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THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY AUGUST, 19, 1881.
She Poet's tLorner.
A ltssw's elasstiens
130 Poo know you have asked fur the' costliest
thing
er made by the Hand above—
wuuwn'e heart, a woa ,a'slite,
Anda w omen's woodeti[ul love t
Do you know you lisve asked for this priceless
thing
Asa child might ask for • toy—.
Demanding what other have died to win
With the reckless dash of a boy 1
Youbave written my lesson on duty oat,
Man -like you bare questioned nae;
II
Now stand at the bar of my woman's soul,
I'ntil 1 have questioned thee;
You require your muttonsball always be hot,
And your shirt shallalways be whole;
i•requirc your heart to be true as God's stars,
And as pure as heaven your soul
You require cook for your mutton and beef;
I require a far better thing;
A seamstress you're wanting for stockings and
shirt --
I look for a man and skins.
A king for • beautiful realm, called Home.
A man that the maker, God.
Shall look upon as he did at first,
And say, -It is very good."
I am fair and young, but the rose willtade
Froin my soh young cheek some day—
St ill you love me then 'mid falling leaves,
As you did 'mid the bloom of May
Is pour heart anocean so strong and deep,
I may launch my all on it tide/
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.
I require all things that are grand and true—
All things that amen should be;
If you give this all 1 would stake my, life
To be all you demand of me.
It yeu cannot do this, a laundress and cook
You can hire, with little to pay;
But • woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to b6 won that way.
Origin of Popular Pimies.
to their ability. We nulls flea Sr
Walter Scott: 'Dela masa kr Ili per=
pose, ad thou shah par coetdna."
Grog.—Acmes) Vernon—Tro maw
after whom Mort Versus sea Messed
—wee the tint to regio his moo to
drink their spirits tamed pith weer.
In bad weather he was ie the habit of
walking the leek iD a ppergh Remise
cloak, and beam had *bellied the nems
of "OW Grog" is the. scenes less►
was the tingle d the metas applied to
rum and water.
Biscuit -The name of bineeit was ori-
ginally vie Gnat, messing erwmb or pease
baked bread; however, the (dreg idea of
biscuit is to lis found an the flat made
cakes, baked on the haatbee or piddle—
the
idd e—
the most primitive form of unleavened
bread. But probably the first regular
use for which biscuits were drafted was
for marine supplies, the idea originating,
it is thought, in Holland. The Ant bis-
cuits were made Jsy hand, until the in-
troduction of the bakery machine into
the royal dockyards of England.
Mortgage.—Derived from two Preach
words which mean "death grip"
Pecuniary.—Derived from the Latin
word pecutsia, meaning money, which in
turn came from the word pecan (cattle),
a name given to the rich but vripe
shoddy families in ancient times.
Canteen.—This is, perhaps, the only
word in our language which, originally
English, passed into a foreign tongue,
and was afterward taken back in a modi-
fied form. As originally spoken by the
Saxon, it was simply a tin can; but the
Gaul, aa was his wont, placing the noun
before the adjective, and pronouncing
the letter "i" ase, brought it out as
cantin, pronounced canteen. Adopting
• thousand other terms, the dull Eng-
lishman took beck his own original word
in a new shape without any inquiries on
the subject, and hence we now may can-
teen instead of tin can.
There's many • slip 'tween the cup
and the hp. —The aneient Greeks had
the following story as to the origin of
this proverb: A King. of Thrace had
planted • vineyard, when one of his
slaves whom he had much oppressed in
that very work prophesied that he should
never taste of the wine , produced in it.
The monarch disregarded the prediction,
and when at an entertainment he held •
glassful of his own wine, made from the
grapes of that vineyard, he sent for the
slave and asked him what be thought of
his prophecy now. To which the latter
replied: "Many things fall out between
the cup and the lip," and had scarcely
delivered this singular response before
the news was brought that a monstrous
boar was laying waste the favorite vine-
yard. The King in a rage put down the
cup which he held in his hand and hur-
ried out with his people to attack the
boar, but being two eager, the animal
rushed upon him and killed. him without
his having tasted of t -he wine.
