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POSITIVI1 ENGAGEMENT.
You needn't ask Nan to a party,
A dinner or flve o'olook tea, •
Throe 'weeks from to -day, which is
Thursday,
F oa "engaged" rind "at home" ohe will
be.
She set her white Brahma this morning,
In a box with sweet hay fora bed.
On a dozen great eggs, all oefluttor,
W bh plwuy wings softly outspread.
The hen looked so proud and important,
With her treasures hid under her
breast ;
Every feather alive if you touch her,
As if warniog you off from her nest.
And the capable oreature will sit there,
Come sunshine, come storm, or what
may,
With hor wings and her warmth"and her
wisdom,
Till exactly three weeks from to -day.
And then, oh, the downy soft treasures,
The dear little yellow round things,
That will break from the shells and
come peeping,
And stretching their email helpless
wings.
011 ! you needn't ask Nan to a party
Or a dinner or five o'clock tea,
•Three weeks from today, which is
Thursday,
For "at home" and "engaged" she will
be
A BABY'S COMMAND.
Just three years old was our baby,
A little town maid was she,
A grass -plot to her meant country,
A fountain the boundleak sea.
For all of her tiny life time
Had passed midst the houses high,
Whose tops to her childish fancy,
Were part of the arching sky.
So one August day when his sunohip
Was baking the city brown,
We carried her off to the seaside,
Away from the breathless town.
Stripped hor of socks and slippers,
Regardless of freckles and tan,
And told her to go and frolic
As only a baby can.
Ent she stood with her wee hands folded,
A spook on the sandy shore,
And gazed at the waves advanoing
With thundering crash and roar.
We knew that some thought was stirring
The depth of her little brain,
As she listened to God's great organ
Pealing its grand refrain.
At last in her clear child's treble
As sweet as a robin's trill,
With one little finger lifted,
She cried to the sea "Be still 1"
Ah, dear little fair haired baby,
Like you in this mortal strife,
There's many s one made weary
And stunned with the waves of life.
But the billows of both, my darling,
Are moved at the Master's will,
And only His voice can hush them,
By whispering, "Peace be still 1"
THE LAMENT OF THE ALLI-
GATOR.
"What trouble can be greater,"
Asks a frightened alligator,
"Than has happened to our family of
late ?
My brother and my cousins
Have been massacred by dozen ;
And, in truth, I fear the same unhappy
fate.
"We are now the ruling passion
Of those who fashion
Impliaity in every lateet craze,
And the money market eaters
To this taste for alligators,
And seeks to serve us up in tempting
ways.
"What makes the matter worse is—
Besides the bags and purses
Which ingenious wretches make from
out our skins,
Besides the boots and slippers—
Our teeth (those pearly nippers)
Aro set with gold and worn an jewelled
pins.
"If they catch us young and tender,
Our chances are as slender
As if our precious skins wore tough and
old ;
For they killed my baby sister,
And before WO really missed her,
She was stuffed, and for a 'paper weight
was sold.
"It fairly makes me shiver,
When I Drawl from out the river
To take my swept siesta in the sun,
To think of all the dangers
We risk from sporting strangers
Who murder us for profit or for fun.
"One day I met a tourist ;
His aim was not the surest,
But he hunted me with ardor so intense,
In a momentary madness,
To my everlasting, sadness,
I had to eat him up in self-defence.
'Now it seems that my aggressor
Was an erudite professor,
Engaged in zoological parsuit
Of a Indus arocodilus
(As the scientists may style us)
just to teaoh'the young idea how to
shoot.
"So I might have gone to college
With this man of wondrous knowledge,
And be utided a scientific room,
Where my scaly skin for ages,
In the company of sages,
Would have earefdlly preserved its
youthful bloom." -
THE DEPREDATING HEN.
Of all the things in nature that afflict
the sons of mon,
There is nothing that I know of beats
the depreciating hen ;
If you see a wild-eyed woman firing
brickbats from the shod,
You can hob a hen has bursted up hor
little flower bod.
She plunders and she scratches, she
oaoklos and she hatches,
And forty thousand cowboys oonldn'l
koop her in n pen';
She was sunt on earth to fret us, to ex•
eoriato the lettuce ;
She's a thoro' going nuisance, is the dap•
redating hon.
