HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-5-19, Page 3MAY 10, 1893
A LITTLB GIRL'S LAM4NT.
My brother Will he need to be
Tho nioeat kind of glrl ;
Ile wore a little dress like mo,
And had his hair in ourl,
We played with dolls and tea.eet then,
And every kind of toy,
But all those good old times aro gene -
Will turned into a boy.
Mamma has made him little suite,
With pookets in the pants,
And out off all his yellow curia
And sent them to my aunts ;
And Will, ha was so pleased, I b'lieve
'He almoet jumped for joy ;
But I must own I didn't like
Will turned into a boy.
And ho plays with horrid tops
I dont know how to spin,
And marbles that I try to shoot,
But never hit nor win ;
And leap frog -I can't give a "butt,"
Like Charlie, Prank or Roy ;
Oh, no one knows how bad i foal
l ineo Minims turned a boy I
I helve to wear freaks just the same,
And now they're mostly white,
I have to sit and just be good,
While Will omit .climb and fight.
But I must keep my dresses nice
And wear my hair in our! ;
And worse -oh, worstesb thing of all I
T have to stay a girl.
TATE BRIDGE ACROSS THE NITII,
on,
Tan VxLLAee or New HAninuna y, TEA
Couxs'x of WArenmoo.
Two Manioipel Counoils with anxiety
were filled
To know which of the two of them a cer-
tain bridge should buikl.
So to the law they did appeal, end then a
case was tried,
In order that the oourb might soon this
knotty point decide.
Now the whole ease did turn upon the
question of the plan
On wbioh to take the river's width where
this here bridge should span.
And first the judge who tried the case
did in his judgment say,
"To ascertain the river's width this is the
proper way :
Prom top of bank to top of bank on either
side you take
The measure, and iu doing this one hund-
red feet I make.
So for the plaintiffs now 1 give my judg-
ment in a trice,,'
And then bhe plaintiffs clapped their
hands and said, "How very ,meet"
But though he was an ample judge as
ever you did see,
Still with his judgment the defence
would not at all agree ;
But to another learned court they did ap-
peal the case,
And then the tables quite were turned,
for this is what took place.
The judges of the latter court unanimous-
ly said,
"That where the river's highest mark
most udually's displayed
Is how you find the river's width, and,
bearing this in mind,
The river's not a hundred feet, and that
is what we find.
So for defendants now we give our jade
ment in a Brims,"
Whereat defendants clapped their hands
and said "Iiow very nice 1"
But then the village councillors unhappy
quite did feel,
And to another court they said that they
would now appeal ;
"And there," they said, "we'll get the law
expounded very clear
By judges four of high degree, and none
of your small beer."
And when these judges sat upon the case
they were dismayed
To find what ign'renoe of the law the
other courts displayed,
lt'or two were (tear at freshet time the
river's width you take,
And, if you did, a hundred feet and more
'twould surely make.
But then the other two did deal in this
way with the matter,
And said, "The feelings of the court be-
low. we cannot shatter.
So we decide that they were right ; and
thus it will appear
That now the law upon this point is, like
•the mud, most clear ;
Therefore,the judgment of the court be-
low tee do affirm,
Because we don't agree, you see -at
which 'you mustn't squirm."
So judgment for defendants was affirmed
in a trice,
At Which defendants clapped their hands
and said, "How very nice 1"
Chorus by Village Councillors :
Ob, when we brought the suit about the
bridge mercies the Nith,
We found the law, when hammered out,
was very like a myth.
To tell us plain what is the law no court
would deign to stoop ;
- But this, alaswe know fall well, that
wo are "in the soup."
TEMPERANCE.
"I should say from exporienee that al-
cohol is the most destructive agent that
we are . aware of in this country." -Sir
William Gull.
Tho town of Gojumra, Japan, is a total
abstinence place, and over eaob hoose ib
is stated a motto is placed, reading, "Fre.
gal in all things, liquor prohibited."
The almost unanimous testimony of a
large number of superintendents of in.
sane and poor.housee is that poveety is
the effect, not the cause of intemperance,
-Tinton Signal.
