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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-12, Page 3AususT 12, 18$7 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. • SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. ro.f Carriage a Kolvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewar and D. YBreckenridge, Morris `Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brus- eels Bev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnberry. REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTII OF BRIDGE. EAST HURON Works JAMES $UYEPB, ---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. acnizenatimarssozigg 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. WM, MILNE . 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