Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-08-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

1t IS asserted tll1I l itrIS suOPAe'oPSAs
have raised prices fully so per cent,
but only to strangers.
It is an ancient belief that change
in the body of a man occurs every
seventh year.
The man who boasts that heis ready
to shed his last drop Of blood is apt 10
be particular about the first drop.
A Huntington papcrsays: There are
villages in this county of 200 or 3o0
inhabitants where it would be impos-
sible to find soul astir on Sunday
afternoon. 1t is g universal custom
to map.
An offensive trunk raised an excite
mcnt in the depot at New OXioN,
ADAMS county. Pa, the otherday. On
being opened it was found to hold
ladies wearing apparel we'll stocked
With naphthaline to keep oil moths.
Australia is as cosmopolitan as the
United States. At hotel in Sidney
the other week there were thirteen
different nationalitics represented II
one table.
The size of the canvas on which
Millct PAINTED "L'Angclus, the la
NOUS sllu,GO0 picture, is 2lt by 20!
inches. The painting was paid Tor at
tho rate of $20l.05 per square inch.
Lightning struck the house OF Col.
L. n. Edwards of Oxford, Me; Knock,
ing kerosene lamp into thousand
pieces and taking Il metal clock from
Tic wall OF the room and hurting IL
under the coloncls bed. Nothing else
in the house was disturbed.
Miss Mary Graham was awarded the
prize in political economy at the COM
mencemcnt of Wesleyan university
at Middletown, Conn; Miss Lily 3.
Conn in natural science, and Miss
Matte j. Beach in English literature
A scheme for Matching partridges
for stocking Montgomery county,
Pa. is to be put in operation
BIZ the Game Protective assocla-
ton of that county. The eggs Will be
boughtin large quantities and hatchcd
in artificial incubators.
The present English national debt
may be said to have commenced in the
reian of William Ill, 1859. Eight
years after the date given 1t amounted
TO about IS. 900, 600 sterling. an amount
then thought to be OF alarming mag
nitudc.
\ curious theft is reported from
Prague. \ burglar having gained &C.
cess 10 the cabinet OF a well Known
collector. broke open small but rich
TX chased steel Golfer fort OF antique
Workmanship. and, having taken out
its contents (about $50 III Austrian
currency, obligingly left the casket,
the worth OF which at Il moderate COM
putation is said to be $3.50.
When Jacob Foss, of Green Bay, WIS,
died a few weeks ago eight different
men presented bills 10 his widow, but
she had receipt for each one III full.
Her husband had filed away matter
OF 1000 OF them. saying they might
come handy some day.
An invention has been made which
promises to revolutionizc completely
ihc industry Of china decoration By
Il process discovered by j. B. Bonnaud
il is possible 10 obtain i'll n few minutes
the same artistic effects which cost the
hand painter on china days OF labor.
Landscapes, groups OF figures and por-
traits are produced by this means on
vases. plates and plaques in their ma
tural colors, even to the most delicate
shades.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat,
taking the data afforded by reports
from several of the states, estimates
that very yearly half OF the cotton is
now raised by white labor, whereas
thirty wears ago not over 400, GOO bales,
or one-tenth OF the crop. was raised by
the whites.
mate mileage OF railroad construction :
during the first six months OF the pres y
ent year. which is estimated at 1922
mills, or less than half that OF the
same period of 1883. More than half
OF the new construction is in the south,
The Age estimates the total mileage
for this year at from $500 to 5000 T
miles.
II is no more possible, says Rev.
Sydney Smith, for an idle man to keep
together a certain stock OF knowledge,
than it is possible to keep together Y
stock OF ice exposed to the meridian
sun. Evarv day destroys fact, re-
lation or an influence; and the only
way Of preserving the bulk and value
of the pile is by constantly adding
to it. G
Tho time honorcd precautions oil
gum camphor and tobacco are dc :
caret! nowadays to be utterly useless.
1t is alleged by those who should be
experts that neither preventive has
any effect, either good or bad, upon
the moths. However this may be,
there arc still enough houselseepcrs
who cling to the old traditions to pre-
vent the use Of such projections fall
ing entirely out OF favor.
The Madras museum has recently
received the skeleton of the largest
elephant ever killed in India. 1t was
the source of great terror TO the pco-
&c OF South Arcot, by whom 1t was .
FILLED and buried The museum au- !
thorities dispatched {; taXidermlst to
the spot to cXhume the bones and pre-
Darc them for exhibition. The skclc-
ION is exactly ten feet six inches Ill
height, being eight inches higher
than the highest specimen hitherto
measured in the flesh by Mr. Sander
sou.
Christine Nilsson, Countess De Ill
randa, the once lovely Swede, has
changed for the worse. She has not
faded, but she has fattened. Her lace
is broad, her features heavy, and the
expansion of her checks has diminish
ed the apparent size Of her once lus-
1rous blue eyes, Her bright, fair hair
alone reminds the spectator OF her
former charms.
The Dublin Science and Art depart.