The Expositor, 1869-03-19, Page 4'Wit() Ardt, used tlak Mariter's Com- out the reason, . I said in my last n
be that the mariner 8.. compass, V
When: was a Belle:4-1)0y' and ,stuclie d
. geography, used to wonder sometimes,
as I was poling over a large map of the
world,.--lic* it came to pass that such a
country a* Portugal had so many poss-
essions ia cliffirent parts of the earth.
- It is a, little kingdom, about' as large as
our State of Indiana. and contains only
about as many people a't the State of
New Yoe.: ; and these people, ,travellers
tell us, are not very industrioue, skill-
• An& yet th e old
map whic." ° nse to loek at seemed to;
be dotted all over with places marked,
'-Belongs te Portugal.' • *
It is not as surprising that this small
kingdom,
-this narr
should ha
:fill -enterprisin
this odd corner. of . Europe,
eV oblong ,slice .„ of %min,
ve gained poSsesSion of most
of those islands df the African coast,—
the Azores, 11,1!adeirds„ and: the Cape
Irerdes,-4because. they, are- not: very
- far from "portugal, and because theie is
; Le ath,er Christian country from- which
they cati be so conveiently reached.
Most these islands .are within sen.
ve
or eight I tindrederailes of its south-
-westren orner: But away down. the
_African east, in what is called Lower
Guidea, !he lend of ivormood dust.
end prec ous gums, we find a .great
re-
gionof c unpry belonging to Portugal,
_with_ a rrt-t!igese town in it,s. Por-
titgese, g
conducte
Vernor-seneral, and churches
1 • by Porttigese priests, _in
crowds o half -naked negroes ,and mul-
attoes bov low before the eross and the
ima,ge of the I;
Aad then, on the other side of Africa
there is another extensive region called
Mo ne`airie, which_ als9 belongs to
Portugal[ lier‘ Portugal 1mq a tens-
„itory a.s large as the State of 'Virg,ina,
from -vvhiCh are experted plerty of in-
digo and plenty of rare drug, fine woods
for furniture, elephants' tusks, the teeth
of the hippopotamus, and the horns'of
the rhinoceros ;.to sh,y nothing. oi com-
drop:things, such aserice, sugar, spice,
coffee, .'and coa.1 Here again, We find a
Pertuvsee ci.!-y of considerable Size with
gr eat barracks for soklierF, with store-
houses and wharves, a- ssilendid palace
for -the governor-general, •a cathedral,
• and seveilLarsinaller churches and con-
vente. _In this pity, wi ich. conSists of
. palaces fdr the Portugese and -huts-for
the -natives, there area. Perttigese bish-
op, Portngese priestS,. nuns and monks,
I-'ortugeSe judges: and courts. The
Iorta-004e have been- so lona estabished
in that country that one of their towns
has had time to go to decay. It is call-
- ed Melida, and yen may see there the
rains of Portugese churehes, convent,
storehouses, wharvesand palaces,
WhiCth were built three centaries ago.
s .But this is not all. If you. Should
• sail frora the ruined walls and wharves
of _,Kelincla, two thoudand miles to the
westward, across the oCean and enter
the harbor of Goa, on the,coast of In -
q --on would -find a , Portugese settle-.
Ment and city that would fill you With
still'greater astonishment: Neither the
English, nor -the Freneh, nor the Dutch,
have ever built in that part- .41f the
-world -Cathedrals or palaces so splendid
as tillage with which the Portugese havc
adorned. this city, -s,e far ft -Om their _na-
tive land. One clitirch there is decor
ated with beautiful paintings brought
from Italy, and the cathechal„is Iso ex-
. ceetlinglrsgergeous, and so vast in ex-
tent, that it Would not be out of place
in one of the principal cities of Catho-
lic Europ.e: -These buildtngs, it is true,
, are, going to decay,, but they show
what power the Portugese „ must have
had in India when they could spend
t• he,revenue of an Indian province -4p-
.
on one carivent or one _church: To this
-day-there is a Portugese yiceory resid-
ent there, and a Pertugese ,archbishop
and there is also a Portugese seminary.
for the 'edueation of priests.
ery
much as sse have it new; waS' InVellted
about the year 1330, and-, that -7 was
it that there are jugglers wishing to ex -
was clone with bt before the great, and miglay sae
going to tell what
after it was in the han-dS*of na,vigatOrs.
kids. They have been scpuitting fii6r
Well, the. reason why Portugal, a li tle long time, waiting with that silent
insignificant kingdom, held possess on!
