HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-6-16, Page 3Jul/4 IO, X893 THE BEU•SSELS POST
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TIfl NEWSPAPER MAN.
"My son, I don't know if your . youthful
oonoeptiou,
Has breadth in the scope of its nebulous
plan ;
To wield comprehension of that one ex.
oep4fon
To workaday mortals the newspaper
man. kept'
But if you'll agree to a feeble closoription
Front ono of their number, IhlI 110 what
I eau, MEM t'Vr'
To blend in the way of a litblegprosorip•
Non,
The misters that's known as the news-
paper 411011 I
"Taken brain that Is stesped.in solution
of knowledge,
Most varied and picturesque under the
sett ;
I'hen add just a pinch of the salt of the
college,
A flavor of wit and a soupoou of fun
For a relish, Bohemian sauce Is the gaper,
And a mind that will stretch front
I3eersbeba to Dan ;
In fancy or foot, when it (somas to 'the
paper,'
Or touches the heart of the newspaper
man t
"To a memory that clutches the varies!
!rifle,
Ant a hand that lo theism); when work's
to be done ;
Add an eye that is gniult as the flash of a
rine,
And keen as the eagle that flies to the
dm.
Take strength and endurance, and loyal
devotion,
And add all the grit and the courage
von aau
To the heart that's as big and as deep as
the ocean ;
A hundred to one on the uowopaper
men 1
"Witt) it brew of ideas that, seething
and boiling,
Run out into moulds that are models
foe men ;
Add 11, ceaseless encounter with planning
and toiling,
For the world of today that is ruled
by the pen,
Add the honey of friendship, the dew of
' affection,
And the esprit de corps that gets down
to bard pan ;
And paste in your bat the whole mortal
collection,
As the regular stook of the newspaper
man 1"
IIOUShHOLD ill�'P5.
Warm craokere in the oven before
using,
Dip sliced onions in milk before fry.
lug.
Rub tough meat with a out lemon.
Stettin a stale loaf of bread to freshen
it.
Heat the dry coffee before pouring on
the water.
Use bacon, fat for frying chicken and
game.
Fry sweet apples when you have liver
or kidney.
Put the jnioe of an orange and some
nutmeg in lemonade.
Use stewed grapes as an appetizer.
Take lemon and ot'ango peels to flavor
500000.
Figs split open form excellent poulti•
COB..
An insect in the ear may be drowned
out with tepid water,
To restore black ea0hmele wash it in
riot suds, with a little borax in the water;
rinse it in very strong bluing water and
iron well while damp.
The best mucilage is made from gum
tragacanth and water. When well dis-
solved add anew drops of oil of cloves
and a tiny piece of alum.
A good Dement for china is made this
way : —Mix with a strong solution of
gum arable and water enough plaster of
paris to make a think paste. Apply this
with a camel's hair brush to the broken
edges and init0.
Add to each quart of well boiled starch
half a teaspoonful of powdered borax and
a tiny pied) of lard, and dip the oollaro
and outfs is while the starob is quite not.
Use a polishing iron and your collars
and ouffs will look like new.
Sure cure for oorns : Mix nine parts
of ealioylio acid with ono part of extraot
of eannibis indica and fortyeigbt parts
of collodion. After bathing the feet in
warn» water apply this mixture to the
affected parte.
Una 4513 INFO7ttldrH/N.
The greatest university ie Oxford. It
has 21 colleges. and 5 balls,
Miss Kathleen Murphy, of Dublin, re-
ceived the $1,500 prize from the Royal
University of Ireland for the best exam•
ination in modern literature.
The amount of ail that a man will in-
hale in 24 hours will fill 78 hogsheads
and woigh,58 pounds.
Fourteen minor planets wore discover-
ed during luet month, bringing the total
number of small planets known to 878.
The diam•)tnr of '[ars is nearly 4;200
miles, Its 001111te is a13on4 one-seventh
and its density four-fifths that of the
earth, A ebone let fall on the eurfane of
1lfars would fall six feet the first second.
