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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-9-2, Page 1! Vol, 20. No. 8. A VISIT TO E'NOLAND. Ons who hes nob seea London eau form but a feint soneeption of its magni- tude end even Et transitory visitor, let him be as busy as possible, gets but an inndequate isles of what it Pally is. The impression made by !seeing the traffic on the streets in the heart of the My, say at Loudon bridge, is one which cannot easily be forgotten ; a oontinuous stream eaoh way, vehioles of every decioription, doss and compact as the march of a regiment and ever on the move except when the policeman in charge ab a oross• ine lifts up hie finger and thoughhe has not said a, word nob a vebiele !Mira until ib falls. Of all the eighbe to be sou there, and they. are innumerable, none Maya s pooh an inapreneion on the mind asc the teethe and the crowds which throng its thoroughfares. The first place I went to see was the Prince Albert memorial bub failed to get admission as the polioeman was just closing the gate. It seemed to me to be an exaggerated aopy of the Scott monumeat. I went a little distanee and took the first entrance bo the Under. ground Railway and went to the South Kensington Museum which keeps open three days in the week to 10 p. in. and Is free on then days, other days admission being sixpence, this, I suppose, ie to givo students a better' opportunity to purses their studies. The same rules seom to prevail everywhere with all these plasmas, the headquarters of them all being South Kensington. This is an immense build. ing standing in a Park of twelve acres which were purchased in 1857 out of the eurplue prooeeds of the Exhibition of 1851, for 260,000, The building be divi. ded into divisions called courts, the first one come at is the one devoted to &rat. teoture and sculpture up the centre of which is a passage 17 feet wide ;on each side the spaces is 135e60 feet and the height to the oeiling is 88 feet. The most of the objeots are full size reprodue- tions of works of large dimensions, both ancient and modern, the meet striking of ivhioli to me was Trojan's Pillar, in two parte. The pedestal oa which the col- umn stands from pacing it must be 21 feet square, nearly as high and some- thing about 12 feet in diameter and as bee ceiling has not elevation enough it is in two pieces, oath possibly 60 feet high. Coming upon it unexpeoteclly it is some time ere the surprise or it may be fasoi- nation its appearance gives rise to is overcome. One can only notice a few o the multiplicity of interesting article! which are exhibited. Among other works of Michas! Angelo's is the colossal figure of Dmitri as a youth. It is carved from a block of marble on which an- other sculptor had unsuccessfully tried his hand and is greatly admired, I thought it rather overdone. In ehe Italian court his "Cupid," said to have been exeouted in hie 24th year, is a more natural and beautiful example of Me great ability. In the same court ars ar. ranged carved stones from Copan'Co- tral Americo, and also a copy of a Celtic arose in the church yard of Goeforth, Cumberland, dating from the 7th century. There are galleries above the sides of the courts devoted to lighter objeote ; one is called the Prince Consort's gallery in which are placed many of the most rare and costly possessions of the museum. Not fur from it is the North Gallery in whioh the Raphael cartoons; about 12 feet square are kept. There were originally ten but three have been lost. They were designs for tapestries worked in wool, silk and gold which were hung in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, a year before th ie painter died and are now n the Vatican, The subjects are all New Teetarnent ones of the time of our Saviour and His apostles end they were bought on the re. oommendabion of Rubella by Charles I. and at his death by Crom. well who paid 2300 for them. After hie time they were kept in a lumber room in Whitehall till by com- mand of Wm. III. Wren erected a room for them at Hampton Court where I saw them in 1851. Iler Majesty in 1865 per- mitted them to be removed to the museum. In 1883 on the 400th anni- versary of the birth of Raphael copies of the three missing cartoons taken from the originals in the Vatican were given to the Institution by three of its friends. In the same gallery is a copy. by Casa- nova of Raphael's celebrated painting The Transfiguration executed by him shortly before he died and which was carried in the procession at his funeral. On ono of the staireages is a copy of the Bayeux tapestry execueed by the Queen of Wm. the Conqueror, rendered full size by photography and colored in imitation of the original needle work. On the upper portion of two of the gide walls there are 36portraits of eminent artists of all ages, going back to Pheidaa who died B. (1. 