[patience ono often notices in Orientals.
so valuable unreel:one in these dist tnt
parts of he world, is simply this: the
Port -nese were the firstto turn the
compass to account in trsvigation of tlie
ocean.—Our Young Folks, for 3farch,
EXPOSITOR.
Norrna,n Morse= ud, the
Jugglers.
Reaching our bungalow, we are `-,-toIcl
'
. SAYING "HATEFUL," Teerges.---e-what a
_strango. disposition is that which leads
people. to say 'hateful' thingfor the.
mere pleasure of saying them.. Yon are
never safe with Rich a person. When
yen have done your very best to please,
and are feeling kindly and pleasantly,
me
Then there is Macao, a Portugese
city_ in (Alma, Avnere again we -find am-
azing evidenees, in the form of churches,
convent, and, seminaries, Of the . power
one po sessed in this parCof the world
by Por wese. Indeed, it was at this
city dr Inacao that sCameons, the only.
*4=.Porttv peeknown to • the rest of
the wQr d. c.omposed the , only famous
out will pOp some bitter -speech, s
Underhand stab which you. alone c
Prehend—a Eneer which is masked,
which is too well alined to be misimder-
ts
stood. It may be at yourperson, yIour
mental_ failing your foolish habi of
thought, or some little secret of faith or
opinion confessed in a momentof
genuine. confidence. It matters not
how sacred it:may be to you, he will
have his fling at it ; nay, since the wish
is to inake.you, suffer, ,he is- all the
happier the nearer he touches your h4art
Just half a doza words, •onfy for the
1
pleasure of seeing a cheek:flush, an an
eye loose its brightness, only silo -en.
beeause he is afraid you are too ha py
or -too conceited. Yet they are werse
than so many blows. How niany
sleepless nights have such mean attacks.
caused. tender hearted idiots! How,
after them one awakes -with acheing
eyes and head, to remember that speech
before, evrything else—that bright,
sharp, well-ainaed needle of a speech'
that probed the very Centre of 3 -our
soul. 'There is only one comfort to be
taken. The repetition of such attacks
sbonweans your heart from the attacker;
and this once clone, nothing that he can
say -will pain you more.. •
,.... , ...
A IYIURDEBOUS SEA FLowER.—One of
the exquisite wonders of the sea is called
the opelte, and. is about as large as he
German aster ,looking indeedtvery much
like one. Imagine a very large double
taster, with ever so many long peta4 of.
a light green,, glossy as satin, and each
one tipped - with rose color. -Those
lovely petals do not grow quietly in
their places, like, those of the estore in
yourgarden, but - wave about in the
J•
water while the oplet generally clogs
to the rock. How- innocent and. le+ely
it looks on its reeky bed. Who would
suspect that it ° could eat 0,4 thing.
grosser dew or sunlight? But those
beautiful -waving arms, as . you call
them, have another use besides looking
31 prett . They have to provide food for
a large, open-mouth when is hidden
deep- , down a,mongst them—so well
hidden that one can seatcely find it.
Well_do they perform their duty, for
the instant a foolish littlQ fishlet ton-
ches one of the rosy tips, he is struck
with poison, as fatal to him as lieht-
i'
fling: He immediately becomes .numb
and in a moment slops struggling, and
then the other beautiful arms wrap
themselves around him, and he is
drawn into the huge, greedy month,
and is seen no more. Then the lovely
armsenclosed and waved again in the
water, looking as innocent and harm-
less as though they had never touched
a fish.
ut
,
poem, ick.that country has produ2ed.
Macao IN as givpn, by :the )Emperors of
China t� the mighty R..ing of Pertngal,
in return for some assistance -Which the
Portugese-Km°.°had rendered him 1n
driving piratesfrent the Chinese seas.