The higheet falls in the wo'141 are the
Ribbon falls of the Yosemite -8,840 feet.
The oldest artesian well In Europe is
found at Lilies, Franco. From its
mouth water has flowed uninterruptedly
for 740 years.
It is estimated that the Mississippi
river annually dieehargee into the gull of
Mexico 10,600,000,000,000 cubic feet of
water, Of this prodigious quantity S.
2000 palls will be sediment.
Near"y 600 women are employed a0
station agents in France but they get
only half as much pay as men in the
sante positions.
Over 100 new telegraphcaa ries were
opened in India during the brat three
months of thi0,year.
Vamoe W, Iljelm, of Cotton, dal,, is
eerbaps the youngest telegraph operator
in'the world, being but 11.
Denison, Tex., olltim0 to leave dieoover-
' ed a 0•yoar old boy who has been a tramp
for two years, plays poker,drinks whisky,
can swear like a pirate and is an export
with the pistol.
Two boys aged about 18 ere running a
dairy in eouth Atchison, Ilan. They
started two yearn ago with one 0041 and a
mills can. 'Now they hate four or live
cows and a horse and wagon.
1h0 woodo j1104 north of West Point
ere the home of more than a acorn of
,6tneri an saglee.
A 10 veal' -old negro boy living near
-11Zilan 1'oml., was born with only one
eye, there being no trace of another. Hie
body is covered with a growth of small
hairs r'asettbting wool, giving him the
appearance of a brute animal,
In Princeton, Ky., the 2 year old baby
of Godfrey Stevens Poll into a cistern.
Thera was no rope handy, hub 11fre.
Stevens' 10.year•old sort volrmteeeed to
be lowered down by a twisted window
our4ain, It broke and the poor fellow
was drowned. IIo was found with the
baby in his arras,
The hydra Meca, a Bort of polypue,
mayy bo turned inside out like a glove
and will oontinue to live and eat as heart-
ily as over.
One kind of jellyfish is shaped like a
trumpet and another litre a Chinese
lantern, capable of contracting and ex.
pending itself et will.
Tho most envious minte1 in the world
is the Ornibhoryuchua paradoxus of Ana.
train, It is shaped like an otter, has fur
like a beaver, is webfooted like a Swan,
has a bill litre a cook, a tali .like a fox, is
amphibious and lays eggs.
And &poaid yo'r brother JIM s110u111
gib maks bib un41 expire ? he continued
us he dropped his void: to a whiepor,
Yee, Tom,
Aod 4130 enbitl uhoulel burn down ?
Yee.
W.w-what would yo' do then
Redeem I'd go over to yo'r house.
What fur ?
To ax yo'r main if—if—
The owl stopped 1114 oonsat'ned hooting
to listen and Tont worked his toss under
a root and queried
To ax my math if what ?
To won't 1:10 mad, Tom ?
Reckon not,
&n l yo' won't gin up'n run away ?
No.
Then Pd go over to yo'r ha1tse to ax
yo'r main if—if she re04008d I was old
enough to gib married ?
His arm stole around that gal critter
and her head fell upon his shoulder,
The owl hooted and the 'skeoters bit, but
they beard nothing bub the whispers of
love—felt nothing but that overpowering
sense of happiness wbioh comes to calves
who bite each other's ears for the firs!
time,
Tun REAL11 OE F,ASISIISN.
Kit1rlt4ciios.r>< Ncs'ww.
Pink accessories are still used on gray
toilets, belt n newer and eome4imee more
becoming color not on gray is that of pale
yellow ill crape de chine, chiffon or strip-
ed silk.
The aepiring osprey, the nodding long
54emmed flower, the waving plume and
the ergot, assertive bow of ribbon, lana or
velvet are still prominent features of
millinery.
The new silk warp clairette, fa131i08
designed for amide, se the coining sum-
mer are very lovely both in fabric and
oolor, and their pretty ribbon garnitures
will lend additional charm.
