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5CIKNTIFIC MISCELLANT.
Bun- Correspondence of To-Morrow
Cswini Machines for Ice-Bound Harbors A
Ei-ck Bauty Aluminum for Army Use
Tb T-lPno"e 85 Newspapar A Noval
picj'cl Tlr Influence of Fats on Disinfec-U.ts-A
Larynx Giving ilany Voices.
paring the past 2o years, says Mr.
l'atr k 1$. Delaney, chemical teleg
raph v na at different times engaged
th Attention of numerous able in
entors. Recent improvements in the
jr,, rating machine, transmitter, and
aii'i n -ceiviui; instrument for automa
tic chemical telegraphy have at last
broujrht this ideal plan of rapid com-jij-miifiitioii
to a degree of perfection
which cannot fail to bring about
swp jink' changes in transmission of
corn prudence in general. Between
Vw York and Philadelphia, over a
copper wire weighing 300 pounds to
the mile, ;i000 words per minute can
be carried from New York to Chicago.
The letter of the future will be dic-tatt-tl
t a stenographer, who will per
forate.it on a paper tape. The tape
will be sent to the telegraph office,
w here it will be put through the au
tomatic transmitting machine, and in
aicoiil or two will be at its destina
tion. The receiving tape will be de
jiwred direct, and the plain Morse
diameters will be translated on the
tape-writing machine by the corres-
iioiiaeiiL s sienogriimier. j. message
. . .. l 4 ....
4
of Id words from New York to Chica
i:u can be sent every second, and GO
wunl about the average of a busi
'ne letter in three seconds.
The ice sawing apparatus of 'M. Ca
niere was tested at Antwerp last win
ter, ami is reported by the United
.State.- Consul at Ghent to be a prom-
jinr idea for keeping open naviga- j
tion. A strong boat was provided at
t lit- bow wtih an adjustable frame
work carrying two circular saws,
which were driven by a portable en
gine, the boat being pulled along by a
rope fixed some distance ahead and
pa.-sing over a windlass. A passage 5
van! wide was cut 20 feet per minute
in ice two inches thick, but only a
third of a mile per day in 8 inch ice.
A black diamond of extraordinary
size, weighing nearly 2 pounds, was
found in Brazil in July, and has been
shown to the French Academy. It is
to be broken up, its industrial value
heintc some $10,000. -
The light weight of aluminutn ren
tiers it especially desirable for utensils
for military use, and, an investigation
has been accordingly made by M. Bal
lard, a French chemist, to determine
whether the: metal 'is really as unsafe
a? lias been suggested. He finds that
in the ordinary conditions of a soldiers
life aluminum utensils offer a suffi
cient resistenee to wear and friction,
to the action of foods and of potable
liquids. Foods, etc., have consider
able action on prolonged contact, but
in actual use the contact is very brief,
and the 'metal takes a clouded appear
ance and does not' appreciably vary in
weight - after four months of use.
Aluminum vessels should never be
cleansed with soda, and solderings
should be avoided as much as possi
ble. The telephone newspaper, which
has been in successful operation over
two years at Budapest, has become al
most indispensable to its 0000 subscrib
ers. The service has amain wire of
Venules, which is connected to pri
vate houses and various public re
ports. Between 7.30 in the morning
and j.:;o in the evening 28 editions are
spoken into the transmitter, ten men
with loud, clear voices acting as
speakers in shifts of two at a time.
The news is classified and given in ac
cordance with a regular programme,
so that any subscriber knows when to
expect the kind of items of especial
interest to him. A short summary of
all important items is given atpnoon
and again at night, and subscribers
re entertained with music and lec
ture? in the evening.
A pneumatic vehiclo tire carrying
materials for its repair in its interior
ha been patented by Measri. J. F.
and K. P. Forbes, of Halifax. The ma
terial are in the form of slender strips,
filament, ring, or the like, and ar
ranged so that they may bo drawu
outward into a puncture of the tire.
ne of the pike of the aquarium of
t. Petersburg is believed by good au
thority to have been hatched about
the time Columbus discovered Auier
yet, notwithstanding its 400 years
of life, it is in good health.
Mortar of brick-dust and quicklime
is now recommended as an excellent
and durable substitute for hydraulic
cement. .
