Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-30
NUMB E B So.
FROM THE EXCHANGES.

Brooklyn has an AntitD optic Cooking
club.
The EiRel Tower Is rising steadilys and IS
becoming oneo the wonders Of the world.
A Reproduction OF the TBastile is about toi ,s
opened as a show in Paris:s g s.
Its proposed to erect in the Boston Public
library statuo Of the illustrious Sir Harry
! Vane 90 : ~ =
a horticultural: novelty is q peony which.
arose that orcrshadows It,
s Strawberries In England have been cost
ing. si1pcnce apiece, peaches half q guinea
and cherries hayeso1 at about their weight
in gold. s. x
Ed Snyder, of Dayton, o., has dog; that s
eats onions. The curious canine wi dig mp.
anonionSbed to get at the: bull ous vegetabio.S
man ashing ton crritory has -
tented an Ingenious tele nhone whereby 5is
possible, with tho elactiicity detects
Tho presence meta silisro
fhis
Is Alen employ he Idaho Iatne, 4rlEs
Valley, report TINT the recent EARTH
quake in that vicinity was felt below :thes
1,609foot level
At.Juju, Africa, the converts have erected
house of worship for themselves and the
two leading heather priests have thrown
aside their idols and. left tho idol house to do
cay.
o+,,, ~ T o,.3 NJ, ,,,,,ef1oi5 :
is to be erected ut Maidstone, which place l,c
represented in parliament moro than fifty
years ago.
An odd relic possessed by a southern wom-
an Is q pairof scissors that her father used
In cutting suit of clothes fer President
Washington as be was entering upon his first
president d s!al term.
Chinese pbeasants are 6 :l! is[ Il tho Wal
do hills, Colorado, that they haSS '.s ss- -,
shooed out of the burrows by tho plowmen,
SO greedy are they in gobbling up the angle
worms They are becoming a nuisance
A Boston man who was in an Indiana town
to build big factory and lay ont 81 ,OOO, 900,
found COWS ard hogs rionopolizing Tho side Is
walks, and he' left the town in disgust with
out investing nickel.
A monster sturgeon that measured more !.
than eleven feet i'll length and weighed 500
pounds, was caught i'll salmon net ut Sau-
vie's island. Orc, recently. TWAS tho largest
fish ever seen.in the state.
Monnt Athos, which for n long time has
been occupied by so-callcd republic Of
Greek monks. composed of great number of
monasteries, has been transformed by Russia
into complete fortress, fully equipped and
garr-soned
Some ladies in Germantown have adopted
an ingenious plan for raising money for the
building fun.l of a church. They get together
every Saturday and make lot of fresh can
dies, which heysreadily sell, and the pro-
cceds cote the fund.
The Turkish government has a suspicion
TINT Russian pilgrims, who are just now mr.
irving in great numbers at the nonasteries.
at Galata and Mount Atlos, arc really come
to spy out tho country, and hive givca orders
that tho pilgrims be closely watched and
hustled along as rapidly Us possible.
A monument to those German soldiers who
fought aud fell for the Confedcracy has just
been begun ct Charleston, S. G. 1t will be
erected mainly BY the survivors of,the four
German companies that fought under Gen.
Lee, many of whom are among the solidest-
men Of that city today.
Tho latest medical theory is that there
should be only two re..ly substantial. meals