I threw a Uriok and missed her, as she
Bustled out my beans,
But Julius Caesar's statue was smashed
to smithereens ;
I saw her digging rifle pita whore I'd
put my pansies in,
I fired a good sized rock and hit my hired
man on the shin.
She bursts all bounds and shackles, she
giggles and she cookies,
She makes me say some earnest things I
haven't time to pen,
I never used bad language, but now I'm
filled with anguage,
Alma 1 I've broke the record, thro' that
depredating hen.
But now tiro' out my cabinet there floate
a pleasant smell,
.And the reason for that perfume isn't
hard to tell ;
For when I rose this morning, saw my
cabbage bed a wrack,
I caught that depredating hon and fierce-
ly wrung her neck ;
I hear her fizz and crackle, no more
she'll soratoh and cackle,
Or make my summer garden look like
some hyena's den,
She far too long has bossed me, she far
too much has coat me,
I'll oat at luncheon time to -day a hund-
red dollar hon.
The Workings of Prohibition.
The following letter was writteu
to a prominent citizen of Chattano-
oga by Ben. E. Greeu, of Dalton,
who is well and favorably known
there, and whose figures cannot be
disputed. It is in accord with the
universal experience of every city
that has tried Prohibition :—
Dalton, Ga., July 16, 1887.
DEAR Ssa.--Yours asking for
points and facts, showing results of
Prohibition in this town and coun•
ty, received last night, and reply de-
layed to got from the ordinary and
Clerk of the Superior Court the ex-
act figures, as follows :—
The cost of holding the Superior
Court is for jurors, bailiff,
clerk and sheriff, per day$110 00
For incidentals (estimated) 10 00
Total per day $120 00
Before Prohibition the court sal
twice a year (April and October),
always four and frequently five
weeks at ooh session, and many
oases were "not reached." Since
Prohibitiod its sessions have been
shorter and shorter, until now there
are only twenty-six oases, old end
new, for trial on the docket, of
which eleveu only stand for hearing.
And they are of such character that
the whole business of next October
term can be dispatched in three or
four days.
Before Prohibition the jail fees
averaged over $150 per month.
Now they are less than $25 per
month. For months at a time
there is no one in jail. There are
now only two in jail, a negro for
stealing, and a w hite man for sell-
ing liquor.
BEFORE PROHIBITION.
Court expenses for eight weeks
(April and °otobar) were per
annum - 95,760
Jail fees 1,800
Total 97,560
eINOB PROHIBITION.
Court menace for two weeks
(April and October) are
per annum 91,680
Jail fees 800-1,980
Saving the county in court
expenses and jail fees
per annum 95,580
To this must be added the saving
of three to four weeks' time to jur-
ors, witnesses and other atteudanbs,
at those periods (April and October)
so important to the crops.
The only argument urged m fav-
or of licensee (if it can be galled
argument) is that the city would
get from the liquor dealers the
money for licenses, and from the
country people and strangers the
fines for disorderly conduct produo.
ed by liquor. But the saving in
court expenses and jail tees is more
than a set-off against license fees
and fines, while the money former-
ly apent for liquor now goes to our.
merchants and grocers, to make
cheerful instead of sorrowful homes.
HOW TO CATCH COLD,
Go to an evening party in a dress
suit without putting on heavy under-
wear to compensate for the lightness
of the cloth.
Sit in a street car next to an open
window.
Leave off your heavy undercloth-
ing oil a mild day.
Take a hot drink before going out
into the cold or damp air.
THE BRUSSELS POST
Let the boys romp at school due•
ing recess time without their hate.
Sit in the paseage or near an en-
try after dancing for half an hour,
Sit in u barber shop in your shirt
eloovos while waiting to be shaved.
Put on a pair of thin shoes in the
eveniug when you go to oall upon
your girl.
Fail to change your shoes and
stockings after coming in on a rainy
dayHave your hair out and sham.
p000d just as a change takes plane
in the weather.
Wear one of the ladies' new out•
away coats without a chamois or
flannel vest underneath.
