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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

THE coal fields of Tonquin are turn
ing out 50 wei that il i thought tha;
NJ. Ferry may L. restored - popular
favor upon that issue alone.
FIVE hundred applications have been
made - the Department Of the Interior
at Toronto for the privilege q boring
for oil IN the kootcnay country.
THE press and land owners Of Portu-
gal are becoming alarmed ~ the dearth
of cultiyators, and demand that the
Government shall put stop 10 cnigra-
ton, as husbandry is suffering.
IT IS proposed in Paris TO do away, as
far as possible, with lunatic asylurns
and TO place insane persons who are
not prone TO violence in the homes O.
country people, who will be suitably
remunerated by the State.
II Japan the act of flirting is a penal
offense. Serious complications arise
under the law. but the young people OF
both sexes know that they can not
wink and blink and giggle at each other
unless they mean business.
TIE centenary OF the birth of Aus
tria' 5 representative poet, Franz Grill
Vienna with performances in the
theaters and the inauguration Of an eX-
hibition including about six hundred
personal relics of the poet.
An English cable construction com
pany has offered the Dominion &c ~ern-
ment to lay submarine cable connect
ing Sable island with Nova Scotia and
to operate it for ten years for an annual
subsidy of S12, 900 a year, the cable e
become the property Of the Government
at the expiration of the ten years
Railway Review.
THE New York Daily Commercial
Bulletin says thai, since 1869, Germany
has reduced her stock of silver coin
from S10.0S to S4.67 per capita, while
England's stock is only Sl02, 900, 600 and
the average coinage of silver by Ger
many and England combined averages
only some $4,000, 600 out of the worlds
average coinage of S14O, 900, 900.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
GATHERED FROM COMMERCE

GERMANY makes hollow cast-iron
bricks.
CAIIFoRHIA is the only State il the
Union which at present produces quick
silver in commercial quantities.
ST LOUIS IS the largest fur market IN
the United States. and On coonsk.ns i,
is far ahead Of any other city.
THE export Of canaries from Germany
is very large. Each year about 100, 600
of these birds are sent % America, }, 900
to England and about 2,0o0 70 Russia.
A LONDON firm has sent an order 10
Albion, Mich, for 5000 sacks Of flour
weighing 100, 900 pounds, TO be shipped
to Londonderry.
The climate Of England and ireland
Is peculiarly adapted 10 the spinning Of
fine linen yarn, on account Of the pre-
vaiIing moisture; hence it comes that
Germany, whose production consists
mainly Of heavy linens, must send TO
England for all her fine yarns, the fax
of which, however, is grown largely in
Belgium. Holland and Russia.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09

GoyEHNaH EUS~rfE- u Nasearhasetts.
rides On horsaaa u a;.4 !Te-a ihe State
house every day
GoyEESyE pATTt~a>. - r,uasr
has received . hytaes. = several iaau-
sand dollars from al aunt. Lm..y Z
SIaoot-
pE L. ". RAYNaNr. secretary ~ tho
American Institute - Mining E1--l-
nccrS, has gone u tic Mediterranean aIa
the Nile regions
JosErH FROST, who was elected pro
bate judge II Lyon County, Kansas,
last fall on the Alliance ticket, .s sev-
enty-threc years old.
CHAUSCrY VI. DErrw SAYS hc usc1 -
smoke twenty cigars a cay til he wa>
worn out. Then lie cut the practice
dead, and now smokes none a. all
STATE SENATOR ". l., PErEE, %
Maryland, descendant of a collateral
branch Of the Washington family, Pus-
sesScs a Masonic jewel worn by George
Washington At his death.
Mrs. FRANCES HonasoN BUENErr Is
said to have tried the mind cure" In
Boston with happy results. although
Miss Alcott, who also experimental
with that treatment, derived no appre-
ciahle benefit from il.
REV. JoHS JASPER, who gained celeb
ritv bv his "sun-do-movc" lecture.
doesn't let his salary move. His congrc-
CATION has several times rendered hi.n
an increase. but nc declares that $50 q
month is ample for hih needs, and hc
declines 10 accept more.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the actor, has
lately still further increased the extent
Of his already great domain at Buzzard' =
Bay, Mass, by the purchase from II. :.
Crowell, Of Boston. Of tie land eompris-
ing Gibbs Neck, bold promontory on
Buzzards Bay, opposite the Monument
Club lands.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
Specimen Cases.