Buncombe. —A generation or so -since
a North Carolina member of Congress
got the floor one day and delivered a
speech so long, so windy and so full of
high-sounding phrases of so little mean-
ing, that the hall was deserted of hearers.
When asked why he made a speech of
so little interest to his fellow members,
he replied that he was speaking "for
Buncombe," the county which sent him,
intending to distribute his speech, when
printed, to his constituents there. Ever
since, when an orator delivers a very
windy speech, with which he hopes to
get some renown, from people of little
understanding, he is said to be "speak-
ing for Buncombe."
Taboo --In the Sandwich Islands and
in New Zealand, the early European dis-
coverers found among the natives a cus-
tom called in the native language "tabee. "
It is called in the English language ta-
boo.
Hurrah. —Thousands of people have
shouted "hurrah !" "many a time and
oft," but comparatively few know ita'de-
rivation and primary meaning. It ori-
ginated among the. Eastern nations,
where it was used as a war -cry from the
belief that every man who died in battle
for his country went to heaven. It is
derived from -the Sclavonie word Hurraj,
which .means, "to paradise."
"Tooral, 1coral, fa, la, la," etc. --The
seeming nonsense choruses of many old
English ballads are in reality the rem-
nants of the songs sung by the ancient
Britons in the celebration of their sun -
worship "Fa, la, la," is written in
Welsh, "fal la' --fal meaning a circle or
nun, ;uul la a day-, and both words ex-
pressing the completion of a day. As
the Druids marched around their stone
-circle+, like those still discernible at
Stonehenge and on the Sussex Downs,
they .•panted their meaningful tchorus,
"Fail -la -fa! -la,',' as the god they worship-
ped sank behind the western hills. S,1,
down, Jerry -down,- in the ori-
ginal is '•Dur:, dun, ilearagan dun;" and
it means "To the hill, to the oak, to the
hills ' and was therefore a call to wor-
ship. The old Puritan poet, George
Withers, used another of these Druidi-
cal choruses in one of his pleasant dit-
ties:
There was a lass, a fair one,
is fair &seer was seen;
'.he wise, indeed, seam one
A other `'hcbaQueen.
But 1,411 as then i was,
I thought she loved me true;
But now. alas ! she's left me --
Fal, lero, lero, loo.
The original of this refrain was, "r al
le•reo, luadh ah;" and it hailed the sun
rising above the sea. "Tooral, looral,'
-'High trrlolli;" and many other of these
apparently meaningless burdens to old
songs have a similar curious origin.
Utopia. —This word is derived from
the Greek, and signifies "no place.'
Sir Thomas More first used it to desig
nate his model State, and feigned it to
be located among the Atlantic isles.
From this fiction, the term Utopian i
used to denote theoretical or imaginary
scat m% ani piles,; The republic
s
Plato was, in like manner, situated it
the happy regions of the west—even be
yond the Hesperides Islands. There
may hare been, in the days of Plato
some knowledge of the American Archi
pdago, and here his republic arose and
flourished.
Money makes the mare go.—At a
holes race, long time ago, a man had a
mare which was noted for its fleetness.
An abort was made to induce him to
permit a trial of speed, but until a purse
was raised to his figure, he refused, say
ing, "Mosey makes the mare go,"
Sent fres—The word "soot" is an old
Aagio-Raton wort!, meaning tax. In
Cue old law soot and lot w is a customary
contribution bid on subject' according
Vose sail *best Weans.
Mothers are the only floddemw in
whish the world believes.
,Every one may reed know that a small
quantity of nitrate of soda put into the
water every time it is chastpd, will pre_
serve cut florets for more than a fort-
night
Color is a very important factor in
diem Its correct appltoatioo prodaoes
Rees eagrt lar hertaosies that never fail
to attract the atteatwo of the relined.