Throw your overcoat open on n
blustering winter day to show off
your 11100 new necktie.
Send the children out in autumn
for exercise iu short, thin stockings
and short skirts.
Take a hot bath in the evening
and sit up in your room to finish
the last pages of an exciting novel.
Throw off your heavy coat when
you roach the office in a great hurry
and put on your thin knockabout.
Go down to breakfast without a
wrap on a chilly morning before the
fires have got fully started,
Put the window of your sleeping -
room up before you go to bed,
especially if the window is near the
bed.
Run a square to oatcll a street
car and take off your hat for a few
minutes, to cool off, when you
catch it.
Go out into the lobby during a
theatrical performance and promen•
ade around without your overcoat.
Do your book hair up high when
you have been accustomed to wear
it low and go out on a windy day.
Take a long bicycle ride and
;stand for a while describing and
showing off the beauties of your
machine.
Come in from a rapid gallop on
horseback and stand talking in the
open air to a friend for five or ten
minutes.
If you are bald-headed or have a
very susceptible back, sit during
grand opera near one of the aide
doors.
THE TREATING HABIT.
If we Americana treat each other
to entirely superfluous drinks, why
not to groceries, articles of clothing,
mutton chops and hardware ? I
wonder how it would work in the
way of medioide. I go into a drug
store for a quinine pill. I meet
there my friend Luoian Van Bumble•
bug, who is in search of a porous
plaster. Lucian insists upon my
taking a pill with him. I do so.
Lucian must then take another
plaster with me. He does eo. In
comes Freddie de Boyster for his
noonday dose of cod-liver oil. He
swears he cannot dose himself
alone. I tell him I have already
had two pills and am feeling pretty
comfortable. but Freddie insists. I
introduce Van Bumblebug with his
double plasters. Freddie sets them
up. I get another pill, Van a third
plaster, and Freddie all the cod
grease his breathing mLubin ery
really needs. Von Bumblebug then,
being a good fellow, orders another
fish toddy for Freddie, a fourth pill
for me, and an entirely superfluous
plaster for himself. It is now in-
cumbent on me to set them up in
Fred's honor, and we gel another
dose all round. Just at this junc-
ture iu comes jolly George Bolivar,
who has the jumping toothache,
and two jolly friends with heart dis•
ease. He introduces me io his
friends, I introduce him to my.
friends, and then the real pleasure
of the day begins. Van Bumblebug
can't stand another plaster, -and
t n vary a little o lohioum• I v y the
pills with a little aconite and gin-
ger ; Freddie is full of cod-liver oil
to the ears, but takes podophylin
straight—we have the pleasantest
sort of a time, sample every drug
in the shop, and go home with
seventeen distinct symptoms, and
amelfing like a case of cholerra.
Now, really, why Should Lucian,
ht the first plane, demand the right
to pay for my yill ? It can save me
nothing, for I am compelled by the
saored laws of Treat to at 01100 in-
sist on hie taking a second plaster.
Freddie has weak lungs, and need-
ed only one touch of cod liver; but
before he leaves we pump.
so.
full he feels like a Standard Oil
Company. There is something
wrong in this eyetem. I knew
there was something wrong with my
system next day, Isn't it a little
absurd ? Tho stolid Englishman
pays for his own drink. So does
the obattering Frenchman, and the
German would be insulted if you
settled forhie beer in a public place.
The custom 18 purely Amorieau,
and simply a villainy. If I wish
one noonday drink, and on entering
the place lind there six men I know
but eligbtly, why should any one of
them claim the right io place nee
under an obligation ? To discharge
the obligation, I must take another
drink and pay for maven. There is
no hospitality on either side. I give
Dr. Crosby this pointer :—Get 1,000
young men to paste in their bats a
resolution neither to treat nor be
treated, and 1 believe more sobriety
will result than would have prime
from this lamented and vetoed bill,
—Henry Carleton in the New York
Woild.
THE DOLLAR.
Ste ellstory fromtae neglnninr antic
Now—The Origin or the Name.