S. II. Clifford. New Cassle, Wis,
was troabled with Neuralgia and
Rheumatiam, bis stomache was dis
ordered, his Liver Was effected to an
alarming degree appetite fell away,
and le was terribly reduced in flesh
and strength. Three bottles Of f.
lectFic Bitters cured him.
Edward shepherd, Il arrishurg, Ill.,,
had 3 running sore on his leg of
eight years standing. Used three
bottles of Elect. ic BiSters and seyen
boxes of Buckiens Arnica Salve, and
bis leg is soand and well. John
Speaker, CataWaha, O, had five
large Fever SORES on his leg, doctors
SAID he was incurable. One bottle
Electric Bltters and one box Buck
lens Arnica salve cured him entirely.
Sold hy Il. L. Whitehead e4 Co.'S
Drug Sore.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
EUROPEANS WE TALK ABOUT

EX-KING Milan, Of Scrvia, now calls
himself the Duke Of Pavolo.
MoUGEL BEY, who originated the idea
Of damming the Nile for purposes OF irri-
cation, is dead.
II is announced in Rome that Signo-
Crispi's daughter has been bctrOthcd to
SignOr Gellere, n nephew Of Cardinal
Macchi. ... ---t.:.
HAGGARD's brother claims that Rider
and himself are descended Of that CYL
denestejerne family Shakespeare men
tions in some Of his plays
THE income of Lord Rcvelstoke, the
head Of the house Of Barring, viii not in
future exceed G30 600 4 year. II was
once more than forty thousand.
Mr.. HENLEY, aged nincty-fivc, finished
an uninterrupted life Of pauperism in
the Gosport (Eng.) wort-houec. He
was brought there when six years old
in 1901. -
THE Queens ladies-in-walting are
said to be nurnuring because they only
receive 1900 year, and are 'cypected
to appear in new costume at every
dinner" ..-~,~.-'
ROBERT BCCHELL, the new mayor OF
Oxford, Eng. lived for many years IN
America and became in that time thor
oughly Americanized. For some time
he resided in Tcrrc Hautc, Ind, where
he was successful il business.
THE late Cardinal Simor, though the
son Of 4 poor cobblcr, rose TO he the
primatc of Hungary, who, in point Of
rank, took precedence Of every body in
Hungary except the Emperor and En-
press and the heir apparent.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
TO a Rejected Manuscript.

(The JourDalist.1
And art thou back, in melancholy dipped,
Child Of M brain, rejected manuscript
Come in, poor wandcrer, with thy visage
n1pped
Bv some cross editor, dull and thin
Tipped.
He is an idiot, will engage;
With barely half thy brains were he
equipped,
Thou would'st have gra2cd right soon
his printed page,
Ny poor, disdained, rejected manuscript.
Thou hast a sad and deprecating air,
Which plainly saith, NO man for me
doth care.
With co!dly slightng glance, who was it
skipped
Ger thy best points, rejeced manuscript.
This neat,turned sentence has a wilted
look.
For "Lines On Spring. I'm sure thou'st
been mistook,
And thy strong fancy's wings to me seem
clipped,
Poor dropping thing, rejected manuscript:
Courage. Thou blushest IN good company
Hawthorne, Carlyle, Macausy, Milton, he
The edItor-who sent thee backs been
gripped,
Seeing his own rejected manuscript.
Come in, come in; Ill write the out again,
Change thy first page, and shorten up
thy train;
Wen start again, nor be by fortune
whipped.
They'll print thee yet, 7 d
manuscript.
Or, if they send thee back this time
And hope thy worth to shelf,
I'll buy q small hand printing press,
And publish thee myself.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
AROUND THE GLOBE.

THE Eskimo call seals TO them by "
ing down on the ice and whistling.
FoLAPUK is but eleven years old and
it is said that 5000, 900 people are able
TO use it.
\ PROPHET has arisen who says that
the world viii be densely overcrowded
before it is two hundred years older.
IT is estimated that nearly 10, 900 pick
erel have been taken so far this winter
from Long Meadow pond, near Water
bury. Conn.
THE highest church-spire in the world
has just been completed. 1t is that Of
the cathedral at Ohm, Wurtemberg, and
is $50 feet high.
Mrs. II. MCDOWELL, of Oskaloosa, Ia.
began about year and half ago to
save dimes. ~ few days ago her bank
was opened and the sum total was S1IS.-
20.
MARSHAL BoOTu gives this succinct
statement of the salvation methods:
''Scrubology and soaFc1ogy, instead of
theology, in dealing with the submerged
twentieth of society
THoRSDIKE RICE is said 70 have once
WON >2lVO,OOO az AI S-H k'OiACA tlG HIAiS
sitting. 1t may be true and again it
may not, but there were no such
hands among the bric-a-brac which
he left behind him.
AN acre of bananas will support
twenty-five times as many persons as an
acre of wheat. One thousand square
feet Of land growing ban anas, viii pro-
duce four thousand pounds Of nutritious
substance. The same space, devoted
to wheat or potatoes, will produce only
thirty three pounds Of wheat, or ninety
nine pounds of potatoes.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
EUROPEAN ARMY NOTES.

