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MA.T 27, 18S7,
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THE BRUSSB.LS POT
1 MEANT TO.
" ( did not rise at the breakfast bell, ^
But was so sleepy -.-1 oan't tell—
meant to.
" The wood's not carried in, I know t
But there's the scliool.bell, T must go.
I meant to.
" uy lesson I forgot to write,
But mita and apples wero so nice.
1 meant to.
" I forgot to walk on tiptoe ;
0 how the baby cries, 0 1 01
1 meant to. •
" There, I forgot to shut the gate,
And pot away my book and elate.
1 meant to.
" The cattle trampled down the corn,
My slate is broken, book is torn.
I meant to."
Thus drawls poor idle, Jimmy Bite,
From morn till noon, from noon till night;
et meant to,"
And when he grows to be a man
He'll heedlessly mar every plan
With that poor plea, "I meant to."
WHAT IT IS TO BE FOiiTY.
To discover a sprinkle of gray in board,
And a thinness of crop whore the upland
N cleared ;
To note how you take your slippers and
gown
And hug to the fire when you got home
from town—
• Ab, that's what it is to be forty.
'Po and that your shadow has portlier
grown,
That your voice has a practical business.
like tone
That yourvision is trioky, which once
woe so bright,
And a hint of a wrinkle is coming to
light—
Ali, that's what it is to be forty.
A sleigh -ride, a party, a dance or a dine ;
Why, of course, you'll be present, you
never decline :
But, alas 1 there's no invite, you're not
"young folks," you see ;
You're no longer a peach. but a c:ab•ap-
pie tree—
Ab, that's what itis to bo forty.
A. daughter that grows like a lily, a queen
And that blooms like a rose in a garden of
green,
A dapper young clerk in an ice -Dream se,
loon,
Both a dude and a donee, to to carry off
goon ;
And a boy that is ten, and the pride of
your eye,
le caught smoking vile cigarettes on the
sly—
Ah, that's what it is to be forty.
At twenty a man dreams of power and
fame,
At thirty his fire hae a sober flame ;
At forty lie dreams and his visions are
o'er
And he knows and be fuels as ho neer
did before,
That a man is a fool till he's forty,
Ah, we're young and we're old and we're
green and we're gray,
And the law of our living is change and
decay ;
Come, see the lone spot in the Valley of
Tears
Where your baby lies low fn the 'cradle
of years,
When no longer on earth he is forty.
THE CLUE ]KILN CLUB.
Brother Caraaer- SSpresses Himself en
Fortune 'rentng.
'Ar' Brutlder Invisible Jackson in
ole hell to night ?' blandly queried
tate president as the meeting opened.
Invisible was visible. He was
back by the stove, and had his shoes
off to tickle hie chilblains. After a
little delay be made his way to the
upper end of the hall and the presi-
dent continued :
'Brudder Jackson, de report has
come to me dat you ar' tellin' for-
tunes in your nayburhood fur de
small sum of two bits a pusson.'
'Yes, sah, I'ze bin tonna' a few.'
'As you hev bin a member of div
club for de las' two y'ars you mite'
be aware of de fack tint fortune tell -
in', sellin' dream hooka an' nil dat
sort of nonaans° nm agin our rules.
A pusson who sots out to hev hie
Dither predicted am soft in de bead;
do 'meson who takes money to pre-
dict it am a knave. I shall suspend
you from membership fur three
months, an' if we h'ar dat you am
still in de'swindliu' bizness you will
be expelled fur good. You kin put
on your hat an' go.'
Invisible was badly broken up,
and there were tears in his eyes as
he pasaed out. When he had gone
the president continued :
'I want to say 10 die large, culti-
vated and refined audience dat de
fate of Invisible Jackson will be the
fate of any odder member who am
found so fur off his balance no to bo
runnin' after fortune tellers, no mat-
ter how cheap deir prices, My ex•
perienee in die world lies taught
m0:
'1. 11 der' was anything in good
dreams I'd hev bin an angel long
ago.
'2. If dar' was anything in bad
onus 1'd hev bin in da odder place
afore I was 20 years old.
'8. It sin worry ploasaut to be
told dat you ant gwine to fall heir to
great riohos, but dat (locus' buy 'balers
nor pay rent,
'4. Only rich men as hate worts,
and only etch whim' as want an ex•
Ouse to leave home, believe in fortune
tellin'.
'5. If it am predicted dat a man
am gwine to hev a great trubblo he
will go home and blame his wife and
lick his children.'
'1 warn you to let the hull bizneae
alone. A. dollar a day and a steady
job will pan out more money no six
months dan all the fortune tellers
in do world eau bring ye in. fifty
years. Dar am jiet as many good
dreams as bad, and none of them
am worf de peader to blow up an
ole hose. Signs might hey meant
sumthing 1,000 y'are ago, but they
am played out now. If you h'ar de
the 'death tick in a wall it is just
as muoh a sign dat you am gwine to
find a diamond pin in the road as it
ar' dat some of de family ar' gwine
to die afore the y'ar is out. Let us
now pick up de abnormal bizness of
de meeting.
