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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17

There are usually at least two ways
of looking at a thing, and it is well now
and then to change ones point of view.
Little Hans had just begun his school
life, and his mother was ambitious to
have him keep high standing in his
class.
"why, Hans" she said regretfully at
the end of his second week, "last week
you gave me so much pleasure by get
ting to be at the head of your class, and
now you are only number four, I see. :"
"Yes'm, 1 know" admitted the little
fellow, with great gravity; but then, "
he added, .some other boys mamma
had the pleasure this week, SO ! thought
perhaps you wouldn't mind SO very
mucl1l''
you're quite right, Hans" said his
mother, giving him an appreciative
smile, ri don't mind it at all-now!"-
Youths Companion.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
Guarding Boxes on tho Street.

When the cold wind whistles through
the streets at nights it makes life vastly
uncomfortable for the men who are
paid to guard piles of boxes left on the
pavement outside the big wholesale
houses If they do their duty consci-
entiously, these watchmen are bound
to get pretty fair notion of what
real winter night is There is one Of
them, however, who manages to get
some comfort out of bis chilly trade
The other night lie was seen taking his
ease in the midst of lot of packing
cases in street near Broadway An
empty box, set with its open end to-
ward the middle of the street, had been
furnished within with piece of old
carpcting, which served the double
purpose of keeping out the drauglts
and at the same time of making
rather easier seat.
In front of the open-end of the box
stood an old iron ash can. with holes
enough in the bottom to secure plenty
of draught for the fire that blazed
within. With this extemporized- fur
mace feet few from the entrance to his
sentry box, the watchInan sat in state.
The wind could not get at him, and
the fire kept him fairly warm. More
over, his duties were not of q nature to
bother him greatly. lie was in the
heart of the business district, and few
persons were likely to venture through
the street, while the wind was keen
enough to make raid by hoodlums
hardly to be expected. A few blocks
away another guard was found with
out the inventive genius of his fellow.
He was bundled up in overcoats, but
he looked as cold as a country cousins
welcome to town.-New York Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
THE ONANCOCK FURNITURE
HOUSE

you to calf o. you that line
GENERAL FURNITURE attention given
branch of it,
picture moudngs
wall mouldinss picture hanging
OF fancy furlitu
BROKEN OR DEFAC. ID FURNITURE neatly repaired.
position advantage anything
sired in furnitur
PRICES AS LOW be furnhe; by retail dealers.
j. II. RILEY.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
a Rubber Sidewalk.

There is a length of rubber sidewalk
in Edinburgh, and want to tell you it
is the finest sidewalk in the world. 1t
is only about 25 feet long, and the side
walk is about feet wide The rubber
is fluted so as to allow the water to
run OFF quickly, and the surface is the
most comfortable to walk on that can
well be imagined. You can't slip if
you try, and there is a spring and q
''give'' that is most restful to the tired
man.
1t was laid as an advertisement by
shopkeeper who sells 'macintoshes"
and "goloshes, as he calls rubber coats
and rubbers, and although the expense
must have been heavy l imagine it
must have yielded good results. He
told me the rubber was two inches
thick and was laid on four inch bed
of concrete. In feur years it has shown
no appreciate signs of wear, but mis-
chievous boys have cut it in places
Interview st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
A uorue nuiLdinr FIsh.

In Lake Nyassa, in the interior OF
Darkest Africa" there is a kind OF
black fish which every year builds what
the natives term house. In the mud
at the bottom of the lake it makes a
hole some 2 or feet broad, heaping
ND the mud removed from the hole
so as to form little wall around
it. The depth of the hole and the
height of the wall measured together
make basin from Is to 90 inches deep.
In this lake within lake this queer
little fish erects mud house, the aver
age sized specimen measuring IA inches
across the bottom, rapidly coming to a
point in the shape of broad cone. A
hole 4 inches in diameter, always on
the south side, serves as an opening for
egress and ingress. A dried specimen
of this queer doinicile preserved in the
Royal Museum at Berlin has two doors
and partition separating it into two
rooms. st. Louis Republic.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

