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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
The Chants end the Flood

Among the many queer stories related
in the old Jewish Talmud is one con-
corning the action taken by the great
race of giants at the time Of the delugc.
According TO Rabbi Eliezer, when the
flood broke upon the earth the giants
exclaimed, IF al Of the waters of the
earth DO gathered together they will
only reach to our waists, and if the
fountains Of the great deep DO broken
up we will stamp them down again. y
The same writer, who was one Of tho
conpilers of the Talmud. says that they
actually tried to do this when the food
finally came. Eliezer says that Og, their
leader, "planted his foot upon the foOn-
tain of the deep and with his hands
closed the windows Of heaven. Then,
according to this same queer story,
God made the waters hot and boiled
the flesh from tho bones Of the haughty
giants -
The Targum of Palestine also says
that the waters of the flood were hot
and that the skin of the rhinoceros lays
in folds because he was not allowed to
enter the ark, but saved himself By
hooking his horn under the sides Of the
vessel and floating with it, But the
water which was directly under and at
the sides Of the ark was not hottie
rhineroceIos loosened his skin swim
ming from mountain peak to the side
Of the vessel. One account says that Og
and another giant named Lami also
saved themselves by taking refuge in
the cool water under the edge of the
ark's hull, along with the rhinoceros.
One rabbinGc authority quoted by Gould
in his 'Patriarchs and Prophets says
that Og saved himself by climbing upon
the top of the ark. and that when Noah
discovered and tried to dislodge him he
swore to be slave to Noah's family
forever if allowed to remain.-St. Louis
Republic.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
PICTURES BY TELEGRAPH.
a Device Invented by an Electrical E1-
pert IN New York.


A New York inventor has perfected
device for transmitting pictures by
means of electricity, like the telegraph,
from one point to another.
For years scientists and electricians
have devoted great deal OF their time
to trying to perfect some such method
The result Of u successful elimination
to these experiments would have mil
lions in it. The royalties obtained from
newspapers alone would make the i'll
ventor's fortune in the first decade OF
its use, and its gradual adoption for
other uses would follow. Thomas
O'Brien, an electrical expert of New
York, has worked out a plan which
seems to him TO be entirely feasible, and
he will in the near future demonstrate
it's practicability or its reverse by trial.
The scheme provides for two disks,
carrying needlelikc points, situated in
different parts Of the circuit One OF
these disks will be at each end of the
line, and the principle upon which the
points will work and be located is anal
ogous to the interrupting points on the
receiving and sending instruments Of
the telegraph. The diskswill be caused
to move spontaneously by means Of cleo
trio connections to the same circuit. The
negative, which contains the picture to
be set, is specially prepared. The gela-
tin film is a nonconductor, and this
will be mounted On some substance
which is conductor
AS every one knows who is familiar
with the rudimcnts of photography, the
action of the chemicals used in the de-
velopment of sensitive plate after ez-
posure either tears away entirely or re-
duces to an imperceptible thinness tho
film in places wherein the positive pic
ture is heavy and shadows appear.
Where the high lights are the film is the
thickest.
Therefore, with the negative film
mounted on copper base, the electric
current would be interrupted where the
film is thick, and where by the process
of development it has been removed
the current would pass through to the
copper and become record and pass
ing over the wire be recorded at the
other end.
These disks will revolve at the rate of
1000 revolutions minute by means
of mechanism impelled by electricity.
The negative will be given a lateral
motion of about six inches in one min
ute, and it will be seen that, should
there be six points on the disk, 1000
lines will have been copied during the
minute and recorded at the other end Of
the circuit. This would mean that
COPY had been obtained containing lines
finer than 100 to the inch, which is made
much finer than the lines OF an engrav-
ing. The synchronism Of the disks could
be regulated by means of small induc-
ton coils, which would be influenced
by small electro magnets specially con-
nected with each other and placed
around the periphery Of the hywheel,
governing the motion of the disks in
such manner that the impulse given
the wheel would coincide with the in
terruptions of the circuit taking place
within certain time.-New York
journal
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
An Experience which Was Unexpected
and Decidedly Unpleasant.

