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PAPA'S TEETH ARE BEING
FIXED.
Put away the beefsteak, Mollie;
Ohop the cutlets into hash ;
Turn the solids into Wade,
Crush potatoes into mash,
Bake the rice in little pastier,,
Have the mush with dressing mixed,
For the hour le fraught with danger ---
Papa's teeth are being fixed.
Mix the festive partook° batter,
Ohop the lobster into bits;
Fry the soft and plastic doughnut
That the grinder never grits ;
Cut the bread in yielding slices,
Lay an oyster in betwixt,
Banish all the pleasant solids-•
Papa'e teeth aro being fixed..
THE HIGHWAYMAN.
Did you over meet a robber with a pistol
and a knife,
Whose prompt and cordial greeting was,
"Your money or your life ;"
Who, while you stood a -trembling, with
your hands above your head,
Took your gold, most grimly offering to
repay you in cold lead?
Well, I once met a robber ; I was going
home to tea ;
The way was rather lonely, though not
yet too dark to see
That the sturdy rogue who stopped me
there was very fully armed—
But I'm honest in maintaining that I
didn't feel alarmed.
He was panting bard from running, so I
being still undaunted,
Dory boldly faced the rascal and demand.
ed what ho wanted ;
I was quite as big as he was, and I was
not out of breath,
So I did• 't fear his shooting me, or stab-
bing me to death.
In answer to my question the highway-
man raised an arm
And pointed it straight at me, though I
felt no alarm;
He did not ask for money, but what he
said was this:
"Your oannet pass, Papa, unless you give
your boy a kiss P"
BEAR THY BROTHER'S BURDEN.
Is thy,otuse of comfort woofing ?
Rise and share it with another,
And through all the yearn of famine
It shall serve thee and thy brother.
Love Divine will fill thy storehouse,
Or thy handful still renew ;
Scanty faro for one will often
Make a royal feast for two.
For the heart grows rich in giving ;
All its wealth is living grain ;
Seeds, which mildew in the garner,
Scattered, fill with gold the plain.
Is thy burden hard and heavy?
Do thy steps drag wearily?
Help to bear thy brother's burden ;
44°God will bear both it and thee.
Numb and weary on the mountains,
Wouldst thou sleep amidst the snow
Chafe that frozen form beside thee,
And together both shall glow.
Art thou stricken in life's battle,
Many wounded round then moan ;
Lavieh on their wounds thy balsams,
And that balm shall heal thine own.
Is tho heart a well left empty ?
None but God its void can fill;
Nothing but a ceaselear fountain
Can its ceaseless longings still.
Is the heart a living power 7 •
Self -engrossed, its strength sinks low;
Dean only live in loving,
And by serving love will grow.
OLD SAWS IN RYHMI'i.
Actions speak louder than words ever do ;
You can't eat your cake and hold on to
it, too.
When the eat ie away, then the little
mice play ;
Where there is a will there is always a
way.
One's deep in the mud as the other in
mire ;
Don't jump from the frying pan into the
fire.
There's no use crying o'er milk that is
epilt ;
No accuser is needed by conscience or
guilt.
There must- bo some fire wherever is
smoke ;
The pitcher goes oft to the well until it's
broke.
By rogues falling out honest men get
their duo ;
Whoever it fite, he must put on the shoe.
All work and no play will make Jack a
dull boy;
A thing of much beauty is ever a joy.
A half loaf is better than no bread at all ;
And pride always goeth before a sad fall.
Fast bind and fast find, have two strings
to your bow ;
Contentment is better than riohee, we
know.
The Devil finds work for hands idle to do ;
A miss is as good es a mile is to you.
You speak of the Devil lie's sure
n to a.
P
pear;
You can't make a silk purse front out a
sow's ear.
A man by his company always is known ;.
Who live in a glass Neuse should not
throw a stone.
THE BRUSSELS POST
Though speaking the truth no one credits eco a stone lions° of ono (story with The Wheat Cropsnnd Prices.
a liar, roof seals tn. That ain't the house,
Speech may bo silver, but silence is gold ; but if the dog don't bite you, you
There's never a fool like the fool who is can find out there..
old.