432, and Appellee slot 100 years later, coming down to Reynolds and Mulready of our own time, There aro hundreds of paintings in oil and water colors of the most olebrated painters on exhibition, moat of them gifts or be- quests by various individuals. Among the many bequests the largest is that of Jae Sheepshanks, neaely 800 in bum - bee, and to these gifts have been added many motel:pieces on. loan. Then there are collections of other descriptions ouch as the bequest of John Forster, the friend ane biographer of Dickens, in width are !several of the original manuorips of his (Diolsene) works. renter also gave his library containing 18,000 volumes and which aro to be found in the same room with those also bequentbed by Rev. A. Dyes to the number of 11,000, In the Fame room and given by Lady Hawes are to be soon Oliver, Goldsmith's chair, desk and cane. I paid a amend visit in day- light, chiefly in the mechanical depart- ment whieh is open every day free but not later ehan six, and will mention a fesv of the al:Holes that took my notioe. One was &collection of morel belonging to many of the English towns and hardly cam of whith but excelled the mace that does duty for the Ontario Parliament, the largest being that of Winchester and the smallest that of Maidetone. There is olleotion of every sort of maohino used in the tnauulaature of textile fabrics be- ginOing with the Most ancient mad come BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1892 44 W. H. KERR, Prop, ing down to the latest, There is also an exact copy of the origin' sewing machine made in 1880 and from the name evi. dently by a Frenchman. Then there are machines of every desoription for week. ing metal, turning, shaping and pinning ib and the same for wood, 7 examined with interest an engine made by Watt in 1788, whioh had done duty in a peint. erg establishment in Aldersgate street till 1886 and seemed good for other 97 years, It beel n long walking beam like those Ms be soon on American river boate only both it and the connoting rod were wood and instead of a erenk,whith if I recollect aright Watt oould not use, the patent not having expired though it is said it was really his own invention, he designed svbat is called the Sun send Planet mo- tion which was quite common on station. ary engines fifty years ago. Close to it are two at least of the first locomotives ; the oldest oalled "Puffing Billy" was made in 1813 and bad no side othneobing rods the power being transmitted from the driving axle by an endless ohain working about the centre of the axle. It was in use ab Wylam colliery. Alongside is the "Rooket," Stephenson's locomotive, which took the prize on the Liverpool and Manchester railway in 1829 when the Huskison, the forerunner of Peel, Cobden and Gladstone on trade questions, was killed. It worked till 1848-4. Strange to say the aide connecting rode are beeoh of which 7 had to enure my- self by olose examination. Near to them is the Bev. Patelek Bell's reaping machine, the ticket on which states that it worked from 1826 to 1867. I had also bo examine this machine very closely be- fore 7 ooald make up my mind how it worked and at last I concluded that in this ease it was the oart before the horse for instead of it being drawn by the horses it was pushed by them. I find from couveraing since I got home with a gentleman who had seen the Bell mach. Me in operation in Scotland that I was right. The cutting is done exactly the same as is still in use. The village blacksmith who worked to the ministers directions or drawings mot have been a good mechanic). It is said they tried their machine by the aid of a lantern and doubtless, like other inventors, would be delighted with their success. Beside