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,AXCIAIoT 10, 1857
air 9.
A DETROIT ARAB,
"Where are you going, my little lad?"
'"To see do baseball matoh, Dir," be said
•
"Have you got a ticket, my little lad?"
"Naw 1 I don't need one, sir," bo said.
"flow will you Zoe it, my little lad?"
"I'll skin to de fovea top, sir," be said:
`I3oro's a dime to got in with, my little lad'
"Hi I die will buy smokers, sir," ho said,
And the little Arab soamperod away,
Nor otopped he a "thankee, sir," to say.
AMIE DAY WII DO NOT CELEBRATE.
One broiling day in hot Judy,
John Adams said, long years gone by.
"This day, that malice a people free,
Will be the people's jubilee.
"With games, guns, sports and shows dia.,
played,
With bolls, pomp, bonfires and parade.
00'er allthis laud, from shore to shore,
From this time forth forever more."
The years passed on, and by and by,
Men's hearts grew cold in hot July.
And ono New England mayor said,
"01 rockets I am sore afraid;
"And whose sends one up ablaze,
I'll send him up for twenty dayo."
Then said the Mayor O'Day McQuade,
"Thayre nz no made fix no parade;"
And Mayor Hans Von Sahwartxenmeyer,
Proclaimed 01'11 hat me no bonder."
Said Mayor Baptiste Raphael,
"No make-a.ring-a.dat•a hell."
"By gar," amid Mayor Jean Crapaud,
"Zia July games vill has to go."
And Mayor Vaud Crrrietofferresonn
Cried, "Djeath to hjim who fjirea a gjun I"
At leer, said Mayor Wun Lung See,
"Too muoheo hoop -la bobberee t"
And so the Yankee holiday
In 1900 passed away.
JOE GOREM'S PHILOSOPHY.
Joe Gorom leaned against the fenoe,
To root his weary back;
Joe Gorem was a man of sense,
Though just a Dille slack ;
And the system of hie farming
Was on the narrow track.
And as you passed his household,
You could see, with half an eye.
That thrift and Joo were strangers
To each other ; and just why
This, state of things 'Witted,
Was as plain as rash on rye.
His gates were off their hinges ;
The bar -poets leaned apart ;
His plow and drag stood in the field
Ae if about to start ;
While the gum of Joseph's' rolling stook
Had dwindled to one cent.
His domicile was shabby ;
Decay seemed in advance ;
The doors allowed yawning panels,
Which gave the winds a chance;
And broken panes were reinforced
By wade of Joe's old pants.
This order of disorder
Pervaded the whole place , •
But it did not cloud the sunny smile
That beamed in Joseph's face;
Nor did the rush of seed-timo
Disturb hia even pace.
For Joe possessed a theory,
By love of ease inspired,
That the way to relish labor,
Is to reut before you're tired ;
And to demonstrate this theory,
Was the task Joe. most admired.
And when hie work would crowd him,
As it always did. in spring,
He'd find the soft side of a rail,
And there he'd sit and sing,
Regardless of the oaros of life,
As happy aa a king.
And this was his philosophy,
As well do I recall,
At least the substance of it,
Minus, of course, the drawl
Attending its delivery,
The winks and nods and all,
"I don't see why Dame Natur',
In the wisdom of her plan,
Didn't fix it so that crops would grow,
Without the help of man ;
'Twould be a credit to her
An' exaotly to my han'.
"I'm opposed to thio here motion
Of bong always on a strain ;
If you've got to work yourself to death
To raise a little grain,
You had better do without it ;
That's a proposition plain.
"Now a weed will grow as thrifty,
In a patch of corn orrye,
Unpestered by its neighbors,
Entetched by Hessian fir,
Or any other bug, or bird,
That makes the farmer sigh.
"But corn to do just fairly well,
Meet beplgnted so and so ;
The ground in prime oondition,
Well worked with plow and hoe ;
And then as like as anyway,
Trainand liee i
The drat
ted stuff won't grow.
"If ays suusl ne
Won't produce a docent Drop,
With favorable conditions,
Nussod right in natur'o lap,
Why, its time, in my opinion,
To lot the business drop.'
"I could go ahead and reason,
Till rho craps aro all laid by,
On the logic of; my theory,
The wherefore and the why ;
iiut it wouldn't pay the trouble,
And therefore I won't try.
TII,E BRUSSELS POST
"It I had the vim and energy,
Of an earthquake, or oyolono,
I'd git an early start, and whip
Old Mother Earth alone;
But its too big an undertakin'
For a man of common bone.
"SO I'm content to live, and lot
The Earth be as I found it;
It wouldn't pay for me to try
To build a road around it
I'd sooner take your word about
The asst. than try to sea D.