India sillt8 with old rose or lilac Gloa-
ters on a pale primrose ground make
charming dresses trimmed- with acro
guipure lace and loops and ends of velvet
or old rose or Mao satin ribbon.
There is a three Meal epidemic of white
petticoats now that women have made a
desperate effort to puchase all the regoio.
ite assortment of handsome silk skirts
to match their various gowns.
Among parasols for general uses are
those of corded silk lined with shot
suruh. India silk parasols in delicate
tints or in white have a prettily wrought
border at the edge or are finished with
slightly gathered pinked flounces.
Rows of fringed or pinked ruches, rib•
bons set on in spelled lines, narrow bins
bands of silk gathered twice through the
center or box plated, slightly gathered or
festooned lace flounces, are tate popular
finishes for the bottom of summer dress
skirts.
A dinner dress of shot satin in pink
and white has rose ruches on the demi-
train, the gown opeuing in direotoire
style on a petticoat of striped white,
pink and violet, the sweet pea colors.
White Ince pluitings show everywhere
among the rose ruches.
Pellucid Proverbs,
A pollitiehan will rub mighty close to
the devil for a fat government sib.
The lazier some people is the more
they seem to know about industrial goes
tions.
Governments is mostly hardens er
betefto, and then as ain't gob the power
thinks they parry the load.
Statesmen air nob knode by the oom-
pany they keep,
The American eager is a monopoly.
Every relidgions sect hue its own way
ay getbin'to ];leaven, and every p011111k10
party has its own way uv sav1u' the
country.
Honesty in pollitioks is more uv a theo-
ry than a oondishun.
Some wlmmell in politiolte air weigh to
sheer the Bagel offer its roots.
A politioan never,amounts to matchnutil he thinks he dn't.
Fi;4 and Thistles,
Temper is a good thing until you lose
it.
Sometimes a smile is the mask that
hides a frown.
Putting armor on a coward will nob
make him fight.
The truth we hate the most is the
truth that hits us the hardest.
Some of the heart's sweetest songs
13aee been learned in the dark. •
An extravagant man is always talking
to his wife about the necessity of Boon.
.ohny.
A great deal of meanness masquerades
in all parts of the land under the name
of prudence.
Parente can help thele children by
never making light of their diffi')utbies
and troubles.—Ram's !lora.
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1101\13 DM 1',tl41'.
It was the hour of sunset in the United
States of America. In front of a Meter
esque log uabiu situated in the State of
Tennessee two people sat on a log.
They were male and female, both
young aid tender. Neither had over
loved before. He owned a coda dog and
it mule, and she could read, write and
cipher.
,len„ he said, breaking a long eilenue.
Yes, Tom.
Any 'theaters hit yo' yib?
1Ioaps.
The sun disappeared behind the Rao.
coon hills and twilight fell. Insensibly
the gal critter heaved a long, quivering,
4remnlons, trembling sigh. Insensibly
tine ratan critter 1)11013041 toward her on
tb•c Ion,
Jen, sip 'sin ? he queried as he looked
straight into the gathering darkness.
S'posin what, 'Tan ? site answered ns
she thumped the life out el a moegttito
tabioh was trying to carry hoe off bodily.
But he etude there, while the darkness
grew deeper and the old urian Shepard
trotted by on his mule and an awl lit the
swamp gave utterance to his lonely cry.
Her heart was beating wildly, but a gal
aritior must wait for a man critter to ask
her, Insensibly, however, they hitched
in unison toward the eenberof the log.
Jen, s'poeiu yo'r pop was to be eat up
by abah ?
Yos.
And yes main was to bib the backbone
fever and die ?
Yee,
He gob stuck again. Ile pioked up a
chip with his baked toes and worked it
about in a 1105/0118 manner, while the ow/
whooped it up for the 510x4 five :minutes
for all there was in Ir. She cold hoar
his heart flip-flopping and he !blew she
was red 'clear batik to her shoulder
btu dd.