Why,, two hundred years age, there
was notitt bead in alt. the eastern world
that 4ould not bow low to the Portu-
gese uniferm : And millions of dusk -y
. . _
, human beings in Asia ancl Africa toiled
from youth to old age to enrich that
small and. (lista* Id cdom. In. Am -
too, is -Brazil, a cotintry con-
taining nearly four. millions of square
milek-rlarger than.the United States,
belonged, to Portugal until a
few years ago, Here. the Itortugese
language is still spoken Portu.oirese laws
artictisteras still prevail, and it is
governed byaneyoperpr sprung from
the royal family ef ,l'ortugal.
I used.to wossi r at these -things when
I had but a Slight knowledge of them
at school ;1)0 in later Years found
A. D/k.NGEROUS SEA.T ,FOR A PHILOSO-
ImEn.-4 little anecdote of Farady,
new, to ninty-nines folks out of a hund-
eedx the hundredth being he who reada
th6 printed precegedings of the lioyal
;S'oc;iety; in'one of the latest 'numbers
which th.are is a doh collection of bio-.
graphical facts, chiefly derived from
correspondence and note books of the
peilosapher.- It appears that he and
Sir Charles Lyell were sent as Gosiern-
wont Commissinerse to wtitche the in-
quest upon those who died. by the ex-
plosion in the Haswell Colliery, in 1.844.
Farady cress -examined the wintnesses
very pertinently. A.m.ong. other qu0-
tionS he Asked ho'iv the rate of flow of
air, currenr was” measured: An insVoc-
tor, in -'1:eplito6k a pinch of gitipo'W
4
der from a box, as if it were -snuff,' and
let it fall through the flame of a dandle.
His companion, with a watch noted the
time that the smoke took to travel a
certain distanCe. The method satiisfidd
Farady, but ,he rernalkecl upon the ,ca,r-
less handling of the powiter*,- and he
• asked where it was kept. "Ina bag
tightly tied," was the reply, '"Yes,
but where do you keep the bag ?"-
"You at -e sitting an it," ethe
callous miner. For the well-intention-
eld people, not being o-verstocked with
With soft chairs, had given. the conUnis-
sioner their best substitute for a cushi-
on. Farady's agility in Vet,Ctiting lus
leanored seat may be imagined—so May
his expostulations; which we are mild-
it is to them as if time was not, and
as it mattered little whether their
serene course across their shoaeless sex-
istence was masked by !minutes or by
months. So soon after landing in, Li-
the, some persons would deprecate an
intrusion upon them of such low cha-
racters as jugglers. But I must confess
it was otherwise with me 1 was glad
as a bey to see them, and to witness
their feats. In this strange life of Ours,
honest men. and cheats are mingled,.
and genuine -workers are mixed vp
with professional jugglers—men who
with sleight of hand • and "cunning
craftiness lie in wait to deceive." This
is true Of .everycountry, and, alas ! of
alIclasses. Why, then, should we not
see those who do not pretend to do
anything else than AO deceive us—if.
they can? The troop which waited
upon. us Certainly succeeded in doing
so'in so far at least as I Was concerned;
and I will tell- how it was. As 1 have
little capacity for solving riddles, 'un-
ravelling charades, or detesting tricks,
resolved, upon. this occasioni to gath-
er -up and to concentrate all that was
left of my brains, after the exposure to
the heat, and the desperate la.bor of
getting "aecnrate information." - So I
sat down within a few years of the
jugglers. p Through one of my friends, I
asked for the well-known Mango trick.
While the tom-tom was beating, and
thexipe playing, the juggler, singing
all the time in low axccents, smoothed
a place in. the gravel, -three or four
yrrbs before us.. Having thus prepared
a bed for the plant to grow in, he took
a basket and placecl it over the prepared
place, covering1b with a thin blanket.
The man hitaiself did not wear a bit of -
clothing, except .E1, strip round the lions.
The. time seemed to have come for the
detective's eye ! So just as he was be-
coming .rnare earnest in his song, and,
the tora-toin beat aud.the pipe shrilled
more loudly, I stepped fordward with
becoming dignity, and begged him to
bring tho basket and its cover to me.
