The Brussels Post, 1888-9-28, Page 22
TOWN DIRECTORY. been finished, the hymn sung, and
Mr. Scudder was devoutly praying
MELvtra,E C m cwt - Sabbath Satv]oes Tien suddenly the boughs of the
et 11 a.m. stud 8:30 p.m. Sunday School, grove began to rustle and a troop of
at 2:3o p. 11,. Rev. John. Hess, B. A., monkeys appeared, No one saw
them except Dr. Chemberland. Old
monkeys and young, graywbisker•
ed and bald-headed, mothcra with
their baby monkeys, all cleeeentled
and seated themselves in a 80113i.
pastor.
. Moe Cumin.—Sabbath Services at ei
a.m mgt. it:au pan. Sunday School at 2;30
pan. lieu. G. B Howie, 1U. A., pastor.
Se. Jou es Cntawt.--Sabbath Services
at 11 a.rn. and 7 p.m, Sunday Seltool at
9:30 a.m. Rev. W. T. (Tufff, incumbent.
Ne neerse C,ninca - -- 4itbbatll Ncr/'icut # circle. They paid the strictest at.
at 10:30 a.m. and eeeo p. m. Sunday tention to the prayer, (Should any
mischievous youngster begin his
monkey -china ono of the dignified
old men monkeys would twist his
ear until the little one ceased his
pranks, and if one of the babies be.
gen to snivel a few maternal puts
quieted him.
Dr. Chamberlain could scarcely
reetraiu himself at the comical sight,
and it was a great roltef to him when
the aesombly broke up. As the
people arose to go so did the mon.
keys, and they silently disappeared
iu the branches, evidently much im-
pressed with the service.
Certainly boys and girls ought to
behave as well as these monkeys
when attending public worship. Per-
haps tie= of them would do better
if they could see themselves iu a
gloss while misbehaving. They
would be ashamed of the ridiculous
figure they cut.
The newest service rendered by
monkeys to mankind was recently
illuetrated in London. In ono of
the school districts there were a great
many parents who reported no child.
ren in their families, and in order to
ascertain the real number of children
in the district the school officers re.
sorted to an Ingenious measure. Two
monkeys were gaily dressed, put in
wagon, and, accompanied by a brass
band, were carried through the
streets of the district. At once
crowds of children made their ap•
pearance. Tho procession was
stopped in a park and the school
officers began their work of distri-
buting candies to the youngsters
and writing down their names and
addresses, They found out that
over sixty parents kept their child.
ren home from school, and the mon-
keys and brass band brought about
two hundred little boys and girls to
school, which was pretty well clone
for two monkeys.
Schon at at '3:30 p.m. Rev. X. Swann,
pater.
Iloaus ('. enrolee Careen. --Sabbath Ser-
vice third Sunday in every month, at 11
a.m. Rev. P. J. Shea, priet•t.
SALVATION Ariatr.—Services at 7 and 11
atm., 3 and & o'clock 7.01. on Sunday and
every evening in the week at 8 o'clock, at
the barracks. Capt. Smith in command,
that Fr:Lrows' Leven every Thursday
evening, in Graham's block.
lil.tsoaty Loner Tuesday itt or before
full mems, in Garfield block.
A. 0. P. W. 1.01'1:1I on first and third
Monday evenings of each month,
Foe a 1'i,e' L010 E and and Last Monday
evenings of each month, to Smale's hall.
L. 0. L. 1st Monday in every month,
in Orange. Hall.
Pos'r l)rvicit. ufiiee hours from 8 a.m.
to 7:00
Mrcn.tstcs' Issuer -.E:- Iceadin( Rooth
and Library, in Holmes' dock, will be
open froth G to 8 o'elcck p.nt. \Vednt-edays
and Saturdays. Mies Minnie Shaw, Li-
brarian
Bnrssar.s W. C. T. I% hold monthly
meetings on the Ord Saturday in each
month. at 3 o'clock p.m. Mrs. Swann,
Pres. ; Mrs. A. Strachan, See'y.
Tows C:ocmrL.—IV. 11. McCracken,
Reece ; Ii. Graham, J. Ament, D. Strach-
an and.). McIntosh, Councillors ; 1'.
S. Scott, Clerk ; Thos. Kelly, Treasurer ;
D. Stewart, Assessor, and Jas. T. Ross,
Collector. Boardmeets the 1st Monday
in each. month.
Sciteom BoAEn.—Rev. Jno. Ross, D.A.,
(chairman) F. S. Scott, H. Dennis, T.
Fletcher, J. Hargreaves and A. Hunter.
