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Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-02
Danger in Busters.


 The modern subject of germs has brought to light a great number of avenues through which the causes of disease may come in contact with the body. The feather duster is evidently an excellent means of keeping germs stirred up and floating about in the air so as to facilitate their incubation. Evidently the use of this article in the sick room is wholly out of place. House wives and chambermaids should invaria- ply protect the mouth and nose by tying a handkerchief over them, or by employing some other form of strainer for the breath, whenever the use of the duster is required, and after the duster has been used the doors and windows should be open to al low free circulation of air until the float ing dust has been removed. A room oc' cupied by consulnptives should never be dusted in this way, as there is great dan, ger of inhaling the air containing germs oi the disease, and thus communicating tho affection to well persons. Undoubtedly consumption has frequently been caught | in this way
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No. 79

for cargo of opium and Chinese have been completed, small lots of the former are secretly taken on board, and enough Chinamen to make a load are told to get ready. Toward the close of evening two or three will stroll over to .he reserve dis guised as siwashes. They are taken aboard one of the boats, and in the morning she goes out to fish. If custom officer hap pens to notice them he cannOtsay anything or attempt to stop the boat, which once cut of the harbor is free from prying eyes, and she shapes course for CadborO bay. Or she may go up to James or Sidney islands, as Cadbore bay is getting little too pub lie, although a few years ago it was fa- nous place for smugglers. When one or the other of these havens is reached the Chinese are landed and the boat puts back to Victoria. This done two or three times, until sufficient number to make a good load have been concealed at one or the other of the points mentioned where the.e are camps. Then all that is needed is a favorable wind and dark night. The rest is easy. No curious eyes can see tle start, they are far away from telegraph offices, and the run across is quickly made, the trip being so timed that the sloUp gets by Fort Townsend in the early evening. Or she may go down by way of Duugeness. Some times q bold dash out of Victoria haTboT in the evening Is made but even then there is not much risk The only trouble is, if the Canadian officers See them it is apt to cause unpleasant inquiries. The use of the telegraph is Oi no service whatever. Frequently haYc the officers in Port Townsend becn notified. but it was of no avail. The Ileans pf detection on the American side are SO small that the smugglers only laugh
 When an opium cargo only Is to be ta- ken, small lots are cached from time to time on Salt Spring island and on the other island to the southeast where camps are maintained, and when inc proper time comes a cargo is made up from the repOsi- tory and & run made across the line. The landing of the opium is the most difficult part of the work. A ChinamAn may be landed near some town and find his way to place of safety, but opium has to be car ried, and it is not always easy to get it in to Chinatown undetected. At points on the
 American shore repositories are maintained by some smugglers, where opium is stored
 until it can be carried away.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The United States has a frst-class band even if she hasn't much of a navy. It is generally agreed that Italy's unex- pected performance hasn't anything war like in it.
 One of the candidates for mayor in Chicago smokes cigarettes. It ought to defeat him.
 Russia reluctantly has given Germany permission to send every year few Ger man officers over the border to study the Russian language. The officers will not dence. All will be obliged to live in Kasan, university town, without @ single mili- tary company within its walls. Russia's prejudice against foreign officers within her boundaries is due to the fact that she suspects Germany and Austria of main- taining elaborate systems of military espionage on Russian soil.
 The new south continues to make prog ress The Manufacturers Record says: The last week has been one of the busiest in the industrial advancement of the South ever known. Among the leading projects reported is $1, ,500,0 900 company now be- | ing organized in New York to establish | cotton-seed oil refneries; $15, 5,OOO, ,OOO company to build soap works throughout the South, using cotton-seed products; a $100, ,000 brick company in Texas, and an other in the same State to make $15O, ,O0C bricks day; a cooperative town company in Tennessee, with capitalization of S10, OO0,O ,OOO
 A leaning tower is one of the novelties which will attract attention at the Chicago worlds fair. This tower, modelled some what after the famous leaning tower O. Pisa, Italy, will be entirely of steel. But the intention is to make the Chicago edifc' not only higher, but more of leaning tower than the Pisa example. While tn Pisa tower is only 175 feet in height, tn Chicago tower is to soar into the air to tn extent of 225 feet; end whereas the Italian structure leans only eighteen feet out O the perpendicular, the daring spirit of tn western engineer considers an oblique an gle one hundred feet out of the perpendic ular quite feasible.
 People who have never attended the bi
 mid-winter fur auction in London, says
 fur dealer, s.can have no idea of its magn
Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-02
AN ALUmINUm ANTIDOTE.
Statements to Show That the Metal
 Has Been Overrated.

