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1881.
She Poet's tomer.
My Waits.
1 wait not wealth- the yellow gold
ileo chills the heart like AroUo oold
That tame to toe the warmest heart.
Aad withers all Its better part;
I want am wealth:
Only enough to soothe dusreos,
To 0001 Ule brow of wretchednees,
To ung glad smiles to eyes that weep.
And all my loved omen safely keepTha wealth 1 wont, and nothing more.
1 want not power- to sway my tied.
And biladty lead • world ot blood.
To shift the scenes oe Rte's great stage,
Aad make my isaprm on the age:
1 wast not power,
Bat ratter strength to lift the soul
hound down in passion's bane ooatrd;
To aid 11, to Da upward dight
To yon high realm of love and llght
This power I went, and uothtng more.
I want sot fame. -to have my name
Encircled by a garish dame
That, like the fen's deceitful ray,
A moment gleams, then dies away;
1 want not truer;
I only want It may be odd,
When I am gathered to the dead,
'He lived unknown, and died content:
Ills life should be his monument. -
Such fame I want and nothing more.
Hut this I want -a friend that's true.
Who will ray virtues kindly view,
Aud all m• faults as kindly Doan.
Nor count me more or lees than man;
And even more;
1 want a hand my own to hold
When days are dark, and drear, and oold;
An arm my faltering feet to stay
While here I tread life'a weary weiy-
.Snch a friend 1 want, and even more.
I wanta calm, secluded pace
In the kind thoughts ot all my race;
1 want that men should speak of me
In gentle tones of charity;
And even more:
I went to feel deep in my heart,
I've acted well my humble part;
And, when my earthly course is run,
I want the Master's kind "Well donor --
AU this I want and. nothing more.
A Parody.
.-rimeon rosebud into beauty breakieg,
A hand outstre;hedto pluck 1t ere it fall :
A n hour of triumph, end a sad forsoring;
And then, a withered rose -leaf -that L all.
-;Chambers' Journal.
An ancient tomcat In the summer kitchen;
A bootjack raised, a solemn caterwaul;
.1 moment's silence, and a quick departure;
Asad then, • wasted bootjack --that is all. -
[Cincinnati Casette.
Wkle-awake Sews -
in or near the blunt end, in whisk the
thread was buried. Pliny describes the
needles of bronze which were used by
the Greeks and Roman. These instru-
mental have also been found in the ruins
kat Hereulatream.
The tires amount that history gives ut
the munuhetneers of needles is that they
were made in Nuremberg in 1760, and
while the date of their first wanutsoture
in England is in doubt, it is said to have
commenced in that country about 1643
or 1646, and it is ausierted that the art
was prsctioed'by a Spanish negro or na-
tive of India, who died without disclos-
ing the secret of his process. During
the reign of Queen Elizabeth this was
rut.iewd, and has been uuutunued ever
since. Christopher Greening and a Mr.
Ikmer established needle factories at
Long Crandon, near Redditch, in Eng-
land, in 1660, and these were sown fol-
lowed by other London needle mak-
er.
Reddich is still the centre of needle
manufacture. The eyes of the earliest
needles were square. Manyunautx'esaful
attempts were made to bring out the ski
tilled "drill -eyed" before they were
finally introduced in 1826. Two years
later the burnishing machine in which
the oyes of needles are polished was
completed. In this machine the needles
are strung on a steel wire, which is (mus-
ed to revolve rapidly, and thereby im-
part a beautiful finish to the eye. The
process of hardening needles was for
many years accomplished by casting
them, while red hot, into cold water.
By this means a large proportion of them
betawe crooked, and the services of a
large number of workmen were required
to straighten theist. In 1840 the' sub-
stitution of oil for water took place, and
as this caused a large number of the
workmen to be thrown out of employ-
ment, a riot took place at Reddich, and
the introducer of the oil process was
driven out of town. The, machinery for
making needles has now been brought to
such a state of perfection that, from the
coil of steel wire to the finished needle,
the machines used perform their various
!operations in a canner that may be
said to be almost automatic.
%newt Idea's Asesatoaie.
