The Brussels Post, 1887-6-10, Page 3JUNE 10, 1887.
THE BRUSSELS POST
JUST FOR TO -DAY.
Ina lecture in Montreal CanonWilber.
force said that every morning, before
leaving his room, bo knelt down at his
bedside and said these words i
Lord, for to -morrow and its needs,
Idonot pray;
Keep me from stain of •
sin,
Just for to -day,
Let pie both diligently work
And dairy pray ;
Let mo be kind in word and deed
Just for to•dny. '
Let me be slow to do my will—
Prompt to obey ;
Help me to sacrifice myself
Just for to -day. -
Let mo no wrong or idle word
Unthinking say ;
Sob thou a seal upon my lips
just for to -day.
So, for to -morrow and its needs
I do not pray :
But keep mo, guide me, hold me Lord,
Just for to -day.
THE MUSIC OF THE PAST.
Hardly ever that a body
Hears the old tunes any more
But a trainpin' fiddler played 'em
Tother evonin' at the store.
An' the music, as be played ib,
Kind o' seemed like ev'ry note
Only kept the lump a growiu'
That it started in my throat.
An', as I sat a-lia'onin'
To them tunes I used to know,
All the past riz up before mo
Like a magio lantern show.
Shirty years or more was taken
From the tally -sheet of Iife ;
Thirty years o' work an' worry,
Disa'pintment, care and strife.
An' a voice that now is silent
Promised mo in lovin' tons,
An' a hand that now is pulseless
Lay contented in my own.
While the faces that bey vanished,
An' the feet that now aro still,
Was a•smilin' an' a danoin'
In that cabin on the hill.
But the player stopt a playin',
An' the piotnr soon was gone,
An' I shouldered up the burden
That old timo keeps pilein' on.
Still, I couldn't help but scatter
'hong the dust o' all these years
As a kind o' goodbye off'rin,
Just a few regretful tears.
THE THREE-FOOT RULE.
When I was bound apprentice,
And learned to use my hands,
Folk never talked of measures
That came from foreign lauds :
Now I'm a British workman,
Too old to go to school ;
So whether the chisel or file I hold,
I'll stink to my three-foot rule.
Some talk of millimetres,
And some of Kilogrammes,
And some of deoiltres,
to measure beer and drams ;
But I'm a British workmen,
Too old to go to salmi ;
So by pounds I'll eat, and by quarts I'll
drink
And I'll work by my three.foot rule.
A party of astronomers
Went measuring of the earth ;
And forty million metres
They took to be its girth ;
Five hundred million inches, though,
Go through from pole to pole ;
So let's stick to inches, feet and yards,
And the good old three-foot rule.
The great Egyptian Pyramid's
A thousand yards about
And when the masons finished it,
They raised a joyful shout
The chap that planned that building,
I'm bound he was nc fool ;
And now 'bis proved beyond all doubt,
He used a three-foot rule,
Here's a health to every learned man
That goes by common sense,
And would nob plague the workman
On any vain pretense :
But as for those philanthropists
Who'd send as back to school,
"0 bless their eyes, if ever they tries"
To put down the three-foot rale.
l'itriinitenitu'y Language.
You ell mtly say that IL titan is not
wedded to the truth ;
Or sometimes suffers from a tpirit
of exaggeration.
Or occasionally finds it difficult to
confine himself strictly to ao6ualit-
ias ;
Or unfettered by rho four corners
of hard matter.of-fact ;
Or is a past master in the pleasing
art of realistically romancing ;
Or is partial in describing nature,
to borrowing from the pages of ro•
mance ;
Or is much given to an artificial
recollection of misleading statiistics;
Or cannot dietingnisb the false
from the true with a bias toward the
former
Or has a distinct liking for the ut-
terance of sin tc'ulontit of a misleading
character
But yon must not I No, you
must not 1 Yon really mast not
call him a liar.
13110, GARDDNER TA1J S„
Vnlmsbio Mugge/tapas on Hralunir-nu.
Nntlsractory Jututson's Frani.
