HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-26, Page 3AUGUST 26, 188 7.
A REWARD,
.A. poor tittle doll's mamma,
With anxious troubled air,
Cama slowly trotting down the street,
A•looking bare and there.
"Yep, ma'am. I loot her yesterday
(She was --the dearest doll t
She wore her new lane bonnet,
Her best blue dress, anti—all.)
*'Between my hound and Grandma's
Yestorday morning early,
Her eyes would shut and'opon :
Her hair was real and curly,
"She was my birthday present,
I'll give my playthings all—
Yee, ma'am, I'llgive you every one—
To find my darling doll,
"I'll give you all my picture books ;
I'll give my new gold obain ;
And --all the pennies in my bank—
To bring her bask again."
Oho paused ; her tearful baby fano
Looked old with melancholy ;
"111 come and be your little girl
If you will find my dolly."
TO TELL THE AGE OF A HORSE.
To tell the age of any horse,
Inspect the lower jaw, of course,
Tho six front teeth the tale will tell,
And every doubt and,fear dispel.
Two middle "nippers" you behold,
Before the colt is two weeks old,
Before eight weeks two more wilt come;
Light months the "corners" mit the gam
•
The outside grooves will disappear
],'rom middle two in just one year.
In two years, from the second pair ;
In O'heo, the corners too are bare.
At two the middle "nippers" drop,
At three, the second pair can't stop.
When four years old, the third pair goes,
At five, a full new set ho shows.
The deep black spots will pass from view,
At six years, from the middle two;
The second pair, at seven years,
At eight the spot each "corner" clears.
Arom middle "nippeaa" upper jaw,
At nine, the blank spots will withdraw,
Tho second pair at ten are white,
Eleven finds the "corners" light,
As time goes on, the horsemen know
The oval teeth three -sided grow.
They longer get, project before,
Ti11 twenty, when we know more.
HOW EASY IT IS.
Now easy it le to spoil a day !
The thoughtless words of cherished
friends,
The selfish act of a child at play,
The strength of will that will not bend,
The slight of a comrade,' the scorn of a
foe,
The smile that is full of bitter things—
They all eau tarnish its golden glow
And take the grana from its airy wings.
Itow easy it is to spoil a day
By the force of a thought we did not
cheek 1
Little by little we mould the clay,
And little flaws may the vessel wreck,
The carelese waste of a white•winged
hour,
That held the blessing we long had
sought,
The sudden loss of wealth or power—
And lo ! the day is with illinwro_nght.
ow easy it is to spoil a life—
And many are spoiled ere well begun—
In some life darkened by sin and strife,
Or downward course of a cherished
one ;
By toil that robs the form of its grace
And undermines till health gives way ;
By the peevish temper, the frowning
face, •
The hopes that go and the cares that
stay.
A day is too long to be spent in vain ;
Some good should come as the hours
go bv—
Some tangled masa may be made more
plain,
pome lowered glance may be raised on
high,
And life is too short to spoil like this,
If only a prelude it may be sweet ;
Let us bind together its threads of bliss
And nourish the flowers around over
feet.
AGES OF RULERS.
Popo Leo XIII ie 76 years old.
King Louie of Portugal is 49.
Christian IX, of Denmark, is 60.
Charles, King of Boumsoia, is 49.
Queen Victoria is 68 years of
age.
Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
ie 62;
Emperor Francis Joseph, of
Austria, is 57.
King William III. of the Nether.
laude, is 70.
Oscar II, King of Sweden and
and Norway, is 58.
Emperor William, of Germany,
is 90 years old,
ORIGINAL THINGS.
The first bouee ever numbered in
London was one abutting east of
Northumberland house, Strand.
The first advertisements known
of in England were 111 the shape of
small bills Affixed to the doors of
St. Pattl's Church.
The first play -bill ieauea front
Drury Lane Theatre was on April,
8, 1668, the piece represented being
"The Humorous Lioutennnt."
Tho first royal letter was written
by Hoary V, to the Bishop of Dur-
ham, Feburiiry 10, 1418.
The first book containing mucioal
characters was issued in 1495 from
the prase of the celebrated "Wynken
de Worse."
The first record of a judge's salary
gives £188 18s 4d as the stipend of
Thomas Littleton, judge of the
Ring's bench , 1.466.
