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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-11-26, Page 37r de - .try, tes ely, our cal, ;ws. Nov. 26, 1886. WIGGINS. His name le Wiggins, as it rhymes with hpriggins and the Miloalan liiggins 021(1. such like fry; Ito could beat an Ogeeohee nigger in seientitle Iiggerin' on the social eta. tela 0£ a quadlhit0l'al lie. In solar science he could bid defiance to Sir Humphrey. Davy or Cluy Lessee ; Ile could form conjunction or other fuuo• tion without compunction, with Mare and Venus, that would beat Medina's, and other planets in the solar track. With well planned fictions and shrewd restrictions he'd make predictions of wind and weather ; But all his guessing turned out distresa- iug and as depressing as a much snaked loather. Now, heat telluric, and gas sulphuric, and throes ueiu'lo rend earth aucl rook, So, Wiggins trying, his prophosying, his long tongue lying sets women crying, and strong 111011 flying to avoid rho shook, But this seismologist, this Perkiniteolo- gist' has now no apologist for hie foolish prank ; Iris egregious blunder is a nine days' wonder, He may go to thunder, the Canadian crank 1 FOR A WARNING. .1 can tell just how it happened, though it's fifty years ago, And I sometimes think it's curious that 1 can remember so ; For though things that lately happened slip my mince and fade away, I am sure that I shall never lose the memory of that day. Job was coming to Thanksgiving --so ho wrote us in the fall ; Ha was Ezra's oldest brother, and his favorite of them all. We'd boeu keeping house sinoo April, but I couldn't always tell When my pie•arust would be flaky or the poultry roasted well ; So 'Holt a little worried—if the truth must be confessed— At the thought of Ezra's brother coming as our household guest. just a week before Thanksgiving Ezra rode one day to town, As I needed things for cooking—flour, and sugar, white and brown ; And I worked like any beaver all the time he was away, Making minas and stewing apple for the conning holiday. I was lint, and tired, and nervous, when he galloped home at night— Alt that day my work had plagued me, nothing seemed to go just right, "Hero's the flour, Lucindy," he said, "it's the best there is in town ; I forgot the other sugar, but I've brought enough of brown." "'You're a fool 1" I cried in fury, and the tears began to fall ; "Bide ten miles to do an errand, and for- got it after all I was cions and clean discouraged, as I thought he ought to know ; But ho turned as white as marble when ho heard me speaking so. Not a word he said in answer, but he rd started for the door, And in less than half a minute galloped down the road once more, Thou I nearly cried my eyes out, what with grief and fear and shame ; He was good, and kind, and patient ; I was.all the one to blame, And the hours wore on till midnight, and my heart seemed turned to stone, As I listened for his coming while I sat there all alone. With the daylight came a neighbor, "Ezra has boeu hurt," ho said ; "tonna beside the road, unconscious; taken up at first for dead." Just behind hi,n 001110 four others, with a burden slowly brought ; As I stood and dumbly watched them you arta can guess of all I thought 1 011, the days and nights that followed 1 Ezra lived, but that was all ; And with tearless eyes I waited for the worst that might befall, . Wandering in a wild delirium, broken phrases note and than Dropped from fevered lipe, and told 1110 what his painful thoughts had been. So Thanksgiving dawned upon us. Job Demo early, shocked to meet Such it brokon•honrtecl woman for the bride ho hoped to greet. Not it word we spoke together in that hushed and shadowed room, Where we waited for the twilight dark. ening down to deeper gloom ; For the doctor said that morning, "There is nothing more to do ; "I£ he lives till after sunset I perhaps can pall him through." Just as five o'clook was striking Ezra woke and feebly stirred ; "Did you get the sugar, darling 1" were the words I faintly heard. Row I Dried 1 You can't imagine bow I feltito hear him speak Or to nes his look of wonder as I bent to • kiss his cheek. Well, I've told a long, long story--.Ezra'e claming up the walk ; tut I've had a purpose in it —Wasn't • just for idle talk, Don't you think, my dear, you'd bettor make your quarrel up with Gray ? It may cavo a world of trouble, and it's near Thanksgiving Day. what to Teach Our Daughters. At a scainl gathering some one prop000d this question :—"What shall I teach my daughter ?" The following replies wexo handed in Teach her that 1011 cents make a dollar. Tceeh leer to arrange the parlor and (lip library, Teach her to say "Nu," and mean it, or "Yes," and stick to it. Teach, her how to :wear tt calico dres,, fwd to wear it line a queen. Trach her how to sew on buttons, darn etockjnge and