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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
He Would Sell Himself for His Family

A most extraordinary incident, in
dicative, no doubt, of the desperate
state of mind to which many have
been reduced by the prevailing hard
times, occurred at Emergency Hos
pital. 4 man about forty-fve years
of age called at the hospital and asked
to see the superintendent or physician
in charge. When that functionary
wss called and inquired the stranger S
business, the man said:
''AIy name Is Albert Stoner. I am
q painter by trade, and have a family
dependent on me at Flint. ! have been
out of work for long time, though I
have sought it constantly and do1e
anything and everything that was Of
fered to me, which was very little.
Ny family are now reduced to very
straitened circumstances, and 1 want
to sell you my body for $50 for dis
secting purposes.
The doctor was astonished at the
novelty of the proposition, and said
facetiously that the hospital might
have to wait good while before the
goods were delivered.
''Not at ALL" replied Mr.. Stoner.
sJust as soon as find that the money
has reached my family I will commit
suicide and leave an order that my
body be given to you"
If the doctor had been astonished
before, he was much more SO at the
last remark OF Mr.. Stoner, and began
to suspect that he was dealing with a
lunatic. But though he applied the
usual tests in the long conversation
which followed, he was unable to de-
tect the slightest ALTERATION of mind.
except that Mr.. Stoner had brooded
so long over his inability to provide
his family with the necessities Of life
that he had become desperate, and had
lost sight of the fact that he was ask
ing the doctor to become a murderer
or murderer's accomplice. Detroit
Free Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Greatest Refrigerator in the World.

Perhaps the greatest refrigerator in
the world is that in the Royal Instita-
ton, London, where Professor Dewar
has been giving his lectures to young
people. The professor has been show
ing the youngsters some wonderful
things, among others liquefed air.
To produce iquefed air you must
have a temperature of something like
$40 degrees below zero, which ought
to be cold enough for even the polar
bears atthe Zoo. One sharp young
ster asked the professor what it cost
to Iiquefy air, but the professor appar-
entity was afraid to answer him, al
though the cost has not been betrayed
by the institution itself, but by scme
generous friends of science. Ire
mendous exhausting engines and
massive air-compressing machines are
used. The color OF liquid air is pale
blue, and when q drop OF it is put or
the surface of water, it dances around
like drop of water on q red-hot iron,
because the surface of the water i
much hotter than red-hot iron com
pared to the temperature OF the lique-
fed air. Finally, the drop OF air
freezes little cup of ice in the water,
but it soon evaporates, as the ice IS SO
hot that it causes the drop to boil.
Liquid air is not handy thing to
carry around in the vest pocket. 1t
will remain liquid for forty hours i
great precautions are taken. 1t must
be put in Theoretically sealed bottle,
which is inclosed in another vessel, 50
that the air surrounding the inner
bottle is completely exhausted; the
inner vessel must also have q coating
of mercury around it to form mirror,
SO that any radiant heat will be re
hected back. Oxygen, when hqnitiets,
seems to lose all it's properties OF pro
noting combustion. At such ten
perature as $50 degrees below zero all
chemical action seems to stop; it is a
> "freeze out" as it might be termed.
If phosphorus is put in liquid oxygen
it VIII not burn. Curiousiy enough.
liquid air is highly magnetic, and wilt
jump to magnet as if it were drops
of molten iron.-Detroit Free Press,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Economy of a Milk Diet.

Aside from the physiological con-
siderations the economy of q milk diet
is not the least among its advantages,
as compared with beef. In the for
mer there is no bone, as in meat, nor
waste in trimmings, and, though the
amount of bone in meat varies it is
rarely less than eight per cent. in
the neck and brisket of beef, for in
stance, it is about ten per cent, while
in the shins and legs it amounts to
one-thirl or even one-half the total
weight. Again, milk requires no
cooking, hence is always ready for
consumption at a moments notice,
and without being subjected to waste
and shrinkage. The ordinary per
centage OF loss in boiling beef is TWEEN
ty per cent. I; III baking. twenty-nine
per cent, and the roasting process in
wolves fully thirty-one per cent. true,
this loss arises partly from the evapo-
ration of water, as we'll as the melting
down and escape of fat, and the
destructive action of heat-whateve1
loss, however, is thus occasioned, has
no counterpart in k.--Boston Gull
tlvator.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
The Mirage.

