Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-16
ODDS AND ENDS.

The population Of Berlin has reach
ed million and half.
In the past six months there were
1870 births in Norristown, and 163 OF
these were females.
After Oct. the French soldiers pay
was 81 centimcs day, ora little over
cents.
1t is reported that the Marquis Carlo
Ginori, of Florence, has bought the
island of Monte Cristo. and will build
a house worthy of its associations.
San early winterl" exclaimed an
.'oldest inhabitant" who was given to
romancing. "Pooh Eve seen six
weeks of snow in tho month OF No
vcmbcrl"
The secret service officers of the
United States treasury last year arrest
ed 437 persons, most of whom were in
some way connected with counterfeit.
ing or the passing of counterfeit
money.
A flock of wild geese became be-
came bewildered by Morgantown's
dazzling gaslights the other night
about IL O'Clock, and alighted in the
river near the suspension bridge, where
they raised great conmotion Tor
short time.
The american delegates wit
messed an Indian dance out on the
Nebraska plains the other day. They
naturally desired to carry away ball
programmes as souvenirs, but the
hlanketed Omahas and Winnebagos
hadn't provided any programmes.
That was serious oversight on their
part-Chicago News.
Oliver Wendell Holmes calls trees
vast beings endowed with life. but
not with soul-which outgrows usaud
outliyes US, but stand helpless
gs!-wlilc nature dresses and I'M
dresses them, like so many full sized
but unidentified children.
Ancient Rome received from with
out we'll nigh seven times the volume
of water now poured into modern
Rome. This city is the best supplied
with water in the world. Next to
Rome, Vienna is said to be the most
favored capital, if not in the album
dance, at least in the purity of its
drinking water.
The photography Of our greatgrand-
mothers was uncertain. The old duch-
ess of Gordon used to say to her GRO
mics: You know, my dear, when l
don't know how to spell word l al
ways draw line under it; and if it is
spelled wrong it passes for very good
joke, and if it is spelled right it don't
matter"
Col. II. G. Prout, in the November
Scribner, says of Emin Pasha, whom
he knew about thirteen years ago, that
he is slender man of medium height,
and tough and wiry figure, swarthy,
with h!acK eyes and hair. His face is
kat of a studious professional man,
and that impression is heightened by
the glasses he always wears. His at
titudes and movements are, however,
very alert.
A special committee reported to the
the general Episcopal convention. re-
Gently assembled in New York, that
in the last twenty years there had been
granted in the United States and ter
ritories S2S,716 divorces. A resolu-
ton was passed requesting congress
to pass stringent and uniform di-
vorce law for the District of Columbia
and the territories.
News of singularly barbarous duel
recently fought i'll Taos county, n. NJ,
has reached Albuquerque. An Indian
settler named Waukonsee and a MeXi-
can cattlcman, Juan Verego, were the
principals. The conditions were that
each should submit his hand TO his
opponent and have finger cut Of,
the cutting to be done alternately, and
the man who first evinced signs of
pain was to be stabbed to the heart:
Tie Indian won the toss and took OFF
the Mexicans forefinger. There was
10 squeal, and the Mexican took OFT
the Indians thumb. Then the MeNi-
can lost another fing ger, and the flow
of blood was so great that the Mexi-
cans seconds cut short the proceedings
by shooting the Indian dead and COW
ering his seconds.