Seo.-Treas., W. H. Molts. 'Meetings 1st
Friday evening in each month.
Pro=m Smoot TEACHEns.—Jho. Shaw,
Principal, Miss Richardson, Miss Flambly,
Miss Abraham and Miss Taylor.
BOARD 00 HEALTB.—Reeve McCracken,
Clerk Scott, J.11. Young, A. Stewart and
J. G. Skene. Dr. Holmes, MedicalHealth
Officer.
G r.tbr it's ginner.
THE TOILET 01? THE FLY.
Tho toilet of the fly es as carefully
attended to as that of the most
frivoloui of human 'needs. With
a contempt for the looking glees,
le biu'hcs bizeeelfup and wobbles
Lie little ratted head, chuck full of
vanity, wherever he happens to be.
Sometimes after a long day of dis.
sipation and flirting, with bin six
small legs end little round body all
soiled with syrup and butter and
cream, he puree's out of the dining.
room and winds his way to the clean
white cord along which the morn.
ing glories climb, and in thee re-
tired spot, heedless of the crafty
spider who is practieing gymnastics
a few feet above him, he froceods
to purify and sweeten himself for
the refreshing repose and eoft dreams
of the balmy summer night, so
neaeseary to one who is expected to
be early at breakfast. It is a won-
derful toilet. Resting himself on
hie front and middle legs, he throws
his hind lege rapidly over his body,
binding down hie frail wings for
an instant with the preseare, then
raking them over with a backward
motion, which he repeat'+ until they
are bright and clean. Then he
pushes the two legs along his body.
under the wings, giving that queer
structure a Gianugi: currying, every
now and then throwing the lege out.
and rubbing them together to re.
move shat he hes collected from his
corporal eurface. Next he goes to
work upon his van. Resting upon
his hind and middle lege, he r'aiee5
his two fore lege and bogine a vig-
oroue scraping of head and elioul-
dere, using hie proboscis every little I
while to pueli the accumulation
from hie limbs. At times be is so
energetic that it seems as if be were
trying io pull his head off, btu no
fly ever committed suicide, Some
of his motions very much resemble
pussy at her toilet. It is plain,
even to the naked eye, that he does
his work thoroughly, for when be
is finished he looks like a new fly,
so clean and neat has be made him-
self within a few minutes. The
white cord. ie defiled, but floppy ie
himself again, end he bids the
morning.glories a very good -ev-
ening.
MONKEYS.
The following story will show
that even monkeys can behave well
when they try
Two missionaries, Dr. Chamber-
lain and Mr, Scudder, were once on
a tour of a certain portion of India,
preaching at the small villages
through which they passed: They
would attract the attention of the
natives by singing a hymn, and
then would talk to them, generally
using some simple theme from the
Scriptures. One day, when they
had °topped in a large village, they
had collected the people about them.
In the rear was a steered grove, the
branches of the trees banging down
over the bots that stood in the back.
ground. The Scripture Iowan had
]C+ a lrnoo Notes.
The newest bangle is of gold wire
shaped to au arrow and curving
about the arm.
A novelty in underwear is the
skirt of striped white lawn, woven
to imitate drawn work.
The bow at the top of your para•
sol cannot be too flamboyant for
fashion, and the richer and costlier
ribbon composing it the better the
style.
Odd effects appear in the newest
watered eilke, many of which have
wavy blotches of ovalsjuet a thought
darker then their ground tone.
The old fssbioued, corded and
cross barred organdy muslin is
again in high favor, as welt as lace•
striped batiste and chambray and
Scotch ginghams as well.
Short petticoats, coming just bo•
low the lase, are worn by many
ladies in place of the chemise, and
are trimmed with tucks anis lace or
an embroidered ruffle.
Though embroidery still appears
on stats and bonnets, it is subdued-
ly elegant, not of the glarieh, glow-
ing variety that for a twolve•mouth
or more has offended the aye.
Drawers come just below the knee
and aro five eighths of a yard wide,
and the most stylish models have
the trimming curved up at the out.
er seam, where a bow of ribboue
often sot.
India pongee grows more and
more the rage, and is used indiffer-
ently for gowns, hats, wraps or
blouzee, which are usually trimmed
with a shapely contrasting darker
hue.
A vary new and very French
fanny for waist trimming ie a corse-
let of wide ribbon, not fitted but
held in place by pine and ending in
aknot and long end to fall over the
skirt.
Dressing sacque of spotted or
striped mull have a fitted back and
the loose front tucked to form a
yoke and are finished with bunches
of narrow ribbon to match the hue
of their stripe.
