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EDITOR & PUBLISHER.
VOL.3, NO. 21,
SEA:FORTH, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1870.
BUSINESS CARDS.
MEDICAL.
RTRACY, M, D., Coroner for the County of
. Huron. Office and Residence—One door
East of the Methodist -Episcopal Church.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. . 53-ly
L. VERCOE,: M. D. C. M., Physician, Sur-
. geenaetc. Office. and Residence, corner
of Market and High Street, immediately in rear
of Kidd & McMulkin's Store.
Seaforth, Feb. 4th. 1870.
53-1y.
pR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Surgeon, etc.
Office,—Opposite Veal's Grocery. Resi-
dence—Main-street, North. 1,
Seaforth, iDec. 14, 1863. 53 - 1 y
JCAMPBELL, M. D. C. At., (Graduate of Me-
e) . Gill -University, Montreal) Physician, Sur-
geon, etc., Seaforth. Office and Residence—Old
Post Office Building, up stairs, where he will be
found by night or day when at home.
Seaforth July 15th 1869.
84-ly
LEGAL
riAMERON & GARROW, Barristers, Solicit-
kea ors in Chancery, &c. OFFI0E,—iEingston
St., Goderich. I
M. 0. CAMERON, J. T. GAREoW.
Seaforth, April 14, 1870. 53-tf
I3ENSON, & MEYER, Barristers and Attorney
at Law, Solicitors- in Chancery and insolv-
ency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Of-
fices,—Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents' for the
Trust and Loan Co. of Upper Canada, and the
Colonial Securities Co. of London, England.
Money et 8 per cent; no commission, charged.
TAS. H. BENSON, H. W. C. MEYER.
Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 53-ly
Aire AUG HEY & HOLMSTE A.D, Barristers,
Attorneys at Law'Solieitors in Chancery
and insolvency, Notaries Public and Conveyanc-
ers. Solicitors for the R C. Bank, Seaforth,
Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Co.
N. B. —$30, 000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms,
Houses and Lots for sale.
Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-tf.
-ph F. WALKER. Attorney -at -Law apd So-
licitor-iniChancery, Conveyancer, Notary
Public, &c. Office of the Clerk of the Peace;
Court House, Goclerich, Ont. .
N;13.4LMoney to lend at 8 per cent on Farm
Lands.
Goderich, Ja.n'y. 28. 1870.
112-1y.
DENTAL.
aeoaaaa'-'e;aa G. W. HARRIS, L. Tho. Arti-
ficial Dentures inserted avi h all the
latest inaprovements. The greatest
care taken" for tne preservation of decayed and
tender teeth, : Teeth extracted withdut pain.
Rooms over Collier's Store.
Seaforth. Dec. 14, 1898. - 1 y
HOTELS.
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SHAL-RP'S HOTEL, Livery Stable, and General
Stage Office, Main -street 11.L SHARP, Prop.
Seaforth, Jan. 8th, 1869. 53:tf.
C0MER01AL HOTEL, Ainleyville, James
Laird, proprietor, affords first-class ,accom-
moclation for the travelling public. The l larder
and bar are always supplied with the beet the
markets afford. Excellent stabling in connection
A inleyville, April 23, 18.69. 70-tf.
TR. ROSS, Proprietor New Dominion
. begs to inform the people of Seaforth and
the travelling community generally, that hekeeps
first-class accoiamoda.tion an every thing required
by travellers. • A good stable and, hostler
always on hand, Regular Boarders will receive
every necessary attention. .
Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869. 63-1y.
150RITISH EXCHANGE HOTEL, GoDERICH,
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WILLIAMS, (late of American Hotel, Warsaw, N.
Y.) Manager. This hotel has recently -.been new-
ly tarnished, and refitted thrmighout, and is now
one of the most enrefertable and conumodious in
the Province. Good Sanaple Rooms for Con:Liner-
eial Travellers. Terms liberal.
Goderich, April 14, 1870. 123-tf.
ARCHITECTS.
MAILL & CROOKE, Architects, etc. Plans.
0 and Specifications drawn correctly. Carpen-
ter's, Plasterer's, and Mason's work, measured
and valued. Office—Over J. 0, Detlor. & Co.'s
-store . Court -House Square, Goderich.