it etands a binder made by Horneby, of Ipswich, which took the prize in Soot• land in 82 and 86 and in England in 84 and 97 to the value of 2355. There are likewise models of all descriptions of yes - eels, including the Venitian Gondola, Chinese boat from Swatovr, a Maltese galley, a Japanese junk, an Australian fishing boat, a dhow frame the Red Sea, down to the rnodel of the Volunteer, the American °entre board ruing yacht, the ticket did not say the successful racer. There were also models of steam vends of every class, with the original engine of Henry Bell's steam boat "The Comet," also models of iron clads of every kind, heavy and swift, and not far off is the State barge of James 1. which is 63 feet long and propelled by 21 cars on eaoh aisle. There is a model of the last Lord Mayor's barge built in 1807 and of life beets and life Raving appliances and celebrated light houses. There are mathematical instruments in great variety including Babbage's calculating metalline constructed for the government at a cost of 217,0,00 ; near to this is the cloak of Glastonbury Abbey made by Peter Lightfoot in 1325, and the Dover olock, made in 1818 -maker's name not given. There is a department devoted to specimens of natural history of which I have noted the Chillingham bull as natural as life and every hair as white as milk; a Basking shark 28 feet long and with a mouth so large that a man could walk into it ; the skeleton of a sper• maeeti whale, 50 feet in length and at least 7a feet in diameter. There is a library of nearly 70,000 vol., chiefly on science and art, which I did not geb time to examine. It is a wonderful Inetita- ticen nod so it may as its administration cods 239,894. Its purchases yearly now is confined to about 220,000 out of a vote of 2474,896 for edema, and art for the United Kingdom. Taos, Ginson. TOR COW flQlIN FLY. Prof. 9L V. Singerland, one of the entomologists of Cornell University Elx- psri0oscbal station, has published a,n excellent summary of the writings of D. Riley and Prof. Howard, of Washington, and of Prof. 3. B. Smith, of New Jersey, on the subject of the born fly, which gives a full description of the new pest and its habits, as web as the most useful known remedies, both preventative and destructive. Reporte from New York State mention the exietencie of these ingots In "millions" and in some in - Mamma the farmers have suffered serious loss horn their annoying attathe upon the cows in the fields. The insect ap. pears to be a native of Southern Europe, where it has not, however, been reported tea a serious pest. It was probably brought to this conntry with imported Europesti cattle about 1886. The fly, which him been known in Europe since 1830, le of a dark, greyish blue* color, aud belongs to the same order of insects as our common house Sy, which it room - hies in general appearance, though only one.hall the eize, It is about one-sixth of an inch in length and its whole body is quite deneely clothed with stiff black- ish hairs. The heed is almost entirely teken up by the eyes, which are of a dark toadish brown oolor. Two lasses of remedies aro penotioable ; preventative, bo peeveat injury to the cattle by keeping oil the fly ; destruotive, by clostvoying the insect in its lareel or adalt condition, The fly may be kept away from the cattle for several days by the application of almost any greasy substance to the parts more liable to Wank, Firth oil, to which a little carbolic n,aid lute been add. ed as a heeling agent, is tho mast highly recommended ; Gammen mele-greeee, tat. low, kerosieue, emulsion, or sheep dip, may be used to gond advantage, The Obstacle° may be applied with it sponge Or with a spray. Oris thovough appli. cation is often suedelent, but as its re, pellirig power Usually lots only five or six dive, it may be neoessary to repeat She appfioation. Among the destrucbive agents for the fly tobauao powder ie eon. sidered the beet. It &meld, be cleated on those parts where the files most usually congregate, and it is certain death to Shoo that come in contact Nvith it. The liteva may be destroyed by smattering a little lime or plaster on the fresher drop- pings in the field, This should be done in the early part of the season, We every lerva killed thou repeesents the death of many