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The Huron News-Record, 1887-11-30, Page 4J yron,NowsRecani n 41 % educs lay. Novembclr 39, i.Sdr7 Why Po 'r1 a Leaves 11'a11 P • • p results from this, that early t4 eke 8eaaon the leaf reecho ,the IIlnit; Qf iis: growth in eize, aud,as tbs... Stem to which it is attached goes -on enlarging, there is a tendeaney to disunion between steep and leaf, and so it comes to pass that the: leaves, which. et the beginuiug Qf the season were. as cloth part of the tree as the branches themselves, gradually cease to take part in the. work of the organism, and, having given up to the stem and branches the starch and other protoplasmic substances which by help f h sunlight they had manufactured in the mysterious laboratory of the leaf cells, they are able to yield without resistance. to the play of the chemi- cal forces which have been at work; indeed, all through the season, but which have been kept at bay, or made to minister to the needs of the loaves by the vital principle now withdrawn.” "Notice," again goes on our authority, "how vari- ously the leaves take the approach ofold age. Some begin to lose the green coloring matter—still so little understood—at the first breath of autumn ; others cling to this vital element, and keep their sum- mer colpr till some frosty night •drives the chlorophyll inwards to the branch. Even as leen under great'stress will become Gray -headed in a single day, so a bitter night will sometimes change the look of a tree. Observe, also, that while some leaves take the sentence of death and decay gayly, blending yellows and reds and reddish browns with the retreating greens, and still showing the beautiful net- work of rib and vein as we hold them up against the light—there are others which take the change sulkily, and in which the tracery of the veins is clouded over. 'Toro is tho mellow age of the elm leaf and the sulky age of tho oak loaf. But, short as has been the leaf's life it has finished its work and prow disci for its successor. Under the shade and shelter of the leaf there has been quietly growing during the summer the bud which is to push into leaf next spring. There they are, the buds on this bare elm twig close above the sears left by the fallen leaves. This time last year this twig and those buds were all folded up in one bud.' The spray with' its bud is a year's work." "This budded spray," says Ruskin, "is one pinnacle of the tree cathe- dral which has taken, a year to fashion." Slice open a bnd and you will find the next season's growth packed up with marvelous neatness and ready for the time when the tree shall feel the stirring of the spring in its blood." -, C ZriDRRN'f3:11t 11!1 Counting' Put Vernon.in 4/1 APs, 011nru ft., and Z,anguagea• (New York Sun.) 4. dignified professor, with a bald. head, began a lecture before the New York Academy of Science New 'York, as follows :— E:eny, menet'. pliueyi mo, Catch a nigger by the toe ; se he hollers lot smile go, Feny, welney, miney, mo. One -0y, twoTttt'y, zicomy sae, Wicli:abo, wockfuho.. Qriokbco'orockeitor Tillery tan. Entery, meutery, koutery kelt, Apple seed end apple sail, Wire. brier, limber lock, Three geese in a flock, Ope flies east, one flies west, o O the ' And one flies over the cuckoo's nest. Eenery, teenery, tickery, Leven, I'll go marry ton or eleven ; Pin, pan, musky Don, Nineteen' twenty, twenty-one. The dignified Professor was Dr. H. Carrington Bolton, and his 8nb- jec.t was "The Countingeout Rhy- mes of Children. A Study in In- ternational Folk Lore." Dr. Bolton was formerly a professor in Trinity College, Hartford. Ho has just re- turned from a tour in Europe. He explained to the audience that these rhymes and many others which he had picked up in twenty languages were used by children in their games to determine who should have the most undesirable part. A lead- er repeated the doggerel rhyme, and the child on whom the last word fell was set free.