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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02

yv..a. C.,-c &c the ;ae of 81 E1a:h rre-
ve,>a;vc by :, Washington Woman.
T.:cre {, one lady in Washington
wXo VIXEN she pats away her winter
,fur.; TT the end CT tho season will
prababiy not usc moth baiis to PRO
tect tilen. The p,ngcnt oder Of this
detergent las q peculiar effect on
some organisms, rs she has learned by
q most disagreeab.a experiences during
her Christmas shopping
The lacy in question Is the vito OF q
goveraintl.t Official CT high standing.
Just before Christmas she took from a
clothes press fur TRAINED cloak
Which lad hcen laid away since last
winter, and forgot to remove from its
secret rccsscs tho meth balls with
which it WINS powerfully charged. 1t
tired In tho gavmcnt s.lo eatored n
jewelers. establishment recently opened
on,Itsaasy!v.nla nseHsso md asked to
be ot.s;sseei a;c1ss cs;tHsoaa r.:NS:
Tho proprietor was aloIse in his store.
.As tho laGy; leaned over the tray TO OK
anime tho ring; Whit OF the odor Of
meth balls S.r1cls him. With y hur
RCD motion Re thrust the tray Of rings
baclSe lii The case and rushed to the
door, where he stood for soInc time in
nating his lungs with The crisp. w;ntrS
eir. Then, returning, 10 r:n to lis
telephone. All this ti.ao tho LADY Gus
TONER was standing III wide eyed Won
derncnt. AS soon as an opportunity
offered she asked him if lle Was sick,
and he gaspc,i out that lac had been
overcome by sudden sense Of snlIoca-
ton, but WIGS better now.
The lady resumed her purchasing,
and selected % costly ring with Il re-
quest that it DO sent to her husbands
address. As she left tho store she no
ticed that soMo one WAS apparently
following her In On hours time SHE
reached her residence, and WIS aston
ishcd to find her husband ciosetcd with
detective, who had Informed him
that it Lad Ecen reported at police
headquarters that gcnteclly dressed
diamond thief had attempted to spray
clilarofor.n in tho facc OF ~ jeweler. and
when detected had given l!er address
as Lis house The detective lad just
compFeted description of the lady and
her address rs furnished to tho police
when the lady herself entered and was
ct onco greeted by the official us his
wife
The explanations that followed made
the situation scarcely less embarrassing.
ThcGinE Sas returned to the jeweler
with On edmonton 70 DC nero careful
in future in noting tie difference in
oGor between chlcroforri and moth
balls.-St Louis Republic
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02
r.drca.s In tho French rrrllamens.

a correspondent asks, I4ew Go the
ffss'ssrEss h Zee ipusesa Eresicaa<paFiSa@
mont celppaTe h Members with tie
moderate Republicans, md did they
gain CT lose in the election of 1859?
In tho present chamber of deputies,
which wcs elected in September, 1850,
the Radicals arc not cs strong 30 they
were in The chamber chosen four years
earlier, Willie The Moderatcs ere strong
or. Tire Mcderltcs control tho present
chamber, having a majority over the
Radicals. the Dcurbcns and the Bona
partists combined. Tic preceding
chamber was divided Pretty evenly be-
tween the Modcrates, the Radicals and
the Bourbon Bonapartist group,-St.
Louis Globe Democrat:
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02
!: ,is sh., i,:.cr-a rr,., c:.:ers as AN