The ohief justice of Kansas etabed in a
public meeting that prohibition is ae well
enforced ire any oriminal law in the state,
and nmol better enforced than any low
license law iu other states. -Union Sig-
ual.
"Whiskey ie our greatest enemy," said
a pastor to an intemperate man. '
"Well, doesn't the Bible toll us to love
000 enemies 7"
"Yee" said the pastor gravely, "Nut it
doesn't tell us to swallow them."
Lady Battersea, in presiding at a re-
cent meeting addressed by Lady Benry
Somerset and. Mies Willard, pointedly
Bald to the audience : "If you cannot be
torobes in our temperance work, let me
beg of you that you will not bo exon•
guishers "
German army officials gravely disowns
in a miiitary magazine the injnrione ef.
feote of alcoholic stimulants on limit
'some, and decide that the more severe
the exertion a here° has bo undergo, the
more carefully should bo b0 guarded
from aloottolio,etimulatioii,
Certain regiments in India ware kept
under striob observation, 'Motive bboue•
and six bunched soldier's were divided in.
to three glasses, tree and modorabe brink•
ere and total abstainers. The death ratio
of the free tlrinksre was four times and
the death rate of the moderato drinkers
twine that of the total abebabnere.
The Royal Comiuiseion on prohibition
in Canada brought to light the foot that
the great Hudson Bay Company has gong
into the liquor business extensively, mush
to ibe (begrime, The desire of this oom•
pany has heretofore been Ito resbriob the
alcohol traffic and preserve a high moral
tOne among its employees, -Chicago 'Un-
ion Signal,
"The temperance movement," says the
Glasgow tlTerald, is spreading rapidly
among railroad mot. Already ten
thousand white buttons, stamped with.
initials signifyI'ng the Railroad Temper.
amen Association, have boon distributed
among engineers and trainmen, and the
demand for them has been eo great that
fifty thousand more have been ordered."
A Little Boy's Tun.
American Mother -Where in the world
have you been all this time 7 I've 'been
worried to death.
Little Son -Only down street a little
ways, down to the dealt.
•"Goodness I I told you not to go on
that dock,"
Oli, I didn't go on the cloak. I wont
down nlongeido of it to throw stones on
the ice. It was great fun,"
"Oh P'
"Yes, and the stones didn't go through,
the fee was so thick."
"It has been melting for some days."
"Oh, there's plenty of foe there yet.
It was so thick I walked oat a little way,
and it didn't creek hardly at all."
"Humph 1"
"And when I walked ib did not wave
up and down scarcely any. So I pub on
my skates to see if it was smooth."
"Skates 1 You told me they were at a
atop being sharpened."
"Yes, I just gob them and they were
awfully nine and I skated all ovee the
river with them."
"My sou."
"Oh, ib woe such fun, but I wept
through an air bole."
"Horrors 1"
"It was real funny how I wont into
one airhols and a man pulled me out of
another one farther down. So I heard.
I doo'b remember anything about it, but
it was awfully jolly. Then they book
me to a hospital."
"What 1"
"That's what they said. And the
dootor diel something, I don't know what,
for two hours they said. I was asleep.
I guess I got sleepy 'cause I sat up late
last night stadyin'. Then the nurses
dried my clothes, and when I woke up
they sent me home in a queer wagon all
fall of auctions. It was awful nice."
A POINTER FOR AGENTS.
The underwriter submits the following
in illustration of the advisability of
adapting one's self to the circumstances
by which he is confronted. It is some-
what musty, having been an the market
for some time, and we strongly snepecb
it of baying been adapted from come of
the romancing of the :umlaute :-
A Detroit book agent once importuned
James Watson, a rich Ohioago merchant
living oub at Pullman, until he bought
his book. ltfr. Watson didn't want ib,
but he purobased it to please the agent,
and then, taking it under his arm, he
started for the brain which took him to
bis Chicago office.
Ile was gone only a'short time when
Mrs. Watson returned from a neighbor's.
The agent saw bet and went in and per.
seeded her to take another book. She,
of course, wee ignorant of the fact that
her husband bad already purchased one,
and when he returned home that evening
she produced it.
"I don't want to see it," said Watson,
his brow darkening.