'It's true my crops aro meagre,
My potatoes few and small;
And my neighbors often wonder
I raise anything at all ;
But I'll bet I'm just as happy
As the thriftiest of them ail."
A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
The railway accident which took
place near Cbataworth, Illinois, at
midnight of Wednesday, woe prob.
ably the moot terrible that has oc•
aimed on this continent. A train,
composed of two engines and fifteen
cars, was being driven over the To-
ledo, Peoria and Western Railway
at a speed of over a mile a minute,
when a small wooden bridge. span-
ning a dry ditch, only fifteen feet
wide and ten feet deep, having been
weakened by fire, fell below rho sec-
ond engine of the train. The ditch
was not deep enough to allow of the
oars piling up in it, and the coach.
es, crammed with people, were clash-
ed into and on top of one another.
There were morn than three bund•
red and fifty souls in the six passen-
ger ooaebee that were wrecked, and
of these one hundred and twenty
were killed, and few of the' others
escaped without hurt. When one
considers the character of the acci•
dent, the awful shook, the i:netan-
taneous piling up and emasbing up
into fragments of heavy passenger
coaches, the wonder ie not that
many were killed, but that any hu-
man being, not to speak of hundreds
came out alive. Fortunately, there
were no lighted stoves iu the wreck
to fire the train, but there was • the
danger that the burning fragments
of the bridge.,would fire the ghastly
wreck. This"terrible calamity -was,
however, averted by the passengers
in the sleepers, who, happily, had
been, saved by the sacrifice of the
forward care. One horrible feature
of the affair was that a band of miff.
eremite deliberately plundered the
dead and dying while the surviving
passengers were fighting the flamea.
This fact has apparently given rise
to the ugly suspicion that the bridge
was fired by inoendiaries in order
that an: opportunity for plunder
might be found. It is to bo hoped
that this suspicion, natural enough
under the •oircumatanoes of the case,
will prove to be unfounded. The
long continued drought from which
this continent has suffered must
have made the mbers o.�t bridge
very inflammable and �,g+. 4 coal
from a. aesing *met a,., rning
p i :u • r
ma'tuhcarelessl throe oivn4ould'
y Ill the
u'i' �sufSoient to �
be ie ,"i�
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fire.' The'real cause o k li 44 ldent
was the Cheap constrticti1iiu%';of the
road. Instead of 's wooden
bridge a stone culvert should `Lave
spanned the dry dilelt There.' are
thousands of snob `wooden 'ritit-ivay
bridges all over this. continent; VCR+•
ever, and although fortunatelyiihey
are but seldom burned,' they 'at`cal•
ways dangerous.
Recipes.
LEMON TAFFY.—TWO cups white
sugar, one oup boiling Witter; due -
quarter cup vinegar, . oa`d•hiflf 'stip
butter, flavor with Iomon pour in
buttered plates to cool..
Cootie/dem CAsatteLs.-000-half
pound chocolate, two pounds sugar,
two tablespoonfuls vinegar, two%tea-
cups milk, one lumli abutter twine
the size of an egg,. six tablespoon.
fuls molasses ; boil until it hardens
iu cold water.
Smitten Mame Pies. --One cup
raisins, chopped fids, one nutmeg,
two cups water, ta;trlespoonftil 'cin-
namon, two cups attar, butter the
size of en egg, ono,half cup of vine•
gar, eight crackers rolled fine ; cook
well together befor'o baking.
Cnoamatre DROPS, -0110 cup of
cream and two cups of powdered
sugar ; eat into a vessel of boiling
water, and boil until etifl"; "into' an-
other vessel of hot water sot it half
oup'of grated obooalato, and let it
melt; moll the sugar into halls, and
dip into the chocolate, and thou" set
away to 000l.
APPLE Rona —One pound flour,
one-fourth pound butter ; mix with
sufficient water to make a not very
stiff paete ; pare and slice rather
thick, some tart apples ; roll out" the
paste as for piecrust, and spread -the
elitocl apples t0 Dover it ; sprinkle
OE a little flour, and roll up as tight.
ly ae possible without breaking the
paste ; 000lt it in a Bloomer, or wrap
in a clothe and boil for nu hour;
serve by cutting across in thin slio.
ea, with saves of butter and sugar,
0ii oxsa Pveettru,--•Ons: quart of
milk, three soda crackers, one egg,
a small piece of butter: spino and
raisins' to taste ; bake,
0ooANUT Pre.—One and one half
cope tumor, one and ono half cups
milk, throe eggs, one tablespoonful
butler, the rind of lemon, one coco-
nut finely grated ; the cruet should
be the same as for custard pie.