THE American saddle is being used By
the British mounted infantry.
GENERALS Gibbon and Benet are soon
to be retired from the army, having both
reached the age limit.
TIE British army costs S177, 900, 900
year. This is 80, 600, 900 more than Ger
many pays for the support of her sol
diery.
THE armies Of the Central Asiatic
States under the protection Of the Gar
will be officered hereafter by Russians
from Russia's European army.
THE German navy will have thirty
seven more vessels in active service this
year than last. The total number to be
assigned to duties lasting from three to
ten months is ninety-six.
CANIssER shot will not be used in the
French army in future. The shells are
filled with an explosive made of chryso-
lite and a substance kept secret; and
every battery has seventyfve rounds
of these prOjectiles.
The list of pensioned officers in the
German army has swelled nOticeably
since the accession to the throne of EN-
peror William II. The number of pen
stoned Generals of cavalry and infantry
has increased from So to 81; of Licuten-
ant-Generals, from 215 to 24O: of Major
Generals, from 258 to 3O2, and Of
COlOnels, from 5S5 to COS.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS announcement
that he will attend the imperial Bayari-
an maneuvers of 40, 600 troops near
Munich next fail has created consiti-
cradle sensation in the Estates rights"
press of South Germany. Vaterland, a
clerical paper, protests that Bavaria
has d regent, has king, but has not an
emperor, and therefore imperial ma
neuvers' are out Of the question"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
a LITTLE VARIETY.

A GOOD time coming-The millen-
mum.
To CURE and heal running sore, ap-
ply alum water twice daily.
BREsLAU, the capital Of Silesia, is 70
be made into frst-class fortress.
THE high price Of ice provokes SC
many jokes that you will find an ice
wagon nearly every paper.
WALDO STORY, son of the American
sculptor, is TO design the marble dec
orations for Baron Rothschilds house.
DICKINSON, \. D., sounds this note Of
denominational fraternity: After this,
when the Baptist church bell rings you
may know that there viii be Methodist
services IN the Presbyterian church"
Il AN afraid, madam" said a gen
tleman who was looking for apart
ments, that the house is too near the
station to be pleasant" 1T is a little
noisy" asscnted the landlady, but
from the front veranda one has such
a fine view of people who miss the
trains" she added, with an air of tri-
umph.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
Row try this.

1t will cost you nothing and will
surely do you good, if you have 8
Cough. Cold, or any trouble with
Throat Chest or LIcgs. DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption.
Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
give relief, or monep viii be paid
back. Suffers from La Grippe found
ii ju-t the thing and under it's use
had speedy and perfect recovery.
Try sample bottle at our expense
and learn for yourself just how good
a thing it is. Trial bottles free at
E. T. " hitehead & Co.'S Drug Store.
Large SIZE SOC. and $l,00.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
IMPER ERSONAliTlES.

A TAILOR died in New York the other
day from poisoning, because Of the
habit he had Of biting off the ends Of
threads.
IT is reported that farmer in Holt
County, Kan, has twenty-six living
children, all of whom are unmarried
and live at the homestead.
AN Atchison (kan.l woman got up in
her sleep, lit a lamp and went to sew
ing. After working quite awhile She
ran the needle in her finger and awokc
THE stupidcst man in New York is n
member of three fashionable clubs, and
is much pctted by mothers with mar
riagcablc daughters. His income is
$3.50, 900 year.
CONSTANTLY accommodating interest on
a debt which he found himself unable
to pay proved too much for Eussinn
peasant. He hated the creditor, and Ia
hurt him he hung himself 10 the
usurcr's door, with this inscription on
his body: This pays off my indebted
ness to you.
THE oldest undertaken in Paris has
just died at the age Of cightv-two. Dur
ing the latter years Of his life he was
too feeble to attend funerals, 80 the
Pompcs Fundebras Company made him
manager Of their chief coffin depot,
where he would sit all day in a large
padded coffin, which served "a an arm
chair.
PARIS has landlord who does not
object to children; in fact. the more OF
them the me1Tier, he thinks. His
apartment house is on the Rue Grisct,
and only married folks with children
are received as tenants. When BIRTH
occurs in the house the mother receives
from him ten francs, fowl and sup
rnlH Of coal for the M.intnr
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
Pray Often.

