HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-4-15, Page 3- PRIL 15, 1887.
0 U BABY.
Our baby is e 1 der rare ;
:He's surf nl cunning2,
.And well Ms worth3 pays the altar:
Of work 4 hila I do.
1 hope ho will sur5, although
II,'o squeezed almost to death ;
It Makes him 6 000101in-we, I know,
And takes away his breath
Our home is i sinso there Dame
The angel from
[Qabove ;
He's so affeetio S. His name
le "'Tooteey Wooteey Love(."
He makes our papa look bell
And fuel a 1 Oder joy ;
I pray he never will incline
3BA.Ol'1boy.
When he's awake his oyes are bino ;
I lift hint when I can
1101 11 2 80 4 12
Lift up when he's a man,
FINANCIAL DANGER SIGNAL.
Sam. Johnston was a colored man
Who lived in Tennessee
He owned a rat -tan terrier
Who stood but ono foot three
And the way that critter chewed up rats
Was gor—ge—one to see.
One day this dog was slumbering
Behind the kitchen stove
When suddenly an ugly flea—
A wicked little cove—
Commenced upon his faithful back
With many jumps to rove.
That dog rose up in anger fierce
And made a savage snail
With teeth that were inclined to pierce
That flea's brown hide ker•flop.
But all in vain, his shape was sueh
So awful short and flat,
That though he doubled up himself
And spun around at that
His mouth was still an inch away
From whore the varmint sat.
Sam. Johnston just then coming in
At (trot began to smile
But when he saw the critter spin
Ile soon began to rile.
That clog is mad enough he said
And leggin' in his axe
Iio gave that maddened for—tier
A pair of awful whacks
That stretched him on the kitchen floor
As dead as carpet tacks.
NORSE.
Take warning by this for—ri—er
Now turned to sausage meat
And when misfortune's fleas shall come
Upon your back to eat
Beware lest you should die because
Yon can't make both ends meet.
THE GAMBLER'S APOLOGY.
i remember most distinctly in my vory
early youth
J. developed quite a tondenoy for sport,
And what I now unbosom will be noth-
ing but the truth,
For I dont unbosom any other sort ;
I had quite a clean desire to clean out
Noah's ark,
Which was mainly anitnalia•minus tails,
And Pd lay on heavy wagers from the
early dawn to dark
On a race between the elephants and
whales.
I would bet the yellow grampus intim
couldn't beat the horse,
And incite the reel giraffe to try five
milds
With the piebald alligator. while around
the open 000000
In my mind I'd gooiest many little piles ;
But when I matched the beetle for a two-
mile steeplechase
With the heaver, which was wed to steer
the ark,
I'd t000p in all the money ILS Was in that
little ),xlaoo
And expend it in a manner that Was
dark.
Whoa I grew o little older I would catch
the cat and dog
And do them to my toys—a cart and
train—
And start thein down the garden, whist
behind I'd soundly flog
Tho ono as hung most loose upon the
rein •,
1 would 1001011 n cluck and chicken or a
rooster and a goose
For runs along the barnyard, while I'd
bot .
Imaginary millions, for I then could go
it loose,
And the fascinating feeling's in mo yet.
But the best of all the fun was when I
used to go to school
And bet a mato upon a match with frogs
At jumping over straw pilots, andl'd Win,
too, as a rule,
As I would likewise in swimming polly-
wogs ;
And it's from these simple notions I be-
lieve the love of sport '
Was ingrained into my nature so se0nr:•
what I'm ready now to bet you, though
my funds are rather short,
That my spider can run yours across the
flour.
JAMI11?S ADVENTURE,
A boy sitsdreamingo'er tho fire,
Thinking 0 or legends old,
Of goblins and elves and'ghoste 80 white,
1Tntil his blood runs cold.
A. gentle touch on his shoulder,
A. voice 00 soft and mild ;
Jamie, why 1800 you Bitting 50 ?
Get up ,you silly child.
"Go and put on your hontespuli coat,
leer tho Might is dark and chill
And you tnuet ride good 1less the mare,
tasinza
To the village beyond the hill,
1 want you to get some things for 100 ;
So hurry up. Jamie, pet,
For the dew' has fallen heavy tonight
And the graso with 11 is wet."
The good mare Bess is saddled,
And Jamie le started off ;
W11
ening mother oilmen hint 'not to forget
The tonin for Gr annie's cough.'
"A.11 right, mother," and off ho goon.
Ghosts and gobble still in his brain ;
Ile almost sore to:m before hint,
Till he comes to the turn of the lane.
He thinks of the "Witches Hollow,"
He has heard the legend o'er and o'er,
Hit should turn out to be trio I
He'll not think of it any more.
Such foolish fancies I such nouoonee 1
For It is safely past ;
He sena the lights of the village,
And Jamie is safe at last 1
He gets all the things' that are wanted,
And then he started off ;
With the socks for little brother Ben,
And the tonio for Graanio's oough.
He has got to the villag safely,
Again the "Witches Hollow" lie meet pave
See, there it is in the distauo:,
A dark and gloomy mase,
Ile starts to go through it bravely,
When he hears an awful Bound I
'Tia the sound of a pistol shot,
He nearly falls to the ground I
Re is shot! I I something from hie side
Is gent].) trickling down.