- Those remaining wont through the same erdeal until the last ono remained, who was "it" This "it," Dr. Bolton said, is a very polite expression in the games of English-speaking children, for in German the one who is "it" is called a "wolf" instead of "it ;" in Japan- ese, :'uui," or "little devil ;" in Malagasy, "bucca," or "leper," and in Hawaiian, "crazy one." One of the most common jingles in all languages was the familiar. One, two, buckle my shoe ; T11reeJour, shut the door; Five, six, pick up sticks; Soveu,eight, lay them straight,etc., Thera is a fund of curious allu- sions in the doggerel rhymes, Dr. Boltou . coutinued. Here is one picked up after the expedition of the Emperor Napoleon into Russe : The First Lieutenant was so neat He stopped in battle to wash his feet. Another, which shows how anci- cent the pattersis, is : Nebuchadneazar,the King of the Jews Sliplied off his slippers and slipped on his shoes. Little Things that gill. A modern instance showing local coloring in the United States is : There was a little rattlesnake. He ato too much or wedding cake, And made his little belly ache. As to the origin of almost all of —the -children's doggerel, Dr. Bolton said' he believed it descended from remote antiquity. The ancients were acoustopted to cast lots in the most solemn:acts .of • life. It was considered an appeal to the Almigh- ty. In the middle ages casting lots was degraded to a superstition, and charlatans used unmeaning formulas to impose on the people, pretending to cure diseases and forecast the future. In the well kuoMn dogger- el : - Eckery, ackery ukery an, One -cry, two -pry, etc. The "eatery" ie, Sanskir<te-for- "one;" It is probable, Psof: Bolton Said, that "ackery" war orginally'a word- also. Dr. Bolton gave this example of the manner in which children change the thymes. , In the Eastern States there is a ,gingle which runs - as fol- lows John says to John now `much are your geese ? • John says Ito John twenty cents apiece ; John says to John that is too dear, John says to John get out of here. On the Pacific coast this has been changed to : Ching Chong Chinaman how much are your geese ? Ching Chong,Chinawan, twenty cents apiece, etc. The latest discovery dug up by Dr. Bolton was this : One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, All good children go to heaven, All bail children go below, To keep company with Gluitgt;u. Hartford Times. At various tines the newspapers have warned the public against swallowing the seeds of ,grapes, oranges, etc., because of the danger - of such substances getting into a small intestinal bag, or cul-de-sac, called by the doctors the appendix vermiformis. This is a, little re- ceptacle formed at the,junetion of a large and small intestines; but its use or object no physician knows. It has been thought to, be a rudi• mentary or incomplete formation— or possibly some meaningless' sur- vival of a lost anterior typo. At any rate, its existeuce, while pre- senting no 'apparent "reason for being," as the French say, is, on the other hand, a positive and constant source of danger, because of the liability of its becoming the recep- tacle of some undigested seed or other indigestible substance. In that case it produces a state of in- flammation which in nearly all cases proves fatal; Fortunately but few seeds, among the great number so heedlessly swallowed,` seem to get into this little death-trap—although any one seems likely to lodge there, Per-' haps more cases of inflammation of the bowels than the doctors suspect may be in reality due to this Obscure and disregarded cause. Ono sad case, which to day produces a feel- ing of deep regret'among thousands, and which plunges a family in over- whelming grief, oeeured iu this city on Saturday evening, in the lamented death of J. Robert Dwyer, the much esteemed adjutant of the Governor's foot guard—a man whose place that ancient corps can- not well• make good. His case so baffled the physicians that an autopsy was had, and that revealed a piece of peanut shell in the ap- pendix vormiformis. —Orders have- been sent from Montreal for the dismissal of eight conductors on the Western Division of the C. P. R. A spotter boarded the train at Sudbury Junction re- cently, represented himself as an old conductor dying of consumption and was passed through, by all the conducttors to Vancouver. Hence their discharge. Among the men . are some of the ()Meet conductors on the line, A Methodist Sensation. Previous to the adjournment of the North Alabama Conference of the Southern Methodist Church at Tuscaloosa last week a resolution was adopted requesting Dr. D. C. Kelley, of Nashville, ono of the most eminent Methodist divines in America, and Missionary Treasurer of rho General Conference, to resign his official position on account of his utterances in reference to the actress, Emma Abbott, at Nashville. The resolution will create a gt'eat sensatidn throughout the entire Southern Methodist Church. Dr. Kelley defended Miss Abbott's rising in the church to defend her- self against the harsh terms used in a sermon on theatre going recently preached by a Nashville clergy- man. 