Pray in the morning before your
days task is begun. Pray at noon
while your hands and head and
heart are full of work. Pray ID the
evening, after the toll and struggle
is over. Pray at midnight Dis you
lie awake upon your bed and reflect
upon the past and forecast your fu-
ture days, Init up your heart to
God. Be careful, also, to frame
your petitions into words. Desire is
strengthened by beng put into
speech, and weakened and dissipa.
ted by beng allowed to lie tormless
TO tho mind.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
WHERE JUSTICE RE!GNS.

A'WIsCONS1N judge has decided that
dentist can not legally pull d tooth on
Sunday.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Legislature of Indiana providing that
any man who shall be proven guilty of
whipping his wife shall himself receive
sixty lashes, and that the public shall
be admitted to the Jail yard to see him
whipped.
"TAKE any twenty-five tall. lean
men," said an old court officer to a re-
porter, ''and you can secure a jury in a
murder case. They have no conscien-
tious scruples against the death penal
ty. AS a rule, Short thick men have
doubts On this point
In TOwsOn, Nd. Mr.. Johnson bit off
Mr., O'Brien's ear during u scutt1e, and
was indicted for mayhem. A demurrer
was sustained upon the ground that the
indictment read, "bit off a piece of ear"
instead of the strict wording of the law,
bit off al ear" and the case was dis
missed.
CHIEF JUSTICE DAILY, Of the court Of
common pleas, New York City, had
summoned to appear before him the
other day PAP men who had been drawn
for jury duty and who had failed to re-
spond. He fined fourteen who failed to
appear to offer any explanation s11O
each, and accepted the excuse Of fifty.
''ICH verstehe nein Englisch," was
the reply Of a coal-black negro who
was asked his name in New York po-
lice court recently, and the court inter
prefer found that the only language the
man knew was German. His name was
Joseph Steinmetzt and he has lived all
his life in Berlin, where he was brought
from the Congo in babyhood.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
GATHERED FROM CALIFORNIA.

THE total assessed valuation Of Cali
fornia is LOGO, ,390,29
A CALIFORNIA man has started into
the business of raising half-breed buf
falo.
L. E. BLoCHMAS, Of Cat Canyon, Cal,
has a perfume farm containing over
5000 lavender plants.
CALIFORNIA now has six ostrich
farms. This country spends about
So, 600, 600 a year for ostrich feathers.
THE petrifed body of a man, which
was found in cave near Fresno, Cal,
has been sold for $4,000. 1t is to be ex-
hibited.
THE great show piece Of the recent
fruit fair held at Marysville, Cal, was
an exact copy Of Suffers famous fort,
built entirely of oranges.
TEHAMA COUNTY, Cal, paid out S795
for scalps in December. The lot in
cluded five lions, one hundred and eight
coyotes, siXty-three wildcats, nineteen
hundred and fifty-two rabbits, fifty
three crows, ten bears and two eagles.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
WEBSTER REVISED.

BED rock-Cradles.
FUR off-Sealskins. ....-
A HORSE tly-Pegasus.
BoOKMA ADMINISTRATIONS - -
A CASNoS-AID-POwder. =. =
KNIGHT wOrk-Chivalry.
DINNER parties-Waiter
A CRIsIs-A weeping girl.
A LITTLE lava boys suit.
MINCE matters-Meat balls.
THE upper crust-Pic pastry.
A DEAR teacher-Experien
RIPPING disSipatiOn-On a tear.
A FREE trader-The speudthrift.
A LIMITED train-Thc demi-sl1irt,
ANCESTRAL hauls-Family plate.
THE old, old story"-ChcstnutS
'GREEN goods" men-Huchsters
CATCHPENNY atfairs-TOy banks.
MEN about n-Letter-carriers.
JAVA real cstate-Cotfec-gr
A Fowl affair-The poultry show.
STEPPING stones'-Front stOops.
GERMAN uproar-Wagner's music.
MUNICIPAL. strength-pOhcc force.
Ill 1ucl1-Recovering from sickness.
OILY gammon"-American sardines
SIGNS and wonders-Thc pantomimc.
FACIAL ndustry-Knitting the brow.
A HIGH iver-The man in the moon.
A "DUTCH trcat"-The Holland din
ner.
A MARRIAGE settlement-Salt Lake
City. =. i -...-...-.
THINGS of interest - Government
bonds. - =
A CELESTIAL mystery-The Chinese
puzzle.
A DRAWN battle-The Gettysburg cy-
clOrana
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09