The juggler cheerfuily complied. 1
examined the basket. It was made of
open wicker -work. 1 then examined
the cloth-co/el-Mg. Ic was thin, almost
transparent, and -certainly there was
nothing concealein it. 1 then fixed
my eyes on his strip of clothing with
such intentness that it was not possible
it could have been touched without dis-
covery; and bade him g� on. I felt
perfectly sure the trick could not sac-,
med. Sitting down, he stretched his
naked arms under the basket, singing
and smiling as he did. so f he then lifted
the bask -et off the ground, and behold
a green plant, about a Toot high .! Satis-
tieC1 with our applause, he went on
withhis incantations. After. having
sat a little, to give his plant time to
grow, he again lifted the basket, .and
the plant was now two feet high. He
asked us to wait a litule longer that we
might taste the fruit ! But on being
assured by. those who had seen the trick
performed before that this result would
be- obtained, 1 confessed myself "done"
withoutthe slgihtest notion of the
how. I examined the ground; and
found it was smooth and unturned.
Appearenily delighted with my spprise,
the juggler stood up laughing. One of
his friends then chucked a pebble to
hire, which he put into bis mouth.
Immediately the. same companion,
walking back -ward drew forth a coard
of silk, twenty yards or - so; in length.
But this was not all the discharge; for
the juggler, wfth his hands behind his
back, -threw forth from his mouth two
decanter stoppers, two shells, a' spinn-
ing top, a. stone, and several other
things, followed by a long jet of fire
"First Impre$iions of Bombay" by Nor-
. ;
man, McLeod, p. D.
ly infouaed were very expressive. l'or
the -rest of the trittl he sat, unlike -the
Ingoldaby cobbler's' wife, withou. a
cushion in his.chair.'
I A
A MAN E,ATEN BY OLVES.-11 man,
name not given, has been *eaten by
wolves on the Upper- Ottawa. The
Neavs is informed that the. unfortuate
gentleman was up one of the tributa-
ries of the Ottawa, and that. he was to
meet a team at a certain point. When
the driver with his team reached the
place of rendezvous, he was shocked to
find only the man.s boots and a few
shreds of clothing. The conclusion
arrived at was that the man had been
aten by waives. This conclusion was
confirmed by finding portions'of his flesh
left in the boots.
SIR WALTER SCOTT CENTENARY.—
Sir Walter Scott was born on the 15th
August, 1771 ; and it is *posed to
celebrate the event in England by a
grand centenary festival to be held
next August two years. The Burns
Clubs have just comemorated the 10th
anniversary of the Poet's birth ; aud the
social and public ga,thering,e of ten years
ago have been quoted in proof of the
ready enthuasiasm with which proposals
to do honor to tlieauthor of Waverly"
will be received.
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TAKE NOTICE
THAT JOHN HALDAN, . has been
appointed. Official Assignee for the eardity
of fluron. ,
Office at SEAFOR:Tn,--J. S. PORTER'S-
Office at Gonnarcir,--:Directly oppositsthe
Post Office.
Goderich, March 5th, 1868. i3 -ft
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PINE APPLE JELLY,
PEACH JELLY,
PEAR JELLY,
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AT
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atf.
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in Seaforth, frOM W..1s.1- WATSON.
Who is also Agent for the celebrated
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for facility of management, -neatness_ and.
durability of stitch, and. wide raaage of seams
and unrivalled as -a Family Sewing'Machine
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OFFICES TO LET.
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THEsubacriber begs to infoala the public
that he has just received a gregt variety
of Saddles and
Which he is prepared to sell
t Prices Almost Unparalleled.
0
LOOK HERE!
A Saddle, Bridle' and Martingale for the
small sum of
$8 000.!
In the way of Harness,
OF ALL RINDS,
He is, ra,s heretofore, in a position to give
his customers as good -value for their money -
as any otherestablishment in Ontario.
Quality of work and. materia.I employed.
indisputable: '
SHO.13 OPPOSITE _KIDD ii-
MalfULKINS.
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Seaforth, Feb. 12, '69. 634f.
FRANK PALTRID• GE'S
Old Established
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY!!
REMOVED!