THE OLDEST PAPER IN THE
WO1IL1).
It is generally believed that the
Times of London and the Gazette
de France of Paris are the oldest
papers in existence, but this ap•
pears to be a mielake. Tile honor
belongs to the Chinese, who possess
a journal started nearly a thousand
years ago. Its name is the King.
Pan. It was founded, says a learn-
ed bibliophiet, in .the year 911 of
the Christian ora. At first It was
published at irregular periods, bub
in 1801 it became a weekly. In
1804 it .underwent another trans.
formation, and appeared daily. It
inlet a half•pouny, and issues three
editions. The morning paper
printed on yellow paper, is devoted
to commerce ; the noon edition,
printed on white paper, contains
official acts and miscellaneous
news ; whale the evening edition,
printed on red paper, is taken up
with political information and load.
ing articles, It is edited by six
members of the Academy of Science.
and the total sale of the three edit -
lees is 14,000 poples.
WHEN TO' TRANSPLANT TREES.
The question, when to plant, is
an important one. Some will not
plant anything in the fall, others
prefer the fall to all other seasons ;
the majority of planters will, per-
haps, claim that spring is the best
season, for the largest amount of
planting is done a1 that time, and
failure is not attributed 80 much to
the season. Fall planting, how.
ever, has strong advocates among
experienced tree planters, and
whore a planter has given that tea•
son n fair trial, his favorable testi•
moray is, as a rule, secured. How-
ever, there is • prejudice against
fall planting, and a single failure at
that season counts more against it
than a dozen in the spring. Trees
and shrubs planted early in autumn
will push roots before the winter,
for it is not necessary that the top
grow to force root. growth ; all can
prove this by observation. Take
up a tree or shrub in November
that was planted in August or Sep-
tember, and you will be surprised
to sae the amount of new and
growing roots. A fall planted tree
becomes.eetabliehed by this means,
and naturally is in a better con-
dition to grow the coming spring.
I believe if careful and systematic
expetimeiits were carried on in tree
planting, the fall would be found a
better season to plant than in
spring ; the ground is vsik='i grid
moist; in the best oonditiell" b;;r stile
formation of roots, the Melt .moist
and there is not the fieroC dying,
winds of early spring, or echo habil.
ity of a June or July druulth',`aeon
after the tree is planted.
How They Direct Strangers in the
Country. ,i
Don't know; ask next,man.
Third atone house atter ybu cross
two roads. r
Second house after you pass the.
cabin with a big black dog; i i;- 'r
When you come to. a' barnyard
with a lame duck, halloos to ,the
house. That farmers knows every-
body.
verybody.
It's the second house beyond the
one that has a red barn,with.a big
door chalked up. That's Bob
Smith's account of his 'chicken
crop.
Take the fork of the roaii'in yottr
left hand ; then go on' •until ' you,
some to the big elm. When you'.
got there, if anybody comes along
ask them.
It's just three miles and an
eighth. There are seven' houses oil'
the left and six on the right, That
makes 16 the fourteenth., go straight'
ahead. a,.
It ss about two looks --from here.
Go to the top of that bile land take
a look. Then go as far as yen.,
saw ; take another look. When
you get there you'll see it.
Turn around the little church to
the right. Keep the ridge on your
left, iso half a mile, three gnarterst
perhaps a mile. If know bhh
e
man you're after you'll Aud li In
along there.
Take your second right hand
road; cross two Ieft hand roads and
take your third. Don't go up, the
first right hand, but take the seobnil.
When the blind leads the blind both .will There's a well sweep in the front
fall in the ditch ; yard and a wheel pump in the barn-
It's better born leaky than •being bora yard.
After you peso a barnyard with a
red waggon and a white mare with
n epaviti on her left hind leg you'll
rich.
Liettopitohere have big ears ; burnt child
dreads tlio lire;
DRESS OF PRE FUTURE.
when Women wilt Wear nu Dineen
Below the tine.
The first time I over saw Mrs,
Miller on a Massachusetts lecture
platform elle wore an ultra -fashion.
able gown, writes a New York core
respondent. It was email wonder
than that 1 said to her recently
"And how came you of all women
in Hie dress reform field ?"