An Experience Which Nas UnexrccCeo
and Decidedly Unpleasant.
Looking over tho stuff on tho side
board of house I was III one mghS,
said tho retired burglar, Il couldn't
help thinking that ii this was a fair
sample of the house I'd lest night.
Silver plated tcapots and sugar bowls ut
for nothing but to hold tea and sugar
and stockholders and everything else
inst the same. In tho drawers, among
the plated spoons and forks, there was
miserable little lot of thin silver
spoons and light forks, scarcely worth
carrying off, and souvenir spoon or
two, but l sorted out these things and
laid 'em together, corded in little pile
ON tho left hand side Of tho top OF the
sideboard handy to pick up when was
ready. l had finished the sideboard and
picked up the spoons and was just about
TO put 'em into my left hand inside coat
rocket when I heard somebody say;
Z" There that'l do nicelyp
Naturally enough, suppose. faced
around toward where the sound Game
from, still holding the spoons in my
hand. l realized in minute just what
it meant, and might have throwed the
spoons Mt him or turned the other way
or dropped; but to tell you the truth, !
was a little surprised-it's wetchful
man that's never surprised-and In the
fraction of second that l stood there
thinking about it there was click and
a flash. and I knowed I'd been photo
graphed.
III think, he says, you'll find
that'n come out very nicely-featuros
and all the accessories clear and dis
tinct. We'll send you proof in about
two weeks What is the address, please?
And when I said nothing. he went on
1t is customary for rs to require de-
posit from customers that we don t
know. If you don't wish TO mako de-
post, you might leave the spoons with
us Us q sort Of guarantee Of good faith ,
"I'd dropped the spoons in my pocket
and reached for my gun. wasn't go
ing away without that photograph ma
chine and everything in it, but long be-
fore 1 was ready he'd pulled string or
something and turned up every light in
that room and the next and he was
standing just inside the next room
holding a gun very steady across the top
of the camera He WIS cool, business
like looking man-very much So 1t was
clear that there wasn't anything for me
70 do but to leave the spoons, and that's
what did, and when he said nothing
further, but just held the gun on me, l
understood that there was no use OF my
waiting for another sitting.
II was back i'll that town two or
three years after that, and looked
along in the photographers showcases
for the picture, but l didn { see it -
New York Sun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
A Poor Oxford Scholar.

a fortunate accident, the discovery OF
an undergraduate account book for
the year 1925, enables us to trace IN
comparatively minute detnil the ex-
penses and in some measure the life Of
an Oxford student Of no great means at
! the close of the seventeenth century.
The undergraduate in question, one
James Wilding, seems to have been a
servitor of st. Mary's Hall. and after
ward became member Of Merton col
lege The total cost of his degree, or
rather his total expenses up to the end
of the term in which he took his degree,
were something less than EST, sum
which might represent in modern values
about three times as much. But even
such an expenditure was large compared
with such cases as that of Whitfield,
whose popularity as servitor, gained
by his previous experience as tapster,
enabled him to take his degree in 1876
at O cost to his friends of less than e24,
and Bishop Wordsworth has recorded
instances where the entire outlay was
even less than that.
Board and lodging, as we have said,
were extremely cheap. Though James
Wilding seems to have lived Ill Oxford
the whole year round, his total expenses
for chamber rent and food were no more
than so for nearly five years. His
terminal payments were on similarly
modest scale. Ten shillings term was
his tutors fee. Half crown to the bar
Der, is. or 5s. to his bedmaker and laun-
dress, an occasional largess of sixpence
to the buttery boy and the cook, seem
to have included all of what we may
term his fixed charges. His matrlcula-
ton cost him rs. Cd, his entrance to
that college 5s., and the fees upon TAX
ing his degree something over 3D.
Macmillan's Magazine.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19

Spanish Town, in 1908, was blotted
out by terrible conhagration, which
destroyed property estimated to exceed
81, 500, 600 in value.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
THE HEART AND THE BLOOD.
Views of Scientists WHO Differ With lar
vcY's Theory ON Their Eelati0ns.