The model of the first English
steam vessel was laid before the
Board of Admiralty in 1780.
The first Italian lady who sang
in public in England was Francesca
Margherita de 1'Pi,pine, who appear•
ed in various operas iu 1698.
The firet striking clock was im-
ported into Europe by the Persians
about the year A. D. 1300. II was
brought as a present to Cbarlemagne
from Abdelia, King of Persia, by
two mocks of Jerusalem.
The first English newepaper was
the English Mercury, issued an the
reigu of Queen Elizabeth, and was
in the shape of a pamphlet. Tho
Gazette of Venice was the original
model of the modern newspaper.
The first bread was made by the
Greeks and the first windmill by
the Saracens.
Turupikoe were originated in
1267, the sum of ono penny having
to be paid for each wagon passing
through a ceitain manor.
The first toll for the repair of
English highways was imposed in
the reign of Edward III, and was
for repairing the road between SI.
Giles and Temple Bar,
The first Lord Mayor's show wan
in 1458, and Sir John Shaw was the
first to hold a feast in the Guildhall,
1501.
The Earl of Arundel (temp.
Charles 1) was the first person who
brought to Eugland from Italy the
new way of building with brick.
Surnames were first adopted in
the reign of Edward the Confessor.
The first idea of electricity was
given by the friction of two globes
of quicksilver, in the year 161.7.
Linen was firet made•in England
in 1248, and only worn by the lux-
urious.
The first glass window in ling -
land was one put in an abbey about
680. Glass windows, however, did
net become general for many hun-
dred years, and as late as 1577 the
glass casements at Ainwick Castle,
the Duke of Cumberland's seat,
were regularly taken down when
the family were away from home.
The first record we have of coal
is about 800 yenta before the Christ-
ian era. Coal was used as fuel in
England as early as 852, and in
1284 the first charter to dig for it
was granted by Henry III to the in-
habitants of Newcastle -on -Tyne.
The firet English almanac was
brought out at Trinity College,
Cambridge, in 1847, and the first
printed almanac appeared in Lon-
don about one hundred years later.
The first balloon was made by a
Jesuit about 1620. The idea was
revived in France by Mr. Monlgol-
fier in 1788, and introduced in Eng-
land the following year.
Books in their present form were
first made by Attulue, Ring of Ber-
gamue, in 1787.
Recipes.
Chocolate Cookies.—One cup of
butter, two cups of sugar, three
cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of
grated chocolate, one-halfteaspoon-
ful of cream of tartar. Boll thin
and bake in a quick oven.
Lemon'Jelly.—The yollta of two
egge, one cup of sugar, one cup' of
water, one teaspoonful of corn
starch and the juice and grated
rind of one lemon ; nook till thick.
Thie is nice for layer cake.
Yankee Muffins,—To one quart
of milk add one gill of yeast, one
tablespoonful of salt with four or
five eggs beaten ; and flour suffi-
cient to make a thick batter ; bake
in muffin bags. Serve with butter.
Lemon Soda Cato. ---Ono cup of
sugar, one tablespoonful of butter,
two eggs, one halt cup of sweet
milk, ono teaepoon of soda, two tea•
spoonfuls of cream tartar, one pint
of flour measured after sifting.
Puff Pudding.—Ono pint of boil-
ing milk and nine tableepoonfule of
flour ; mix first with a little gold
milk. When cold add a little salt
and flour, three well beaten eggs,
and bake in a buttered dish. Serve
at once.
Exoolleut Cake.—Take one cup-
ful of sugar, three cupfuls of flour,
one and a half aupfuls of milk, half
a cupful of butter and eggs ; mix
thoroughly, adding two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, Bake in n hot
aven, -
Eggloss Cake,—Two-thirds of a
trip of sager, two=thirds of it cup of
sweet milk, ono -third of a cup of
THE BRUSSELS POST
buttor, Iwo cups of flour and two
teaspoonfuls or baking powder,
Flavor to tante, and before putting
in the oven grate sugar over it.
Tea 'Cakes,—Bub together four
teaspoonfuls of butter and one cup
of sugar, add one well beaten egg,
one tablespoonful of Dream and two
cups of flour, iuto which has been
rifted two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, 13ake is email pans and
eat while fresh.