Mirage is phenomenon extremely
common at sea- in certain localities,
especially in high ATTITUDES, AMI some
times also witnessed on Land, particc-
larly in Lower Egypt. Persia, Tartary,
the western plains OF America, and on
the margins of rivers or lakes, or on
the seashore. Under it are classed tins
appearance of distant objects rs double,
or as if suspended in the sir, erect or
inverted. Generally, when SHIP Is
above the horizon, only one image,
and that inverted, is found; brt when
it is wholly or in great part below the
horizon, double images, one erect and
the other inverted, are frequently
seen,-Yankee Blade.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
Heat Produces Cold.

It is rather curious fact that it
takes heat to produce cold. Twenty
million tons of coal will make 200,-
600, 900 tons of ice. A lecturer of the
Institute of Civil Engineers the other
day gave me some interesting facts
about artificial refrigerators. He
claims that English engineers have not
been able to produce as good a refrlg-
orator as foreigners, and that the
chief machines now in use are OF
foreign make. One firm alone since
1884 has made over 500 tons of ice a
day. The number of machines at
present in use can make about 2O0,-
900, 900 tons OF ice in year. and by
means of refrigerators and cold air
machines 100000 sheep were
brought to England in frozen state
from New Zealand last year.
Francisco Examiner.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
POPULAR SCIENCE.

In Australia many horseshoes are
now made of cowhide instead OF iron.
The Medico-Legal Society Of New
York proposes to make scientific in
vestigation of sc-callel spiritualistic
phenomena.
Molds differ from bacteria, accord
ing to Professor Frankland, in their
action, and produce an oxidation, or
burning up, instead of fermentation.
Audubon estimates that two blue
jays and their five young require for
food in 100 days 1000 insects that
are harmful to fruit and food plants.
The simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal drop of
nitric acid and allow it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water a
grayish-white stain will be seen if the
metal is iron. black one if it is steel.
Underground photography has re-
Gently made such progress that min
ing engineers are now able to Illus
trate their report with pictures show
ing the exact appearance of lodges,
ore-bodies and other features of i'm
portance.
It has heretofore been almost i'm
possible to make large castings of
aluminium, but the difficulty has now
been SO far overcome that pure alum
mum bathtubs are now made in sin
gle piece. One Of these tubs weighs
but 40 pounds.
Saccharine, the new sweetening SUBJ
stance extracted from coal tar, is now
used for preserving fruit. It is
claimed that the fermentation that
often results from the use of sugar is
thus avoided, and that the new process
preserves the flavor, color and form of
the fruit better than the old.
The first practical system of towing
canal boats by electricity has just
been inaugurated on the Bourgogne
Canal, connecting the Seine and
5aone Rivers, France. The power is
furnished by water falling from sluices
at the two ends of the canal, and the
current is made steady by means OF
storage batteries. The trolley system
is used.
DR.. Zergler, German scientist, is
of the opinion that it will be possible
TO predict the weather by means of
photographs of the sun far more accu-
rately than by study of the barom-
eter. Circular or eHptical halos
around the orb of day indicate violent
storms, especially if the halos are
dark in tint or of large diameter.
Lightning and magnetic disturbances
may also be expected from these
signs.
To pick out other aerial distances it
may not be generally known that
frigate bird can travel at the rate of
100 miles an hour by chronograph,
and live in the air week at time,
day and night, without touching
roost; that large and heavy birds can
remain almost motionless in air for
hours without tapping their wings;
that birds can exert continuously
about three times the horse power
pound of weight that man can, and.
about the same amount more than s
horse can II
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
When Their Sting is Fatal.