Waists run to extremes, either
under the armpits or long as the
moxal law, but the same bodice may
be made to answer for both stylus
by mann of the wide, softly folded
empire scab.
Mull and batiste lined or epockiod
with scarlet or deep blue is made
into gowns, chemises or short petti-
coats for very young women and
for invalids is bettor than pure
while, as it does not look so rump•
led after an hour's wear.
Vary now and pretty are the half
moons of mottled amber set with
golden stare new worn as °arringe,
but the combination of silver and
coral is to some millets mole fetch.
ing.
THE BRUSSELS POST
Trained petticoats aro no longer
mum, no sines skirts are finished
I now with laoe•edged frills and flown.
ces in the trains, which take the
fettle of the outer garment es no
separate skirt could.
Now Froualt nightgowns ere
mob fuller then formerly and the
width goes to the neck in Wake,
plaits or stirrings, while some of
them are tucked at the waist r1,
front to form a Spanish girdle.
Many new atomises are eo close.
ly fitted with darts as not to require
shoulder etraps to hold them up.
Others aro finished at the top with
narrow beading, 10 which narrow
ribbons are run and teed in loopy
bows that have the effect of ros•
otter.
The latest high summer novelty
in paper underwear, whose mater-
ial comes from Chinn, and is said
to reeembls fine unlaundered linen,
and to be light, rough, elastic, soft
and so delightfully cool that the
gossnmerost silk or linen is cam.
fortless beside it•
Many of the new nightgowns of
eboor muslin are so elaborate that
they will answer for wrappers if
worn over petticoat and carie( oov
or of India silk, but for use stud
comfort simpler ones of plain nein
sook or Victoria lawn are far and
away more desirable.
The China silk uuderwear, which
comas is whole sots in pale yellow,
blue, pink or white, is trimmed with
no end of tucks and lace and rib•
bun, and is altogether so "fussy"
fhat it is a relief to turn to simpler
"garments with merely a faint hem-
etitobing or ornament.
French walking ekrrls are two
and ono -half yards around the bot-
tom. with fitted front and side gores
and yoke at the back drawn up on
tape, to which the full back breadth
1 gathered, and have either a hem
with trimmings put full below it or
lace trimmed flounce set upon tate
skirt.
intim r'1 otei .
Salting stock in the fields should
be done only when the stock have
free accese to water. If no water
be given other than when the ani-
mals are in the barnyard the salt
is best given in the trough,
The practice of allowing weeds to
grow up until nearly ready to seed
and then cut them down 1 a waste.
The proper mode 1 to plow them
under, as they provide the beet kind
of green manure. Many wends are
rich in nitrogen, and become valu-
able if turned under when iu the
green and growing condition.
When the pigs are confined in
the summer they can be advantage.
ously used as manure•makers.
Everything that can bo converted
into manure should go into the pig-
pens, so as to permit the pigs to
work it over and mix all the mater-
ials together. They will also, at
the same time, consume much of
Oho material that would otherwise
be wasted.
You cannot get two crops from
the land without doing injury unless
the land bo highly manured. The
onetom of securing a crop of stay
from the orchard robs the trees.
The more hay the less fruit. The
fruit crop needs as careful attention
as any other. All crops grown in
the orchard other than the one do -
served from the trees eimply retard
the growth of the trees and lessen
their bearing capacity.
Tbo farming of the future must
be gradually contracted in the num.
bar of acres. Higher cultivation.
more remunerative crops, less bard
work over broad fields and closer
attention to apeotal paying crops on
the fields that surround the house.
More pseture, more stock and plenty
of oneilage—this insures the pur-
chase of less aommereial fertilizer
and the -very boat results from the
contents of the barnyard.
The hoofs of stock do as much
damage to grass as the grazing of
it. No pasture should be given up
entirely to stook. It is better to
divide the pasture into sections, per-
mrttiug the stook to have access to
only one section at a time, in order
to allow the other portions to re-
cuperate and renew the crop. Tho
ehortor the grass 1 grazed the more
injury will be done by the hoofs.
On wet land the injury from tramp.
ing 1 greater, hence etock should
be Kept out of the pasture for a day
or two after a rain.
Gardening Illustrated says the
tying up of the leaves of early cab-
bage is much practised by London
market gardeners. The soft outer
leaves aro folded carefully around
the heart, or centre, of the plant,
and the whole is bound firmly will
a witho or piece of bast. 'There are
several good remain given by mar-
ket growers for this practice. Tha
centre being protected .from the
weather, the (»bbags) ,heart sooner
by two or three weeks than it other-
wise would do, and they are snore
easily handled in gathering and
peeping for market.
