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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Water That Turns Frogs to Stone.

The local biologists of Lawrence
County, Pennsylvania, say that there
is spring in Beaver Township, in
that county, which has wonderful
lapidescent qualities, its petrifying
powers being sufficient to transform
moss, sticks, leaves and even animal
flesh into solid stone in surprisingly
brief period. This rill of wonderful
water is located on the farm of one
w. 8. McGinnis, and is less than two
miles from the little village of West
Moravia. Its singular properties were
first noted by William Ellsworth away
back in 1887. At that time there was
stone lying near where the spring
bursts forth that was not much larger
than a common wooden bucket. At
the present time that stone will weigh,
according to estimates made by reli
able citizens, not less than fifty tons.
There is wide difference between
the roadside boulder and the wonder
full 'growing stone" of Beaver Town
ship, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
The first finished its growth perhaps
VI y SuAo "So, " hASAA II bSSeAAAo
a portion of the stratiied earth crust
the latter is annually adding to its
weight and bulk as a direct result o:
stony deposits from the queer impreg-
mated waters which flow over and
around it. Moss forms very rapidly
on the constantly changing surface OF
this ''growing stone" on account of the
situation, which is dark and damp.
The water of the spring deposits cal
careous coating over the moss, practi-
cally converting it into solid stone.
The following season the stone is again
covered with moss, and, after a lapse
of few weeks the latter is converted
into stone. This process has been 60
ing on for years, until the small rock
Mr.. Allworth saw fifty years ago
has grown into gigantic mass of
transformed vegetation known as the
wonderful growing stone. st.
Louis Republic.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Rosa BOnheur. and Her Pet Lion,

Bosa Bonheur the Ere nch painter,
loves the animals she paints, and is in
turn adored by them, says the Phila-
delphia Telegraph. She showed her
recent purchase, a magnificent lion,
who purred and writhed like gigan-
tic cat when his owner fearlessly
stroked his mighty head. Then, show
ing the head of most supurb speci-
men of the African lion transferred to
canvas with startling realism, she tells
the story of Nero. He was her first
pet lion, and was reputed untamably
ferocious and lived for several years
in the garden at By. At last one day
Rosa Bonheur was about to travel, and
disposed of Nero to the Jardin des
Plantes. She parted with him reluc-
family, for he was a great pet, and
would greet her always with a peculiar
little note of welcome.
When she returned from her wan
behring's two years later she went to see
her Nero, and beheld sad sight. The
poor creature had not been SO care
fully tended as he was used to be at
Dy. Aau SCt III, fbhNi tAS
splendid brute lay blind and ailing,
unheeding the curions crowds that
stared at him. Rosa Bonheur watched
him for moment and then called
ssNero!" The effect was magical. The
lion rose to his feet, uttered his accus-
toned note of welcome, and sprang
toward the well-beloved voice with
such impetuosity that the shock against
the bars sent the sightless brute roll
ing. stunned, back on the floor. The
great artist took him back, soothed his
last days with attendance and petting,
and finally he died in her arms at the
foot of the staircase at By, his huge
paws clinging to his mistress as if i'm
ploring her not to forsake him in his
death struggle, and his last movement
being feeble attempt to lick the
hands that held him with such infinite
tenderness. lyon see,' said Rosa
Bcnheur, as she meditatively ru63ed
her new lions name, "to be really be-
loved by wild beasts you must really
love them
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Dentists Dread Fine Weather,

A Philadelphia dentist says that
dentists always dread fine weather.
81 can always tell, he explains,
"when storm is coming without con-
sulting either barometer or the
weather forecasts. My patients are
the best barometers in the world. The
teeth are peculiarly affected by damp
weather, particularly bad teeth. When
strangers begin focking to my office
complaining of toothache and pains in
the jaw, l know that we are going to
have spell of bad weather. A good
bit of it is neuralgia, but 1t is sure
sign. This rush Of business keeps up
until the stormy weather sets i'll, and
when business falls off l know the
storm is abating, and that -e will
have fine weather. When tootha che
patients are few and far between you
can rest ass that season of pleas
ant weathef Is at hand. New York
Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
4 GruesOme Necklace.