"That is easily told," she replied.
"I never wore corsets, have inveigh.
ed against them, indeed, all my
life, But I did what is worse, after
all, I liked to look as my neighbors
did and I wore the conventional
gown without any protection of
corset underneath. By and by my
back ached. Then it ached a little
more. I had a horror of being an
invalid and went to a doctor, who
told me I was well enough if I would
only stop loading myself down with
heavy gowns. I wont home and
weighed a new velvet oostume—I
had wore is but once and it Dost me
$850 -it tipped the beam at twenty-
five pounds. .I never wore it again,
but try as I might, I could not find
a dressmaker who would take the
trouble to devise for me what I was
coming to see was the only health-
ful sort of dresses. They told me I
was too young a woman to be a
crank, and that was all the satisfac-
tion I got.
"I could use needle and thread
myself, and with my maid's help I
manufactured in time what I want-
ed for my own weer. I had no in-
tention of making the matter pub -
lie in any way. But one • or two
Washington society women took to
my gowns. Mrs. Breckinridge, the
wife of the Kentucky Senator, had
some like there, and blrs. 'James,
the wife of the Brooklyn Congress -
man, Iiked the idea, too. One day
I woke up aud.found myself a column;
and a -half long in the paper. Then
I began to have letters,'such f unny
letters; too, from cr•nke, . a good
many of eshem, and in the end they
pushed me forward to setting my
scheme before the women of the
land."
"You say people wrote to you ;
what did they say P"
"Oh, they came to me as well as
wrote. 'There was a Kentuckian, a
man and a perfect stranger, who
posed on my parlor carpet and told
me he had a sink wife and he wasn't
going bone bill I out him .some pat-
terns of dresses that would make
her well. 'But, my good man,'
said 1, 'I never out a paper pattern
in my life and I don't know how big
your wife is nor how to begin.' It
was of no use. He kept,00ming till
my sister and 1, ,in. desperation. tet,
his persistence, spread out some
gowns on the floor and -out .patterns
for him as well as we could.
"Then there was a woman out
west who said she was one of the
original. wearers of the bloomer; she
was old and ,infirm now, -4nd if I
really sympathized with women, she
was euro I would send her `money
enough to build her a frame house
to live in in her old age. I was be•
eieged with letters, and my -mail
ran up so that I got a secretary to
attend to it for me. I think 1 have
had correspondents in every Eng-
lish-speaking country of the. globe.
Everybody asked me what to do,
and I was amazed at the 'amount of
rebellion that seemed smoldering
against corsets and long skirts,
Women don't really liko them, you
know, but they don't want to be
odd, and they don't know what else
to put on."
"And what do you think of the
prospeot of final emcees i"
"0f course I can't tell, but they
look bright just now. Nothing was
ever less sought than the promin-
ence this has '.thrust me into. I was
satisfied with clothing myself so as
not to be a burden - to myself and
. husband, but if it is to be a public
work, I may do some real good to a
few other women at least."
• "And have you any ultimate ideas
beyond those you advocate now 7"
"Yes ; but it would not do to ad.
vane° them. One must win people,
not reputes, them. Far own
Wn
1? v
part, I believe the dress of the fu-
ture woman will be a very beautiful
and a very graceful dress, but not
altogether to our present ideas. I
believe out Braise were made for
practical neo, and that in a couple
of centuries or so women will wear
-
ne drapery, at least below the knee.
But that is wholly a thing of the
future. 1 shouldn't think of advo-
geeing it, because it wouldn't be
predicable now."