flies later. A. farmer is the neigh. borhood of Holbrook has reeently lout no less than ten owe, owing to the opera - Rona of thoee little blook flies. Their mode of operation seems to be to eat a hole in blie hide, lay eggs therein, hatch out in large numbers and proceed with theee boring operations until the vital portions of the cow are touched and death ensues. The eimple application of tar appears to be a reliable means of prevent. ing the little pests from getting at their work. Morris Council Meeting, The council met purenanb to adjourn- ment, members all present, minutes of last meeting were read and passed. Moved by G. Kirkby, seconded by J. Proc. tor that thie cotton allow 25a. per rod for digging 54 rods of ditch on sideline be- tween lots 5 and 6, eon. 6. Carried. Moved by S. Ofildbiek, seconded by 0. A.. Howe that Jas. Prootor be instructed to have Sunshine bridge put in a proper state of repair. Carried. Movedby Geo. Kirkby, seconded by Jas. Proctor that the clerk be instruoted to notify owners of lots number 5 aod 6, con. 10, to remove their fences tram sideline betvveen said lots. Carried. On niction of Menne Howe and Proctor the following amounts were ordered to be paid :-For gravel, Tam Wateon, 918.87; Jno. OloakeY, $3.- 80 ; Wm. Tucker, 96.76 ; corporation of East Wawrimosh, 93.40; Jno• Somerville, 95.40; Geo. Hewitt, 94.85 ; T. Henderson, 92.60 ; Wm. Monelvie, 92.54 ; Jas. Shur. rie, $7.07 ; P. Barr, 02c. ; Geer Peacoats, 911.60; E. Beeman, 95.135; D. Herring. San, 92.85; A. J. Carter, 94.10 Set. lars, $3.25 ; W. Taylor, 97.06 ; Geo. Pierce, 94.06 ; D. Farquharson, 92.20 ; E. Kerney, 91.20 ; jas. Martin, 96.30; Jas. Timmins, 94.80 ; Jno. Roe, 93.25; Win. Martin, 96.25 ; 0. Wheeler, $3.50 ; jno. Sorandett, 91.45 ; J. Golley, 98.10; Jas. Proctor, 92.70 ; Jas. IttoArter, 98.26 ; John Douglas/ repairing culverts, 94.80; R. Burns, inspecting gravel,- ; 71. Mooney, to pay for bridge on Bast gravel road, 98.80; Blyth Standard, notioe of Court of Revisiou, 91.25; Jas. Jackson, oontraot on 7th line, 965.00 ; Jas. Pet* inspecting and spreading gravel, 98.75; P. Ryan, gravelling on north boundary, 915.00; Geo. Goodfellow, digging ditoh ab J3elgrave, 912.20; Ince Geddes, re• pairing scrapers and =king grates, $7.- 26 ; Jas. Thyne, building oulvert, 92.50; W. H. Kerr, printing handbills and voters' lists, 925.75. Moved by S. Caldbick, seconded by Geo. Kirkby that by•law No, 15 it8 now read be passed. Carried. The counoil then adjourned to meet again ou the 26th Sept. next. Wer. °exalt, Clerk. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. "I send you here an article that's bound to make to. hit." "Enclosed please find a joke or two to spioe your page of wit." "I send a little poem which will please beyond a doubt; Please mail me twenty copies of the paper when it's out." '.1 like your editorial on 'Times are Growing Better,' And so 1 heve endorsed 15 10 a fifteen - column letter." "Enolosed please find subscription in tveo (Confederate) bills." "What made you print my poem under Jobnson's liver pills 7" "My wife's been dead a month, and though my paper's going on, You've never said one word, and folks can't tell which way she's gone I" "I've been in business half a year (your due bills I return you); And yet, you've never wrote me up - so stop my paper, durn you I" eittaladitan News - Ingersoll is troubled by sn iae famine. Grapes at Anaherstburg are selling at 8 cents per pound. Angus MoBean has been paid 9250 as damages for injories received on a Galt eldewalk. Chatham City Band are zealously at work practising for their engagement at tbe Toronto Exposition. P. Bl, Pattison, of Watford, has sue. coded in forming a lodge ot the Cane.di- am n Hoe °Mi ole n Strruthroye 19 strong. Harry Bewell has resigned his position ea Leather in the Guelph Collegiate In. etitute to take a similar position at Brandon. A man named Oradwell, who had been Imbibing somewhat too freely, fell into the canal at Brantford on Friday and was namely &Owned. John Smith, night wetolunan at the Bell Organ Compamy worke, Gnelph, died very suddenly from opium of the bowels on Friday morning. • The ealery of Mr. Perry, heed.mastor of Kincardine High sellout, has been raised to $1,300, Mr. Perry was of tbe position of principal of Brandon, Man., whole, at 