The 17th of June has been fixed for
the laying of the writer stone of the new
$00,000 Presbyterian oheire11, Paris.
The Kingsville Oanning Company has
settled the0088 preferred against it for
selling soaked peas. Ib cost the oom-
puny over $700.
A man named John Pours, of Berlin,
has been fined $6 and oosts for assault-
ing C. G. Fraser, a teaebor in the Publio
school there, because 11e hall administer-
ed a whipping to his daughter at 8013001
for misbehavior.
In future the ordinary rates of Cnna•
diau postage will apply to Newfoundland,
an ngreemenb having been reached where-
by each country reduce) the old special
rates, by which Newfoundland ranked
with Britain so far as Canada was 0011-
cerned.
On tlte,afternoon of June 8rd, Edward
Lappan, a milk dealer, wo,t into one of
his customer's houses in Walkerville,
and when he reberned it few minute!
later he saw his rig going down Send
with street at a broak•neck pace, a
stranger driving. Lappan 1004 110 this
in getting after the rig, yelling like an
Indian that the individual was stealing
his wagon. In spite of all the thief
coulddoLappan kept gaining on him,
and when near the city ball he jumped
from the rig and made for the ferry
dock. Lappan was bat a little distance
behind him and he jumped in the die.
carded vehicle and started after the late
°coupant. Ile arrived at the ferry dock
just as the man was going on the boat
and started to yell at the captain to hold
the boat, while some one suggested that
he go and get an officer. As soon as the
police in Walkerville heard of the theft
they telephoned the Windsor police.
Detective ()Reopen immediately ran
down Sandwich street and, near the top
of Terry Hill, met Lappan. The boat
was just ringing one bell, but Catupau,
running down the hill, motioned for it to
wait. Tho alleged thief, who had been
in the bank of the boat, as soon as Cam.
pan got on board started to get over the
side into the river. Campau jest caught
him by the eollarand County Constable
Wilson, who was attracted by the crowd
then arrived, and they pulled hila on
deck. He fought hard, but the hand-
,ouffs were pub on him and he was taken
to the police dation. . Htgave his name
as Mitchell Jam. s, of Detroit, but frohn
papers on his person it was found that
his right nam0 teas D. G. Shedden, or
Vancouver, 13. 0. Later on in this even-
ing the told Officer Mahoney that his
home was in Woodstock, , agd that he
was wanted there for attempted rape.
Between 4 and 6 o'olook the next morn•
ing Shedden strangled himself to death
by winding his suspenders around his
neok and holding on until dead. There
is no officer on duty at that hour. A
later report says :—David D. Shedden,
reported to have committed suicide at
Windsor, was a highly respectable young
man, son of David Shedden, fur'nitur'e
dealer, of Woodstock. He had for five
or six years been foreman for an up-
holstering establishment at Vidtoria, B.
C., but owing to dullness in trade had
been living with his father during the
Winter and n short time ago !vent to
Detroit, where, being a skilful workman,
he immediately got employment. Ole
acoasionally drank to excess, and no
doubt it was while under the influence of
liquor that he got into the milk wagon
and drove off with it. The rumor as to
attempted rape is ntberly without foamdation, as with the exception of an oc.
oasional spree, his obaraater was fault -
leas. Ib is thought that being of a
highly sensitive nature he could not bear
to think of the disgrace 130 had fallen
into end 0otnmitted suicide.
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Ayer's f*'%rDris
For Dyspepsia
Ayer's P"sijp
For Biliousness
� yen's
For Sick Headache
Ayer's PfalPs
For Liver Complaint
Ayer's Pies
For Jaundice
Ayofrn's
For Loss of Appetite
Ayer's PiIis
For Rheumatism
Ayer's PH Is
For Golds
Ayer's Pills
For Fevers
Ayers Pills
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. Lowell, Mass
Sold by all Druggists.