Reports from all parte of the 1'
vinee indicate that the wheat ha
vest will be got an, in exeellont co
dltion, but that it will be light o
ing to premature ripening by 1
intense beat and excessive dry
weather, The corn crop is suffering,
so also are peas end potatoes, which
latter in some pieties will be a par-
tial failure. Thorn is no probabili-
ty that an increase in the price of
wheat will compensate for the loss
in weight. The Chicago Tribune
of a few days ago said :—The
straight grade of No. 2 -Chicago
spring wheat Bold in the market at
29 shillings per quarter in the bar -
hour at Liverpool, being equal to
only 87 Dents per bushel, "cost,
freight and ineuranae," This is
the lowest prion ever reported, the
nearest previous approach to it
being the 29 shillings and 8 peno
accepted on one oargo a few day
ago. The private cables brough
some other orders at about that fig
urs, though they were general]
understood to be a shade below it
and they also brought the informa
tion that the wheat crop of tb
United Kingdom this year is esti-
mated to be about 12,000,000
quarters, or not far from 96,000,000
bushels. As this is some 2,000,000
quarters larger than the yield of
last year it is fair to expeot a lessen-
ed demand on outside seams in-
cluding the United States. This
fact ie undoubtedly influencing the
course of priers for wheat wanted to
supply currant consumption before
the harvest this year is available.
•
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---uANurAc'L'ullrh OF—
CARRIAGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS •WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, IETC., ETC., ETC.
A.1l made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
1 epcciring and Painting -promptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Calf before
purchasing.
Rnrianxoxs.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Cuts and Wm, Mc -
A warm bath will often bo found
a valuable meaeere in oases of
sleeplessness.
Recent investigations have dia.
palled the common belief That freez-
ing purifies water.
Au ink that will write on glace is
made from ammonium' flouride dis-
solved in water and mixed with
three times its weightof barium.
sulphate.
By careful experimenting M.
Bloch has determined that it takes
1.72 of a second longer to hear a
sound than to see s sight, and 1.21
of a second longer to feel .,a touch
than to see a -eight.
Dr. Doremuiffrtya that the light.
est thieves 'oan 1'hef ree?degec1 unin-
flammable by.dippingttl DAs -in a so-
lution of phosphate of rsmmonia in
water. It will do "found`,iizlpoesible
to set the fabric so treated on fire.
The buzzing sound of ,a Iowan.
five boiler at limes is caused by the
circulation of the •water in the boil-
er, and only (wenn When the press.:
urs of steam ie comparatively low.,
Al higher pressures :this ;sound will
not be belted.
Malleable braes is made by form.
ing au alloy of thirty-three partsof
popper and twenty.iive of zino,
The popper ie first melted in a ern•
(Able which is loosely covered, after
which fire zino, which has: been:
purified by eulphtir,is.added.
M. Vailin, a French chemist, has
inveuted.an improved kind' of com-
ent, posseasing ,durability, and the
cold appearance of ,marble, so that.
a wall set with it not only balconies
impermeable to moisture, but can
be polished and made .beautiful.
One who claims to have tried it
says that rubber nisy; be fastened to
iron by. means of -a paint composed
of powdered shellac steeped in
about ten times its weight in con-
oontrated ammonia. 16 should be
allowed to stand three or four
Weeks before being used.
Doors formed of two thick paper
boards, stamped and molded into
panels' and glazed together, with
glue and potash, and then 'rolled
through heavy rollers, are coming
into use. They are better than
wood in that they will not shrink,
swell, creek or warp. They are
made waterproof with a mixture
Printed muttter may be copied
on any paper of an absorbent nat-
ure by dampening the surface with
a weals solution of - acetate of iron
and pressing in an ordinary copy-
ing prams. 'Old, writing may also
bo copied on mislead paper if wet
with a weak solution of sulphate
of iron mixed with a simple solu-
tion of sugar eyrup.
A oorresZ oh
don 3
t of the Engineer
lacer
mentions that two telegraph oper.
atore, a male end a female; both
otherwise healthy subjects, aro be-
ing treated in Berlin for a newly
developed ailment, namely, the
dropping off, one after another, of
the finger nails. (Professor Mendel
attributes this carious affection as
the result of the constant jar esus•
ed by hammering and plaiting with
the finger ends in working the
Morse eyetom of telegraphy.
JAMES BUYERS.
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CASH FO 7 ECCE
HAVING OPENED OUT AN
Egg Emporium, in -Grant's Block, Brussels,
Next Door to the Post Office,
I am prepared to Pay CAS$ for any quantity ofl-Eggs,
BRING ALONG ALL YOU HAVE
and Remember the Stand.
JOHN HOlapIC}:
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, Feed .Atlwayrs odaliand.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
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