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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-11-21, Page 71' Nov, 21., x6JQ. THE BRUSSELS POST UADE TUE ALIENT TIRED. A mire or a Ncrveas manto a ('blrnl0 RGaiiway 81411on. Many people increase their gait as they near a railway station, says the Cliioago Herald. The neither they get the faster they go, feeling uneasy until they are tioketed and seated in the right car, about which they ask every man with a badge they ewe, to make euro. At the Union Depot last even ing a man gasped at the ticket window, "Gi-me tiok-t St, Louie, qui -etc 'fore-' miss-th'--tra-in." He hurriedly paid for the tioket from a roll of bilis, which, in his haste, he handled nervously. One dropped on the floor. He stooped and picked it up. Sia lips were moving. Then he stooped again to pick up 1. 's eye glaasee, some pencils, card ea e, memorandum book and a cigar tit t rolled from his vest pocket on the first stoop. MS face was rod ; his ips were going faster, He was saying aometbing, all of which was inanci bio. Thin he looked at a silver watch and alkud the ticket man how much tame ue had, "Three hours." 'Great Soott ! don't believe it. 'M a delegate to Convention, and would n't miss Of train for hundred dollars. Is that clock right ?" "Feard it isn't. 114' watch says 35," And the man took a walk around the room, fanned himself with his hat and headed up at the ticket window again with : "Gimme timetable, please." Another circuit of the room, head- ing up at tioket window with : "Le'me take your watch -key ?" "Haven't got one." "Change me a two -dollar bill P" "Certainly, er." And alien the ticket man resumed counting his cash for the seventeenth time, "I guess I'll take a sleeper" (after another walk around by the (walking) delegate). "Next window." Another walk and the delegate poked his nose through the braes grating in the window. 'How much would 'narident tick' 'Next window,' quietly replied the most patient man I ever saw. Another lap. ,Please give me a match.' He got it, lighted a cigar, sat down and puffed a cloud of smoke all around a sign on the wall that read : 'NO enfOKIN6.' A man with an official cap came to the clear and eried'A•1.1•a•b o.r e. Passengers feromalcaus'scityatchs' ntjoboaaphatobe kalamazoo. A•l•i a• b o -r• e.' 'The delegate snatched his Luggage and flew down the marble stairway to a train. He got in a day coach and was last seen trying to pini a seat lock. BUS OP INFORM ATION. Oysters live fifteen yearn. There are 41,000 newspapers. Coutral Africa has floating houses. France's Navy contains 400 vessels. '!'hers are 18,000 kinds of French stamps. The earth contains 1,400,000,000 people. The railroad capital of the world is estimated at $29,000,000,000. During the past year 4,427 new postoffices were established fn the United States. The fastest flowing river iu the world is the Sutley in British In. dia. It has a descent of 12,000 feet in 180 miles. Tho average temperature at Sitka, Alaska, in winter is 48 0 love zero, fu forty years the mer- ry has fallen below zero but four es. here are 44 States and 5 Terri - as -Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, :eke and Oklahoma -exclusive of e Indian Territory. The water for the new equeduet e gathered in Croton Lake. The acgtiwduct is Wirto and three quarter miles long, and is capable of de- livering 818,000,000 gallons a day. There are 82,800 tenements in Now York, pot counting the better class of flats ; 1,100,000 human bo. Inge live in "thein, Of these, 142,- 519 are children under five years. Commanding Generals in the Ger- man Army get $7,500, with free quart' rs, eight horse., certain ser• vante and alloWall Oen. A. Colonel gets $1,887.60, a Captain, $871, and a Lieutenant, $525. Iliatory says Juation of the Peace, were first appointed in Eng- land by Edward the III, in the year 1827, and in 1860 61 they wore em- powered to try rolonies, while their wages rtere fixed by Richard II, iu 1880. In England a Colonel of a flue regimeut gots 18 shillings a ditty, alcnt $5.50 ; a o tptain gets 119 7d, and a Lieutenant 5s 8d ; Oapttius and Colones in the Guerde got the saris, while a Lieutenant gets 6s 6d. Chicagoans want 50'cent gas. Cbieago wants 8 cant oar fare. Clocks are rented in New York. London has 15,000 sandwiob men, Ceylon coolies live On $1 a month. At l3uenos Ayres a tomato costa $1. New York has women watch. makers. Germany's bakers