e9cst portrait painter, THAT coute
get UP TO such exalted fine art as that. r
''Thati Why, that is g wretched thingr'
eyes; but sco Ispend weeks on portrait.
Il is finished. It is work of art And |
get how much for itl Say 5000, or perhaps
$4,000. II it's for rich American. Well,
bero Is my friend, the editor of this paper.
He prints this picture. 1t took his botch OF
an engrayer few hours to make it. And he
gets $4,000 for it. That is high arti'