If you catch IN animal in steel
trap, every minute it stays there its
meat is growing worse.
Germany produced in 1889, 2,372.4 Alb
tons of wheat, 5,3G3, 42G tons of rye
1888, 419 tons of barley and 4.197,124
tons of oats.
Said an excited clocutionist, "Dare
to harm one head of her hair, and the
last moment shall be your next
A pint of milk taken hot every night
before retiring will make a thin person
plump and produce wonderfully rest
full feeling.
A pleasant household deodorizer is
made by pouring spirits of lavender
over Jumps of bicarbonate Of ammonia
Wash your black silk stockings
through strong salt water dry them
and wash again. Then rinse in clear
water. This will SGT the color.
The pictures that hang on the;walls
of. the postmaster generals Washington
xresidencestt herold, Frelinghuysens
sion) are worth more than 500, 900.
The Queen of England has forbidden
the introduction of the electric light
into her private apartments ut Windsor
castle because she declares it is too,
strong for her eyes,.
The shirt fronts of the best drcssers
are as plain as plain can be. They are
amply wide, and the collars on the
dress shirts are attached
Lord Wolseley has stated before
parliamentary committee that if only
100000 men were landed in any part of
England he would not be able to pre-.
vent their capturing London.
Two tabIespoonfuls OF grated choco-
late, dissolved in half cup of boiling
water added to the mixture for baked
or boiled custard makes delightful
dessert.
The gardener of the Kew gardens,
after numerous failures. has at last sue
ceeded in growing the coco dc MGR. or
double cocoanut. which often attains n
height of $50 feet. with smooth trunk
about foot in diameter.
Among the latest oddities seen in the
grocer shops are preserved nuts-chest-
nuts, walnuts and other kernels put in
bottles just like fruit 1t is a German
idea, and they are said to be delicious
for dessert.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
She Understood.

Mrs. Muggins- SO you are an
actor2 What are you playing now2
Handsome Stranger-The dual role
in the sCorsican Brothers
Mrs. Muggins-Oh, yes, I've seen
that, and l remember there was duel
in it.-New York Weekly.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
Buried In Two Places.

The true burial place Of Columbus
has been a mooted point for many
years, and it would seem that the re-
mains of that llustrious discoverer
rest in two places-San Domingo and
Genoa. However, the truth of this
statement has never been satisfactorily
proven.-Detroit Free Press.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
Almost a Native.

Englishman-I am surprised to learn
you are in American! Surely you ire:
not native of the United States, arc
you2
Anglomaniac (apologetically)-Wel,..
I-er-that isl was born here, you
mow.-Kate Fields Washington.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
Meaning OF AmerIcanism.

"Americanism means the development,
the culture. the expansion. the progress,
and the protection of everything Ameri
can. 1t means the growth of our indus
tries, the increase of our mi Is and fur
naces, the development of our mines and
agriculture, the prosperity and happi-
ness OF our people. The apostle of that
American idea is William Mckinley We
greet him here, and In planting his elm,
too, q principle which began with Wash
ing on and Hamilton, and has been so
conspicuuusly defended by him, we wish
him God speed In his canvass In Ohio.
VI hen he shall have served as Governor
of Ohio, and In the future as President
Of the United States, in the evening of
his days, when this elm shall have grown
to q height whore a large proportion Of
his Ohio constituents can find restfnl
shage under its branches, we hope that
he will come here again to greet the elm
whose suspicious planting preceded and
preiigured his election, and whose lon-
geyity typifies the perpetuity of Ameri-
tan prosperity when fostered by the
practical operation OF American ideas. /"
~ haaaceU III. DepelC, sat dcdtcatS,sg q
tree To- Mn. Mel i9lJeu at Woodstock.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
Exchange Comment.


