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BITS Or INFORMATION.
'Papel tool handles are made.
!Dublin has the -fargeat brewery.
Iiroolclyn has 600 union foundry.
man.
The States have 400,000 drum -
mors.
Jamaica sends the most expensive
,coffee.
'Chioago railroad laborers get
$1.76•
Pittsburg makes shovels for
Brazil.
Fall Biter is our greatest cotton
tenter.
Chioago has a woman phar•
.maeist.
New York's unions will go into
;politics.
Chicago has Cllineee cigar.
,makers.
Horse meat dinners cost 5 cents
:in Berlin.
The Iutornational Bakers have
111: unions.
Those are 88 fraternal societies in
`iSt. Thomas.
Steel rails are being manufartur-
'ed in Mexico.
Boston's population is officially
planed at 446,507.
French newspapers all tleuomme . here I What's the matter ?"
the McKinley tariff bill.
There are only 25 diamonds "How crushed ?"
'weighing 86 karats or over.
New York pays fifteen Police
Justices $8,000 a year each.
Land is 400 times as valuable
snow as it was 200 years ago.
The weather in. Manitoba has
leen unfavorable for threshing,
None but citizens can be em-
psloyed on city work at Pitteburg.
New York has seven millionaire
•editors, but they dont write much.
The gold in the world would fit
in a solid cube building 24 feet
each way.
The collective length of the Lon.
-don streets would reaoh over 32,-
'.000 miles.
Ch;cagu in 1849 had a popula-
tion of 4,470 and to -day is more
Silk is made from paper pulp.
Texas has 80.pound water
melons.
lialetead street, Chioago, is 18
miles long.
There are always 8,500,000
people on the seas of the world.
A .Broad street blacksmith is
making a mint of money by shoe -
home after nightfall.
Birchall'e trial cost Oxford county
$2,500. The counsel were paid by
the Government, making the total
cost $8,000.
The use; of Indian rubber for
erasing pencil marks was first
sugested in or just prior to 1752 by
an academician named Magellan, a
descendant of the great navigator.
Ile ,Moved On.
Saturday night at a late hour a
policeman discovered a man sitting
in a dark hallway ou Michigan
avenue,, and 'called out to know who
was there.
"It's me," replied the lonesome
voice. °
"What `are you doing there ?"
"Tbinkin'."
"Well, you think yourself out of
"Tbie very morning I landed in
this town with the dew of Oakland
county glistening on my whiskers.
My step was light and buoyant and
my heart sang a glad song. "
"Well ?"
"1 came to the Exposition—Ex•
position with a big 'E'—and down
in my right hand breeches pocket
there was $22 snugged away. ' Ab 1
but I stepped high and felt my
oats t"
"And what ?"
"Met a man,"
"Yes."
"Took a drink."
"Yes."
"Met more men."
"I see."
than 1,100,000. "'Took more drinks."
,Chicago's Park system comprises "Of course."
something near 2,000 acres end 40 "And an hour ago I woke from a
miles of boulevards. troubled sleep in a lumber yard and
Oliver Dalrymple, of North Da came here to pass the rest of the
'rota, has a crop of 450,000 bushels night. I am dcne up—dead broke
sf wheat this season. —gone to smash—itrushed almost
It is proposed to light the whole out of existence."
anterior of the Parliament House at "You made 0 fol] of yourself, old
'Ottawa by electricity. fellow."
A pork packer from Victoria, B. "I did."
42., is iu South Essex buying hogs
and shipping them to the coast.
The blind now have a watch by
which they can tell the time. It is
elle invention of a man In S O'itzer'
land.
It is estimated that the number
:passengers carried by all the rail -
'Toads in the world average 6,600,-
4)00 a day.
The falls of Niagara carry down
1.0,000,000 cubic feet of water per
minute, equal to about 3,000,000
,horse power.
Pennsylvania's gain in papule.
.tion during the last decade has
leen 1,004,000 and that of New
'York 989,000.
One of the revelations of the oeu
sus is that there are now 27 States
with a population of over 1,00,000
eaoh. In 1880 there were 19.
There is on exhibition at Halifax,
N. 9 , a dwarf named Ell. fiupman.
He ie 19 ,years old, weighs 24
pounds, aucl belongs to Lockport, N.
8,
S.uokelesi pnvder is without
smoke. It is a smoker, but a less
'intemperate one than the gunpowder
:with, which we have been acquaint
.ed.