Statements to Show That the Metal
 Has Been Overrated.
 The Engineering and Mining Journal for March contains this article:
 If anyone ought to know what alumi- nun is, and what it is good for, it should be one of the leading manufacturers of this metal; and if such leading manufac- turer deliberately and publicly says that aluminium is not the extraordinarily good metal that it is popularly believed to be, then we have good reason to suspect that he is right and that popular belief in the matter is wrong. These remarks are sug- gested by Q lecture delivered by Alfred E. Hunt, president of the Pittsburg Reduc- ton company, before the Boston Society of Arts, on February 12, on "The Properties, Uses and Processes of Production of Aluminium" He states that the two chief difficulties which his company has met with in selling aluminium and introducing it into the arts and manufactures of the country during the past two years have been, first, the extravagant, erroneous and in many cases, mischievously misleading claims which have been made concerning the properties of the metal, and, second the equally widespread, extravagant and misleading claims by inventors of process es for the manufacture of aluminium at re markedly low prices.
 We have been so surfeited lately witt statements to the effect that aluminium Ii going to revolutionize the world that it ii Interesting to learn from such sourc, that it has some bad qualities. Among them are the following:
 For many purposes the pure metal can not be so advantageously used as that con taining three or four per cent. of impuri ty. The pure metal is very soft and no so strong as the impure. The thin coat 0 oxide which it gains on exposure gives it
 pewtery appearance, which makes it unde sirable for table ware. It becomes past at temperature as low as one thousand degrees Fahrenheit, melts at thirteen hun , dred degrees Fahrenheit, and loses its ten sile strength and much of it's rigidity a } low as four or five hundred degrees. It i , inferior to copper as @ conductor of hes and electricity, in fact being only half 8 | good. Its lack of rigidity and hardness 3 an obstacle to its use for many purposes such as castings. In rolling it not nearl as much draft can be given to the rolls a
 in the case of rolling steel.
 In cold rolling it requires 10 be anneale
 oftener than steel. Alloys of the meta increase in brittleness more than they 3 in hardness. Its tensile strength pc - square inch is not greater than that (
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9ry 6n, $.
Howe & StctSOl,
FEW POINTERS For This Week !

We open on Monday, March 3Oth, a large line of 27 inch wide Satines in good dress styles, in black, navy, browns and garnet colorings, at Sc per yard.
 On Monday, March 30, we open 2,5OO yards Clo- yer Cloth Outing Flannels in a handsome line of styles for dresses, waists, shirtings, etc., at 9 1-2c y'd;; usual 12 1-2c quality. 26 pieces Surah Silks in light and dark colorings at soc per yard. This is the quality that retails everywhere at 62 1-2c. Special Bargains in Fig ured Curtain Madras, 54 inches wide, at 33c yard. This is the 4Sc kind. Extraordinary bargains in Nottingham Lace Cur tains at 58c, 69c and 79c per pair. In our White Goods De- partment will be found a large assortment of Coin Spot White Mulls at 25c yard that are under price.
 Choice styles printed Hemstitched Lawns, 42 inches wide, at 35c yard. These goods will be found on Lace Counter. They are entirely new. Just look at them.
 Black Surah Silks, in stripes and plaids, at 68c per yard; $1 is theregular price. Only 12 pieces in the lot.
 Silk Grenadines at all prices. Extra values just received at 95c, $1, $l.25 and $1.5O per yard. soc Dress Goods are moving lively. We call attention to our all wool
 Surah Twills in the new
 Tan and Mode Shades, just
 opened, at soc.
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A BIG BARGAIN.

