The Brussels Post, 1891-9-4, Page 44
New Advertisements,
rtisernents,
Local --D. Ewan,
Louale-i3. (larry.
Locals,- 1)r, Ayer.
Loun1--A, Currie,
Looal-11. panni+.
111:tuitnUtt-O.
P. 1t.
;Strayed ---A, R. Smith.
Farm for sale --•Jas, Cardiff,
Groceries -James McGinnis.
Earring lost --Post Publishing house.
Pocket book foiled -burs. Ballantyne
Son,
Nru5sds 'Oust
FRIDAY, 81,211T. 4, 1891.
TnE new Provincial Parliament baild-
ings at Toronto aro going ahead rapidly.
The roof is nearly finished, and all will
be iu good shape for the interio_ work
during the wiuter months. But one
more session will bo held in the old
buildings. The first Department to
move into the new building next spring
will be that of the Public Works.
THE census record has paused die -
appointment everywhere, but in those
parts of the country where it reports
actual depopulation it will cause exasper-
ation which will be added to when the
neeesiary re•dietribution of seats in
Parliament reduces their representation.
This will he the case, unfortunately,
with the Lower Provinces which are all
to be losers. Nova Scotia will hence•
forth have twenty representativesiueteed
of twenty.one, New Brunswick fourteen
instead of sixteen, and Prince Edward
Island five instead of six, Manitoba
gains two while British Columbia and
the Northwest remain like Ontario and
Quebec, as they are. It will be very
difheult indeed to dock the Maritime
Provinces of some of their seats without
causing much angry feeling.
GLADSTONE bas written a strong letter
against gambling. The Grand Old Man
has no fear of offending those in high
planes when he assails a great evil. It is
enough for him that itis wrong. He bas
an able seconder in Cardinal Manning,
whose recent condemnation of the culti-
vation of the gambling spirit in comm.
Son with church work has also been re-
ferred to by us. The 0erdival's letter as
received by mail is as follows :-"All my
lite I have done my utmost to prevent
the holding of bazars, lotteries and raffles
for works of charity or religion. It
seems to me that our Lord's works
ought to be done in our Lord's way ;
that is, for his sake, and with the purest
motive. Anything of self or of the world
mixing in so far deetroys the parity of
the motive and, as St. Paul says of
charity, may reduce them to nothing.
We are all in Jaeger of their lower
motives, and we certainly ought not to
encourage them."
ONE of the most noteworthy episodes
hi the parliamentary transactions of last
week was the adoption by the goveru-
meut of Sir Richard Cartwright's motion
condemning the aooeptance of testimo•
nials or donations by any Minister of the
Crown, or any member of hie family,
from any person or persons holding con-
tracts or office tinder the government.
The rule is one which will commend it.
self, to the sense of propriety of every one
in whom that sense exists in the most
moderate degree of development. The
wonder, and we cannot refrain from ad-
diug the disgrace, is that it should have
been deemed necessary that the Canadian
Parliament should solemnly affirm such
a principle. Had not history and exper.
ience taught the contrary, one would
have been glad to believe that such a
rule could be felt to be "elegantly under-
stood," as the old grammarians used to
saw of a aertain Latin oonslruction,
The affirmation of the principle gave
some of the opposition nrators and news.
papere an opportunity too good to be re -
slated to make some unkind hietorioal
allusions, but the Government wisely
brooked the taunts and asked their fol.
lowers to vote for Sir Richard's amend.
meat. -The Week,
te; exteer _rl News,.
The Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, will
hereafter oppose Parnell.
Emigration from Italy continues on a
large male, many going to Brazil.
A terrific storm visited Bermuda last
Thursday. Even stone walls were levell-
ed.
Aeronaut John Hogan fell half a mile
from a balloon et Detroit Saturday and
was instantly killed.
The subscriptions for the relief of the
sufferers of the Park place aouident in
New York now amounts to $0,432.
Deepatohos lint Friday night indicate
a complete defeat of the Government
troops in Chili and the fall of Valparaiso.
Fire burned over o, etrotoh of country
50 miles long and 20 wide in Faulk
County, 0. D. Saturday night, The
farmers are ruinecd.
Alaeka'e population ie 31,000, a de.
creaee of 2,000 in ten years. The native
population has deoteased by 8,000, bet
the whites and Chinese have largely
cveaaen,
Ghureh statistics show that there are
now 020 women either occupying pulpits
or licensed to do so. The Universalist
denomination heads the list of churches
in the number of women it has ordained.
A vast "banyan" tree o',vering between
six and seven acres, has been diaoovered
on the tiny Lord Howe Island, 800 miles
from Port blaoquario, in Anetralia. It
fe surpassed in size only by the greatest
of tbota in India.
Charles Ross, a butcher 13t yoare old,
employed In Shea Bros.' meat market in
New lurk, was cu n lad:ler .11.01)day try.
iug to hang up et side of beef ell a hook
when the ahpped end fell, and was int.
paled on a lower hook. Ile bled to death.
The report that the 'Ballot; of Lincoln
would, in the ovcut of 1118 Privy Couooil
reversing the judgment of the AraUhlcliop
of Canterbury, luevo the 01101011 of Eng-
land and lotted a new 0hu)cb Hits elioftod
an authorized denial frolu the bishop's
friends,
A jeweller at Pleasanton, Cal„ has a
live tarantula in a glass jar, where belles
kept it for more than a year without
food. About two Ine110e of dirt le all
there is in the jar, and how the creature
lives is a mystery. Ile seems as frisky
as over.