A young lady of this city, whose
brother, mining engineer, is now in
Tucson, Arizona, recently received
from him a handsome present--a neck
lace Of artificial flowers, so rare in
form AMI color that their liken ess does
not probably exist, at least outside
that Territory. Accompanying the gift
was a description of its component
parts. which We're put together by a
civilized Navajo Indian, though the
chemical preparation OF the materials,
which are chiefly rattlesnake fan9s, the
legs of centipedes, and the scales OF
the ella monster, was the work of the
engineer. Subjected to solution of
sulphuric acid the fangs became an
ivory white and were used as stamens,
the legs turned to translucent yellow
and wcrs circled into petals, while the
greenish scales formed sepals and buds.
Into the hollow fangs and legs were
injected scarlet and blue mineral OK
ides- the tints showing through. The
flowers are connected by little links o
virgin gold. Philadelphia Record.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
A LO. From Adams Time.

A relic of long ago was unearthed
recently on lot back OF 507 South
street. adjoining the Washington laun-
dry. The relic was only piece of
log, but it had been there, fifty nine
fee beneath the surface, perhaps since
before Adam or Eve took up a home
stead in the Garden of Eden. It was
below two strata Of gravel, imbedded
in solid clay. Well diggers found it.
The log was two feet in diar eter and
well preserved when taken out. The
wood appears to be maple.
The wood shows wonderful power
4; preservation 1t is not very brit
ti". considering age, and the grain is
distinct. Around small knot there
AZ signs OF petrltication.
.t,-t how long tie log has been
s:iere must remain mystery, but
80. n / .eli tie ridge on which Ia
roma stands WAS covered with water,
a. is evidenced from the subsequent
deposits Of clay and gravel. Tacoma
Wash, Ledger.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
AlaSka's Volcanoes.

Recently l read an account Of bona
Ale advertisement IT Scandinavian
paper OF stupendous yalcauoes for SALE
for about SOC. The are located In
Iceland Alaska nigh: glut the mar
ket in this esthetic article if it were
to put all its stock on sale The mum.
Der which have been active within
100 years is variously estimated by
the authorities | have consulted as all
the way from forty five to sixty-one.
More than twelve have been active
within twenty years, and five at least
within four years. Among the most
remarkable is Bogorlof, 100 miles
west of Unalaska. This, about 62,
feet high, together with the part d
the island from which it rises. haS
come out of he sea wita1n lew
wears, and constantly sends o1- sHea n
and smoke Makushiii, Oh tnalaska,
though snow covered, pours out I'M
mense volumes of steam and milk
white smoke, visible on a clear day
nearly sixty miles at sea. Akutan
acts like geyser, putting at intervals
OF q lew SECONDS. SulSuhlulu. OH
Ounimak Island, a perfect cone S755
feet above the sea, snow-covered, but
washed by the ocean at it's base, striped
down it's side with ashes and con-
densed smoke, was still smoking. 1t
has no foothills, and it's precipitous
slopes fall into the great Pacific Ocean
on the south and Boring Sea on the
north. Elliott says: 1t is wholly
safe to say that Shishaldin is the most
beautiful peak OF vast altitude upon
the North American continent. Paw
lof, on the Alaska peninsula, sends out
from the side huge clouds of pitch
black smoke hot enough to melt two
feet Of fall in few minutes. 1t
puffs at intervals like a locomotive.
uhamna, on the shore of Cooks Inlet, is
II, 066 feet high, and constantly sends
out ashes and smoke of birthstone. In
1888 Mount Saint Augustine, $50
miles north of Kadiak Island, was
active, and according to the official
report of Governor Knapp covered
the decks of ships hundreds of miles
at sea with ashes. New York Chris
tian Advocate.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20

break the italian stonecutters Of this


break the italian stonecutters Of this
bad habit, but they persist in hanging
on to primitive methods and doing
what has been done in the 500 quar-
ries in the mountains around Carrara
ever since gunpowder was used for
quarrying purposes. The Carrara
Guarrymen literally takes his life in
his hands in many of the quarrles, for
he often is swung over the side of the
marble precipice and ''chug-chugs"
with his hand drill suspended in mid
air. When this aerial quarryman has
drilled his holes and loaded them with
blasting powder, he is pulled out Of
harms way and the marble block,
ripped from its lofty bed by the blast,
tumbles down the mountain side,
sometimes being shattered into frag-
ments. -Chicago Record.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
SELECT SIFTINGS.