The amusements of remarkable per-
sons he's been various, and often ter
°antne. The great Boyle would frequen-
tly wrap himself in his cloak, mud hasten
to places where mountebanks resorts to
skirted; and this was his chief taxation
from the intensity of study. Spinosa
delighted to set spiders fighting, and
would laugh iwwoderately at beholding
the insect -warfare. Cardinal Richelieu
used to seek amusement in violeut ex-
ercise, and was found by De Gramaent
jumping with his servant, to see which
could leap the highest. The great logi-
cian, Samuel Clark, was equally fund of
such salute interludes to his hours of
meditation, and has been discovered
leaping over tables and chsirt Once,
observing the apprrath of a pedant, he
said: "Now we roust leave of, fur afoot is
coming in !" The :earned Petavius used
to twirl his chair round and round for
five minutes, at the end of every two
hours. Tycho Bache diverted himself
with polishing glasses for spectacles. s p R 1 N G G-0 0T) S
Paley the author of Natural Theology,
General Grant is reported as having
told a story lately to illustrate how
much luck or chance circumstances has
to do with mrking a man's fortune.
., When a boy, his mother one morning
found herself without butter for break-
fast, and sent him to borrow some from
a neighbor. Going int* the house with-
out knocking, young Grant overheard
it letter read from the son of a neighbor
who was then at West Point stating that
he had failed in examination and wu
miming home.
He got the butter, took it home, 'and
without waiting for breakfyst, ran down
to the office of the congressman from
that district.
"Mr. Hammer" he said, "will you ap-
point me to West Point!"
"No; is there, and has three
years to serve."
"But suppose he should fail, will yon
'.end me?"
Mr. Hammer laughed. "If he don't
;o through, no use for you to try
lily."
"Promise you'll give me the chance
Dir. Hammer, anyhow."
Wetting leod-peeelb.
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BOOTS & SHOES.
We are receiving liberal shipments of
was so much given to angling, that he
had his portrait painted with a rod and
line in his hand. Louie %VI., of sad
memory, amused himself with lockmak-
ing. Salystor Rona used to perform in
extempore comedies, and take character
of n mountebank in the streets of Rome.
Anthony Magliabeochi, the famous li-
brarian to the Duke of Tuscany, took a
great interest intheapiders which throng-
ed his apartments; and while sitting
among his mountains of books, would
caution his visitors "not to hurt the
spiders!" Moaes Mendelasohn,'urnam-
ed the Jewish Socrates, world some-
times seek relief from too much thought
in standing at his window and counting
the tiles upon his neighbor's roof.
Thomas Worton, the poetical antiquary,
used to associate with the school -boys,
while visiting his brother, Dr. J. Warton.
Campbell says: "While engaged with
them in some culinary occupation, and
when alarmed at the sudden approach of
the master, he has been known to hide
himself in a dark corner of the kitchen,
and has boon dragged from thence by
the doctor, who had taken him for some
great boy. Carper kept hares, and
made bird -cages. Dr. Johnston was so
fund of his cat, that he would even go
out himself to boy oysters for Puss, be-
cause his servant was too proud to do so.
Goethe kept a tame snake, but hated
dogs. Ariusto delighted in gardening ;
but be destroyed all he had planted, by
turning up the moaid to see if the seeds
were germinating, Thompson hod his
garden on Richmond, respecting which
the old story of how he ate peaches off
the trees with his hands in his pickets is
related Gibbon was a lazy man. Cole-
ridge was content to sit from morning
till night threading the dreamy mazes of
his own mind. Gray said that he wish-
ed to be always lying on sofas, reading
eternal new novels of Crebillon and
Marivaux. Fenton the eminent scholar,
dish from steer inactivity; he rose late,
and when he had risen, sat down to his
books and papers. A woman who wait-
ed upon him in his lodgings said, that
"he would lie in bed and be fed with a
spoon." Contrary examples to that of
Sir Walter Boott, who wrote all his finest
wor ks before breakfast !
The act of putting a lead -pencil to the
tongue, to wet it, just before writing,
which we notice in so may people, is one
of the oddities of which it is hard; to
give any reason --odes it began in the
days when lead -pencils were poorer than
now, and was continued by example
into the next generation.
A lead -pencil should never be wet_ It
hardens the lead and ruins the penciL
This fact is known by newspaper men
stenographers. But nearly every one
does not wet a lead -pencil before using
it. This fact wu definitely settled by a
newspaper clerk away down East.
