The Brussels Post, 1888-11-2, Page 3Nov, 2, 1888.
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ONE OF TUE OTTAWA MINISTERS
I tuna statesman, great and good,
f always do as slatemeu should,
7 never sell my vote for pelf -•-
But still, do I neglect myself?
Of course I. dent; why should 17
When now and then a chance I sen
To serve my country, and servo me
Myself, while I am serving her,
Do I object? Do I demur?
Of course I don't; why should I?
I watch ley fellow -members' course
In eilenee : Speaking makes me hoarse ;
But when thorn's something to be done
Do I Ipso sight of Number One?
Of course I don't ; why should I?
My sleeping and my waking dreams
Aro filled with schemes and sollemes and
sabemos,
AU patriotic ventures, too.
Do 1 devise them just for you 7
Of course I don't ; why should I?
When some contractor's get a job
That makes his heart with rapture throb,
And I have helped him hook his Rah,
Do I refuse a small commieb?
Of course 1 don't; why should I?
011, .I'm a statesman, great and good,
I always do as ntatomen should,
I never sell my vote for pelf—
But still, do I neglect myself?
Yon but I don't ; why should I?
THE RESTLESS BOY IN CHURCH.
Flow he turns and twists,
And how he persists
In rattling his heels ;
How uneasy he feels,
Our wide-awake boy in church!
Then earnest and still,
lie attends with a will,
While the story is told
Of some hero bold,
Our dear, thoughtful boy in church 1
13n1 our glad surprise
At his thoughtful eyes
Is turned to despair
As he twitches the hair
Of his little sister in church 1
Still, each naughty trick flies,
At a look from the eyes
Of his mother so dear,
Who thinks best to sit near
Iter mischievous boy in church 1
Another trick comes,
Yes! His finger he drums,
Or his 'kerchief is spread
All over his head—
And still we talcs him to church 1
He's troublesome ? Yes 1
That I'm bound to confess;
But God made the boys,
With their fun and their noise,
And Ile surely wants them in church.
Snell children, you know,
Long, long years ago,
Did not trouble the Lord,
Though his disciples wore bored,
iso well keep thein near Him in church.
Humors cif Examination
Papers.
The following aro specimens of
an -wens 10 a general information
paper tient in a middle olaes school.
Hero, again, the ignorance display,
ed reflects not so much on the boys'
present masters as ou their previous
teachers in elementary schools—or,
rather, on. the unintelligent teach•
ing which is fostered by the code.
THE BRUSSELS PAST 8
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I di ANE ENINat IN Glalt,t/,Tale.
rang out, '1 want semobody to help
is made ; the plane where you go
when you want to got au orphan
talion in. Tho excise le tho work
you do at home,
0, Anarchy --Seven kingdoms,
The deoalogue----A small village
teacher, Ironioal—Stora ae iron, n
hard as ails, never bonding.
10, T. H. Huxley—Ono of the
writers of Euclid ; author of Hali-
fax, Gentleman ; a famous tobao-
couist. W. H. Smith—News agent,
180 Strand, sells Serape and Ally
Sloper a champion boxer, John
Bright—An M. P., invented Bright's
disease ; a political gent. John
Morley—A, guod man, a mercer, lie
built Memorial hall, I''arriugdon
street.
1. Why is it colder at the top of
a mountain than at the bottom ?
Became you go into the clouds.
Bemuse you are above the hot at-
moepbere from chimbleys.
2. What are the chief causes that
have mads London the greatest
town 111 the world ? Itis the ter-
mination of a great many railway
companies. Another thing is that
it has a large population for a small
town like it 18.
3. Why does a great singer get
better pay than a doctor 7 People
do not like to be messed about by
a doctor, and consequently pay bim
as little as they can, A doctor is
called upon to visit a certain person.
Ho gives the person some medicine
to make them worse. He keeps
them bac], as he calla it, till he
thinks their purse i8 rather empty,
then one day bo says
"You are beginning to look bet-
ter," and then begins to give them
some medicine to make them better.
All this time charging 2e. 6d. per
visit.
4. 11leaning of "the devil is not
so bad as he is painted." The devil
has a i lacer appearance outside his
skin, but inside he would be as
white as yourself. People think all
the devil'e temptations unpleasant
to do, but lenity they are not. Give
an inch to lake an ell," means wet
your foot a little if you want to catch
lin eel.
G. What is hard. water 2 How
can it be made soft 2 toe, heat it.