Goderich, April 23, 1869. 79-1y.
SVRIFEYORS.
& W. McPHILILIPS, Provincial Land Sur-
. veyors, Civil Eneineers, etc. All manner
of Conveyancing done withneatness and dispatch.
G. McPhillips, Commissioner in B. R. Office—
Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seaforth.
Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-1y.
AUCTIONEER:
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HAZLEHURST, Licensed Auctioneer fo
o. the County pf Huron. Goderich; Ont
Particular attention paid to the sale of Bankrupt
Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal
Terms. Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed,
Landlord's Warranta Executed. Also, Bailiff.
First Division: Court for Huron. •
Gaiderich; June 9th, 1869. 76. tf,
JS. PORTER, Seaforth, Ont. dealer in hides,
„ sheep skins, fursand-Wool. 'Dberal advance-
ments made on consignments. Money to lend.
Insurance agent. Debts collected. Highest
-price paid for green backs.—Office east side of
Main Street, one door north Johnson Bros',
Hardware Store. 122-tf.
PARTING.
The slimmer sky was overcast, 0
I knew the sunshine would not last;
We mused upon the golden past,
Together.
And. then we thought of what might be,
Of all the life-long misery,
The sunless days we should not see,
Together.
And ere I left my happy land.
"This is the last time we shall stand,"
I said, "my darling, hand in hand
Together.
, •
" And since we two may never wed,
Dear love ! how blessed to be dead,
And laid to rest ?" "Ah ! yes," she said,
"Together!"
LONDON STREET CHARACTERS.
How apt are people who visit foreign countries
to. interest themselves exclusively with the mate-
rial works of man, instead of observing man him-
self! In gazing at cathedrals, castles, palaces,
they are prone to forget that right about them is
the most curious sight of all—a community whose
manners and customs, in little things, are new to
them, and -should be most interesting. To my
mind, it is more interesting to ride, on the -top of
an omnibus, in London, from Kentish town to
Charing Cross, than to wander through Westmin-
ster Palace, or to climb to the cross of St. Paul's.
For from that eyrie, as it were, you may gaze
down upon an ever varying and shifting panora-
ma, W hi eh shows you in turn the many-sided
phases of the .London character. Here is the
cockney, the shopkeeper—what the French call
le pueple—en masse. You see a thousand faces—
all unmistakeably English, ruddy, hardy, straight-
forward and practical—yet faces which telltales
of widely divergent traits, and for each of whom
you may compose a seperate history. How diff-
erent are they from our own Yankee physiogno-
my ---and how different from the sallow, sprightly
Frenchmen and women! The shops, too, have
great interest; with their inexhaustible variety of
wares, many of them quite unfamiliar to theYan-
kee eye. And here let me note that of late you
see many more Yankee nicknacks and inventions
in the London shops than you used to do. "The
last American wonder !" stares me everywhere in
the face as I pass the great advertisement boards
on the Holborn Viaduct and in Farringdon street;
here and thererny eyes fall upon "The great Yan-
kee invention—the patent gridiron !" "American
bar-room—all the last New Yorkmixed drinks !"
"Real American negro troupe—consisting of for-
mer slaves in the Soutlaern. States"—and so on ad
infinitum. You have no idea- of the interest
which the Londoners of late—since the Nvar--take
in American affairs. American books are sold
everywhere ; you find American papers in every
newsroom and hotel Members of Parliament are
constautly quoting America as an illustration of
this or that policy, and American jokes form the
staple of three-quarters of the "fun" columns of
the weekly journals.
"‘ EARLY MORNING CALLERS."
To return to the London streets, for I have
wandered a little from them—every city has its
peculiar sounds and sights ; but in order to hear
and see them, you must not go to a sluggard.
You must take Poor Richard's advice, and be up
betimes. It is in the early morning ,that many
of the London " inetitutions," which have been
instituted these many centuries, are to be studied.