A strangely neglected fact of much
importance has been brought to no
tice by some recent experiments of
Dr. Breslauer. It was found by Koch
some fourteen years ago that the anti
septic properties credited "carbolized
oil," or carbolic acid in combination
with olive oil, are lacking, yet the
matter has since received very little
attention. Dr. Breslauer has now re
ported an exhaustive examination of
various disinfectants, such as carbolic
acid, corrosive sublimate, boracic acid,
nitrate of silver, etc., in combination
with oil, vaseline, fat, lanoli anby
dricum, lanolin, and unguentum
leniens. The degree of antiseptic
power prores to be remarkably in
fluenced by the diluent employed, and
in all cass the best antiseptic result?
were obtained by disinfectants in com
bination with lanolin or unguentum
leniens. In experiments, for instance,
with 5 per cent of carbolic acid in va
rious substances, it was found that
the microbe of boils survived immer
sion in carbolized oil for 3 days, in
carbolized vaseline 1 day, in fat 4
hours, in lanolin anhydricum 2 hours,
in lanolin 30 minutes, and in unguen
tum leniens 20 minutes. Similar re
sults were obtained with other bac
teria and other disinfectants. It ap
pears, therefore, that in ointments
the disinfectant selected should be
used in combination with lanolin or
unguentum leniens instead of with oil,
vaseline, or other fatg.
A steam pipe capable of resisting
very high pressure has been patented
by a Glasglow engineer. It consists
of a copper tube around which is
wound steel wire, especial care being
taken to ensure perfect contact be
tween the two metals. Soldering is
effected by immersing the whole in a
fusible alloy whose' melting point is
above the temperature of the super
heated steam.
A new alloy known as "gold-steel1
is said to be meeting with favor among
Sheffield manufacturers on account of
its beauty and durability. It is a
composition of bronze and aluminum,
and is peculiarly adapted for cutlery.
A very successfvl artificial larynx
for a man who had lost his voice is
credited Prof. Anderson Stuart, of the
University of Sydney. The changing
of certain reeds makes the voice so
prano, tenor, contralto or bass, at
will.
"The Common People,"
As Abraham Lincoln cad led them, do
not care to argue about their ailments.
What they want is a medicine that
Will cure them. The simple, - honest
statement, "I know that Hood's Sar
saparilla cured me," is the best argu
ment in favor of this medicine, and
this is what many thousauds volun
tarily say.
Hood's Pills are the best after-dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure head
ache. 25c.
Detective Hussey, of Baltimcre,who
was in this State in search of Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Indian Mohawk, who
murdered a small boy in Baltimore,
has returned home from North Caroli
na, where he followed the show in the
hopes of arresting the murderer. The
grand jury in Baltimore have returned
an indictment of manslaughter against
the aborigine, but there is going to be
trouble in arresting him. It is stated
that the Baltimore authorities are pre
pared for any emergency that may
arise on account of the Indian being a
ward of the United States, and expect,
under all circumstances, to bring the
prisoner to Baltimore for trial. A de
tective from Baltimore has gone to
Atlanta where Buffalo Bill now is, to
keep Mohawk under surveillance and
arrest him at the proper time.
If vour children are subject to croup
watch for the first symptom of the dis
eaSe hoarseness. If Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is given as soon as the
child Incomes hoarse it will prevent
the attack. Even after the croupv
ccugh has appeared the attack can al
ways be prevented by giving this rem
edy. It is also invaluable for colds
anil whooping cough. For sale by O.
M. Uoyster, Druggist. 40-4 1
m Snap Shots.
To jotue people itrnorance poems to
be intuitive.
Whether one's taste is good or bad
is a matter of taste.
Wealth is sometimes more burden
some than poverty itself.
The consequences are sometimes
more than one person can take.
Some Americans ridicule foreign
Dukes and then claim to be related to
them.
The coward may not be able to keep
up his own courage, but he keeps up
the courage of somebody else.
The person who attempts to ket
one eye on the past and the other eye
on the future will run cross-eyed.
The question in some communities
is not .whether a young man can do
anything, but whether lie can do any
body. Galveston News.
GENERAL NEWS.
It is said that Consul-General Wil
liams, at Havana, has become perona
non grata to Spain. He is probably
too fond of what the Cubans are fight
ing for liberty and home rule.
Failures for t ie week have included
two banks and several concerns of
some size, aod have been 2J7 in the
United States against 231 last year,
and 52 in Canada against 43 last year.
The New England Cotton Manufact
uring Association will hold its Autumn
meeting in Atlanta October 24th and
2oth. .An excursion party of 200 will
leave New York Tuesday, Oct. 22nd.