If you want soft water got some
I3udson's extracts of soap.
6. Who said, and on what WNW.
ion, I Caine, 1saw',. 1 conquered 7"
When. Casser gaino5 a victory ho
always sant off a telegram to Rome
With the three words, Vem, vide,
viol.
7. Who said, "To be, or not to
be, that is the question l" Tho
Bev. 'Thomas EVane, in his lecture t
"'To be or not to be married, that 1a
tho question."
8. Tho cabinet—A music case.
Home office is where the home rule
Greens ot'Thoughht.
Amos to graudfattter to his dangle. the aged sinner, A clarion volae
tor,
Amon 18 grandfather to his sister,
Amos in father to his grandson.
Amos 1e his own grandfather, his
0W11 son, and brother•in-law t0 him.
BaiP,
Jlonjatniu is brother to his father.
Benjamin 18 broth:r to hie 0013.
Benjamin ie brother to his muni.
or.
Benjamin is brother to his
daughter.
Benjamin is the son of leis sister,
Benjamin is the Husband of hie
sinter,
Marla i8 brother to hie father,
Charles is brother to hie grand
father.
Charles is brother to his mother.
Charles is brother to hie grand,
melte
'Tie but a thorn journey x00088 Charles is granduophow to his
the isthmus of now, W1f0.
Thom is little influence where Charles is grandehild to hie aunt.
there is not groat oympathy. Charles is married to another
Give not a hair -breadth of truth aunt.
away, for it is not yours, but God'e Charles ie the sou of his punt.
—
Give what you have. To some Charles 16 the husband of his Trio RAUV's COMPLAINT.
one it may he better than you dare sister
to think. -
Prayer will make a man aortae
from sin, or sin will entice a man to
(mase from prayer.
Our character is but the stamp
on our souls of the fres choice of
good and evil we have made through
life.
Lot not knowledge satisfy, but
that which lifts above the world,
which weans from the world, which
makes the world a foot -stool.
Christ, and Christ only, has ro•
needed that he who has erred may
be restored, and made pare and
clean and whole again.
It is one thing to have our sine
worn away from the memory, and
quite another thing to have them
washed away at the gospel foun-
tain.
Let not him who prays suffer hid
tongue to outstrip his heart ; nor
presume to carry a message to the
throne of grace while that stays be
bind.
I have been benefited by praying
for others ; for making an errand
to God for them, I have got some-
thing for myself.
Much of the glory and sublimity
of truth is connected with its mys-
tery. To understand everything we
must be as God.
Nothing ever happens but once
in this world. What I do now I do
once for all. It I8 over, it is gone,
with all its eternity of solemn mean-
ing.
Prayer and praise are like the
double motion of the lungs; the
air that is drawn by prayer is
breathed forth again by thanks-
giving.
The man who has in him the
elements of a worker for Christ will
find a field or make one. Paul,
when a prisoner, made converts in
Omsar'e household.
mo bury a dug 1' As the aftoruuuu wore away, the
Spaniarde who had 001130 in from
'Why, Woodall, what make' ynu I the country to market, LO buy or
ao happy this moruing.' 'happy ? ! sell, began to disappear, and aeon
Well, I should think I could effort!. ! went hurrying oat, while belated
4,0 be ; I me"1200 yee10 t1ay.tea:a men came hurryiag 10, At.
'Tl,nt'e good. Hwy dul you do it;?' half.paeb Ave the evening gen front
'Why, I put $200 into Croon 1a• the to of the ]tuck boomed over
tete.''13ut I thought sto01t6 fell off laud and ala, and with a few ruin
yesterday. "So they did I loot the utas grace fur the last straggler, the
$200, but I would have put 10 x;100 gat of - the double hue of fortifi
34, I lead had it. So you sea that cations were closed fur the night,
other $200 Wag 14, clear gain,' and there was no more going out
The Danger of Long Sertn(lls.—A or coming n e tilt mornlug. 1t gave
miuieter was questioning his Sand:,y me a little uncomfortable feeling to
school about thio story 01lautyehus, be thug imprisoned in a fortreas,
the young man who, while listening with no possibility of escape, The
1° the preaching 07 4,110 ostle Paul, hustling etreets soon eubeided into
fell asleep and, fawn dawn, was quietness. Athalf•past retie another
taken up dead. 'What,' he said, 'do
we learn from tike solemn event 1'
Then the reply from a little girl
came pat and prompt, 'Please, sir,
minister. should learn not to preach
too long oermons.'