61,800, The qua tion of whethoe the Provin- cial Provident Instittrion is liable for permanent disability on policy held by 13. Steeb3, who had one hand and some fingers of bhe other taken off by a train In London, bee been referred by court to arbitration. A. aplonclid exhibit will be mile at tho World's Fair of fruit teem the differenb parte of Canada, as step are already be. big taken to femme the finest spechnene of thie yeer's crap. Prot. Rimesters hits lefb for Montreal to inteeview the 0. P. 11. and G, T. he authorities! about Dude proposed exhibits in the transportation An old gentleman, father of Mrs. Thatcher, a widow resiling in Ridgetown, fell &nee steles on Satiny/ay and broke his nook. The old gentleman was a U. S, pensioner and was very feeble. The new binder twine manufacturieg company at Brantford will employ 50 hands. The main fitotory will be 45x200 feet in extent, with a warehouse of 40x200 feet additional. 77.13, Clement, ISrallierton, heti an arm. chair which has a history, Ti is one hundred years old, and during the war of 1812 was used by an American Gener- al, while parbeking of a Canadian dinner. An attempt at grave robbing took place in the Presbyterian cemetery, Orillia, on Monday night, when Mrs. 0. W. Pitts was disturbed. The ghouls were dim turbed at their work after making an excavation 2 feet in depth. No clue. Walkerton was in a state of exeiternent the other day over the disappearance of an old lady, Mrs. Plewee. The fire bell was sot ringing and the whole town turned out. Later Mrs. Plewes was found in bed ab a friend's house, Vernon F3mitb, the farm hand who dis- appeared from Bost Nissouri several weeks ago, has been partly cleared up by the reoeipt of a letter dated Thelma, August 18th, in whith he says be left suddenly because he felt he was going orazy, gob tired of farming and was afraid to tankle the Bible class at Sunday sehl.s000nae parties at present unknown in Ingersoll poured oil over James A. Bil- ohanan's large brindle dog and then set fire to it. A tin oan had also been tied to his tail, as the learnt ends of the string were found hanging to it. The sufferings of the poor brute can be imagined when ib is stated that upon his arrival at home the flesh was so thoroughly 000ked that it peeled off to the bone. Tile animal had to be shot or he would have gone mad, Bliss Langetaff, of Strathallan, do.ugh. ter of Harry .Langstaff, had A narrow escape from death this' week. She was walking behind a horse in the stable wben a oat sprang out. This frightened the horse, and it kicked Miss Langstaff in the stomach, inflieting serious internal injuriee. She was very close to the horse at the time, a oironmstanee syhich no doubt saved her life, The young lady was knocked with great force against the stable door, producing concussion of" the opine, but no danger is anticipated ou this sore. The team chosen to represent Canada in the International cricket match at Philadelphia next month has been chosen as follows ;---Rev. F. W. Terry, of Lon. don ; W. Jones and J. M. Laing, of To- ronto; L. Coate, Q. D. Warden and W. G. Bristow°, of Ottawa; W. A. Henry and J. G. Bengougb, of Halifax; A. Gil- lespie and .A.. F. R. Martin, of Hamilton, and D. J. Bacon, London. Substitutes - D. W. Saunders, Toronto ; W. R. Marsh- all, Hamilton, and C, R. Atkinson, Chatham. 57. A.. Henry will captain the jeaTmhe. organization of an A. 0. U. W. Grand Lodge for Manitoba and the North. west Territovies was completed at Winni- peg on Thmeday morning of Met week by Deputy Supreme Blaster Milne, of Ontario. The grand officers elected are :-Past Graud Master Workman, J. 71. Cavemah, Lethbridge; Grand Blaster Workman, Alex. Pratt, Winnipeg ; Grand Reoorder, J. M, Matthew, Winnipeg ; Grand Reoeiver, John Mason, Portage la Prairie ; Grand Guide, W. J. McComb, Griswold. The proceedings closed with a banquet., Wm. Ashton was crossing whet is known as the Jameston Bridge, a few miles south of Aylmer, on Saturday night, with a steam threshing engine, when the stringers gave way and preoipi- tated engine, driver and team into the creek below, a distance of about seventeen feet. Mr. Ashton was badly injured. One leg vras so badly orushed that it will have to be arnpntated below the knee, and the other leg was broken in two plazas. One of the horses received such injuries that it will have to be killed, while the other escaped without a scratch. The engine is a total wreak. 