'Joan-STArtan PUDDio4,---One
quart of milk set into a kettle of
boiling water ; mix four ounces of
oorn starch, two ounces sugar, with
a little oold milk; pour into the
milk when boiling, and stir until
thick ; just before taking from the
fire, add the whites of two eggs,
beaten to a still froth, and flevo•.
Canadiaxi. News.
It is said Manitoba's wheat crop
this year will be over eight million
bushels.
Galt will have a new market
building.
Stratford is getting ile houses
numbered.
Lord Lansdowne will open To-
ronto fair Sept. 0.
A. now $8,000 hotel is to be built
at Wiarton during the present
season:
A German employed in the tan-
nery at Milton has fallen heir to
$22,000.
J. T. Carson, of Simaoe, caught
a 3 Ib 4 oz. trout in a walsingbam
pond.
On Friday, Wm. Hunt, of Malden,
Essex county, shot a pure _ white
Crane.
Ripe poaches were picked in Sim-
Goa las/ week. They were of the
Early Crawford variety.
At a Salvation'Army marriage in.
Brantford, an admission fee often,
Lents was chargedthe public.
John Redhead. an old man and
an inmate,of the: Ease of Refuge,
Strathroy, choked to death on• Tues.
day while eating a piece' of beef.'
Elias 'Mosor, 'a farmer in the
neighborhood' of Eganville; is re-
ported to have 'killed..a king snake
recentlywhich meseurgtl 13t 'feel.
Parker Bros., Ntmcoe;h'ave pur-
chased twelve'Clydesdale Mlanione
including several prize winners in
England, for shipment to Canada.
A recent issue of the Boston
Transcript records the death of
Angus Fairbairn, the Scottish voca-
list, who some years ago gave con-
certs in towns in Coterie.
The F rederiolon (N.B.) Recorder
tette of a six year old girl near
there who weighs over 100 poen et
and has -sir toe. 00 each'foot'iin
six lingua on each hand.
For a joke a Erin man drove off
with a rig'belonging to a stranger
from Mimose. When the owner re-
covered the property he had the
joker arrested. Tb4 case wsedia-
miosed. ._
At Windsor last week, the novel
eight of a floating Wand was seen-
passing down the river. It was
about 50 feet square,' and was evi=
dently a detached piece of the Si:
Glair flats marsh. .
A well of natural gas was 'struck
while boring for water on the farm
of Mr. Ingram, about three miles
from Ridgetown, last week. For
,several days gee continued:; 'to be
emitted• from the well,`'sending'
gravel and dirt up to the height of
100 feet. .
A Hamilton hackman found a
woman between one and two o'clock
the other morning lying, sound
asleop on a side walk clothed in
nocturnal habiliments. She seemed
greatly shocked on being awakened
at the condition in which she was
found. It eeeme. the female was 0
somnambulist. '
There are two people living at
Fort Erie who were eye witnesses of
the battle of Lundy's Lane '73 years
ago. One is a Mr. Cook, then a
lad of 6 years, who has many inter-
esting stories to tell. The other is
a Mrs. Sutton, then 4 years old,
whose r000llootion is of the wounded
being carried in her house.
A singular incident occurred on
the farm of Alfred Graham, near
Aurora. His binder was unhitched
from at noon and the oiled -cloth
Dover left folded on the table.
Shortly after smoke was seen ari1•`
ing and reaching the place the
Dover. was found on fico. A few
minutes more and the machine
would have been destroyed.
George Hunter, of the 10th coo -
cession of Blenheim, has a 7 year
old boy of whom he may bo prom.
This bright little fellow hasrecently
cut 40 acres of wheat and oats'
with at self -binder. The boy has
done this without any asetstauco,
and the work has bean pronounced
first-class by many persons who
have beau and examined it.
mmThe hop Drop in Prince Edward
county will be a.fa'i.lure, owing to
the drought.
Brantford is exerting itself to ob.
lain a supply of water for domestic
purposes•
A 300111. boar was captured at
Oreemore, Grey oouoty, on a Stan.
day morning recently.
A steer belonging to Michael
O'Boyle, Fergus, dropped dead the
other day, overcome by the heat.
It is estimated that 25,000 pee.
plc have already passed their sum-
mer holidays in Muskoka this se/t-
een.
Prince Devawongoe and the
Prince Royal of Siam are taking a
trip over the C. P. R. frot] Montreal
to Vancouver, from which port they
will sail for Yokohama and home.
Delhi Reporter:—Last'epring W.
Griffin, this place, repaired his eel.
lar and put in a thick Dement floor.
During the past few weeks a couple
of hills of potatoes have crowded
the flooring up and are growing for
all they aro worth.