 We shall receive to-day 1CO cases of the finest Imported Table Mustard, which we purchased for just one-Guarter of it's value. And we snail give it away for @ few days at the following low prices: Regular 15c size bottle we shall sell at Sc finest table relish obtainable; try one bottle you will want more.
 100 Dog. Cans Fine French PcaS
 13c can, 9 cans 25c. They are of fine quality and are the Best Bar gain in French Peas ever sold in this city.
 Malaga Grapes, 2 lbs 25c. 1000 boxes finest Domestic Sardines packed m oil, 7c box, 4 for 25c.
 50 dozen cans California Apricots only 22c can The above Apricots are of the finest quality and packed in heavy syrup better than Peaches.
 Oranges, Oranges. Oranges for cutting up, 13c dozen, ? dozen 15c. Extra fine Havana Oranges 15 and 20c dozen. Fancy Florida Oranges 25 and BOG dozen Fancy Messina Lemons only 12c dozen.
 RaiSins. RaiSinS. Another invoice of large Muscatei Raislns, only 9c lb, 8 lbs 25c They are larger and better than the last invoice we have just sold. Look at them 1000 lbs New Dates. 7c ID.
 Finest Evaporated Raspberries 35c lb Two gross Catsup, quart bottles. 12c each. Brush BrOOmS, Brush BrOOmS, Five gross just received, which we shall sell al 10c each. They bargain.
 The finest New Orleans MolasSeS 45c gallon. Sweet Picked Beef Tongues 12c lb.
 100 boxes new Dried Apples, 14c lb. Many other bargains at D. M. WEIGH & SONS 28 and 80 Congress Avenue. Branch Grand Avenue
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, s6 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
 IiShed in Connecticut.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED
ADJOURNED.

EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. One Dollar per Year, Gin Advance.
 Single Copies cents.
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The Legend of Cerealine.

Told them of his wondrous vision, Which should be their food forever"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-02

Have ye heard the Indian legend, How the chieftain Hiawatha Caused the maize to be created? Caused the springing Of the corn-plant2 Whence should come the Cerealine Flakes For the peoples food forever? Red men name the maize Mondamin, Indian corn the white men call it. From it comes the preparation Made in Southern Indiana, An1w21 as Cerealine, and furnished
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prputstnns, &c.

G. line Flakes for sale by all grocers. 'The Leg l ..r Carealine," illustrated with twelve pio;uies Ky Fl. F. Farny, Of which above is a
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mid-winter fur auction in London, says
 fur dealer, t.can have no idea of its magni-
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE.

Two ENGLISH chemists have cOnclud-
ed from experiments that phosphor-
essence can be produced by ozonized
water.
IN minute the lowest sound your ear
can catch has been made by go vibra
tions, while the highest tone reached
you after making 2, 1928, 900 vibrations.
A NEW process for burning coal with
ont smoke has recently been discovered.
1t consists in sprinkling water contain
ing special preparation of resin over
the coal, and the result there is no
smoke and the glow is as intense as
coke. =,
EXPERIMENT has proved that if del
icate piece of lace be placed between an
iron plate and disk Of gunpowder, and
the latter be detOnated, the lace will be
annihilated, but its impression will be
clearly stamped on the iron.
IF box six feet deep were filed with
sea water and allowed to evaporate un-
der the sun, there would be two inches
of salt on the bottom. Taking the aver
age depth of the ocean to be three miles,
there would be layer of pure salt 230
feet thick on the bed Of the Atlantic.
IN a criminal lately beheaded in
France the beats of the heart were
noted during more than six minutes,
and experiments were made to demon
strate the independence of the vcntricu-
lar and articular contractions; this is
the first time such observations were
ever made on man. .s-,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
The LATEST FADS.