Views of Scientists WHO Differ With lar
vcy's Theory on Their Relations.
Do you know that some OF tie very
best physicians III the land arc far from
being satisfied that the heart is the or
San which causes the blood to circulate
in the veins and arteries? The theory Of
Harvey, which maintains that the I'M
pulsive stroke of the heart is 1.-THE sole
motive power, is disputed by persons
who know more about blood circulation
in minute than he ever did in his life.
Various causes for the phenomena of
blood circulation are assigned by the
different students of the subject, but
the majority Of those who differ from
Harvey say that the true cause of circu-
intion is to be found In respiration.
That function brings carbon into the
lungs This carbon mixes with the
venous blood, the mixture forming the
true fuel of animal life. The oxygen
which is also taken into the lungs with
every breath mingles with the carbon,
and slow form Of combustion ensues-
Wherever combustion is going Oh heat
is evolved. In this case the heat is com
municated TO the blood. which is about
ven-eighths water.
The lungs being in partial vacuo and
having temperature of at least 80 de-
grees above that required TO change wa
ter into vapor (when the water in ques-
ton is in complete vacuum), steam is
generated This enlargcs the volume of
the blood and cxorts specific force
Tho valves on the right side OF the heart
close against this force, while those ON
the left open to give it free passage.
Thus, according to this theory, the true
motive power is produced which first
causes and then keeps up the circulation
Of the blood.
When this theory is elaborated, 1t is
very conclusively proved that the heart
has nothing whatever to do with the
circulation of the blood but to deter
mine, by its valves, the course Of the
current and, by the mechanical force
of the stroke, to equalize the fow.-St-
Louis Republic
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19

The first agricultural newspaper was
The American Farmer, begun at Baltl'
more in 1919.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
Whnt o German Wants.

Merchants in the foreign trade have
@ hard time. The following is an exact
COPY of letter received in this city
from Germany. If the writer had only
written in German, the American firm
would have known what to do. What
does this mean?
ut is me still always not successful
70 received Grain Exporters OF New
York. Please work you once more for
mo and seek you me to procure o repre-
sentation of a Exporters in Wheat In
New York. Boston Bulletin.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
DANGER OF FATIGUE.
It Generates Poison In the System Thai
Is Deadly In Its Nature.

Yt Generates 9 Poison In the System That
Is Deadly In Its Nature
''He never loses a moment. f" used to
be thought an unqualified compliment.
Now we arc not quite so sure that it
says much for the wisdom Of him to
whom it is applied From many differ
ent directions comes the testimony that
too much activity is loss instead of gain,
since overfatigue poisons the physical
system.
An analysis has been made of the
poison engendercd by fatigue, and 1t
has been found to be similar to the IN
Gent vegetable poison, curari, into
which tho Indians used to dip their or
rows, and most deadly poison 1t WIS.
The poison of fatigue is of the same
chemical nature and is us truly dendly
if it is created more rapidly than the
blood oan carry it off. There is no
known nntldote for this poison, md Its
dangers besot alike the pleasure seeker
and the worker.
An italian physician recently exam
ined "a bicycle riders after they had
ridden 80 miles in az hours 1t was
found thnt i'll nearly every instance the
nervous system was so far affected by
fatigue that the hoaring Of the cyclists
was defective. After u rest of two hours
most of them could hear rs we'll as over.
Another practical test was made upon
so grammar school children who were
to take part in written examination Of
9}e hours, Before entering upon the
strain which such al examination must
necessarily be each child was instructed
10 lift rs much as he could with tho
dynnmomoter. This was done to test tho
muscular strength of each pupil before
tho examination.
After the work in the schoolroom was
ended the children were again told to
lift us much us possible in tho Same
way. It was found that, with one or
two exceptions, they could not lift as
much by several pounds rs they had
lifted before the examination.
1t is NOW Il demonstrated fact that
prolonged mental strain will diminish
the pulse produce fullncss and heari-
ness of the head and bring about palpi-
tat;on Of the heart. Youth S Compan-
ion
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