average $2,50 per week, Saltair, Utah, Salt Werke cover 900 acres. There are 706 German papers in this country. World's sills production in 1889 11,706 tous. Boston is to have an eleotrio elevated road. A Pall River plant will soon have 100,000 spindles. Memphis is the world's largest inland cotton market, A Scranton mill makes a steel rail every sixteen seeoade. A Florida orange tree produood 8,000 oranges iu e, year. At Pittsburg natural gas saves 8,000,000 tour of coal annually First «rade cooks at Si, Paul get $100 a minth, second $85 and third $50. Euratieamas is the champion butter producing cow. Record, 915 pounds, 9 ounces in a year. APhiladelphia dental -supply man says that 20,000 ounces of gold per month are hammer into decayed teeth. It is estimated that the people of Washington will this season realize $27,000,000 from wheat, hops, lumber and coal. Cranberries flourish in Oregon, and there is a probability that the succulent berry will become a staple production there. Hoge packed in the West, March 1st to October lst,numbsred 7,965,- 000, against 5,820,000 during the same time last year. The evaporator at Montevallo, Mo., works up 2,600 bushels of apples a week. It furnishes em- ployment for about 17 hands. The success of the Cooperative Ice Company formed by the Cleve- land butchers, has suggeeted a Oooperative Soap, Fertilizer and Tallow Mill. It is estimated that there are 20,- 000 patrons of 'ton pins' in the city of New York. The game takes in all classes. The wise man as well as the fools. Pickles play their part to a more conspicuous extent than is generally supposed. Oue pickling firm in Wtsconsin has paid out fur cucnm• here this fall over $85,000. The production of seamless hose in the United States is estimated to be fully 100,000 pairs daily. That is equal to five pairs per sun um for every man, woman and child in that country. The Pullman Palace Gar Go. now operates 2,050 stooping and draw ing room cars over 126,097 miles of railroad in this country. The coni• pany has about $20,000,000 invest• ed in oars. RETAILERS ARE, SELLING Evening cloaks of Bilk brocade lined with ermine. Pur napes, having long tab fronts, for stout persons. Oaaehmore wrappers having Per- sian figured fronts, Gray serge trimmed with bright blue velvet for misses. Fluffy neck ruffs of every possible style, size and color. Pale antique blue stationery and a shape of pearly gray. Almost invisibly checked suitings for men's business wear. Plush and satin for holiday gifts iu the shape of fancy work. Fur capes enough, apparently, t0 Dover every woman in New York. White satin jeans for fanny work in plane of the long used linen, Silk handlcerobiofe merely scal- loped with colored silk for ladies' use. Odd Chinese designs in China dishes for bonbons, olives, bouil- lon, ale, Velveteen suits, with black sural biouees, for small boys' dressy wear. Cream beaver' hats trimmed with feather and satin ribbon for little girls. Elegant chair scarfs of Dream sural statin, embroidered with Japanese gold. Fur napes of two varieties of fur in contrast, as sealskin and Persian lamb. Lamps made of rare and quaint Ohinose vases fitted up with burner, shade, etc. Transparent white woolou mater. ials, called wool muslin, etc., for semi evening frocks. Flat cloth toque turbans, trimmed with piece velvet to match the cloth and velvet gowns worn. Unique bridesmaid's gowns of light yellow or cream•faoed cloth, triuimid with an edging of fur, Robes having inelnllionu of astra• Chan eurroltnded with card =braid. ,cry for the herder and sleeves. ,t nOr'S ESSAY ON GIRLS, Girls is groat on making bloove, She will make bleovo a dol is a live baby. Site will make bleeve elle is orfull sweet on another girl or a feller, if they oome to see her, and when they are gone she will say, "Horrid old thing." Girls is olways fooling a feller. She can't lick yer, so she gets the beet of yer that way. If you don't do what a girl tells yer eho says yer horrid. I'd rather be horrid than soft. If you do what a girl tells yer, you will do all sorts of foolish things. Girls can be good in school every day if they feel like it. I spud think they would git tired and have to do snmtbing worm in a while; I know a feller does. Girls say fellers acts orfull, but when a girl gets agoing it she note orfler flaw any feller durst They don't care for nothing, If a girl wants a feller to carry her hooks home, she aiu't satisfied