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The Wingham Times, 1895-02-08, Page 7HAS GIANT'S STRENGTH, WONDERFUL FEATS PERFORMED BY A CANADIAN FARMER, ' Toted off is Ton. of Hay—Fleet of Foot Also —GIs Daring Ilandspt•ings—Lilted to Crack Xeres 'leads When In ilia Cups.. The performance of Sandow, Samson :and all the other so-called strong men posing on the stage to -day were as noth- ing to the feats which made Joseph Berry- hill, a farmer living within ten miles of I'.oudon, Ontario, famous throughout this part of the country. Berryhill is an old roan now, but is still able to do things .that make him a marvel in the eyes of see whos e him. He is a trifle over six feet in height, weighs more than 800 pounds, and is so pic- turesque a figure that hu aright have step- ped from the page of some tale of the Norse- men, so oPerfect is his blond beauty. He se ,, has always devoted himself to farming, .and. is comfortably well ` off, owning sev- eral hundred acres of land, together with horses, cattle, and everything else in pro- portion. As a young man Berryhill was probably as great an athlete as ever lived, for, despite his great weight, he was so, fleet of foot that few professional sprinters could cope with hits, while his prowess at jumping earned for shim a wide reputation. He weighed perhaps 225 pounds when 20 years of age, and it was nothing • for him after a hard day's work iu the fields to leap 20 feet in a single running ,jump or to run a hundred yards in 10 1-4 ..seconds. His bodily streugth was remark- • -able, and was perhaps his most distinguish- ing characteristic. The neighbors all knew of his feats of strength, butt the first glimpse the outside world had of his capa- bilities was when the Great Western Rail - d leased b tl Grand Trunk, was TH.1J: W1NGUA TIME'1 :, EEJ3RU.ARY 8,1.8 5.. related of one encounter he had in Ryan's place at l;lginfielcl with Patrick Gilc;allitt THE HISTORIC) 1�ll Tf7 gaTP and a uutuber of friends and followers, .i.,H ,11 S J. V 11.1 ,1. IE that he twisted the heel from Gilgallin's hoot with his finger and thumb. Gilgal- lin had fled in terror up the stairs leading to the sleeping rooms, and Berryhill, reaching for him as ho ran, caught him by the heel of the boot. With one wrench he tore the stout sole loather heel from the boot. Berryhill is still living in London Town- ship, and comes to the city occasionally. Iiis chest measurement is over fifty inches, and there is little doubt that, although an old lean, he ...feu to -day duplicate most of the feats of the"stroug men" who are on the raid. Taken in ]tend by an expert as a young man Berryhill would have been the greatest of them all,—Loudon (Out.) Letter to New York Sun. urn Cross Eyes: curing Y s Strabismus or "(:toss eyes" are now safely and almost painlessly corrected. The desired result may be obtained by the wearing of proper spectacles in early youth, but if the evil is not then corrected, an operation, later on, will be necessary, The removal of a "cataract" frorn the eye is one of the most delicate operations performed by the oculist. A cataract is formed by the lens of the eye becomiug opaque so as to appear grayish or other- wise, when it struts out the light from the optic nerve, The oculist of to -day cuts into the ball of the eye and removes the darkened lens, and the optician supplies the defect by artificial lenses that make good the sight, The demand for glass eyes is increasing ns the character and quality of the eyes improve. Unsightly eyeballs are now re- moved in part, leaving enough of the mus thL isl cies to rotate the glass shell a tpaced over them. Where the work is properly done the possessor of the glass eye can move it about with ail the naturalness of a real optic, and in Horny cases it is very difficult to tell the manufactured. article r WAS ONCE BARE ROCK, • AN ANCIEN I INSTITUTION POPULAR- THE PRESENT SITE OF HQNG-KQNq IIZED IN ENGLAND. • SOME FIFTY YEARS AGO. A Staple Article of Foots In This Country A Quarter orA.1►Iilltou I.'eopie Now Pelbeg —The 'Various Changes That Have Oc., Where Wulf a Century Ago Only akTfief Fishermen Coulrl Tie Found -7A Seen* Burred Until the ''recent—A Wonderful Lagliah Ple. Resembling Western Bustle, Pie may, rvithtout exaggeration, bo called Nearly 2150,000 people live in. the. Anglo- Chinese City of Hong -Kong. • Fifty years an institution, ago the site of the city was a bare rook The history of the pie has yet to be writ, save for a few fishermen's huts scattered 1 ten in a profound and scholarly way. 1t here and there, The great sea basin was is a thing of stupendous antiquity, The rarely, disturbed by a passing keel. A word itself is one 0f that small class in comparatively few Englishmen, assisted modern English derived from the ancient by a large number of Chinese, have British or Celtic languages. In medhmval wrought the trausformatfon• The site of �e t ,lis i was o n ul spelled t caro> k.