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ANGELIC! }(OUTi3.
When .1 was young and in ray teems,
A maid wits old at twenty,
13ut when two decades I.had rotwhed,
I felt ut youth I'd plenty.
'Twits thirty then I thought was old,
Old maids I talked of lightly ;
But when three decades I had passed,
I still felt young and sprightly.
Fat, fair, and forty, far away,
Was when a girl was ageing
But when that summit had been topped,
My love I still was paging.
A half a ocutury, then, I said,
Was quite too stale for loving;
But when the fifties Dame around,
I still bad heart for doting.
And billing hero and billing there,
I wag fat over cooing,
Until the sixties found me still
Not mush averse to wooing.
'Twos then I cried with spring-like air,
And meant to be quite truthful,
"If woman is an angel once,
She must be always youthful.
THE NEW YEA11.
f used to think the year was long,
1 was a boy then, young and strong,
With spirits all aglow ;
Impatient for the time to come
When I should strike the whole world dumb
By ono stupendous blow.
I struck tiro blow—tho world went on
Unmoved, and days have come and gone,
And I am still the same ;
A little older grown, 'tis true,
And so, indeed, dear friend, have you,
And others I might name.
Pamo—fortune—I could always hour
Their echoes in the coming year,
Like bolls across tho Phew ;
Likobells that through the night air chime,
Now 1111 melodious, now sublime,
Now swelling and now law.
Those boyish hopes and plans are past;
The years came slowly, bus went fust,
Each swiftor than before ;
The belle ring out as cheerily
For others as they diet for mo,
But ah 1 for me no more.
But Lark 1 I hear the glorious truth,
That was net shadowed in nay youth,
Now pealing land and clear ;
The truth that something better lies
Beyond that all that now I prize,
Brings lu 1111, glad New Year.
Then good-bye, Old Year, 1f you mast,
nd welcome, New Year, to your trust,
t{ o go et you with a prayer ;
keep us from sorrow and from strife,
And briny: us peace and love and life,
Through all your saasons fair.
i,IOTIIEt3'S MENDING BASKET,
Over and under, and in and out,
The swift little needle flies ;
Ver always Is twtu her and idleness
The mending basket Ilea;
And the patient hands, though weary,
Work lovingly on and ou,
At tasks that never aro finished ;
For mending is never done,
She takes up the father's stocking,
And skillfully knits in the heel,
And smooths tho seam with a tender tonsil),
That lie may no roughness feel ;
And the thoughts to her merry girlhood
And her early wifebood go,
And :the smiles at the first pair of stoakinge
She knit so long ago.
Then she speaks to the little maiden
Lcarning to lulit at lter side,
And tells her about those stockings,
Uneven and shapeless and wide—
"/ had to ravel them out, my dear ;
Don't be discouraged, but try,
And after awhile you'll learn to knit
As swift end even as I."
She tdkes up a little white apron,
And thinks of the woeful face
Of her darling when aha came crying,
"0, mamma, I've torn my lace."
80 0110 mended the child's pet apron,
Then took up a tiny shoe,
And fastened a stitch that was broken,
And tied the ribbon of blue.
'Che maiden has wearied of working
And gond away to her play ;
The sun in the west is sinking
At the close of the quiet day.
Now the mother's hands are costing,
Still holding a atooking of red,
And her thoughts in the twilight shadow
TO the far off future have fled.
"0, where will the little foot wander
Before they have time to rest?
Where will the bright heads be pillowed
When the mother's loving breast
lis under the spring's blue violets,
And under the summer grasp,
When over her fall the autumn leaves,
And the storms of winter pass ?"
And a prayer from her heart she utters,
"God bless them, my Hear ones all l
0, may it be many, many years
Ere sorrow to them befall 1"
To her work from the mending basket
She turns with a heart at rust ;
Per elle knows that to husband and children
She is always the first and beat.
The report of the Ottawa Board of
:Health for 1885 shows that during the
year there. were, 759 deaths in the
city, 397 of which were children un-
der five years of age.
Action was commenced at the civil
aesizes last week at the instance of
Warden Massie, of the Central Pria.
on, against the Irish Canadian claim-
ing $20,000 damages for libel in
publishing two articles on plaintiff's
management and oonduot of tho pris-
eners, The defendant pleads teas.
enable eolntnent,
'1'O OUR READERS.