The Chinese paper mummy is in red,
white and yellow paper, with gilt letter-
ing and gorgeous hand.dr,wn devises.
The bills, to the ordinary finauaiore,
might piles for washing bills, but they
are worth good wormy m the flowery
Kingdom,
A oloudburst deluged the eastern part
of Rensselaer county, N. Y., on Thursday
evening of 'act week, washing away sev-
eral honses mid causing damage of $100,•
000. In Troy further damage 1008 done,
,laking the total hall a million, Three
persons were drowned.
The street railways of Paris are under
the Government control, and the rules
for their guidance are very strict. Only
four passengers are allowed to stand on
the back platform, the first chess paeeea.
gars iueide, pay six touts—while those
on the roof of the car ride at hall rates.
The aoopest mine in the world is at St.
Andre de Poirer, France, and yearly pro-
daeee 300,000 tons of cold. The mine is
worked with two shafts, one 2,052 feet
deep and the other 3,088. The latter
shaft is now being deepened and will
soon touch the 4,000 -foot level. A re-
markable feature is the comparatively
low figure experienced, which seldom
rises above 75 0 Fahrenheit,
The first held trials of the new rifled
cannon, adopted by the ordnance depart.
ment of the army, were held last Friday
at Goanal, Tex. Six hundred shells were
fired, and all exploded but one on the
mark shot at. Shots were fired a die.
tanoe of lj• miles, and every obeli hit the
mark, so skilful were the gunners and so
deadly a000rate the guns. This ordnance
is the beet in the world.
A deoided innovation in the printing
world has been introduced into the office
of the London News and Post, of wbich
J. H. Copleston, formerly well known in
New York ass journalist, is the manager.
The paper is printed with scented ink,
whiob gives a delightful fragrance. Any
desired odor may be produced, and the
experiment has proved nob only a great
success but a big advertisement for the
journal.
A labor problem of a very serious
nature is troubling the people of Brazil.
The recent emancipation of the slavae
has completely demoralized the agricul-
tural and domestic labor of the new re.
public. It is very diffioalt to get suffio.
bent field labor to oultivate the grope, and
many families are entirely without seta
vents, and are unable to get any. The
negro ex -slaves positively refuse to work
for love or money.
Miss Conant, a shut-in cripple of San
Deigo, has made a picture out of stamps
which shame Coronado Beach, Point
Lome, the Coionado Hotel, and the sea
beyond with the sun setting, and in the
foreground the Graud Army Republic en-
campment. A Soutioel in full uniform
and a Grand Army Republic badge are
among the embellishmeuts. The work is
an ingenious one, and will he sold at the
encampment for. Miss Conant's benefit.
Ray Lloyd, aged 18, of Salina, Pa„
went home the other day with a big box
of toy pistol cartridges 1n his hip pocket.
Shortly after his arrival he disobeyed bus
mother, who at once proceeded to admin-
ister corporal punishment. While elute.
tising him with her slipper she ettmak
him across the pocket in which the caps
were, when suddenly a terrific explosion
followed. When the smoke cleared away
there stood the boy with hie clothes torn
off and scattered all about the room.
One side of his body and back was ter.
ribly burned, the fiesta on the hip being
burned to a crisp. A physician was
speedily summoned, who dressed his in-
juries, and he is now on a fair way to
recovery. The mother was frightened
almost to death.
A Cleveland despatch says that at
noon Friday the steamer Japan found
the schooner British Lion, 180 tuns bur-
den, bound from Romney, Out., to Erie
with a cargo of stave bolts, wuioli had
capsized. Iu a yawl to leeward were
Capt Luoae and his four men. They
were almost exbausbed and had to be
assisted on board the steamer. The
famished seaman were oared for sad
taken to , Cleveland, Capt. Ludas eays
he left Romney about,0 o'clock Wednes-
day evening. On Thursday evening the
boat sprung a leak and the pumps could
not keep her clear. Finally her deck
load shifted and she capsized. They
took to the yawl boat laying on the lea
Side of the schooner. A inrfoue gale
blew all night and the men were subject
to its fury for nine hours before being
sighted. Captain Lucas lives at Wind-
sor and has a wife and child. The others
are Mate Leonard Willcox, of Jerome,
Micah. ; Ed. Smith, of Buffalo, wok
seaman Harvey Stevens, whose family
live at Black hock, N. Y., and George
Obubbe, of Montreal.
A family in Maine consists of six
brothere who look so much alike that
only their moat intimate acquaintance
can tell them apart. They are rather
otoee-listed young men, and the other day,
while visiting in a strange town, tools ad-
vantage of their remarkable resemblance
to eaoh other to save a few dimes and
make life miserable for a barber. Each
brother wanted a shave, and one of them
went into into a barber's shop, had his
heard removed and paid the customary
ten cents, Five minutes later apparently
the same man rushed into the shop with
a three days' growth of beard on his free,
declared that he had not been half shay.
ori, and demanded that the work be done
over again. The asbon"l rl barber
apologized and shaved the man again,
bat in lees than ton minutiae apparently
the same man acme back, angrier than
ever, and with hie beond still brietling.
The barber, after a feeble kick, Went
through the process a third time. When
the fourth brother came, howevee, the
harbor lost all patience and yelled :--"See
here, if you're trying to tel! me some pat-
ent hair raiser I'll take your Whole stock,
but if yon are an osoaped museum freak
either you'll have to get one or I'll have
to olose this shop." The remaining ,
brothers patronized another shop.
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SEPT, 4, 1891
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