A oommunioation from 141.le
hlieh,, from a prominent eolorc
barber, etatod that the subject e
hygiene was being very general'
discussed just now, and he desire
the Limo Kiln Club to post him i
all the leading points.
The secretary was instructed to
mail him the following printed cir-
culars, issued several weeks since :
1. It's onhealthy fur 010' den
eight pnesone to sleep in de swine
room to once onless a winder is
riz.
2. Do leadiu' botanists of do aigo
concur dab dogs shouldn't be 'lowed
to sleep under de bed in summer.
3. Some folks is healthy when
they sleep in a nightgown, and
some isn't. Use your own judg-
ment.
4. A pusson's feet should be
washed jiet as often as be kin af-
ford de soap an' water. It ar' a
good plan to scrape do soles wid an
ole case knife.
5. Sweet cake, floatin' island,
roast duck, quail on toast, ion
cream, cream puff and.' sick tend to
produce nightmare an' consump-
511011.
0. All pusaons should tithe a bath
when doy kin do so widout hurtin'
doir feeline, Bo keerfnl not to slosh
too much water aronn'.
Elder Unsatisfactory Johnson se.
onrcd tho floor to make an inquiry,
He had read in tho papers that the
Adventists had predicted the end of
the world on May 28. It was a
matter which made nim a little aim.
ions. Be didn't care to live hero
after the world had ended up. He
had some debts to collect in, and he
wanted to remove hie family across
into Canada before the calamity oc-
curred. If the club had any official
information to give him he would
be greatly obliged.
"Brudder Johnson, do you know
how by-law No. 278 reads ?" asked
the president.
"No, sah."
"Wall, it reads dab any member
of dis club who believes dat do
world am gwino to eand up kin be
fined all do way from forty cents up
to $,10,000."
"I—I didn't know it 1"
"No, I suppose not. After de
meetin' adjourns I want to see you
in do cloak room. I want to feel of
your 'load an' try au' find out what
has softened it. Meanwhile I kin
asenre you dat dar am no cause fur
alarm. Jist go right ahead baulin'
ashes wid dat olo mule o' yours by
day an' hangin' roun' de co'ner
grucery o' nights, an' doan' let tee
28th day of May worry you a bit."
The elder sat down with a sigh
of relief, and acting upon the whis.
pared advice of Samuel Skin, he slid
softly out while the Glee club was
singing, and thereby escaped the
contemplated "feeling."
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1IURDEILOUS MILLINERY.
A lady told me the other day a
painful little incident relating to
wearing birds on your bonnets and
hate. I will try and give her own
words. She said :—
"One day our pastor said (during
service) that when he was in Flor-
enue a lady came to him and said:
'Do come with pie and hear those
birds sing, oh, such mournful notes l'
There was a room full of birds in
very small cages, and those birds
were all blind ; they had their eyes
put out. In the night the owners
tape them outside the city and hang
the caged in trees. The trees are
then smeared with tar. These
birds keep up their pitiful singing,
and other birds aro attracted to the
cages, and they get stuck on the
tar, and then they aro caught and
their eyes are pat out. And theca
birds are killer and sent to America
for ladies to wear on their bonnsbs l
"Anal looked around the congrp
gation to see what incluse had birds
on their bonnets, and 1 was glad
there was 0000 on mind, and I don't
think I can ever wear a bird again'."
11033 ButtDET'TE'S ADYIOII.
My sou, when you hear a man
growling and scolding because
Moody gets $200 ti weeks for preach-
ing Christianity, you will perceive
that he never worries a bit because
Ingersoll gets $200 a night for
preaching atheism. You will ob-
serve that the man who is mutter.'
ably shocked because F. Murphy
gots $850 a week for temperance
wort, seems to think it all right
when the barkeeper takes in twice
as mach money in a single day.
The laborer is worthy of his hire,
my boy, and he is just as worthy li
of it in the pulpit, as he is on the
stump.
Is the man who is honestly try-
ing to save your soul worth lees than
the man tlho is only trying his level
boat to go toOongresa? Isn't Moody
smug as good work as Ingersoll ?