Being of a mathematical turn of mind,
he ascertained by actual count that of
fifty persons who came into his office t
write an advertisement or church n o
tic*, forty-nine wet s pencil in their
mouth before using it. Now this clerk
alway uses the best pencils, cherishing a
a good on* with something of the pride
a soldier teals in his gun or his sword,
and it hurts his feelings to have his pen-
cil spoiled. But the pblitenesa and busi-
ness considerations require him to lend
Mr. Hammer promised. his pencil soures of times every day. 1
The next day the defeated lad came And often after it has been wet till it was
home, and the congressman, laughing hard and brittle and refused to stark, I
at Uly's sharpness, gave him the ap- his feelings w.,uld over -power him.
pointment. "Now," said Grant, "It
was mother's being out of butter that
made me General and President."
But he was mistaken. It was his own
shrewdness to see the chance, and prompt-
ness to seize it, that urged him upward.
Author instance where the success
was not so great occurs to us.
A lad of 16, shopboy in a western
town,. had saved three hundred dollars,
in 1860. Going down street one day
iiuring the winter, when the Southern
states were seceding one by one, he
heard a fusser -by remark, 'North Caro
lin& has gone out.' At the same moment
his eye fell on a barrel of turpentine, ex-
i.osed for sale. "No North Carolina, no
turpentine, thought he. He ran to the
Lank, drew out his precious 7)5300, and
Invested them in turpentine. Before
the year was out he realized enough to
mberk in business. But how navy
`.oys in the place of these two would
ate moped sluggishly along, gaining
nothing but the butter anti news ?--
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1_,e: Bowies..
Finally he got some cheap pencils and
and sharpened them, and kept '..hum to
lend. The first person who took up the
stock pencil was a drayman, whose I
breath smelt of onions and whiskey. He
held the point in his mouth and,,soaked it
it fon several minutes, while lis was tor-
turing
himself in the effort to write an 1
advertisement about a miasir.g 'gull -
dna.
Then a sweet -looking young lacy cause
into the office with kid gloves that but-
toned half the length of her are::. She
picked up the same odd p+iucil and press-
ed it to her dainty lips preparatory ta
writing an advertisement fora lost braoe-
let. The clerk would hove s'e'rve ;ler
hand, even at the risk of a busk cf the
best pencils. Faber catered, but it
was too late.
And thus the pelt :t passed from
mouth to mouth for a week I'. was
sucked by people of all ranks tad sta-
tions, and all degrees of cleanli::esa :road
uncleanliness. But we forbear Surely
no nue who reads this w -i!1 .' ,*r apun
'wet a load -pencil -[Ll.
A water is $erdioti , a journal which
.cola largely in rnetahfernus articles
says - The nee•lle a one of th,•mist an -
lent instruments ,f winch we have atiy
-mord. The muoieru needle is .1 pointed
'nstrument haying an eye. and is used
for tarrying a thread, some kind of fa-
t nc, or other matenal. It is pn.bahle,
however, that the needles of those peo-
ple who lived in very ancient tones had
no eyes. as instruments of hone, which
were most likely used for this purpose,
.re found in the caves that were inhabit -
.d by ancient people of France, and the
needles of mu ie;it Egypt. which ere de-
.or'ibe•d as being of btrmze, do not ap-
pear to ha.e been made with eyes Stone
writers are of the opinion that in pleas
f the eye w ,•ireulae Aeorees om was msdc
in the annual report of U. 14. Consul
Shaw, at Manchester, he considered that
the moisture isture of the atmosphere of 1in-
eashire is n natural advantage in favor ..1
English cotton *pinning, which cannot
fir
aupplied in America artiticiaay In
American wood manufactures Shaw
thinks there are special reasons fox ei•
peeling great development in the de-
mand here. 1n regard to theiree and
butter, he counsels cereful attentions to
the quality. Shaw does mot e.•neider it
so easy to beat the Engles manufactur-
ers in their emit market., as some. Eng
Nth writers and speakers at wont to
assure
The nesautt on the Methodist r -apei at
Marsala and the destruction of its con
tents was sine to the imprudence of Sig
nor Lettieri, the minister. in pill-Joshing
placentai n not.ortetytt
irlrt.
OM Saws Re` tet.
A little pot is so hot.
A little ship needs but little sail
A little bird wants but little test.
