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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-12
HOW DID NE KNOW 1T?

The other day on Sunday School
excursion the assistant minister found
a satchel in the grove. He opened it
and noted the contents.
Presently a women came up to him
and asked If he had found the satchel
which he held?
He plead guilty.
at is mine," said she
"Describe what is in it," answered
he.
"a baby's bottle, a towel, some
lunch and small bottle of gin for the
baby
"Qnite correct" said the worthy
divine, as he smiled at the conclusion
of the inventory, and handed her what
she asked for.
He repeated the story to his rector
when they were sailing home, with
great gusto.
eyes," said his superior, every
funny. But how did you, my worthy
brother, know that bottle contained
gin?'
The assistant minister was non
plussed.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-12
1921 THE cuLT1vAToR 1907
AOO4 AND AoSk
COUNTRY : GENTLEM AN.
THE BEST OF TIE
AGRICULTURAL. WEEKLIES.

DEVOTED TO
Fam Crops and Processes
Horticulture and Fruit GrOring
Lire Stock and Ddirying
While it also includes ali minor depi tmcnts
of Rural interest. such as the Poultry Yard,
Entomology, Bookkeeping, G eenhouse and
Grapery, We Urinary Replies, Fam Q Ies'ions
and Answers, Fireside Re ding, nestle
Economy, and a summary OF the News OF the
Week Its Market Reports are unusually
complete and Inuch At ntion is paid 20 the
Prospects of the Crops, as throwing light up
on one of the most important of all questions
-Uhea. to buy and uhen TO sell. u is iiber-
ally illustrated, and contains more reading
matter than ever before. The subscription
rriceis 81 80 per year, bur we ttier Special
Reduction in our
CLUB RATES FOR 1897.
Two Subscriptions, in one rentittnace. 5 4
Six Subscriptions, do. DO :. 10
Ten Subscriptions, do. do =. Is
FTO all New Subscribers for 1897, pay
ing in advance row. We will send the paper
WEEKLY, from our receipt of the remit
tanee, to January lsL 1897, without charge.
% Specimen Copies Free Address
LUTHER TUCKER Il son, Publishers,
ALBANY, n i.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-12
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The fac n
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Miss Passy-"I think this talk
about appendicitis is all nonsense.
Why, when was IA child | used to
swallow grape seeds and all sorts of
things without the slightest bad e.
feet
Miss Rosebud-"Yes, but you must
remember that appendicitis hadn't
been invented"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-03-12

IOHN b CONTEE,
ATTORNEY AT l. AW,
UPPER MARLBORO & AQUASCO, &c Co., MD.
Will pract &c in the Courts If Prince Georges and
adjoining counties and i'll the Court of Appeals.
~ Collection OF claims specially. All business
entrusted to his will be promptly attended to.
MARION DUCKETT, NJ b. FREEMAN
EBERT DENT,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
WEDDING POINTERS.

High noon-that is, 12 o'clock--ls the
fashionable hour for wedding.
Even in a small town it is wisest to
send wedding cards by post.
Even though you are acquainted only
with the bridegroom your present
should be sent to the bride.
The bride usually gives piece of jew
elry, oftenest II small brooch, to her
maid of honor and her bridesmaid.
1t would be courteous, even if you
have no acquaintance with her, to send
n wedding present to the sister of your
betrothed.
Even if you do expect your engage
ment to be O long one your parents
should be informed of it and their con-
sent asked.
Address the invitation to "Mr. and
Mrs. James Robinson" even if your &C.
quaintance, business one, is only with
the gentleman.
In acknowledging wedding gift the
note should be in the first person; it Is
polite to include some pleasant express
sion of appreciation from the bride
groom.
The engagement ring is worn on the
third finger of the left hand; it is re-
moved at the time of the wedding, and
assumed afterward as guard TO the
wedding ~ :.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
@. HI. g. ID. Thousand MiIe Tickets
Only ago.