The poor folks who administer so many of the
little comforts to the Londoner, —the "early
morning callers," as they are named by the Lon-
doners themselves—must turn out of bed in the
small hours of the morning, while their patrons
are lazily ensconced among their feathers and
pillows. Among the unfashionable " morning
calls," to which London households are liable, it
is hard to say which has the precedence; perhaps
it is the sweep, or the washerwoman, or the char-
woman, who has come by -the earliest dawn of a
midsummer morning to begin turning the house
"out o' Windows," scraping and rubbing and mo-
ving furniture from celler to garret. The sweep,
if he is the first on the spot, begins his hoarse
morning song by starlight, to the accompaniment,
—not so very gratefuly to the inmates,— -of the
street door -bell and knocker. He rings and rings,
singing all the while, snow or no snow, until the
bolts are drawn, the door -chain falls, and he is
heard stamping his way down stairs. Soon there
is a portentous rumbling heard, near your head
through the wall, as if bricks and mortar were
parting conapany, ; it is the sweep's many jointed
broom clearing the chimney's throat, it rakes
and scrapes and rakes from fireplace to roof with-
out cessation, and you must bid good bye to your
"sweet second nap" for that morning at least.
His work over, the sooty operator pockets -his pay
shoulders his -bag, and you may hear his shrill,
hoarse cry, as he recedes from the house. lOn
Monday mornings you have no peace, for here is
the washerwoman. The London washerwoman
has not, to put the fine point on it, the patience
of Job, nor even of chimney sweeps. She has no
notion of etanding out there in the mist and. fog,
while the servant lazily puts on her dress. She
rings a stout, sharp, loud peal, and before that has
quite died out, she pulls at it again; and, that
still clanging, she grasps the knocker and drives
her assault home by a thud which startles every
Soul from his bed. The good lady does nothing
by halves,and it being just now, her object to
get into the house, she loses no energy in achiev-
ing her purpose. Besides, after her long walk
throegh the mingled fog anci darkness, she wants
that genial cup of tea—tea ! that universal resort
of the British matron, from duchess to beggar—
which is to preface her long day's work, and the
making of which will be the first thing that she will
attend to after lighting the kitchen fire—a duty of
which she always. relieves Biddy on washMg days.
If theworthy woman, after penetrating the house,
finds things to her mind, you hear nothing more
of her; but if anything perchance goes wrong—if
the cup of tea, proves a failure, or the weter butt
is frozen, or the flue is smoky—then she takes
strong measures with her tongue, which is, you
may be sure, a capable organ.
CH.tRWOMAN AND MILKMAN.
The charwoman is a far humbler individual.
She has been knocked about the world too much
to'have much boldness or self-assertion. - Her
Wandering life, -shifts, mild privations have taken
the fine British quality of self-assertion quite out
of her. She is generally the widowof some work-
ing -man, who has left her with a small family, in
whose support and bringiag up she is assisted by
the charitable; perhaps the out -door pittance
WHOLE NO. 125.
of the -work -house. Once a servant, she now cul-
tivates the patronage of her old mistress; is but
too glad to work for them by the day, and is
grateful for the trifles of food or clothing which
are often added to thelday's pay, for the sake of
her fatherless children. She looks forward to
the time when they shall be established in life,
and when she may be once more at liberty to re-
engage herself to one or other of her old mis-
tresses.
Between six and seven in the morning there is
a sharp pulrat the bell, followed at once by a
loud cry, at first very mysterious to the Yankee
visitor. It sounds like " Mee-uh !" It is the -
morning milkman, or rnilkwoman, who means to
say "Milk !" but you never would guess it. He
(or she) is the most regular an4 most methodical
-of the "early morning callers." Each milkman
has to supply some hundred and fifty families,
whose breakfasts depend for their comfortable
completion upon his punctuality. Biddy must be
up and waiting for him; and he is very peremp-
tory in insisting upon not beingodelayed. But he.
