The Brussels Post, 1890-11-28, Page 3Nov. 28, 1800.
VARIETIES.
A olailly selutation—sheke.
Never stroke a boy's beard when
it Is down.
A. man can easily have his own
way by not wanting it.
It 18 exalted partition that
makes the weethercook vane.
11 18 the toper who would hire to
put a gurgle round about the earth. em
Hith takes a pooty aht man
ter count all de times dat he's bin a
fool.
In order to mend his political
fences a politician has to keep web
posted.
Isn't it strange that the better a
man gets on In this world the better
he is
'llas your wife gone shopping ?'
'I'm afraid not. 1'm afraid she's
gone buying.'
The Prinoess of Wales wears a
number six shoe, yet she is a num
ber one woman.
It takes very little to make a
woman happy ; it takes much loot
to make her miserable.
How good a man is to his wife
the first clay after she has caught
him doing something wrong.
1.the days are 'short,' now because
there is not as much time in them
as there was, and time is money.
'111 never take anything to that
paper again. The editor made fun
of my jokes. 'He did ? He must
be a genius.'
Dashaway—'I have fallen into
the bad habit of talking to myself
lately.' Cleverton— 'I wondered
why you were looking so bored.'
'Well, little Fritz, bow did you
like your dinner ?' asked his aunty.
'Oh, we don't have any better at
home, but there's more of it,'
Fond father (to bright little daugh•
ter)—To they usually ring two
bells before school begins, darling ?'
Bright little daughter—'No, papa,
they ring one bell twioo.'
Mr. Bingo—qemmy, when you
get to be the head of a family what
will you eay to your sons ?' Tom-
my (thoughtfully) -4 will tell them
how good I was when I was a boy.'
Father — Widu't I hear high
words between you and your broth-
er just now, Henry ?' Henry --
'Very likely, father, but surely you
wouldn't wish me to use low lan-
guage.'
'No, no,' said the Italian count,
'Eet cesa no use; have a long
talk witha her father. I tella hoom
I have a great vista of possibilities
before me."And what did he Bay?'
'He toile ene to pulla down my
vista.'
Solomon and the Type writer.--
There are two things that I cannot
away with ; yea, three that make
me very angry ; not to hear the bell
and to write on the ribbon, to forget
to put a space between words, and
to strike the a instead of the e.
Green City Folks.—Mrs. Hay-
seed—'Yes, I had some city board
ars duriu' tb' summer, but I didn't
tnterdooce 'em around much 'cause
I saw they wasn't fustoolass folks
what goes out of the city every
eunimer.' Neighbor—'0h ! They
showed they'd never been in the
anuntry before, did they ?' Mrs.
Hayseed—"Yes, indeed. Why, the
very fust meal, they asked for
cream.'
1101 NOTES.
Wood ashes seem dry, but in dry
seasons there is no fertilizer that
produces better results on potatoes
or strawberries.
A tree near a well will send deem
the roots to the water. Some trees,
ench as the ailanthus, impart their
odor to the water.
Set out the 70011131 places in the
strawberry rows just now. In the
spring see that all vacancies then
existing are also supplied.
Whether it is cheaper to grind the
food, or allow the animale to grind
et with their teeth, depends upon
the age of the animal and the kind
of food.
The impel:Lamm of beginning the
evinter with d(m
a loan bar cannot
web be overlooked. The health of
the family depends on how theool-
lar
is kept.
Now that the treat has put in an
oppeareinoe. there will soon be an
accumuletion of dry arass auct other
rubbish. A.11 such refuse should be
raked up into piles and burned.
Linseed meal comes in a cooked
state. It is a safe and reliable
medicine and a nutritious food. It
will soon make a rough hide smooth,
tend promote the thrift of the mei.
Venees are an animal tax that
tonde to hamper successful stook
raising. The introduction of barbed
wire lesseuee the difficulty, bat, it
will be found in the future that teal
fencing will bo rt quirecl.
Hoge ate probably the most dif.
fieult to keep front getting filth, mild
when it is known that disease is a
probable result of filth, or at least
filthy hogs are soonest ablaoked,
steps ehonld be talon in time to see
that the hegs aro kept and fed in as
Olean places as possible.