Land is very scarce in Scotland
and the poor can scarcely get enough,
.to live oil. Yet the gentry of the
land are said to have 100 deer 'pre.!.
serves.
The talented young 0auftdian
violiuist, Geo, Fox, will give a
:aeries of htrewell appearances in
'Oai,ada prior to his departure for
Europe.
' Quail hunters at ..South Essex,
'Ont., do not obey the trespass warn
inks given them by the farmers and
••they are being summoned to appear
'.before the local authorithee.
A general convention of those op-
,poeed to the liquor traffic will be
beld at Esees, Ont•, on the 80th:
F. S. Spence, Secretary of the Do.
minion Alliance, will address the
moetiug.
"And now you must take the con•
sequences."
"Zactly. No more song of glad-
ness inmy heart—no more walking
high snd feeliug that I am a thor-
oughbred from way back. I've been
emptied out."
Well, you'll have to move on."
'I move. I go out into the' chill
and the darkness—I wander with
the bright stars looking down upon
me with their wondering eyes. Six-
teen miles to our barn -yard gate,
and I'll be there before the. eastern
sky is Rushed with the first warm
blushes which herald the approach
of fair Aurora. S'long. I move.
I dust. The krushed returns to his
lair,"
The officer called after him and
offered to pay for his lodging, but
the only reply was the spat 1 spat 1
of a pair of feet echoing through the
darkness.
An amateur scientific student at
Wakefield, Mase., planted a potato
in a little dirt ou the top of a
:factory, 40 feet from Lite ground, to
see if the potato beetle wunld find
the plant. la found it, and the
Minton Trttureript says that now
,the amateur wants to know whether
vthe beetle is a bud or a fly.
To turn the cattle out into the
bare fields in gold weather when
there is nothing for them to . eat
there, and lose flesh shivering in
the sold.
It le shiftless to allow woods to
occupy any portion of the farm, and
very shiftless to allow bushes to
occupy several rods of ground along
the fence rows,
It is short -righted policy to elect
to the township and county offices
the men who cannot support them
selves in the ordinary pursuits of
life. It is aleo costly.
It is a• thoughtless end a very
dangerous thing for a farmer .to put
his name on any paper presented
by a stranger: Also, to gopu the
notes of friends and neighbors.
It i9 a shiftless ' triek to employ
the teacher who will work for the
least wages. It is as bad to leave
a family of boys and girls to grow
up without good books and papers.
Shiftless TrleIs For A Partner,
To try to farm without manure.
To plant more acres than can be
taken care of.
To work with poor tools, and to
sow poor seed.
To buy at public sales what is
not needed, because it sells cheap.
it is shiftless to keep poor, stock.
A poor cow eats as much ea a good
OEM.
To lounge about etoree : and
groceries when it is possible to be
'd,oiag something at. home.
To raise frogs; and mosgo, epee in
the front yard. 'To have a;pig wal-
low in the road near the ,gatek,
'1'b allow the .hogs And: sheep to
wander at their own sweet will over
their owner's ' and his neighbor's
premises.
To allow the barn -yard to drain
into tine public road; of . into a
stream: A good many farmers are
guilty of this.
To cut the wood for the kitchen
fire day by day and thea burn it
green. it ie worse to leave it for
the wife to out.
To let the cattle fodder themselves
at the haystaok. It saves a little
labor, but the waste will make their
owner poor.
To have the privy and well near
each other.' They should never be
lana thau 290 feet apart, The
privy should by below, not above,
the well.
'2o tem tools of any kind lying
out in tho weather ; to put them
away unoleanod, or to loan thein to
shiftless and careless neith'lors.
It is a heartless thing for a
farmer to allow his wife to work
sixteen or eighteen hours, when his
own work is completed in ton hours.
Ou the farm as elsewhere husband
and wife shou'd bo 'equal partners.'
A little girl named Bowden, vgod
3.8, living near Oliphant, six miles
From Wlarton, has boon etopp:ng at
fat44seiglhbor'e named Randall. Ran
Ash had decided on sending her
away for some cause. On Thus'•
day of last week the girl saidshe
dreamed Eandall's barn was on fire
snd the tacit clay ib was burned to
the ground. The girl has been ar-
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Special Attention given to Picture Framing,
A Large Mange of Pictures, Brackets and Fancy Articles for Sale.
Big Cut in Linen Window Blinds with Patent Fastener.
