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The Brussels Post, 1887-6-10, Page 6A CREST COUNTRY. Au Irishman, writiug to his wife, who wee still in 'ould Ireland,' be• gam his letter by staking the follow. ing statement : "It's a foine counthry, Bridgey, nn' no mistake, I've this day put phwat they °all an inehoorance on me lcife, end if I'd fall down a lad- der will we hod an' break me neck to merry, begorra an' I'd get toren• ty.five dollars a wake as long as I'm dead. it`s a foine counthry ; that'e phwet it is." Leif DOWN. An old cavalryman says that a horse will never step on a man in• tentiunally. It is a standing order with cavalry that should a man be. come dismouiited'he must lie down and be perfectly still. If he does so the entire company will pass over him and he will not be injured. A. horse notices where he is going and is on the lookout for a Arm •found• .tion to put his foot on. It is an instinct with him, therefore, to step over a prostrate man. The injuries caused by a runaway horse are near• ly always inflicted by the animal knocking people and not by his stepping on them. TOE WEIGHT OF A SIGNATURE. A Wonderful pair of Scales that 'weighs the hairs un a man's head. In a Broadway' store, wliioh is a branch cf a big out of town' scale factory, are more different kinds of scales than most people imagine were ever made. There are speci- mens of every grade of weighing machine, from the big track scales that can weigh a railroad car full of big lead down to a tiny balance so fine that it is kept in a glass case which could be carried in one's pocket. The emalleet scales of all are made for delioate tests in assay. ing. They are adjusted to mili grammes and are so sensitive and so fine that an eyelash can be cor- redly weighed on them. You can write your name on u slip of paper with a lead pencil and then find out just how mush your signature weighs. The weights aro the mere atoms of aluminum, not half so large se the bead of a pin. The machine is so delicate that a little duet blowing in from the street might affect its working, and it has to be carefully cleaned after each exposure. It is made of aluminum, platinum and the finest temperer] steel, and people do not use it as a plaything as a general rule. It costs as much as its weight in gold. The manager took au ordinary slip of writing paper and weighed it. It weighed thirty-eight miligrammes. He then save it to the visitor, with a lead pencil, and the visitor wrote 'John Henry Learned' on it in a full, free hand. then the manager put the slip back nn the Beale and filled in the little weights. When he struck a balance again he had forty- three miligrammes on the other side. The signature weighed pre- cisely five miligrammes. Then the man palled a hair out of his head and the manager found it weighed three miligrammes. An eyelash weighed a little less than one mili• gramme, and a hair front his whisk. ers weighed five miligrammes. The manager showed how easy it was to count the hair on a man's head. A.t the rate of three miligrammes to a hair there would be 8,000 hairs in an ounce. The man probably had three ounces of hair on his head and therefore 24,000 hairs. ]tow to Paper Rooms. '1'hie is not a poetic subject, and es a work that all avoid who can, yet it has to bedone, and often the amount is so trifling that many will do it themselves rather than bother with employing a professional, For such some instructions may be uee- ful. The task is not as difficult as might be imagined. To clean the wall with a solution of white glue makes a good beginning. In mak- mg the paste, add an ounce of pul• verized alum to every ponnd of sift- ed flour, mix Smoothly with cold water, and pour over it gently, but quickly, boiling water, stirring con• stantly. When done it should stand until perfectly cold. The wall should be smooth, and if dirty or greasy epota appear on it before papering, it should be washed with lye. The edge of the paper must be neatly trimmed down to the pattern. A long table or wide board should be provided upon which to lay the paper. Then all the full breadths required fur the room can be out acrid should be matched. Always begin at the right-hand side and work to the left. Lay the breadths as cut, one on another, and epread the top ono with Baste. In putting on the wall, carefully adjust the top to its