Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-01
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A land owner at Elko, New, is seeding b

A land owner at Ellzo, New, is seeding biz
,s,ncb to tea
The Finnish dict hns decided to adopt
.-l;ital punishment for the crimo of murder.
Rlacl, nccl:tics will succeed white in Paris,
ozcept upon the grandest of occasions
This income of the University of Cam
bridge of this year will be slS0,0o0, and e1.
pens0s $4,000.
The Austrian government has adopted tho
automatic Maxim gun, which is considered
the finest IN existence.
Tho largest railroad system In the world Is
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc. which
operates about 6, 900 miles Of road.
Asbestos clothing has leen used by the
i'aris fire brigade with sucross. and is soon
70 he adopted by tho London flrcmen.
A well known London firm Of refreshment
contractors recently advertised for 4,0U ad-
C:;tlonal walters, and l0,0N applications
were received in response, the whole OF tho
candidates claiming to have had experience.
Tie wjfe OF Buffalo physician has re-
Gently been gdjudGad insane because Ct
sspsatxc raaata for fans She was asoee-
sotsoaS When ont shopping, % purchase e$ssy
tan so saw, regardless Of cot, and ncct1rSs-
.ated-a magnificent collecti' D.
A monument is to BIO erected near the
4-senal ut Ycddo over tho recently dis
:ovcred grave of William Adams, the Eliza
ethan mariqer and pilot, who WINS the first
British resident of Japan. 1t was he whe
opened the ports of Japan to British COM
;Iierco.
Tho defunct Maritime balk Of st. John,
i. B., had bookkeeper who was a jewel in
lis way Hc kept two sets OF books-one to
show to the directors and another to show
tao real condition OF the bank funds, with
which no was specializing. Tho deficiency
OF thnbank Is over 81 100000.
The Upper Appomattox canal property In
Virginia, which is considered the most valu..
.olo water power In the state, has been ac-
buried by New York and Boston capitalists,
Who will cxpond over $500 600 in the erection
Of millsof various kinds along its banks.
William E. Gladstone hos been warmly
praisng both In print and, in speech tho
novel Robert Elsnero,n written BY we'll
known Engrshwoman. Henry Labouchere
says of IL: IA moro tiresome book | have
seldom como across, nor ono more thoroughly
dull and drcary."
A horse ut Fitchhurg that had worked for
many years In q coal team wcs sold, and his
iicw owner put him with another horse to
draw sand, but no refused to work anywhere
and had to DO returned to his former owner.
10, hr, 1pt i,,o fao, oil
trouble ended
The famous old Gen. Wayne inn, in Balti-
more, tho last Of the old Maryland hostelries
OF the days Of pcriwigs and three cornered
hats, is SOON to be sold. In it's day it was
one of the fashionable inns Of Baltimore, and
during later years it has been the favoritc re
sort of horse dealers and cattle drovcrs who
carno to Baltimore to sell, trade or swap
Lightning recently al Hallsvillc, near Cen
t-alia, Mo-. struck the smokestack OF mill
owned by Carpenter Bros On the win.
COW of the mill tho stroke of electricity
plainly photographed the numerals 1855.
I;ctwcen the figures was O zigzag lne On
lac wall opposite hung calendar for the
present year, from which the photograph
VI III oUPlDbocQ w dtt' v GSCL SOllCNl
The gold washings of the river Nus, in
Colombia, are said to promise such enormous
returns TINT when tho news reached France
shat the river had been turEcd and the bed OF
;he river exposed, the 500 franc shares rose
20 1880 francs Subsequently tue dam broke
way. and money being required to rebuild
It, more shares were offered and were eagerly
rendered for. premiums being offered of
from so to 100 per cent. By those anxious to
become stockholders.
Az English paper alleges that so new style
of bonnet trimming has now, it appears,
CAPTURED the female heart in the United
States. and rs it makes victims Of pecu.
liarly noxious species of creature, the cxter-
nlination Of which no one would regret, ID is
not so Objectionable Us the stuffed bird craze.
Baby aligators have become the fashionable
garniturc OF tie ladies' hats and bonnets In
the southern states The young alligator
used in this way is from six to ten inches in
length: they aro stuffed, provided with bright
glass eyes. and are arranged so as to appear
to be crawlHIS up the front trimming OF rib
bon bows"
Not long ago some ono entered NJ Carolus
Dnran's studio and found him gazing at an
illustrated paper which contained largo
picture OF tho wife of n rich bourso specu-
lator. "What do you find In that to inesrest
your asked the visitor 81 was wishing
szaa sae creas portrait paiRSer. that es01a
"a pp 10 seeh sSal.sd @1s art as &Saa
''Tsao:i ~'hy, that is a wretched thRlgr
'.Yos; but sccl Ispond weeks on portrait.
It is fnishol 1t is work Of art. And
ct how much for itl Say 5000, or perhaps
10000, if it's for rich American We'll,
,cre is my friend, the editor of this paper.
lie prints this picture 1t took his botch OF
an cngraver few hours to mako it. And be
gets 1oi0Oo for it. Thut is high artl"