Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-11-20
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

There ara more than 10, 600 Europeans
and Americans resident in China. OF
these 1000 are English.
Hongkong is the capital of foreign
industry in the far east. More than
5000 vessels touch there annually.
The British colonial secretary has ap-
proved loan of SIS, 600, 900 for the build
ing Of railways in the Malay peninsula.
DR.. Hills of Manchester, KY, at 70
years of age rode in pacing race at
Barboursville the other day and won it.
Twenty-Five ports Of China are open
to foreign residence, where Europeans
are allowed to own land on which they
live.
The export trade of Siam with Eu-
rope has increased rapidly within three
years, being mostly in rice and teak
wood.
At Wilmington, Del, where offenders
are publicly whipped, crowds of pretty
girls look on and seem to enjoy the
spectacle.
Beaver Falls, Pa, has three physi-
clans whose names are Grim, Ague and
Coffin. In spite Of their names they en-
joy lucrative practices.
Denmark has labor unions comprising
5000 members. The Swedish unions
have membership Of 1000, the Nor
wegians of 12, 900 laboring men.
Mrs. Dorothy Lamon of Washington
has received from her old home in Vir-
ginia cane which was made for Abra-
ham Lincoln from wood taken from
Lookout mountain.
While the New York papers have
been discussing why men do not marry
society woman Of that city says that
no woman can be really well dressed on
less than $50, 900 o year,
Even the Japs appreciate the value OF
printers ink The mikado's government
has appropriated SAP, 600 to be expended
in advertising throughout the United
States the merits of Japanese tea.
A Providence man of iconoclastic dis
position has put an old fable to de-
structive test by letting pet fox have
the run of a vineyard with grapes with
in his reach. The fox cares neither for
ripe grapes nor sour, but will eat chick
en- every time.
Census figures recently published at
Washington show that average longev-
ity has made perceptible advance even
in the last ten years, and as people live
twice as fast as they used to tho sum to-
tai of life is very much longer and rich
er than formerly.
Pure gold is found very seldom in the
Transvaal Recently, however, some
specimens were found, and one Of these,
valued (apart from its scientific inter
est) at 81, 500, was not long ago pre-
sented by President Kruger to the Ger
man government.
Out in Redlands, Cal, they have been
cutting grain this season with har.
vester that is truly mammoth of its
kind. 1t has cutting bar over so feet
in width, cuts the grain, thrashes it,
ties it up in sacks and turns out hun
dreds of these sacks an hour.
The population of London is now es-
timated to include $50, 900 persons Of
Irish and 100, 900 of Scotch parentage.
10, 900 Asiatics, Africans and Ameri-
cans, with some 60, 600 Germans, so, 00C
French, Is, 900 Dutch, 1000 Poles,
$500 Italians and 5000 Swiss.
The supposed grave of Eve is visited
by over 40, pilgrims in each year.
1t is to be seen at Jiddah in a GENE
terry outside the city walls The tomb
is 80 cubits long and IL wide. The
Arabs entertain belief that Eve was
the tallest woman who ever lived.
A man in Gainesville, Ca, pur-
chased the gallows on which a man
was hanged and built hennery of the
lumber He has never had a chicken
stolen from it. and it is said that the col
ored brother won't 90 within block OF
it if he can possibly avoid doing SO.
The civil court at Laon has given o
French lady damages for the loss of o
trunk and its reasonable contents, but
has refused to allow anything for con-
siderable sum of money alleged to have
been in the package, Oh the ground that
a trunk is not proper place to carry
cash.
Consul Dobbs at Valparaiso points
out that the attempts to introduce light
bottled beer from the United States in
to Chile have proved failures. The ma
tives prefer their own heavy brews,
which cost 51a to ~ cents, to the i'm
ported beer, which cannot be sold at
less than Az cents bottle.