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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20
Gentility-as Some Understand It.

Genteel it is to have soft hands,
But not genteel to work on lands;
Genteel it is to lie in bed,
But not genteel to earn your
bread;
Genteel it is to cringe and bow,
But not genteel to sow or plow;
Genteel it is to play the beau,
But not genteel to reap or NOW;
Genteel it is to keep gig,
But not genteel to hoe or dig;
Genteel it is in trade to fail,
But not genteel to swing fail;
Genteel it is to play a fool,
But not genteel, to keep a school;
Genteel it is to cheat your tailor,
But not genteel to be sailor;
Genteel it is to fight duel,
But not genteel to cut your fuel;
Genteel it is to eat rich cake,
But not genteel to cook or bake;
Genteel it is to have the blues,
But not genteel to wear thick
shoes;
Genteel it is to roll in wealth,
But not genteel to have good
health;
Genteel it is to "cut" friend,
But not genteel your clothes to
mend;
Genteel it is to make show,
: But not genteel poor folks to know;
Genteel it is to go away,
But not genteel at home to stay;
Genteel it is to smlrk and smile,
But not genteel to shun all guile;
Genteel it is to be knave,
But not genteel your cash to save;
Genteel it is to make bet,
But not genteel to pay debt;
Genteel it is to play at dice,
But not genteel to take advice;
Genteel it is to curse and swear,
But not genteel old clothes to
wear;
Genteel it is to know lord,
But not eenteel to pay your board;
Genteel it is to skip and hop,
But not genteel to keep shop.
-MancheSter Times.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20
INTERNAL USES OF WATER.

Ordinary drinking water, if taken in
large quantities, acts as solvent and
diuretic, and also increases the perspi-
ration if the temperature of the air be
nigh. Another effect of large draughts
of water is to make the pulse slower
and to diminish slightly the normal
temperature of the body.
Increase of weight has been claimed
as a result of systematic water drinking
on retiring for the night. The latest re-
searches do not bear out this conclu-
sion. Water thus taken will prevent any
actual loss of weight, but it is not shown
that it will do anything more.
Swallowed as hot as it can be borne,
pure water has lately come into some
vogue as an efficient remedy for dys-
peptic and rheumatic ailments, and for
reducing the obesity consequent upon
idle habits and over-eating. 1t is not
vet shown that these effects are caused
by the hot water. l have seen cases in
which this treatment, Conjoined with a
diet almost exclusively composed of
lean meat and stale bread, has been
followed by great reduction of the
invalid's weight but this result seemed
to me due to'the Withholding of super
abundant food from the patient, and
not to any positive virtue III the hot
water itself. In dyspepsia the hot-water
treatment sometimes succeeds tor the
same'reason. Nature, if given chance,
has a good deal to say in the cure of
the ailments that result from missue
of the digestive organs. But this treat
ment has the double advantage of Civ
ng the disturbed stomach comparative
rest, and of gently stimulating it to the
digestive duties that it cannot wholly
forego, unless the patient is to be sus-
tanned by faith alone.-HUbey'S Nag
agIne.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

Managing Editor.-Did you prepare
that article on "The Intellectual At
tainment of the Four Hundred"
Reporter.-Yes, sir.
Managing Editor.-About how mut h
space will it occupy2
Reporter.-About six lines.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

A dry goods house advertiser &
seal sacques the other day added 10
its advert ement, Circulars free"
A lady, after reading the advertise.
ment, sent a note to the house asking
for a circular-a fur-lined one.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

Tubbs-I flatter myself that honesty
is printed on my face.
Grubbs- -Well-er-yes, perhaps
with some allowance for typographical
errors.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

Jso. N. DoDD and JNo. LoLLAR, Esqs., report
a remarkS BILE result on corn ground, seeded late.
and consequently winter killed; the wheat branch
ed greatly and the head was from l to l. inches
longer than other wheat sown in his fallOw, where
high priced brands OF fertilizers, made ~ other
parties, were used. Mr.. Lollar says that no other
fertilizer hut Kennarde could give such won
derful result. He knows their worth, having
always grown crop from their use.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

JosIAs RIHGGoLD, Esq, says his crop this year
was 25 and 2s bushels to the acre the fy-resut-
ing from seeding too early, about Sept. 20th-cut
less have received If seeded later forty bushes,to
the acre. Has used G W. Kennard x Co.'S ferti-
liZers tye years, ana has always grown large
crops; knows he has saved money by buying them;
takes great pleasure in recommending them to
any inquireIs.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

Editors are being recognized Off
cially. The President is a pious
man, who doesn't propose to see the
writeous forSaken.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

The above reports are from Kent farmers and
only a ew among many pleased customers
and we have more to come. Remember we do not
publish and republish old testimonials; every
thing new and true Call on us early. We bought
early filled our house early, saved in buying
early and from the way orders are coming in ex-
pect to do large, early and nne business. and
save our customers money.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

A clever newspaper man puts his
news items from Chicago and Eoston
under the title of Pork and Be ans" "
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

It's wise child that goes out of
the room to laugh when the old man
mashes his thumb.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

Report a remarkable result.