"Why, husband 1" said the wife.
"Because that clever book agent sold
me the same book this' morning. Now,
we've gob two copies."
"But, husband, we oan—"
"No we oan't, either," interrupted Mr.
Watson. "The man is off on the train
before Mile. Confound it, I would like
to lick that fellow. I—"
"Why, there he goes to the depot now,"
said Mrs, Watson, pointing out of the
wiudow at the retreating form of the
agent making for the train.
"But it's too late to catch hint, andl'm
not dreseed I've taken off my boots,
and—"
Just then Mr. Stevens, a neighbor of
Mr. Watson, drove by and Watson pound-
ed on the window pane in a franbio
manner, almost oausiug the horse to rim
away.
Here, Stevens" ho shouted. "You're
litohed up ; won't you rim your horse
down to the train and bold that book -
agent till I come 7 Run 1 Catch 'im 1
I think hie name is Morgan.'?
"Alt right" said Stevens, whipping his
horse and tearing down the road.
Be reached the train just as the eon.
dilator said "All aboard l"
"Book agent 1 Morgan 1" he yelled as
the object of his searoh shopped on the
train. "Book agent, hold on 1 01r, Wat-
son wants to see you,'
"Watson 1 Watson waists to seg me 3"
repeated the seemingly puzzled agent.
Oh, yes 1 I know what 1s0 wants.
It is one of my books, but I can't mies
tLe traits to sell it to him."
"If that's all be wants I oan pay for it
and take it back to him. How much ie
ib 7"
"Two dollen and a.batf," said the
agent, as lie recohed for the money and
passed the book out of the. window.
Just then Mr. Watson, strived, pulling
and blowing, in his shirt sleeves. As he
saw tbe.brain pull out he became frantio.
"Well, T got it for you," said Stevens.
"Just got it, and that's all."
"Got what 1" yelled Watson.
"Why, the book, of course,"
"By--rho-great-guns," moaned Wat.
son, as he planed his hand to his brow
and fell senseless.
The moral of this story may not be as
good as it might be. Ono thing, how.
ever, ie indicated. Taot, preseverance,
anti a realization of the situation works.
wonders. One nutlet bo so absorbed in
his business as to think the frantic
efforts of those wine may endeavor to get
hold of him are only caused by a desire
to purchase what ise has to sell. -Mutual
Underwriter.
THE BRUSSELS POST
MAN'S gltGiA6 5,if .
In the human body there are About
200 bones. The remotes aro about 500 in
number. The length of the alimentary
canal is 82 feet, The amount of blood in
an adult averages 32 pounds, or fully ono -
fifth of the entire weight. The heart is
6 inolnea in length and 4 inches in diam-
eter, and beats 70 times per miqute, 4,-
200 timse per hour, 100,800 times per
day, 80,702,000 tithes a year, 2,005,440,.
000 in three score years and ten, and at
eaob beat 211 ounoee at blood are thrown
out of it, 170 ounoee per minute, 050
peewits per hour, 7t tone per day,
All the blood in the body passes
through the heart in throe minutes.
This little organ, by its oeasoless in-
dnstry, pumps each day what is equal to
lifting 122 tone one foot high, or ono ton
122 feet high. The lungs will contain
about one gallon of air at their usual de.
grog of inflation. We breath on an aver-
age 1,200 biose an Hour, inhale 000 gal.
lone of air, or 24,000 per day.
The aggregate surface of the air nolle
of the lungs exceeds 20,000 square inches,
and aro nearly equal to the floor of a
room twelve feet square. The average
weight of the brain of an adolb male is
three pounds and eight ounces ; of a for
male, two pounds and four ounoee.
nerves are all connected with it, directly
or by bbs spinal marrow. These nerves,
together with their branches and minute
ramiloations, probably exceed 10,000,000
in number, forming a "body -guard" out.
numbering by far the greatest army ever
marshalled.