Isn't John B. Gough as much the
Mood of humanity es the bartender
Do you want to get all the good in
the world for nothing, so that von
may be able to pay a high price for
the bad ?
Remember, my boy, that good
things in the world are the oboapost.
Spring water costs less than .corn
whiskey; tt hos of cigars will buy
two or three bibles; a gallon of old
brandy costa more than a barrel of
flour ; a 'full hand' of poker often
costs a man more in twenty minutes
than his church subscription
amounts to in three years ; a state
election costs more than a revival of
religion; you eau sleep in church
every Sunday morning for nothing,
it you are moan enough to dead
beat your lodging, but a nap in a
Pullman car costs you $2 every
time ; fifty cents for the circus and
a penny for the little ones to put in
rho missionary box ; one dollar for
the theatre, and a pair of trousers
frayed at the end, baggy at the
knee and utterly bursted as to the
domefor the poor ; the dancing lady
gets $000 a week, and the city mis-
sionary gets $600 a year ; the horse
race scoops in $2,000 the first day,
and the church fair lasts a week,
works twenty-five or thirty of the
best women xn America nearly to
death, and comes out $40 in debt.
Why, my boy, if yon ever find
yourself sneering or scoffing because
once in a while you hear of a preach.
er getting a'liviug, or even luxuri.
oue,'salary, or a temporauco worker
making money, go ont in the dark
and feel ashamed of yourself, and if
you don't feel above kicking a mean
man kick yourself. Precious little
does religion and charity cost the
old boy, and when the money it
does give is flung into his face, like
a bone to a dog, the donor is not
benefited by the gift and the receiv-
er isnot and certainly should not bo
grateful.
WHY An WHEREFORE.
Why do burning glasses set fire
to substances submitted to their
power ?
Because when Cha rays of the
sun pass through the burning glass
they are bent towards the point,
called the fecue, in consequence of
which the light and heat at this
point are very greatly increased.
Why does the fur of a oat sparkle
and crack° when rubbed with the
hand in cold weather 2
Because the friction between the
hand and the fur produces an excit-
ation of positive electricity in the
hand and negative in the fur and
an interchange of the two causes a
spark with a slight noise. It is a
miniature thunder and lightening.
Wby are plants grown in the
dark colorless 2
Because they have uo power to
lay up chlorophyl, the green color-
ingmatter of plants. This aubetano°
is principally composed of carbon.'
In the dark the plant still requires
carbon for its further development
and, being unable to obtain it from
the air, it removes it from the leaves
decomposing the chlorophyl, and
thus supports He weak existence by
preying on part of its own -structure
until a length, this being exhausted
it actually perishes of starvation.
Why is the flash of a gun fired at
a, distance seen long before the re-
port is heard ?
Because light travels much fast-
er than sound. Light would go
four liundred and eighty times
around the whole earth while sound
is going thirteen miles.
1VIiy is it that when a ship found•
ors in shallow water the wreck, on
breaking, to pieces; generally seines
to the surface and is oast upon the
shore, but when a ship sinks in
very deep water it never rises 2
The pressure of very deep water
forces the water into the pores of
the wood and makes it so heavy
that no part of the wreck is enabled
to rise again.
Why does a pendulum clock go
faster in winter than in summer 2
The pendulum rod becomes con-
tracted ey the cold iu winter and
lengthens by the heat in summer.
The shorter the rod the quicker the
stroke or viberation.
Why do we feel oppressed just
previous to a storm 2
Tho air is greatly rarefied by heat
and vapor and the air inside tie,
seeking to because if the same rar-
ity, produces au oppressive and
suffocating feeling;
Why sloes a split bell snake a
parse, disagreeable sound 2
Tho split of the bell causes a
**hie vibret)ou and ne the sound
wavoe (lash and jet they impede
each others motion and produce
discordant sounds
EIow can we demonstrate that ion
bite heat
13y friction, Sir 'Humphrey Davy
extracted heat from two pteees of
ice and quickly molted them in a
room cooled below the freezing
point, by rubbing them against enols
other,
Why is a railway signal code in
general use ?