GEORGE W. BOLTON reports very large crop
the Big Meadow farm and is much pleased
with results We have his order tor tall fertilizer
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

There is said to be a scarcity of
500 bills, but we must confess that
ve hadn't noticed ii.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20

THos Biz CKIsTON, on the Pippen farm, reports
80 bushels to the acre; says lie can buy his goods
cheaper from 4. W Kennard Go. than anyone
else and has al Ways grown big crops from the use
oi their goods. Wants other and takes pleasure
in recommending it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20
G.. W. KENNARD & cos
FERTILIZER 2


JAMES FRENCH reports ~ bushels average
from G. w Kennard n Co.'S Phosphate a great
improvement on previous crops; buys the same
fertilizer again this fall
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-07-20
VOL. XLVIII--NO. ~.
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The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
Even the Sheep get Drunk in Kansas

Prohibition comes pretty near be- ing a failure in Kansas. A traveller just from that State says he had no trouble at all in getting all he want ed to drink, though sometimes the beverage had queer sounding names. One thing he noticed particularly, and that was the large amount of ginger ale that found circulation. In almost any part of the State, and he was all over it, he found Milwau- kee ginger ale for sale, and he won dered thereat until accident showed him that the bottles contained beer. The mystery was explained. One of the funniest things he saw, how ever, in the State in the way of in- ebriety was on sheep ranch. A man near Manhattan owns a large ranch, and buys whiskey by the bar rel for the especial benefit of the sheep. He uses it on them as an antidote for rattle snake bites, and it works like a charm. Rattlesnakes are very thick in that section, and the herdsman are obliged to be on the continual lookout, or many of the sheep would be killed. The ac- ton of the poison on the sheep is very queer They soon after being bitten stagger about and fall, and then begin to swell up. When the herdsman sees a sheep fall he rushes to it and forces a quantity of whis- key down his throat until 1t be- comes thoroughly intoxicated. The traveller says 1t is no odd thing to see a dozen or more staggering about the prairie with flag" on that would make an old hummer wild with envy.-Chicago Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
Rich Red Men.

The Osago tribe of Indians, whose reservation is between Kansas and the Creek country, are five times as rich as the average of Americans, ten times as rich as the average of Englishmen, and the French and Italians are paupers in comparison. There are among the Ogages no penniless people, and none in want except that unsuitable want that al- ways want more. There are 1,501 Of them, according to last years census. They have in the United States Treasury $7,75S,694 of their own money, drawing ' per cent. in- terest, This amounts to a capital of S5,175 apiece for the whole na- tion-men women, and children.
 But besides this they have 1 1,470,- 900 acres of land, equal to just about 1000 acres apiece. This land is mostly fine and arable, and would sell for an average of $10 an acre, or $10,000 for each individuals portion. This makes each individ- ual Osage Indian worth $15,172. Each family possesses $6O,OOO on an average, and the head of it, if he be industrious and enterprising, can grow $10,000 worth of crops a year on his 4,000 acres of land. He is raised permanently above want and above fear of want Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
The Dagger Age.

The man of to-day is not very
 much to blame if he concludes that
 he is in Corsica, and that all woman
 kind have declared a vendetta against him. The reason why is easily discovered after you have looked atseveral sweet young things who seem to think no more of a dagger sticking in their belts than they do of ring upon their fingers. Just how this fashion arose nobody can find out, but I believe it comes from a caprice of the divine Sarah, who walks around stately and pie turesque in her long, black widows gowns, with dull silver-handled dagger stuck through the belt which is about her waist. The daggers themselves are by no means play toys, and not even the bravest of men would care to have one stuck into him. Indeed, some women given to little bit of horse play and inclined to flourish the danger ous dirk, have been warned off by the nervous brothers about whom they perform a war dance, dagger in hand, to the tune of, We'll stab him all over until he is dead !" The curio shops are searched for the daintiest of weapons, and the man who has Japanese collection soon finds that his tiniest and fercest looking daggers are seized by his sisters, and that, if he has enough to go around, even his cousins ex- pect to get one.
 A very smart fan of innocent looking rose-colored silk has dag ger, after tine Chinese fashion, con- cealed in the handle; 1t is nothing unusual to see them with sword handles put into umbrella sticks but the latest mode doesn't hide them, but insists that mademoiselle shall wear her weapon of defense stuck bravely through her broad Empire belt. It becomes a ques- tion as to whether she will need permit to carry it, though certainly even the most stupid of policemen could not claim that her weapon was concealed.-New York World. |
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
He was a Jolly Monarch.