A Vienna scientist has made series
of interesting experiments with the
virus of such insects as bees and wasps,
and comes to the conclusions that the
effectiveness of the irritating sub
stance depends largely upon the mood
Of the insect. A drop of the fluid
taken from the poison-bag of a dead
hornet, for instance, produces slight
itching, but nothing resembling the
inflammation caused by hornets sting
with much smaller quantity of the
same virus. This theory is supported
by the curious fact that under the in
auence of rage the saliva of all sorts
of otherwise harmless animals can be-
come virulent enough to produce
alarming and even fatal symptoms.
Death by blood poisoning has more
than once resulted from the bite of a
wounded squirrel, a chipmunk or 3
Gagged cat.-American Register.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
CURIOUS FACTS.

The shake IS thing of the past in
the French Army.
Gauze is believed to have this name
because it was first made at GAIA.
Lawn is fine linen bleached on the
lawn instead OF the ordinary drying
ground.
AS leaper the kangaroo is ahead of
I'll. Il readily jumps from sixty to
seventy feet.
The first finger is sacred to Jupiter,
and is supposed to Indicate the nobler
clements of character.
Five hundred thousand men are es-
timated to ride in the elevators of
New York City every day.
The public executioner of Austria
wears pair of new white gloves every
time he carries out capital sentence.
In Chinese the letter ''i'' he's 145
ways OF being pronounced, and each
pronunciation has different mean
ing.
The London and Northwestern Rail
road passes through more than half of
the tifty-three counties of England
and Wales.
Most of the school states come from
PENNSYLVANIA, where there are large
slate ouarries. Some come from Yer
mont and Ohio.
An odd collection is that of one OF
the county officials of Maine, who has
gathered feathers from almost every
kind of bird that flies.
Only one-fourth of the American
shipping is engaged on the high seas,
seventy-seven per cent. being river,
lake and coasting trade.
The Chautauqua salute, waving a
white handkerchief, was first given at
the request of Chancellor Vincent, as
greeting to deaf mute.
A man who died short time ago at
Berlin, N. Y, left dairy which he
began when eighteen years old and
continued for fftv-two Years.
A French priest stationed at Jerusa-
lem has been the fortunate finder of
SO talent of the time of King David. !"
1t was unearthed in his dooryard.
A French fisherman who threw his
line into the Seine Canal, near st.
Dennis, on December 20, got hold of
package containing 17s railway
bonds worth $4,000.
Growing blackberries and nush-
rooms, by law, are not private prop
erty in England. One may be prose
cuted for trespass on land where they
grow, but not for theft in taking
them.
During the Franco-Prussial war the
Germans fired 100000 rifle cart
tridses and 363, 200 charges of artll-
lery, killing or mortally wounding
1900 Frenchmen, showing that 40o
shots are required to kill or mortally
wound one man.
The statue on the dome of the Capt.
tsl at Washington represents Free
dom. It is nineteen feet six inches
high and weighs 1895 pounds. 1t
was modelled by Thomas Crawford, an
American sculptor, who died IN 1857
It was put in position IN 1860.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
In a Peanut Factory.

When the peanut arrives at the
factory they are rough and earth
stained, and of all sizes and qualities,
jumbled together. The bags are first
taken up by iron arms projecting from
an endless chain to the fifth story OF
the factory. Here they are weighed
and emptied into large bins. From
these bins they fall to the next story,
into large cylinders, fourteen feet
long, which revolve rapidly, and by
friction the nuts are cleaned from the
earth which clings to them, and
polished, so that they come out white
and glistening.
From this story the nuts fall through
shoots to the third and most interest
ing floor. Imagine rows of long,
narrow tables, each divided lengthwise
into three sections by thin, inch-high
strips of wood. These strips also sur
round the edge of the table. Each of
these sections is foored with a strip
of heavy white canvas, which moves
necessarily from the mouth of the
shoot to an opening leading down be-
low at the further end of the table.
These slowly moving canvas bands
about foot wide, are called the ''pick-
ing aprons.
Upon the outer aprons of each table
dribbles down from the shoot slender
stream of peanuts, and on each side Of
the table, SO close together as scarcely
to have 'elbow room,' stand rows of
negro girls and women picking out the
inferior peanuts as they pass and
ton. So fast do their hands move at
this work that one cannot see what
they are doing till they cast handful
of nuts into the middle division. By
the time nut has passed the sharp
eyes and quick hands of eight or ten
pickers one may be quite certain that
it is a tirst-class article, fit for the
final plunge down two stories into a
bag which shall presently be marked
with brand which will command for
it tho highest market price.
The peanuts from the central aprons
fall only to the second story, where
they undergo yet another picking over
on similar tables, the best of these the
second grade. The third grade OF
peanuts, or what remains after the
second picking, is then turned into a
machine which brushes the shells and
separates them from the kernels.
These are sold to the manufacturers Of
candy, while the shells are ground up
and used for horse bedding. So no
mart of this little fruit yepetable or
nut, whichever it may turn out to be,
is finally wasted, but all serves some
useful purpose. Blue and Gray.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

