Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-08-25
SELECT SiFTlNGs.

Cincinnati's music hall has carpet
that measures 1900 yards.
Two names in the Chicago directory
are Weynacht and Whatnot.
A japanese reporter collects news, but
docs not in any case write it. He tells
what he knows to news writers.
The other day an Indiana Judge de
cidcd that man who was being rotten
cggcd was justified in shooting to kill
At the time of the battle of Gcttys
burg the Union army numbered 500, 0UC
men, the Confederate army about $50,
600.
A pipe smoked by General Jackson
while he was President was recently pre-
scnted to the New England Historical
Society.
The largest watermelon raised il
Georgia this year was grown in Reubel
Joncs's patch, near Albany. 1t weighed
seventy pounds.
More than oOOO sea shells have been
brought to Tampa, Fla, TO be used in
the foundation Of its big new hotel, and
two vessels are at work increasing the
quantity.
A schooner has brought to Boston q
fish Weighing 175 pounds, caught in
deep sea fishing, that no one can name.
1t is almost as broad us long bright rcd
and covered with silver spots.
Pontiac, Mich, will provide gold
rings, marriage license minister, hacks
and two pairs of shoes 10 the unsophls-
ticatcd pair who will agree to be mar
ried on the county fair grounds.
Samuel Wolff, of jersey City, N. j.,
was born in March ], 1870; married
March /, 1868; had daughter born
March /, 1859; she married March ],
1857, and gave birth to boy March i,
1885.
There arc about 1900 places of wor-
ship in London, of which 500 belong to
the Church of England, leo to Wcslyans
and Alcthodists, 1870 to independents,
$40 to Baptists, fifty 10 Roman Catholics
and about 200 to various other religious
secs.
A tribe in the palm region of the
Amazon, in South America, cradles the
young in palm leaves. a single leaf
turned up around the edges by some
native process makes an excellent cradle,
and now and then it is made 10 do ser
vice as bath tub
John Roll, residing in Rcdmon, H.,
is the owner of horse that is twenty
hands high, weighs $500 pounds, and is
slid to be the largest horse in the world.
1t is five years old, never was of Rolls
farm, nev,r his been broken, and has
nc2cr cen shod. The blacksmith at
Redmon is afraid to shoe the horse.
John T. Andrews, of Knoxville, Ga. i,
has Panama hat that was worn by his
father 10 the Georgia Legislature, of
which he was a member in 1870. The
hat has been worn constantly for forty
eight years by the different members OF
the Andrews famiiy, and yet it is sound,
there being no hole in it, aud no breaks
Of any consequence.
A young woman on her way home
from church in AIentonc, Ind, recently
was caught in a thunder shower and
struck by lightning Though terribly
frightened she managed to reach home.
On examination she found that the fluid
had bent two of the hairpins on her
heal and actually melted one, but she
was not injured a particle.
A small skye terrier displayed a heap
of good sense at a big fire in Cincinnati
the other afternoon. While prowins
around his hair caught fire. 1t was
slowly burning, and the dog was about
to be turned into a roast, when a hose
burst. The poodle saw it, and made a
dash for the stream, into which he
jumped, extingn;shirg the fire.