0. E. Brener, of Horton street, Lon- don, says he has struck natural gas on his lot, 233 Horton street. For some time past the odor of gas in his vicinity has been very noticeable, portioularly bn rainy weather or when it looked like TM, The (muse was attributed to a leak i the gas pipes. The gas company was notified and sent workmen to the place with the result that the latter denied the tlow was due to any leakage. Mr. Bren- er now has an inverted butter tub plased over the spot from vehicle the gas is emitted. He has raade an incision in the top of the tub, and at night he ap- gtliee a metal to the hole end a light nos steacitly. A. S. Ball, barrister, Woodstock, had an experieno about 11 o'olook Saturday morning that nearly cost him his life. Between 1 and 2 o'clock he was reading and smoking in the dining room of his residenots on Light street, when, to his astonishment, be was oonfrontei by a burglar with a revolver in his hand. The East intimation Mr. Ball had of the Stranger's presence was the appearance of his little Sootoh terrier in the room, marling and endeavoring to attraet his attention to the hallway. Mr. Ball could soe ogling the matter and estate - ed his reading, when the little dog gave another warning. This was when he first mei the burglar. Ea at ono de- manded Mr. Ball's money'whereupon Ile (Me. Ball) made a motion 50 acquieeoe in his bold request, but on the spin of the moment changed hie mind and made a Nish ab the intruder. Ile grabbed hia right wrist, in width limed was the re. volver, end it cleaperate struggle ammo& Mr, Ball called hie wife to telephone for the police and with this tho burglar bos- 005005 mon desperate. He fired four idiots, three of which took effect. One penetrated the fleshy pert of ale, vbght aem, another struok the left shout - der and the third grazed his softie for two oe three inches, That Mr. Ball was not merdered in cold blood seems oartainly a miracle. Bin. Bell no doubt saved hoe inithand's lite. Slit prooured it revolver, and woeld bave shot the stranger had not all the cartridges been blank. Fail. ing le tbis, she proeured a heavy oak stick and pounded him senseless, while her daughter Vera ran for a rope, and the burglar was tied hands and feet Un- til the pollee arrived ana removed him to the gaol. Fortunately, Mr. Ball's wounds are not serious and unless blood - poisoning sate in he will be about again in a few days. The perpetrator of this daring act is a man 20 years of age, standing live hot six iuoluse, He gives his name as John Kelly and his home as Montreal. His facial expression is that of a hardened criminal, Es is of light complexion, prominent nose and light moustache. Ile wore a brown and black check suit. He had heen seen about town during the week begging. He ob. tained entrance to Dlr. Ball's house by naeane of a ladder raised to a dressing. room window. The prisoner now oo- oupiea hirehall's old oell. He appears quite cool and abate over the affair as if he had been a keen eye -witness. He in- quires anxiously after Mr. Ball's cod/. Mon, saying, as he does, that he had no intention of shooting him. When searoh• ed at the gaol Kelly had in his possession four steel Chisels, a soreev driver and in the waist of his trousers wore neatly owed three watch springs, which are used in sawing iron bars. Kelly will not be arranged until Mr. Ball is able to ap- pear et court. Huron. County. A bowling alley has been started in Clinton. Henry Cook has an onion plantation at Henson. Dr. Hattie Foxton, of Clinton, ss ill protioe at Detroit. Clinton magistrates baulk about taking cases. Bounce them. Rev. J. W. Shilton, Clinton, is home from the Old Country. Zurich Fall Fair on Monday and Tues- day, Sept. 12tla and 18th. Several fire escapes are being placed in the Exeter public school. Two hot air furnaces will be put in the Presbyterian church, Brucefield. The Hensall oat meal mill is busily en. gaged manufacturing pot barley. Constable Wheatley, of Clinton, naakes the corner loungers "move on." W, H. McElroy, Blyth's hustliner will start is shop binouMatbneahooasar Mr, Curry has ghg1020,000p0- barrels of apples in Wroxeter