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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

bIRLINGIoN, sept. y, 1881.
The lending dclicacy in market this
week IS the succulent oyster, which is of
excellent quality. Garden vegetables are
about as low in price as they will be, and
are very plentiful. Butter has taken a
perceptible rise, and sugars are slightly
higher. Dressed poultry is cheaper The
following are to-day's quotations;
Fruits and Vegetables.
Celery, 10 cents a head 81 a dozen.
PlumS, 80 to 30 cents peck Crab
apples, 30 cents Il peck. Watermel-
ons, 40 to go cents each green apples,
20 to - cents peck pears, home grown,
10 to 80 cents a peck. Cautcioprs 10 to Is
cents apiece peaches, TOTO 80 cents adozen
Bananus are 40 to 30 cts. Il dozen, Ncssina
and Valencia oranges are II to 80
cents per dozen. Figs are 20 to 30
cents pound and dates - cents Messna
lemons are 30 tolO cts dozen, according to
quality. Green corn 10 to - cts a dozen.
French pruncs are - to 20 cents a pound.
Fresh onions cents a pound. New
potatoes are 50 cents hushel
Sweet potatoes are cents pound.
New. cabbages, cents Il pound
pickles ~ to 60 cents Il cal
lon, plain or mixed. CucumLers , to 3
cents piece, 20 cents Il dozen fresh toma-
toes cents a pound; and new Deets > cents
a bunch, cents Il pound: new turnips
/ > centSa bunch. Summer squash cents
a pound: winter squash cents a pound;
shell beans 80 cents peck blackbcrries
Is cents quart: Delaware grapes -
cents pound, Concord grapes /? cents
/ a pound.
Dairy Products.
| Butter is ~ to "a cents a pound Cheese
/ is l2t1 to - cents. Eggs are lSCCnts /; dOZ
/ Fancy Chccscs are as follows: Pineapple
cheeseS 90 cents to SiuO each According to
size: ROquefOrt cheese 10 cents pound
| English dairy - cents: Edam ; 90 each
Neutchatel ; cents Il package Guada
cheese, 40 cents II pound. Milk ) cent, IL
quart Purse Jersey cream 30 cents
quart
Flour, sugar, etc.
St. LOU, nour - to $3.50 a bbl.; Nichi-
gan, - to s.. Spring patents, 3;
/ Granulatcd sugar IS : cents Il pound.
/ Light brown. Il cents. Maple sugar. StO
! II cents apuuId and mapl" syrup o., vI.I5 II
gallon in cans, new white clover honey is
. ID to Is cents pound. Nuts. all kinds as
sorted, 20 cents Il pound.
Meats and Fish.
Spring lamb is quoted at is to 20 cents for
/ hlndquart rrS GAI II. to L. cents Tor fore
quarters. Fresh veal is quoted as follows :
Roast, 10 to Is cents; chops, II . to 10 cts;
outlets, 2octs; breasts, scents. Beef, porter
house eon,I is g quoted p cts; sroin,
Hams, sugar cured IL, to II cents
per pound, breakfast bacon Is to ~ cents,
tripe 10 cents. picked pigs feet l2i5
cents. Corn beef q to l2'3 cents.
In poultry, spring chickens, dres sed, are 20
cts. pound, and turkeys 20 to p cts. Lake
pike and bass are ~ to - cents pound
White fish l2tl to - cents Il pound ;
sword fish Is to 20 cents: salmon
trout ~ to ID cents Fresh mac
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

Fry siI Cas and salt Rhcum was driven en-
tircN away from Mrs. j. {. Anderson, PcShti-
go, WIS, by }urdock Blood Bittcrs. No equal
MS Il blood purifier.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

st. LOU, Hour - to $50 Il bbl.; Michi-
gan, - to s.. Spring patents. =;
Minnesota patents, - a barrel.
Granulatcd sugar Is : cents 1t pound.
Light brown, Il cents. Maple SUGAR is stO
gallon in cans, new Willie cioytr honey is
10 to IS cents a pound. Nuts, all kinds as
sorted 20 cents "A UOUud
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
thick and Thin Seeding.