A liar must have a good memory ORNAMENTAL WEDDING CAKES,
A little string will tie a little bird CHRISTMAS CAKES,
A knave discovered is a great fool.
A little wind will kindle a great fire. CONFECTIONERY OF ALL KINDS
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. CHRISTMAS TOYS and
A little of everything is little enough. THE BEST BREAD IN TOWN,
A little wit will serve a fortunate man. " C} Cu T O
A little knowledge is a dangerous
thirdn:
A L. C gN T E GN'S
lame traveller 011:10'21,1sot' out be-
times.
A little body often harbors a great i jor. K' S >i T y T R 14 ET, • I) DE R I C B.1aq
win.. •
A Le has no legs. but a sc*nda: has /we -Ladies requiring Christmas Cakes should send in their orders without delay
wings. Home-made cakes taken in and ornamented on abort notice, and at reasonable rates.
A little neglect may breed groat ruin-
chief.
A little of eteryt.hing is nothing in Daniel Gordon,
the main.
A liar is r,'t iwlieved when he speaks
the truth.
A life bf leisure enii a hie of laziness
are
two things.Cilin pi miter
A little debt makes a htor, nut a
great -ore an enemy. 01 II
E. & J. DOWNING.
THE SUVARE. Uodertcb. Feb xtt1, Im1
INS
DEE WHAT
PhY`lAi 1S
And Peunlu it! (.oMiada at) about
Scott's 3mulsioa
Of Pure era! Liver Oil
N 1TH
Hypophosphiles of Limo & Soda
A. .\
REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION
AND
WASTING DISEASES
If You Want C+ood
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS,
CROCKERY, or
GLASSWARE,
—00 TO—
etiteodlao, N. B., Nov. 3. IOM
Meagre S(OYFT b DOW DI 1C-1 have used and
ppnecnbed for some time -dom 's £wullon of
Cod tin. a Liver vein etaelfind w it an excellent prepa-
tb the stomach.
ration. agreeing easily
taken, and its continued tree adding greatly to
the strength and comfort of the patient.
A. L ?ELK, Y. D.
Pesti. Med. College.
D. FERGUSON'S
Ha'ailtoa Ski Opposite Baileys Hotel.
In addtties m the ordinary I1nes et the Orsoary and Creekary Traits. 1 carry • fu stook of
Amherst. Nova ricotta. Nov. 3, 1800.
Measra 1OOTr t BOWNK.--heats: res
near17 two years I have been mo>Vuatttted with
aced Zambian of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo -
phosphite*, aad consider It the meet prepara-
tion now before the public. ltaperntanencyae
en Kmualon wtth the pleasant savor, makes it
tate great favorite tor children. sad I do highly
recommend it tor all vending diseases of the
system.
1 -ours, very irony.
C. A. SLAGS, M. D.
Halifax. N. 8.. Nov. 1!. 1801
Messrs. 8C0'CT ' BOWN&--0oatlemaa: I
have prescribed year £musses foe the past two
years. sad found 1t more egresebie to the
�typreparation ts from
y other paad mtion ofthe kdthave
tried.
Floor, Ieals, Port and Gnuei'al ?ro!sious
MY MOTTO IS.
"Fair Dealing and Moderate Prices."
Coal 9sgJ•y Steck ed set m. prima.
if Goods delivered to say part of Use
D. Ferguson.
s01'OR7s
L M. CAM5&OF, M. D.
Belleville, Ont.
Messrs. 8007 T ! BOWWR-Dear Sift: 5
fed It • dep 1 etes net sorb. to yea hot to the
oommaalty, le soaks the tollswwIfnngg ttatemeat:
Atom tares years ago way Mdeniseghter was
Wm. with
il-
..� ver eetd whisk
u50d as fair
mid ant es!
meld
era— eppeered t�a �hemea�ef101.e la smmt�sis•/Ises/twthat her msesa
said ▪ sad tk eMMt e! It !s reyear
et eves. ow wfas hew
Ilkelorem t e saiedl lad tai snr�tes es rib=
eedtlr.sd r =tie
Um=
tine 10
msatfseke nae ells is go absistesola s
hes wadr i esot la ss.ae0imtdidnkat
abuse&
▪ irmfasn0il� � ens Sad1 sets
*sesissi wILLIAr BL5$5,
Mrs. OaL. lin. Mr
/Male be esstllybe ea91.0we son dsaspaw WverySW
r id int set wise.4visal it1
se was acmes dust. M ens
• mar Meal le try issers •sosY� me Is
oowr -Softimeat vermin Were sbe bed madow
Sl
1 rememmeed/t te every esti Ywskls1 wish 116.
mem dioses.