Tu beep Your Town:
Talk about it.
Write about it, -
Beautify the streets.
Be friendly to everybody.
Elect good men to all offices.
Keep your sidewalks m good repair
Sell 1311 you can and buy all you
can at home.
If you are rich invest in some-
thing, employ somebody.
Be courteous to strangers that
Dome among you, so that they can
go away with good impressions.
Always cheer on the then who go
in for improvements. Your portion
of the cost will be nothing bat what
is just.
Don't "kick" at any proposal im•
provements becauee it is not at your
own door, or for fear that your taxes
wilt bo raised fifty cense.
UNCLE MR'S 'wisoOw.
The man who knows most of him,
self is the best judge of his neigh-
bor.
What mankind wants is mercy.
Justine would ruin most of them.
Habits, reputations, and opinions
are very changing, but character is
always the same.
There are heroes in every depart -
meet of life,—a faithful servant is
ono of them.
Ifo who is fool and knows it can
very easily pass himself off for a
wia° man.
The man who has a little more
to do than he can attend to has no
time to be miserable in.
It may be possible for three per-
sons to keep a secret, provided two
of them are dead.
Metaphysics imams to be the
soienoe-of knowing more than we
oat tell, and at the game time tell-
ing more than we know.
Whatever wo get in this world
we not only have got to ask for, but
to insist upon ; giving away things
is not a human weakness.
Tho city is the place to study
olhsraoter. After you have mauler -
ed the postmaster, the blacksmith,
and the justice of the peace in the
country village, you have got the
size of the whole town.
CItuur'LES Ed13Y IID1L,tT10N8.
Tho way people can mix up them-
selves and their relations in the
matter of marriage was prehaps
never bettor illustrated than in the
Daae of a backwoods Maine family,
of which a correspondent writes :—
A father, eon and grandson mar-
ried throe sisters,
That loons simple enough dosen't
it ?
It has not dawned on you yon.
Well coo hero
1. Amos, the father, married
Abigal.
2. Bonjamiu, eon
married Betsey.
8. Obailee, eon
married Caroline.
What then ?
Amos is a brother to bis 800,
of Amos,
of Benjamin,
I Now, I suppose you think, be-
cause ynu never see me do anything
but feed and sleep, that I have a
very nice titre of it. Let me tell
you you aro mistaken, and that I
am tormented half to death, al-
though I never Bay anything about
it. How would you 118e every morn
ins to have your noee waehed op
instead of down 7 Plow should you
like a pin put through your dress
into your skit), and have to bear it
all day till your olotbes aro tak eu off
at night ? flow should you like to
be held so near the fire that your
eyes were half ecorohed out of your
head, while your nurse was reading
a novel 7 How should you like to
have a big fly light on your nose,
and not know how to take atm at
him, with your little, fat melees
fingers 2 How should you like to be
left alone in a room to take a nap,
and a great pussy to jump in your
cradle, and sit staring at you with
her groat green eyes, till you were
all of a tremble ? How should you
like to reach out your hand for the
pretty bright candle, incl find that
ft Wae away across the room, in-
stead of boiog close by ? How
should you like to tire yourself
crawling across tho carpet to pick
up a pretty button or pin, and have
it snatched away as soon as you
begin to enjoy it ? I tell you it is
enough to ruin any baby's temper.
How should you like eo have your
mother stay at a party till you wale
ae hungry as it little cub, and be
left to the mercy of the nurse, who
trotted you up and clown till every
bone in your body ached ? How
ehould you like, when your mem-
ma dressed you up all pretty to
take the nice, fresh air, to spend
the afternoon with your nurse en
some smoky kitchen, while she gee -
sipped with one of her cronies.
How abould you like to submit to
have your toes tickled by all the
little children who insieted upon
"seeing the baby's feet ?" How
should you like to have a dreadful
pain under your apron, and have
everybody call you "a little cross
thing," when you couldn't speak to
tell what was the matter with you 2
How should you like to crawl to the
top stair (just to look about a little),
and pitch heels over head, from the
tap to the bottom ? Oh, I can tell
you it is no joke to be a baby I
Such a thinking as you keep up ;
and if we try to fiud out anything,
wo are sure to get our brains knook•
ed out in the attempt. It is very
trying to a sensible baby who is in
a hurry to know everything, and
can't wait to grow up.
