Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-07
ITEMS or ALL SORTS.
Newspaper Clippings Gathered by tho
Scissors and Paste" Editor.
The annual army estimate in England is

Newspaper Clippings Gathered by tho
Scissors and Paste" Editor.
The annual army estimate in England is
e1O,YoO, 600.
Niagara appears in a panorama in London
by Philippoteau1, 305 feet in circumference.
Bears arc playing sad havoc with the Cnna-
dian Pacific telegraph lines at Griffin Lake
and Revelstoko, Quebec.
An avalanche hos fallon upon tho famous
Hospice of st. Bernard, in Switzerland, bury
ing. tho church, but causing no loss OF life.
There is gentleman i'll Boston who wants
to give dinner to tho twelve greatest Ameri-
can authors, and he would like tho public to
decide for him who thoy aro.
"Pilgrim's Progress" has just been trans
lated into tho Language of the Fantes, tribe
Occupying district in Upper Guinea, on the
gold coast. This IN the oIghty-1rst foreign
version Of Bunyan's work.
A citizen Of Newcastle, Pa., dreamed that
he was fighting with q ncighbor md kicked
him violently. Tho next instant he awoke
with howl, for he had splintered tho foot
board and broken his big too
A jury i'll tho superior civil court Mt Bos-
ton decided, the other day, that the Boston
and Albany railroad must pay s27, 200 for q
boys leg, which hud to be nnIputatcd owing
to injuries received at u railroad crossing.
Blocks of ice TINT were cut in the lake at
Memphis, NO., for storage in tho ice houses,
large catfish TINT had been frozen solid.
Some of the fish were over foot in length.
A number of years ago man in Quitman,
Ca, asked friend for u part Of an orange
no was eating Being refused, he asked for a
seed which he aftcrward planted. The seed
developed into sturdy tree, more than q
foot in diameter, and which at last accounts
was loaded down with $500 oranges
A stained window glass was recently set
up in the parish church of Elstow, the BIRTH
place of .Bunyan. 1t forms the jubilee me-
mortal for Estow, and is the fifth windowof
stained glass that the church now possesses.
Two Of tho others illustrate tho "Pilgrim's
Progress" and "Tho Holy Var"
Tho great English law como down with
all its force upon two h-.le boys OF 8, who
had stolen shilling from child Of Z and
spent 1t IN swectmeats. They were sont to
the worl;housc the judge refusing to give
thom up to their parents, because they wore
''youNg highwaymen who had committed
robbery with violence"
1t is announced that the Standlsh monu-
ment on the Duxbury hill overlooking Ply
mouth hnrbor is to DO finished this season.
The obelisl is now 72 feet high. 1t will be
10 feet high and 300 feet above tho sen level,
and visible 20 miles ut sea. 1t has cost ST.
600, and needs $4,000 moro to finish it.
A recent inquiry into the dcadlincss Of GER
tain trades is interesting when the register
generals report on the decrease of mortality
in England is remembered. Tho lntest statis-
tics show TINT dry grinders of forks live on
an average only 20 years; of razols, 81 years;
scissors, 30 years; edge tools aud wood shears,
80 years; spring knives and files, IS yours,
and of saws and sicklcs, IS years.
Tho Colorado Historical society, under the
championship of Dr. Bancroft, its president,
is making an effort for tho preservation Of
tho Aztec ruins found in tho state. These
ruins abound in southwestern Colorado, and
are of great interest to students of American
antiquities and to sightsccrs as well. 1t is
proposeds4o haze tho country in the neigh
borhood laid out as great national park.
A citizen of San Bcrnardino, CAL, has sue
ceedcd in making living Off Of one acre of
land Around the acre is row Of fruit
trees from which he has realized s400 for a
seasons fruit He put a quarter OF tho acre
in strawberries and sold $500 worth. From
the rest of the aero no took three different
crops of Vegetables and was so successful
with them that he sold 81 900 worth, besides
keeping a COW, pig and fowls.
Philadelphia capital is about to develop IN
important marble industry in Dakota. An
eighty acre tract Of land has been bought,
over nearly all of which tho formation OK
tends, rising above the surface from thirty
to seventy-hvo feet. The marble is of fine
quality and of various colors, most Of 1t be-
ing chocolate color, however, with good veins.
Worl, will begin at onco, railroad facilitie,
being within milo and a half Of the quarry.
A cubic foot of marble can be laid down in
Chicago for 70 cents that will bring in that
market from 50 to So.