GROVER CLEVELAND spent the Fourth
of July eating clans Detroit Tribune
COOP crops, fair prices, full employ
ment for most labor-this Is Republic
can year. ndta9edpolis Journal
THE Sandwich clambake in honor of
ex-President Cleveland had the flavor of
funeral-baked meats. -Ne,o York Re-
c0rdef.
COL JAMES s. CLARKsoN, President of
the Republican National League, is a
man with plenty of Sgo" in him.-Ca,a4
cirs1,ati Commercial Gazette.
ENGLAND would rejoice with exceed,
ing great JOY with the Democratic party
ii it can succeed In defeating Mckinley
for Governor of Ohio. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
"PooR mortgaged Kansas" is fattening
her hogs on peaches, while Simpson is
saving the air down In Alabama and tell
ing Of the doleful hard times Inter.
Ocean.
Gov. BoTEs and aStormy" Jordan, a
notorious violator of Iowa's Prohibition
law, have fallen ont. The next thing
that the Governor will fall out with will
be the gubernatorial chair. Kansas Cdty
JOltrqlGl.
Horns and whistles, made OF Amer
lean tin. will make good Republican mus
sic in the campaign OF '92. In fact, their
first notes will be heard before this years
campaign is ended. 49, Chicago Inter
Ocean.
DEMOCRATS do not wish foreign Inn
porterS who seek our markets to help
pay our taxes. They therefore go In for
free trade and a tax on the incomes Of
American citizens. - Cincinnati COM,
nle9'ciGy Gazette.
THE worst feature about an income
tax Is it's inequality. The extent of the.
income Is, in most cases, known only to-
the individual. and he can, with q fair
degree of safety, conceal as much OF it
as he likes from the officials st Louis
Globe Democrat
THE British organs of this country
have now turned from the effort to em-
barrass American tin-plate manufac-
turers and are endeavorlng TO prevent
the successful application OF the subsidy
to the revival OF American shipping
Rochester Democrat.
THE New York delegation iii the next
convention will not be for Mr.. Cleve-
land, and neither will that from Indi-
ana, and we don't believe the Demo-
Gratis OF the rest of the Onion would
under any conditions lie willing to give
their brethren Of these two necessary
| States d direct slap In the face lBar-
qlatfagfadn AGE Herulds Dem. u
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
Missing Links.

LONDON theater- going is said to have
declined to q remarkable extent
BEEFsrEAK and black coffee are said
to have reduced o lady OF 1872 pounds
to 40
ONE OF the most eminent English phy-
sieians recently said that every modern
house ought to be destroyed after 1T had
been built for sixty years.
WHATEVER be the state OF colored
photography, process of photograph
ing In colors has been patented in Lon
don, and the company Is about to begin
business.
Our OF the British Isles the Salvation
Army now has 1,7O5 corps and i, O4O So
cieties. altogether 2,754 salvation socie-
ties These are led forward by 5, 800
officers
The well that Ii. being bored at w heel
Ing In the fhterest of science has reached d
depth Of three-Quarters OF q mile. Prog
ress ID being made at the rate OF about
ten feet day.
The most violent thunder storms III
the world occur iii French Guiana. The
thunder there In an ordinary storm III
almost deafening while peal follows
peal In quick succession !.
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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

A TELEGRAM has been received from
Prof. Dyrenforth, in charge of the rain
producing experiments provided for by
the last congress now being conducted
on the ranch of Nelson Morris in Texas.
The professor says that the first expert
ment has been made, the powder being
exploded high in the air, that the clouds
began to gather, and that it rained
heavily there in twenty-four hours.
IT is reported that a few days ago a
young farmer named Edwards, while
blowing near Sutherland Springs, Tex,
unearthed an iron pot containing gold
doubloons amounting to $1,000. There
has long been a tradition in the neigh
borhood that Santa Ana buried the
treasure on his retreat after his defeat
at the battle Of San Jacinto, in the Tex
as war of independence, and various
searchers have hunted for 1T.
Coy. NoRTHEN of Georgia has signed
the bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
within three miles of any church or
school, except i'm incorporated cities.
This means prohibition in Georgia, as
either schools or churches exist almost
every three miles, and where they do
at once.
GREAT indignation has been caused
at Maysville, KY, by j. Dexter Kehoe,
an employee of the state printing office
and ex-member Of the legislature, who
on Monday sold his father-in-law's lot
i'm the cemetery. He first dug up the
bodies of his wife's parents and threw
them into wheelbarrOw, where they
lay until charitable people buried them.
ARRANGEMENTS are all complete for a
great bench show to be held in Lexing-
ton, KY, Sept % and "a. under the
auspices OF the Kentucky Kennel club.
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, will
be present with his celebrated pack of
hounds to engage in fox chases.
Miss LOUISE GoUTMAN, the sixteen
year-old daughter of a wealthy and aris-
tocratic widow, st. Louis, eloped with
follower of the races, whose correct
name is supposed to be John Murphy.
Murphy made the acquaintance OF the
young lady "a few weeks ago during the
race meeting in s Louis
john M. SAsfUELs, OF Kentucky, and
DR.. Selim Peabody have been chosen
ano confirmed as chiefs Of the horticnl-
tural and liberal art departments, re-
spectively, of the worlds fair.
REPoRTs frem seventeen county alli-
ances in Missouri declare against q
third party and the sub treasury scheme.
Seven counties Indirectly indorse them
and two are tive non-committal.
THE republicans OF the second coz
gressional district of Tennessee chose
John Houk, son of the deceased con-
gressman, as the party nominee.
Two WHITE women we're logged OF
Wisson, Miss. They were charged with
lsconsorting with negroes.
The business agent of the Georgia
state alliance exchange ii $20, 900 short,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20