George Beeaant, of Godericb, lent
a stranger $18 while in London, re-
taining as security a check whish
the stranger was unable 10 get Dash'
ed at /bo moment. Of course the
stranger was a swindler, the check
was bogus, and Mr. Beesant lost
bis .$18.
The Ingersoll Sun says;—Solo•
mon Peter Hale is back from non•
ferenoe at St. Catharines. He was
making a few friendly calla with bit
coat sleeves at half mast and'bis
venerable hat tilted back al an angle
of 60 degrees ; exposing his noble
and intetleotual.forehead book as
far as the centre of his eranium.
The St. Tbomaa Jonrni,l is rose-
popsible for the following -Frank
Farley 1011 31. 'Thoma..'for .Parj
Stanley bytrain, enirueding .his dog
"Bang" who was at the station; 10
a friend M bake home. Ten dint
Wes after the train arrived' at the
Port. "Bing" pub in hia•appearance,
panting and ,tired, having, followed
the train all the way down. '
The Glenmeyer correspondent of
the Tilsotiburg-•Ohserver., aaye:—
Ben Birdsall came near losing a
fine horse in a quasi 'way lately..
Mrs. John Walere, while out sheet',
ing woodohndke a few days ago, shot
at one an& the ball. neat .through
the woodohuok and siiuok•:one`ot
Mr. Birdsall's hornet nearly` killing
it. Women should be careful where
they ore phooting when out hunt-
ing.
Edward Beane, an old man living
in S1. John, N.B. is investigating
the merits of his claim to an est'a'te
worth $10,000,000 left Texas dtq
bje it:. man named'1'hcnioe Beane,
whom 'he is confident iv'hie long.
unheard of brofher'''Thos Bean
diridelt hie millions among the nd•
groes, on Lie ,o®tales on oondition
that no heir wasfotind The Bean's
family 'belong lit= Fredericton and:
Thomas left for Tit*iip f fry yeare
ago Edward Beanq, wlto rg loop•
ins • np.the 4ass ,i's`stow l o yarn of
age, but has a family who woiiI!d,'
inherit` the properlyr should 11 "lie
found to belong?tioorbs familnt rry
Two' imenw rg gnf;dii ing;oyerr
the Arthur bridge, near tb'atvilleige:
Part, 'of the'rraflingr wail oif;•ead
through its being off they were up•.
set tnto'the'river'andrnjured. Qiie
of them was saved from.drowing•ljy
the.beroio act of a Mrs: Drake, who
tt enito'bis rescueat the'EA' of her
own'1ife: ' The mon recovered some
$3,000 from bheootperation. Tho
lady who acted so bravely has been
an invalid over since, liavingoaught
a severe Cold' through louping into
the water. The man whose life she
saved bas not, it is said, seen,fit to
repay her in any way for the great
service rendered him: '
MIS. :Robert McIntyre, of BIand-
milord township, :Perth, is perhaps
the eldest surviving pioneer in that
dietriot. She was born iu the
county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1796.
With her husband she emigrated. to
Prince Edward 'Island in 1881
wbere they romaiued twelve years.
In 1843 they came West and 'cot•
fled in Blanshard, then, an almost
unbroken forest, 'Three yoius after-
warde ' her husband Nvas kilted' at
their own baro raising, and all alone
with her little family she was deft
to brave the liardshipa of the Pion—
eer's life. Her lndoniitable pluck,
however, never faltered, she felt ehe
had a duty to perform, and she did
it nobly. Two years ago'elio was,
thrown out of it buggy, her Collar
bone broken and one of het elbows
dislpcated but recovered from the•
injuries as if she had been a child,
Mid. today, she feels no troeo of
them whatever. 'She reacts Without
giaeeos, and is as nimble one foot as
many fifty years younger.. She has
hoe three eons and one daughter
living, 82 grandohildreu and -seven -
aeon great-grandchildren.
EAST HU RON
Carriage Works
tTAM S B'.7 Y,E E S,
-^t5ANUFACTU10E1l OF—
CA13111AGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, ETC„ ETC„ ETC,
All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing ailed Painting promptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
REFrltENons.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Curt and Wm. Mc-
Kelvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewar and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blaghill, Brus-
sels ; Rev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnberry.
REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTH OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
CASH FOR ECCS!
HAVING OPENED OUT AN
Egg Emporium, in Grant's Block, Brussels,
Next Door 1.o the Post Office,
I am prepared to Pay OABH for any quantity oflEggs.
BRING ALONG ALL YOU HAVE
and Remember the Stand. q�� ��
JOHN OnDIC .
Grist and Flour Mills !
The undersigned ned 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 Food .always on. Rand.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
WM. MILNE.
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