'Qttfl"l„DutitIftr's 8,ttiot or 4, r3ox . ,?calk Maluep', ea Shlldx'en, tnaype you haf noticed bole many burdocks vhas growing in der arden luno all around t?n dear fields, garerypody chops him dowu und- polls bim op, but he cowee pack next year all der same, und he vitas sooch a nuisance dot peoples got -moat nod shwoar. 1 shall now tell you der ahtory of bow dot bur- docks come aboudt. Vhell,. ouoo upon sometimes a man lif near Bremen, in Sherrnany. He vhas an oldt man, uud he vhas a miser. Ile goes hungry uud in rage, und he shleeps on the floor und loan' care how mooch his pones ache. He vhas werry, worry rich. He can buy oudt our City Hall und haf some money left. He lends money at twenty per cent. interest, und ho turns poor peoples oudt door and vhas so hardt in his heart dot eaferypody hates and vhas in fear of him. "Now, I toll you, shildren, it vhas no good to spend all your looney und pring oop in dol. poor house vhen you vhas oldt und feeble; but nopody likes a man who vhas so stingy dot he goes hungry und ragged. It vhas shust ash wicked to be stingy as extravagant. Vhell, to go on, dot rich oldt mis- er hasa burdock grow in his garden. It vhas der only one anypody eafer sees in Sherrnany,'und der peoples belief dot der loaves vhill euro all diseases.' One day a poor womans mit a sick shild comes t3 dot place, und begs und pleads mit der oldt miser for one leedle leaf to cure her child. Does he gif it to her'1 No He vhants money, und i1' she can't pay, dot shild may die. Der poor womans cries und sobs, but it vhas no goot, und 'so she falls on her knees by der roadside und pegies to pray, Pooty soon a leedle old leane. comes oudt of der bushes und says "How vhas dis Who makes you weep und be sorrowful I" "Dot oldt miser won't gif me some burdock to safe my child's life," she tells him. "Oh—ah—I see ! Money vhas of more value dan human life, has she 9 Und we haf. only one bur- dock, und she vhas in dor hands of a miser ! Womans, wait a leedle bit." , Und he goes py der gate und holds oudt his.. arm sor uud says : "Hokey-pokey ! presto shango Let all der money in dis house turn into burdocks und, children,-ehuat as true as I vhas here pefore you all, dot money come running oudt-doors und vhas turned into big und loedlo burdocks, und der poor womans shteps on 'eel as she walks • home. Dot oldt miser gifs one big yell end" falls deadt und dot vhas der last of him. So you now see why burdocks vhas so plenty und money so scarce, und you may peliof he vhas all right. Eafery burdock comes from dot 0110, und dey grow all aboudt us dot der lesson of charity may eitfer pe po- fore bur minds. For and About Women: WOMAN'S LOVE. "Somebody once said—I never remember names—that tiny woman without a positive hump can marry •any man she pleases. I believe tbat any man even with a hum -p can marry any woman he pleases." A murmur of disapprobation arose from the petticoated listeners. "And the only requisite is persist• ecce, fifth some little measure of judgment." The murmur grew to a clamor, but .the speaker was also a woman, and a very bright one at. that. She waited until -the tumult of- indigna- tion and ejaculation^ had subsided, . and then preached us the following littlesermon from the above assets - Lion as a text : "Of course, I cannot make this an 'absolute statement, but it is a very general- rule, and as such has no more than the orthodox number of exceptions. Once in a while a woman can not be won by 'merely dog -like following ; and if two men chance to set their affections on the same object one of thein will event- ually have to yield—unless they go to Utah inverted (thoughtfully); butthat does not pertain 'to the sub. ject. • "Usually