DEFINITIONS 01? BIBLE TERMS.
A days journey was about tweuty-
throe and one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath -day's journey was
about an Englieh mils.
Ezekiel's reed was nearly eleven
feet.
A cubit was nearly twenty.two
inches.
A hand's-breadth ie equal to three
and five eighth inches.
A finger's breadth is equal to one
hush.
A shekel of silver was about fifty
ceute.
A shekel of gold was eight dol-
lars.
A talent of silver was five hum,
drad and thirty-eight dollars and
thirty cents.
A talent of gold was thirteen
thousand eight hundred and nin e
dollars.
A piece of silver, or a penny, was
thirteen cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A mite was less than a quarter of
a cent.
A gerah was one cent.
An epha, or bath, contained seven
gallons and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two
pints.
A firkin was about eight and sev
en eighth gallons.
An omer was eix pints.
A cab was throe pinta.
Sonne Interesting; Beginnings.
Envelopes were first used in
1830.
The first steel pen was made in
1880,
The first inciter metals was made
in 1758.
Tho first iron steamship was built
in 1830.
The first balloon ascent was made
in 1798.
Couches were first used in Eng-
land in 1560.
The first steel plate was discover-
ed in 1880.
The first horse railroad was built
in 1826.7.
The first daily newspaper appear•
ed in 1702.
The first telescope was used in
England in 1608.
The first watches were made at
Nuremburg in 1477.
Locomotives were first used in this
country in 1820.
Kerosene was first used for light
ing purposes in 1825.
The first copper cent was coined
in Now Haven in 1887.
The first newspaper was published
in the United Status iu 1790.
The first printing press in the
United States was worked in 1620.
Glass windows were first intro-
dubed into England in the eighth
century.
The first steam engine on this
continent was brought from England
in 1753,
Tho first complete sewing ma•
chine was patented by Elias Howe,
jr., in 1846.
The first telegraph instrument
was succeesfully operated by Prof.,
Morse in 1842.
The first attempt to manufacture
pine on this continent was made
soon after the war of 1812.
The first Union flag wae nnfnrled
on January let, '1776, over the
camp at Cambridge. It had Chir•
teen stripes of white and red, and
retained the British cross in one
corner. '
Canadian 1NT'ewas.
O'Brien told a reporter that the
Toronto crowd was the most turbo•
lent, boisterous and unmannerly that
be ever attempted to address.
'no offer of the Bothwell Reed
and Brass Beud lute been accepted
by the 24th Battalion, and they will
new become the J3uttelion Band.
Judge Elliot has resigned the
position of revising officer for North
Middlesex, nud Kenneth Goodman,
of Parkhill, line been appointed his
suoeeseor.
lion. Mr. Foster will make a per.
send tour of inspeotiou of all light.
housoe along the Atlantic ooaet and
Gulf of St. Lawrence during the
owning summer.
An Ottawa dispatch says : The
$5,000 express package lost a week
ago has been found by the deteotivea
in a lumber yard iu the vicinity of
the Canada Atlanta Railway station.
The 111ilitia Department has re•
fused the application of the officers
of the 65th Regiment, of Montreal,
to allow the regiment to spend the
Queen's Birthday in Vermont, with-
out arme, but in uniform,
S. Wilmot, of Nem/tette, Goveru•
ment Overseer of Fisheries, brought
a quantity of trout spawn to London
and by permission of the Govern-
ment deposited 2,000 of them in the
ponds at the Waterworks.
The Dominion Government ex-
ploratory expedition to be sent to
the northern waters of British Col-
umbia for the purpose of obtaining
additional information regarding the
black cod fisberiee, will start from
Victoria, B. 0., early in July.
In its issue on Tuesday of last
week the Hamilton Evening Palle•
diem, a one cent daily, five months
old, aunonucsd suspension of publi-
cation. Want of enough cash is
the reason for the stoppage given by
the publisher in his valedictory.
Mr. Dodds, resident physician at
Regina and medical visitor to the
Indian reserves, is about to recom-
mend to the Dominion Government
the necessity of providing, the In-
dians with ovens and an instructor
to teach the Indian women the art
of modern bread production.
Roderick McKenzie, a young
Scotch blacksmith, of Hamilton,
half•turned punched and grooved
34 horeesboea•in 27 min. 58 secs.,
and completed the eboee in 52 min.
5 seas. His friends say he dan
turn 100 horseshoes in an hour. In
the recent contest in Buffalo the
winner made 200 horseshoes in 2
hrs. 20 eoos.
J. Walter Wella, of Montreal,
committed suicide at Mishawaka,
near South Bend, Ind., by shooting
himself through the head. Ho went
there a few weeks ago to get the
body of his sister, who had poison-
ed herself, and found she had been
diseected by a medical society there,
The fact and a eight of the remains
unsettled his mind. Before he com-
mitted the act ho tried to find and
kill the doctor who dissected the
body, but failed.
