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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1875-02-19, Page 6Patin- 11/4Tbtte. An Iowa justice the otistr day accePt- ed two bushels of onions as a marriage - fee. —There are 120 Men residing in.- six counties in California, who are credited aNith owning 3,140, -000 -acres of land. --An old, experienced fanner once said. 'to- a new beginner in farming: "Youngman, let me give -you a little piece of advice, will you ? Never stir up your soil deeper than you can ma- nure it." This is an axiem. which it is well to remember. —A writer in rize tir6 Stock Joztrn4 puts the case in this way a "When the day of final reckoning shall come, and all the deeds of men brought to light . and balanced in the :seales;. of unnerring justice, some dealers will fincl. t 'heavy load against them in the transactions in which so-called Cheater -White pigs were sold to their credulous fellowmen. ' —In 1830 New England ., produced - 865,000 worth of milk, this year $3,000,- 000 worth. —The very cheapest thing in the 'United States at the present time is human labor. —In Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, there is a horse thirty-five years old, a - veteran of the rebellion, in which he passed through nine battles and was thrice wounded. He now enjoys four quarts of oats and as Much cut feed as he can eat per day and ,no serviee. '—At the recent great fat cattle show at Islington, England, the Short Horns took the three leaching prizes. Best ox or steer, Mr. Bolt's steer No. 65, best cow or heifer, Mr. R. Stratton's Nectar- ine Bud., No. 81. The $500 cup to the best animal in the yard, "H. R. H." the Prince a Wales white heifer, No. 170, bred by Mr. Hugh Aylmer, • got by T. C. Booth's British Crown. A fat ox ex- hibited by Mr. WortleY weighed, at sixty-five months old, 2,700 lbs. • —Horses were exported from France, in the first nine months of 1874,, to the value of three million dollars, They in- cluded 5,217 mares, 536 stallions, and 11,959 geldings. The exports for the corresponding peried in the, two previous years were : 1873—Mares, 4;957 • stal- lions, 616 ; geldings, 12,990. 18727- Mares, 4.265 ; stallions, 992, geldings, 7,126. They are exported principally to England, Belgium, and Germany. —D. C. Fisk, -of Shelburn, believes in keeping pigs to make manure, and that if farmers whose stomachs are too weak to digest pork would go to work with their own hands instead of hiring Irish- men to clean -out their pig -pens, they would soon be'_able to digest, pork or almost anything else. Such had been his experience: Better to raise pork and rise it than to raise tobacco and use that. —The sheep of Tasmania are develop- ing qualities as fancy breeds which are now bringing high prices in the market. A careful selection of breeding stock, great care of flocks, -and very favorable climatic conditions are claimed as special advantages for this industry. Some pure Leicester ewes sold la Melbourne lately as high as £21 10s. per head. A pure Met mo ram, "one of the grandest sires in the colonies," brought the as-. tonishing price of £714. A floelt of twenty-six stud rams, the progeny of the last-named, averaged £53 per head. —As regards beauty, ene cannot con- eeive a much prettier sight in a farm yard than a lot of clean, snow-white, thriving Suffolks. They are certainly a source of pride and profit. Though not so prolific as the Berkehires, they are USUally good breeders; a half dozen to eight pigs for one mother is a fair aver- age, though many successfully rear more in one litter. • The young. however, are generally more delicate and tender thau are the Berkshires, and require a little • more care until from eightto ten weeks old, when they will begin to shoot ahead and make up for lost time. —Upon the sewage farm of Lord Warwick, near Leamington in England twenty acres of mangel-wurtzel, (of two kinds, orange and. iaterniediate globe) produced eighty-two tots to the acre, the crop being the greatest ever known in England. The field had been in Ital- ian rye grass m 