Every Dose 'Effective
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1 For Impure, Weak and Impoverished
Blood, Dyspepsia, Sleeplessness, Palpate,
tion of the Heart, Liter Complaint, Nem.
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sumption, Gall Storioe, Jaundice, Kidney
and Urinary Diseased, St, Vitae' Dance,
Female Irregularities and General De.
bility,
LAl30R'A70,1Y GO! E331CA9 ONT.
illoLEOD,
Prop, and Manufacturer.
Sold by J. T. PEPPER,
Druggist, Brussels.
Confederation Life
Association.
'Lead Ottxee : TORONTO.
Capital and Assets, $5,000,000
New Insurance, 1892, $8,670,000
Insurance at Risk, $22,565,000
Policies Non -Forfeitable and In-
disputable after: two years.
Gains for 1592 over 1891 in In-
snrance, Written, $755,000,
Or over 25 per cent.
Insurance at Risk, $1,978,000
Or Nearly 10 per cent.
Assurance Income, $48,678
In Assets, - $439,878
W.
AGENT, BRUSSELS.
Nc%v �iBa���i'8Vl
I have opened out a prime stock
of new Confectionery, Fruits,
Nuts, Cannell Goods, Tobaccoes,
Cigars, t&c,, in the
Vauato .e- Block.
OYSTERS
Cooked, Raw or by the Glass.
'lot t!'en, led 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. NIoALPINE.
THOS. FLETCHER,
Practical [VaEchntal,er
and Jeweler.
Thanking the Publio for pant favors and
support and wishing still to secure
your retro:lase, we are opening
out hull Linos in
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.
Silver Plated Ware
front Established and Boilable lets -kers
frilly warranted by us.
Clocks of the
Latest Desi,ns
JE WELRY
Wannlace Resees,
LAoiss 0111FlRINae,
lin000mns,
8A11101100. &O.
KrAlso a Full Line of V101,I105 and
Violin Strings, &o., in stook,
N. S0.-7sstiter 04 Marriage Lloonsc9..
T. Fletcher, { Brussels.
1
We have a, -.Large Stook of
MILK CANS,
CREAMERY CANS,
PAILS,
STRAINER PAILS,
MILK PANS,
SAP PANS, &o.p
All.made of First-class Material.
Roofing and bye Troughing Attended to=.
TBE BRUSSELS STOVE MEN,
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$2
Salesmen, are wanted to represent us in the sale of a
Choice line of
Hardy Canadian Grown Stock.
Experience not necessary. lire want real workers and to all stick
we offer a permanent situation at a good income with chance of ad-
vancement. As we now have over '700 acres under cultivation we
can give our salesmen 1lsany superior advantages. 'We also desire
to secure it good man in your district to sell the
ROTARY SPRAY PLT v`i P,
For %%Viet' w.e have tills -General Agency. This is 41 111,^thing I4ew,'
and indispensable to the lamer or Fruit grower. 4etl.t f_'r tonne
and testimonial circular.
STONE & 'WELLINGTON, Nurserymen,.
46-8 TORONTO,
ONTARIO.
Sry c rFME
I4
E have made .arrangements with one of the trioti
celehratery43 ((PP��maanlllactu1'ere�s of
that will suable us to offer, this season, tho best value in tlhis titre
of goods ever shown in Ontario.
OUR 390. 00RS]'T
is matte of good quality of Buff Jean, boned with an excellent mat-
erial, is long shape, 5 -Root! Clasp and equal to any 50e. Corset, its
the market. For 75e Ire offer the best Corset we have ever heard'-,
led at that price. Extra long in shape to meet the requirements of
the prevailing stylo of dresses, fine quality of material, welt boned
and perfect fitting. Our Dollar Corset is the celebrated 33 d'r ,
which is so well hnow3 as to require no description from us. We
will' keep in stock a lull assortment of this lime, every pair of whack
tho manufacturers guarantee, and such guarantee wo cordially e11-
11019.() and assume.
'. Strachan._
BRUSSELS