'Tis his life -blood I ho feels awful terror,
From toe to crown,
Be preseos his hand to his side,
"I'll get home before I die;
Oh, harry up, dear Bess 1"
This is his awful cry, .
When he reaches the yard
He jumps from off the mare,
Opens the lcitohen door,
And throws himself into a ohair,
"Oh father, dear father, I'm shot,
Oh, mother, what shall I do ;
I wouldna ha' got home at all
If I had na kept thinkingol'y'w."
The father wont near the boy
To touch him if ho durst,
And made his fate known .in awful words
"hither, the yeast bottle's burst."
THE BRUSSELS .POST
TWENTY-FOUR READINGS.
A literary curiosity is here exhibited,
which transposes one of Gray's well-
known lines twenty-four different ways
and yet retains the souse:
The weary ploughman plods his home-
ward way.
The ploughman, weary, plods his home-
ward way.
His homeward way the weary plough-
man plods.
Itis homeward way tho plougme n, weary,
plods.
Tho weary ploughman homeward plods
his way.
The ploughman, weary, homeward plods
his way.
His way the wary ploughman homeward
plods.
The ploughman homeward plods his
weary way.
His way the ploughman, homeward,
weary plods.
His homeward, weary way the plough-
man plods.
Weary, the ploughman homeward plods
his way.
Weary, tho ploughman plods his home-
ward way.
Homeward, his way the weary plough-
man plods.
Homeward, his way the ploughman
weary plods.
The ploughman, homeward, weary plods
his way.
His weary' way, the ploughman home.
ward plods.
His weary way, the homeward plough-
man plods.
Homeward the ploughman plods his
weary way.
Homeward the weary ploughman plods
his way.
Tho ploughman, weary, his way home-
ward way plods.
The ploughman plods his homeward
weary way.
The ploughman plods his weary home-
ward way.
Weary, the ploughman his way home-
ward plods.
Weary, hie homeward way the plough•
man plods.
REAL ESTATE BOON.
Tho Winnipeg Free Press says :
Some of the real estate agents, who
during the past two or three years
might have made quite a fortune by
hirlug themselves out as mutes at
funerals, are actually beginning to
smile again. So far the spring
business in real estate has been far
better than it has yet been any
year niece the boom, aid the pros•
petite for tho coming season aro
bright, A talk with real estate
ageute revealed the fact that they
were all confident of 'a good sum-
mer's business.
Senator Schultz is preparing to
add in the early spring forty fent
more to the main street frontage of
the Potter House block. 11 is for
hotel purposes.
There is an increased demand for
market gardeus around the city this
spring, and the people of Winnipeg
will no doubt bo better supplied
with bonze grown vegetables, greens
and small fruits the coming season
than in any previous year.
A. Toronto capitalist, with $50,.
000 ready cash, iutoud1 moving to
Winnipeg this spring for the purpose
of opening a private baulting house
in the north and of the city between
the market and the railway station.
There aro iudieatlous of a slight
advance in rentiathis season. The
real estate agents and loaning com-
panies report but fow habitable
houses vacant now. and Inquiries
for medium oiged houses $Onve111ex1t
to the buoineee centre of the oily are
more numerous than ever before
since the boom spring of 1882.
John Blyth, a solid Montreal
man, is in the city prospecting for
investments in real estate. He
name Borne property on Main street
already along old° the MfeGoe block,
purebased Inst full and for wbiob
he refused $80 a foot advanoo the
other' day.
James Burridge, manager for
Gurney Co. here, intends so build
a handsome brink residence this
year, probably between Main street
and the river.
A real::eatate agent says there is
a brisk demand for building Bites in
Fort Rouge. He has already sold
thirteen plots for building purposes.
The purchasers in every case being
merchants and professional men
who propose erecting residences on
them.
A CLUSTER OF DIAMONDS.
'The Pasha of Egypt weighs 40
carats and 0001 :$140,000.
The Star of the South weighs 254
carats. It is the largest diatnond
found in Brazil.
The Naosau, formerly in the poi•
session of the East India company,
is valued at about $150,000. It
weighs 78a curate.
The Pigott • diamond, brought.
from India by Lord Pigott, weighs
82} carate. In 1801 11 was sold in
a lottery for $15,000.
The Florentine diamond, among
the crown jewels of the Emperor of
Austria, weighs 1996; carate and Is
valued at $525,000.
The Sauey diamond weighs 52}
carate, and came from India about
the fifteenth century. I1 was sold
by Napoleon to the Emperor of
Russia for $875,000.
The largest diamond known is
the Rajah of Mattan. It weighs
867 carats, is pear shaped, with a
small hole at its short end, and w,.s
found in Borneo twenty years ago.
One of the most perfect brilliants
is the celebrated Pitt, or Regent,
which is among the Washington
erowu jewels. It weighs 186*
carats, nod once ornamented the
sword of Napoleon I. Before it was
cut it weighed 410 carats.