Are good on the following railroads:
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago;
Michigan Central bet Toledo and De-
troit; Terre Haute & Indianapolis;
Peoria, Decatur & Evansville; Indiana,
Decatur & Western; N. Y, p q o.
Div. Erie; Dayton & Union; Findlay,
FIT. Wayne & Westerns; N. Y. c. ST. l.;
7. St. L. g. K. c.; B, & o. west OF
Pittsburg and Benwood and between
Indianapolis and Washington. D.. C. via
Cincinnati and Parkersburg, for con
tinuous passage; B. & o. Southwestern;
Cleveland Terminal & Valley; Pitts
burg & Western; G. II. V.& L; Cleye-
land Lorraine & Wheeling; Chicago s.
Southeastern; w. g. L. e; Columbus,
Sandusky g. Hooking; Pittsburg, Shen-
ango & Lake Erie; G. j. s. M; o. G.
lines; Cleveland, Canton & Southern;
Ohio Southern; Lima Northern; Evans
vile & Terre Haute; and will be ac.
cepted in payment for excess baggage,
also for seats in the G. II. SID. parlor
cars, and for bridge tolls into Sc. Louis.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
Mr. C. WinRns, District Passenge r
Agent, O III. a. ID. ky, secures n
rate OF &c per mile, for the G.
A. IL. Bncampment 10 be
heln nt ChIlllcOtLle. O.

Az the state G. A. r. Eucanpment
held at Columbus, Ohio, in 1896, the
cities that presented their claims for
entertaining the G. A. r. in 1897 we're
very anxious to haye the eucam mpmeDl
and while it was hard for the Encamp
ment to decide as to which OF the three
places that presented their claims
should be honored, Chillicothe Was
finally selected, on account oe Mr.. j. O.
Winans, District Passenger Agent, G.
Ell, s. ID. Ry., assuring the eucampIneut
that If they would go to Chillicothe in
1897 he was authorized by Passenger
Traffic Manager, ID. u. Ed dwards to Say
that he would use all the influence that
he could bring 10 bear on the Central
Passenger Committee, when the time
came, to have uniform one ceat per
mile rate on all roads in Ohio to Chilli
cothe.
This was received with enthusiasm,
and Chillicothe selected. The same
promise had been made on two or three
other occasions by MIR Wiuaus, and il
had been fulfilled to the letter: there
fore it only required his statement 10
captivate his encumpment. How well
his promise has been fulfilled, tue fol-
lowing telegram will show.
Chicago, Jan. 9th, 1897.
j. G. Winans,
D. Z. A, G. H. & D. Ry.. Toledo.
The Central Passenger Committee
now in session in Chicago has this day
granted a one cent per mile rate, from
all points in Ohio, for the Grand Army
Encampment at Chilllcothc. | hope
this is satisfactory, being on u iiue with
what you promised at their last annual
meeting at Columbus, ana it gave me
pleasure to confirm IL.
ID. G.. Edwards,
Passenger Traffic Manager.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
A POSTAGE STAMP.

Montenegro has issued jubilee post
age stamp in honor of the two hun
dredth anniversary of the Niegoch dy-
nasty.
There ore 10000 post offices in the
United States, against 10000 in Great
Britain, $4,000 in Germany, 1000 in
France, 5000 in Austria-Hungary and
5000 in Itnly.
The eight values of the set of do
mestic stamps known as the 1555-60 is
sue We're offered to n Boston dealer at
$1.5O for the complete set, unused. He
refused the offer, and in 1878 bought
1900 sets for 81 Il set. In Is years the
get was catalogued at $13.65; the next
year at $1s.55; the next at S25.0S; this
year at $42.95, and block of four of the
90-cent value sold Mt $685.
The growth of the post office business
of the country has been amazing. At
the close OF the revolutionary war there
were only Is post Offices in the United
States. At the close of the war OF 1912
there were 1900. At the beginning OF
the civil war there were 2s,5s6, and five
years after its close, in 1870, there were
2S,402, or about 100 fewer, the only step
backward during the history Of the
post Office department. By 1880 the up,
ward rise had started again and in full
force, and the number OF post offices in
the country reached $4,000. There are
now 10000 post offices In the United
States, and the number is constantly
being increased
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
ABOUT WON EN-.
Passenger Traffic Manager.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett gave
the Londoners glimpse of the Aneri-
can authoress in a new aspect-that OF
"a witty after-dinner spealer-the Lon
don journals being full of praise of her
speech at the dinner given her by the
Authors club.
Liliuokalani, the dethroned queen Of
Hawaii, has purchased large plot of
ground in Austria, not far from Vienna.
foreign papers say that she will live
in Austria permanently. A palace will
be built upon the grounds, it is an
,nounced, which will be in keeping with
the occupants former rank.
The northwest possesses story
writer of rare ability in Mrs. Carrie
Blake Morgan, whose home is in Port
laRd, Ore. She is the sister of the poet
and story-writer, Ella Higginson. Mrs.
Morgan has furnished some OF the
brightest short stories that have been
written by any western story-writer OF
late years.
d, 1t is becoming favorite occupation
with the widows of great men to "write
for the press" as the contributions to
daily newspapers of Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecber, Mrs. Custer and Mrs. Logan
would indicate. Mrs. Logan is the lat
est of these to take to this form of lit
erature, and during the pastsix months
she hns written some graphic letters ol
foreign travel for q Chicago Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
TOO CLEVER CHILDREN.
vhsrs IL Danger in OverstorinE tho
Youthful Mind.

