Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-02-01
NUMBER 81
ODDS AND ENDS.

II costs the United States govern
mcnt 100000 year for coal for its
navy.
A new railway in Wisconsin is
called ..tle WaulSesha, Pewaukee,
Oconomowoc and Eastern"
Tie women of Milford, Me-, have
presented to tho town hall which
they paid for themselves by giving ell
tertainmchts and fairs.
Calico over 100 years old was recent
lv used by Mrs. Spengler, of Catasau-
qua, Pa, to make q bedquilt of. The
material had formerly done duty as
bed curtain.
An old ladlc, stamped 174S, could
hardly find bidder ut q public ven
due at Alburtis, Pa.
William Hammond, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa. aged 79, has worked continuously
in coal mines for over seventy years,
having commenced with his father i'll
Wales, when he was s years Old. He
is hale yet.
.ie vale of Avoca has been bought
{ 4 an English company, and the
woods will be swept away III order to
make matches. There:sis great con-:
ssternation III the district, where the /
memory 81 ToIns herished.:
with fcrvency.
House shoes with heels bound in
gold and having miniatures painted
Oh the toes have been shown i'll some
Parisian shops. They are not given
away.
A new contrivancc has been applied
to watches called all appointment re
hinder" A small dial is set into the
watch's face upon which one eau set
the hands at amy hourrequired.
Tie gradual failure of a cast iron
bridge erected about forty-fve years
ago ut Potsdanl has been the cause OF
considerable scientific inquiry. The
conclusion arrived ut is that the bridge
monlbcls were too rigidly connected,
no adequate allowance being made for
the effects of varying temperature.
lii the year 1889 tliereiwerc laid in
the United States $500 miles Of track,
which means All investment Of $I06.-
900, OO0. This seems large, but it is,
estimated that Americans abroad iii
1889 spent $500, 100000.
The gypsy moth is beginning to
cause Massachusetts, farmers consider
able uneaSiness Just now the pest is
confined to the neigliLorliood of Med
ford. An entomologist at Amherst
college says the newcomer may travel
all over the country and cause more
havoc than the celebrated Colorado
beetle.
Ii a library in P,ris, the largest in q
the world, is Chinese chart OF thess
heavens made about 600 years before
Christ. In this chart 1,4GO stars are
found t., be correctly inserted, us cor
roborated by the scientists of tho pres
ent day.
A Pennsylvania railroad man says
young mon are selected as drivers Of
the locomotives Oh fast trains because
old nlcn do not have the nerve to
stand the strain of the terrible speed
of these trains, ard even the ncrviest
Young man gets-uflaid OF them after !.
awhile. Then they get to letting up
u little in the speed, tiie trains run be- .
hind time, the engineers ere given
other runs. and new mon arc put on
in their places.
Our present methods OF scaibal lining !.
arc So superior to those OF tic ancient
Egyptians that modern embalmer
might leave q human body So perfect
that, after 1000 years. says The Lam
Get. mot lincament need be wanting
for Identification that would not salts
fy even tile contemporary of the dead
person. The mumuies linrollcd now
adays are dried up out of recognition.
But the cnbalning process is Liable to
G., out of use before the advancing
practice of cremation.
A French savant has calculated the
time required for Il journey around
the eartll, and has obtained the follow
ing results: A man. walking day and
night, without resting, would take 42S
days; all express train, ~ days; sound,
at medium temperature, 324 hours;a
cannon ball, 21s hours; light, little
over onc-tcnth Of second; and cleo
tricity. passing over copper wire, a
little under olle-tenth OF second.
The Sydney Herald reports that dur
ing severe storm at Loutll, South
Australia. CHUNKS of ice as large as
cricket balls fell to the streets The
courthouse, Royal hotel, Telegraph
hotel and all buildings covered with
iron roofs were perforated by the fall
ing Lailstones. A number Of dogs and
other animals about the town were
killed during the storm. Great dam
age was done to window glass and
vegetation. For several days the mer-
curry had been above 100 in the shade. "
When the Atlantic and West Point
train pulled into the Union depot at
Atlanta, Ca, a day or two ago, large
white and blue speckled houndtwas
discovered perched i'll front of the 10
connective. lie was sitting upon his
launches Immediately under the head
light and looked like figure head of
ship. lie could not be coaxed from
his perch and had to be forcibly
pulled from the engine Nobody
knew how or when The dog got there.
He had lame leg and bleeding ear,
and the supposition is that. he was
struck by the engine and jumped or
was thrown up under the headlight.
Cab with "Hoodoo.-
The sshoodoon appears to be the most
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