HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-06-24, Page 2•
•
How Statuary
But little is known of the art of sculp-
ture
culpture by the. -masses in this, or, indeed, any
-other country. The first thing the -sculptor
does is to model or fashion the figure in=
clay. .:He first builds a skeleton of iron,
and then puts the' clay upon it, and add or
takes off until the work is completed. Ile
then transfers the model, or reproduces it in
plaster of Paris. This is done by covering
the clay with liquoid plaster to the depth of
about one and a -half inches, more or less,ac-
cording to the size of the model—a life-sized
pictu e would require the plaster to be laid
on at least three inches in depth.
Theplaster is then allowed to become per-
fectly hard, or to set, as it is called. The
clay is then taken out, and the plaster will
be found to be a mould in which to cast the
fac-simile of the original model. An ad-
ditional quantity of plaster is then mixed
with water and poured into the new -made
t n t it
mould ; iu thirty or fory t ni t tes will
become set and hard, The muuld is then
taken or cut off by means of knives or
chisels.
The next thing is the process of cutting
the head or figure in marble. This is en-
tirely mechanieal, and is accomplished by
ed by: measuring • itrstruments called
machines. They are so rtrranged as to give
the exact distances, points, depths, widths,
and lengths of every part of a head or fig-
ure; these sue pointed to or measured on
the marble block, and .the workman cuts to
a hair, according to measure, and mathe-
matically certain. Doing a bust marble is
simply mechanical; ori inating in the clay
model is the work of the aatist. The pro-
cess of reproducing works of plaster.. is
carried on in New York very extensively.
-et•�
_Terrible Tragedyin Portugal
;Den Jose Cardoso Vieira de Castro, ex -
deputy, orator, and distinguished writer,
presented himself last week to the Commis-
sionary General of Pol;ce, and informed him
that he had just killed -his young wife, Clau-
dine, who had dishonored him. He then
surrendered himself . to justice. The Com-
missionary -General asked tle murderer to
accompany him to the house of the murder-
ed wife, in th-e Rua de Flores. Phey went,
accompanied by a j ustice. anad a doctor, to
view the corpse. - In the chamber of death,
a young woman of twenty-one, beautiful
still.in'spite of her pallor, lay stretched on
a bed saturated in blood. Daughter of a
noble family of Rio Janiern, she married
three -years ago Dou Vieria de Castro. For
a .long time Mr de Castro was a model of
attention and tenderness to his young wife,
whom he adored. They travelled over Am-
erica and visited the capitals of Europe. On
arriving -at Libson they weie invited to the
most b •ill kirt sedans. Balls, concerts,
theatres, beguiled their leisure hours, and
they charmed the select society where theirs
was sought. At one fell stroke all his hap,
piness was vanished; and the young woman,
so admired yesterday was to -clay nothing
but a frigid corpse. One day Don Vieria
Castro enters noiselessly and unheard into
his wife's chamber. He wants to:surprise
her by a kiss. He steps forward. She is
writing—of course to him. He casts his
eye over the imprudent woman's shoulder.
Horror ! Her passionate_and burning words
are addressed to a lover. The blood rushes
toihis face, he chinks of stabbing her, but, has
the courage to restrain himself, anddisap-
pear unheard, as he had come, but medita
ting a treacherous punishment! At . first
he thinks that poisoning her with chloro-
form in her sleep would be complete ven-
gence. `?Vo,' he mays, `she must die by my
hand and she must know why I kill.' At
nightfall, with his heart full of hatred, bis
eyes glowing, and with the name of his ri-
val on his -lips, he rushes on her, seizes her
by the hair of the head and drags her to the
middle of the room. 'Madam,' he says,
'you are about to die.' The unfortunate wo-
man tries to defend herself. With strength.
doubled by rage, he seizes her in his arms,
drowns her face in chloroform, and when
she endeavours to cry for help he clutches
her by the throat, and releases his hold only
when, without having uttered a single cry,
she falls lifeless at his feet. He remains
in the- room with the livid corpse
until daylight. He rushes then, after
double lockipg his apartment, to the house
of the man Who had dishonored him ; it was
his dearest friend; with his heart overflow-
ing with a just hatred, Don Castro does not
hesitate. He carries a revolver under his
cloak, and knocks at the door of his rival's
house. They tell hint he is out. He waits
His friend, Mr. Garret, is one :of the most.