1871 and 1872, and. wheat in 1873. It received no . manure other than sewage during the past four years. The mangel was sowed in rows two feet apart, and the plants were thinned to one foot The roots weretso large that tons and tons were selected which did • not exceed one hundred roots to the ton. • A Line -of -Battle Ship Endanger - •ed by Rats. A correspondent of the London Globe writes : The partiality that the marine •race have for phosphorus is remarkable. A case came under my notice in whicb a, rat's indulgence in this luxury might have led to the destruction of a line -of. - battle ship. -A few years ago, when senior lieutenant of _Her 'Majesty's ship Itevenge, I wee ronaed in the middle of the night and told that there was a fire in the cable tier. The ship's corporal of • the watch (ship's corporals are the police of a man-of-war) in going his rounds saw smoke coming on t of the tier. Ile aroused the men sleeping near, and re- moved coil after coil of rope and hawser, the cause of the smoke was arrived at. In the Very heait of the tier was a rat's 'test; composed of pieces of silk, cloth, oakum, paper, etc. The nest was part- ly consumed. . In it were six young rats completely roasted, and on the side of the nesta lucifer match half burnt. The old rat in nibbling it had caused it to ig- nite, and the flash of fire it made on go- ing off frighteued the unnatural mother, I who sought safety in flight, leaving her callow offspring to their dreadful fate. In a glass case at the Royal United Ser- vice Institution may be seen this inter - eating baked family, who, but for the accident which cut short their career at so early an age, would.have been in a few days getting their livelihood by eating Her Majesty's tores. Doubtless vessels have been buriedfrom a similar cause to this ere uow.' Had not this burning rat s nestbeen—discovered in time it might have been fanned into a flame, and H. M. S. Revenge in danker of de - atm cti on. Literary Men. Tasso's couv-ersation was neither gay nor brilliant, Dante was either taciturn or satirical. Butler was sullen!or Gray seldom talked or smiled. Hogarth and Smith were very absentethiuclbed itt company. Milton was very unsociable, and even irritable when pressed into conversation. Kirwin, though copious and eloquent in public •addresses, was meagre and dull in colloquial discourse. Virgil was heavy in conversation. La Fontaine appeared. heavy, coarse and stupid; he could not speak and describe what he had just Seen' • but then he was the model of liUetrijr. Chaucer's silence . wasrfmere agreeable .,thin his conversa- tion. DrAlen's conversation was dry and dull, his huirtor salarine and re- served. Corneille, in conversation, was 80 insipid that he never failedin weary- ing ; he clid not even speak correctly that language of which he was such a master. Ben Johnson used to it silent in compa- ny, and suck his wine and their 'humors. Southey was stiff, sedate, and wrapped up in asceticism. 'Addison was good company with his intimate'friends, but hi mixed company he preserved his dig- nity by a stiff and reserved silence. Fox in his common conversation never flag- ged; his animation and variety were in- exhaustible. Dr. Bendy was loquacious, - so rlso was Grotius. Goldsmith "wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll:" Burke was entertaining, enthusiastic, and interesting in conversation. Curran was a convivial deity. Leigh Hunt was "like a j.leasant stream" in conversation. Carlyle doubts, objects, and constantly demurs. • A _Word in Favor of Sihepherds and Laborers. - E shepherd is almost always worth , talking to. No man can become a good shepherd Without having a great deal of • natural ability to begin with, or without consiclerabla powers of, observation, and faculty for acqtdring knowledge. . Itmay be true that the world he lives in is not a very -wide one, but -what be loses in range he gains in intensity. Those wh6 take up many subjects are seldomso able as those who stick to only one or two, and, in fact, one of the evils of modern education—using the