We eaunot to strongly urge upon
our spades the nemteeity of subsoil)
lug for a family, weekly newspepor
'of the first•elaaa —smelt for instanoa
ae the Indipendeut, of Now York
Ween «0 Obliged In seltfet 0110 pttblica•
tion for habitual and careful reeding
to tho oxcluetou of all others, we
ehonlll ebooso unhoeitntin 41y Tho In.
clopoadent. Jt is a newspaper, mag•
azlne at1(1 review, all in one. It is a
religious, a literary, an oduoational, u
story, an art, a scientific, an agricul-
tural, a fivanoial and a political papor
combined. It has 132 folia pages and
22 departments. No matter what a
person's religion, politico or profession
may be, no matter what the age, sex,
employment or condition may be Tile
Independent will prove a help, an in-
structor, an educator. Our renders
eau do no less thou to send a postal
card for a floe spechmen copy, or for
thirty cents the paper will be bent a
month enabling one to judge of its
merits more critically. Its yearly sub
soription is $8.00, or two years (or
$5.00. Address, The Independent,
251. Broadway, New York City.
'1x1`. BLLUf3$ hLS POST.
A soft silver solder may be prepar-
ed by melting one part of load; when
tho latter is fluid, add two parte of tin,
Using a small piece of rosin as a flux.
fu soldering fine work, wet the parts
t0 be joined with ellloride of zine so•
Fashion Notes.
Ducllesee lace is made in full jab.
ets.
13eadod collars show Byzantine
effects.
Boullo cloth hos etripoa of plush or
moire.
Visiting and home dreseo.1 have
long trains.
Evening end dinner 1reiees haus
long trains.
11ateriale with woven borders for
trimming aro favorites.
Plash beaded with garnet orna-
ments i:; used for millinery purposes.
Shit rod collarettes of ribbon aro
worm coutratctiug in Color to tho
ares,
iu spite of predictions to the con•
teary corduroy is l,opulttr for walking
suits.
Plush is 111e leading fabric for all
toilettes ; evou thin owning drosses
aro trimmed with it.
Sino jet is much employed in mil
finery, made up in wings, leaves, aig-
rettes, or spikes,
Farm Nimbus.
A small manure heap makes a small
corn pile.
It 10 not he that sows, but he that
manures that gots the big crop.
Without manure no good ground,
with it no poor ground.
.An inch of eapelike is worth an eel
of shade.
`l The geutlo dew blesses, the cyclone
distresses. •
Grass and geese, sheep and swine,
oorn and kine, make farming fine.
Elbow grease and self-denial malco
the boy a man on trial.
Protect the birds and the birds will
protect the Drop.
By flowing streams and lulls at
hand, plant vines and trues to adorn
the land.
',A. dog 1s as noisy as a pig, and is
udt fit to eat when dead.
A. mortgage on the farm is harder
to dig out than a sod of wire grass.
"All flub is grass," says Holy Writ,
then grass for flesh Is truly fit.
Improve the farm that Is under you,
and you will have something to stand
on.
One cow is worth a noaoh and six
horses.
If you work yourself, those about
you, will work.
A farmer who does not see the sun
rise has need of a new pair of eyes,
Not every egg is sound that 80ems
s0.
Take care of the chips and you need
never be without a fire.
The corn row will not bo straight
if you look behind you.
Plant memorial trees on the birth-
days and you will always have a mon-
ument.
An empty woodshed is the sign of
a poor dinner.
Buying cheap things merely because.
they are cheap, is the sign of a shoddy
farmer.
lithe farm is small, plow deeper,
if poor, manure more.
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.
Paraffin -oil will soften boots and
shoes that have been hardened by
water, and will render them pliable.
Half a pint of boiling water poured
upon a quarter of an ounce of g0aesut.
ohips and sweetened with sugar or
treacle will destroy flies, and is per-
fectly harmless to human beingo or
animals.
All caeo.hardening is superficial,
as its name implies, The host method
of cape -hardening is packing the article
to bo treated in a tight box of iron,
with ground bolo, prtisaiato of potash,
and charcoal, and heating for several
hlours to a red heat, then plunge into
Witter.
lotion, I3orer can be used as 0 flux,
The pointed flame of the blowpipe is
Lest, and should bo directed on the
parts to be soldered.