distinguished men iu Lisbon, nephew of the
celebrated Garet, the leader of the literary
revival in Portugal. Tired of waiting, Mr.
de Castro goes to find two of his intimate
friends to whom he relates the terrible ev-
ent. He confides to them to arrange with
Mr. Garret the conditions of a meeting to
take place that same day, with any weapon
whatever, but without truce or mercy, in
fact, the conditions of a mortal combat. The
latter refused to `fight, saying that he could
not fight a friend whom he had so fearfully
outraged. But he handed them a letter,
stating that he would start for Madrid that
same evening, that on his way to the rail-
road he should pass through such and such
streets, and that he should expose himself to
the fire of the enemy without returning it,
too happy to lay down his life in expiation
of his offence. But M. de Castro will not
commit a murder, and delivers himself up
ntp the hands of the Commissionary-Gen-
tlral to whom he relates the facts. He was
arrested and lodged in jail, where he
awaits the decision of the judge. Mr. Gar-
ret has gone to Fiance, and intends, they
say, to retire to a Trappist monastery.
Madamde Castro was buried on the 18th of
May.
•
THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
Nervousness
.Nervousness is one of the troubles of our
day, and generation. Of what the nerve
er may be we have yet only rudiment
a ledge. q Bat it has at least to do with
e seat of isower whereby all the bodily
togrsta i emerged, and the different
fu ctions mnsde to work together. If by any
cause this nervous force is disturbed or sus-
pended, the body suffers disabilities or. is
paralysed. • Very serious consequences may
come even when the various organs are en-
tirely sound. They may stop action or act
spasmodically. Sometimes a disease in one
organ will so affect the nerves as to put
the whole body in trouble and create;sym-
ptoms in places remote from the disease ;
sometimes a generalconstitutional weak-
'Less,through poverty of blood, etc., will do
it. This is called a state of nervousness,
and a very bad state it is. Any disturb-
ance of nervous power will bring much suf-
fering, and frequently shows itself in all
manner of executive shapes, leaving it tope
supposed that the patient has every disease
tc be named. One important fact is al-
ways to be remembered. In touching the
nervous centres we reach the confines of
the junction between the -soul and body.
Mental conditions have much to do with the
nerves, and the nerves and the mind react
one another. A mental strain through dis-
appointments, sorrows, anxieties,_ and over
much labor, will take effect on the nerves
and produce nervousness. Much of disease
and chronic suffering in this country origin-
ates from intense mental activity, or rather
from becoming involved in the rush and
whirl, which drives men to accomplish the
greatest possible amount of work in the
shorte.'t possible time. Railroads and tele
graphs, together with the undertaking of
enormous enterprises have'done much harm
in this way, by putting everyodv under a
strain. Any one of our ancestcrs, re -intro-
duced into present scenes, would go distract-
ed very shortly. We need to cultivate our
calmness, and deliberation, and - slowness.
We are too fast by half. And there is Alen-
ty of time left.
Great Fire at Constantinople.
OVER SEVEN THOUSAND BUILDINGS DESTROY-
ED.—TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY HUMAN
BEINGS BURNED TO DEATH. .
Constantinople, June, 9.—The great fire
in Pera district has been subdued. Over
seven thousand buildings, of dill sorts were
destroyed, including many of to best in the
city. The loss of life has greatly exceeded
the estimate made some days ago. -The re-
mains of one hundred and fifty human be-
ings have been discovered. It is supposed
that this number represents but one-half
the actual loss., The total loss caused by
the fire -is computed at 2000,0001. English
underwriters suffer heavy losses. The arch-
ives of the British Embassy were saved.
The American Church of the Immaculate
Conception was on fire several times, and is
!considerably damaged, but the tapestry, the
gift of the Empress Eugeine, with which
the chureb was decorated, was saved un-
harmed.
Constantinople, June 9.—The loss of life
by the conflagration here is frightful. At
some points whole families were hemmed
in by the flames and perished in full view
of the spectators, who could not rescue
them. The panic among the people was
terrible, and many lost all presence of mind
and were unable to save themselves and
were lost. - Some of the Turks, in a spirit
of fatalism peculiar to that race and religi-
on, shut themselves up in the burning houses
and refused assistance, and met death with-
- out a murmur. 250 persons were burned
to death or killed by falling walls. Manx
more are missing.