The skin is composed of three layers
and varies from oto-fourbh to one•eighth
of an inch in thickness. The atmos•
pherio pressure being shout 14 pounds to
the square inch, a pereon of medium size
is subjected to a pressure of 40,000
pounds. Bach square inoh of skin con.
tarns 8,500 swenting tubes or perspir-
atory pores, each al which may be
likened to a little drain pipe ono -fourth
of an inch loug, making an sbggregate
length of the entire snrfaoe of the body
201,100 feet, or a tile ditch for draining
the body almost forty miles long. Man
is marvellously made. Who is eager to
investigate the curious and wonderful
works of Omnipotent Wisdom, let him
not wander the wide world around to
seek them, bet examine himself.
'A. lltbcuniatic natio a R 000 elm-tiom-.
pletely Eared.
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your Royal Crown Remedy to the afflict-
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and affection of the Liver, and after try.
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Doctors 1DB3 1fc du fined: o0yal. drown
llemetly Lnrael 110-R
Iinnnm'roes, Deo. 4th,1830.
Jin. rums Wtliiatna :
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commending your Royal Crown Remedy
to anyone suffering with Neuralgia and
Liver Complaint. Doctors slid me no
good ; tried several other medioinss
which proved useless. Meeting your
agent accidently one day, he persuaded
me to try your preparations, which I did.
After taking three bottles, I consider
myself entirely cured. Yours truly,
Mas. GAonun, 71 Melbourne St.
To WEont IT nIAN' CnNcuua.-We, the
undersigned, who are large purchasers of
Canada and Weeteru lambs, would re.
epeobfully submit the following sugges-
tions, wbieh, if adhered to, will be of
mutual benefit to all concerned : The
parties to whom we sell our dressed
lambs have gradually become averse to
book lambs, and now take a decided stand
against them, and want all styes and
wotbers. They will nob handle book
lambs, unless wo make a oonceseion in
the price of two osnts per pound, dressed
weight. This difficulty can he overcome
if all parsons raising lambs for market
will castrate their buck lambs. We
would suggest that all farmers castrate
their buck lambs this year, and hereby
give notice that we shall make a differ-
ence of from eoventy-five ceute to one
dollar per head in price between buck
lambs, and ewe and wether lambs, sumo
age and quality, as bund lambs haves to
be sold in our market for two cents per
pound, dressed weight, lower than ewe
and wether lambs, same quality. John
Shea, J. Harrington ds Co., A. Vander.
beck, New England Dressed Meat sod
Wool Oo., Aaron Levy, N, Y. V. clt M.
Co., David Shannon, J. M. ,k L. Scanlon,
Halligan & Dalton, S. J. Taylor.
Oherles D, Bingham, a well-known To.
ronba printer, tried to•oonsmit suicide in
Elmira, N. Y.
A Wasbingston despeteb says the Nio-
aragua revolutionists have practically
overthrown the Government,
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Makes the hair soft and glossy.
"I have used Ayer's Bair Vigor for
nearly five years, and my heir is moist,
glossy, and in an excellent state of pres-
ervation, I am forty years old, and have
ridden the plainsfor twenty eve year„"
Wm, Henry Ott, ralias "Mustang 13111,"
Newcastle, Wyo.
yer8s Har 5 "Ager
Prevents hair from falling out.
"A number of years ago, by recom-
mendation of a friend, I began to use
Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop the hair from
falling out and prevent its turning gray.
The first effects were most satisfactory,
Occasional applications since have kept
my hair thick and of e. natural color. "--
H. E. Basham, .McKinney, 'Texas,
yen's :' irVi or
Restores hair after fevore.
"Over a year ago I had a severe fever,
and when 1 recovered my hair began
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turned gray, I tried various remedies,.
but without success, till at lose I began
to use Ayer'e Hair Vigor, and now my
hair is growing rapidly and is restored
to its original color." -Mrs. A, Collins,
Dighton, Mass.
Ayer 'sHair Vigor
Prevents hair from turning gray,
"My hair was rapidly tanning gray and
falling out; ono bottle of Ayer's flair
Vigor has remelted the trouble, and my
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Said ny Druggists and ltorfatuers,
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TESTED REi.IEDIES
SPECIFIC AND ANTIDOTE
For Impure, Weak and Impoverished
Blood, Dyspepsia, Sleeplessness, Palpata-
tion of the heart, Livor Complaint, Neur.
algia, Loss of Memory, Brouchills, Con.
enmpbion, Gall Stones, Jamndioe, Kidney
and Urinary Diseases, St. Vitus' Dance,
Female Irregularities and General De.
bility,
LABORATORY GODERICH, ONT.