-ANT numerous customers aarcl the pubiie,
_AL generally will please not forget that I
have Removed from the. Old Stand. to the
OPPOSITE SIDE 07 THE STREET,
Into Scottls New 3 story Brick Block, next
to Kidd. & Mlifulkin's store, and. directly ,
south of Hickson's new store, whcre I have
built the best Gallery in the County especi-
ally for my own work, 'being large and com-
modious and with the proper actenic light ;
being the only Gallery in Seaforth construct-
ed on true, photographic principles. The
only2ight th,cat can -reflect the true Peatures. 1;
flatter myself that 1 can satisfy all who:may t
call. Remember, I don't want your money'
for nothing; I am bound to please or no pay.
m
As an.y have had, p .
ictures Seaforth, but
were dissatisfied, having confounded my
name with another, I, would request if you°
want, a good picture, properly made an&
durable, that you ask for Frank Paltriclge.
Don't ask •for Paltridge's, only, but Frank.
Paltridge, I am thus explicit, because many
think they are going to get a picture made -
by Frank Paltridge; but by a mistake'in, -.-
not going to Frank P.'s, get sadly disaps _
pointed,
-ASK 70R, AND GO TO FRAN-K,,
In the Brick Block, up one flight of stairs-,
and turn,to the right.hand.
My specimens at the door are all my own
make, and are not bought or borrowed to
decoy the public.
Come any day, Frank is always at haw
andin Good Temper.
Pictures of deceased. -carefully copied into,
any kind of Picture desired.
Remember, it is to Frank Paltaidge's yet.*
have to go to get a good Photograph. New
and. fich Furniture, Scenery, &c., that -will
make your picture look twh, and -wort
sending to your friends. Who dots no
+know. FRANK PALTBIDGE
Sea.fo Jan. 6th.
;The No
•A.m ng the loss
trolls fire at Desbar
preasion of it so
West rerra nies,
this p*.e. Only t
plete opies, given
took place are: save
'V :IT able .and oldie
yet known of theser
title INTorth-West hot
s*t.ii! and climate to b
as ea,eable of sustain
mese .densly peopled
r3pe, u1d destribe
as einbraeine- iegins
an. -1 Germany tone al.
and _S itzeriand
es its inligniPeent
iu the eultivable
are Plaee River,
theusand miles th
lo)fr ;19i011e) athned )
the
with its two branche.
—The navigetion 7,s
mg with! but little
Fort Gary nearly to
tains, `a, distance of
opening up of COMMA
Lake Superior and 1
ment .upoi
etheme a.ppreved
niost economical in
-The pratiamility of
cussed-rit is ebb
ominic line in Britisl
as it would, over
throu0h low passes ii
tains, evould have ad,
running in. pak throt
and over wider .and
ranges farther to the
too, that a great ex
water WAS available i
and would admit of
veyed across. the Con
rate -s 013. OUT side, tha
one railway project°
constraction in the
Singing;
1,1. de Thorn has
communieation- to th
of Sciences, on the
singing fish' that inlet
as the rivers of Sou
=especially mentions
situated north of th
nicralda, in the rep
-where, being in a boa
starflek by a deep
which we attribute to
brit which upon enq
be a kind of fish'. ca
people of the countryfurther the sounds be
to reni-inel him of the
organ.--Ttese lieh Iis
fresh water, since ti
with in; the river A.
not more than ten n
color is white splinkl
and they- will continu
hours without notieb
tion.
THr,JEALO.T3SY00
are 'awfully jealous
should call this the
fault. See thenk wh
cineed, or when they
or croquet party ; 4ee
cal they look at each
• ently their eyes rovie
of their rival's dress;
the outspoken scorn
their scrutiny., '"Iro
.cione it Very veil, brit
fright of yonie1f, and
than you17- Watch.t
the more adrctired a
how excessively naugl
so much attention the
or Amy is about -w-ho
cluster. How boldsh
,she is I—and oh I h
Sometimesf if they
overpraise her enthus*
-ruse is „F„enerally too
ceive any one and s
it is,a clever feint thpt
is quitela.study to
which girls sha,ke h
take hands in the el
cool, impertinen
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