mend. glevoo. Teach lir to dross fur Health and comfort ni well a0 for Appearance. Tenth her to cultivate flowers acid to keep the kitchen genie). Touch her to make the neiteet room iu the house. Teach her to have nothing to lo with intemperate or'C iesolute young men. Teach her that tight laoieg is uu• comely ria well as injurious to health, Teach her to regard tete morals and habits, and not money, in se. letting her aesooiites. Teach 11er to observe the old rule "A place fur everything, end every thing in its place. Teach her that music, drawing rind painting are real uocotnpllsh• rneute in the home. POULTRY (ZUERCt11i5 ANSWERED - Although the following queries may seem of but little ooueequenco to some, vet we take occasion to re- ply to quite n Dumber by giving them in numbered order with onr answe'r's below 1. What is the best cure for grapoe ? 2. Will Bantams mix with larger chickens. 3. What is the beet method of preserving eggs, say to keep a year? 4. Give me 0 plan for a good 1 chicken coop, one that will keep out rats ? 5. How maty eggs will a brown Leghorn lay if not allowed to sit ? 6. How many chickens ehoul.l bo allowed to run with a hen ? 7. How many eggs Should en or- dinary hen he set upon ? 8. Would a crone from n Ply- mouth Rock and Brown Leghorn be desirable for good layers ? 9. What should be fed to hens in winter to enable thorn to lay well ? 1. We have found a di op of spirits of turpentine mixed with a pinch of corn meal, forced down the throat twice u day, an excellent remedy; or a teaspoonful in a pint of corn meal dough, fed to a number is very efficient. Crapea comes from filthy surroundings. 2. Bantams will erose with larg- er fowls as we have found by espori- 01100. 3. There are several methods, but we have known eggs to keep well when packed in dry salt, in boxes, and the 'boxes turned throe times a week. Pack the eggs on end, not allowing them to touch each other, filling the spaces with salt. 4. Wo think a cement floor to a poultry house is the best method of keeping onr rats. Wire netting may bo used whenever possible. 5. Individual Ilene are said bo have reached ail many as 200 eggs o year, but snob records are doubt- ful. Ten dozen is a large average for a flock. 6. In summer ,t dozen chicks are enough and in cold weather eight. 7. Ten eggs will give better re. sults than thirteen, especially in winter, 8. A oross of a Plymouth Bock and Brown Leghorn would he ex• col!ent. Use Brown Leghorn cocks and Plymouth Rock hens. 9. Keep them warm. Feed a variety of grain, and Make them scratch for all they get, Allow meat three times a weed, with elev. or chopped fineand steeped in wa6- er, Avoid getting the hens too fat. Canadian News. Simcoo already uses 81 tele. pllonee. A Delhi man lost two cows by their eating apples. There is a surplus of horse thieves in Waterloo. Goo. Pratt, of Vienna, headed 10 barrels dapples in 18 minutes. Raspberries worth $235.80 were shipped from Burnt River etatiou this year. The Methodist church in Mitch- ell manufacture their own light—. gasoline. Mrs. Johnston, of Avon, had her jaw broken by a dentist last week while extracting teeth. Ono Kelly got $450 damages from the village of Southampton, for in. juries'from a defective sidewalk. A silver coin, dated 1604, was picked up on the Springbauk grounds, St. Catharines, lately. George sleeman has expended t,2fi,000.. in improviug his Silver Creek browery at Guelph this year. THE BRUSSELS POST A Galt hotel is selling Go. lunches. I -DRUSS1?4,S Galt OddfolloWe talk of erecting -1 a fine (our storey building. n A Chatham Eis shipping 25 i Woolen. oo en [ill ruing wills to England. 'j/� -j„ A Guelph poultry fancier has re, g, ceutly made sales to England. C. W. lox, of Amheretburg, du ,t sconud crop of potatoes. Bev, 1). A. Duff, of Galt, had 3 of lin' boot ohi0lteua killed by dog A horse wait hold on tho 8 Thomas market for forty (touts, an another for $.175. tralt Melt. their second aurin al:ryeal(Lhemum exhibition on Thanlcegiviug day. G. Cornell, of Pickering, du through 08 fact of solid rook bofor he reached water, The 13ewmativille faotory shipped 75 pianos and 160 organs the last 4 weeks. Hy. Gilduer, of 8traebur , pulled or chopped on his farm a Canadian thistle sounding 8 feet 5 inches high. A 150x75 foot rink is being erect. ed in Galt. It will tetra rootn for five eurliug ricers, It has n,000. trete fluor. A large apple tree wee out down in hIoreea raoautly. It measured8 ft. in diameter and 6 ft. to the breeches. W. G. Path, of I3arliuglou, a well-known stook 10iser,ie uegotiat. ing the purchase of a ontlle ranch in Manitoba. A tap of a molaeses barrel in a Galt grocery 00.1115 o36 one night last week, and made a bed mess of tho floor. An owl five fent four inches from tip to tip of wings, wee caught ou Dundas st., Whitby the other morn- ing. Gonduobor illartiu, of