} h `p) Y s 6picture a. i this t w building • seen n 1 s t and this word appears to have been derived everyrpr ue p Once precipitous, The requisite level for from the Gaelic "pighe." The Irish long- buildings was obtained only by blasting, nage. also has the word "pighe," Allied In a recent report Sir William Des -Vomit, words Biu Irish are "pithau" and „pig,Governor of Hong -Kong,. gave a graphic heann' description. of the city: This fact alone, it will be perceived, ie "Tie visitor sees a city of closely built full of historic significance. So great way hooses stretching for four miles along the the vitality and tenacity of pie as 'an insti- island shore, and rising, tier over tier, up tution that it survived this Teutonic ith• the slopes of the mountain, those on. the Vasion of ancient Britain aunt imposed upper levels interspersed with abundant itself on the conquerors. It bad already foliage. The silent and deserted basin has lived through the Roman invasion of become a harbor so covered with shipping Britain, and the .temporary introduction that even if the visitor had been round the of Latin civilization and cookery in that whole world he could never before have island.It is unfortunate that a historian like the seen so much in a single coup d'eeil. At late Johu Richard Green, who writes so oceaoreor moving are some fortyt and fifty fascinatingly of the life and customs of ocean steamers, and Amerg shins of wri- the people, has not attempted to give us a large European American sailing yes - the description of an ancient sols' and hundreds of seagoing junks, British, Gaelic•or Irish pie. while in the space intervening andilioaround st When, i11 their turn the Anglo-Saxons are many thousand boats, for the team • were conquered by the Normans, pie did part es rushing ] all dir, with steam launches in all directions, not succumb. Gallieized Methods of cook- "Going ashore the visitor sees long lines ing, in which pie does not appear to have of quays and wharves, large warehouses figured, prevailed among the ruling classes, teething with merchandise, shops stocked roc ,now y re but pie lived on in the homes of the peo• with all the luxuries as well as the needs building through Western Ontario. I3e1•- from the genuine. ale. It was solidly established there, and of two civilizations. ryhill, among others, contracted to furnish All the wild stories about substituting graduals y it fought its way into an impor• "In the European quarter a fine town the railroad with timber for ties and other - rabbits' eyes for Inman eyes, or the state- taut position iu the domestic economy of hall, stately banks, and other large build - building purposes, and while hanlinglum- ments to the effect that oculists can take all classes, from which. it has never been ings f stone; in the Chinese quarters, leer to this city he came under the obser- eyes from their sockets, wipe. them on a dislodged. Mince pie, in various forms, is houses constructed after a pattern peculiar vation of the gang that sec- coarse towel and restore them unimpaired. one of the most characteristic features of to China, of almost equally solid materi- . • constructing English cook 1d cookery. tion of the road. Many of the men re- to the happy patient, are all moonshine, old3 cls, but packed so closely together and ]narked his size and said that he would be and any one who is called upon to .listen The pie, as it has developed in Canada is thronged so densely as to be in this respect .a good man to avoid picking a quarrel to any such tales is perfectly justified if, a flat, circular thing, with asodden under- probably without parallel in the ivprld; ' with. One day, while unloading the tim- under such circumstances, he should wink crust. This form is scarcely known in and finally he sees streets stretching for England. There.the fruit or meat is putthe top. miles, abounding with carriages (drawn Facts About the Forest King: her from his sleigh, Berryhill began laugh- the other eye. in a deep dish and the crust spread over for ,, rF part ,, * h,, animals, but by 1 Ing at six or eight then who were striving 44 vainly to place a pair of wheels and axle CAVEATS,TRADEMARKs COPYRIGHTS. 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STRAX, 100. PER LB., ue ( 3E T '® men), and teething with abusy population, ,--of an ordinary freight car truck on the The tongue Of a lion is so rough a An English cook -book of the eighteenth 'in the centre of the town chiefly European, I track. close lookatngu it almost take the thata century contains the foliowiug recipe for but toward the west and east almost ex- 1 "Why,something not very different from amine° elusively Chinese. 