is, nevertheless, a good-natured soul; and if per-
chance Biddy does fail him for once, he will leave
the modicum of milk in a little can, stowed away
in some snug corner near the door, or lower it into
the area by a string and hook—she returning the
can when he comps round with the afternoon's
supply. In the London streets thepostmen with
their blue coats, red collars, and grey bags swung
ever their shoulders, are ubiquitous, and you are
always running across them. How aeon you will
receive your letters from them depends somewhat
on the distance you happen to be from the great
dingy -pillared General Post Office in St. Martin's
le Grand. Thousands of letters—especiallythose
addressed to sentimental young ladies of the up-
per class—are read • every morning in bed, and
suspect that it is no common treat; but my own
lodgings are too distant for that, and thepostman's
blunt double slam-bang ! on the street knocker
comes just about the time Biddy is mounting from
the kitchen, weighed; down with my breakfast
tray. Biddy, though, not over quick to answer
the ordinary summons to the door, is very impa-
tient, for some reason or other, to reach the door
when the postman kreacks • whether it be that
she has a sweetheart beyond the Atlantic, from
whom she expects a billet-doux, or whether the
postman himself has been particular in his atten.-
tions, it would be impeikinent to ask. Close upon
the heels of the postman comes the dustman, with
his hobnailed shoes Who seems oblivious to every-
body and every thing but his immediate business
—regarding housekeepers and maids merely in
the light of producers of dust, of which they are
undoubted and exclusive proprietors, and they
are not far wrong • for the dust is theirs by con-
tract, and they know it; and take good care to
show that they know it ' They come at regular
times, which it is quite iinpostible to foresee,
empty their treasury; the dust box, and bear the
contents off with noisy marching and counter-
marching, husky demands for "beer money," ac-
cepting it with a growl, and bundling off without
more ado.
BREAD, GREENS, AND NEWSPAPERS.
As I sit at my breakfast of stout English rolls,
juicy English steak and most abominal English
coffee, several "morning callers," one after an-
other,- disturb the placid current of my contem-
plations. There is the baker's boy, a rosy and
withal a most impudent youth, with a voice like
a brass trumpet and a face like a brass door plate
who has brought a little black handcart with rolls
steaming from the oven, and rolled. up in blank-
ets to keep the steam in them; he bawls out
"B'k-a-a-r-r-r !" as though he was surprised into
bawling it and didn't mean to, and he bangs. his
basket on the door -step fiercely, as if to say that
you must take the bread whether or no, and his
errand over, he is off like a shot to explode else,
where. Next comes the tattered and forlorn fig-
ure of a girl, "with pensive countenance and air
of grief,' who sings along the streets, plaintively
-and with uncertain voice, and who appears as re-
gularly as the breakfa3t hour arrives. Her song
is old, and she repeated over and Over these many
years -7" Buy my cresses, fresIvand green ! buy
come buy !" She leads a weary life of it; _ she
buys her stock at the Farringdon market long ere
the sun has risen, and trudges not less than twen-
ty miles each day to get rid of it. hi the Spring
time these cries are varied by the "Yarmouth
bloater," as he is called, bringing round his fish
to sell; he has a hollow, ram's -horny voice, which
makes you shudder in your shoes, with a salty
look, and sea -colored from his dress to his face,
hands and hair. Anon there is a sudden chorus,
which wells round the corner in a moment—a
multitude of eager boy voices, and presently, if
you are seated at your window on the ground floor
you are beseiged with these pertinacious infants,
who press npon you the respective claims of the
"Daily Press !" Telegraph !" "Standard !"
"Globe !" and so on ; or they hasten from door to
door, delivering the damp -sheets In the letter
boxes for the breakfast reading of the people.
Sometimes they thrust them under the doors, or
shy them in at the open parlor windows or send
them whirling against Bicldy'fecap in the area --
thus combining, with taue gamin, art, pleasure
with business.
CATS' MEAT MAN.
But 'perhaps the most unique personage of all
these morning callers is one who emits a sound
from between his lips quite beyond, at least,
Yankee experience. To the Londoner who
charges us with talking through our noses, by all
means commend the London " Cat -meat man."
His voice is all nose. It is his nostrils, and not
his Palate, which articulate. About ten in the
morning you may hear Win everywhere. He goes
along rapidly, in a white blouse and dusty gray
felt hat; with a small baaket on his arm. His
cry, as nearly as I can imitate it on paper, is
something like this :---!eCutss—hmeat—hmeat—
hmeat hme—at !" exclusively through his nose.
As he goes along the street, mingled with his cu-
rious shout,youhear a choeus of lively and eager
catawauling from all the' cats in all the neighbor-
hood around; which come jumping and bounding
out of the doors and up the areas, rush up to the
bringer of their morning breakfast, and follow
him m a loudly mewing group until he stops.
