The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-11-04

plant is not used for food by the
natives where it is found, though
there are several other species Of the
same order which are highly esteemed
by them as food.
NAMES OF DOGS.
Names Of many breeds Of dogs Or
iginated in most eases from the loca-
tions where they we're first cared for
and developed, or for the use the dog
was trained. The various breeds of
hounds so called are survivors of the
time when all bunting dogs were used
to hound game. In the early hunting
days of England every dog that was
used to accompany the hunt was
selected mainly tor his speed and en-
durance. There were hounds that
were supposed to follow the game by
scent and others who were supposed
to sight it a long way of but all were
expected to be able to run the game
down, says the baltimore American"
Consequently, while the name of
hound, or "hund" the ancient Saxon
was first used for all kinds of dogs, it
finally came to denote hunting dogs
only; that is why we call running dogs
hounds today, such, as greyhound,
rabbit hound, blood bounds, boar
hound and deerhound.
The setter originally was dog
used by game hunters who captured
the birds with net. He would locate
the birds, the netters would then
spread their net over over the ground
where the birds we're.
Tue dog was trained to sit on bis
Launches while the net was being laid.
Spanlels a,e known by that name
because the breed of this beautiful
and intelligent type came from Spain
and first arrivals in England were
called Spanish dogs.
The beautiful Blenheim spaniel is
named after Blenheim Castle, where
the dog first was made fashionable in
The time of the great Marlborough.
The King Charles spaniel owes its
name to the merry monarch.
Daschund is q German breed, and
his funny name-almost as long aud
funny as the dog himself-is a Ger
man name meaning "badger dog"
The original daschund was used for
drawing badgers, and the dogs are
still great favorites among German
hunters, although the breed has now
become little too delicate for fight
ing such a gray old warrior as the bad.
ger.
Spi'z breed became known by that
name from it's sharp pointed nose.
"Spitz" means "sharp point" in Ger.
man and the spitz was a fsvorite
breed before he became known in Eng
land and America. The spitz is known
also as Dalmatian dog, because his ma
tive home is Dalmatia.
The bulldog used to drive cattle and
as he was trained to meet the rushes
of the bull by selling him by his most
sensitive point-the nose-the sturdy,
brave dog came to be known in time
as the bulldog. In some countries he
is kuown as the bull bitter. Boston
terriers take their name from the To-
cality of their development. The fox
terrier, earned his name, not from any
fancied resemblance to the fox, but be-
cause long ago, in the days of "merrie
England" these terriers much larger
and stronger then, we're used every
where by sportsmen for drawing and
killing the fox, they being sent down
into his barrow. 1t is said that no
good foxterrier ever backed out of his
burrow without his fox. If he came
out be had the fox gripped. If be
didn't get the fox he didn't come out,
but died there.
Russian wolfhounds we're develop
ed in the Khirgez district of that
great empire. The dogs are also
known as Borzoi breed. Russian
wolves are large and .ferocious, but
the dos made short work of them
when once on the trail. Collie is cor
'ruption of the Gaelic; word "cuilean'
which means whelp or dog.
White dresses of plain or dotted net
a ro shown and are simply trimmed.