The death of Dom Luis, King of
 Portugal, will not produce any
 change whatever in the politics of
 Europe. Only a very accomplish
 ed, amiable royal gentleman passed l away. He was not only a thorough
 English scholar, and translated
 Hamlet" and "Othello" into Port uguese verse, but he was very ex- cellent artist in water colors, and had executed number of charm Ing pictures of the scenery of his kingdom. He was extremely good natured, and was wont to laugh heartily at the caricatures of him. self in the comic paper of Lisbon. A few years ago a pamphlet ridi- culing his majesty and the policy he had pursued throughout the reign was issued in his capital. The impertinent newsvender came to cry this obnoxious publication be- side the royal carriage one day when Dom Luis had started out for a drive. "StopF p cried the King to 8is coachman. The newsvender was about to take flight, when Dom Luis called to him peremptorily from the carriage window. He obeyed the roy al mandate in fear and trembling. "I'll take two copies" said the King serenely. And as he drove off he was saluted by the ac- clamation of populace.-Philadel- phia Telegram.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
Escaped From Siberia.

Ottawa (Ont.), December 4.-A dispatch received from Vancouver, B. C., to-day, states that on tht steamship Batavia there arrived d that port from Japan a Russian gentleman who had just escaped from Siberia, where he had been ar exile eighteen years.
 The gentleman, who had assum. ed the name of Brant, was eighteen years ago editor of a newspaper in Russia. He was not a nihilist, but his liberal view, as expressed in his paper, displeased the Government, and for the offense he was sentenced for life to Siberia. For six years he was in solitary confinement. After that he was for twelve years on parole, going from place to place.
 A few months ago he drifted to the sea-coast. There he found a British ship, and, explaining the circumstances to the officers, he was taken on board and landed at Nagasaki. There his passage was paid on the Batavia by his new found friends. On arriving at Van couver the officers of the Batavia Washington D. C., for which place he started at once.
 Brant is forty-fve years of age, but his long suffering has made him prematurely old.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19

In his address before the New York Chamber of Commerce ex- President Cleveland, among other things said: "There has been much discussion lately concerning the disposition which should be made of our ex-presidents, and many plans have been suggested for put ting us out of the way. am sure we are very sorry to make so much trouble, but I do hope that what ever conclusion may be reached, the recommendation of a Kentucky newspaper editor, to take us out and shoot us, will not be adopted. Prior to the 4th day of last March I did not appreciate as well as l do now the objections to this proceed ing, but I have had time to reflect upon the subject since and l find excellent reasons for opposing this plan. If I should be allowed to express myself upon this question, would suggest that the best way to deal with your troublesome ex- presidents is to let them alone and give them the same chance to earn an honest living that other people have"
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
The Sanitary Marriage.

Every student of history know:
 that the Spartans worshipped the
 beautiful and the useful, and that
 they took the means to get them
 Bodily perfection and mental ac-
 tivity were attached by well-ap-
 pointed exercise and healthy pa
 rents. The sickly and the consti-
 tutionally diseased were not allow
 ed to marry; the healthy were pun
 ished if they did not marry. Men
 that were unmarried after certain
 age were excluded from the society of women, and once a year were ex-
 hibited in public as a warning to other and younger men. Young men and young women were not al- lowed to marry before they had at tained maturity or cut loose from parental leading strings. This Spartan system, which was purely for the welfare of the state, was in force for five hundred years, and no braver nor stronger men, no more healthy nor more beautiful women, were ever seen than in old Sparta. Few would wish to see .Spartanism revived in these days, but we may learn some valuable lessons from that ancient state. We may also learn something from our newly born sister republic, Brazil, where there is remarkable and self-im- posed family custom in regard to marriages in the higher classes. The man about to marry is required to furnish a certificate from one or more physicians that he is free from disease of a certain class, and that he is free also from all signs of any of the diseases that are transmissi- ble to the offspring. And further than this, the physicians must tes- tify that so far as they can learn there is no reason to believe that the marriage will be otherwise than in accord with sanitary laws. We, as people are taking more inter- est in the proper kinds of physical culture than before. Our women are coming to know that they can dress just as we'll without distort- ing their bodies and imperiling their health. But the day of the truly sanitary marriage. is a long way off. Meanwhile, a great many people are getting married that should remain single. - Chicago Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
How George Law Drinks Champagne

"Give me a bottle," said George Law at the resplendent Strokes bar.
 A bottle meant a quart of Cham
 agne, of course, and the barten. der glanced inquiringly around for Laws companion in the proposed fizz. But he was alone. The cork was popped out, and one glass set forth. Law coolly gripped the bottle, filled the glass, and he kept on pouring. The liquid foamed and sparkled over the brim and on the bar, and then to the floor. un- til the entire quart was gone. Then Law drank the single glass of cham pagne that he had secured out of a bottle and drank it placidly. Per haps the wine gained an extra fla vor because the two gills or so cost through the purchasers cratic method, $4.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
4 Human LOadStOne.