In the Episcopal general convention
the house of bishops agree to the es
tablishment of five "provinces," each
presided over by an archbishop; the
next convention will be held in At
lanta. Gov. Evans, of South Carolina, has
appointed Dr. Sarah Campbell Allen,
a yonng lady, assistant physician at
the State lunatic asylum. Dr. Allen
hails from Charleston and has a splen
did reputation as a physician.
Massachusetts is taking the lead of
all the States in the matterof building
good roads. At the last session of the
Massachusetts Legislature the nuiu of
400,000 was appropriated for roads,
and it is said that at the next session
an appropriation of $1,000,000 will be
made.
Th action of the ''National Repub
licans" or Republican sugar planters,
of Louisiana, in repudiating the ne
groes and calling fcr a white Repub
lican party, ha caused quite a flutter
of excitement and indignation among
the old time Republicans and negroes,
and they threaten to go over in a
body to the Democrats.
The learned men of London are
about to issncanother revised edition
of t he-Bible, but like the one they is
sued some ten or fifteen years ago, this
one will doubtless quickly drop into
innocuous desuetude. With all its
faults the old King James version of
the book of books will continue to be
the popular favorite.
The State Department has received
from Ambassador Patenotre,ofFrance,
the invitation of the French republic
to take part in the French exposition
of 1900 which is to usher in the twen
tieth century. The invitation is in
French and is quite long, giving full
information of the scope and organiza
tion of the project.
The Tree Will Baptist church at
Jackson, Mich., has inaugurated a new
development of modern Christianity.
They have got tired of paying a
preacher for doing what they can do
just as well, or better, themselves; so
a dozen of the foremost men in the
congregation have agreed to take the
pulpit a week about in rotation and
dispense with the parson.
The following are the total net re
ceipts of cotton at all the ports since
Sept. 1, 18U3: Galveston, 188,027 bales;
New Orleans. 220,208; Mobile, 33,01)4;
Savannah, 144, Charleston, 78.131;
Wilmington, 38J27; Norfolk, 28,008,
Baltimore, Coo; New York, 4,703; Bos
ton, 2.512; Newport News, 247; Phila
delphia, G,401; West Point, 12,87;
Brunswick,, 3,575; Texas ity, 1,000.
Total, 783,804.
Russla'a Demand Accepted.
Sax Francisco, Cal., Oct. 10. Ad
vices by mail from Tokio, Japan,
dated September 27, to the Associated
Press, state that Japan has been
forced to comply with Russia's de
mand for a speedy withdrawal of the
Japanese troops from Liao Tung.
France and Germany joined in the de
mand ami the Japanese government
was in no position to defy three Euro
pean powers.
The announcement of Russia's pur .
pose took Japan by surprise. Thi
proceeding has caused renewed bitter
ness in Japan against Huropeans. The
Japanese also charge their own min
istry with conniving at the nation''
dishonor.
TO SO
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VE OFFER A REMEDY WHICH
IHSURES SAFETY TO LIFE
GF MOTHER AND CHILD.
"Mathers' Friend"
ROES CONFINEMENT OP IT8 PAIN.
Hormcn and risk.
M v yif used iiiy t n liottlej.
iten er.silv :iv itiickiy reiitvri; is now
doing mu rniidlv.
" J. . "UoirroN. JlaHoiT. N. C.
iv t v r Tt-fs. rr trial!, on recJr fc.
il.fr r UrftU. Hoot -TO MOTHERS
mii;eti frt-t"-
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SOLJ) BT ALT. DKOOaXSTS.
Bt n Coald Do.
The robber presented hia glittering
pistol.
"Have you a vacancy in your book
keeping staff? he demanded.
The president of the bank shook his
head.
Well-
Thr outlaw sighed Hs was palpably
chagrined.
'I'll have to contented, then.
with what cash ycu hare cm hand.'
Stealing 113 ! ha left the place.
Detroit Tribune.
BooUl Circle.
Life.
A Phenomenon.
There is a certain barber for whom
greatest love I harbor, because he is the
best one that I ever yet have struck, and
when I've to you related all the reasons
why I've stated that this barber is a
good one you'll agree that I'm in luck.
Though hi smile is omnipresent,
though his face is always pleasant, yet
he ns'er disturbs my thinking with a
solitary word. From the time I strike
the door till the shaving job is o'er ho
keeps sedate and silent; not a sound
from him is heard.
He is not forever cooing that my head
needs a shampooingnor volubly descant
ing on his patent "Brilliantine, " nor
continually is he chinning that my
raven hair is thinning, and that ''Jones'
hair renewer" is the best he's ever seen.