The intense itching and smarting Incl
dent to eczema, letter, salt-Theum, and other
diseases of the skin is instantly allayed by
APPLYING Chambcrlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment. Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured by it. 1t is equally
efficient for itching piles and favorlte rem
edy for sore nipples; chapped hands, chill
blains, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes,
For sale by druggists at % cents per box.
TryDr Cady's Goiditon Powders, they
arc lust whata horse needs when In bad cond;-
ton. Tonic, blood purifier and verlnifage
For Sale by Blackstone & Bell, Acco-
mac G. H. and VIM. H. Parker,
Onancock, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
Movable Stairs.

Movable Stairs are vast i'm
provement on those which have to be
climbed. These stairs" work on the
principle of an endless chain and revolve
on circular drums at either end. To use
this continuously moving platform,
which is made of substantial Stats like
those Of o Venetian blind and rubber
covered, it is only necessary to lay ones
hands on the moving balustrade, and
che next moment one finds oneself at the
5Op
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N~-----
why 1t Is.

"Why ore women so partial to RIB
bons?"
II don't know-born that way, I
suppose. "
Made that way. you mean.
Now, what joke underlies that?
Something about maid and made that
way, eh?"
"Not at all. wished to attract your
attention to the fact that the first WON
En was made, not born -
"Well?"
SHE was made from che OF Adanl 6
:ib-bones and the sex has had an affin-
.ty for ribbons ever since. London
Answers.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19

r. e. Nicholas, Superlntencent.,-
'''' 49, Cape Charles, Va.
r. B. Cooke, Gen'l Freight and Pas
senger Agent, Norfolk, Va.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
A Human Owl.

Philadelphia doctors are just now
puzzling their brains over mai who
seems to possess the eyes of q bat or
an owl. During the daytime he is
hopelessly blind and must grope his
way along the streets, but at night he
can see we'll if there are no artificial
lights near to dazzle his eyes.
The man is Henry G. Lanner. He
applied for treatment the other day at
the Philadelphia Hospital, where he
told his story. He said that he had
travelled from Denver to Philadelphia
on foot walking at night when Others
slept, and sleeping by day when the
sun blinded him and make walking
impossible.
Lnnner said that his curious condi-
tion is the result of having been
burned by molten iron while work
ing in foundry ten years ago. At
the time it was thought that he would
be entirely blind, and for several
weeks after the accident his eyes were
bandaged. When tho bandages were
removed he could not see, and his
fears were apparently realized.
That night, as Lanner was lying on
his bed trying to reconcile himself to
n life of darkness, be discovered that
he could see after the lights were ex-
tinguished. AT first he could hardly
believe the truth, but after he had
looked at the various objects in tho
room and had examined tho pattern
in the woll paper he knew that his
sight was restored and he cried with
Joy.
But the next day he discovered that
he was again blind, and he afterwards
found that he could see all right at
night, but that in the day time he was
as sightless as q bat.
At night he can read fine print es
easily as other men do when the sun
shines. He can make his way through
dark streets and see every object
clearly and distinctly.
For several years thereaIteg Tanner
was employed as night watchman IN.
Denver. He was glad to remain awake
so that his hours of blindness might
be spent in oblivion. In recent years
Lanner gave up work and began
preaching on the streets. He believes
that his nfliction is special dispense.
ton of Providence, and is intended
MS a punishment for former sins.-
New York World
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
A FREE TRADE COLONY,
Result of Six Months Operations in
New South Wales,