Use none bat KOlan Bakfn <
Powders.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09

Use none buI R0lan Baking
Powders.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
"W0MAN, FER DISEASES AND THEIR

I REA! Mtkl. + valuable illustrated
book OF seTenty-two pages sent free, on
receipt of 10 cents. to cover cost of mail
ing, etc. Address 2 .. Box l066, Phila-
deiphic. Pa, 49, 3m.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09
T.AEIES

LADIES
Needing {. tonic or children hat want building
up, should take
BROWNS IRON BITTERS.
tits pleasant 10 take, cures Malaria, 1ndiges-
ton, and Biliousness. All dealers keepit.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-09

Larger ANTS. at 4 Of one per cent,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23

things as we can manufacture or produce
ourselves? Is there any sense In our
buying iron products from England when.
we have inexhaustible supplies of iron
ore and coal to convert the same into pig
iron in our own country, and plenty OF
men to work the pigs up into all sorts OF
shapes? What profit would result from
letting our own cotton and wooden mills
stand idle in order that we might
buy cotton and WOODEN goods from Eng
land? Would it be sensible for us to
close our silk factories i'm order to take
tho products of French looms or our
hosiery mills to oblige German manu-.
facturers? No man with q shade of
business sense would advocate anything
of the kind. 1t is only that economically
rotten part of the community which
shares the ideas of the oid-time Calhoun
ties ana seces sonists that StiIl believes
the United States should produce raw
materials for Great Britain and other
foreign countries to put into shape and
sell back to us at an immense profit. No
patriotic American ever advocates any
tn ng of the kind, and the blu h Of shame
mantles his checks when he hears men
calling themselves Americans urging
that we should remain hewcrs of wood
and drawers of water for foreigners
San Francisco Chronicle, March s.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Prosperity of Western Farmers.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch publishes
an interview with Mr.. Charles r. In
gram, dealer in agricultural implements,
South Bend, Ind. He takes as an index
his sales of farm machinery, and con-
fdently asserts that Western farmers
are prosperous. Below is an extract
from the interview:
81 have been through the States of
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas,
Missouri and Northern Texas, and find
that the farmers everywhere intend
buying new and improved farming i'm
plements to plant and gather the next
crop. From long experience / know
that this is an infallible sign of pros
perity After bad crop, or when the
farmers, for some reason or other, are
not in good financial condition, they
are very unwilling to add to their stock.
and make their old tools do. But when
they have money to spare they invest in
impro ed appliances. That the invest
ment this year will be heavier than ever
before Is a fact assured by the contracts
already made. and is evidence that the
farmers never were SO prosperous as
they are now
This test mony conflicts somewhat
with the doleful pictures drawn by @rs-
formers" OF the tariff-robbed West.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-23
Poll fca1 Comment,

THE anti-administratio organs do not
harm Mr. Blaine in the least by thor
senseiess and unratriotic criticisms of
his diplomacy Springfield linton.
WHEN the consumer gets eighteen or
twenty pounds of sugar for dollar, the
pearl button bowler will receive no atten-
ton. Journal
WHEN sugar drops two cents pound
the country will have one more illustra-
ton of the wisdom and beneficence OF
Republican policy. Louts Globe DEM
OcrGt
The last Speaker of the House who
didn't get thanked" was James X. Polk.
Yet the people for some reason thought
enough of him to elect him President of
the United States. Buffalo Express.
RECIPROCITY. according to Mr.. Mills,
Is a Democratic doctrine, but the ugly
fact remains that the Democrats in Con-
gress did their best to defeat it.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat
THE latest figures show that Congress
man Mills leads in the contest for tho
Speakership. 1t should be stated, how
ever, that the figures are furnished by a
Texas gentleman.-BostonR Herald.
OPPONENTS of reciprocity, who have
been SO assiduously insisting that the
commercial treaty with Brazil would not
be accepted by that country, have an
opportunity now to digest the fact that
it has been ratified by the President of
Brazil. Press.
DEMOCRATIC organs are again lament
ing the condition of the national surplus,
and by juggling the figures build up
huge deficiency. Similar demonstrations
were made less than year ago, but
their calculations utterly failed to dove
tall with practical results.-Omata Bee.
IT costs money to be honest and pay
just debts for government as much as
an individual. If the Fifty-frst Con-
gress had neglected as many just govern
ment obligations as the Democratic Con-
crosses which preceded, it's appropria-
tions would have been smaller.-Phila-
delphtG Press.