111 ft that myself," he h looker. It is not safe to allow tL I could i� on. y ," off the pie: "To make a lumber aye—lake am "Ascending higher he finds churches, . • Said. lion to lick your hand, for if he licked Ilia pound and a hailf of veal, parboil it and ,itbtie buildings and manyhouses, all of "Bet you 895 you can't," said the con- skin off and got a taste of the underlying when hen'tis cold chop it veymall, with two I European 'struetiou boss, instantly. ' blood, supposing it to be there, he would pounds of beef suet and some candied exclusively n -thi can design (extending The money was staked, and Berryhill, want the hand fund everything adjoining now about one-third of the distance up the picking up the pair of ponclerons wheels thereto. Nothing more perfect in modern orange peel, some sweet herbs, as thyme, mountain) for the most part detached or with the axle, walked ten or twelve steps sweet marjoram, and an handful of spin semi-dctaclied, some of handsome appear- machinery exists than the mechanism by age. :Mince the herbssmall before you put with there and placed them upon the rails which a lion works his claws..:' He has theca to the other. So erica all together, ante, and nearly all fronted with stone- -with as music ease as though they were of five toes on each of his fore feet and four arched verandas. which at a distance give • papier mnche, Laughing 'mildly, the on each of his Nina feet. Each toe has a -giant jumped into his sleigh and drove claw. Nothing about a lion is without away, leaving those who had seen the feat reason, and the reason he bas more toes looking after him in open-mouthed aston- and claws on his fore than on his hind feet ishment. is that he has more use for them. If this That was a pretty hard winter on some were not so the majority would be the of the farmers, aS hay had been a rather other way. • The lion is nocturnal by short crop, and Joe, having a number of choice, Ike has no particular objection to .horses to feed, drove over into Nissouri daylight, but likes to spend it in the end began dickering with a farmer for bosom of his family, or at least adjacent some of his timothy. The Missourian was to it. It should not be supposed that be - hard -fisted and drove close bargains, and cause he roams about at night lie neglects Berryhill finally gave up trying to pur- his family. IIe roans in order to fill the ,chase the quantity he desired at anything family larder. Ile kills to eat, not for like a fair price. Turning to him Berry- amusement. 'He never bothers small I hill said, finally; game so long as there is big game within and grated bread, lay it on and between "I'll give you 85 for what I can carry off reach. When feeling fit he can take an ox . , your farm myself." • in his mouth.and jump fences and ditches , your fore d meatball:, and over that sliced The bargain was made and Berryhill de- like a professiotral steeplechaser.—West: citron, candied orange and leucon, elyugo parted. IIe came back in a few days with tninster Budget. .a sort of rack built on four short posts, : Costly Fur of the Silver Fox. .and began piling bay upon it until the ; Next to the seat otter, for clothing pur- Nissouriau's eyes were bulging. 1 -Ie tied poses, the silver fox brings the highest it to the rack with ropes, and then, climb- price, and in this case the Russians are the .a ton of. the fern ebeneath the load, carriegood d imothy, that more than principal buyers. The silver fox is one of was worth 815 a ton that winter in any the most precious denizens of the Hudson market. Leaving it on the side of the Bay territary, and as ranch as � £120 has highway he transferred it to a sleigh and been paid for a single fine skin, 7 he silver carried it home with many a c sickle. , fox, however, is really not silvery, and has As a young man he was in great demandonly a few white lairs mixed. with his t all raising bees. A raising bee is quite black ones—indeed, the most highly prized .a function in this part of the country. , skins are entirely black. The principal collars of the When a farmer is erecting a barn or other i cloaks ese oi se off Russiasn ladies.—ins is foriChatmktem's Jour- large o it large outbuilding, and after all the tim- ltatI. hers for the framework are in place, in- vitations are sent to all the farmers. An International Mystery. One of Berryhill's star performances on I received last week, but too late for such oecassions was to turn a series of publication, the following telegram from handsprings on the plate or top beam of America: the framework after it was in position. Belle of Baltimore left for London The spectacle of a giant performing such eleventh.—Baltimore American. -.evolutions forty or fifty feet from the Who this Belle is, what Baltimore will :ground on a surface not more than ten in- do without her, and what we are to do _tithes wide, was always an nttrectionto vis- with her when we are privileged to have 'hors, and nobody ever duplicated the feat. her among us, I do not know: But the In the woods the man's prowess with the telegram being sent to Inc. presumably ax was equally remarkable. He used an for publication, I publish it.