A large number of experiments have
been made at the "Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station" to determine the
proper distance as we'll as proper depth
at which to plant corn. The first object
was to determine the area of surface that
should be allowed to each plant Or stalk
in order to insure the largest yield per
acre, and the second the depth to cover
the seed in order to insure rapid and con-
tinuous growth. The results of the va
rious experiments mace during two
seasons show that thin seeding is prefer
able where the corn is planted for grain
alone. The largest yield was obtained
from corn planted in rows three and one
half feet apart, with one grain dropped
every eighteen inches in the row, and
the seed covered one inch deep. The
tests thus far made at the station show
that slight change in the distribution
of seed from the methods usually prac-
tised would alone increase the yield
from ten to thirty bushels per acre. Most
of our farmers still have something to
learn eyen,about raising such common
crop as Indian corn.-New York Sun.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
A Wife'S Expenses.

Many married men blunder in the man
agement of home expenses, although not
one bridegroom in a thousand, standing
proudly at the altar with the woman of his
choice, would believe the thing possible
were some truth telling prophet to whisper
to him. GIN one, or in two, or in five years,
your wife will want money for needful
expenses, personal to herself, or for your
common advantage and comfort, and will
shrink from asking you for it, lest you
should upbraid her for extravaganza or
chide her for folly" What blush would
mount the cheek of an ingenious, we'll
meaning young man at such an aspersion!
He is quick to resent it, Nevertheless,
in half the homes in the country, because
the husband holds the funds and the wife
must ask for her share, there is eXaspera-
ton, there is false shame, there is I'M
dreamed of distress. And the trouble
springs not out of the greed of penurious
men for men are usually open handed,
generous, and anxious to treat their wives
and daughters with liberality), but has
its genesis in a mistaken principle at the
beginning. Indulgence, Eberality and
generosity are terms wholly inapplicablc
to the situation when we are speaking of
the relations of husband and wife. The
one does not dispense an aims; the other
does not accept a charity. They are part
ners in the business of life. 1t is his part
to do the providing, and hers to look after
the use of the provisions. He attends to
the outdoor economy; she to that of the
interior; economy being taken in its root
sense of systematic government. "In true
marriage lies no equal nor unequal;" yet
there can be nothing but the farce of
equality where the wife must account to
the husband for every dime, and the hus-
band, forgetful of the consideration due
his wife, allows her to be fretted and
worried, worn to shreds, and subject to
petty notifications, because five days out
of seven she is the possessor of an empty
purse. Entire openness and confidence
as to the resources of the firm, definite
and exact method of keeping household
accounts, and recognition of the fact
that bricks cannot be made without straw,
and that certain approximating annual
expense must be proportional to the po
sition the family occupies in the commu-
nifty, would so far bring in millennium
in American homes.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Proper Food for Horses.

In the course of an article on the sub
iect of food for horses the american Cul-
ticator says: Ground grain is the cheap
est form in which nutriment can be
given to working horses. But to pro-
Once the best effect 1t should be mixed
with cut hay, not to give greater bulk,
for this the horses stomach does not re-
quire, but to make the food more porous
in the stomach, SO that the gastric
juices may more freely work through it.
Meal alone, especially of corn which has
scarcely any chatf, will compact in the
stomach and be less easily digestible.
The heavy chaff of oats is one of the
reasons this grain is so valuable fol
horse feed. Another is that the oat
abounds in heterogeneous or muscle form
ing food and is therefore worth more pei
pound where strength is required than
corn or oil meal, whose chief constitu-
ents are carbonaceous or fat produc-
ing.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Our Smallest Coin.