Count Bismark once presented a faithful
but poor secretary with a portifolio bound
like a book, in which were deposited five
huudred thalers. On meeting thesecretary
nevt day the Count ` asked him i f he had
purchased the volume. 'Yes, your high-
ness,' said the secretary, 'and I was so cap-
tivated, with its contents that I am waiting
- the,apperance of the second volume with
feelings of the deepest interest,' The Count
smiles, but said nothing. A few days af-
terwards the secretai y received the second
portfolio, bound and filled -like the first, on
the title page of which was inscribed the
sentence ; 'This work is complete in two
volumes.'
One of the papers relates that a farmer,
finding a dozen of his men idly stretched
gout on the ground, offered a crown to the
`one who was the laziest of the lot. Eleven
jumped up asserting their claims to the re-
ward, each declaring himself the "laziest dog
in the universe." However, thefarmer gave
the crown to the twelfth, who had sloth-
fully kept his position, and who, when the
reward was offered him, murmured, 'Can't
you put it in my pocket'?'
'Ile em►
Some rash fellow says that the giving
of the ballot to women would not amount
to much, for none of them would admit
that they were old enough to vote until
they were too old to take any interest in
politics. -
A lady said to her sister : "I wonder,
my dear, you have never made a snatch; I
think you want the brimstone." To which
she replied : "No, not the brimstone, only
the spark."
Josh Billings oPrea
nching.—I always
advise short sermons, especially on a hot,
Sunday. If a muster kant strike ile in
forty minutes, he's either got a poor gimlet
or he's borin' in the wrong direction.
The leaders of the Fenians call them-
selves Centres- -perhaps because_they scent
the battle . afar off --eery far off—is .the
wicked suggestion of the New York Times.
STRAW GUTTER.
The subscriber desires to intimate to the pub-
lio that he is sole agent in Seaforth for the sale
of
MAX WELL & WHITEL AW S
Celebrated
STIM W CUTTERS
HORSE AND HAND POWER.
Also for Massey's improved
GRAIN CRUSTIER.
A Stock kept constantly on hand.
'OLIVER C, WILSON,
Market Square.
192-tf
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870.
NOTICE OF
REMOVALI 1
THE subscribers beg to notify their customers
and the public generally that they have re-
moved
To the Store lately occupied -by A.
Mitchell, Second Door Above W.
S Robertson's Italian TITar.re
house, •
Where they will keep constantly on hand a large
stock of FRESH FAMILY GROCERIES and
BROVISIONS, XXX FAMILY FLOUR, and all
kinds of Mill and Cheap Feed.
Country Produce taken in exchange for Groce-
ries, Provisions, Flour and Feed.
All goods purchased from us will be delivered
free of charge in any part of Saaforth, Harpur
hey, or Egmondville. .
Farmers may exchange wheat, &c.,, for Flour
and Feed at our Mill, -at the highest value. .
w. A. SHEARSON & CO
Seaforth, Jan. 28th, 1870. 52-1y.
SILYOF TIIE
•
CIItCi7LAR SAW
Wm. Robertson cg-' Co.,
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF ti~'
SHELF AN. D HEAVY
Y
HARDWARE
Paints,
Iron,
Oils,
Glass,
Putty
Steel,
Blacksmith Coals,
Hubs,
Rims,
Spokes,
Weavers' Supplies of all kinds.
JACK CREWS TO HIRE.
SF A FORTH, JAN. 28, 187 0. 112- _
M'GREGOR & SON,
BOOKBINDERS, HULLETT
ARE prepared to execute binding in every
. style. Persons residing at a distance by
leaving their books at the Signal Book Store,
Goderich, or at the EXPOSITOR office, Seaforth.
stating styls, may )11y z por them being we
AT THE LV V L+ 1 .1'1110ES.
'L
And returned without delay.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870, 80-tf.
FAR)LRS!
GGet your Homemades Cut Out.
With Economy and Taste
AT
SUTHERLAND SRO'S.,
TAILORS.
Goderich Street.
d-00 D PITS 1
And Workmanship Guaranteed.
CHARGES MODERATE.
NEXT DOOR TO
Lumsden's Drug Store.
