Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-01-11
ODDS AND ENDS.

The influenza is caught by handling
money Which has been exposed to the
microbc.
The New French seagoing torpedo
boatllas used her torpedo tubes with
success when going at the rate OF
twenty-onc and half knots an hour
A West Union CIV. va.) man set
fifteen snares in his garden, and the
first night caught thirteen rabbits and
two opossums.
A new departure in the building
business has:been successfully tried in
Germany. This is the wholesale man
uiacture oi mortar, to be sold to small
builders aud, private individuals. In
Berlin last year 2,oOo,0oO barrels were
sold.
A boundary commission, jointly APP
pointed by New York and New Jersey,
has found that Bedloc's Island is i'll
New Jersey and not ip New York, as
has heretofore been held.
Russia is increasing her Gell artil-
lery. Hitherto each brigade had six
batteries OF eight guns each. but now
each brigade will have eight batteries
OF eight guns, or total or sixty-four
guns, instead of forty<eight as llitll-
erto.
Samuel Stone, a Mcigs county (O9
farmer, set some turtles eggs undera
hen not long since. All tho eggs were
hatched and the fowl seems to think
as much of the little turtles as a mo-
ther hen usually does of her chicks.
In unloading bananas at the New
York wharves the stcvellores frequent
" encounter scorpions and snakes,
which have curled up under the bana-
ma heads in search of a long nap. and
sleep right through the trip to New
York.
The magnitude OF the stamp col
lector's operations may be judged from
statement in Brio a-Blac, that gen
tleman exists in Germany (and is re-
ported to be sane) who would not take
e250, coo for his collection of postage
! stamps.
While the sealing industry of Alas
ka holds prominent place in public
attention, and gold mining i'll SOUTH
eastern Alaska and ct Unga Island to
the westward is inviting capital for
gradual and certain development, the
coal deposits in the vicinity of Cooks
inlet and at other points west OF Sitka
are rapidly coming to the front; EX-
perts pronounce the coal of good quail
ity and the beds extensive.
A young lady shool teacher CT Sum-
ter county, Fla, one NIGHT last week
dreamed that she was whipping one
| of her scholars, and from reports she.
certainly had terrible time OF 1t.
| She walked up the inmates OF The house
by screaming: Wont you be q good
boy-won't you study your lessons
won't you quit sticking pins III the
scholars9" Her mother, thinking that
something must be the matter, rushed
Into the young lady's room and saw
her standing up i'll bed. beating. kick
ing and otherwise abusing pillow.
A resident Of Canton, O., received a
note from farmer residing few
miles distant, stating that if he would
| send the farmera box the latter would
shin him nice pig as a present. The
CaiSonian sent the. box and received
4 fat Bic, which died a few hours later
of cholera. Now he finds out that the
donor knew the pig had the cholera,
anu;IooKtn1s neriod or getting rid OF
3l8it:to avoid the expense of 5burying it. z
The:neM. light house, at Houstholmis
the most powerful in the world. The
beam is OF 1900, 600 candle power and
shows clearly at Blokhus, a distance
of thirty five miles, 1t is produced by
arc lamps fed by Or. Meriten's dylla-
mos, driven by steam engines. To
prevent. the extinction of the light
through All accident to the machinery,
the latter is duplicated. oneset coming
into play should the other fail. The
light is further supplemented i'll thick
weather by two powerful sirens. or
fog trumpets, working with com
pressed air. The fascili;@ Con which q
powerful light exercises OIL wild birds
is curiously illustrated by this light
house. 1t is said that basketfuls of
dead snipeS, larks, starlings, end so
forth, are picked up in the mornings
outside the tower.