Hand -made Furniture our Specialty.
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A Large Stock of Caskets, Coffins,1 Robes, &a. always kept.
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RONEY TO LOAN.
Any Amount of Money to Loan
on Farm or Village Pro-
perty at
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Straight Loans with privilege of
repaying when required.
Apply to
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To the Public
After a business experience of
18 years in the Butchering Eusi-
nese in Brussels I desire to ex-
pxess my best thanks for the
patronage of the past and tisk
a continuance of the same for
the time to come.
1 desire to call the attention
of the public to the fact that 1
have Rcmovecl my Place of Busi-
ness to my now Brick Block,
Opposite the American Hotel,
where 1 will keep a Choice Supply
of Meats, Poultry, Sausage, &c.
FAT CATTLE WANTED.
Cash Paid for Dressed Poultry
and Hides.
hili. A. CALL.
NOTES TUTU,
Wm. EIashillt
I2'= BUTC1psR.
Money to Loan,
Money to Loan on Farm Pro-
perty at
LOWEST 'fl4TES.
Private and Company Funds.
DICKSON & HAYS,
Solicitors, cde.,
BRUSSELS, taNT.
MONEY TO LOAN.
1V1 Money to Lean on
FARM PROPERTY
-at-
LOWEST RATES.
Private Funds to Loan.
:e2O,000
Have been placed in my hands
for Investment on real estate.
LOWEST RATE OF INTEREST.
No Commission.
Borrowers can have loans com-
pleted in Three Days if title
satisfactory.
W. M. SINCLAIR,
Solicitor, Bntssels.
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Private and Company Funds.
APPLIC TO'
J.C.Hefernan, J.A.Young.
Valuator. Agent.
Ethel P.O., Ont. :atf
t Life Alza
An wont from the Smallestn
done Ina first -Wass manner..
V I
of 1eardonees, Etc., at Reasonable
Rates.
W. -J. Fairfield.
THOS, FLFTCHFR,
Practical TVcttchimctker
and Jewele1'. :
Thanking the public for past favors and
support and wishing still to secure
your patronage, we are opening
out Full Lines in
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.
Silver Plated Ware
from Established and Reliable Makers,
fully warranted by us.
Clocks of the
Latest Designs.
'Post'
CHOICE' STOCK
OF --
Pocket and Family
IBLES
--ALSO--
Hymn and Psalm Books
ALBUMS
Sold at Prices that will
Astonish you.
Writing Mai:
Wonld make to Nice Present.
Seutoot Booby, Bags, &c.
A Nice Assortment of
Stationery.
'dost) Booklttre,rllsselot
JEWELRY i
WEDnuao RxNae,
Lianas Gnu Risme,
Bemoan,
n,
Emma, fie.
t "Also a Full Line of Arlo/axe and
Violin Strings, &o., in stock.
N. B.—Usurer of ./Marriage Licenses.
T. Fletcher, - Brussels.
H. DENNIS -Q- �v
IS
Calls the Attention of the Public
to the Fact that he continues to
turn out First-class Light and
Heavy Harness as usual.
Nothing but .A..1 Stock used.
Suet to Hand a Splendid Stock
of Horse Blankets, hugs, Robes,
Bells, Whips, &c., &c.
A. Large Range of Trunks,
Valises and Satchels kept con-
stantly on hand, and Sold at
Reasonable Prices. No Shoddy
about them.
Special Attention paid to the
Maufacture of HorsCollars.
Repairing. promptly attended
to. CALL IN. '
•1d. DENNIS.
Oily Tongued Agents will try to
draw Attention' fronrthis
Native,
NEVI11;,MIND ! •
Call and Jedge for Yourselves all who
tir,i'in want of the following :
Our Single Furrow 'Plows sell
from $12.00to $14.00.
We draw Special Attention to our
Two Furrow Ploatlk, which
sell from $10 to $13.
Straw Cutters, $40;
6 Knife Pulpers, $14.
PLOW POINTh'o
Of All Makes. The following are
some of them :--•-Verity, Wilkin-
son, Copp, Advance and Smith's
Fails, Kept Constantly on Hand
at 40e. per Point,
Gang Points, 25c. each.
Second -band Horse Powers of
different makes Cheap.
largo Pinner, 1ionhltisg Machine and
BMW Saw' for Solo.
rv. i WILSON,
Bruiisols Foundry.
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