Beet Frittere.—Chop pieces of
steak or cold roast beef very fine ;
make a batter of milk, flout and an
egg ; mix the meat will it. Put o
lump of butler iu a.saucepan, let it
moll, then drop the batter into ft
with a Largo spoon. Fry until
brown, season with popper add salt
and a little parsley.
Cream Cake.—Ono half sup but-
ter or one cup sweet oruam, one and
a half cups of sugar, four ogge (one
beaten separately) ono half cup
sweet milk, two teaepoonfule cream
tarter and one teaspoonful soda.
Bake in a long pan. When done,
out open and spread between one
pint whipped cream and one cup
sugar. N'lavor with lemon.
Ice Cream.•—Tbxeo quarts of milk
nine eggs, four tablespoonfuls of ar•
rowroot and three cups of white
sugar. Sot the dish containing the
milk in a kettle of water, and when
hot add the arrowroot previously
wet in the milk, the sugar and the
ogge. Cook a few minutes and
flavor when cold. This will fill a
gallon freezer. Less eggs may be
need but your cream will not be so
nice.
Water Pound Cake.—One pound
of butter, one pound. of powdered
sugar, four eggs, one cupful of boil.
ing water, one pound of prepared
flour, flavor with lemon. Beat but-
ter, sugar and the yolks of the eggs
to a cream, then add the boiling
water and stir gently until cold,
ttieu the pound of flour with the
whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff
froth, the lemon Iaet ; bake one
hour. This cake cannot be told
from the real pound cake, and it
will keep two weeks.
HINTS.
An emetic that often proves valu-
able in threatened cases of croup, is
composed as follows :—Powder of
Ipecacuanha and powdered alum,
each one half teaspoonful. Mix with
water and repeat dose if 11 does not
act in ten minutes.
Sore throat also is common at
this time. An excellent gargle can
be easily made dissolving one tea-
spoonful of ohlorate of potash and
two teaspoonfuls of glycerine in a
tumbler of water. As a gargle this
is very soothing to the throat.
A sickroom should not be used as
a parlor to receive company in. Be
it child or adult, the excitement of
meeting friends is always followed
by great depreesion ; the more se-
vere the illness, the greater and more
dangerous the depreeeion.
Insomnia can be avoided by tak-
ing a short walk rmn:ediately before
retiring. A good and harmless sleep-
ing mixture, in extreme caeca, is
fifteen grains of chloral of hydrate
mixed with half an ounce of orange
peel syrup, taken at bedtime.
Ared-lead manufacturer of France
has discovered that the use of milk
at their rhombi, which he has made
obligatory on his workmen to the
extent of one litre daily, preserves
those employed in lead -works from
any symptoms of lead disease.
Take plenty of outdoor exercise.
God's sunlight and the fresh air of
Heaven are two of the best preven-
tives of eicknoss known to man --
add to these the healthy state of the
circulation induced by exorcise and
the enlivening effect on the mind,
and disease won't have much of a
foothold.
Mme. Blavataky, the famous
leader of the theosophiete, is as strict
in her diet as the most rigid observ-
er of the Mohammedan faith. She
ie, however, fond of sweet meats, fig
paste and almonds. The ono thing
she dreads above all others is corpu-
lence, and she takes every means
io keep her weight from increasing.
Great eaters never live long. A
voracious appetite, so far from being
the sign of good health, is a certain
indication of disease. Some dys-
peptics are always hungry and feel
hest when eating ; but as soon as
they have finished mating they en-
dure torments so distressing in their
nature as to make the poor victim
wish for death.
A leading Berlin physician, a
Prof. Frenzel, has lately advanced
the theory that those who must
smoke should smoke the cheap
brands, He claims to have discov-
ered that it is the higher priced to-
bacco that causes heart disease, so
often eolpplainod of by excessive
amoltere. Those who smoke cheap
cigars are rarely injured by theta.
When one's clothing bottomed
damp from exposure to the weather,
it is boot to change immediately.
Rub the skin with a dry, hard towel
until the body is in a glow all over,
13ut if it is impraciieable to change
the garments, oxeroiso moderately
so that enough heat may generate
in the system to dry the skin and
clothing without a chill.
txelle rat News.