Youthful Mind.
Never allow children to use their
hrains too much, for if they do so the
,Tesuit Is often very serious. Some
children nre naturally ambitious, and
will strain every nerve, as it were, so
chat they may have the honor and glory
of being at the top of their class in
school, and in this they are unwisely
encouraged by their parents. whose
vanity is SO great for their offspring
dlfHt they wish them TO outshine their
uttlc contemporaries, quite careless
or obvious of the fact that undue pre-
oncity has to bc paid dearly for later
O1-
Many children, without being ambi
ai0us, have an Unsuitable thirst for
Knowledge, which is the result Of an
abrormally developed brain. In these
eares, instead of being encouraged to
lknrn, children should be kept back as
Snleh as possible, and encouraged to
MAY out of doors, and to do everything
chat will give the active little brain
Pcst, for you may depend upon it,
whether you wish it or not, the child's
mind will work harder great deal for
II. IN asking the why and the where
Here Of gil it sees around it in the Won
Gerful world.
{ have heard it said that "blessed is
Che mother who is content to have a
ytnpid baby" and / believe it is really
Nrue. How seldom, though is me TIL
ar content to have a baby without any
sort of little tricks to show off to her
&riends. What pleasure it is to her
Nu hear people say what wonderfully
clever child hers is, when ut few
SnOnths old it can point to grandpapa's
picture on the wall, or can play 'paL-a-
sake" Or, later on, how supremely
Gslighted the parents are when their lit
re girl or boy lisps out John GilpiIi,"
sr some other nursery tale in verse.
1soor deluded people. Can they not
me that these performances are about
an the level with the talking of n tame
parrot, and that in order to crafty
their parental vanity the child's mem
tSf capacity is being overtaXed and
weakened?
! Recently friend of mine brought her
ibzhy 10 see me, ard she gave good eX-
smple of parental vanity. She told me
Chat her doctor considered her baby so
oxcitable and clever for a child of his
age that he was TO be kept back as much
az possible. She then put him down on
Hhe floor to crawl about, and gave him
n number of little colored balls, and
told him to give me n red one, then u
hlne one, then two, then three balls,
Just to show his cleverness.
X It seems to me positively wicked to
fnrce the brains of infants, and if l had
mywill no child should be made to learn
RSen the alphabet till it was at least five
years old. In the first years of life q
child has quite enough to occupy its
brain in learning about the things it
sees around it. Take care then not to
let the mental growth get ahead of The
physical, or your child will be handi-
Sapped in later life by weakness either
OF body or brain, or perhaps both
Home Notes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
HuomcsceKers, Excavations.