The new canal al Sault Ste. Marie,
on the Canadian side, will be under-
taken at once, and an appropriation
of $1,000,000 made for the work
this year. The capital expenditure
on the oanale next year ie to he $1,-
322,000, apart from this new one,
including $450,000 to continue
deepening the Welland to fourteen
feet, $98,000 ou the Lachine, $78,-
000 on the Cornwall, $160,000 on
the Williamsburg, and $116,000 on
St. Lawrence river and canals.
Jem Smith, the evangelist of the
Emerald Duet Club, who ars at pres-
ent in the city of London, has a
history. A000rding to Himself he
was converted about eighteen
months ago. Previous to that he
wade his living in Eugiand as a
prize-fighter, then he came to St.
Louie, where his pugilistic accomp-
lishments gave him censiderabic
notoriety. About three or four
years ago he succeeded in licking
Tint Connor after a 47 -round fight,
Then Jem came to Hamilton, and
then to Toronto, where he knocked
out Puttaloo, but was vanquished by
Harry Gilmore. Just before his
conversion, however, he was train•
ing for the light -weight champion-
ship.
In his last annual report to the
Minister of Militia, General Middle•
ton says 1—"After another year's
experience I beg leave again to urge
the absolute necessity of redneing
the strength of the force. It stands
now on paper (including the Schools
of Instruction) as °out sting of 37,-
846 mon. This ie really more than
the correct strength, as 1 fear the
same men appear in more than one
regiment, but still this is a mtrbit
greater number of men than can be
usefully or properly trained, consid•
Bring the money voted for the pur-
pose." General Middleton believes
that in order to make the whole
force efficient every soldier should
be called out at linnet sixteen days
every year of iiia service, and this,
he says, can only be done by realm-
ing the force,
.A.LABAOTI TE 1
To cover the side walls of a
room 15x15, by 9 feet high (60
yards) would take seven and one-
half double rolls, which would (at
$1.00) cost $7.50, or about $7.00
more than the Alabastine, to add
to the cost of decoration. Re-
member you have somo kind of
borders to buy anti hang with the
paper. Now, if the paper used
is only 50 cents a double roll,
then you have more than $3.00
left to add your borders ; and, if
2k
only 1cents a roll, or 25 cents
a double roll, you have about
$1.50 to add to the cost of bor-
ders, and all the timekeeping in-
side of the cost of paper and
hanging. After once putting on
these elegant borders, ole., with
the Alabasine tints, you can re-
new and change the tints at a
trifling cost, by simply brushing
on one coat over the old, leaving
the borders, the appearance of
which will be much changed by
another tint that will harmonize.
The bordsrs being out of roach
are not defaced or torn, and, be-
ing strong colors, do not show
smoke, es do tiro side walls of
rooms of plain surfaces. This
can not be clone with Kalsomine,
as the borders do not stick to it
well and as the old Kalsomine
must be removed to apply the
now. In addition to all this, a
great argument in favor of using
Alabastine in place of paper and
paint is in its being porous and a
disinfectant, and admitting of
"wall respiration," as described
in reports of the Michigan State
Board of Health as being very
necessary to health, aside from
the danger of poison in paper,
and the moulding vegetable
paste under paper, or the decay-
ing animal glue in Kalsomine.
Alabastine cements the cracks in
walls and around casings, shutt-
ing out vermin, instead of har-
boring them; like wall paper with
flour paste.
For sale by B. ,GERRY,
BRUSSELS.
CLEARING SALE OF
YARNS
—FOR -
30 DAYS 30
Christmas and Now Year's] Bar-
gains at the Brussels
Woolen Mill.
I have the ffluest mule largest
stock of Fine 'Yarns ever seen in
Brussels. I will sell the beat
worsted yarns, which have
NO EQUAL
at 6 cts. per oz., and an extra
fine quality of cashmere wools'at
8 els. per ounce for the next 30
clays, commencing Friday, Doc.
24111, for Cada. 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-
inal, 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 yon have
struck the Biggest Bargains of
the 000500.
Come one; Come all,
GEO. HOWE.
3
PLEMENTS 1
Having been appointed as
Agent for the I(assoy 1Ianufaotnring Company
in the place of Mr. Thomas Watson, I will at all times have the
Machinery made by the Company on hand, such as
SULKY RAKES, MOWERS, REAPERS,
BINDERS, WILKINSON'S PLOWS, ETC.
Office and Storeroom in connection with the East Huron Car-
riage 'Works, where all Repairs can be had.
You as TRULY,
EAST HURON
Carriage Works :,,
J.A.M HIS BEJ'Y + P.s,
•--MANUFACTURER OF—
CARRIAGES, DEIiIOORATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, ETC., ETO., ETC.
A11 made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing and Painting promptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
REFNaxNCEs.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Cutt and Wm. 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. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnberry.
QREMEMBER TIIE STAND—SOUTH OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
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 old customers and as many new ones
as possible. Chopping done.
Flour and road Always on Viand.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
WM. MILNE.
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