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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-19, Page 31 ,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� q A n f 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. • b� bm Eg�n;ammg 0 iNv.m opfL�a�P`� • g0 OmM� a • 'o flgo.ammopwm E-1. reqt1�. a �u ,..1 •a1 rm_ 00tu• td Pr rod .mC�o1;',31,7'4P1§1-3-,1 tsp'm • N mei o3 o"yrotpe' ;rd.' Er, trip.. 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