its efficacy, may be better understood
by the following: In the mailbag
lock now in use there are twenty-five
different pieces, the production OF
which requires fifty separate opera
tons, and in the letter boxes used
there are twenty pieces, needing pro-
portionately as many operations for
their production. As an adjunct to
this department there is an admirably
equipped machine shop with lathes'
snapers, milling machines, planners,
drill presses, slotting machines.
benches and machinists sufficient to
do cny sort of work needed. Detroit
Free Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
A Company of Big Men.

The distinction of having the great
,st number of tall men in one COM
oany belongs to the First Battalion of
he Scots Guards. The ':A',. or right
iank company of that battalion has
,ver ninety men on its roll, end their
.versge height is six feet two and a
quarter inches. There are two men
n the company over six feet four
inches, and one stands slightly over
ix feet seven incnes. No individual
member of the company is less than
dx feet in height. -London Court
Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
4 Novel Fire Alarm.

A novel fire alarm has been pro
duced in France. 1t consists OF q
hollow sphere of aluminu N supported
at one end of an arm, with counter
poise at the other end, and two being
arranged to balance ut the ordinary
temperature and pressure of the air.
The apparatus is not sensitive enough
to record natural changes of pressure,
ETC., but if some unusual cause, such
as fire, OF, even large accumulation o.
coal gas in the atmosphere, disturas
the specific gravity of the air, the ball
drops and rings an electric alarm in
falling.-New York Telegram.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
The Owl is an IShmaelite.

The owl is hated by all birds.
Where one is discovered by other day
loving species they subject it to the
direst prosecutions. Owls could
scarcely live as day-loving bird I'M
der the present order of things. II
would be driven from the earth; and
supposins it took on gradually its
thieving habits for a living, it has had
to love darkness rather than light be-
cause OF these evil deeds. At any rate,
the naked fact seems to be that night
working creatures can generally see
well III the daylight when they want
to.-New York Dispatch.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
The Judge Had His Doubts.

In arguing a point before Judge of
the Superior Court, Colonel Folk, of
the Mountain Circuit in North Caro-
lima, laid down very doubtful propo-
sition of law. The judge eyed him a
moment and queried: Colonel Folk,
do YOU think that is law?" The col
onel gracefully bowed and replied !:
ssCandor compels me to say that I do
not, but I did not know how it would
strike your honor" The judge DELHI
Grated few moments and graveiy
said: s'That may not be contempt of
court, but it is close shave. ''-Argo-
naut.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

most extraordinary magnitude are
made as to who shall cut his OPP
ponent's string. - San Francisco
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13
MAIL BAGS.
THIRTEEN MILLIONS NEEDED
FOR THE POSTAL SERVICE.
Some of Them Have to Stand Hard
Csage-Eow the Damaged
Bags Are Patched and
Nended.