The smallest of American coins, the
ubiquitous cent, alike incapable individu-
ally of exciting the greed of the counter
feiter, or stimulating the coveteusness of
the ordinary citizen, has, DESPITE its de-
spfsed |paltriness, swelled in the aggrc-
gate to enormous proportions. Since the
time of James Jarvis, of New Haven,
who, in the year 1881, coined the first
American cent, the manufacture of this
bit of legal tender has gone on intermit-
tcntly, until there have been sent out,
under the ordcrSe the Treasury Depart
ment, considerably over six hundred mil
lion American cents. In other words,
there have been circulated in the United
States more than six million dollars worth
Of this coin.
The cent has not always been what it
is to-day. While the total has been grow
ing to such enormous proportions, the
single coin has, in defence to public con
venicnce, been getting smaller and small
er. Many people still remember the I'M
wicldly size of the old fashioned "cop-
per" which prevailed in our grandfathers'
time; but even that was a less bulky ar
,ticle of circulation than it's predecessors
of the same value The difference be-
tween the James Jarvis cent and the cent
of to-day, is the difference in size and
weight between two hundred and sixty
four grains and forty eight grains. 1t
will be seen by this that the cent of the
younger days of the republic was not fa1
from requiring the services of a dog cart
for its, transportation Our present bronze
cent which began to be issued in 1864,
and is ninety-five per cent. of copper,
and five per cent. of tin and zinc, has
reached circulation of over two million
dollars.
The cent enjoys the distinction among
coins, in common with the silver dollar
of being profitable to the government
which issues it. For every dollar made
the United States makes thirteen cents
and the profit is so great on the smaller
coin that it is sent in keys from the mint
absolutely free of express charges. Or
all other coins, something like two dol
lars on every thousand dollars is paid by
the banks for transportation.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
The Hat Exploded.

speaking of nitro-glycerine," said
DR.. Roberts, the oil torpedo man, to
group of legislators in Warren the other
day, land its explosive properties, re-
minds me of one incident of a thousand
that could relate regarding it, At the
factory where the oil we'll torpedoes are
made we strain the nitro-glycerine
through the crown of a felt hat, and
when the hat has served its purpose we
destroy it. One day some of the work.
men, instead of destroying the hat,
washed it thoroughly and treated it
with alkalis in order to destroy the eff
feet of the nitro glycerine. Then they
laid it up on shelf and forgot about
it. Some two years afterward one of
the men ran across the hat, and his Gu
riosity was excited as to whether it
would explode if struck hard blow.
He placed it on one of the iron arms that
run out from the timers bench in the
factory and struck it, while his COM
panions looked on in wonderment. He
struck it twice without any result, but
the third time it exploded, blew the iron
through a brick wall, knocked the man
down and broke both of his arms, aud
wrecked the interior Of the tin shop
Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Digusted With Her Race.

For the last four years white woman
has been living with tribe of California
Indians. She is apparently about thirty
years of age, and has very pleasing but
dissipated face. She wears tight fitting.
faded morning wrapper, through which
the outlines Of a perfectly modelled figure
are discernable. She acts in a strange.
silly manner, but this may be ascribed to
embarrassment resulting from her singu-
lar choice of position. Upon being asked
as to what peculiar abnormal fascination
induced her to abandon the society and
custom of her kind, she replied that the
unkindness and deceit which she encoun.
tered among the white people prompted
her to mingle with race which, if thew
did not possess the civilization and re-
finement of her own, at least were more
sincere and affectionate in their nature.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Only I" MOther.O

Up among the New Hampshire hills re-
sides family which consisted of father
mother and two grown-up daughters
They are poor, and the daughters by
working out have supported their mar,
ents, who were infirm and aged Tho
mother recently died. When the under
taker came to perform the duties of h;s
Office, the father was asked the name 30
his wife. The reply came, "Mothcr y
No other name could be recollected. The
daughters were called in, and the same
answer was received. They had never
known their parent by any other name
than Mother" This is a literal fact
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The weight Of an ostrich egg is equal
to twenty eight hens eggs.
Experiments made in Paris show that
the crocodile can bring its jaws together
with the force of over 300 pounds.
It is said that the electric flights at
Sacramento can be seen from the high
land near jackson, Cal, distance OF
sixty miles.
The ancient name of Afghanistan was
Bactria. 1t was among the. conquests
of Alexander the Great, and it was
there that he married Roxana, his first
wife.
The longest word used in Eiiot's In
dian Bible is "Weetappesiftukg ussunz
nookwehtunkquoh." 1t is found in ST.
Marks Gospel. l., 40, and means 8 Kneel-
ing down to him. -,
The climate of Iowa is reported to
be changing because farming has re-
moved the tall, dense prairie grass and
dried up the ponds and reservoirs
OF water that formerly abounded.
On Primrose Day, as the anniversary
of Lord Bcaconstcld's death is now
called, several London eating. houses ad
Icrtiscd that every customer would be
presented with portrait of Lord
Beac onsfield and bunch of prim-
roses.
A large business is done in old ha
between England and America and the
Nicobars. The savages there consider it
mark of affluence to possess as many
old hats as possible, and u good tail white
hat with broad black band will fetch
from tifty-five to sixty-five cocoanuts.
The blood of an innocent child was
believed to cure leprosy in old times );
that of an executed criminal the falling
sickness. The hearts of animals, be-
cause the seat of life, were held to be
potent drugs. The Rosicrucian physi-
clans treated case of wounding 10y ap.
plying the salve to the weapon instead
of to the would itself.
No English peer or peeress can be ar
rested for debt, need serve on juries. OF
be called out in the militia. and they do
not swear on oath, but on honor, except
when witnesses in any court. They can
sit in any court in England with theiI
hats on, can wear Il sort of uniform as
peers, can carry arms, but not in theil
pockets, and, if they commit treason or
felony, they must be tried by their peers.
A wealthy citizen of Rome, according
to Tacitus, had pledged freedom to a
slave and had broken his promise. The
man, enraged and disappointed, assas
sinated his master. By law, in such
cases, all slaves under the same ROOF
should be executed. The public duty,
in this case was discussed in the senate
and the celebrated stole Cassius de
Tended the law and urged its enforce
ment. The slaves, all innocent, to the
number of 600 persons, were finally exc
cuted
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Acreat Benefactor Of Women.

Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass, is often
spoken of as the great benefactor of women
and frequently receives letters like the one
we quote from, written by lady in San
Francisco. She says: 81 am taking your Veg
etable Compound and find great benefit from
it. 1t has done me more good than all the
Doctors" Mrs. 7. Of Vincennes, Ind. writes:
Having taken II bottles of your Vegetable
Compound and cured by it's use, I feel very
anxious that every woman afflicted with
Womb Disease mould make use of it. An
other lady in Birmingham, Mich, was suf-
fering from weakness and displacement She
says: 81 began taking your Compound and
it helped me so soon, l feel like proclaiming
to the World its great virtues as a healing
agent for women -
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Water NAV be as clear as crystal ana
vet carry typhoid fever from hamlet on
one side of mountain to dwellers on
the other. as in the celebrated case at
Lausanne, Switzerland.
The opinion is entertained now oy
MANY men of science that the art OF
making artificial stone for structural pur-
poses is prehistoric, and that the Iyra.
mids were, in fact, built OF artlhclal
blocks manufactured from the surround
ing plain.
An Atlanta man claims to have DIS
covered new principle in hydraulics
which upsets the old theory that water
will not rise in a vacuum more than
thirty-three feet. He says he can pump
water any distance required, and par
TALLY proves his assertion by pumping IL
600 feet without a valve and on direct
vertical rise.
A curious observation has been made
by DR.. Copeland, an English astrono-
mer While watching one of Jupiter s
satellites he was able to see it pass over
its own shadow on the planet. For this
to have happened, the sun, the earth' the
satellite and the part of Juplters DISK
occulted must have been all in one straight
line, and, as seen from Jupiter, the earth
must have appeared making transit
across the sun.
At a recent German scientific congress,
Dr. S. Hoppe, of Hamburg, endeavored
to prove that the electricity OF storms IS
generated by the friction of vapor par
ticles. This view was strengthened by
experiments in which compressed colo
air was allowed to rush into copper
vessel containing warm moist air, large
amount of electricity being thus pro-
duced. He concludes that the rise of q
column of warm moist air into the
colder atmosphere above will be followed
by thunder storm if it acquires sufii-
cient velocity to prevent naturalization
| of the electricity generated by the trio
| ton of the air. Hence, he regards open
| districts as more liable to thunderstorms
than wooded regions, where the trees
prevent the rapid rise of humid air cur
| rents.
A French writer gives long list of
| apparently we'll authenticated instances
of the finding of live toads in solid mas.
scs of stone, referring in particular to
such discovery made in 1851 by three
warkmen of BloiS on breaking open a
| large piece of flint. The strength OF
the evidence thus presented leads him to
insist that it is>unwise to pronounce the
phenomenon absolutely impossible, al
though none of the reported cases arc
quite beyond the suspicion Of fraud. To
explain the occurrence, if genuine, it
seems necessary to suppose that the crea.
lures have existed in their close prisons
during the unnumbercd years in which
| the plastic material has been hardening
into rock. That they may endure a
somewhat prolonged confinement was
shown by Seguin, who, III 1922, enclosed
toad in a plaster covering, and found
the reptile alive and in good condition
on breaking the shell ten years later.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Defrauding BY Mutilated Notes