A rod flag by day, or a rod lan-
tern by night, when swung upon
the track, the absence of lights at
switches and crossings where usual.
ly ehowu, or the explosion of a. tor-
pedo, and all signals violently given
aro signals of danger, on perceiving
which the train must be brought to
a full stop.
One sound of the whistle is the
signal to apply the brake.
Two sounds of the whistle is the
signal to release the brakes.
Three sounds of the whistle is
the signal to back.
Four sounds of the whistle ie the
signal for switch.
Five sounds of the whistle is the
signal to call in flagman.
Rapid short whistles is a "cattle
alarm."
Ono long sound of the whistle is
a eignal for approaching stations.
Two sounds of the whistle while
running, the first one second longer
than the second, (thus : — –) is the
signal for road crossings.
Three sounds of the whistle . thus :
- - -) is a signal that the engine giv-
ing it is flagging an extra and if the
fiag is seen the name signal will be
given in answer by other engines.
Pour sounds of the whietlee(thue :
- - -) is the signal that the train
has parted.
A sweeping parting of the hands
on a level with the eyes eignifiss go
ahead.
Downward motion of the hands
with extended arms signifies stop.
Beckoning motion of one hand
signifies back.
One stroke of the signal bell
signifies ahead ; two strokes,. stop ;
three strokes bank.
Lamp signals—To stop, swing a
lantern across the triter ; to bank,
raise and lower a lantern perpen-
dicularly ; to go ahead, swing a
lantern over the head.
Two red lanterns are planed on
the rear car of all trains that are
on the road atter. dark.
Two red flags, and after dark two
red lanterns in addition, placed on
the front of an engine, indicate that
the engine or train is followed by
another.
Signal cords, used on all passen-
ger trains, extend from the rear oar
to the whistle or signal bell on the
engine and should not be detached
until the train arrives at destination
except for the purpose of switching
or changing engines.
The Man of Her Choice.
One of the greatest belles and
heiresses in Philadelphia, ,and a
beauty besides, married a rather
good-looking young man without
business or a penny. She had been
courted assiduously by one of the
greatest beaux in the town, a rich
young man, with fortune, pestige
and everything back of him except
that he was gay and had sown an
immense orop of wild oats. He sent
her the most expensive presents,
which she would not accept. Scores
of influential friends tried to help
on his cause and the most skilful
female diplomatists tried to induce
her to discard the young man, who
had nothing and no friends but her-
self. Her own family, without nu
exception, did everything to induce
her to prefer the rich suitor, young
as she was, end with all eocieby
making a pet of her, elle gave up
everything—gave up society, gave
up home, gave up every luxury and
fascination that women are supposed
to hold dear—and married the man
of her choice. And she is happy—
far happier titan many who are "in
the swim." When some one said
to her: "Wits did you make rho
choice you did 2 Why refuse so
much that most girls value dearly 2"
she replied : "I married for two
things—character and morality. My
husband had them both and the
other man didn't. I loved and re-
spected one; the other 1 could
not." '
An elm tree recently cut down on
the Swartz farm, adjoining the Agri-
cultural Park, at Dunnville, yielded
twenty cords of wood.
The water in the Grand River at
Brantford is lots at present, and suf-
ficient power cannot be had to run
the oleotrIo light, so that the mer-
chants have to fail baoie on gas.
PLEMENTS!
Having been appointed as
Agent for the Massey Manufacturing Company
in the place of Mr, Thomas Watson, 1 will at all times have tice
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 Bast Huron Car-
riage Works, where all Repairs can be had.
YOURS TRULY,
Clrig Iamixwv.
EAST HURON
Carriage. ors
JAM H,S 3E3UY' HOS,
—MAIQUFACTUREli 01—
CARRIAGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, IETC., ETC., ETC.
All made of the Bost Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing and Painting promptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
REFERENCES.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Jae. Curt 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.
REMEMBER THE 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 rho Mill in
First Class Running Order
and will be glad to see all his old customers and as many now ones
as Possible. Chopping done.
Flour and Food Always on lues&
Highest Price paid For any quantity of Good Grain.
WM. MILNE.
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