unless she gits tho anunl feller tate other girls want, whether she lilies him or not. Girls is grate on having eecicta. I °mean telling secrets. They mtlte n secret out of nothing at all, and then tell it all round to all the other girle, orful quiet, just as if it was sum. thiug dreclful. Girls olways git their goggerfy lessons bettor than a feller, but if they are going anywhere they are sure to git lost. If two fellers has a file, the girls all go for the feller that links, no matter whether he to good for any thing else or not. If a girl don't feel like doing a thing, you can't make her, no matter whether she had orter or not. If she won't she won't, and she will get out of it somehow. That is all I know about girls this time. Canadian News. The octet of watering the streets of Hamilton last summer was $8,- 762. The Rev. Dr. King, a prominent Methodist =deter of New York, preached in Toronto on Sunday. The petition against the return of Sol. White, M.P. P. for North Es- sex, has been dismissed without Costs. The Chatbe,m street railway com- pany having now got the traok and equipment in first rate shape is pro- posing to extend the lines. A fine specimen of the golden eagle of the Rocky Mountains, boxed and chained has arrived at the Ons• toms Department, Ottawa. It is a present to Hon. Me. Rowell. Itis reported in Owen Sound that one of the richest and most ex teneive beds of phosphates in On, tario has been disooved in the town- ship of Madoc, near Bannockburn. Eddie Magee, of Smith's Falls, while taking a box down cellar, slipped and the box fell on him and paused him to nearly bite his tongue off. It was necessary to put several stitches in it, A Presbyterian clergyman at Hal- ifax, after he bad got web into his discourse last Sunday, finding his pulpit gown an incumbrance, divest- ed himself of the garment and laid it on the scat behind him. B. Attie, who owns the Wray farm adjoining Mt. Pleasant mills, Burford, dug from a hill of potatoes a Spanish mill dollar, dated 1704 ; also a quarter dated 1724. The nein must have been in the ground for 60 years or more. It is reported that Will. Ostrand• er, son of J. S. Ostrander, of Moose. jaw, N. W. T., formerly a resident of Tilsonburg, is living in a Mon• taoa prison under sentence of death for shooting; a man in a quarrel. The noon trains on the G. T. R, and 0. P. R. hail an exciting raeo between Chatham and Windsor on Wednesday of last week. They both lett Chatham at the same time, and for tho 45 miles kept right alongside of each other. The run was made in 48 minutes, including a stop. The people of Walkerville aro trying to find some loophole in the municipal law whereby they will not be restricted to three or four people for Mayor next year. Ac. cording to their !awe of inoorpora• ting the only people eligible for the Mayor's chair aro 0. M. Smith, R. Herr and T. Smith. They are the only ones that own the required amount of property within the town. Hiram Walker & Sous own nearly it all. Galt Reformer :-"Gait is at pros- onthonored wills the presence of a distinguished guest, and one wito Bolds a very warm place fu the af- toeliens of Canadians without 111x' tinctiuu, as to party, viz , the lion. Alex, Mackenzie, late Premier of 111e Dominica. liir. if ccicenzie has made frequent visite to Galt, and. expresses the great pleasure he ex• periencos in coming to Ulla good, old Scotch town. Ile 18 accompan• fed by Mrs. i4Incicenzio, and they aro the guests of lion. ,las, Young." G cervi oval 1N cn wss. • Quebec is to have 1,000 electric. lights. , Cigarettes have Icilled little Fred Long at Lockport, N. Y.. A4ueoann°, ; lo Na, will build a watermelon palace next year, One Colorado couuty has 100 art sedan wells, New ones do not de urease the flow of the old unee, Adam Monte, of Bigby Pork, Mies,, who is ninety four years of age, has 400 desoendaot living. William `Phomas of Goshen, Ind„ was reprimanded in church and felt so out up about it that be committe.l suicide. Rev. Wesley Brown, of Bedford, Iowa,, got himself engaged to five girls in the choir at once and had to leave town. Thirty six years ago the first set- tler built his house in Omaha, and the Indies e reins"ant!y fell back a few miles to the wast. KING OF WEEKLIES! tPRESS Betabllshed half a Century. LONDON, - ONTARIO. The handsomest Printed Paper in Canada, 775 CASH OPPORTUNITIES Offered to the Publie. 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