J. M. MaLEOD,
Prop. and DIanufaatarsr.
Sold by J. T, PEPPER,
Druggist, Brunetti.
Confederation Life
Association.
Hem] Office : TORONTO.
Capital and Assets, $5,000,000
New Insurance, 1802, $3,670,000
Insurance at Risk, $22,595,000
Policies Non -Forfeitable and In-
disputable after two years.
Gains for 1892 over 1891 in In-
surance, Witton, $755,000,
Or over 25 per cent.
Iusnrelnce at Risk, $1,978,000
Or Nearly 10 per cent.
Assurance Income, $48,678
In Assets, - $439,878
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AGENT, BRUSSELS.
e� itimal
I have opened out a prime stock
of new Confectionery, Fruits,
Nuts, Canned Goods, Tobaccoes,
Cigars, tbeo., in the
Vanstoiie Block.
OYSTE RS
Cooked, Raw or by the Glass.
Hot urea, and Coffee
Served at all Hours. Lunch
Room. Everything neat, clean,
and sold at close prices.
Pickles by the Bottle or Quart.
Salt and Fresh Fish.
JAS. Idi&ALPINE.
THE MATCHER,
Practical Watchmaker
and Jeweler.
Thanking rho publio for past favor's and
support and wishing still to secure
your patronage wo are opening
out Full Lines in
BOLO ARID SILVER WATCHES.
Silver Plated Ware
from Betabiished and Reliable Makers
tally warranted by ns.
Clocks of the
Latest Designs
tTEVTELRY I
W$nDINs Patient,
LADIES Gent BINos,
Bn000E>vs,
IllAnnrifos, coo.
KS -Also a Full Line of Vxomose and
Violin Strings, Inc., in stook,
9.15.-lesurer of llaMagi, Unctions.
T. Fletcher, w Brussels.
We have a Large Stools of
MILK CANS,
CREAMERY CANS,
MILK PAILS,
STRAINER PAILS,
MILK PANS,
SAP PANS, &o.,
All made. of First-class Material.
Roofing and Eave Troughing Attended to.
TBE BRUSSELS STOVE MEX.
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FUME E
FURNITURE ! FURNITURE !
As House Cleaning is at hand that is the time there is always
something wanted in my line. A Bedroom or Parlor Suite, an old
Lounge done over and made as good as new, or some of our new
Patent Window Shades required.
I have the largest and best assorted stock in the County and
as I buy for spot cash I defy competition. Look at some prices :—
Good Kitchen Chairs for 30c. ; good Parlor Chairs for 55c. ; good
Rocking Chairs for 90c. ; Bociroom Suites for $7.00 and upwards
Sideboards for $5 00 and upwards ; Bedsteads for $1.85 and up-
wards ; Parlor Suites 'for $25.00 and upwards. Everything sold at
Very low P ioeti fox 30 Days%
During house cleaning time. The invoice of a new and well assort -
eel stock of CURTAIN POLES to Vaud—Stock here in a fete days.
3 Curtain Poles all complete, a new design in ends, for $1.00.
WINDOW SHADES !
It will never pay you to •put up your olcl Window Blinds,
Come and see my Spring Shades, nothing but the best Cloth and
Springs used. They are, by far, the cheapest considering the
length of time they went'. Put up and warranted to Work at very
Low Prices.
UNDERTAKING !
I keep a complete stock in all its branches. As the warm
weather is coining on now is the time an Embalmer is required.
Having taken Diploma on embalming at Toronto Medical School
from Professor Ronouarcd, all work intrusted to ole will be properly
and promptly attended to either night or day.
ORGANS and PIANOS !
I buy instruments for spot cash and buy them right. As;I do
not puddle them from door to door and do not pretend to run them
alone as a business (having lots of room and no expense) therefore
1 can give the public the benefit of close prices. Don't boy lentil
you get my Figures.
R. - eche cele..
Special Attention to Repairs,