The "cats' meat" is simply horse flesh, boiled,
cut in thin slices, through several of which a nar-
row stick is punched. One of these sticks with,
say four or five slices, is sold to the mistress of
the house for a penny, and supplies all the nume-
rous feline inhabitants of her household with a
hearty morning meal.
, "snow BIRDS."
As one lolls in bed some gloomy, muggy, Lon -
4n -foggy Winter's morning, wondering whether
we shall have to light the gas to dress by, our
ears are greeted by a characteristic noise which
is peculiar to that dismal season. It is a sort of
clattering, crunching, rasping on the street -
stones, echoing from every aide up and down the
streets, and mingling with the sound of voices
shouting every now and then gruffly and hoarse-
ly. This hints that during the night there has
been a fall of snow, heavy enough to give roads
and pavements a white shroud some inches deep;
for snow in England never reaches the dignity of
being measured, as in New England, by feet—but
is abundanty content with inches. There is no
need to crawl out to the windowto ascertain the
fact; for we hear the "snow-birds"—as fastidious
Cockaaeydom is pleased to call the snow shovel-
lers—shovelling away the snow and cleaning the
foot pavements for pedestrian convenience. Of
all the early morning callers these poor fellows
are perhaps the most forlorn and worthy of com-
passion. They leave their beds—if, indeed, they
are happy in having bedsto leave—before day-
break of the dreariest season in the year, and
hasten forth in the damp and cold, duly armed ,
with ,brooms, brushes spades, shovels, hoes,
picks, fire -pans ----everything they can beg of bor-
row, to the nearest suburb, there to earn a few
pence by laborious, back -breaking work, under A
rude and bleak sky. .
They are truly a pertinacious race, besieging
the doors, quite incapable of taking "no," for an
answer; and, sticking to their point, in spite of
our interated refusal and rebuff. The easiest
way, .as well as the most humane, is to comply
with their demands for the job of jist cleanin'
away the snow a hit." There is an Act of Par-
liament behind them requiring every citizen
to have the snow 'shovelled from his pavement --
and this makes their arguements hard to refute.
You wont catch a "Snow -bird" either who is ig-
norant of said Act; and, if youkick against, the
pricks, he will threw it in your face and annhil-
ate you. What the wretched "Snow -birds" do
for a crust when the snow d.oes not spread. its
table -cloth for their breakfast—for they are the
poorest and wretchedest ef London paupers—
where the thohsands of famished boys and
youths, and half-clad half-grown girls, find the
means of satisfying their hunger and sheltering
their raggedness, while the dreary London winter
drags its lazy length along, Heaven knows—I
don't. With the "Snow -bird" the "winterwater
carrier," though a far more prosperous person-
age, has a sort of kinship. When the frost plugs
up the water -pipes, and half London goes down to
breakfast unwashed, he is sure to make his ap-
pearance and take advantage of the "perfect
blockade" to run in his own goods. He is indis-
pensable to. the blockaded Londoner until the
thaw sets in and upsets his trade. He is a regu-
lar individual, however, and no more supernum-
erary satellite of Jack Frost; he is on confiden-
tial terms with the turncock. of the "New River
Company," and he claims respectibility as the sole
proprietor of a yoke and pair of cumbrous pails.
He is the staunch alley of Biddy, whii is not us-
ually inelined to expose her bare though plump,
arms to the east wind, in order to get water from
the street -plug --and so burdens mistress with = a
charge of several pennies -daily to have the water
carrier dispose the necessary liquid cozi!y in the
back kitchen vats. For this help, he isnot loth
to help her in turn; and may be seen bringing in
her kindling wood, carrying messages to the gro-
cer or the butcher, and mending a dropsical
pipe in the historical apartment of every British
mansion below stairs—the scullery.; to save her
from being flooded in that anxious interval be-
tween the arrival of the thaw and that of the
plumber.
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Detroit Railway Tunnel.