A little time will be en, ugh t., hatch
great mischief.
A little stream may quench thirst as
well se a great river.
A little house well filled, a little lanai
well tilled, and a little wife well willed
are sumo. nohow
Yellow Oil it a for ..be chore
of Bunts, Scali* arouse, Wounds,
Frost Bites and Chilblains • /We other
medic -me required in the household. It
gator internal u well as external use.
leery bottle is guaranteed to ere astu-
facet on All medicine dealers sell it.
tufa Out Cough ! YoaeM do it speed-
ily, wifely mid surety with Hapard's
Pectoral Balsam. Now is the season to
guard against colds If you would pre
tent Consumption neglect not the most
tolling symptoms. agyard's Pector0i
Release loll never fell Tun. it cares
Croup, Anthem. Bronchitis. Whooping
('Hugh mrd en Pntmnnary eomplaintt
rthtun tl •f your4ruggist
4.Mdest limes in 91. t,ottwip, and Largest Moth this red/ oi Loatinn !
PARLOR SCrrr_a,
BID -Rod MUMS,
,
Bros-Boasps ,
RAM Clanut,
Loo„ A t: ta,'Irrt . , RTC.
e
(cult buybuyersn, will find 1t to their ad.'antage to see my stock if they need's good artica at
clew erica.
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THE ORLATt8T W011 DER OF MODERN
TIM ZS 1- -The Pills Parity the Mel, eorreot ail
disorders d the Liver. Stamadt, !Wary* edit
Bowels and are invaluable in all oompplsints in
eldental to ihsm•Ies. TheOintmentts the only
relSores remedy Ulcers,
for Bad ndle
Scree and Ubers. o[ however stasdlarr
TorBraocbtta,Dipbtberia•Cought, Cow.
Rheumatism a.+ntoa all Skin Diseases. it e,,
▪ WARE Or AMERICAN COUNTER
puns i roost reapeetfafy take leave to eel,
the attention of the Pubic generally to the far
that certain Hooses In New York are sending 1.
many pins of the globe SPURIOUS Irrrsnens
of esy Pills and Ointment. Them trudd bear
ea their abed some address in New York. I
do not Wow m Medicine to be sold In any part
of the United Prates. I have no Agents there
My Medicines are only made by me, at 111102
tord Street, London. )tithe Books of direction,
eyed to the spurious make is *caution warn
Ing the Public against being deceived by noun
terfetts. Do r.ot be eilsled bbyy this aed•oioca•
trick_ ski they ore the mu eats they pretend
todenouwee. These onuntetrffeftsare pureehhi w*
stinpr►redpkdVendors stone -belt the price of
y PUis add Ointment and are sold to you as in r
gexalne Medicines. I moat earnestly appeal to.
91st sense ofj chaos which 1 feel mare i may ten
tore mice added teem alt honorable peesnam. t.
•sold me- and the Public, mbar ae may lie In
their power, in denouncing thUsham efulTrawl
.
Rech Pot and Bou of the Oe erne Medicine
bean the Britah Uoverosae.t Stam) with 9h^
words "HounwAY's FILM arm OINT111113,91%
LONDON." st1gtsved themes% Ob the label to
the addreen, ei t OtMrit Street. London. where
ahemtthhe*yyattrree Mana6ctneed. y te�sy's Pots
.ad OMdwemt beariNsy oar 95Asrr adz revue ser
eouwterflat. The Trade Marks of new. Medi
Mees are registered Is Ottawa Mance any one
=American
the British Paedeaminfa who roar
k p4he American Conntertetta for sale, will b.'
prospered. fdgaed) THOMAR HOLLOW A T
adopt Mae* Reales. Jae. 1, Wt.
C1NGALESE
HAIR RENEWER
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radar its mi. idd eels 'WO Udat M
pias or wawa teeAa
RESTORING Gni MIR
TO ITS MT$$AL COLOR.
Try It befor .nslag aqr Auld by ale
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