Our word dollar dates back to
1785, when a resolution was passed
by Congress which provided that it
should be the unit of money of the
United Status. Another resolution
was passed in 1785, August 501,
providing that it should weigh 875.64
grains of pure silver. The mint
was established in 1792, and then
required to coin silver dollars con-
taining 871.25 grains of pure silver.
This was due to the influence of
Alexander Hamilton. No dollars
were coined until 1794, and then ir-
regular. They are worth now $100
each. In 1794 the coinage of regu-
lar dollars began. Our coin was
an adaptation of the Spanish milled
dollar, a coin very popular where -
ever the Spaniards travelled. The
coin was called a "piastre," mean-
ing a fiat piece of metal ; it is
synonymous with piaster. It ie
supposed that the Spaniards took
the German "antler" and palled it
by the name of "piaster." The
word dollar is entered in Bailey's
English dictionary of 1745, and was
used repeatedly by Shakespeare at
the beginning of the 17th century,
especially in Macbeth, it 2, 62:
"Till she be disbursed * * *
$10,000 to our general use." (See
also Tempest, it 1, 17). The quer•
tion where Shakespeare found the
word dollar is answered by the fact
that the Hanseatic towns maintain-
ed a great establishment, called the
Steel Yard, in London. The Steel
Yard merchants were mostly North
Germans, who would call the Ger-
man thaler as it was spelt, 'dale -ler.'
The same merchants occasioned the
word sterling, au abbreviation of the
word "esterliag." As the Hanseatio
trade was particularly brisk on the
Baltic and in Ruesia the standard
coins of Hansa merchants were call -
e3 esterlings, and sterling came to
mean something genuine and desir-
able. The word dollar is the Eng-
lish for thaler, the first of which
was coined about 1485, and corre-
sponds quite closely to our present
American silver dollars. The word
thaler means "coming from a dale
or valley," the first dollar having
been coined in a Bohemiam valley
called Foachimsthal. 11 was under
Charles V„ the Emperor of Ger-
many, King of Spain and Lord of
Spanish America, that the barman
thaler became the coin of the world.
Manitoba harvest reports oon•
tinue most satisfactory.
The Canadian cricketers were
beaten at Liverpool by six wickets.
The missing passengers and
members of the orew of the City
of Montreal have been picked up.
Still another injunction against
the Red River railway has been ap•
plied for. The bearing in the
Browning case has been postponed
till Sept. 7.
The Government organ in Win-
nipeg was, it is said, paid $10,000
in cash by a Canadian Pacific di-
rector to keep quiet on the Disal-
lowance question.
A young woman arrived at Hali-
fax the other day with a letter of
introduction to a house of surplus
reputation and was taken in charge
by the police.
Mise Sarah Cordingly, near
Streetsville, is considered the best
lady shot in Halton county. The
other day she killed amoueber crane
on the wing.
Robert Kennedy, son of the late
David Kennedy, deems to be pur-
suing in Australia a successful car-
eer as o Scottish vocalist. His en.
tertainmonts, eimiliar to those giv-
en by his father, drawing large
crowds and aro highly commended
by the Australian press.
James T. i3redin, of Milford,
writes : At Main Duoks, Lake On-
tario, on Wednesday, August 17, a
pigeon of a light blue o'er, with a
brass ring on its leg marked B 3,-
184, flew into a dwelling and ap-
peared quite at home. There aro
many suppositions concerning it,
but they are only conjectures as�
yet. 1
EAST HURON
Carriage Works
JAMES BMJ• -"ERS,
--:iIANUPACTURett
CARRIAGE S, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
13UGGIES, WAGONS, ETC., ETO., BTO.
All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing and Parotinj promptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should OaII before
purchasing. -
RnrEnnuons.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Curt and Wm. Mc-
Kelvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brower and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brus-
sels ; Rev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnborry.
REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTII OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
CASH FOR EGGS!
HAVING OPENED OUT AN
Egg Emporium, in Grant's Block, Brussels,
Next Door 1,0 the Post Office,
I am prepared to Pay CASH for any quantity ofjEggs.
BRING ALONG ALL YOU HAVE
and Remember the Stand.
JON Ritaxuaroic..
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 now ones
as possible. Chopping done.
Flour and Peed Always on Eaad.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
WM. MILNE.
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