When brass 008linge aro of too cont.
limited a form to be ground, filed, or
niaohined they may bo finished by the
action of acid, either alone or folllow
ed by a varnish. After cleaning the
casting by heating it and plunging it
into acidulated water, it is immersed
in a bath composed of two parts of
nitric acid and ono part of water, or
ono part of sai•ammouiac, ono of sul-
phuric acid, one of nitric acid, and one
of water. The casting is then plung-
ed into pure water, then Into hot soap.
lye, and dried in hot sawdust.
There is perhaps no test of the pur
ity of water so crucial or soarohtng as
its nee in the operation of brewing.
For euccessful brewing ibis indispons-
ible to have a wetter almost wholly free
from organio hatter, as the Latter in
any but the most minute quantity in-.
duces a premature and unhealthy for.
mentation of the brewer's work. The
brewer, in fact, requires a water free
from bacterial life, so that in the pro.
cess of mashing the diastatic action
of the malt may take place unmolest-
ed by the chemical changes winch are
iocicicutal to the life of bacteria.
Keelung P11111.
The best fruit proaerves are made
by boiling down the juice without
any addition till it thickens. The
natural gum and sugar peoeent iu
most fruits only needs concentration
to form either syrup or jelly, but tho
practice bas been so long to use su-
gar for a more rapid process at the
expense of flavor, that the earlier and
better method is all but forgotten.
Tho first confections and conserves
of fruit ever known Were made 1n
this manner, in the rioh valleys of
Persia and northern India, a pro.
cess doubtless learned from Dates,
Grapes, Pigs and Nentariness curing
themselves on the bough in favorable
seasons, drying in their own sugar
crystalizing round the stem. The
Grape juice thickening on the sides
of the wine press in the sun would
teaolt some one more intelligent than
his fellows to try evaporating the
juice on slabs of stone, and the hon-
ey so made was delicious enough to
fix the promise in favor. For, the
classic scripture of the Syriac land
flowing with mill: and honey, meant
not merely the giant cembc of wild
boos in the clefts of the rock, but
that delicate nectar which distils
from freo-hearted ripe fruits, as one
may see it in a hot slimmer, in the
deadripe Damsons and sweet Grapes
of our home gardens, when "The
Plums are globes of honeyed wine."
Canadian N ews.
A deputation waited upon the Hon.
G. W. Ross with respect to obtaining
a Collegiate Instituto at Lindsay.
Ingersoll Chronicle :—P. Stuart
left in this office a curiosity in the
way of oate ; they consist of three
perfect kernels growing together. Mr.
Stuart picked them last fall on the
farm- of John Strades, South Dor-
chester.
Mrs. Wm. Gibbon, of Simooe, pre.
sonted to the editor of the British
Canadian, on Ohristmas eve, a bocluet
of pansies, which she had gathered
from her garden. They had grown
in the open air—a remarkable occur -
fence for this season of the year,
Capt. Harbottle and Lieut. Gordon
the commissioners appointed by the
Dominion Government to investigate
into the causes of the wreck of the
0. P. R. steamer Algoma at Isle Roy.
ale, a few months ago, when so many
lives were lost, reported their find-
ing at the office of the hull inspector
last evening. The report is a vol.
uminous one, and after describing
the vessel, reviews the evidence given
by the survivors at great length. The
commissioners were of opinion that
had Cape. Moore ordered a cast of
the lead at about 4 o'clock in the
morning the disaster occurred, he
would have discovered the danger
ahead. There was no look -out de-
tailed for duty ' at the time or for
some time before and it was neoea-
sftry at all times for a man to be so
detailed. The commissioners decide
ed to oaneel the certificates of Capt.
Moore and Chief Officer Hastings for
twelve and six months respectively,
but a telegram received from the
minister of marine and fisheries
states' that the minister approved of
the Algoma decision, but had short -
mad the suspension of the captain's
certificate three months, owing to
previous good record, and to the fact
that he had pursued the usual cus-
tom it nal igatlug Ills lake.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York
has presented to the 11.R.Y.AI.0.A.,
of St. Thomas, a New Year's gift of
$100.
Mr. f3awtinhimor, of the 7th con„
Blenheim, lens threshed 37.1 baahols
of barley off six mons, or 0'3 Intehols
to the acre,
The Watford Adyocate•Adviser
000000 10 cruet, being merged in the
Guide, which will hereafter be known
as the Guide -Advocate,
Sir John A. Macdonald was 71
years old on 'Thursday of last week,
having been born at Glasgow, Soot.
land, January 14, 1815,
Mar1r Lazier, the notorious confid-
ence man who, some years ago, escap-
ed from a London officer by lumping
from a train, has been pardoned from
the penitentiary after serving two
years.