This 1 an excellent time to use
land plaster on grass. The plaster
has au affinity for moisture and at-
tracts it from the atmoephoro. It
also supplies lime in a soluble farm
(sulphate of lune). It is also
claimed for it that it attrects told re-
tains ammonia from the atmos.
ph ere.
A113t1113N'1'. ON Itlett'LSIf RALE,%YAYK_
The returns of the accidental on
British railways for 1887 show a
rate of mortality wbieh is far be
yond auy figures of American rail.
ways. During the year 019 persons
were killed and 8,900 injured. This,
however, includes persons passiug
over the roads at level eroseings and
trespassers on the tracks—among
those there being 70 suieidoe. But
to the figures above given are to bo
added accidents which occurred o0
the premises of railway companies,
but wore not manned by the move-
ment of the companies' vehicles,
which male the total »umber of
personal accidents reported to Oho
Board of 'Trade by the several rail
way companies for the year aggre-
gate 077 psreons lulled and 7,747
injured. 'Thio is equivalent to an
average of 24 persons every day of
the year, or one every hour, either
killed or injured in connection with
or as the result of the operations of
the railways in Groat Britain. Yet
the total mileage of those railways
is only about 20,000 miles, or less
than one-seventh of the railway
mileage of ilio 'United States.
CULINARY SASS.
Mirth becomes a feast.
After cheese comes nothing.
Diet cures more than the lancet.
Give a loaf and beg a chive.
Many nooks no'er made good kale.
Hunger makes raw beans relish
web.
Sweet meat must have sour
sauce.
Great plenty breeds much dainty.
Tripe broth is better than no por-
ridge.
Where content Is there 1 a feast.
Meat 1 much, but manners more.
Of soup and love—the first is
best.
He liveth long that liveth web.
Enough 1 a feaet ; too much a
vanity.
Black plums may eat as sweet as
white.
One feast, one house, one mutual
happiness.
Neither fieb nor flesh nor good
red herring.
Be content ; the eco has fish
enough.
He that wants health wants every-
thing.
If wishes were woodcocks, beg.
gars would be epicures.
Pheasants are fools, if they invite
the hawk to dinner.
Small cheer and great welcome
maketb a grand feast.
Better nu egg in peace than an
ox in war.
Fools ladle out the water and
wise mon take the fish.
Ho has eaten up the pot and asks
for the pipkin.
Friendship and importunate bog-
ging feed not at the same dish.
fie that 1 rich and lives poorly
is like an ass that ear'ries gold and
oats thistles.
itcSlrrt3 OF S'1'Ortics,
Red clouds at snurise indicate
storm.
The aurora, when very bright,
indicates storm.
The weather usually moderatos
before a storm.
Soot burning on back of ohimney
indicates storm.
Peafowl utter a low cries before a
storm and select a low perch.
Domestic animals etand with
their steads from the coming storm.
Distant sounds heard with dis-
tinotneee during the day indicate
rain.
Coal becoming alternately bright
and dim indieatee approaching
rain.
Will geese flying over in a great
number indicates approaching
storm.
When oxen or sheep collect to-
gether as if they were seeking shel-
ter, a storm may bo expected.
It
is said that blacksmiths select
Eh stormy day on which to perform
work that requires extra heat.
When a heavy cloud comes up in
the southwest and seems to Bottle
back again look out for a storm.
Fire alwaye burns brightly and
Hume out more heat just before e
storm, and is hotter during a storm.
A. long strip of clouds, called a
salmon, or Noah's ark, east and
west, is a sign of stormy weather,
but when it extends north and
south it is a sign of dry weather.
If the °loads be of diftorent
heights, the sky being grayish or
dirty blue, with hardly any wind,
however, changing from west to
south, or sometimes to 500010ast,
Without perceptibility inoronsing in
force, expect a storm.
SEPT. 28, 1888.
BOOKSTORE.
School
Supplies
Such as Books Slates, Pens, Pen-
cils, Ink, Bags, &c.
Fancy
Goods,
in the way of Purses, Pocket
Books and a host of other
articles.
TOYS
of all kinds in abundance.
Musical
Instruments,
viz., Drums, Harmonicas, Thorns,
Whistles, Flutes, t'ow's Harps.
Opening a Beautiful
Up Stock of
.A.T.1PU10SS
in Leather and Cloth. Prices
Away Down.
STATIONERY
including Note and Foolscap
Papers, Envelopes, Pads, &c.
lake Your
Wants Know
and wo will try and meet you
with what you want.
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