plane, gently preseing it with a large, soft oloth, fuel down the middle of the breadth and then to the edge, 'When the paper is all on, the border may be tacked oti• or past• ed, aB desired. In soleating wall paper, oven of a cheap quality, much good' taste torte bo dieplayod. Striking couiraete should be avoided ; ebooss neutrol tints and colors that harmonize with the general tone of the enrroundiogs. If the ceilings are low, paper which' runs perpendicularly 'will maks them appear higher. Wall paper is usually half a yard wide and con. Dims eight yards to the roll. After papering a room no fire should bo made in it for several days' or until entirely dry. How to clean Oilcloth.. .oilcloth ougth never to be scrub• bed with a brush, bus sifter being swept may be cleaned, by waehmg with a soft flannel and.'luliewerut water or cold tea. On no account use soap or water that is hot, as either would have a bad effect on the paint. Wieu oileoth is dry, rub. it well with a email portioe of a, mixture of beeswax, softened with a minute quantity of tnrpentiuo, using for this purpoee a soft furui ture polishing brush. Tlie,follow• ing id else used to make oilcloths look well : wash then once a month with skim -milk mud water equal, quauntitos of mete; rub tbeni ouco; in three months with boiled lmsoed' oil ; put on a very little, rub it well iu with a rag and polisb with 5' piece of old silk. COOKING RECIPES. F nosTnea,—Take the whites of the eggs, with powdered sugar and beat to;a froth. When the pies are done frost them. SUSSED BnowN 13aAve.—Soak ov er night ; put them in cold water and boil until soft ; season them with molasses andvinegar according to taste ; thicken with flour or corn starch. Serve hot. Museum—One quart sifted flour ; little salt ; one egg ; five teaspoon. fule baking powder ; mix flour, salt, powder well together ; add the egg with about one pint of milk ; mix as thick as sake. Los= CANES.—One oup of green corn pulp, one tablespoonful of sug. sr and enough fine oatmeal to make the mixture sufficiently stiff io drip it in spoonfuls on the pan. Rake for •fifteen minutes and serve cold. YEA Sour,—Soak the peas over night; put them to cold water and let them boil ; keep ekimwing ; as they boil add cold water ; boil a lit• tle piece of salt pork with them ; season with au onion, out flue ; add a little thyme. Strain and servo. INDIAN MVFFINS,—TWO clips of corn meal ; ono cup of flour; one large tablespoonful of butter mixed with the corn meal ; put enough milk in to make a batter ; one egg ; half cup light brown auger ; two tea- spoonfuls of royal baking powder mixed with salt and flour, flake in quick oven. Cuaa1ED Rion.—Wash a table. spoonful of rice, and' boil in salted water rapidly until the grains burst. Do not stir with a epoon while cook- ing, but shake frequently to prevent sticking. Drain in a sieve ; put in a hot dish and pour over it a third of a cup of butter, in which a table- spoonful of surry powder has been mixed. hostels CIIIOSEN.—Boil 4. chick. ens until tender enough for meat to fall from the bones ; put meat in a stone jar and pour over it three pints of cold, good eider vinegar and a half of the water in whiob tho chickens were boiled ; add spines if preferred, and 11 will be ready for use in two or three days. This is a popular Sunday evening dish ; it ie good for luncheon at any time. LEDION PIE. -Take the juiee and rind of throe good-sized lemons ; stir in two tablespoonfuls of powder- ed sugar in the juiee ; put a kettle with three cups of water over 'the fire, when it boils stir in two large tablespoonfuls of corn starch, mixed with eold water ; a small piece of butter and the beaten yolks of three eggs ; halt cup of while sugar ; stir all together in kettle, let boil abgut a minute, then have the juice ready in a bowl and Btu in the boiling mixture ; if not sweet enough 'add more sugar. Have two large sized pie platee xeady with plain cruet, fill them up with mixture, place in hob oven and bake for one half hour, Eta BISCUITS: --One quart of pre- pared flour, a tablespoonful of lard and twine as Panel) butter, a too - spoonful of salt, two cups of milk, the yolks of two eggs, beaten light. Salt the flour and sift it twice in a bowl, rub iu the shortening thor. THE $}MUSSELS POST gnghly hull lightly; mix yniki Iinl1 milli together, aid pout' into a hula in the flour ; work into petite with see little handling as possible ; roll fntu a shoot half an in°h thick, oat into round °eltos Anil bake in a (ions ed pan. last tl01. COCOANUT PUDDING.