Agents OF Ohio Central Lines are
authorized to sell Homeseekers' Excur-
sion Tickets to points in the states
named the fist and third Monday and
Tuesday Of each month as follows:
January IL and 49, February l, 2,
Is and Is, March /, 2, is and l6, April
5, 6, 10 and 90, May 3, 1, IL and Is. 1897.
bama. Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado,
Florida. Georgia, Indian Territory,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana.
Nebraska, New Mexico, North Caro-
lima, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South
Carolina. South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and
Wyoming. Rate, one fare for round
trip, plus $500, good 81 days. Mayer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
PATRON SAINT OF BARRIERS.
Alexander the Great Started tho Fashion
of Shaving.

OF bnRV1nBs
The confessor of Francis II. OF
France refused him absolution until he
had completely removed his beard. An
ancient German was by tribal custom
not allowed to cut off his flowing beard
until he had killed his first man in bat
tie. About the year 200 B. C. the Roman
Emperor Scipio Africanus inaugurated
the custom of shaving among the Ro-
man mobiles. Henry l. of England wore
beard until courageous preacher
leveled his eloQuence at him to such
good purpose that he submitted to be
shaved. From the time OF Julius Cesar
until the advent of William the Con-
queror the Britons wore mustaches, but
the clergy, after the conversion of the
islanders, were forced to shave by law.
One of the early popes established the
shaving of Roman Catholic priests 10
distinguish them from the patriots o.
Constantinoplc. The priests of the
Greek church still wear boards. Peter
the Great of Russia laid tax on boards
and delinquents were forced to have
their faces shaved with blunt razor
or to have the hairs pulled out with
pincers. So everybody shaved. The
first shaving was done by order Of AL
exander the Great, who forced the
Greek warriors to cut Off their boards,
as he found them awkward impedi-
ments in the hand-to-hand contests Of
that time
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
Only LoyeBIc!r,

I 1t is not long since the emperor of
Austria definitely settled the success
sion to the throne on his nephew, Arch
duke Otto, passing over the lntter's elG-
er brother, Francis Ferdinand, becaus,
lie was on the point of death from con-
sumption. Francis is apparently rs-
covering his health, however, and It
is limited that he was not suffering so
much from consumption as from blight
I'd affection. He has long wished to
marry Archduchess Stephanie, the wild
ow of Crown Prince Rudolph, whoaa
tragic death at Meyerling few years
ago will be recalled. and he was con-
additionally debarred from doing SO
while he remained in the direct line Of
succession to the throne.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
CLOTHES For FAIR FORMS.

A sleeveless Eton Jacket of solid en-
broidery is worn over silk or cloth cos
tunes.
Among the coming novelties will be
sleeves with enormous pufrs at the ell
bows, and moderately close ut the shoul-
Iers and wrists.
Passementerie jacket fronts are
among the novelties. They are to he
used with firm materials, and are sewed
TO fronts made of the dress fabric.
A favorite trimming is made of ruff
fies of tatfeta very closely crimped.
This is used as shoulder lufflcs, to out
line yoltes, as neck ruehings, sleeve
trimmings, and large rosettes on the
fronts of sleeves and over the bust.
Short jackets and box coats are in
almost universal use. They are double
breasted and have wide lapels, many of
them trimmed with velvet, others of the
material stitched down, others with
braiding or heavy cord garniture with
ornaments.
New cloalSs are shown, with sleeves
of material unlike the body of the gar
ment. These sleeves may be either of
fur, corduroy, velvet, plush or benga-
line. A cloak of heavy camel's hair, with
corduroy sleeves and large cape, is one
of the most comfortable of winter gar
ments.
Wide bands of embroidery are import
cd for use on the seams of skirts. These
bands run from waistline to hem, and
are also used in making up the waist.
They are set in at the shoulder seams
and brought down to a bodice point.
In some instances they extend half way
down the front of the skirt in loose
tabs. In this case they are lined with
satin, matching the dress material in
color--N Y. Ledger
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
ro PREVENT slLlousNEss.
Americans Should Eat More Green voge-
tables and Salads.