word in its widest sense—is its want of depth and concen- tratfon. From this fault our shepherd is free. He niay not know many subjects, but -what he does know ! he knows thoroughly;• and to know that much thoroughly; requires a good deal more cleierness than most people fancy. He is, in reality, a highly-skgled workman; and soave all farm -laborers, though in a lesser degree. There seems to. be a sort of notion current, that if a man is fit for nothing elk, he can, at any rate, be come a farm -laborer. There cannot be a greater delusion. One Of the most com- mon objections that farmers raiEe to keeping boys at school till they are tol- erably old is that unless they begin very early they will never become good work- men. Farm work, like everything else, requires a long apprenticeship, and can only be ilearnt by. beginning yomig. Work of all sorts develops the mind, and farm work, especially in modern bus- bandrY, is no exception to the rule. To know the uses of the different machines and appliances of modern agriculture to be able to perform efficiently the various operations on a farm is in its!elf a much better mental training than -passing a life in a workshop .in performino• one very simple operation, such as naking the eye only of a needle, which i the result of the excessive subdivision f labor of modern manufacture.. The gricultural laborer • may not have the q ickness- of apprehension of the townsm n, but we are convinced. that it is one o the great- est d.elasions possible to sup') se that he is his intellectual inferior. Land and Water. Flow to Pile Lum er. Lumber, being preperly mat ufactured, may be so piled. as to prejudi e its sale one or two dollars per thousand feet. Great -care should be taken to build the ifes so that the front cross piece should e higher than the back, and each in suc- cession he overlapped, or laic; out a trifle beyond the previous one. .A. pile twenty feet high should incline outivard from base to top at least eighteen inches or 1two feet • This will preverit Storms from . . • eating in, or snow from resting. to melt and formice, as would be Lbe case if the inclination was the other way. The • sides of the pile shocild. be carried up plumb, and it is no deceit, if pains be taken to present the best edges to the view. • A great error is often committed in the neglect to place one cross piece directly on top ot another., so that the weight shall rest solidly on each, and on the foundation timber. If the courser be placed a. little forward or back of the previous one the weight above will twist, warp and break the lumber, and at the nest, cannot fail to give a buyer a, bad impression. Piles should never be placed less than three feet apart, and boards in the pile should always be laid with from two to four inches space between them. If those whose habit has been to pile close, will experhnent on open pil- ing, they will soon be convinced that the . quicker preparation of the lumber for use relieve thein from a large interest account. ,A -HORSE I,VITH THE HEAVES. --This disease is sometimes cured by persistence. in giving moistened cut -feed. It is al- ways alleviated in this way, but is coin- pletely beyoud the power of Medicine. It is due to a spasmodic nervous action, and is the asthma of the equine race. As asthma is produced in many cases by the 'inhalation of dust (as the millers' asthma by breathing flour, or the drug- gists' asthma by breathing powdered vccacurtna or other dings), so the inhal- ation of the dust of rusty hay or that of the blossoms of timothy or clover pro- duces heaves in horses. The removal of the cause often brings about complete relief unless the case is confirmed by long neglect. —Key -stone. 