- Labouchere's ax twice as big and as heavy again as the Loudon Truth. ordinary tool, and so great was his strength 'that at every blow it sank teethe eye in the Finally Extinguished. Wood. It was an ordinary thing for him to Hope rose anew within hint. handle logs of wood that a team of horses "I can be rid of it," be exclaimed, with wearer ordinarily be required to place in a ., faith that was sublime. I will use It position for skidding, and whenever his horses got into n tight place or a pitch hole, and were unable to extricate the load, the :giant would put his shoulder to a hind hub, call to his horses, and the trouble would be over, When not in his cups Berryhill was as mild as a woman and was far from being the influ- under ua'relsome t �Y , but when ecce of liquor lie liked nothing better Ulan to crack men's heads together or to toss them about like ninepins. He incurred the enmity of the famous Donnelly family, 'which was all but exterminated sixteen miles from this place by vigilants in the winter of 1870, and he had a number of 'barroom fights with them in the tavern 'which lined the old proof lite road in the days before the London, Iluron and Bruce Railroad relieved the stage traffic from London to paints north and northwest. Ito ordinary dozen men, unless they re- aorted to the use of firearms, knives, bind- geons or bottles could holds their own with hien, and ilerryhill usually barna out of all :.ucir frays a glorious ____e_ 'Victor. When lie got hold of a 'Malt Voiee—Say 'chrysanthemum. times.-Churcltttlamk he thrashed ebaiit. with hint 'as• if his . George (silent for a moment—I'M 'Rletifmi Were a lne':r tt i. p of strait,, 144154 . ,drimksb, six' talar?--Syraeuso Peats and a pippin or two, then aaalcl a handful somewhat of a palatial flavor even to the or two of grated. bread, a pound and a 1m1f smallest; he would see moreover beauti- al currants, washed and clried; some fully laid out gardens, public and private, cloves, mace, nutmeg, a little salt, and solidly constructed roads,sonle of them sugar and sack, and nut to all these as bordered with bamboos and other delicate. many yolks of raw eggs and whites of ly•fronded trees and fringed with the lux two as wil' make it a moist, forc'd uriant undergrowth of semi -tropical vege- meat. 'Work it with your hands into a tatiou; while meeting here but compare; body and make It into balls as big as a tively few passengers he would scarcely turkey's egg; then having your coffin realize the'neighborhood of a large popula• made put in your balls. Take the mar- tion except from what has been aptly TEA IN row out of three or four bones as whole as termed the indescribable hum of congre• you can; let your marrow lie a little in gated humanity, arising from the town water to take out the blood and splinters; harbor beneath. then dry it and dip it in yolk of eggs; "Ascending still further to the summit season is with a little salt, nutmeg, grated, of the ridge, he, in the course of a two- made in the latest style, go to H. I RVI N rand other meats in low proportion. PORK SAUSAGE ale* on hand. I am:prepared to pay the highest prime" for all kinds of fowl: They must be drawn,. and welii dressed. GFO, SHAW +Yngltaimi Oct.oct. xo h 1 93: 4 } 8 l BANKOfHAMILTON WINGHAIVI. Capital;. S11,150,000. Rest, E50,000, President—Joni sreART. Vice• President—A. l�. IteusAv. DIREOTO .h ions Samoa, Gaco, 11/Acs,• tVx Gasses, lit P, A. T Woon, A. B. Lys (Toronto). Cashier—J. TW1.NBULL. Savings Sank—Hours, ]Oto 3; Saturdays, 10 1. Deposits or 51 and upwards received and Mere., allowed. Special Deposits also received at current. rates of interest. Drafts oi, Great Britain and the United States bought and sold B. WILLSON, Ammer opposite Bank of Hamilton, Pp E. L. DICKINSON, Solicitor. WINGHAM :. Ai a ¢! R .1 . Make a better filling for Corsets than any other known material. 00Featherbone" Corsets are tough- er and more elastic than any oth mr make, as they are entirely filled with quills (Featherbone). To be had at all Retail Dry Goods Stores. DIAMOND TEA CO. roots, preserved barborries; then lay ou sliced lenlorl and thin slices of butter over all; then lid your pye and bake it, and when 'tis drawn have in readiness a caudle macre of white wine and sugar and thick- ened with butter and eggs, and pour it hot into your pye." 'This is iudeed a pie wherewith to feed a stalwart, conquering race. The remade about "having your coffin made" has a peculiar significance in these degenerate days. Not only has the pie acquired a national shape in Canada, but materials are used in it which •Englatiddoes not possess, Squash pie; pumpkin pie and custard pie are all our iuventions. In England they only eat mince pie at Christmas, and not three titres a day all the year round. Odd Things in Fashton. There are lots f oder things about the clothes of to -day. For instance, a "hearts- ease" belt is a long, narrow ribbon, tied in a bow with drooping ends. Collars are cut iu spirals and put out twisted. The lamp- shade style is now a recognized otle so far as capes are concerned,itnd the lamp shade ballet would no longer be ridiculed were it to appear on the street, slays the Hoare Journal. Moire ribbon is still a subject of fond conversation to modistes, but some- how the public seems to have had enough of it, and very little is seen. The "1840" sleeve is cut all in one with the shoulder fronts, and laid in tucks at the wrist. Not for a collar button." only are skirts wired to keep them in place, Striding to his dressing -case he arranged but an adroitly adjusted wire, so arranged the mirrors in such a way as to enable as to be absolutely invisible, is put inside him to gaze in triumph at the wart ori his the newest sleeves, and makes the admired neck, which had baffled medical skill to "bulge" on theme. The newest brown is a remove.