Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-03-17
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In Rhode Island man must register b,
Dec. 81 if ho wants to vote tho followin:
year.
Tho New York Press club is talking O
erecting monument at tho grave OF Horac,
Greeley.
Convicts confined in the Eddyville (Ky.
prison arc permitted to give public negro
minstrel shows.
A cabman In Binghamton keeps srnn1
oil stove in his cab, and reads his paper II
comfort when waiting for fare.
The crazy socinblo is form of winter rec
reation down in Maino Wherein it differs
from other sociables is not sot forth.
There nre moro than $50 travellers who sell
carpets for New York houses alone. Six
years ago 120 did the business for the whole
country.
Tho young ladies of White Cloud, Kan.
have resolved. to abstain from chewing gum
and slang, aud they expect the young men
to do the samo for corn juice and tobacco.
An;Irish terrier belonging to George;Gas
kin, Of Babbaco mbe beach, England, .wetche;
for mackerel from n.highi bluff near the hotel
and barks and points when school appears
The last penny Of the 100000 which Duf.
falo proposes to give as q prize to tho man
who invents feasible method Of Harvesting
the immense water power Of niagara has
been subscribed.
Street cur tickets as medium of exchange
has become such nuisance in Galveston,
that large number of merchants have
signed an agreement thatshonccforth they
will not receive car tickets Us payment or
part payment for anything of value.
Indiana is proud because she claims to be
tho first state to adopt daily weather SER
vice. The headquarters are to DO at Indian
apolis, from which 100 kilograms will be sent
out each morning early, giving tho probabu-
tiles for twcnty-four hours in advance.
Tho physicians OF Louisville, KY, are mys-
tilted by case in the hospital OF that city.
1t is thnt Of Polish man who freely per
spires blood As fur Us can DO ascertaincd
his affection is the result Of q virulent fever
contracted in equatorial regions. At last ac-
counts he va improving
AGrand Rapids, Mich, man killed 1C6
English sparrows one day, took their heads
to tue authorities, and received bounty Of
one cent on each. Then with S1.O0 in his
pocket with which to buy tho proper season.
ing, he went homo and dressed the birds.
The next day he and a party of his friends
dined on sparrow potpic.
AT Johnstown, Pa, several men got into a
dispute as to whether the hind feet Of q rab-
bit were larger than the fore feet. To settle
the matter they hit upon q novel expcdient.
They caught rabbit, painted its hind feet
and then let it run through the snow. Meas
uremcnt was made of the painted tracks, and
they were found to be larger than tho others.
Truckee, Cal, recently celebrated the sec
ond anniversary of the expulsion of tho Chi
nese from the place. Although the mercury
was II dogs. below zero, large torchlight
procession paraded tho streets and marched
over the ruins of old Chinatown There were
big boniros, salutes from cannon, and
speeches by the most prominent citizens of
the place.
A man in Auburn, Me-, went away from
homo for a day, having asked his wife to
feed tho horse ut noon. She gladly complied,
and at noon went to the stable, and, caro-
fully dipping up q measure of sawdust from
o barrel standing alongside OF the feed bar
rel, gave it to tho horse. When the husband
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