He speaks not with fond affection of
free trade or of protection; of his poli
tics I nothing know from any word he's
said. While my bristling beard he's
shaving he is not forever raving of how
Corbett or Fitzsimmons will mash in
the other's head.
All the paragraphers witty have my
earnest, sincere pity if the tales are true
they tell us of the barbers whom they
meet, and who always are a-talking, all
attempts at thinking balking, and if
they but knew my barber they would
say he can't be beat.
What ! You say you don't believe me;
that you think that I deceive thee; that
all barbers are alike, and that my mind
is out of plumb? But as sure as I arn
living 'tis the truth to you I'm giving,
though I failed, I thiulc, to mention
that my barber's deaf and dumb. New
York WTorld.
Misapplied Kindnm.
Misapplied kindnp.s is frequently
more unpleasant than literal cruelty.
Two women sat sido by side in a Brook
lino car. They w ere strangers to t-ach
other, but one noticed that thf- other
was having serious difficulty arranging
a jacket she wore, and which fitted so
tightly over her sleeves that it would
neither come on nor off. "Permit me. "
said the other, and she pulled the jack
et on one shoulder and jerked up the
collar. Still the woman continued to
struggle, so that the coat once more
slipped down, whereupon the other haul
ed it into place again. "Now, if you'll
turn round, I'll pull up the other side,"
she said to the wearer. "Thank you, "
returned the coated one. "If it's all the
same to you, I'm trying to get this jack
et off, " and with a final pull off it came,
while the woman who had tried to help
her attempted to look out of the win
dow with the air of one who had got
enormously rich minding her own busi
ness. Boston Home Journal.
The One Injured.
Minnie Did you hear about MollieV
fiance falling off the trolley car and
breaking his arm?
Mamie Yes. I wonder if ho will
rue the company for damages?
Minnie I guess not I shouldn't
wonder if she does, though. Cincinnati
Tribune
A Iteming Vartoty.
"Why do yon make fome of your
dumplings small ami the others large,
Frau Hober?"
"Because my husband ha been com
plaining lately of having too little
change in his diet." Uxiecre Gesell
scbafL Itetort Pointed
Irritable Old Gentleman (savagely,
to up to date maiden, who hits U-en to
a dance agruuet his wishes?) Sr yr.n
have returned at lat, daughter of a
tan! Rebellions Daughter Yes, father.
London Chips.
Eneoar&clnff.
Consumptive (in Colorado I thl
room well eituattd for an invalid?
Landlady It couldn't be better. I've
bad three consumptive here the psit
year, and they liked it o well that not
one left until be died. Life.
In
HealtHa
means so much more than
you imagine serious and
fatal diseases result from
trifling ailments neglected.
greatest gift health.
If jrea arefeeUer
oat of aoru. weak
and generally e
haaued, aenroas,
have no appetite
and rant wotk,
begin at once tak
ing the most relia
ble strengthening
medicine.which ia
Brown's Iron Bit
ters. A few bot
tles cure benefit
cornea from the
very first dose
' tin wear
Uttk, and tl'a
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Browns
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It Cures
Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver
Neuralgia, Troubles,
Constipation, Bad Blood
Malaria, Nervous ailments
Women's complaints.
Get only the genuine it has crossed red
lines on the wrapper. All others are sub-
stitutes. On receiot of two ar. ttimni we m
will send set of Ten Beautiful World's
Fair Views and bookTree.
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Practices in the courts of this and
adjoining counties, also in the Federal
courts. inch 8 ly
W. L. LOWE
HAS the largest stock-of Musical
Instruments in NortlCarolina,and his
prices are the lowest. Come to see xue.
Orders ?y mail hart prompt atten
tion. Address
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NOTICE.
I want every man and woman In the TiHa4
States Interested in the Optnm and Whiskj
habits to have one of mT books on these dl
cases. Address It. M. Woollej, Atlanta, Go,
Box 382, and one will be sent jou free.
Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment
Is a certain cure for Chronic bore Eyes,
Granukted Eye Lids, Sere Nipples, Piles,
Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum and Scald Head,
25 cents per box. For sale by druggists.
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For putting a horse in a fine healthy con
dition try Dr. Cady's Condition rowders.
They tone up the system, aid dipestion, cure
loss "of appetite, relieve constipation, correct
kidney diponlers and destroy worms, friring
new life to an old or over worked horse. 25
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