Mr. E. S. Cresbourg, Civil Engineer, was in-
troduced by Janaes F. Joy, Esq., to investigate
the feasibility of building a railway tunnel under
the Detroit river, and -his assistants have com-
pleted the details of the work, and "the final
plans have recently been submitted. The follow-
ing is a general outline :---
The proposed line (including approaches) may
be said to begin at the station of the Michigan
Central Railway, in Detroit, and will be ou the
surface to First Street and Cass Street. Between
First Street,. and Cass Street there will be an open
cutting but by a favorable grade of the street the
line will get under cover at Cass Street, and for- a
short distance will be under a girder covering, but
the rising grade of the street, and the descending
grade of the tunnel, makes it practicable to com-
mence arching a distance of 47 feet, which will
first be open cutting, then a double track tunnel,
or covered way, will be built. At a distance of
95 feet from the Detroit portal, the circular form
of the tunnels begin; thence by two single track
tunnels to the portal onthe Canada side; thence
by !alien cutting for about half a mile, and thence
on surface for about one third of a mile, to the
junction with the Great Western Railway, two
miles from the Windsor Station.
The details of the plan are as follows:
Two single track tunnels; length of tunnels,
8,568 feet, portal to portal • grade, 1 in 50 on each
side of the -river, 1,000 feet level below bed of the
river; size, 18 -ft. 6 in. interior diameter; shape,
cylindrical; thickness of shell under river, 2 ft. ;
thickness of shell not under- river, 1 ft. six in.
The main tunaela to be 50 feet apart. It is ex-
pected that one will be constructed first. Drain-
age by small circular tiumel, 5 feet interior diam-
eter, built midway between the main tunnels and
below grade ; this tunnel is to extend across the
river between the two shafts, and is to be first
made, not only to drain the maintmmels during
and after their construction, but to develope, as
far as possible, the nature of the soil before their
commencement.
There will be 294,000 cubic yards of excava-
tion in tunnel; 68,000 cubic yards of brick mason-
ry, exclueive of drainage tunnel, and 3,700 cubic
yards of atone masonry. Two working shafts, 10
feet interior diameter, are to be constructed, one
on each side of the river, between main tunnels,
and connection by means of lateral drift, 9 feet
interior diameter. Without any shaft in the ri-
ver, the work can be executed in two years, allow-
ing a margin for extra precautions under the deep
part of the river.
A horrible intimation comes from Charlestown,
Mass. A lady, who has suffered lately from an
inflamed neck, has been told by her physician
that it is caused by horrid insects called borers,
inhabiting the Hindoo bark braid. of her chignon.
She has cast the chignon from her and has had
her head shaved as smooth as a billiard ball, (par-
don the comparison,) fearing some of the vile in-
sects havetakenup their abode in her natural back
hair.
--ea • el.
At Fobbing, Essex, England; a child named.
Selina Baker has died from neglected bronchitis,
her parents, who were of the sect called "Peculiar
People," persisting in using no other means for
her recovery than "prayer."
VARIETIES.
When does a ship tell a falsehood? 'When she
lies at the wharf.
Why are old maids the most charming of peo-
ple ? Because they are matchless.
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing
worse than good qualities run -wild.
Shrewd inquiries are being made, whether the
cup of sorrow has a saucer. Can any one tell us'
The Pleasures of Hope—Buying stock at a low
figure and waiting for it to rise.
There is a man in Totnes so witty, that his
wife manufactures all the butter, the family uses;
from the cream of his jokes.
There is many a man whose tongue might gov-
ern multitudes, if he could only govern his
tongue.
The likeliest way to thrive is method M bus-
iness, and. never to do that by another that you
can conveniently do yourself.
A tipsy fellow leaning against the fence, was
asked where he expected to go when he died:
"If I don't get along any better than now," said.
he, shant go nowhere."-
" I have lost my appetite," said a gigantic
gentleman and an eminent performer on the tren-
cher, to dark Supple. "1 hope," said Supple,
"no poor man has found it, for it would ruin him
in a week."
AN EPITAPH.
"Here lies a friend—would all might prove as true
Unselfish, steadfast, gentler neer I knew, -
Throughout all time this stone shall tell his fame
He had four legs, and Toby was his namel
-"What is the reason that men never kiss each
other, while the ladies waste a world of kisses on
femimne faces ?" said a foolish gent to a lively
girl the other day. The young girl answered :
"Because the men have something better to kiss,
and. the women haven't."