Seaforth, March 17th, 1870. 82-tf.---
ONTARIO .HOUSE !
E]JWAIW CASH,
GENERAL COUNTRY MERCHANT,
AND DEALER IN ALL RINDS OF
Farm and Dairy Produce.
—=o
GROCERIES
—AN D--
DItY GOODS!
OF THE {BEST CLASS,
ALWAYS ON HAND,
AND AS CHEAP AS ANY IN
SEAFORTH_
SEAF'oRTI', March 31, 1870.
53 ---
INTENSE EXCITEMENT !
STILL P1t EV A1LS AT
Dent's, Seaforth
People are still rushing for those
CH.EAP GOOPS.
In order to supply the demand Mr. Dent has
been obliged to renew his
SPRING PURCHASES,
and has just returned with a
SECOND SPRING STOCK
cheaper than ever.
MILLINERY AT HALF LF ITS VALUE.
D E Z G0013s,
at wholesale prices.
GEO. DENT, SEAFORTH.
Seaforth, June 3787O. I30-tf.
R LUMSPEN
•
Has just rec ivied a Fresh Stock of
PUR
DRUGS
AND
- CHtNMICALS
Toilet and Fancy Soaps, Combs, Hair, Tooth
and Nail Brushes, French, English,
and American.
PYRFI.T MEItY.
GENUINE DYE STUFFS
Guaranteed to be of the best quality .
Horse and Cattle Medicines
Condition Powder.
Physicians perscriptions carefully and accur-
ately dispensed.
R LUMSDEN,
T O MERCH ANTS, TRADERS,
&c. &c.
The subscriber has just received a large assort-
ment of .
DAY BOOKS, LEDGER$, JOURNALS,
Blank Books, Bill Books, Counting -House 66
Diaries,
Pocket Diaries for 1870,
Bibles, Prayer Books, Psalm Books—and a
large assortment ofmiscellaneous books in splend
did gilt bindings, suitable for Christmas and
New Year's_Gifts.
Sabbath School Books !
Reward Tickets, &c.
Plain and Fancy Note Paper and Envelopes
Pens, Ink, Pencils, School Books, etc.
Musical Instruments !
Aeeordeons, Concertinas, Violins, Violin Strin s.
Rosin, Bridges,&c.
Briar and Mereschaum Pipes, and Fa
Goods of all kinds.
A large assortment of
TOYS
For Girls and Boys,
At LUMSDEN'S
Corner Drug and Book Stor
Seaforth, Jan'v. 21st, 1871153-tf.
•
. JSEATTER
EXCHANGE BROKER,
And dealer in Pure
DRUGS. CHEMICALS. AND DYE STUFFS
The Drug Department is under the special
care of an experienced Clemist.
•JSEATTER,
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 59-tf.
DANIEL MOPHAIL,
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
FOR THE
COUNTIES OF PERTH AND HURO
BEGS to return his sincere thanks to the in -
habitants of Perth for their liberal patronage
during the past six years. He would respectfully
announce that he will attend to all orders in
PERTH or HURON for 1870. Orders left at
the "EXPOSITOR" Office, in Seaforth, the Beacon
Office, Stratford, or the Advocate, in Mitchell,
will be promptly attended to.
Conveyancing, and Real Estate Agency attend
ed to, and loans negotiated. -
OFFICE +last side of the, market. Mitchell,
Ont.
Mitchell, Feb. 25, 1870. 116-tf.
LUMBER! LUMBER
T
HE undersignedhave on hand at :their Mills,
half a mile North from the Village of Ain-
leyville, 50t),00() feet of Good DRY PINE
LUMBER, of the following different kinds; viz t
—inch, inch and a half, and two inch, clear. A
large lot, (over 100,000,) inch and a quarter, and
inch and a half flooring, both dressed. and under-
dressed ; half inch siding, common boards and
plank, 12, 14 and 16 feet long. Board and strip .
LATH, all of which will be sold at reduced
prices.
-They have lately added a first-class planningg
machine, to their other machinery, and intend
keeping dressed lumber of all kinds constantly
an hand.
The public may rely upon being able toprocure
any of the above articles of Lumber at their
Mills. so long as it is here: aclve-tised.
Parties sending lumber to the mill can have it
dressed on the shortest notice and lowest possible
terms.