J.: Ma shi, l::c-a r.cn, c;.:e,rs as AN
ssac~:o N...'cr, f,u:,. a. .Jcr.
Dr. t. ). sc,,iEcrstc;n, OF, Dillingham;.
las invented = i..s$iaginaclii;lo on which
he is now experimenting. lie says:
"My theory Of y flying machine is
that Of the inclined plane in cQnl5ina,
ton with u propu!aivcforcc AID buoy
a.cy chamber just enough to prevent
Injury to The lusoi,inc in c;lsc OF az &c
cidcns when up i'll Tie air. TO make
tho idca palmer, suppose you have cac
machine llig., upiu the air; tho Inclined
planes arc thea set SO rs to allow op Il
descent ut IL great angie, just u lite
si,or:: of u direct fail. say 1t an anglo
OF o dogs. from The Perpendicular.
snow, when the machine has acquired
:. GREAT momentum Tic inclined rlaTc;
ere SO altered ;iir.t the machine Will
,alzc !. l.,crc or less hcrsoe.tai nFotssl
or direction. ara I'd be :; s-.&. again
f..ss,cod Is, "a 10 i...,:Vs ts.s ltsgs&,s,
tsl,e aa up>v;s:'9Si Direction. 1t isak-o 1T
tbs stare CT the fight that the propeli
ing force is applied and continued Till
the Src;Stcst. altitude the machine is ex-
,,cctcd to reach is obtained, when again
Tie force of gravity is ,lcpcn.cd on to
carry tic machine through about two
thirds Of it's flight through the air 10 its
destination.
Tie dom;nan. idea IS: First, to use
the inclined plaacitoth as Il srppo'tiTc
and us u propcl!ing agent; second. Use
lie force of gravity rs Il prime pr@pcl-
Eng agent, ana laird to OILY Use an
artificial propelliag agent TO carry the
machine upward After that the force
ef gravity, acting through the acquired
lao,nc,ltc::n Sand applied according to
tho theory OF the cyc!o;d, will shoot tie
iaachiae just like. proiectilc about two
feet in q horizontal direction for every
foot of f;s!!i.
THIS action can be compared to
villa. sailors call t;ac:ling.. only instead
of being iii y horizontal direction. like
q ship ri sea, it will DC lnorc o.. less in
a perpendicular d:rccrion. ny this plan
about ll;lif the prcrcili;ig force will be
saved, ara ac.in, when going against
tic wind. it will require less artificial
rropcllins force TO r;l;Sc the air ship"
Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02
go tA:0 CIv-;.
A mceiscl.anm m;ne las been dis.


A mcerscl.arm r,;ne las been dis,
covered in Florida.
One Of tho many English no*el;sts OF
tho day, A. Conan Doyle, is an 6culist
il active practice.
Hiss Ellen Terry, the octress, Is presi-
den: oftho Ladies Cycling club of Lon
don.
Ills not SO much wllat a man thinks
Of you rs wiiat lie persuadcs others to
think Of yea.
w. II. II. Murray has registered
VOW to mark the spot where Sitting
Bull is buried with memorial stone.
Within the last Elk years. it is csti
MATED. no fewer than 2,GGG,27G immi
grants liave arrived! in the United States.
There i; 9 price to tcpaid for adj true
work. Recall the terrible isolation q!
Carlyle end his wifcat CsaiSasepc'tttocas.
Eeess; ss.s,,lclso,.cs o4sls trarcStsesrd- oa,a
soss. a..rsip by Slhnpiy seHAS,g ma wssssf
aecw ho.rs and tllcn drying them.
The largest grcenbaclS extant is
St0. 900 bill, and thcro Is only one such
note in existence; of tic S., 900 bill;
there are seven.
Donjamin II. Currler OF Boston, has
administered the obligation oath tc
bench cilccrsEor sixty years. Mr.. Cur
ricr Is 81 years cid.
Five pounds ten shiiiines sterling per
pound was paid in London recently FOX
q small package of unapproacliable tea
brought overland through Russia.
During the siege of Valencienncs in
1893 the weather, which had been hot
and dry, became violently rainy after
the cannonading commenced.
Take five cents worth of baking
powder. Make in . paste with ;tln.
monia; rub On nickel with "a soft cloth
and polish off with another flannel
cloth.
Tie first iron pen was made in 1855;
tho first steel pen in 1603.by Wise. 10
sept. Giliot's cheap steel pens were first
made i'll 1929.
is stated that 1000, 900 Christmas
parcels were delivered by the British
posto.Ilcc, of which 1,11G. 600 com,
priscd turkeys, fowls, game and Christ
mas pnddings.
The trust controlling the African diar
Inond mines have resolved to reduce
tho product from 4, O00, 900 to 2.000, 00O
of carats per annum, and raw d1a-
mords have risen 100 per cent in con
SEQUENCE.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02
Tho Ballet in America.

Our country was first visited by a
ballet in 1927 and all women in the
audience of the old Bowery theatre
rose in outraged modcsty and dignity
and left this then most fashionable
place of advertisement. That vas
sixty-four years ago. Today Miss Leon
tine Morgan, of Boston. is to be pre-
miere danseuse at the Metropolitan OPP
era house. She has devoted every day
of the last four years to her pretty, dex-
ferrous toes, and with a proper conf
dence that Boston atmosphere was
sufficient for her brain development
s.aa has no need for other training. :
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02

(" stops FOR passengers On signal tcconductor
=" daily, except Sunday.
II. w. Dunno, Sup't
Cape Charles City, Va.
Il. b. Cooke, Gen'l Freight and Pas
sengcr Agent, Norfolk, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-02
A Luxurious Fellow.