Americans Should Eat More Green voge-
tables and sainds-
Authorities on diet believe that IL
would be well for most of us who are
in health to eat more green vegetables 3
with our meat and starchy foods than
we do at present, says the NeW York
Post. Indeed, some go so far as to be-
lieve that the absence from our menus
of plenty of green vegetables and salads
accounts for the biliousness of the
American people. The best known of
such plants are lettuce, beet-tops, dan
delion, kalc and spinach, but Mr.. Coll
vile, botanist of the United States de-
partment of agriculture, finds that
there are many other palatable and
healthful plants that, though rarely
used, might add pleasant variety to
our list of available vegetables. One OF
these, "winter cress," or Barbarea proc.
cox, which is cultivated from this city
southwark and is sold in large quunti.
ties in the Washington markets, ia
planted in late summer or early fall
and needs very little cultivation. An,
other plant that belongs to the spinach
and beet family, though it is q COM
mon weed in fields and gardens in near
ly every part of the United States, is
slomb's quarters" or Ghenopodium al:
bum. 1t is in many places commonly
known either as pigweed or goosefoot,
but 1t is not the true pigweed. The
plant has q pale-bluish green color, and
is used when six or eight inches high
is tender, juicy and pleasant to the
taste. The teasing weed, the common
garden "pusley," or 'purslane," when
boiled Is also recommended as most
palatable green vegetable and can easily
be had. In India, where it originated,
the plant has been used for hundreds Of
years. In Europe it is used both asa pot
herb and for salads.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
SHE LEARNS ITS VALUE.
Young Girls Method of Discovering Her
Engagement Rings Price.

Young Girls Method of Discovering Her
Engagement Rings Price.
Two young girls dressed in stylish
tailor-made gowns entered o State
street jewelers. shop. They asked to
see diamond rings and for few mo-
ments pretended to be very much in
terested in the gold circlets and their
brilliants. All at once one of them
1ished in her pocketbook and produced
q ring set with most beautiful emer-
nld.
Gould you duplicate q ring like
this?" she asked.
"Yes," said the jeweler.
"For how much?" The girl hesitated
just the least bit asking that question,
The jeweler glanced at a friend. winked
and smiled. He told her the price and
then the girl asked:
This is rather valuable ring, isn't
it?"
"Yes, quite valuable"
"Well, 1 shall see mamma first, and
If decide to have the ring duplicated
will let you know"
She'll not be back" said the jeweler,
after the door had closed. Happy
creature! She really never intended
duplicating the ring, but she was
mortany anxious to find out how much
her fianoe had paid for it. For that was
her engagement ring, and you know
she had to know how much the trinket
was really worth. His depth of affec-
tion is largely measured by the value
of his engagement ring. Now she's
happy. Did you notice the beatiflo OK.
preston when l told her my price7
Happy youth! They are pretty much
oil
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
FOREIGN NOTES.

Ten thousand TurcomanS have been
carried off in two months by malig.
nant form of fever now raging in the
Merv district.
A shepherds body was recently car
bombed by electricity at Roche LII
Moliere, in France. During thunder.
storm the telegraph wires were blown
down and curled around the man, who
was standing under them.
lie Guilvinec, little fishing port at
the tip of Cape Finisterre, in France,
lost SO men in one night during the re.
cent gales. All the male population OF
the town was out in boats when the
storm came down.
'tCa-canny" is u new word that has
arisen in English trade disputes. 1t
means working down to the level OF
wages, giving poor work, that is, fol-
poor pay. The expression is old In
Scotland, where it means slowly and
cautiously.
A French passion play, called "Le
Mystere de Jeanne dare" has been
gotten up by the parish priest of Mem
en- Xaintois, near Domremy. The ac
tors and actresses are all peasants. The
play is praised by thessa who have
seen it. lS&S
Canon Menager, cure OF 9sTailles, IN
Brittany, is the senior priestSin active
service in France. He is o4 years of age
has been n priest for 10 years and has
been for SO years in charge of his pres
ent parish. He attends to all his paroch
ial duties and breaches often.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-01-16
Glndatono.s ycrsn ntlIlty.

In nil the stress and trouble of his
long political career, says the Dramatic
Mirror. Gladstone has never gave such
evidence of his mental balance and his
title TO human admiration as he did the
other day at Hawarden. He was Judge
and prize-giver at q competitive meet
ing of 25 brass banda. He heapd Them
all play, and he was amiable to the
last.