The United States treasurer is still in
occasional receipt of pieced legal tender
notes and silver certificates. 1t is evi-
that some parties are mutilating notes
with the :ntent to defraud the public.
The method pursued is to tear from a
note so much only as will not exceed
two-fifths of The note three tifths being
redeemable under the rule at full valuel,
then to join the piece detached with
other pieces obtained in the same man,
ner, and thus obtain one full note com
posed of the several pieces. The public
lis again cautioned against taking any
pieced note unless it is evident from the
number ON the two ends and other ap-
pearances that the two pieces are of thu
same note. - Washington Post,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
HOlIae1lO'd Hints,

Tea stains can be taken out of lace by
boiling it in milk.
If an egg is added to the butter for
flour griddle cakes they will be surpris-
ingly improved, and brown nicely.
Galvanized iron pals for drinking
water should not be used. The zinc
coating is readily acted upon by water,
forming poisonous oxide of zinc.
Over-done beef or mutton is, family
doctor writes, quite as indigestible as
hard boiled eggs; it should be we'll
cooked to be healthful, but rather in
Ginning to under done.
To clean damask curtains: If crimson,
wash well with ordinary soap and water,
then rinse in clean, cold water, wiring
through wringing machine, and hang
in the open air to dry. If the curtains
are green, use gall instead of soap. Silk
trimmings must be removed, as they
cannot be cleaned.
For inside walls the following is said
to be beautiful wash: To five gallons of
whitewash made of we'll. burned white
lime, add a quarter of pound of whit.
ing, half pound of loaf sugar, one
quart and half of rice flour made into
thin and we'll cooked paste, and half a
pound of white glue dissolved in water
apply warm; previously scrape off all
old scaly whitewash; this is like kalso-
mine and gives brilliant and lasting
affnct
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Punctuality.

Ay, that's the word-punctuality! Did
you ever see man who was punctual
who did not prosper in the long run? We
don't care who, or what he was-high or
low, ignorant or learned, savage or civil
lied we know that if he did as he
agreed, and was punctual in all his en-
gagements, he prospered.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
I,ttesin the Part. Sewers.

is possible for short time to the robust, but the
majority of refined persons would prefer i'm
mediate death to existence in their reeking
atmosphere. How much more revolving to
be in ones self living semer But this is
actually the case with those in whom the in
activity of the liver drives the refuse matter
breath, the pores, kidneys and bladder. It is
astonishing that life remains in such a
dwelling. DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery" restores normal purity to
tho system and renews the whole being.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
PhysiOiOpists saw that orr hodioa n,

Psychologists say that our bodies are
renewed once in seven years. The ma
terial of which they are reconstructed is
the blood, and unless it be fully charged
with the elements of vitality, the strength
and health of the system decline. Of all
blood depurents, DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR
BlTTERs is the safest and most infallible,
It will speedily cure all blood diseases.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Poultry Notes.

Perches should not be used for chicks
of the heavier breeds, as there is a ten
dency to deformity if the chicks roost
on the perches while the breast bone is
still in an almost cartilaginous state.
When cleaning the perches in the
poultry house it is necessary to apply the
mixture of kerosene Oil and grease to the
often neglected, and the lice gather
there.
In the care of eggs while waiting for
Matching, a place is preferred that is
neither hot nor cold, damp nor dry. If
the eggs are to be kept but little while,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Bad Worn out garments.

s'Her face SO fair as flesh it seemed not,
But heavenly portrait of bright angels hue,
Clear as the sky, without blame or blot,
Through goodly mixture of compilations due,
And in her checks the vermel red did show y
This is tho poets description of woman
whose physical system was in a perfectly
sound and healthy state, with every function
acting properly and is the enviable condition
of its fair patrons produced by DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" Any druggist.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Lying.

Aftera tongue has once got the knack of
lying, it is not to be imagined how almost
it is to reclaim it. Whence IL
comes to pass that we see some men, who
are otherwise very honest, so subject to
this vice.