Baltimore Dec. 4--.Scientists con nected with Johns Hopkins Uni versity are engaged in Investigating the peculiar power possessed by the fingers of Louis Hamburger, twen ty-one years old, the son of PhiliI Hamburger, a we'll know merchant of this city.
 When the hand of the young man are thoroughly dried and touched to any polished object they hold it like magnet. He can thus raise up quantity of pins, which dangle from them, his index fin gers possessing this-peculiar quail ty more than any of the others He also raIses up glass tube freighted with a six pound weight
 Professor William Simm has him Tn charge and proposes to give some scientific experiments before the Johns Hopkins Scientific Asso- citation.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
One Way to Skin q Coon.

"A most remarkable feat that I saw performed while on a recent hunting tour of southern Missouri" :" said John l.. Martin, twas that of native of that part of the coun- try, who skinned a coon, or rather removed the coon from the skin through it's mouth, thus preserving the skin intact, which I brought home with me, and am having mounted by a taxidermist. The feat is considered a most remarka- ble one. This is no fish story ; it is the truth. The operator removed the flesh and bones, even the bones of the tail. feet, and fingers, through the mouth, using no other instru- ment than sharp penknife. ."- St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19

The Electrical Review opens up a new field of thought and discus sion by asking why the mere mag netization of bar of steel makes of it a machine for the transforms ton of energy. It is said that a magnetized horseshoe will lift a pound of iron and hold it for an indefinite period of time. In every second of that time it is not only expecting energy but also increasing it's actual power; and the question is, where that shaping potency comes from-whether from gravity, atmosphere, solar rays, or earth cur rents. We seem yet to have hardly reached the confines of investiga- ton into the forces of nature.- Philadelphia Record.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19
A Throne for Sale Cheap.

You can get the throne of Flaw ali for triAe of $SO0,OO0, perhaps less if you pay cash down. The throne is in good condition, hay ing been recently upholstered with the best curled hair. The crown and the sceptre, both as good as new, will be thrown in, as King Kalakaua would like to go out of the king business if somebody will make it worth while for him to withdraw. At least the Hawaiian dicky birds say so.-New York Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19

The new steam cruiser Philadel- phia will have two electric light plants of the most approved pat tern, and the most compact system adapted to.marine work.
 George Bancroft, the historian, seems to have pretty wholesom e tastes. After history, which is his business and his pleasure, he loves trees, roses and Shakespeare.
 A young woman of Crescent City Cal, picked up a pebble on the beach and sent it to a lapidary in San Francisco. He pronounced it true emerald, worth $2,6O0.
 Even a queen may be partial. Queen Victoria is in hopes that Prince George of Wales will be king of England some day. She likes him better than any of her grandchildren.
 The cost of the projected bridge across the Hudson River at New York is $SO,OOO,OOO and capitalists are seriously considering the advis- ability of putting that amount of money in it.
 Of novel writing there is no end. Charlotte M. Yonge has just com- pleted her 101st book. She has written nothing great and nothing bad. A respectable mediocrity has been her style.
 Some one sent a Missouri church deacon postal card advising him not to preach so loud, and not to attempt to sing at all, and he just backslid and licked three of his neighbors inside of week.
 "Budge" is the name of tame crow belonging to Miss Orlie Wheel CT, of Joliet, Ill. He goes all over town alone and returns to his home at night. He is fond ot beer and will drink it until intoxicated.
 Near Silverton, Oregon, is quar- ry of what is called fireplace stone." Itis soft when mined, and can be sawed or chopped in any desired shape, and when subjected to intense heat does not seem to be affected.
 An effort will be made to save the American bison from utter ex- tinction. A company interested in the propagation of the buffalo has secured large tract of land in Utah, where herd of bison will soon be domiciled.
 Northern capitalists continue to buy up large lumber and mineral tracts in the south. One 100000 acre tract has just been purchas- ed in Texas, and a 3O0,0OO acre tract in East Tennessee. Land is picked up everywhere.
 It was once remarked by a cer- tain professor at Cornell, well known for his oft-expressed contempt of our climate, that "we never have any weather in this country; we have only samples" The professor never lived in the Missouri valley.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-19

They have taken the school-house bell and hung 1t on the Judges stand at the trotting park in an eastern Maine town.