M. & T. SMITH.
Ainley.viile, Feb. 11, 1870. 114-tf
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
NATIONAL
pi LLS, The 1`ational PEN
area new discovery
in medicine. They
are composed of
PILLS'
pvegetable
extract prepared
a by a newlydiscov-
ered process, and
PILLS. are sugar coated.
They are the great
blood and stomach
purifier. They act
1:31 L Ls. on the fiver with
magical effect, are
mild, searching,
yet a thorough
purgative, & have
no equal as a first
class family pill.
See circulars with
each box
Sold by R. LUMSDEN and E. HICKSON
CO., Seaforth, and medicine dealers generally.
WOODRUFF, BENTLY & Co.,
• Proprietors, Brougham,
711-25ins. Ont
NATIONAL PHLS.
MR. JOHN THOMPSON
THANKS
his numerous customers for their
liberal patronage during the last fifteen
years, and trusts he will receive its continuance,
He has now on hand a large a$sortrnent of
Good Sound
Green Hemlock !
Which he warrants will give satisfaction.
ALSO
200,U00 FEET OF 'PINE I
Cmc Fon.
BUILDING AND GENERAL PURPOSES
Which he offers on liberal terms. Orders will
be promptly attended to.
He has also on hand a large assortment of
WELL SEASONED A "COUNTS 1
To which he calls the attention of his old custo-
mers, who will find it co their advantage to re-
tire them promptly, and without legal proceed-
ings.
Seaforth, Jan'y. 21st, 1870. 84-tf:
THE SIGN OF THE' GOLDEN
THE subscriber begs to inform the public that
he has just received a great variety of Sad-
dles
addies and
TRUNKS,
Which he is prepared to sell
At Prices Almost Unparelleled.
COLLARS of every description, warrant.
ed not to hurt the horse's neck.
0
In the way of . Harness
OF ALL RINDS,
He is, as heretofore, in a position to give his
customers as good value for 'their money as
any other establishment in Ontario.
Quality of work and material, employed, indls-
putable.
Cr SHOP OPPOSITE KIDB
McMULKIN'S.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
Seaforth, Jan. 31. 1870. - 52-tf.
e
Theodore
in Lexingto
inst. after a
of Isis blaste
At thirty
a promising;
and the hop;
was on ever
were whisp.
ent morals,
repute and
pests of this
it was hope
of ytuth, an
circumstanc
to assert hi
the commun
It was at
that Theodor
an unweariet
friends great
Lexington,
iessly.. The
is at the pres
est ornament.`
ed, firmly leu
ed by the inf-
meaning had
no use ; he
lowed his fair
wandering SR
by night in a
Last it becam
there' --to 'us
kindly pease
spent violent
firm the impr
that he went
and demandee
point, until at
no longer be
the asylum
was according
hie father pro
time, and lea
income of whip
for life. That
of imprisonme
days of his co
a good hoar 'i:_
the biggest foo
has just closed,
was one of the
not only his pi
manners and e.4
object of intere
ed under the
George. Wash
snming the tra
tber of His Co'
balls given to t
five hundred in
quisitely dress
- was the beau2
these long year:
nese and cheer
restless and
`watching, it ne'
sidered pruden
the grounds w
the year 1860
worse, and so
continuing in
days since, wh
time, placed
with the peers
had gone before
ed him and .did
inrntable will
story as the tru,
ed to be writt
Two sons of
—T. IL Clay,
now residing o
Lexington, and
raiser of Kentu
turfmen living.:
1
1
pre
The followin3
ries of great pr
number of Gla
fine- analysis of
Take away ti
trifugal force
in fine dust thr,
the constituent]
government, an
would probably`
Even the blade;
work without ;i
an exception to
osopher (Dr. Ri
perirnenting rec
object of testin
various and sthe
two antagonist''
one having its
per portion (the
lower and poster
his experiment,
rebrum of an an
and its powers t
the animal is
forward ; on the
being paraltezet-
the result. Th
pulse which dna
themselves from:
contains the thi
ties, undef such
ralyzed--dizzy,-
normally exerc.
ing partially re
latter declares
The learned P`
gate for us, we
ourselves. M
lection which w
this double bra"
heed why that
ward after the f."
why.the'other, ..
speed, fell back
pigeon, fiutterin
ground. If we
gra of shot has
above the eyes;
11
.�8
t