111116.1111L. LADIES' CLOTH AND SE ALETTE • MANTLES, LOWER PRICES THAN EVEI§, AT HOFFMAN BROTHERS' CHEAP CASH STORE, • NOTICE TO DEBTORS. A LL partiettindebted. to John. Govenlock, of the- -L-1- -Victoria /41111s, Magillop, either by note or - book account, are'requested to call at his residence and settle the same, on or before the lst of March. All outstanding debts must be paid by that date, or they will be placed in other hands for collection. as he has gone out of the lumbering business, andwants his-moneyfor other purposes 874 • JOHN GOVENLOCK. , LS EGMONDVILLE, ON2. tuidersigned, having completed their new FLOUR AND GRISTING MILLS/ IN EGMONDVILLE, With all the latest, and most improved mazhinery, for the manufacture of dHOICE FAMILY FLOUR, Would „intimate to the public and farming cora- munity, that they are now prepared to execute ill • orders intrusted to them. GRISTING AND CHOPPING Done with despatch, and satisfaction given. FLOUR, • 1,3RAN, ;WORTS, AND FEED, Deliltered to any part of Seaforth and Egraimd- vine. All Orders left'at Mr. Store, Seaforth, will be promptly Wended to. M. CHARLESWORTH & 00. 371. A WANT SUPPLIED. NEW CARRIAGE FACTORY IN SEAFORTH. PILLMAN. & CO. Would respectfully inform the inhabitants of Sea - forth and the public generally that they have com- menced business in the above line, opposite Mc- Intosh & Morrison's old stand, and next door north of Mr. Thomas Bell's livery stable, where they are prepared to furnish all orders entrusted to their care. Any one wanting A GOOD CUTTER For the Winter, or a FIRST-CLASS BUGGY Fax the coming Summe' r would do well to give us a eall. • Nothing but first-class material used, and satis- faction guaranteed. • REPAIRING Neatly one and Promptly Attended to. PILLMAN & Co.. BRUSSELS; BRUSSELS, RAILROAD OPENED, And with the First Train TROMAS LEADBEATER RECErybD A LARGE ASSORTMENT 'OF READY-MADE CLOTHING - AND ID IR, -c4r Cr 0 0 3:2) S Which I am sure cannot be beat in any store in • BRUSSELS. My Goods are all new, consisting of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, READY-MADE CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, &C. OVERC,OATS, FROM $5 TO $16. OTHER GOODS AS LOW IN PROPORTION. Y &pelt is full in all lines, and will be kept • so, and with Goods in keeping with the times. All I ask is for parties to CALL AND EXAMINE My Goods, and they will be convinced that I sell Goods as Cheap asany other house. THOS. LEADBEATER, TITRNBERRY STREET, BRUSSELS, ONT. Dee. 24,1874. 868-12 • MINK FUR SETS • ALL PRICES AND STYLES AT HOFFMAN BROTHERS' CHEAP CASH STORE, s pA. FORTH_ HOSE, GLOVES, TIES, CORSETS, HOOP SKIRTS, DRESS BUTTONS, DRESS TRIMMINCS, LACES, &C., AT HOFFMAN BROT‘IRS CHEAP CASH STORE, SEAFORTH. ifr DISCOUNT SALE OF GROCERIES. STRONG & FAIRLEY ARE ELLING GROCERIES AT A GREAT' DISCOVNT, FOR ONE MONTH. 4.4.0...••••• GALL A.ND GET BARG ALM. 1 FULL STOCK OF FAMILY dROOER1ES. A FRESH LOT OF THAT NO. I GREEN AND BLACK TEA JUST ARRIVED. A LARGE STOCK OF CANNED GOODS, SUCH AS PEACHES, PINE APPLE; STRAWBERRY, RASPBERRY, TOMATO, 80., Expected daily, all Baltimore packed. FLOUR AND 'F.E..E.D AZWAYS Off HAND AT _HILL PRICES. SALT AND COAL OIL, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Goods delivered promptly free of charge. STRONG & FAIRLEY, Searorth• GO AND SEE Tu -E7 FEB. 19,18175. .E KNABE - PiANO, r1ITY1 Great Plena of Ammon and Europe. The ehotteu to gram the Salons of the Wealthy and titled, and to cbarm the cireles Of the cultured who gathi3r there, leaving- the noted APoetlee of the Plano, snob. as Melberg, iaottschalk, Mar- raontel, Lucca, Xenon, litabinstein, &a., enrap- tured with these Superb instrumerrts, ......••••••••1••••••••••. • THE STODAftT PIANO •rrHErtt never was a poor StodartkPiano made,. and 110110 isrft8 ever known to he returned or exchanged for any other, because they have al-- wa3,s been bought by diserimineting buyers and in the history of Piano making Stodart kilos'irn as one of the greatest workmen inventors that • ever liveil."—MANNIEO. MARSNA-LL & WENDELL PIANO. ;1? EMAIIKABLE fax standing in !tune. Any %IA' amount of durability. Beautiful touch,. Me- dinni SiZO, Low in price. Folly warranted. Matchless tone. • Light & Ernst, Rogers, Heintsman Sze.