In Japan the flute is played only by
men of rank.
The big bridge at Montreal, Canada,
is nearly two miles long.
Artificial bleaching of celery is said
to spoil its taste and crispness.
Big crabs are found in India. Some
of them measure two feet in length.
Paris connoisseurs affirm that old
horses for food are more tender than
young ones.
1t is said that the gold product of
Montana for 1894 shows an increase OF
seventy-ive per cent. over that Of
1898.
Canadian Indians have the old Ro-
man habit of alternately gormsndizing
and sleeping when there is a moose at
the fire.
Old Tom Tudor, of Mount Olivet,
KY, celebrated his eightieth birthday
by marrying for the seventh time. His
children do not object to the match.
Japan is corruption Of the Chi
nese word Shi-pen-kue, which means
'sroot of day." or ''sunrise kingdom"
because Japanis directly east of China.
The Philadelphia Graud Jury sug-
gests that the street railway com.
panies of the city be compelled by
law to adopt at once tenders on the
cars.
A New York woman is charged with
training her twenty baby
to toldle into the rooms of large
boarding house and steal money and
jewelry.
The first surgeon to use the nntisep-
tic treatment for wounds was Sir JOS
eph Lister, the famous English oper-
ator. He is now about TO retire from
his profession on account Of old age.
Although Italians are very much
addicted to quoting, they have never
had dictionary of quotations. Such
a work, tracing 1875 quotations to
their original sources, has just been
published in Milan.
The most of the officials of Japan
have some of these Soshi with them
when they go about over the country.
In some cases they ride on the outside
o. their carriages and in Others they
follow along on foot
Mound City, NO., has a thirteen
yearold boy who weighs 2t2 pounds;
and Casco, p a twelve ear-old girl
who weisE, pounds. This may
serve to introduce them one to the
other, and who knows what may hap
pen later?
A model has recently been made to
illustrate the currents Of the Atlantic.
The water is blown out of various noZ-
zles representing the mean direction
OF the permanent winds. The move
ment of the water is made percepti-
BILE by dust sprinkled over its sur
face.
Oats sometimes escape from cultiva.
ton and grow from year to year so
persistently as to seem wild. They
have been found thus in regions as
widely separated as Algeria and Japan,
the Pyrenees and North China, the
Rebrides and the Desert of Mount
Sinai.
On the skeleton of lady who died
at Pompeii were found two golden
bracelets, six of silver, four golden
anklets, tour earrings, thirty finger
rings, golden collar, golden belt
and golden band on her head, while
by her hand lay purse containing
1877 silver coins.
A singular feature OF the decorations
of the city of Leeds, England, on the
rec, nt visit of the Duke and Duchess
of York was triple archway formed
entirely Of losves of bread and en-
closed in light frame of wood and
iron. Nearly six tons Of bread were
used in its construction, and the next
day it was all distributed among the
poor.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20

game. and storing it in the public
warehouse, take it out as it is needed,
then it comes to the table fresh. ten.
der and juicy. Owing to these i'm
proved facilities for transporting fish
We get shad in New York from early
in the spring until the hot weather
comes and the toothsome pompano is
known almost as wellin the metropolis
as in New Orleans st. Louis Re-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
Pe~alar Christian Names.

According to statistics, Mary is the
most popular Of Christian names, fol-
lowed in order by William, John,
Elizabeth. Thomas, George. Sarah,
James, Charles, Henry, Alice. Joseph,
Ann, Jane, Ellen, Emily, Frederick,
Annie, Margaret. Emma, Eliza, Robert.
Arthur, Edward Detroit Free Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-03-20
A Diet of AtOlp.

