Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-23
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A treaty Of international traffic by rail las
lust been signed between Chill and the Ar

A treaty Of international traffic by rail- Inns
Just been signed between Chill and the Ar
gentine Republic.
An English peer, whose revenues have becn
reduced, has accepted, q position as drummer
for pianeforte manufactures.
A British sdipmaster at New Orleans ro-
pcrss that while off the coast Of Patagonia
butterflies we're: blown aboard his vessel at q
distance OF $50 miles from the land
Paris is threatened with battle Of flowers.
The ;nperiaiist violet Is to be riva;ed by the
Boulnngist carnation, the carnation being
the favorite flower Of Gen. Boulanger.
One Yankee publisher, who uses 100000
envelopes a. year, has sailed for Germany
after. 10000, 600 envelopes, with which he
proposes to crush the envelope monopoly.
An Albany cattle broker Is SO much afraid
Of meeting death in a violent form that no
cannot be persuaded to ride on railroad
train or steamboat, or even behind horse.
A school for the manufacture OF clocks
will soon be opened at La vilette It will
accommodate forty pupils, who will pay 500
year for instruction and SIT month for
board. ~ -
The newest freak IN; london hair dressing
is.to have few locks; ndings up nli:iost
straight on the top of sthe head, something
after the fashion Of Claire in the convent dun
geon, but feathers or flowers ara stuck III tho
little elevation, end it is considered orna-
mental
An eastern paper tells of the queer way in
which the town of Orrington, Me-, got its
name The citizens decided upon the name
of Orangetown, and sent their minister to
get an act of incorporation from the legisla-
ture. The clerk of that body was little
shal,y ON photography, and thought s'orring"
was the proper way to spell orange. Tho
pastor loved joke, and so made no correc-
ton, but let the word go as written.
It is quite customary when any one desires
to show how little man knows, after all, to
ask '.who can tell what makes a blade Of
grass grow, or why it gfowsf But there arc
equally great mysteries closer to man than
even that OF the grass. For instance, what
man can tell why every man who pays heed
to style Is now putting his scarf pin in the
upper left hand corner of his scarf7 Who
first wore his pin that WY, or what man or
body of men ordered the pins worn that waya
When last scarf pins were worn they. were
put in the middle of the scarf. Then, very
mysteriously, they were not worn ut all.
Now they reappear in this peculiar way.
Lieut. ~ E. Hall, q. s. NJ, has been cx-
perimenting with IN automobile torpedo,
invented by himself, at the torpedo station
in Newport, r. l. The torpedo, which is
made Of aluminium brass presents somc
novel features. The diving rudder with the
Intricate mechanicism common in ilsh torpe-
does is.done away with. The flask contain
ing the motive power occupies eight feet OF
tho length of the torpedo, which is twelve
feet long. The engine employed, owing to
the novel way of mounting it and its au-'
toinntic character, utilities the full expansive
force of the compressed air. In the runs that
have been made the torpedo developed high
speed, although only one-third Of the MAXI
mum pressure was carried, and the diving
device has answered its purpose os far Us it
has been tested