a man has but to get his eye upon the goal, and then steadily pursue it, through thick end thin, weal and woe, deviating bitty enough to make food for reflection, slowing up only enough to get a header for a fresh start, and some time he is bound to get there. It may take years. He may lead to the altar auything but a girlish bride, l,ut the game, suuh as it is, is bis, and hound to be his. "Not ono, woman in a thousand can withstand enduring affection. She may personally have no predi- lection for the•man, and her sense may be altogether on the other side of the scales, but if he tells her she is the ono woman ir, the world, and continues to tell her, bywords when convenient, by actions always, lie will soon have a place in her emo- tions that no other man has or can have ; in fact (cdnfidentially), 1 be- lieve that woman's love is generally nothng but a reflection. Otherwise how is she unually so enamored of theseeett aha: paten with." Sim las' uo free cheaice .in tate tastier. She on not tieldct what • she ilf►lu:rfally likea and adluires, hut must take what ie oared. Time I believe that while a man usually marries a woman wheel he is first attracted to by admiration, a woman's attachmentas very seldom that ha.is. After marriage, however, the affection of the oae who took him because he alone offered Mun- eelf is by no weans Tess thou that of the husband who chose her from among ten thousand. On the con• trary it is unquestionably deeper, more fervent, longer lived. But it is not founded on the same, basis., It has its roots, pot in the man's virtues and attractions, but in his feelings for herself. She adore him because he first adored her—a flat- tering illustration of our lack of vanity, you see. - "Now, my friends, none of you can deny this- There is no one of you but knows that if a wan is in love with you he acquires an added interest in your eyes ; when he vows that you are an angel yon discover that he has good taste at least , and when he sighs he will die without you, yuu realize, for the first tine, probably, what the body politic might become without him. Irl short, if he is in love with you, you are to a certain ektell't, and perhaps only temporary 'at first, in love with him ; but if his, ador continues, since like causes produce like effects, he conn steady rises in your eyes, until tinnily—well, Pope was a deformed wan and so was Byron ; you don't measure a man by his shoulders. But girls, you never chose a hump- back physically, intellectually or morally.. Hs chose you, and he just kept after you until hs got you.,. At this a couple of the virgin Members of the audience., twisted their ring -sets into the palms of their hands and thoughtfully spoke of the fashions in passementeries. WIVES AND WIDOWS. There is a decided disposition in France to regard those who marry eti secondes noces as hardened sin- ners or as imbeciles undeserving of sympathy. The popular sentiment on the subject is to the effect that a person has only the right to be born once, to marry once and to die once. Those who show a wish to undergo any of those operations twice are suspected of gourmandise. It must be admitted, however, that public opinion respecting second marriage is much more generous with regard to the man than with regard to the woman. There is a social and religions prejudice against the second marriage of women, especially when these have reached middle age and have children• Western Prairie Fires. St. Louis, Nov. 23.—Reports of forest and prairie fires come from rill directions, excepting the North, and give au account of great destruc- tion of property. - The bottom lands of the Okawa and the Big Muddy rivers in Southwestern Illinois and the prairies in many parts of the. satire sections are ablaze, and out- houses, .fences, farming machinery, outstanding crops and wheat, and in some eases residences have been destroyed. . In South-eastern, Mis- souri and Kansai, -between the Iron Mountain Railway and the Missis- sippi River, the swamps and low lands have been .almost burned out and the whole country is so filled with smoke that the people are al- most stifled. As far west as Hot. Springs -fires have destroyed farms, residences, barns and fences. On the east side of 'the Mississippi River in