To Hurt Your Town.
Oppose improvements.
Mistrust its public 0101.
Run it down to straugers.
Go to some other town to trade.
Refuse b advertise in your home
papers.
Do not invest a cent ; lay your
money out somewhere else.
Be particular to discredit the
motives of public spirited men.
Lengthen your face when a strau-
ger speaks of locating ea your plates.
If a man wants to buy your pro-
perty charge him two prices for it.
Milt wants anybody else's, in.
terfere and discourage.
Refuse to see the merit in any
scheme that does not directly bene-
fit you.
Oratrietiele.
There is one thing about the
fresh man that hs, ae a rule, not fresh .
Hie wit.
It isn't always the man that
mantes the most graceful proposal
that gets the girl,
The young man who is too fresh
generally finds himself in a pickle
sooner or later.
In Denmark girls are trained to
agriculture, but in America they take
more kindly to husbandry.
When a man and a woman die
cubo the subject of matrimony one
seldom gets the better of the other.
It usually results with a tie.
An Irishman having quarrelled
with another left him with the fol.
lowing vicious remark : "Well, I
hope ye'll niver he where I With ye."
A Symptom.—'What is Sniggles
running for ?"I dtdn'1 know he
was running lot anything.` '0h.
but he is then. I saw him going to
church last Sunday.'
'Aro you superstitious ?"Not
very. Why 2' 'Do you believe it is
a sign of death when a dog howls
under your window at night ?"Yes,
if I eau get my gun before the dog
gets away.'
First Boy—'I gne88 your folks
ain't as rich as ours, My father and
mother go driving every day.' Sec.
and Boy --'My father drives every
day, too. 'I don't believe it. What
door he drive ?' 'Nails,'
A very Modest Proposal.—Two
Exeter ladies asked the price of hack
fare, and finding it was 25 conte,
asked, 'What do you ask for carry-
ing
arrying baggage ?' 'Nothing,' said Ben,
'Well, you may carry the baggage,
and we will walk,' said the ladies,
A Trifle Skeptical.—Minister—
'Well, Bobby, what did you learn et
school today ?' Bobby—'I learned
that tho world is round, and turns
on hinges ltico that globe in the
parlor.' 'Wo11, what did you think
of that ?' 'I think they're asking ma
to believe a good dual for a small
hop.'
Young Mr, Muscle loft ata very
late hour, and the old man' stood et
the head of t110 stairs chuckling in
rliondisb glee. Then there was an
awful diettubanee in the front yard
and the aforesaid old man laughed,
ha, ha ! 'Then came the ory of
'Help 1' 'What's wattled,' talented
gnu was the 61gna1 for the soldiers
to return to the barracks ; and soon
the town was as tranquil as a New
England village, As 1 stepped out
upon the balcony, the stillness
seamed almost uuuatnral. I heard
no cry of "All's well" from the sen-
tinel pacing the ramparts, as from
sailors on the deck, nor the "Ave
Maria oautissima" of the Spanish
watchmen. Not even the heeling
of a dog broke tete etilluees of the
night. The moon had not yet
risen, but the stars were ebiniog
brightly on Rock and Bay. Even
the heavy black guns looked peama-
ful in the soft and tender light. I1
wad the last night of the year and
Iliorofore a holy night, as it was to
be marked by a Holy Nativity—tile
birth of a New Year, a "holy child,"
as it would come from the hands of
God unstained by sin. A little be-
fore midnight I fell asleep, from
which I started up at the sound of
the morning gun, followed by the
piercing blast of the bugle. The
Old Year was dead : the New Year
was born !
Fashion Notes.
Nun's veilinge have a wide sol
vage and border and are made up
vary simple for afternoon costum-
ed.
Brion velvet in two tones, like
shot silk, is made up with faille
Francais° and Victoria silk.
The novelty in silken fabrics is
the bordered woolens for spring
wear and bordered cottons for sum-
mer.
Paisley borders ere found ou cash•
meres for house dresses, and very
pretty effects are produced with a
Bash carrying out the idea of color
iu the costume.
Tinsel strips are seen on some
soft wooleua for street ooatumes. In
dark shades of India twill and In
light shades for house wear these
ooatumes are equally stylish.
Another novelty in bordered fab-
rics is the hair stripe with a wide
border of plain material. This
makes up very charmingly for an
autumn walking costume, and needs
no trimmings whatsoever.