Congressman Wilson, while in
Mexico, was put on diet of ''atole, ="
md WAS said to relish it immensely.
Atole is mush made from corn, which
first parched quite brown, and then
ground fine. and stirred into boiling
water. It is Mexican dish, and very
.,petizing. New Orleans Picayune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-06

The next meeting of the Bryan Free
Silver club will be held at the court
house on Saturday evening, Aug 10.
Everybody who will work and vote for
Bryan and the free coinage of silver
most cordially invited to be present and
join the club. Also, every earnest,
honest voter who may conscientiouslv
feel that the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of Is to / would be a
good thing for our country is cordially
invited to attend the meetings of the
club and hear the reasons given by
silver men WHY they are silver men.
I'VE are all neighbOrs and friends; we
are all in the same boat so far as the
influences of the financial situation is
concerned. Let us then act as friends
and brothers and reason together as
such.
Miss Lizzie Estill. aged about %,
who has taught school in this county
for number of years and enjoyed
large circle of friends, died on the
afternoon of July 3Oth, at the home of
her parents in Enid, Ok. Her two
brothers. who we're here attending col
lege, were autographed for, and LETT for
Enid on the morning of July 29th, but
would hardly reach home before the
sisters death.
Uncle Bobby Smart and wife were
up from the east side, Thursday last
MIR. Smart says wheat that is being
threshed in his neighborhood is turning
out much better than was expected:
some going 20 and Fl bushels to the
acre. He says also that Bryan men
are thicker than grasshoppers down
there-aDd still increasing
October Is, Is and II are the dates |!
E%n AfNo
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-06

state meeting success. 1t will be a
good thing for Kansas, and for Great
Bend in particular
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-06

October Is, Is and II are the dates
Irrigation Association, at Great Bend.
Let us not permit the excitement of
politics to cause us to forget the neces-
silly for united effort to make this
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-06

The colored Odd Fellows lodge of
this city will give a cake walk and
serve all kinds of refreshments, at the
Stauffer hall on Friday, the 9TH.
Everybody cordially invited. Good
music and good time is guaranteed.
will be in Great Bend every Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday after
August LIST, prepared TO do all kinds
of dental work III. E. LINDAs.
w. r.. Jones, of the north west part
of the county, was in town last week.
He is canvassing for an eastern photo
enlarging firm, and has some very neat
samples of work.
George Mitchell and son, of Roising-
ton, are putting up a barn for VIM.
Conkle, east of the Santa Fe depot, in
this city
The school board might set good
example by having the weeds in the
school grounds moved down
A. w Hamilton, late of the Pawnee
Rock schools, is reported as having Sc
cured the Geneseo school.
Go TO Jim Savage's for your Is to
buttons; only 5 cents.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-06

G. G. Morrison came down from Col
OradO last week Charlie hollers for
Mckinley. but don't find much encour-
agement in Colorado. He and Dave
Helzer are thinking seriously of organ.
izing themselves into Colorado Nc
KiEley club
Wanted-Your gasoline stoves to
clean and repair. Prices to suit the
times. Work guaranteed satisfactory.
Leave orders at DEMOCRAT office.
1920 j. w. LUCE,
Great Bend, Kas.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
Reed to Speak in the South.

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 2s.-Thomas
B. Reed has been invited to speak in
Atlanta and it is likely that he will
be here a bout October O. The invita-
ton was extended by Thomas II.
Martin, president of the Atlanta Nc
Kinley club and was forwarded by
State Chairman E. A Buck 1t is un.
derstood that the national committee
will arrange for weeks tour of
North Carolina by Mr. Reed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
rh, .,ctob.r Atlantic.

The Atlantic Monthly for October is
one of the most important issues of the
year. There is the usual fine literary
flavor to the contents, and this is sup
plemented by timely papers on politi-
cal, scientific and Industrial subjects.
The leading article of the month, by
President Eliot, of Harvard, is on Five
American Contributions to CivfliZa-
tion," viz. the practice of arbitrstion
instead of war. the increase of wide re-
ligious liberation, the safe develop
ment Of manhood suffrage, the proof
that people of a great variety of ma
tions are fit for political freedom, and.
fifth, the diffusion of well-being among
the population in general.
Pro. John Trow bridge sounds a note
of warning in the vigorous article en-
titled "The Imperiled Dignity of Sci
ence and law"
Exhaustive book reviews and The
Contributors Club complete the issue.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
Mckinley Men Ridden Down.