Messenger Boy-Call, sir?
Cadsby Scadds-Ya-as. Just step
across the room there, and touch the
electric button. want me VALET
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
His Wife's Pride.
Wilmington Morning News.

HlWingIOu MORNING news.
The wife of an employee of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad gave very amusing exhibit
ton of family pride in 4 dry goods store 4
few days ago. Her husband is a very tall,
thin man; the chest measure of his clothing
is small, and when he buys undertaking
he gets the smallest sizes His wife is L
very large woman. She had gone into I
store to purchase Undertaking for her
husband, and while standing at the counter
examining the goods little bit of woman
came in and, seeing the goods being dis
played, said:
That is what l want: some undershirts
for my husband. No. IS, please
"What number will you haye!" said the
salesman, addressing the first woman.
No. IS. please" was the reply.
The two women bought the same sized
garments, one buying for big-chested aud
the other for narrOw-chested man. When
the latter took her purchase home and dis
played it to her husband he was astonished
to find the shirt so big. He said:
What the did you buy sucn big
shirts for?''
Because
"Well, because what? l can't wear
them
Il don't care. was not going to stand
alongside of Il little bit of 4 woman and buy
shirts for little bit of man. when she
was buying shirts for Il great big one. If
you haven't any pride have; that's why |
bought the big Shirts
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26

Special to the Gazette.
MONTEREY, MEXICO, Oct. 25.-There is
profound excitement i'll mining circles and
among the owners OF shelters here over the
circular recently issued by the chief custom
officer at Tampco concerning the duty on
expectation of silver-lead bullion and all
kinds of ore concentrates. Eight thousand
bars of bullion are now awaiting the result
of the instructions contained in this circu-
lar at Tampico with the apparent alterna-
tive of having to pay $1,000 for the assay of
the same or the duties on the surplus silver
above 100000 per cent. allowed free exporta-
ton. Heavy shipments of bullion ready for
transportation to New York. Liverpool and
Hamburg are lying in this city awaiting de-
VelopmentS.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
NEW CONSUMPTION CURE
DIR. John Blake White Claims Wonder.
full Discovery

DIR. John Blake White Claims a Wonder
full Discovery
New YORK, Oct. 20.-1'he gold with
manganese cure for consumption has been
literally experimental with in the hospitals
here with the best results, leading John
Blake White, NJ. D.. its discoyerer and head
OF staff at Charity hospital, to divulge the
details of the treatment. 1t has already
cured several cases. DR.. White said to-day
after explaining the treatment in full:
Il think | may say that the virtue OF the
SubcutaneOuS administration of gold and
manganese in the treatment of tuberculosis
is my own discovery. l believe that the
value of gold as 4 therapeutic agent, espe
cially III phthisis, is enhanced by the addi-
ton of iodide of manganese.
.'All of the patients whom have treated
with this remedy were reduced physically,
and manifested extensive pulmonary
LESSONS. The nutrition uniformly improved
and in some of the cases the expectoration
was remarkably decreased.
1.-The rapid gain in body weight i'll several
instances was remarkable, following i'm
provement in the appetite and the functions
of digestion and assimilation. The i'm
provement in the respiration does not ap-
pear so rapidly as the other indications of
benefit, though the cough and eXpectora-
ton are soon lessened. fewer rales and less
pronounced dullness over effected areas are
evidences of ameliOration, which are not
long to Supervene.'
The new treatment excites profound in
terest and hope.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
VIVA. Oyster Seed" Is.

By seed" of oysters is meant the milk"
or spat or spawn, which is deposited dur
ing the breeding season Gin summer), and
adheres to some object or other in the
water of the beds" As soon as the
milk" finds a resting place, helped by
the action of the sea water, it begins to
harden and to take form. Just as the white
liquid china clay of the pate-sur-pate china
decorator in its elevations and depressions
hardens upon the side OF a cup or vase, and
by the different thickness of its hardened
layers forms the lovely figures we see in
art collections, SO the milk" of the oyster
grows into the shape intended for it by
nature. Though the oyster shell is so I'M
couth and rough in outline, yet what Won
drous alchemy i, this.-Edward L. Wilson
in Scribners-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
FOOLISH ITALIANS.
They Denounce Conservative Represent
alive of Their Government.