carriers on that particular route OF
thirteen miles lii length this family and
others who desired to enter into the
arrangement erected posts for the re-
cepti0n and protection of small mail
bags, suitable for both collection and
delivery, and thus at cost OF 90 to
each farmily daily delivery was estab-
lished and all mail except registered
letters was promptly delivered. Each
family mad its own mail bag properly
inscribed and was granted the privilege
OF placing therein money for the pro-
curing OF stamps, money orders, postal
cards, etc. Such was the system that
families living off of the mail road
sought to enjoy its advantage by shar-
ing the expense with the nearest post
route neighbors. As natural result,
more newspapers, especially dailies, are
taken ON this route than on all the
other local routes in that part of the
state, and city shops that issued cata-
logues for circulation in the mails had a
argely increased trade In that particu-
ar region.
AT meeting in New York of the
executive committee of the national
democratic clubs it was decided to hold
the next national convention of the
democratic clubs sixty days after the
national democratic convention.
Z Mrs MARY DURAND, seventy-five
years old, sister of the French general,
Durand, and reported to own an estate
in France worth $5,O0o,000, died from
starvation at her home in Egg Harbor
City, N. j.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL and George
Jones, founder of the New York Times,
are dead.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
IN THE WEST.

A RICH find of silver is reported on
The vein is about three inches thick and
of pure metal. 1t is evident that there
exists still larger vein somewhere in
the vicinity of the same kind of metal,
and 1T is thought these discoveries will
Don lead to developments that will cast
in the shade even the wonderful mines
of Nevada.
In Chicago, Edward A. Hilkins has
been appointed receiver for the National
Capital Savings, Building and Loan
Association of North America, in bonds
of $4,000. Leave was granted to file a
supplemental bill against Lewis T. Nor
timer and A. Wentworth which asks for
winding up of the society in case it is
found to be insolvent.
AT Findlay, O., William Hallowell, an
employe of the Salem Wire Nail mills,
fell into caldron of boiling water and
quicklime and was literally boiled alive,
the flesh falling from his body in great
chunks. He lived ten hours, during
which time he was conscious, notwith-
standing his terrible injuries.
w. SCHMERTZ, one of the most promi-
nent dealers in boots and shoes in Pitts
burg has made an assignment. No
accurate estimate of assets and liabili-
ties can be given at this time. Execu-
tons aggregating 1852, 1856 have been
issued against Mr.. Schmertz's property.
The steamer Maj. Powell, which was
taken to Green river, Utah, by
rail to navigate that stream and Grand
river, has been launched successfully.
1t is intended also to investigate the
ancient cliff dwellings along those rivers
and reach the Colorado river, If possible.
CREDITORS of Howell, Jewett & Co.,
the Kansas lumber firm which recently
failed, have taken q number of western
lumber yards for the claims and organ
lied the Western Lumber county.
IGNATIUs DoNNELLYs does not favor
the scheme to corner all the wheat in
the United States. He says to the Min
nesota farmers, in effect, sSell your
wheat when you think best.'
SECRET service officers seized $1,000
worth of opium in Shasta, CAL, and
broke up nine furnaces run by China
men in manufacturing from the crude
material.
SIX men have been arrested in Detroit,
Mich, on the charge of abducting
Joseph Perrin, a rich bachelor, in March
last.
TEE National Farmers Alliance will
hold it's annual convention at Indian
apolis, commencing November II.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
THE LATEST NEWS OF GENERAL
INTEREST.