WATERPROOF rouge 10 the latest in
vention for the toilet table.
THE latest fad among equestriennes
is to ride one day TO the left side, the
next 10 the right.
AMONG the recent novelties in silver
gods is match box with e compass
imbedded in one side.
CAS2LEsTrcEs for the corners Of rooms
are row designed in wood. They are
two feet high, new and inexpensive.
Az idea from Paris that one or two
New York hostesses recently introduced
is that of serving a dinner at small
tables in lieu Of one long one.
one of the latest fancies of fashion
has decreed carriage lamps in the
shapes of various flowers, There is the
lily lamp, the rose lamp, the violet
lamp, and so on, all very odd and very
expensive.
THE ladies of York, Neb., have q
''guess party" The ladies send the
gentlemen invitations reading: Party
in our set this evening. Guess where
and come there" 1t is needless to say
the boys get around late, as they fire.
qucnLIy Vlsll uoZeu OouheS pcAoio hiAo-
ing the right one.
A NEW fad in New York is called the
hot pine bath. Those who take it lie
in tank and have the tepid extract OF
the pine poured upon them, and are
wonderfully exhilarated by it. Taken
your pine this week?" is a common
question now in the different down
town stores.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE (Mo.) girls have
an Engagement and Marriage club.
Every time one of them has gentle
man escort to whom she is not en-
gagged she pays twenty-five cents into
the treasury. When a member becomes
engaged she pays in five dollars. When
member gets married the club pre-
sents her with one hundred dollars.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
WHAT A HORSE WOULD SAY
IFHE COULD SPEAK.

Don't hitch ne to an iron post
or railing when the mercury is be
low freezing. | need the skin on
nv tongue.
Don't leave me hitched IN my
stall at night With a big cob righ,
where | must lie down. / am tired
and can't aelcct Il smooth place.
DON'T compel me to eat more salt
than | want by mixing it with my
oats. | know better than any other
animal how much | need.
Don't think because [ 20 freely
under the whlp | don't get tired
Yo4 would moye. up if under the
whip.
Don't think because / am horse
that iron weeds and briars WON'T
hurt NY hay.
Don't whip nee when I get fright.
enend along the road, or | will expec
Ii next time aud may cause troublc.
DON'T trot me up hill. for | have
to carry you and the buggy and
myself, too. Try it yourself some.
tiGle. Ran up nil with q big load.
Don't say whoa Unless you meal
II. IeaCh NE 10 stop at the word,
II may check me If tee lines break
and save g runaway and smash up.
Don't make me- drink ice cold
water, nor put frosty bit in my
moutn. Warm the bit by holding it
I. half minute against my body.
Don't forget to fiIs my teeth when
they get jagged and [ canlol chew
my food. When | get lean it is g
ign my teeth need fling.
Don't ask me to 'back" with
blinds on. | aui afraid to.
Don't run NE down steep hill,
for If anything Should give away, L
might hresk your neck.
Don't put on my blind bride so
that it irritstes my eyes, or so leave
my foreIock that 1t will be in my
eyes.
Don't be 80 careless Of my har.
ness as to find s. great sore on me
before yOu attend to it.
Doa't lend NE to some blocks
head that has less sense than | have.
Don't forget the Old book that Is
d freud to the oppressed that sag s
"a mcrcigul man is merclful TO hi,
Dea ts."-taTm journal,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
a MUSICAL MElANGE.

DR.. HANS Won BULOw has decided to
give up public piano recitals.
SARsAATE, the violinist, has pocketed
twenty-five thousand dollars as the net
profit of a two months tour in England.
RUBINsTEIN says that fifty per cent.
# the Germaus understand music, six
cen per cent. of the French, and two
yer cent. of the English.
Miss SANDERsoN, an American singer,
'eceived the gold medal of the Dane
prog order from the king Of Denmark
after her first appearance IN Copen-
nagen.
Mr.. JOHN ". HUTCHINSON Of the fam
ly of singers once SO well known, re-
Gently held reception on the occasion
of his SEVENTEEN birthday at Lynn,
Mass.
AMONG some music lately published is
a Spanish dance by an Italian composer,
with French title page engraved and
printed in Germany and published in
London, with Boston imprint added.
FRANCHETTI, the composer of the
opera Asrael has become insane, and
has been placed in private asylum.
He is closely related to the wealthy
house of Rothschild, and has been living
in Dresden, near which city he is now
confined.
THE late Harvey B. Dodsworth, the
well-known New York bandmaster,
furnished the music at presidential in
augurations for the last thirty years.
During the war, free Of charge for his
own services, he furnished the armies
Of the north no less than fifty band
masters and five hundred musicians.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
NAMES NOT MENTIONED.