Dr. Arnot, of Edinburgh, tells of being at a
railway station one day, and wearied of waiting
for the train to move, he asked of one of the men
what the trouble was. "Is there a want of wa-
ter ?" "Plenty of water, sir," was the prompt
relay. "but it's ?to' bilin',"
"Why do you drive such a pitiful looking
carcass -as that? Why don't you put a heavier
coat of flesh upon him 9" said a traveller to an
Irish cab -driver, "A heavier load of flesh' By
the powers, the poor creature can hardly carry
what little there is on him now."
A Cincinnatti lady, who recently found the gas
escaping in her servant's chamber, asked. her if
she had blown it out, instead of turning it off :
and was told that she "was not so green as all
that." She had only turned it on again a little
that it would be easier lighted in the morning."
Not in haste —A clergyman in Scotland, very
homely in his address, chose for his text a pas-
sage in the Psalms, "I said M my taste, all men
are liars." "Aye," premised his reverence, by
way of introduction, "ye said it your haste, Da-
vid, did ye? Grin ye had been here, ye micht
hae said it at your leisure, myman."
During a trial in the Tombs, the other day, the
Judge rebuked a stupid witness for speaking dis-
respectively of public men whereat the witnesa,
in great alarm, exclaimed: "I beg your Honor's
pardon, an' I won't never ag'in say anything
ag'in a scoundrel, for fear of Iteinting your Hon-
or's feelings."
A few days since; a little ragged urchin was
sent by a tradesman to collect a small bill. He
begun in the usual way, but becoming more and
more importunate, at length the gentleman's pa-
tience being exhausted, he said to him: "You
need not dun me so sharply ; I am not going to
run away." "I don't suppose you are,' sai& the
boy, scratching his head, 'but my master is;
and he wants the money."
CIRCUMSTANCE.
Two children in two neighbor villages,
Playing mad pranks along the healthy leas ;
Two strangers meeting ata festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall;
Two lives pound fast in one with golden -ease ;
Two graves grass -green beside a chnrch-tower.
Washed with chill rains and daisy -blossomed,
Two children in .one hamlet born and bred;
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
A little chap had a dirty face, and his teacher
told him to go and wash it. He went away, and
after a few moments returned -with the lower part
of his countenance tolerably clean, while the
per part was dirty and wet. "Johnny," said
the teacher, "why didn't you wash your face ?"
"I did wash it; Sir." "You didn't wipe it all
then" "I did wipe as high up as my shirt would
go, "
COURTSHIP.
Clara, 1 love but thee alone
(Thus sighed the tender. youth;
Oh, hear me, then, my passion own,
With trembling lips, m earnest tone;
Indeed I speak the truth.
He paused, the blush Werspread her cheek.
She let him draw her tear;
Scarce for emotion could she speak,
Yet still she asks in accents meek,
How much he had a year! •
In an Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio,
a porter, employed during the week at the rail-
way station, does duty on Sunday by blowing
the bellows of the organ. The other Sunday he
fell sound asleep during the service, and so re-
mained till required. He was suddenly awaken-
ed by another official, when, apparently dream -
Mg of an approaching train, he started to his feet
and roared out with all the force and shrillness
of stenorian lungs, and habit: "Change cars here '
for Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit. The effect
upon the congregation, eitting in expectation of a
concord of sweet sounds, ma..y be imagined.
In oneof the bower counties of Maryland there
fiurished, in the balinydays of the "peculiar in-
stitution," an old darky preacher, who used no
notes, and prided hiraself on his extemporaneous
efforts. His white brethern called him "Doc-
tor''—a title -which he accepted, of course, with
ludicrous gravity. At a camp -meeting which the
"Doctor" was holding, one of these friends gave
him, as a text, the passage in the Psahn of Da-
vid : "Wake, psaltery and harp; I myself -will
arise right early," The "Doctor" adjusted his
spectacles and read : "Wake, peasle-tree and
harp, I myself will arouse right airly" The
"Doctor" went on to explain. that Moses was a
very airly riser; that he had a peasle-tree which
grew near his window; and that he was wont to
rise mighty airly and hang out his harp on de
peasle tree, wid imam.
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