vicinity. Oue day Lorne Tyndall, of Hallett, out thirteen acres of peas in ten hours. Reeve hawden, of Exeter, who has bean in England for some time is home. The Fall wheat in Belfast neighbor- hood averages about 25 bushels M the store. - The horn dy has made its appearance at Crewe to the serious annoyance of the r:Ier. Wt:tima.oGteudring die, 000per, Luoknow, intends 10,000 apple barrels this season. Mr. Shoebottom is about to establish a fruit evaporating and canning factory in Tj'I°kncilly. T11eth Standard is 5 years old and is quite a healthy looking yonngster for 4aag.e. WHaWkshaw, 01 Senforth, has boeght out Mr. Shieter, of the Commer. Ulai'(jiinlYroni G.ik.ee, of Caledonia, succeeds Mr. Morrow as classical master in Cliu. San Collegiate. The Iliversdale cheese factory, near Lucknow, was burned recently but all the ebeese was saved. Donald Finlayson, of Luoknow, whose mind became deranged, hae been taken to the London Alsylam. Lucknow Odd Fellows are instituting a lodge of the Daughters of Rebecom The goat is to have a side saddle. Lnoknow Caledonian .gamee on Wed. nesday, 14th inst. Louts Cyr, the strong man, 15 50 be one of the attractions. At a meeting of the Exeter Gun Club County Constable Gill and Town Con- stable Creole were appointed Game Law inYeeHt°1op.s. hdai Gleanere of St. A,ndrew's church, Blyth, will hold what is called a Gipsy Social, on the ohuroh campus on h Sspt. tSies h. 0horee of Lake Huron, fifteen iniles west from Exeter and thirteen miles hone Parkhill lies the summer re- sort known as Grand Bend Park, R. D. Toting, of Hensel!, has sold his interest in the business of Cod, Rannie de Young, to Mr. Rennie. Mr. Coed in- tends going to the Northwest in the fall. Several large loads of flax were drawn to the Hensel] flax mill by Thos. Pal. naer and Thos, Portia the Arab load tipped the eoalee at 8020 and the latter 7856. A memorial servies was held itt North street Methodist chetah, Goderiob, last Sunday evening having reference bo the death of Rev. J. E. Plowell's bwo sone. Rev. JO. Soobt, 71, A., President ot the Oonferenoe, preached. While Harry Emit and D. Robinson were excavating the °eller for Mr. Fair's new house, Clinton, Mr. East had the mieforbune to get struck with the pick throUgh his hand makiug an ugly gash that will give him unsought holidays, A man »amid Daley, belonging to i Goderioh, was placed t the Olinton lock.up for carrying a loaded ravolver ; be was pretty drunk and a dangeroas men to fool with a ravolver, having fivo bell cartridgea in it. The revolver was confiscated and Daley was allowed to go free, Wm. Johnston is aow in jail at Gode. rich on te charge of seriously wounding, with intent to do bodily harm, 3.13, Cameron, is Immeshing -louse keeper at Wroxetor. The dispute was over rent and furaiture, and ended in a toggle, during which Johnston pulled a knife. A sad itooldent occurred at Centralia vesulting in the death ot the only son of Samuel Oalifas, The little follow was playing round his father'e hay rack, When tam horse startedy =tolling him in the spokes of the hind wheel tend moth. Ing hint against the inside of the rack, Tio lived but a few =mute, e The editor of the Clinion New Era end Alva. Holmes are on a. trip to Winnipeg and other points.' Dr. Bull, who Malted to practice no Goderich, aomo few weeks since has re. tired from the field. Seaforth carried% 914,000 by-law last week for tbe ereotion of a market and fire hall on Main street. D. Cantelon, of Clinton, shipped last week eleven oars of apples, and has al- ready purchased about 20,000 barrels. Reeve Woods, of hayfield, had the misfortune to break some or his ribs cooed by a fall from a load a grain. The members of the Dauntless La. onto Club, Clinton, pregented John Ken- nedy with a handsome easy chair on the eve of his marriage. Wm. Wafters has been re-engaged as teacher of the senior department of the Pordwith school for next year at a good increase of salary. One night six bovines got into Mr. Ring's garden, Myth, through the gate that sorne one had left open during the family's absence. Two hundred hills of corn, twenty heads of cabbage, about twenty-five pumpkins, one bed of beets and one bed of oarrote were destroyed be- fore morning. In the criminal suit against W. F. Mc- Lean, M. P., for publishing certain