It is understood that the G. T. R.
will send a specimen locomotive for
exhibition at the Intercolonihl Exhib.
ition in London. The engine is now
being built at Point St. Charles worlc-
shops.
One of the latest railway sebomea
proposed is the oonetructiou of a rail-
way from some point on the Northern
Railway between Newmarket and
Richmond Hill to Boston, ou the
Hamilton tC Northwestern.
Toronto boasts of 500 practising
Iawyers, with clerks and students that
swell the list to 1,500, 89 barber shops,
69 blacksmith shops, 100 boarding
houses, 210 butcher shops, 40 dentists
extract a living, 720 grooere, 267
hotels and 11 saloons, 200 licensed
doctors, 70 tobacco shops, 06 period-
icals and newspapers, 131 tailor shops,
ten undertakers, and 108 planes of
worship.
It will bo remembered, says the
Woodstock Times, that in the early
port of last year the town was shook%
ed by the annouooemeut of the aw•
fully sudden death of a girl named
Collins while on her way to the wept
end school, and engaged with school
mates playing on the street, suddenly
dropping dead. Tho body was this
week moved from where it had been
buried to ,the family plot, and the
parents wishing to view tho remains
had the coffin opened, when, to
their horror, they discovered that a
dreadful struggle must have taken
place after burial. Tho shroud had
been torn to shreds, the knees of the
body were drawn up to the chin, ono
of tho arms was twisted under the
head, and the features bore evidence
of dreadful torture, unmistakable
proofs that life was not extinct when
Interment 000urred.,
.A clashing young Hibernian just
from the old god stopped a short
time since in London, and hearing
that his aunt lived in a town named
Sarnia, sixty miles west of there, he
though of paying her a visit. Accord-
ingly he took the evening train for
that destination, where 110 reached
at about 10 o'olook p.m., and as his
aunt's residence was fully a mile from
the station, he secured the 'services
of a guide, who professed to know
the house sbo lived in. However,
the guide mietoolc the house and
conducted our hero to a neighbor's
domiotle, which the traveller entered
on haste without knocking or giving
any other signal, and throwing his
arms around the nook of the matron
kissing her as his aunt Mary. The
indignation and surprise of tee wo•
man at this imacconutable familiar-
ity of the verdant traveller, can be
imagined. Being engaged washing
dishes at the time of the occurrence,
tho dish -cloth was freely applied to
the young man's face, followed by a
shrill gall for William, her husband.
The speedy retreat of the youth sav•
ed him from being helped off the
premises by the foot of the enraged
William. Be euro it is your aunt
Mary—then go ahead.
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THE PEOPLE'S r OLInVits,
�Y1I010E' b'AB113 FOB SALE.—
'A(ow aplondid, improved, farms for sale
ht the township 01 Gro)', Morris and 11s101 -
lop, ,Apply to A DELOA.1'1'Y,Co.Asetttneer,
Brussels 1. 0. 1(1.11
�1EIU16G1LE3, 1 L13LIO 131IILD—
l lige and Private Howeee painted and
doourated in modern styles at reasonable
rates, Estilnates given, Address—
H, f1LUCAS,
70.11 Gederloh.
OTICE.—TETE COUNUIL OF
the Corporation of Ole County Of Huron
will inset in the )art .e11 0, le tic 1', va 01
Ooder:oh, on Friday, the 00th instant,
28.2 PETER ADAMSON,
County Clerk,
�J 001) WANTED.— TENDERS
will be reootved by the undersigued, un-
til Ian. lot, 1880, for supplying the Brussels
school with 75 cords of 2''00+ green wood
beech or maple,to be delivered ou or before
April 101,1880. JOHN maw, Bey Board.
BEEN WOOD WANTED. --
Tenders will be received by the under-
signed up to January 1511, for supplying 00 or
80 cords oft foot wood, beech or maple. Wood
to bo delivered before March 15th. For fur-
therparttculars apply to W.H. RE1l10, POST
Publishing House Brussels.
L'ARM FOR SALE, CONTAINING
100 soros. 511008 000 good bntlrltrge, 70'
acres cleared. 0r will sell 50 eontainfug good
buildings. The above pr 'party adjoins the
village of Brussels and 010 1311 sold on reason-
able terms. For full eartioulare, applyy to
GEO. A131010 noNO, Prhp.