A CITIZEN of Banta, Ind, has a clock
made entirely of wood, which has been
an excellent timekeeper for sixty years.
THE Athens (Ga.) bar is made out of
young men. One Of the practitioners is
under twenty-one, while six are under
twenty-five and thirteen are under
thirty.
A CELEBRATED German reStaurateur,
in bankruptcy proceedings, has con-
fessed that for years he has served horse
and asses meat to his customers for
venison.
THERE are twenty-three ancient wild
ows now drawing pensions from the
government because their husbands
were soldiers in the revolutionary war.
Three of them are 90 years old and the
youngest 70. -,"
SOME of the Alaskan natives acquire
very respecta BILE fortunes in the fishing
trade. A Nicholas Bay Indian has been
known to pay down one thousand dol
lars in hard cash for blankets and
trinkets for one potlach.
A eooD-SATURED colored lady, whose
memory was little hazy, died the other
day near columbus, MO, OF OLD age. II
was her boast that "she was so old she
couldn't zactly member; but She was
between ninety and one hundred and
thirty-four.'' >4,,,,--<:,.-
A YOUNG man with small feet was the
last person to leave a friends house
after social entertainment in Lewiston,
Me. The only pair Of rubbers that he
could find proved to be badly matched
"A No. 6 and a No. 111f. He wore the
small one, and the other still awaits a
claimant
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
PiThY POINTS.

WHEN rumor is in the air Of course
it has no foundation.
WEE LUNG is going to try DR.. Koch's
lymph on his name.-N. Y. World.
THE bill poster knows his place, and
there he sticks.-YOnkerS Statesman.
EVERY one who goes up the Pixies
peak railway travels in cog.-St. Joseph
News.
i've gone through great DEAL" re-
marked the saw as it emerged from the
log.-Jester.
A GREEDY man should wear plato
vest, SO as to keep check on his stom
ach.-Ledger.
THE meat of volume is generally
found on the table OF contents.-Bing
hamton Republican.
A SAILOR home from a long cruise
couldn't sleep in the house, for it made
him feel more at home to LAY out OF
the yard"
THE Decline and Fall OF Roam" is
the title of the book which the great
American tramp intends to write.-In
dianapolis Journal.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
II am the way, the truth and the
Life. .'--John IA, 5.

Oh Lord, our eyes are dim with bitter
tears,
The mist of earthly woe obscures our
sight,
Ten thousand unseen Ills awake our
fears;
Shine on the darkenss Of this deepest
night,
Show US the Way.
Spirit of Truth, stretch forth Thy guiding
hand,
Lead US in safety, help Us with Thy rod
And staff, till on the mountain height
we stand,
} nd view tn eternal city Of our God.
Lead Thou the way.
Father of life, to thee our souls belong
breathe on our hearts the spirit of Thy
grace,
That III Thy likeness, with the whiter-ob-
ed thrOng,
We may appear, and stand before Thy
face,
In Christ, our Way.
VIRGINIA GREENE.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-16
NEW YORK BREVlTIES.

New YORK stands well financially,
her actual surplus being SO, 1876, SOFT.
New YORK burglars, the other day,
stole eight hundred sets Of false teeth
from store.
IN district between Seventeenth and
Nineteenth streets, New York, live 1G0.-
900 persons, where there are eight
churches and $50 saloons.
TWENTY years ago possibly :, 900 roses
a day was the limit OF supply for New
York city; now IS many as $4,000 day
can often be found there.
New YORK is ahead of all the other
cities if individual riches running up
into seven or more figures is meant. 1t
is said that New York has over one
Thousand millionaires, while London
has SIX hundred, Paris five hundred,
Berlin two hundred and Vienna one
hundred. .--..
A NEW YORK club recently gave a
dinner to all the principal freaks in the
dime museums. Living skeletons, fat
women, turtle boys, contortionists,
magnetic women, Chinese giants, calf
headed boys, three armed and four
legged born, dined and danced with
their hosts until very late hour.