CHICAGO, H., Oct. pa mass meeting
of Italian citizens was held to-day. 10
protest against the action of Count Manas-
sora Di Costigliole, Italian consul in Chica-
go. and sustain Oscar Durantios paper,
L'Italia, in its position of
paper in question has attacked
the consul for his conservative attitude i'll
regard TO tue Malta lynching episode in New
Orleans, and also charges him with dislOy
atty il failing to raise the italian flag on
the 20th of September, in order that parad
ing Italian so ieties might salute it.
The meeting adopted resolutions con-
demning the consul for his so-called neglect
and declaring that his position had been
made worse by the misrepresentation OF 4
''libelous, venal and anti-Italian press"
which had attacked two liberal Italian pa
pers, L'Italia and IL Ficanso, which had told
real truth. There were those present who
explained that the consul had hired Il man
to raise the Italian colors September 20,
and that he was not to blame for their nom
appearance, but the explanation seemed
only to excite the crowd more. lmpassioned
speeches were made III which the sentiment
was freely expressed that the consul should
be recalled or transferred to some other
point. Count di Costigliole has many friends
among his countrymen here. They held a
meeting last Sunday, in which they ~
dorSed that officials action.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26

1924 and Louise Lateau in Is50-6S. Mrs
Stuckenberg is young woman of lively,
cheerful disposition and in the best of
health, but is FRUSTRATED some time after
each trance.
Miss Lizzie Mcnamara, daughter OF
James Mcnamara, a wealthy commission
merchant. of Buffalo, WAS in 1883 society
belle in that city. Three years later she
was detained immigrant" at the barge
office in New York, held under the law
until she could prove that she was not LA
bic to become pauper, as she had the ap
pearance of one. Her story is to the last
degree pitiful. She married Luigi Mar
quevello, an Italian and skillful WOOD
carver, and after their child. son. was
born he suddenly decided to return with
his family to his native Milan. There, &c
cording to the young wife's story, hi.
mother shut the door in her face, and
compelled her and her boy TO 90 TO a hotel
She admitted Marquevello. who, after &
few days going back and forward between
his mother and his wife and son finally
abandoned the latter in the street, and
they have never seen him since The un
fortunate lady was indebted to the charity
of EngEshmen and Americans for food
and shelter and, finally, for means to reach
home. Cortland C. Manning, treasurer OF
the immigration bureau, recognized her az
the belle he had known in Buffalo, an6
she was soon in her old home.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
Big Locomotives.
Philadelphia Record.

The Baldwin Locomotive works of Phil
adelphia has just completed for the freight
service Of the Erie railway the largest COM
pound locomotive in the world. The weight
of the engine is $4,000 pounds, exclusive of
the tender. 1t has three pairs of driving
wheels sixty-two inches in diameter.
The weight resting on these wheels,
which is the measure of the
power of the locomotive, is 1O1 900 pounds.
Its length is fifty-six feet and height six
teen feet. 1t is expected that this engine
can be run at j saving of from 30 to ~ per
cent over the same size single-expansion
engine. But. after all. the Erie's new loco
motive will not appear so big when the
Baldwin company has constructed, for the
same company, i've new ones which are to
weigh IL, 900 pounds each
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26

OF these portraits are wretched crayons,
made from old daguerreotypes, worn and
faded
Still this gallery of speakers is worth
looking at and attracts much attention
from visitors to the Capitol. An admira-
bic portrait is that of Muhlenberg, the
first speaker, sitting in great chair. with
quill in his fingers. The best of the lot
is the full length picture of Winthrop,
painted by Huntington, now president OF
the National Academy of Design in New
York, and presented to congress by citi-
zens of Massachusetts after Winthrop's
Grafton at the Yorktown centennial. Folks
hair stands on end as if he were fright
ened at a reflection of himself in the mir
ror. Davis is shown most untidiiy dressed,
with a coat just ready to fall off his Shout
ders and collar which sadly shows the
effects OF hot weather. Linn Boyd is Il
handsome kentuckian, while Barbour suf
fers in Il wretched crayon, with wooden
hair and eXpressionless eyes.
Bell is given the face of a tragedian in O
comedy company. White has L melancholy
face. He is the only speaker who commit
ted suicide, having made way with him
self in chagrin at being caught in a fla
grant piece of plag iarism. 4 portrait
which attracts much attention is that of
Dayton, with its queer profile and great
wig Stevenson is calm old gentleman,
whose chin rests as on cushion i'll his
ample choker Banks is full length, in
oil, and poorly done.
In the center of the gallery, on the man
tel, hang the pictures Of three great speak
ers-Randal, with his fine, strong face,
Carlisle, the studious and judicial, and be-
tween them Clay, with his collar points
almost touching the corners of his mouth,
blue eyes, thin, long nose and scant, silken
hair. Next to Randall is Blaine, grayer
and older than Blaine was as speaker and
near by are Macon. Stevenson and Polk.
IL this group We have the seven greatest
sneakers
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
THE GAZETTE: FE WORTR, TEXAS MONDAY. OCTuEEB 26

