Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-02-11
NUMBER 81
BITS OF GOOD READING.
Stray Items Of General Interest Clipped
from the Various Exchanges.
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Stray Items OF General Interest clipped
from the Various Exchanges.
Only twelve Indians are left of the tribe Of
1000 who inhabited the Yosemite valley but
few years ago.
a Chinaman arrested in San Francisco
carried a revolver which was heavily plated
with silver and set with rubies.
Archnologists have traced the wedding
ring to the earliest times. 1t has been made
of gold, silver, copper, brass, iron, tin, pew
ter, lead, bono and wood.
The harbor at Charleston used to abound IN
black fish, but none are caught there now,
and it Is believed that the earthquakes Lave
scared them away.
1t is pink season in Washington. Pink
menu cards nre used; ices como in pink roses
set in real roSc leaves of green; and the ladies
wear pink corals
The empress OF Austria has been reconl-
mended to try the new health clothing for
;; rheumatism, from which she suffers, bus she
prefers imperial purple silk with lace TRIM
mIngs.
The king Of tho Delgians has recently in
sured his own private property in theroyal
palaces at Brussels and at Laeken for ESQ.,
! 200. This property; consists Of furniture,
pictures objectS q aIti :ansl schilta.
Its now possible fora tra eelerto golircct
by rail from tile City of Mexico to British
Columbia, distance of 5000 miles. This has
been made possible by tho recent completion
of the California and CTcsoa railway.
a census has been begun of the French
carrier pigeons. They are regarded now'as
OF such importance i'll the event of way that
all owners arc obliged to report their pigeons
under maximum line OF a,00 francs.
Buzzarts in Mississippi dcvour vast quan-
titles of carrion and hence arc valuable rs
scuvensers The law against killing them IS
strict, tho penalty for violating it being SID
Tie birds are therefore very plentiful and
tame.
A member of the Duke of Norfolks mis-
sion tool, his wife to Rome, brs was at once
obliged to rclegate her tn another hotel, ns
the vatican etiquette, which is very strict, ~
uuircs that no woman shall lie included Ill,
or connected with, any mission to the pope
The British are rapidly pushing their Inc a
railway system il Afghanistan. Bostan, !
point twenty-five miles beyond Quetta, to
which q railway is open for traffic, has l'e-
como an emporium Of Candahar. In single
week recently 500 tons OF dried fruit, wool,
and merchandise were brought there for cur
riagc to India
1t is said that the ambition Of the life Of
Mmo Boucicaut, the great Paris shopkeeper,
WIS to receive the cross OF the Legion OF
Honor, but she always refused to intrigue for
t or to buy it, hoping to carnit. The recent
scandals, showing how empty was the honor
that sho sought, was great blow TO her, and
sho nt once gave up her longing for the deco
ration.
The diamond mining companies Of South
Africa, which number about ninety, propose
10 form q gigantic combination thatwill con.
rol tho whole diamond territory. The OBJ
jcct, Of course, is to increase the price, which
hls been reduced by the enormous produc-
tion of that region. 1t is estimated that
there ere about 81 ,00O, OO0,0JO worth of fiia-
monds now in uso, ore-half of which came
from the African fields.
The papers and public of tie two capitals
Of Austria and Belgium were much excited
tho other day ct the report OF on accident
which had bcfallcn Archduchess Stcphanc.
Some bangs had become loose, anil she
wanted to fix them with her OWL hands and
hot iron. But those hands not being used
20 rough work the iron burned tho skin AID
lid not fix tho bangs An ugly burn over
the eye was tho result Of the lil:shap.