—Steak three tablespoonfuls tapiuoa 10 gold water over night, bit one 'quart of milk, add the tapioca and boil five nein ores, then add ]lie yolks of four ogee, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of tleseioatod cocoa- nut ; boil ten minutes turn into a dish to cool; bent the 'whites nod two tablespoonfuls of nor 10 it foam. Slimed over the top and apringle over a little more c000aoni. Set in the oven to brown slightly. emu.: of gelleoueele e. Poetry is t'3 be found nowhere un- less we carry 1t with us. To triumph over our p esstons is of alt oonqueats the most glorioue. He that pryeth into every cloud may be stricken with a thunderbolt. Events ere not in our power ; but it is always to snake a good use of even the worst. Obrietiitn union is well; bot rue eonrtei•iee between two eegineente ever yet defeated the nth r army. Many a sweetly formed mouth leas been disfigured and mads hid - eons by ton fiery tongues within it, There ere'uuuu there fall 50 nu• pitied as those that have raised themselves upon the spoils of the public. They who have an honest and. engaging look, ought to enffsr a double puuiehmeut if they belie it their actionn. When 11 man owns himself to be in an error, he does but tell you iu outer words that he is wiser than ho pas. soler things belong to a judge : to Lear cautiously, to answer wind ly, to consider soberly and to de- cide impartially. Wo should choose to bear the haired of evil men, rather tiiari de- serve their just accusation after serving their base ends. Something like home that is not home, alone that is not alone, is to be wished, and only found in a friend, or 10 his house. Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle, who has done much lees mischief than titterers of forged tales, coinere of seaudal and clip• pore of reputation. By the rules of jnstice, no man ought to be ridiculed for any im- perfection. 'who does not set up for eminent sufficiency in that way wherein he ie defective. • Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which Mara: travellers upon their road ; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are less insurmountable than what we had conceived them. Persevere against disoouragement. Leap your temper Employ leisure in etady, and always have some work on. Be punctual and method- ical in business, and never prooras• tinate. Never bo in a hurry. Pre - servo self-prossesaion, and do not be talked out of conviction. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and is upon oar lips, and ready to drop out before we are aware ; but falsehood is troubleeome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one untruth needs a great many more to make 11 good. To he happy at home is the ulti• mate result of all ambition ; the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.. It is indeed at Homo that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felinity; for smiles and embroidery, are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for allow in painted honor and fictitious benenevelence, Society may aid in making the laborer virtuous and happy, by bringing children up to labor with stoadinee8, with care, and with shill ; to ehoW them how to do as Many useful things as possible ; to do them all iu the best manna's.; to set them an example in industry, sobriety, cleanliness ape neatuese ; to make all these habitual to them, so that they shall never be liable to fall into the contrary ; and to let them always see a good living pre - coding from labor, - w s s, noon o AND e „al• If y •1115"Int ••"ur wotdli put In good running Iv JONES, 'NE WA'1 GH1 • •AKisfi, Dealer in1,n.lie ' Anil Coot's slid Cold and Silver Watehe,l, Cuff Muttons, Broaches, 1111.•-rines, tlent's pins, roll plate vest (sheltie and Necklets. He has also a nice stook of 'WALNUT, NICKLL AND FANCY CLOCKS, in fact over) thing that is kept in a first- ebass jewelry a'ote. r Rpeeinl attention given to the re- pairing of 1Yllt°hos. goer• 11111(44. Jas. Jones, Queen's Hotel Block. Infallible Blood Purifier, Tonic - Marone Loss of Appetite, Indigestion, Tonic, Biliousness, Jaundice, Liver Complaint, lolut, Lhoumatism, all Kidney Diseases, sel•nillia, Dineasoe peculiar to Pumice, Salt Malmo, &ezoma and all Skit Diseases, i1oa I uh Palpitation of the IIenrt, Sour Stomach and Heart Burn. Purely Vegetable. W J0NIf 0. 