state. mots against M. 0. Cameron, ex -let. P., West Huron, it is stated that when the case again oomes into court there will be some startling developments. Whet the exact nature of these developments are cannot be stated, seeing thet the case is still subjudioe, hut lb ie said one of the principal witnesses has left Canada leaving behind an affidavit contradicting the previous statements made by said witness. The Clinton New Era editor tells how Inc suomected in riding a bicycle :-It seemed so easy to learn to ride a bioyele, that I determined I would learn, and, borrowing a wheel froin Ab, Cooper, I took it over on a back street to expel. mot on. It was anomie:dui experiineut, but the "hanged" old thing had the beet of it. The fellow who owned it said that all I had to do "was to mouet it and away she'd go." I mounted, and elle did go. She first went to the right, then to the left, then both ways together, then it tried to beak up. I got off, but the way they laughed at rne 7 think 7 must have been in a hurry, for the machine was so tangled up in my legs that it took seve- ral minutes to get us apart. I thought I'd try it again. "Ib would be easier if I went down hill," the fellow said, I event, but the machine stopped when it got to the bottom. I didn't. When they get the wheel back teem the machine shop, and my leg and arm gets better, Pll try it again. PERSONAL EMU-8RI7'11S. Frankie LeBon is quite ill. Miss Clara Creighton is visiting ha Guelph. Miss Joni° Keletnehlin is visiting at Chealey. Will Stewart, of Durham, was ha town hist week. Mrs. Walter Smith has been vieibing in Listowel. Jno. McNaughton has soared a silta- tion at Sutton, George Rogers is away on a business trip to Detroit. Mrs. E. Blelecan and daughter are an. joyitag a visit at blitthell. Mies Minnie MoNaughton has been visiting friends in Mitchell. I. O. Richards, wife and sone spent a few days at Bayfield this week. Chas. Dutton, druggist of Ingersoll, was in town for a few days this week. Mrs. D. Cameron, of Park Hill, was visiting at Principal Shaw's this week. Willie Aldridge, of Platteville, is visit- ing with his grandparents in Brussels. The Misses Fleuty, of Wingham, Spent a few days last week with Miss Dolly Seeker. Miss Maggie Smith has gone to Toron- to mad Buffalo to attend the millinery openings. Miss Livingstone and Miss Minnie Shaw are attending the millinery open- ings at Toronto, Miss Rate Richardson wag in town last Friday while on her way to Teeswater to resume her position as teather. Miss Hattie Rogers has soared a situ- ation at Rodney. She is now at London ;attending the millinery openings. Miss L. .05.. Ha,mbly, formerly teacher in Brussels Publio Sehool, has taken a situation at Rollin, near her home. W. Roddiolt and Walter Wake spent a portion of this week in Oweu Sound, where the wants ot the latter reside. George Pirie sr., formerly a teeident of this place, is seriously ill at his home, at Waleingham Centre, With a oncer on his tongue. G. A. Hood has gone on a visit to rela• tives and friends in Blichigan. If a suit. able opening woes he will reinain theta and work at hie trade. Miss Braden arrived bath from her trip to Calgary and 13anff last Satiteday ready for the .o.oponing of school, after a most enjoyable visit. Orma, the little daughter of Nelda E. Gerry, performed aorobatio feats on the stairs the other day and received an Ugly hrUhle on her race in the fall. R. Leittherdale had the tnisfortune to sprain his right anicidene day last week while out hunting on his btother.in-law'e farm near Seeforth. Ile suffered is great deal of ;mite from the accident. The Winnipeg Free Peess says :-B. Gorey, a well known hardware merchant of Beteeeds, Ont., arrived in the city ae. eompenicel by his wile. Me. Gerry left on the afternoon train for Indian Head, whore ho will visit a son, aud it the country snits him, wilt petinanently lo - oto hers. Wm. Millet., ot tide place, received a lettet on Wediteeday from Geo. Sandell, Flint, Riche stating theb his father, (Geo, Seddon, formerly ot Brussolse was dangerously ill with a actimer behind his ear, 71 he is able to he moved frona Alpena, where lie tow is, he will be takee to Harper's Hospital, Detroit, foe treatment. Mr. Sanders' old frieeds in town will he eorry to helm of his Weems.