movement They have taken it in dis
trict where it natures early, and they
will be. able TO start it eastward
sooner than the roads which control the
Iowa and the Missouri crop. The low rate,
however, does not bother the managers half
so much as the chance of the corn going
forward so much faster than it can be
loaded for foreign shipment. that their cars
will be held waiting on the side-tracks when
they need them most. The small amount
paid for demurrage is trifing, as compared
with the profit which they could make if
they had all their cars in use on their own
lines. There will probably be vigorous
protest against policy which threatens
loss to other companies in this way. If the
grain were coming to this port there would
be no trouble whatever, for it could be
quickly handled at New York Wall
Strae1 Na,yS
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26

MtHLkNBEttr, 1HE IkSl SfEAhEh.
Henry Clay is the only man who was
elected speaker of the house the first day
he came into it, but he had been, though
only thirty-four, twice elected to the Ken
lucky house of representatives, once rs
speaker thereof and twice senator of the
United States Robert C. Winthrop was
only thirty-eight when he was elected
speaker, but he was then serving his fifth
term in the house He afterward went
to the senate, and his brilliant career as a
public man came to 4 close ut rOrty-two,
an age at which most men begin TO aspire
to political honors.
From Clay's first appearance in the house
in 1915 till the beginning of the civil war
appears to have been the golden era for
young men III congress. Clay himself, not
much more than a boy In years and appear
ance. was brilliant orator in both senate
and house, an able presiding officer, a great
debater and political leader He used to
leave the chair and go upon the floor of the
house to make speeches. 1t was in this
way that he put through the second Mis-
souri, compromise, which made him eau
dida1e for the presidency at forty-three In
the thirty four years of the period l have
Just named only two men above forty
years were chosen to preside over the house.
and these two were put forty, three and
forty-siX.
Among the young leaders OF this period
were Philip Barbour, who afterwarG went
to the senate and had . creditable career;
y ohm Bell. who became a candidate for the
presidency, and who WIS an influential
public man for nearly twenty years; An
drew Stevenson, of Virginia. who stands
next to Clay in number of times elected
speaker and in time served. and who was
afterward Eve years minister to England;
James h. Polk. afterwaEd president of the
United States: Robert Winthrop, the crest
orator; Howell Cobb, VINO was afterward
secratsry of the treasury, and brilliant
young Hunter, who wss in congress at
twenuy-eight, speaker az thirty, in the sem
ate AT thlrty-eignt, there remaining fou--
teen years, withdrawing to become Con-
fetierate States senator anu Confederate
seegetars O; state.
f'h. war OF the rebellion called the Young
men o. the country from council to battle,
and they Rave il0t Yer regained the prolni-
hence which they once enjoyed. Since 1850
only ono man unds: forty years 0; age mas
been elected apeaker--James g. Blaine.
-SiIGc 1ressu. e;i;.Al.&gen sS- the speak
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
WHO WILL sc SPEAKER?
THE MOST INTERESTING QUES-
TON AT WASHINGTON. -
Robert Graves Calls Attention to the flct
That Most of Our Speakers
Were Under Forty.

WASHINGTON, OFT l2-"Who will be
speaker of the house:'' is the most inter
csting question which the politicians atthe
national capital now have to consider. 1t
is Il question which cannot be answered
for some sixty days. Early in December
the majority of the house will choose the
thirty-second man TO be honored by cleo
ton TO preside over the popular branch Of
the American congress. There have been
thirty one speakers of the house, beginning
with T. A. Muhlenberg and ending with
Thomas h. Reed. A remarkable thing
about the speakership is the youthfulness
of the men who have been elected to it.