The conspicuous colon should never
subtract from the miner hues.
When women are the advisers, the
lords of creation don't take the advice
till they have persuaded themselves that
it is just what they had intended to do;
then they act upolt it, and if it suc-
ceeds they give the weaker vessel half
the credit of it; if it fails, they generally
glee her the whole. — Louses A )colt.
Dark blue shading into green, like the
feathers on the neck and head of a wild
duck, produces a pleasing Dolor expres-
siva in dews. Myrtle green is very dark
and is generally becoming, and gives a
splendid combination with all the bright
shades. Muutard (mustard) seems to be
a favorite color in summer dressing.
This yellow is of the dingy cast, and
hence can he becomingly worn by both
blondes and brunets.
Much gilding on paper is to be avoid-
ed for many reasons. It gives a vulgar
appearance if too lavishly employed; it
does not wear well unless id the best
quality, and even that is own affected
by damp air or by damp walls. It
considerably hightens the price of the
paper when the metal is good; and for a
room in a small cottage that is to act as
a general sitting room, it would be de-
cidedly out of place.
Ladies who are fond of color, yet who
wish to use white china that has been
bequeathed them, introduce • colored
cloth on the table—deep red or blue—
and Dover this with a cloth that has
open patterns of drawn work down each
side, and embroidery in brighter red or
blue representing tiles, or quaint little
old English figures wrought in outline
stitch; a bank of Jacquentinot roses,
carnations, butttercups, or other flowers
down the center su,iplies additional
color.
To you, my dear mother, I can never
be sufficiently grateful, not only for the
common kindness of a mother, but for
the %i nceasing watchfulness with which
you strove to instill virtuous principles
into my young mind; and though we are
sepsrsted at present, and may be still
more widely separated, I hope the les-
sons which you taught will never be
effaced from my memory. I canuot say
how I have fallen into this train of
thought, bet the days of childhood arise
with so many pleasing recollections, and
shine so brightly across the tempests and
inquietudes of succeeding times, and I
felt unable to resist the impulse.—[Car-
171e.
Dont be whining about not having a
fair chance. Throw a sensible man out
of a window, he'll fall on his feet and
ask the nearest way to his work. The I fined to chemical science, but are to be
more•you have to begin with theless you I found in physics ns well its metaphysics.
will have in the end. Money fou earn IWe give the following choice specimen
yourself is much brighter than any you , of itttagary ifrom a recently published
can get out 'fs' dead men's bags. A j paper by Sir William Thomson) to illus -
scanty breakfast in the morning "1 life trate the grand style in modern natural
whets the appetite for a feast -later in j philosophy. "The stream -lines.'' says
the day. He who has tasted a sour / the distinguished Glasgow physicist,
apple will have the more unlash for a "are as represented in the diagram, in
sweet one. Your present want will which the region of translational-velooci-
make future prosperity all the sweeter. I ty greater than wave-propagational ve-
Eighteen pence has set up many a poeot- I locity is separated from the region of
lar in business, qui he has turned -it tranalatiotwi•velocity less than wave -pro-
neer until he has kept his carriage. i pagational velocity by a cat's-eye border
As for the place you are cast in don't ;pattern of elliptic whirls.-' The curious
find fault with that; you need not be a mixture of homely simile and abstract
terminology in this passage is highly
ludicrous. Its obscurity is however,
surpassed by Mr. Herbert Spencer's
will do nothing obut lose it. "Who
famous "Formula of Evolution," which
loves his work and knows how to spare, (
runs: "Evolutbn is a change from an
may lice and flourish anywhere.- " As to a
indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to a
little trouble,who expects to find cherries definite, coherent heterogenity, through
without atones, or ruses without thorns .' oontinuous differentiations and Integra -
Who would win must learn to bear.
time," which being interpreted into plain
English by Mr. Kirkman, the mathe-
matician, means: "Evolution is a change
from a nohowish, untalkaboutable a11 -
alikeness, to a somehowish, and in-gene-
r•1-talkaboutable not -all -alikeness, by
continuous something-eissSoations and
stick-togetbertione." As • clever tra-
vesty osi the above ascophoeous mystifi-
cation of Mr. Herbert Spenser, which,
like the binges,* of diplomacy, oonce•ls
the meaning it ought to express, we have
Mr. Kirktnan's "Formula of Converse'
Chimp," which u : "Change is a peri -
Join riongbmaaa'. )rise sayings.