ALExALDR1A, Ind, Sept. %. - A,
Orestes last night a Democratic pro
cesslon passed by the Republican club
building where number o: workmeu
were standing. Cheers for Mckinley
were indulged in by the workmen.
After part of the procession had passed
a body of mounted men who were in
advance turned and charged in body
on the crowd of men, women and
children who were on the club grounds
The mounted men were at once sup
ported by others who were On foot in
the procession. Several men were
in iured
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
DECLINES THE DEMOCRATIC N0MI-
NATION FOR GOVERNOR.
AGAINST FREE SILVER.
Tire Party Determined to Make the Cam
paign on That Issue, So He Steps
Aside for Another-was willing
to Make the Fight on
State Issues Alone
Political News.

ALBANY. N. Y, Sept. oS.-This was
the day set for the visit to John Boyd
Thacher, who was nominated for gov.
ernor by the Democrats last week, by
the committee of five appointed at the
meeting of the state Democratic com
mittee Tuesday to officially notify him
of his nomination, but in advance OF
their coming he gave out a letter an
nouncing his declination.
In this statement Mr.. Thacher said:
while had not sought the nomina-
tion or requested single delegate to
give me his support, l was willing and
eager to contend against that system
of 'bossism' which is to-day in control
of the public affairs of the state OF
New York. was prepared to organ
ize the Democratic party from one
end of the state to The other on a line
of battle against that system, and to
wage an unremitting and vigorous
warfare.
''It has developed in the considera-
tion of the resolution by which the
state committee appointed your COM
mittee, as well as in the public press
and other public and private commun-
ications, that there is a very decided
desire on the part of the Democratic
party to contest the election on the
abstract question of the unlimited
coinage of silver at the unaitera BILE
ratio of l6 to as compared with gold,
and to ignore or subordinate every
other state issue.
1t is apparently the purpose of the
party at this time to make the accept
ance of an extreme political sentiment
the sole test of 4 candidate of the
Democracy. 1t does not seem to be
enough that men are willing to sup
port the regular candidate on the reg
ular Democratic ticket, but they are
required to subscribe to every letter
and phrase of that platform
sit is impossible for me, with the
views hold, to make contest on the
coinage issue. l believe in the good
old Democratic doctrine of the joint
free and equal use of gold and silver.
This doctrine is as far removed from
the single use of gold, which enables
spectators to iuggle with its value, as
it is from that other principle which
seeks to tablish an impossible ratio
for its sister metal. l feel that as an
honorable man 1 should make way for
some one who can carry the banner
with that device"
HILLS AND TAMMANY's VIEWS.
The probab BILE outcome of Mr.
Thacher's declination will be the in
dorsement by branch of the regular
Democracy of Daniel G. Griffin, the
national Democratic nominee, on the
state issues, and the Endorsement of
a Populist candidate by the radical
silver men. 1t is believed that this is
satista ctory- to Mr.. Hill.
Tammany hall, however. may in
slst upon its own candidate, and at
the state committee meeting on
Monday night they may fight for the
promotion of Judge Porter to first
place and Elliot Danforth to second.
1t is absolutely denied that MIR.
Bryan wrote any letter to Mr..
Thacher asking his withdrawal, nor
did he intimate to anyone such a de-
sire. The story was made out of
whole story.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
Diaz on the Silver Agitation.

CITY OF MEXICO. Sept 20. o.-President
Diaz of this republic said in an inter-
view that he had seen the time when
an American dollar would buy three
Mexican dollars, that now it would
buy two and that he did not believe
in a deprecated currency. He said
he did not expect the present silver
agitatio IN the United States to come
to anything, and that he looked for a
solution of the money question only
in an international agreement
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
A Dress Reform Crusade.

Mile. Payer, Swiss lady, who has
recently taken the degree of doctor of
medicine, has instituted a crusade
against the faults in woman's dress, es-
pecially inveighing against tight gloves
and boots, corsets and long skirts. Her
lectures are said to be so effective that
more than 100 ladies at the end of one
of her discourses pledged themselves to
renounce corsets, to only wear gloves
on special occasions and to have dresses
at least ten inches from the ground.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02

LONDON, Sept. 2S. = A hurricane
swept the coast all Thursday night
and the seas were terrific. Great
damage was dole to the buildings
about the harbors, wharves, piers
etc, and vessels were straded al many
points Theirs crews, however, were
saved by the life lines. The telegraph
and cable service was greatly inter.
fered with