Small Items OF Crime and Casualty In
south Dakota - Improvement Notes
Throughout tHc Commonwealth--Va-
rfous Events or More Than Usual Im-
portance.
THERE is big fight on between State
Auditor Taylor, of South Dakota, and
the Hartford Insurance company. The
law requires that insurance companies
to do business in South Dakota must
publish In each judicial districtin which
they do business certain specified
statement. This the Hartford has not
done, but has published a statement
gotten up after its own fashion. The
auditor has refused to issue certificates
to the agents, who number ninety seven
in the state. The law is to the effect
that agents can be prosecuted If they
do business without certificates, and the
auditor says he will enforce the law
The insurance company claims it has
complied with the law. and instructed
its agents to go on and do business and
they will be protected. This is the first
time the publication law, has ever been
tested and the result is quite important,
as it affects every company doing bust
ness i'm the state.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
Tho True American Ring.

The speech of General James s. Clark
son at the reception rendered him ON his
safe return from Europe had in it that
broad spirit and true American ring
which touches mems hearts, if hearts
they have AS President of the Nation
al Republican League, his utterings nat
turally attracted attention in advance as
rejecting the spirit of the great national
organization OF which he is the head.
He came back from his European trip
prouder than ever of America and Amer
can Institutions AS he happily said,
the American who goes abroad to study
other nations finds that the American is
a composite of the better races of Eu-
rope and the discovery tends to broaden
him and make him still more an Amer
innn
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
WHEAT MARKET WILD.
BULL NEWS FROM EUROPE LIFTS
WHEAT OUT OF SIGHT.

Scenes OF Excitement and Confusion on
the Board OF Trade In Chicago The
Top Price for December Wheat stops at
$1.1eson the Curb After Closing.
Wheat has gone on wild boom at Chicago
and New York on account OF the news OF
crop failures in Europe and India. In Chi
cage December wheat on Saturday reached
s1.0S on the regular board of trade and sold
ON the curb at $1.10. Some deals are re-
ported at s1.fs. All sorts of stories are fly
ing about. number of traders talked
about shortage in Europe. Others assert
ed that "Jim' Keene, of New York, is re-
sponsible; that he is taking revenge for
that experience in 1873, when the little
flyer ON the Chicago board cost him several
millions. Some said Keene, Philip Armour
and B. P. Hutchinson were responsible.
Others that Keene was backed by a power
full syndicate of New York capitalists and
that Hutchinson was one OF the leaders.
There is nothing reliable about any of these
tumors. The fact remains that the market
simply went wild. The scenes of confusion
and excitement ON the floor were indescrib-
able. Every time there was an advance the
bears got frightened and exerted every
effort to unload at the top price, for fear of
drop as sudden as the rise. Then five
minutes later, when the market had again
advanced, the men who had sold were clam
oring to buy back, being willing to pay
from one to three, cents more than they had
sold for. From the visitors gallery the
wheat pit looked like an assembly of dam
gerous lunatics. The men crowded to-
gether i'm mass, discarded coats and hats
and clawed each other like wild animals,
while constant deafening roar, out of
which no Ineligible sound could be picked,
rose TO the ceiling. After the market closed
there were many traders who were fright
ened at the idea of holding wheat over Sum
day at 81. 06h. The timid ones, however,
seem to have scared the other traders, for,
as noted above, December wheat went to
S1.10 on the curb before o'clock, and adj
venturous brokers were singing calls at
from $f.14 to $1.18.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-20
The Labor Congress meets.

congress has been opened at BRUSSELS. In
spite of miserable management and intrigue
ON the part of the ruling spirits in the af-
fair the meeting will be largely attended
and important. Norway, Sweden, Holland,
France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Hungary, Spain and Italy send delegates,
while for the first time in the history of
labor movements Poland will be represented,
and contingent from the United States is
likewise expected. The congress will be
under the control of the socialists, they
having had the power to change its name
from the international workmen's congress
to the international socialist workmen's
Congress-