—Detroit Tribune. sort of toffee shade and is called "Moka." Church hats.• About every outdoor costume has at least It is a queer fact that in the basement of two capes made to wear with it, ones long a certain Lewiston church live bats that full cape for cold days, the other a little 1 with fur i it on a circle, butterflyaffair, at , never go out, but exist upon the mice they trimmed. edges carting round the face like can catch there. The janitor says that a the petals of ai flower. dozen of them will watch for a mouse, and certain a;moutmt of stammerhug, confessed when he appears swoop down upon him, - clerical Tltlee or Old. I that he dial net wish to see a play in which amid after at lively battle he is conquered. ' 'recent.discoveries Ili Palestine have' there was it ballet. Irving, greatly puz' If any of the bats are overcome in trio fray made more clear the secular use of the :sled, informed him that there was no they are eaten, too. The basenxentwas en- terms "deacon" and "bishop" before the danohtig in the plays he was then produc- - tirely freed from them once. The furnace establishment of Christianity, 'Texts and ing, but that, according to the slalmg of the tender would leave the window open till inscriptions have ]teen found with Men- "profession," time superliumleraries of both midnight, and then close it while the bats tion of diecohtoi as being certain'sabordin- sexes were 'the ballet, and henee prob. were outside, and they had to find another ate civil officers. Episccopol or overseers ably arose bis visitor's mistake, The abode, were Boman regime, a higher grade under Worthy facts s face beamed, and he took Pace the lloimlatn regime, and several lists of wtm'ai>?ectielltttectave of hie host; butt at"the Dared Not i, ate stairs—George Test- these have been found. Frain the first the door he wits seized with misgivings and trolCc at the head of the stalirs- G'feorge, terms were used by the March to meet the suddenly demanded,p0int=blanki If there ! needs' of her 'own otganizatlo m, being bor- gwhy .people have you been drinkingP is Imo ballet, 14ir. Irvin do rowed front. the Civil organization of the talk so ninth abo'ilt your legsP" tr•ing's ftmlamver hos .•tot been olironieled. mile walk, would observe that not only Victoria Peak, but Mount Kellett and the heights above the Magazine Gap, with the many intervening knolls and ravines at a high elevation, are for.themostpart inter- sected by roads and studded with ]louses, similar to triose last described, built in one or two p.aces so close together as to pre- sent almost an urban aspect, and looking down whence be came he, while no doubt reeognizing the grand mountain amphi- theater of fifty years ago,would at the same time notice that its arena,occnpied by city and sh ipping,lms changed as though by the wand of an enchanter." ltucouragement for Sociologists. Sir John Lubbock, addressing the Socio- logical congress et Paris recently, said that in London since 1870 the number of children in English schools had increased from 1,500,000 to 5,000,000, and that in, the same time the number of Persons in prison had fallen front 12,000 to 5,000. The yearly average of persons sentenced. to confine- mentfor the worst crimes has declined from 3,000 to S00,—New York 'Tribune. Wear and Tear on italiways. Taking the- length of the permanent railways on the surface of the globe at nearly 60,000 geographical miles, with a daily average of ten trains, it is estimated that the total loss suffered by wear and tear each day by the metallic mils of the earth is about 600 tons. The 000 tons are lost in the form of a white powder, and are carried back into the earth in the shape of soluble iron salts. Henry Irving's Legs. Some time ago, when henry Irving was in Edinburgh, a Spotch clergyman came and informed hien that lie was to attend the theatre that Week for the first time in his life, to see one of the Lyceum produc- , d fund so felt alt flattered, fi , tions. Irving expressed Himself; but the divine, after a TIN 0- 1-1 M_ PERFECTION CHOICE INDIA ani CEY1.01 TEA. from the Tea Plant; to the Tea Cup, in its; Native Purity, un -- tampered with, sup- plied to the publie ata strictly Wholesale Prices; all medics and profits saved. Famous Selections of the pure Tea of - INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA AND JAPAN— are guaranteed to be of the highest quality. All who appreciate a cup of really fine Tea, possessing pungency, briskness and flavor, are invited to call or write for samples and contrast with other Tea. The prices range from 20e. upwards. 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