Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-12
CURIOUS FACTS.
Old furniture still sells extremely


well.
The United States contains hale the
worlds railroad mileage.
Fort Myers, Fla, has pineapple
weighing six and onc-ha!l pounds.
A Japanese nj Toxic has constructed II
kite twcnty-scvcn by twcnty-four feet.
Over twenty million segars are manu-
factured every day in the United States.
\ wren in East Bradford, Penn, built
nest in the sleeve of u garment that had
been hung up in the ya-,l to dry.
A Gainesville (Tcxas) boy, seventeen
years old, ate forty-cight bananas in an
hour on wager, and then wanted more.
A white lobster was caught the other
day by fisherman in Penobscot Bay,
Maine, aud sold to Il museum in Boston.
4 citizen of Grand Rapids, Mich,
named D. s. Doornint, wears on his
watch chain seal which has a record Of
over 800 years.
London, England, now boasts of a $50
cicty for the Promotion of Relaxation
from Business Care, and Enjoyment Dur
ing Luncheon Hours"
Damaskcning is producing upon steel
blue tinge aud ornamental figures,
sometimes inlad with gold and silver,
as in Damascus blades.
Elk Rapids, Mich, has mammoth
pine tree in which an eagle has ncsted
regularly for twcnty-six successive years.
1t is q bald-haadcd bird.
I.ocusts are so numerous in some parts
of South Australia that they cause con-
tinual roar while flying, aud the country
is being stripped of everything green by
the scourge.
The thickcst octavo volume in tho
world known is the latest edition of
1Nhittakcrs "Rcfcrence Catalogue Of
English Literature. " This book weighs
twelve pounds and is eleven inches in
thickness.
At the celebration of the fiftieth ami
versary Of the invention of the postage
stamp, held recently in England, a stamp
was shown worth $500. 1t was from the
British Guiana collection and showed a
rude postmark on pink paper.
A. Gallitzin Pcnn.), man recently
bought Il pair OF mules in ClearGeld
County for S140, and discovered while
taking them home that one Of them had
plaster of paris hoof-the false work
coming of and sticking in the mud.
Old Peter, we'll digger living in
Talbottom, Ga, was hired to clean out
a we'll. When lie came OUT OF the well
in tho evening it was noticed that his
Jet black hair had changed its color from
black to 4 bright yclcw o. golden shade.
The cause is unknown.
Money lenders in Italy used to display
the money they had to lend out on
banco OF bench. When one of these
moncv-lendcys was unable to continue
business his bench and counter was
broken up, and he himself was spoken
OF as bancorotto, i. G., bankrupt.
In 1914, when the Thames at London,
England, was frozen, Il printing cstab
lishmcnt was set up and many collectors
rejoice over little volume entitled
,sFrostiana; or, Il History of the River
Thames in Frozen State. London:
Printed on thu Ice in the River Thames,
1874
Thomas Baldwin, the American areo-
naut and the first user Of the parachute,
told Denver (Col.) reporter the othe:
day that within few days he should at
tempt to cross the Atlantic in balloon.
He is now under contract with West
ern newspaper to make III aerial Journey
OF at least 1000 miles
The grapple plant of the Kalahart
Desert is said to be real vegetable GU
riosity. In its general appearance it
looks moro like 4 starish than Il plant,
and each RAJ OF arm is tipped with
barbs, which, wien fastened to the wool
of sheep, have to be calf out, that being
the only way of removing them.
Saginaw, Mich, has family which
lives in shed twelve By sixteen feet in
area. The family consists of father,
mother. three children. three horses,
two COWS, two goats, six dogs, Il flock OF
pigeons and six cages of singing birds.
a bale of haY separates the SC. called brute
portion of the family from the rest.