111T 0 CO., Toronto, Oat beOL Any Quantity of Wool Wanted —AT THE BRUSSELS— Woolen Mill. Highest Market Price Faid in exclifuuge for fine Tweeds, coarse Tweeds, Cheek Flannels, in all wool and union, Grey Flan- nels, and Blankets. Also Sheet- ing, in both Gray and Whits, fine and coarse Yarn, $c., of which I have a good supply NOW OX 1I.I,iiJ). I am prepared to do all kinds of manufacturing, such as ROLL CARDING, SPINNING, WEAVING, TWISTING, COLORING, FULLING, FULLING, &c. Satisfaction, Cimairanteea.. AU kinds of Knitted Goods Made to Order. A Nova Scotian farmer, named Give Me a Call before dll"spos- 1'ishcr, while plowing recently, wee ing of your Wool °Nowhere. attacked by a score of oro,es and Yours truly, badly iujnred about the faun and ]lead. GEO. H O W E. I1"A ITelA BM P011 iAI,AI.—'I'i11'a SUB - seeded onera for t.nle tltl velnnbla 100 mire farm, bolas Int 0, non, 10, Bray, and situated 11 01 I'oa front lirusela, Theplace x111 bo mold wi9n or rltlleut ppba atop Iwd 111) easy henna 1unemal6pvrllhl3O lrnn ate ntly time. Cur further,. esertloi pyre $0 apprlolt, 1ernie aro., 1.111' t'i 1,1o)I nwrletor on the prenilees, 1t. nrlor1U01(A'11'N, 4.5111 13rueeele P,0 Wear spectacles and Eyo-Glasses that will preserve your Eyesight. F.:LAz A±Us Manufacturing Optician, late of the firm of Lazarus & Morris, 38 Maryland Road, Harrow Rood, London, England, has ap- pointed an agent for the Renowned Spec- tacles and Eye• lasses which have been before the public for the past 98 years. Lazarus' Spectacle• never tire the oye Last many years without change. For Sale by IT L. JACKSON, B1L-SSELs, • ONT. - 'ET0NLY '20 LOAN, _— ��PJUV' ; / I `E l'(.%XDS. of Private Funds have just been placed in my hands for In- vestment. AT 7 PER CENT. Borrowers can have their loans complete -in three days if title is satisfactory. Apply to E. E. WADE. VILLAGE OF BRUSSELS V COURT OF RYIS:ON. Notico is hereby given that the Council of the Corporation of the Village of Brus- sels will tweet as a Court of ltevi•ion, at the Couscrr. Cltlinlnn, on Monday, June the 6th, 1887, AT 'Tiun Horn, OP 8 O'CLOCK P. U. All persons interested will govern them- selves accordingly. F. S. SCOTT, Clerk. Brussels, May, 11. 44.8 HURON AND BRUCE Loan &Investment Co. This Company is Loaning Money on Farm Security at LOWEST RATES OF INTEREST. 31ortgat es Purchased. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 8, 4, and 5 per cont. Interest allowed on Deposits, according to amount and time let. OFFICE.—Corner of Market Square and North Street, 0 -ode - rich. Horace Horton, a MVIANAGER. lt1 ,ii SH JUNE 10, 1887 Money to Loan, Money to Loan on Farts Pro- perty, at i.DWEST RATES. PRIVA'(E AND COMPANY FUNDS W. B. DICKSON, Solicitor, Brussels, Ont. MONEY 'ro i3O,IN 1 Any Amount of Money to Loan On Farm or Village Pro- perty, at 6 c 6i Per Cent. Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of repaying when required. Apply to - A. Hunter, Division Court Clerk, Brussels. nwEvazizel HERE IVE ARE AGAIN ! After another long winter and lots of op- p05100n I am still alive anis in a hotter position than ever to attend to the wants of the Public, having just Removed to ,the Store South of 41. Buyer's Carriage 11'rrks. - I aim prepared to Execute all Orders Promptly. GRAINING', GILDING, SIGN AND DECORATIVE PAINTING in all its branches, tI TT NI✓YGS .IND SHOP BLINDS Done Up in Style. PAPER HANGING 5peoiaU}'' Wm. Roddick, rJlnit WILSON FOUN1iit'. AT GREATLY Iteduced Prices We have on hand the following : ' Land Rollers, Plows, Harrows, Scuffiers, Horse Powers, Straw Cutters, Turnip Cutters, Grind- ing or Chopping Mills, boat make, and 1 Good Second Hand Lumber Wagon. TAKE NOTICE. We have started a Planer and Matcher to work. Parties wishing to have Lumber Dressed and Matched, or Flooring sized, tongued and grooved may rely on getting first-class jobs on the most reasonable terms. Repairs of all kinds promptly attended to at the BBUasILs FOUNDRS• W. R. Wilson EGGS FIAVING OPENED OUT AN Egg Emporium, in Grant's Block, Brussels, Next Door io the Post Office, I am prepared to Pay ()pit for any quantity rex l ggs. BRING ALONG ALL YO U HA VE andT.lctllenilacr the Stand.