COLLIE SLUT LOST.—THE
aadersignod lost a eollte slut at Name a -
town a taw weeks ago, She was black in oolor
with half of her face white. A suitable reward
will be paid for her recovery Anyone harbor.
tag the animal after this date will be prose-
antestaccording tolaw, .70 HN BAB(RB,
Lot 10, cbn.5, Grey tp.,
27-1 Box 40, Brussels P. •.
DIPSIBOICUN
A true tonic, is 1110111)' recommended for all
diemises requiring a 08015in e0foienttonic, es-
pecially Indigestion, ng0pepsin, Want of Ap-
petite,Loes of strength, Lack of Energy. &r
It ourichosth e blood, strongthene the muscles
and gives new life loth°nerves, It acts like a
charm and Minot what ovoryb dy wants. Itis
strictly Vegetable in Oombi nation, and i0non-
alcoholic. For sale by dealers generally.
11AIW FOR SALE,—THE UN -
8: darsigned will dispose of his farm, being
lot 11, con. 10, tiro y, containing 100 acres. There
is a frame honed, frame barn with stone stab-
ling moil all necessary outbuildings on 0130
t,remises,also a lend bearing orcberd. The
05050 HeiveO on the 1eto11 arch.• For lur1Le0
partloulare apply to
20-tP THOS. MOORE, Prop.
r1AR'o1 FOR SALE.—THE SUB -
scriber offers bis exoellont farm, being lot
7, eon.8, Grey, for sale. The farm onntains
100 aoros,05 of which are cleared. There is it
frame house and large bank barn with straw
house lu the roar. There is an orob ofd, won,
and all tho necessary conveniences, The
farm is one mil° oast of Ethel, where there
are chinches, school, stores, railway, tele-
graph, d:o., and is well fenced and drained.
Price 35,200. For farther particulars address
CHRISTOPHER BAYNABD,
25-9 Proprietor
tAP.iI. FOR SALE.—THE EX -
welters oe lbo estate of thn pato 500/1)301.
snnlrtioN offer for sale that excellent farm ,be-
ing lot 12,0 on. 12, Grey. There are 100 aeras in
the/arm. 80 of which are oleared,10 acres part-
lyoloared and 10 soros of good hardwood bush.
There is a good frame.barn, 80x00 fent with
stone nrahling underneath. Immediate pos-
sessionwillbo given. Agood portion of pur-
chase money will be allowed to stand on inter-
est. For further particulars apply to
JOHN LF,OEM ,
107 College street.Toronto,
01 501IN SLEMMON,
15-tf Ethel P. 0,
-AILWAY ACCIDENT !
or from any other cause. -
The Accident I>tslcrattee Company
OP NORTH AMIOEICA.
Den A, T. Gnnr, G. p. 111. G., - PRESIDENT,
will insure von against accident, travailing or
otherwise, for the sum of 20o. tier day, or 94:
00 per mouth, seeming you $10.00 per work if
laid up from the accident, or 20,000 in 0(000 of
death, if that should 000ttr three months af-
ter the aooident.
J. A. CREIGHTON,
Agent, Brussels,Out.
NEW BLACItSMITPI,
Bring your lame horses to Daniel F:iyan,1he
has
LEASED W. T. HUNTER'S STAND,
Brussels. Having praotisod for years and
risen to the highest ponition in the loading
horse shooing establishment of Graham, Edin.
tnburgh. Scotland. Also having passed with
honors through the Royal Veterinary Shooing
Scheel, of I• S. Smith, London, England -
where hundreds of crippled horses pausal
our hands daily I eau safety guarantee to ante
contracted foot or Interfering horses. Neve
work and repairing of all kinds done on rea-
sonable terms, and workmanship that will
plots°. By giving me a pall lfool satisfied 1
would soon re your trade.
D. EWAN,
17•13( Hunter's O1dEstan
ETHEL
(*MIST 3FLOWilft MILLS.
The undersigned having complete the change from the stone tothe
Celebrated Hungarian System of Grinding, has now the Mill in
•
First -Class Running Order,
end will be glad to see all his Old Customers and as many new ones
as possible. Chopping done.
Flour and Feed Always 011 Zit a e
HIGUL,STPBICE PAIE'li'OR ANY QUAiW .'ITY OF GOOD WHEAT
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