THE cost Of one two-busbel bag
is trifing and its carrying
capacity is not extensive. still
n-han YOU MI Ii lOl COO of
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-16

Houdans stand nt tho head OF tho
French varieties OF poultry, and while
their success horo when first imported
was mot 80 triumphant a. had been cN.
l0.lsd they woro proved a great acqui.
nuon, being good layers and exception.
ally tno for all table purposes THOR
Popularity however, has increased very
"maly In the last fow years, and they
now bid fair 10 become ono OF the most
plnular aud extensively bred varieties,
Tho Boudans mature very early
'A'I'.r In fact, than almost any variety
Aaept tho Hamhurgs, and resemble the
al,.r in tho rapidity with which tho
.A''ks feather and tho very common oo.
'A|nco Of nonsittura Thor flesh is
''iy fine, characteristic of nll French
reeds, and It's delicacy is frequently
Nonght greater than that o. any OF tho
,'lailes or heavier breeds, approaching
,Ao l'months,old broilors very near
'egtcction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
LEARNING THEIR TRUE
FRIENDS.

THE negro-above all the Southern
negro-will not work except under the
lash. For the last twenty years he has
been a loafer, a thief and an immoral
fungus upon the fair life of our South
ern lands. The negro must be made to
work or go; nothing but some sort Of re-
enslayement can make him work, there
fore he must be re- enslayed or driven
from the land"
Expulsion or Reinstatement. This is
the alternative offered the negro by Mr..
Thorne, the editor of the Globe Quar-
terly Review publis ed in New York.
He was formerly ared hot abolitionist
and doubtless regarded all Southern
men as knaves. He has now taken the
course followed by nearly all extremists
and become utterly disguised with the
negro.
We print these extracts merely to
show that the negro Convention in Raj
eigh on Wednesday was wise in resolving
that cit is neither practicable nor desir-
able for negroes en- masse to leave the
Southland and that since we are to stay
here, we should, both back and white,
live peaceably and friendly with each
other as neighbors and good citizens"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
THE BANKERS "GRATIFY'
TREASURY OFFICIALS.

Among yesterdays dispatches to this
paper was the following:
The announcement that the syndi
cate had deposited in the sub treasury
So, 900, 600 in gold was received at the
Treasury Department with ruch salts
faction. No intimation had been re-
ceived that a heavy deposit might be ex-
pected, and the earlier notice that
81, 100, 600 had been withdrawn, made
the news all the more gratifying. Be
yond the remark that it was good news,
Secretary Carlisle would make no con-
ment on the action Of the syndicate.
Other officials said that at no time had
they doubted the purpose Of the syndi-
cate to protect the reserve, and the syn
dicate's action to-day confirmed them in
their belief tbat it would continue to
make good any Withdrawals that might
be made tor some time to come.
The true amount of the reserve at the
close of business was 500, $40, 003."
It is come to pass that when one de
nounces extremely those who conduct
the business Of the country within the
o-called conventional lines, he is put
down as one tainted with Socialism, if
not AnaIchism.
So that many who rebel inwardly
against outrages, keep their counsel lest
they be ranked by their friends among
the unconservative
But it does seem that either among
those conservative, or those unconserva-
tive, so-called, there should be any diff
ference of opinion as to the nauseating
effect which the above deliverance should
produce upon every healthy minded
American citizen.
1st. The Secretary of the Treasury,
speaking for the American people, is
"gratifed, " forsooth, because the credit of
country, teeming with crop outcome
before unknown, is imagined to be saved
by the fortuitous dropping of So, 900, 900
into the 100000, 900 traditional slot
machine.
ID. The market has been nervous,
staggering, Eighty, almost, -or four days
past, tremulous with doubt based upon
the probabilities of the final coming of
this fictitious remedy.
Will that market, under the natural
conditions of the existing onward move
ment now re-assert itself If so, there
are some of the bond-syndicate and of
the undergraduates friends, that could
be millions richer for the holding back
of an advance which they alone con-
trolled
Without suggesting any morbid prob
ability of crookedness, the situation out
lined in the above telegram is one of the
things which justly makes more dissat-
isfaction on the part of the masses, and
has a tendency to undermine faith in
government.
1t is an admission that the bankers
are bigger than the governmental ad
mission that is humiliating to all citi-
zens and is enough to make Andrew
Jackson turn over in his grave.