An experiment is going on in the
English colony of New South Wales
which promises to be OF great
economic value. When the Hon. G.
II. Reid, the present Premier. SUE
ceeded last fall in passing his bill, en-
bodying a new scheme of taxation, il
was asserted by the protectionists of
New South Wales. as we'll rs by those
living in other Australian colonies,
thct an application of the plan could
not fail to lead to general industrial
bankruptcy. Premier Reid's plan was
a more radical free trade method than
any hitherto in use in any civilized
country i'll the world. All. of the
customs taxes arc under it abolished
except those on spirits, wines, beers,
tobacco and opium. These are looked
upon as luxurles upon which tax can
tittingly be paid, while il distilling,
brewing or tobacco growing takes
place in colony countervailing
internal revenue tax would undoubt-
edly be placed upon those enterprises.
The deficiency in the National receipts
brought about by this radical curtail-
ment of revenue is, under the law now
in force, to be made good by direct
taxation. A part OF this is secured by
a tax on land, and the other part is
received through the instrumentality
of an income tax. As the result of six
months operations, instead of proving
disadvantageous, the new plan of tax
alton has been found to be distinctly
ln,, nHn al II,
growing would be abandoned in New
South Wales because there was no
longer any protection granted the
farmers; but instead of this the area
of wheat planting has been much
larger this year than ever before, and,
curiously enough, large number of
farmers have come from the protee-
ZIONIST colony OF Victoria into the un-
protected colony of New South Wales
for the purpose of engaging in the
farming BUSINESS. 1t is seid that New
South Wales may this year grow
enough wheat to feed its population
thing that has never happened in
any past year. General trade has also
received @ great impetus, and with
this object lesson before them it is by
no means improbable that the other
Australian colonies will realize the
necessity Of speedily abandoning the
protectionist methods to which they
are now attached. 1t may be interest.
ing to add that there is no place in
the world, not even in the United
States, where the hours of labor are
uniformly so short (eiSht hours) and
the wages paid labor uniformly so
high as in this free trade colony Of
New South Wales. Boston Il erald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26

A South Side man hailed the driver
Of a moving van one day this week and
proceeded to make arrangements for
transferring his household goods to a
new dwelling.
what do you charge?" queried the
citizen.
dollar N hour" replied the van
driver
The citizen hestated a moment.
say said the mover, will your
lady be on hand to boss the job?"
NO." said the citizen. "she's in the
country. I'm planning this for little
surprise"
Well" said the mover, "then it'll
only be 80 cents n hour.
And the South Side man doesn't know
whether this was a tribute to his wife's
presumable watchfulness or proof of
the general antipathy felt for woman
kind by all well-regulated movers
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
IGNORING THE TRUTH.
CANDIDATE Mex LNLEY TRIES TO DE-
0EIVE FARMERS.

False Charges Concerning the Cause
of the Agricultural Depression
Hay Crops and the Tariff-A Fall
In Demand and Increase In Supply.
During the last seventeen months
OF the Republican tariff law there were
imported into this country 40, 600
tons of hay, and during the first seven
teen months of the Democratic tariff
law there were imported 373, 900 tons.
Depression in agriculture has always
followed low tariff legislation. Mr..
Mckinley to farmers, at Canton.
1t is true that there has been o
slight increase of tho imports OF hay,
but the imports are only a "drop i'll
the bucket" as compared with the
quantity produced in this country,
and the reduction of the price of hay
in the United States has not been
caused by any change in the tariff.
Mr.. Mckinley must know what the
causes of depression in the hay market
have been. These causes will con-
tinue to be effective.
The following table shows the size
OF the domestic crops and the imports
and exports, In tons, for the fiscal
years nameG:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-10-26
Preservation of Bouquets.

A florist of many years experience
gives the following recipe for preserv.
ing bouquets: When you receive n
bouquet sprinkle it lightly with fresh
water; then put it into vessel con-
tanning some soapsuds, which nourish
the roots and keep the flowers as
bright as new. Take the bouquet out
of the suds every morning and lay it
sideways in fresh water, the stock en-
tering first into tho water; keep it
there minute or two, then take the
flowers out and sprinkle it lightly by
the hand with pure water. Replace
the bouquet in the soapsuds and the
flowers will bloom us fresh as when
first gathered. The soapsuds need to
be changed every third day. By OBJ
serving these rules a bouquet can be
kept bright and beautiful tor at least
one month, and will last still longer IN
a very passable state, but the attention
to the fair and flail creatures, rs di-
rected above, must be strictly OBJ.
served. New Orleans Times-Demo-
prat