Tailor made bodices, English
rendigotes, muoh cut away at the
hips, over Louis XIV waistcoats,
elegantly decorated , and French
polonaises, artistically draped and
adjusted, divide favor almost even•
ly this season,
The selvage in some beautiful new
woolens has its width extended to
14 to 2 inches by a silk woven
Stripe about it. Thte is the solo
trimming on these simple costumes,
which have a pretty effect notwith-
standing their simplicity.
Rave and beautiful Eastern stuffs
have a background of cloth or gold.
This at $15 or $20 per yard fortes
the petticoat in rich ooatumes. The
Eastern gauzes are nearly as ex•
pensive and equally feehionable. It
takes but little to embellish a dress
and make it quite gorgeous.
Dressy house jackets of almond
colored or Roman -red camel's ba;r,
bordered with casliuiere bands in
finely wrought palm and arabesque
designs in gold, silver, and a ming-
ling of bright hues, are imported.
These are made to appear loose, yet
are on a fitting lining with charts
and side forms elegantly shape 1 to
the figure.
COO LENT TOWN IN TIME 1r0I(LD,
In the Berlin Metoorologieoho
7heitsehrift for June, Dr. Hamm
gives an interesting account of Wer.
obojanslc, (Siberia), deduced from
several years' observations, The
town, which lies in the valley of the
Jana, about nine feet above the
level of the river, in latitude 87
34 min, N., longitude 188 ° 51 min.
E., and ata height of about 850
feat above the sea, has the greatest
winter cold that is known to exist
upon the globe, Monthly means of
—58° li'. occur even in December,
a moan temperature which has boon
observed nowhere else in the polar
regions ; and minims of —76 ° are
usual for the three winter months
(Deusmber-February), In the year
1886 March also had it minimum
--77 ° and during that your Do-
oember and January never had n
minimum above —76 ° 1013110 in
January, 1886, the temperature of
85 ° tvae recorded. 'These os•
tromp roadinge are hardly erodible,
yet the thermometers have been
verified at the St. Potereburg ob.
servatory. To add to the misery
of the inhabitants, at some seasons
the houses are inundated by the
overflow of the river, 'Tien yearly
range of cloud is obara toristio of
the climate ; in the winter season
the mean only amounts to about
three -tenths in emelt month.
Sat
,P,
THECOOK'SBEST FRIEND
Returned to Brussels.
fiOBERT ARMSTRONG
desires to state that he hoe again become
a resident of Brussels and is prepared to
take Contracts for all kinds of 'Carpenter
Work, suoll as House Building, Barn
Framing, M111 Wrighting, d:c.
Ile will also make a Specialty of Mov-
ins Bufldingt.
Estimates Cheerfully Given.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
in every instance.
IK03'0, AturwroNO.
TAILOR SHOP
ohdhO ,..,a, r'4,'dtt 4eg ge7.....
First -Class Suits, either Bound
or Unbound, made for
$4.00.
tf1
Fit Guaranteed.
Produce taken in exchange for
Work.
AT. G..IIICHARDSOIV,
8-4 Merchant Tailor.
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Dyspepsia,
Biliousness,
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Sidney troubl'e
Rheumatism,
Skin Diseases,
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from whatever
cause arising.
THE GREAT SPRING MEDICINE.
P�2CE 7310. (•ncritlit. P1110 $1)
.—TkZv_
.d7. llaDDEres
LITTLE LIVER PILLS,
(very small and easy to take.)
NO GRIPING. NO NAUSEA'
sold everywhere ; price 25 cents.
U0008 5131/101081' Co., Proprietors,
TORONTO, CANADA.
Two night schools for girls were
opened in Hamilton on Tuesday
night of lest week and 68 names
unrolled.
Ropreoentatives of Ontario, Que-
bec and the dominion had a meeting
the other day to discuss the settle -
moot of their accounts.
An order has been givon for the
Iiquidation of the Montreal Post
Printing and Publishing Co. This
will not effect the pnblioation at the
paper.
Voting at Berlin, Ont., ou a by-
law for helloing the MoGarvin Trunk
MVlanufaoturiug Company, of Acton,
resulted in a majority of over 40S
for tele enterprise.
The proceedings to irestraui Judge
Dugas, of Montreal, from indorenng
the warrant issued by 11lagtetrate
.Denison, of 'Toronto, for the arrest
of Jas. Baxter in connection with
the Barnett (:tee will probably bo
dropped.
ALLAN LINE.
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