the St. Clair branch of the 0.8.11., shot a dear from the train on the Petronepee.tion. On a cortaiu street in London the following catches the eye :—"Wash- in Ironin and Goin out by the Day Done Here." The expenses of the Irate elections iu Detroit coat the city over $11,000. The system appears to be much higher than onr system. Wm. Squire, of Malden, is gloat- ing over his big mangolds. Some of them weighing 25 to 29 pounds. He obtained about 1,100 bushels off tbree•quartere of an acre. The M.C.R. will erect a 112,000 passenger depot, a $10.000 rotted housesand a $7,000 freight shed in London at the termiuns of its inde- pendent spur in the city from the Loudon and Pi. Stanley line of the Grand Trunk, over which it is to have running powers. John Barker, an old man living near Elleugowu, lost nearly all his fowls. Forty-five of them wore left dead with a small hole in the neck from where the blood had been suck- ed. Either a mink or weasel is sup- posed to have done it. Tho Church of St. John th Evangelist in Montreal has beano burglarized and a valuable cross stolen. No lens than seven whelp - sale stores in the city wore entered by burglars during Wednesday night but nothing of value was stolen. Le Canadian, of Quebec, says that Gabriel Dumont's friends aremagit• acing for a special act of amnesty in his favor, as he fears to return to Canada under the present amnesty, which contains an exception against those who have committed homicide obborwiea than in the act of war. While Sarah Brennan, of Aboyue, was driving from Fergus, during the recent shooting match tit the targets, the horse she was driving was shot through the nose. The animal was so stunned that it had to be Ied home. Sarah ,and her steed had as close a call as most people could possibly desire. 0 b. c1 ul g e They had some fun on Hallowe'en out in Beiu, not far from Guolbh. A son of sunny Italy, who had re- tired to rest, when his wife euddea• ly informed him that it was the night upou which Irishmen and other barbarians indulged in prac- bieal jokes. Having suffered before, and remembering that his buggy stood outside, the Italian arose, got a spool of thread, and went and at - Melted one end to the buggy. Car- rying the unread in he tied a largo bell to the other end and plaited it on a stand at This bedside. He then got his shot gun and loaded it, us- ing a half pint of salt for shot, and, leaving it handy, he again retired. About midnight his novel burglar alarm wont off, springing up, Ile got his gun and opened the door, This alarmed the half•dozen midnight mechanics around the buggy and they started for the road receiving the salt in the rear as they depart. ed. I. is thought that they are thoroughly cured of their desire to molest the astute Italian. ANY QUANTITY 00 Wool Wanted ! Higliefi Market Price —PATO iN— Cash or Trade ! I have in stock a good assort- ment of Blankets, Shirtiugs, Flannels, fine and coarse, Pull Cloth, Pine Tweeds, Coarse Tweeds, Yarns, &e. Also an as- sortment of Cotton goods. I am hoar' prepared to take in Carding, Spinning, Weaving, &c. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Knitted Goods Made to Order. Give Me a Carl! before taking your wool else- where. Yours 'Truly, GEO. HOWE. zrzmagez SCALE S. BUILDERS' lARBHABIS ! Maas & Putty, r, Lath & Shingles. STOVES Ep; —ANO— Stove Pipes. TAMED FELTING, ALABASTW 1E PAINT. Mbed, Pallatr ALL COLOUS. B. GE RR .L . 3 MUM q, �, 11 pp �m !i a< oqs in o1 ? .feto. ev et. See that every pair of Speetaoles or Eye -Glosses is isuoRtHi i Jo asemas hon 13 a ?JP rn.`7'm m,� 0 C:O 0 0 m r'ijg mE n ,�yin n mB,� 13--r4P4 mgo� 13 PUS* o1 winm 0 1. 0 F P S E.41 2Om '" 2ero o C e o wA; ,gC ,,04mmo t'~ a?e' rgi, i F 13 °li n m CP•171 m y 2.0 5 o o0 �? nm 5•o;5 P 13 '11 F- gsty p+,m# P � m Grist and Flour Mills ! The undersigned having completed the change from the stone to the Celebrated .Hungarian system of Grinding, has now the Mill in First Class Running Order and will be glad to see all his olcl customers and as many new one;; as possible. Chopping done. Flour and Peed Always on l -ands Highest Prise paid for any quantity of 7G7o�o�d- Grain. • OfV ]V[. MILNE. NASI(( 1-1--0-1167.N.- -1 RO] - rri r1 c•AM.E,S B�3 CRs, --MANUFACTURER 010- 0ARRIAGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS, BUGGIES, WAGONS, ETC., ETO., ETO. All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike manner. Repairing and Pavannig promptly attended to. Parties intending to buy should Call before purchasing. Rn1,mitnvons.--Marsden Smith, B. Laing, ,i'as. Cutt and Wm. Mc- &lvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brower enol D. Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T.' Town and W. Blashill, Brus- sels ; Rev. Zl. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turuberry. REMEMBER THE STAND --SOUTH of BRIDGE. JAMES BUYERS.