THE CELEBRATED CORNISH PIANOS AND ORGANS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 4254, 3 July 1895, Page 4

THE CELEBRATED CORNISH PIANOS AND ORGANS.

The only firm of actual manufacturers in the United States selling direct from the factory to the general public at guaranteed wholesale price for a single Instrument. The Cornish Pianos and Organs are known to be the best value for the least money. It is just as easy for the readers of this paper to sit down and order a Cornish Piano or Organ from America as to order one fi-om their own music dealer, the only difference bein? they will save 50 to 100 per cent. We have Organs from £8 Pianos from £38, and our large Illustrated Catalogue, which we will send free to any address,will give a full description of every Piano and Organ manufactured by us, together with lowest cash prices and terms sale We can give references from every country in the world, and our monthly sales average one thousand instruments. We sell for cash or upon a t rm of instalments to suit the circumstances of the purchaser. Write for a Catalogue at once. Address— COßNlSH & CO., Washington New Jersey, United States of America. In one of a serie3 of popular health lectures recently delivered afc Perth Dr Ferguson drew attention to a very common practice among school children which may affect the spread of tuberculosis. He gays that in certain schools slates are handed to the children, aud that there is not the slightest attempt made to ensure that each child shall have the same slate time after time. Now, the first thing the child does is to clean the slate, which is done in a primitive method by means of the finger wetted with saliva. In thia process the finger travels many times from mouth to slate, vice versa, and thus convey to the mouth any material which may happen to be upon the slate. What this material may be depends largely upon the health of the child who previously uaed it. Dr Ferguson's special point was that tuberculosis mitjht be thus transmitted from child to child ; but it is even more obvious that such a disease as diphtheria might be diffused in this manner. Many people doubt the educational advantage of unng sla'es a* all : certainly if they are used every child should have his own, as 1 in the rule in some American schools.