„ On hand or to order. SIMMONS & CLOUGH ORGANS. OT only the prettiest organ in Itho Unite& -4-/ States (but tbe BEST; all things bonsidered. MusIcAiM. • CEORCE WOODS & CO.'S ORGANS. • 'pE5IARK.1.1.BLE for their purity of tone. Thor- ough 'Work and lohltsh, and great beauty and variety of their Solo Stops Eoline, Vox Miming, and Pia120. • , TUE CAIVAIPA ORGAN In Stock in Variety. LESLIE, SA'IRROW (c: SMITIf„. • 93 Yonge Street Toronto, -872-52' SOME AGENTS.. LOW-PRICI.,i'D FURS. IN GRAND DISPLAY OF CHRISTMAS GOODS END LESS VARIETY AT THOMAS LEE'S. CALL AND SEE THEM ONE OF THE BEST SELECTED STOCKS OF Groceries, Biscuits, Canned Fruits, Lobsters, Salmon, Sardines, Finnan Haddies, Salt and Fresh, Water Fish, EVER OFFERED IN SEAFORTI-11. N. B.—A oar load of ehoiee Hand Pielted Apples for sale, in laige or small quantities. Don't fail to call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. TIIOMAS LEE. itc)331:z.rrsoINT's AT HOFFMAN • BROTHERS' CHEAP CASH STORE, SEAFORTH: • • ....MOORE & 'CASfilE11.1 STEAM CABINET FACTORY. M ROBERTSON, Havin fitted up a new; Cabinet Factory, is now prepared to furrish ALL KINDS OF CABINETWARE. He would remind his friends a.nd the public generally that his FURNITURE is made of THOROUGHLY SEASONED LUMBER And by First -Class Workmen. He would therefore invite all intending purchasers to call and examine his Large Stock, and be convinced that his Goods are not only First-Clabs, but quite as cheap as any in the Market. Also, a large stock of .COFFINS, CASKETS, BURIAL ROBES OF ALL SIZES, Coustantly on hand, and a / FIRST-CLASS HEARSE In atten dance. Factory and Wareroonts on Main over L. R. Corbey'a Store. Street, opposite L. R. Cothey's Store. Residence M ROBERTSON SEAFORTH FOUNDRY. JOHN NOPPER TurrSH r,§ to inform the farming community and the public generally that he has leased the SEAFORTH FOUNDRY for a terra of years, and refitted it throughout. He is now prepared to manufacture all kinds of 18 THE PLACE; COME WITH A SMILING FACE. Wu are now occupying FraA Palfridge's -Old Y Stand, which we bare entirely renovated, and having procured new instrumente, are prepared To Give Satkfaction to All. Thanking the public for their very liberal patron- age in the past, we invite all to call and see our New Rooms, where we will always be found, and in good humor. 860 • MOORE & CA31PBELL. THE HURON PLANING - MILL.. • 2q8SRS. GRA Y & SCO EG to announce that they have commenced business in the Shop lately occupied by Martin, and are now prepared to fill orders for Sashes, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings,. And all kinds ef planed lumber. ALSO LATH AND SHITGLES. • CHEESE BOXES AND SETTERS, FARM GATES, HAY RACKS, &c. A good stock of Seasoned Lumber on hand. • Factory and Lumber :Lard on Goderich street, near Main street. Jig Sawing and Custom. Planing neatly done. A. GRAY. W. H. SCOTT. SEAFORTII AND HURON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS MARBLE WORKS. SUM AS • Straw Cutters, Plows, Gang Plows, Drag Saws, Ire:lading the TOTMAN, which is the best 2 -horse Saw in use. ALSO MY IMPROVED PITT'S POWER BUILDING ANID ALL OTHER CASTINGS Turned out on the shortest notice. Mill, Engine and otyr Repairs done with Neatness anal Dispatch. •411. CALL SOLICITZD. • JOHN NOPPER A GOOD INDICATION. S a result of Good Business, the subscriber has recently been obliged to very much enlarge his premises, which are now filled with a very larg e Stock of the most desirable grades of NEW, TEAS, INCLUDING JAPANS; YOUNG HYSONS, GUNPOWDER, BLA.CK AND COLOGNE. • SUGARS. Scotch Refined. Liverpool Refined, Cuba and Dent erara, white Ground and Block Lump. TOBACCOS. I ALL TIM BEST BRANDS IN SMOKING AND CHEWING. LIQUORS. VAN ADLLN Whiskey and all Imported Liquors purchased in Barrel and sold pare as usual. A fun 1--• Su paly of General Groceries and Provisions, all of which will be sold at very small profit. CLOVEN, TEMOTIIM and °TEMA MINIM SEEDS IN SEASON z„ Chequered Store, JAMES 'MURPHY. Seaforth, dan.26, 1875. H. MATS SET T (Late of Hamilton)) Would intimate to their numerous friends and the general public that they are prepared to fill all orders for • Monuments, Headstones, Table Tops, Mantles, &e, Granite Monunzents Imported to Order. Work of the best style and art, and cannot be surpassed