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• Sew u f9eeaw to • email.
The chief of polies of Hamilton pub-
lishes
ublishes in the papas then the following
useful hints:
1. Take neither jewelry uor money
with you unless you absolutely require
it.
2- Avoid otaki mat the acquaintance of
strangers, especially those who introduce
themselves and are flashily dressed.
3. Make no beta with s$raoge rs and
let nothing tempt you to es of chance,
The three card game, wheel of torten,
atul roulette board are rely enticing,
and seem very simple, but unfortunate-
ly you never win.
4. When you leave your house either
during the (ley or in the evening, be
sure your doors are fastened and your
windows bulled.
Nature !calces ere ■beaks,.
Nature's own remedy for bowel eon -
plaints, cholera morbus, cholic, cramps,
vomiting, sea sickness, cholera infantuin,
diarrheles, dysentery, and all diseases of
• like nature belonging to the summer
season, is Dr. Fowlers Extract of Wild
Straw berry, which can be obtained of all
dealers in medicine.
The Dig Weeds of !seiene.
Monstrosities of diction are not con -
That bullet which missed the Presi-
dent has again beep heard from. It will
be remembered that it was found in his
coat sleeve, went out of a window and
was never found, and that it lodged in •
wad of putty which • tramp glamor was
carrying. It has now been discovered in
the back of • yellow dog. At least the
Washington Pat says it has, and that
ought to settle it:
horse because you were born in a stable.
A hard-working young man with his wits
about him will make money, wifile others
Idleness lies in bed sick of the mulli-
grubs, where industry finds health and
wealth. The dog in the kennel barks at
flies, the hunting dog does not know
that they are there. Laziness waits till
the raver Is dry, and never gets to mark-
et. "Try" swims it and makes all the
trade. "Can't -do -it" made meat out of
mushrooms.
Are yss Going le Travel t
Don't forget a supply of that Dr. Fow-
ler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. It is •
superior remedy for sea sicknetss, and a
f positive cure for all bowel ,coma is in- elsueetieal eyneehy of t,wmparalagmaatic
1 I (lured by bed water, change of diet, or of p must teal differentiationscclimate. Whether at home or abroad, at anderoporemaf
should be kept at band is esu id ember- and integrations." After such pedantry
gency. as this, the Blown in Shakespeare's
Raceme Wised DMeees. "'rwsI tb Night" who "did impeticee
Cures scrofula, erysipelas, salt Aran. thy g y" is absolutely nowhere.
piles and all humors of the blood. Care
dyspepsia, liver eoenplaint, biliousness, Dever Olive rp.
constipation, dropsy, kidney complaints, 11 you the stdfering with le* and de -
headache, nervousness, female weakness d spirits, lees of appetite, general
and general debility. obility, isofdered blood, week consti-
tution, headache, or any disease of a
There is no better family a»diaiae bilious nature, by all means procure a
than Canon's Stomach and Conetiptation brittle of Electric Bitters You will be
Bitten. They are taken alike by both old surprised bo see tie rapid ireprovement
and young. They invigorate the system. that will hollow; you will be inspired
They should invariably be used instead with new lits; strength activity will
of thoee little well-known nauseous per- turn; pale d mi wUl otwee, and
gatives called pills. in large R os. Dist-
h,nesfovthanyos will nice in tats praise
tles at 50 cents. Geo Rhyme, special of EJeetrie ittera Rold at fifty cents s
want for roderich bottle, toy all druggists
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I
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selected Stock of ' ries.
nineGoods Without IIdng; Sugar, and • wel1-
tier t/c ZM BOND NOT TO pJ3 VNDNIledOLDihlie
He that- can compose himself is wiser
than he that composes books.