Washington- and Bolivar counties.. Miss., nine cotton gins besides much other valuable ,pro- perty have been, destroyed. From the Indian Territory are reports of great prairie fires. Forty miles of range rround Red Fork have been entirely ravaged and thousands df tons of hay, farming implements and a large number of cattle have been burnedr Other sections of the territory have suffered in the same, way. - . —Johann Most, the New York Anarchist, was arrested on a charge of using violent and seditious lan- guage at an Anarchist meeting. The crime charged against him is misdemeauor, and it is punishable with a year's imprisonment or a fine of $250, or both. Most was arrested on the sacro charge -.on April 30,1886, Ho was convicted and received a sontenctiNof -both fine and imprisonment. LUMBER WANTED ! --AT— Cantelon's Carriage Works ! OLIN Tc5N', All kinds and nothing but arst•cless, as wo are now building a line assortment of rigs. Do not fail to call and see thein. All kinds of work (a specialty. 8 X. CANTELON, Clinton. • 4 Farm,. *PROPERTY - T' VILLAGE P,ROPE�RTY FOR SALE. TIEE EXEOUTOBS AND TRUSTEES of the Estate of the late Joaaru Hue offer for sale the following valuable property. namely $ullding Lots numbers 420 and 421, In the To.,ivn ofCodedch, quarter of an acre each, fairly fenced and very deairable for buildittg purposes. Half acre Lot fronting Mill Road, Township of Goderluh, being part of lot $ in the Maitland Concession of the maid Township. Nice frame' cottage and frame stable. Lot number 3, south aide of Millar street, Ben - rotifer, quarter of an aero. Small frame dwell- ing. Building Lots numbers 803 and 804, in tl e Town of Clinton, quarter of en acre each, beau- tifully situated on south aide of Huron street; talrly fenced. The East Hall of Lot 22, con. 14, West Woman oath; good land, 50 acres cleared and fenced, re. mafndor timbered; about 4 miles from Lucknow and 6 from Hingham; good roads. - For further particulars apply to E. CAMPION, 41.64f Barrister, Godorich. A. A. BENNETT, —THE LEADING— FUNERAL DIRECTOR —AND— EMBALMER, Iced Rocker Store, ALBERT ST. CLINTON.: Unapproached for Tone and Quality. CATALOGUES FREE. BELL & CO., Guelph, out, NEWSPAPER LAWS We call the special attention' of Post pasters and subscribers to the following iypopsis of tho•nowspaper laws :- 1—A postmaster, is required to naive notice at LETTER. (returning a paper (roes not answer the law) when a subscriber does not take his paper out 'of the office, and state the reason for its not being taken. Any neglectto do so makes the postmaster responsible to the publishers for payment.' 2—If .any person. orders his paper dis• 3ontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continuo to send it until payment- is made, and collect tht whole amount, whether it be taken frou the office or not. There can be no lega,' discontinuance until the payment is made . 3—Any person who takes a paper from the post -office, whether directed to hit name or another, or whether he has sub. scribed Or not, is responsible for the pay. 4—If a subscriber orders his paper tot), stopped at a curtain time, and the publish. er continues to send, it the subscriber bound to pay for it if he takes it out of th post -office. This proceeds upon the growl; that a Man must pay for what he use; • ,tib In the Division Court in Godcrich at the November sitting a newspaper poi'• . lisher sued for pay of paper. The defend- ant objected paying on the ground that he had ordered a former proprietor of the paper to discontinue it. • The Judge held that that was not a valid defence. The plaintiff, the present proprietor, had no notice to discontinue and consequently could collect, although it was not denied that defendant had notified former pro- prietor to discontinue. In any event defendant was bound to pay for the tin: e 11e had received the paper and until he had paid all arrears due for subscription. CiIURCII DIRECTORN. St. Paul s Church.—Services on Sunday at 11 a.m. ind 7 p. m. Bible Class, 10 a.in. Sunday School. 2.80 p.m. Service on Wednesday, 8 p.m Rev. WILLIAM CRAW, B. D., Rector )aMttonbury Street Methodist. —Services at10.80 a. m. and 7.00 p. m. Sabbath School at 2.30 p. m. Raw. Ma. RUPERT, Pastor. 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