A WowAx MA.xoa.•—Argonia is a
pretty little city of the third Blase ;
population, 500; incorporated two
years ago ; situated iu Summer
county, in the Southern part of
Kansas. It has attracted the at-
tention of suffragists by electing,
laelopting, a tady to the mayoralty.
lvlre. Susanna Madera Salter, Mayor
of Argonia, was born in Lemke,
Belmont county, Ohio. She emi-
grated with her parents to Kansas
and entered the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college ae a second -year
student, at the age of 17 ; remained
uearly three yeare, and was coin.
palled, by failing hearth, to leave
two months before graduation. At
20 she married L. A. Salter, a grad-
uate of the same college, and they
soon removed to Argonia, whore Mr.
Salter is practising law. Four
children have beau born to them,
and Mrs. Salter, with all her other
accomplishments, is a model mother,
wife and housekeeper. Her father
was the first Mayor of Argonia.
Mrs. Salter was elected by a two-
thirds majority—only one woman
voted against her. At the age of 27
this oduoated, womanly woman le
performing in person the duties of
Mayor. She is an officer in the
Argonia W.C.T.1;., much interested
in the enforcement of the prohibitory
law and in the beat means of sup-
pressing and eradicating the vices
that beset our cities.
To destroy the curculio on plum
trees, smoke the trees with sulphur,
or dust -them with fresh, dry lime.
A grape vine that is overladen
will nob produce the finest or earliest
of fruit. Thin out, caving the beat
branches.
Three bad results follow allowing
fruit trees to overbear. The tree is
permanently injured by its load ;
the quality of the fruit is injured ;
and the excessive crop lessens the
future product more than it inareae-
es the present crop.
M. Heilriegal• has ascertained by
a series of experiments that rye and
winter wheat germinate at 82 de-
grees of heat; bailey and oats at 85
degrees; Indian corn at 48 degrees;
turnips at 82 degrees ; flax at 85
degrees; the pea and clover at 85
degrees ; beets at 98 degrees ;
asparagus at 85 degrees; carrot at
88, and the bean at 40 degrees.
A man who knows says :—"In
hiring help on the farm look to the
habits. A smoker is likely to burn
your buildings a careless man will
waste and destroy twice his wages;
a passionate man will spoil your
horses and cows, and break more
than he earns ; an immoral man
will corrupt the minds of your child-
ren, and a man who drinks whiskey
is liable to all these ; a careful,
high-minded thinking man will make
your labors Light, will look after
your interests, and will earn his
money, whatever yon pay him.
For lack of proper kno,oledge of
the nature and habits of celery, most
of our farmers, after repeated at-
tempts, have abandoned all efforts
toward raising plants or growing it.
Almost any farmer who takes pride
in supplying his table with season-
able vegetable will tall you he line
tried to raise plants and has failed,
and has purchased plants and set
them, but they "had no luck," for
bhey all burned out. Certainly they
did, for they demand botb coolness
and moisture and got neither. Now,
had the intending growers, baying
made their 'ground both rich and
deep, stemmed out a trench two or
three inches in depth and sot their
plauts in it six inches apart ; giving
the ground around them a slight
mulch ; laid slats across the trench
upon which to lay a sixinoh•wide
row of boards, slabs, anything to
keep the burning mid -summer sun
off thetants from 10 a. m. until
p 9
p. m. (this vortical covering may be
removed es soon as the plants com-
mence io grow) ; meanwhile keeping
the,ground continually moist, they
would have been gladdened by the
sight of suel bunohee at the end of
the season as are seldomseen off
the exhibition table, simply because
they had moderated the surrounding
elements and given the plants 'a
chance to "make themselves at.
home,"
EAST IION
Carriage Works
TAM JS 8 2 PIRJB,
--mutu 'Ac'yr1n;in OF—
CARRIAGES, DEMOCJIATS, .EXPRESS WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, ETC., ETC., ETC,
411 made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing cdndlri Painting p"07nptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
Rrrl'gBFlvcEs.—llarsdon Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Curt and Wm. Mc.
K.elvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W, Little, G. Browar and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brus-
sels ; Rev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnberry,
REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTH OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
HAVING OPENED OUT AN
Egg Emporium, in Grant's Block, Brussels,
Next Door lo the Post Office,
I am prepared to Pay Casa for any quantity ofd t'ggs.
BRING ALONG ALL YOU HAVE
and Remember the Stand.
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Grist and Flour Malls !
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, Always on IIand.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
WM. MILNE,
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