There are some people who are ooa-
sta,.ntly denting the tempers of others
with that sharp pick—a fault—finding
disposition. The ptnillanimousness of
their natures is such that they ever
worry all who come in contact with
thien
Itis to be observed that even is the
world judges, small things continents al-
most the whole of life. But at the end
we have done an amazing amount of
work and fixed an amazing result. We
stand at the bar of God, and look back
on life made up of small things, but yet
a life how monstrous for good or evil !
The Canadian artillery team at Shoe-
buryness defeated eleven British teams
in the contest for the prize given by the
Gnvernnor-Oeseral of Canada for the
quickest dismounting and remounting of
cannon.
Two Canada Pacific labourers, near
Grand Valley, while asleep in their tent,
were struck by lightning and killed. A
third, apparently dead, was laid out for
burial, but being only in a stupor awoke,
and seeing the corpses became a raving
maniac.
—Coxa ATN —
See my Prices for Glassware before Purchasirg Elsewhere.
Have Tea Trim H
If so you can testify to its marvellous
powers of healing and recommend it to
your friends. We refer tcsl'Dr. Fowler's
Extract of Wild Strawberry, the grand
specific for all summer complaints, diar-
rhota, cholera morbus, dysentery,cramps,
cholic, sickness of the stomach and bowel
complaints of infants or adults. Let its
menta be known to all who have not used
it.
A General Defeated.
A Mrs. J. G. Robertson writes :—"I
was suffering from general debility, want
of appetite, constipation, etc., so that
life was a burden; after using Burdock
Blood Bitters I felt better than for years.
I cannot praise your Bitters too much.
FLOWERS AND PLANTS.
ALEX. WATSON
Florist, ioogh street. wishes to inform the
people of Odderich and vicinity, that he has
on hand asplendid assortment of
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING PUNTS
of almost every variety, and also a choice
collection of
BEDDING PLANTS, AND SHRUBS,
and all kinds of
VEC.}ETABLE PLANTS
in their season. The public_ are cordially In
vital to examine the stock. Remember that
the earliest purchasers have the beat choice.
ALEX. WATSON, South St.
1'. S --Also for gale, a heat ingapparatus,suit-
able for amateurs, consisting of boiler, four -
inch pipes, and expansion tank. 17d4.
VICK'S
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Barbed Fence Wire contracted for in any quantity at very lowest prices.
I SELL EITHER 2 OR 4 BARBED FENCE WIRE.
1779
Wire and barb g•avnlaed atter being twisted which cannot scale o ff.
the Barbed Wire for Fences.
NO SNOW DRIFTS—NO WEEDS—NO WASTE LANDS.
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CHEAP HARDWARE. GODERICH.
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Colored Flower Plate. and 600 Illustratiaes,
with Descriptions of the beat Flowers and
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Vlek's needs are the best in the world The
Floral Guide will tell how to get and grow
them.
lien's Viewer sad Vegetable Darden. 175
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the t . N. and Canada. See that our trade
marc, "'mese Rama- is steeeM11.d on each
reel Bre en Dowse. Metol for pNree and
cirealars to R. W. McEtesta. Oaferloh.
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FIRST CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES.
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'Boots and Shoes repaired and made to order.-eis
SPECIAL BARGAINS.
are offering some Special Bargains in
Dress Goods, Prints, Shirtings, Denims, Ducks, Table
Linens, White and Grey Cottons.
PRINTS. -Fast Colors. floai Sc. per yard up.
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COTTON 88IRTINC38--Extra Value. from 121c. up.
TWEEDS --Fine Selection in English, Scotch and Canadian, aultssmade to order in
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The Fashlo able Tailor, is now In position to execute all orders he may be favored with. in
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