Tho "Orloff," or Amsterdam dia-
mond, weighs 101* carats, and is
set in the top of tete Russian imper-
ial sceptre. It is of pure water,
but not cut to advantage. Ib was
bought by Oatharine 1I, in the year
1775 of Shafres, Amsterdam, for
$450,000 giving him at the same
time a title and a pension of $20,-
000 for life.
The history of the Kohinoor dates
bank to 56 B.O., but nothing of cer-
tainty was known of it until the
fourteenth century. It came into
possession of Queen Victoria on the
annexation of the Punlaub. Its
weight then was 186 1 16 karate, of
an irregular egg like ehape, and
valued at $700,000. 1t was then
reduced to 100 1 15 karats, and
made into a regular cut brilliant.
The diamond well known under
the name of the "Shaw" was given
to the Emperor of Russia by Prince
Oosrossyoungest brother of the
Abbe Mirza, 'when he was in St.
Petersburg. It weighs only 75
citrate, but is perfectly pure, with-
out a flaw or cloud, and it is inter-
esting inasmuch as it is only partly
cut, many of its natural surfaces
being preserved. The cut facets
contain Parieian inscriptions, and
there tea little groove around the
top of it, to which a cord was fast-
ened, iu order that it might bo worn
about the neck.
IC[TeIlis1 11la IN,
Hot water is the beet thing that can
be used to heal a sprain or b ruise.
A little ammonia and borax in
the water when washing blank ets
keep the flannel soft and prevents
shrinking.
Burning coke in the kitchen and
laundry stoves saves many a big
coal bill and makes a better fire for
such purposes.
Castors made of leather are a now
invention, sure to prove useful,
A solid leather castor, will Save
many a rug or carpet.
Fried tripe,—Roll the boiled tripe,
cut in square, put in egg, then in
cracker crumbs, ani fry to a 0100
brown. Serve with ()skimp.
Housekeepers should not fail to
keep a bushel or two of charcoal, in
the house with which to make At
bed•of coat for broiling. Try it and
see the' difference it will make in
your steak or chicken or ham,
A simple remedy for neuralgia is
to apply grated horseradish, proper.
ed the same ae for table use, to the
temple when the face or head is af-
fected, or,to the wrist when Buy pain
1e in alto nrt,t•or oiioaldor,
Imperial p.
TISEIUI IS NO LLATILi1R 60 GOOD,
K•t' We have Three Thousand Pairs of
Boots in stook.
We will make a Reduction on Every
Pair,
We Sell Cheaper
than auyouc:lee, quality considered.
The Great Boot c0 ,Shoe Jrotcsc,
Adam Good,
1873. GRIP ! 1187.
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CLEARING SALE OF
YARNS
—FOR -
30 DAYS 30
Christmas and New Year's] Bar
gains at the Brussels
Woolen Mill.
I have the finest and largest
stock of Fine Yarns :ever seen in
Brussels.. I will sell the best
worsted yarns, which -have
NO E
UAL,
at G cts, per oz., and au Astra
find quality of'cashmera wools at
8 ots. per ounce for the next 90
days, commencing Friday, Dec.
24th, for Cash Only.
Now is the Time
to secure your bargains, come
early and have your choice in
Black, Brown, Navy Blue, Royal
Blue, Light Blue, Garnet, Card.'
hull; Claret, Scarlet, Dark Green,
Bronze, Light Green, • Yellow,
Orange, and a host of other col-
ors, too numerous to mention,
But come and see for yourself
and be convinced that you have
struck the Biggest Bargains of
the season.
Come o11e1 Come all.
GEO. HOWE.
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NATIONAL ROLLER MILLS.
13russels, - Ontario.
CHANGE OP PROPRIETORS.
Having lensed the well known and splendidly equipped 11011er
Flouring M111 from Messrs. Wm. Vanstone 6,, Sons for a term .of
years, we desire to intimate to the farmers of Huron Co. and the
public generally, that we aro prepared to turn out the best brands of
Flour, look after the Gristing Trade, supply any quantity of Bran,
Chopped stuff, &a., and buy any quantity of Whoat.
The mill is recognized as ono of the best in the County and our
long experience in this business gives us confidence in saying we
guarantee satisfaction.
Flour and Feed Always on Hand,
Gristing and Chopping promptly attended to,
A CALL SOLICITED.
Stewart te, Itowiok,
PROPRIETORS.
MAST HURON
Carriage Worts
JAMES BuT'LRs,
-^3IANUFACTURE18 OF—
OARRIAGES, DEt11OORATS, E .PRLSS WAGONS,
. BUGGIES, WAGONS, . ETC., ETC., ETC.
All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
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Repairing and Painting p7 ortiptiy attended. to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
REFEnEzrous.—ll:arateu Snlith,`B. Laing, Jas. Cott and;Win. Mc-
Kelvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewar and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brus-
sels Rev. E. A. roar, Woodham, ani T. Wright, Tnrnberry. -
REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTH OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
Grist and Flour Mills !
The undersigned having completed tihe change from the stone to the
Celebrated Hungarian system of Grinding, has now the Mi11 in
First Class Running Order
and will be glad to see all his old customer's and as many new ones
as possible. Chopping done.
Flour and Peed Aivraiyo o ► Eaudm
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
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