in this part of Ontario. A callrespectfullysolicite(L Calder's old Stand, opposite McCallum's Hotel, • MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, H. MESSETT. T E CREAT 'ENGLISH REMEDY, OR. WILLIAM CRAY'S 3Stre:CairTIF-giC MEDICINE - Gates all Nervous Diseases, such aa Tremors, De- bility, Prostration &c., -which, in many cases, are produced by over indulgence, in the use of tobac- co and alcoholic epirits; but the Speeifie Medicine is more especially recommended as an unfailing cure for Sentinel Weakness, Sperraatorrhea, Im- potency, and all diseases that follow as a sequence of Self Abuse, As LOSS of Plemory, ThaiversalLassi- tude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Pre- mature Old Age, and many other diseases that lead to Insanity or Consumption and a Prema- ture Grave, all of which, as a rale, ara first caused by deviating from the path of nature andover h_lnhlegesnpoeccifte Medicine is the result of a life study and ma,ny years of experience in treating these special diseases. Full particulars in our pamphlet, which we desire to send free by mail to everyone. Sonpei Tcific Medi eine is Bold by all Drttggists at $1 per package, or 6package8 for $5, or will be sent by mail onreceipt of the money, by address- ing WILLIAM GRAY & Co., Sold Seaforth by E. RicksonWindsOo°.r,' JO.23SL. Itoberts, B. Lainsden, awl by allajruggists. Dealers. NORTHROP & LYMAN, Toronto, 1Th8o81500esalwe After Taking. , The World i8 I've sum some pa° Who always are Who never, never The storni-cbMd 'There always som rom sunrise to 'That (1-od's hand life, They semn the -% And I have seen a Ain-beelowle Sorge people -who, • Make earth seo They always see Thc direful sha And keep , the &- Within their h The one can make Seem wondrous The othersmiles t And makes a da This life of ours About as we sk If we ean banish :Let's haste to Sage in 1 Size with the eye] is generally coned eapieity,.. A large e of ViSi053, as it inupt pression'than a stM will take in more perhaps, with less - than a small one] large eyes see thir os:eaIl :sezyemans tyhitngiul sidering them in a Illative way, often beyOnd them ; ti things, but usuall them,qinel is appi-eci .cyeS, however, looll yet!see-lisso othrtt prtilne of the lower sign of Lang -nage, sit„rn large have not - but also a speaki Io thirt ef omis zna do i mesa of the eye abo' brings the .eyeball the face and eyebv ity Of physical perc ity to see quickly the surface of thi sueh an eye, oner first time, would n - _size, arrangement, ante of the differen in it, the color of] Sze.; take in with .1J tures, the colorir and appearan-.!e af be present. In Joi a person would n. amine the detail4 groowawm nping,.attitoue: R figures composing Any d:ty when y ..seoe:tiozsg, ische. $ edoe.. P letter in her hand; enelosed in a whit in front of the sta mouth to ask for darts away and if she made any It takes her live n and then she her linger, and the ber mind Perb She steps to the - clerk if he Ins a t] ing that he hasn't every eomputm before she finds th The fun begins 4 She sidles around her gloves, Close!, atl hesitates whe tiwet her 1rr. atilt it wouldu'tj tongue, and she, es it over the env picking up tho et is :absorbed, and cnvelone. She t the same succes perate, she gives - it sticks Then letter. iiie wets the en -elope zh nimitek delay tongue p'long , age. iie hohlz : sakkse:sare that t and finally apper. "Three cent ma'am." ' "Wili it go name of the eoi.i -sani;%at " To -morrow nu over, Alla ilia: She sighs, ti into one of thei • nt6 lhalle 1 vi%:13:1,11,aks;uslIpil through whie shape, and she--= place she meant leases '44;L: jsst that it did riol turns awa: erve'rdsicag si A. Scientist A distinguii Abbe Moiano, sion of the tole estiug observa the weed up.)s For many vt4 the lrabit of t sc:ous 1 iiijt.ir the practice. again, bat 0 • 1861 bis over 20 gran • rapid decay He had learnei • each of sevel these gra Ina, mind, so as to • nnee to &ail moned resai). • the use (tf 1 • after six Yea!' follows: It was fox a veritable re, • and memorY more keit', oi our work easi have seen grA