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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. '=immix 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. 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