THE BRUSSELS POST
Make your preparatione for the inch thick, out into Wipe and twist
window garden. Ladies will and thens. or with a cake cutter, made
much pleasure this winter with tho for the purpose, au fry quickly in
indoor plants, very hot lard, deep enough to float
Herb growing should be profitable, them, of a rich brown calor, when
A demand Always °elate for herbs, oold, duet with powdered Boger.
not only in the vegetable markets Cheap Fruit Oake.—Take one
but also by druggists. pound of white eager, one pound
Olean water and wholesome food butter, ton eggs well beaten ; mix
keep stook in a healthy conditien, butter, sugar and eggs together ;
In a majority of oases disease re- three pounds sultana mime, three
sults from filth, unwholesome food, and a half pounds of flour, one
or neglect, ounce of ammonia dissolved in one
Old bones that cannot be conven- and a half pints of milk. Paper the
iently broken, leather scraps, dead frame or rings, and bake in a cool
animals, ole., should be buried near oven.
large grapevines, whioh is an excel- Good Fruit Cake.—Take four
lent mode of putting them to a good pounds of sugar, three and a half
use, of butter, four eggs, well beaten ;
Soils that are rich are benefitted mix the sugar, butter and eggs to.
by lune as well as soils that are gaiter. Then add four pounds of
poor. In the former the lime ren- flour, one ounce each of mace, gin
dors the plant food soluble ; in the ger aud oinnamon, three pounds of
latter the lime is itself an addition cut poet, nine pound1 of raisins,
to the soil as plant food. nine pounds of currante. Some
Exporimentsebow that when hogs add syrup to /leak et it. Pap 3r
are given a proportion of ashes and rings or frame.
bone meat they have larger bone, H. G. Cool,iet.--Talce four
grow tfastor, and podium greater poende of sifted flour, ono petted of
weight in proportion to food allowed. brown sager, one p:uid of itrol,
Ashes also assist digestion and pro rubbed woll into the fleas ; one
motes health. quart of syrup, half an ounce of
Grass is about the last of all crops soda, dissolved in hn'f a pint of
suitable for a fruit orchard. The water, tour ouuees of ginger, mix to
countless millions of grass roots gather, roll out and cut into c ikee,
leave little moisture for the trees in small or large, round, oval or
a dry season, and usually they need square, as you nary buoy. L ly
all they can get. But the idea that them in pane and bake in a slow
grass i Imitable for an orchard is oven.
hard to kill—harder, indeed, than
the trees are. Canadian DO e wee.
Horseradish in 'the good old tirnes' Parkhill cemetery req. tiro' eu•
has been known to yield from three
kr in
to six tons per acre, and sell at from In g'atm.. .
ette association leas been
$100 eo $200 per ton. It is not
formed at Sarnia.
likely these profits could be realized Prominent residents of Strathroy
nowadays. A. Connecticut man grew aro endeavoring to form a eanniug
tout tons to the sore, grated it, put company for that town,
it on the market and sold it for 12 ..
tehe New Hamburg Poultry As-
oente per pound. sedation will hold its first annual
If an 11010101 15 "stunted" in its poultry show on Jan. 19. 14 and
young days, no amount of feedinoo in
15 next.
its old days well make good the loss An old lady named Mrs. Steele,
sustained. Iu the case of beef eni. of Newbury, had her fingers burned
male, they should be fed on the best to the bone while kindling a fire
of feed from birth, sod this will last week.
cauee a constant, continuous growth While on hie way home from the
to the time of butchering, which Hamilton Masonic Hall I. W. Mor•
should be done while the animal is ton lost a rare Masonic jewel, vale -
very young. ed at $175.
A mechanics' institute is shortly
FASHION NOTES.
to be opened at Appin, 80 names
having already been secured for
—
It is going to be the fashion to
wear small bonnets at the theaters. membersh1P•
Rev. Solomon Peter Hale lector.
The floral velum is a very pretty
ed in Guelph Thursday night on
thing formed of foliage and dull red
berries. The progress of the City of Guelph
and its patriotic people.'
Girdles are the rage now and are
Work 011 the inclined railway to
made of daisies, buttercups, violets
the mountain top, Hamilton, was
ana heather.
Trimmings very little this winter, commenced II rides', and will be
The firm of Patterson tz Corbin,
velvet and feathera.
scarlet of St. Catharines, Lae received a
Brunettes are wearing
more than ever this season in the $15,000 order for ten electric ears
for the Ottawa Street Railway Com
bonnet and muff and at the throat.
Real lace, oldeand new, will have Pau3'.
a foremost place among the costly Todd Quick was tried Lit Windsor
Friday ea the charge of stealing
dress trimmings of the season.
cattle belonging to a farmer named
&
Lace bus give a
picturesque
and distinguishe(I air to a dress McLean, of Colchester, Wan founcl
that would otherwise look ineig- guilty and committed. for eentenoe.
Nicholas Soratob, employed at
nifi cent.
A becoming bonnet in amber vel Citizens gas well, at Kingsville. was
vet is trurimed with sable tails and making 80 Me repairs on Friday
has a velvet brim of the color of the when a rope Amok him in the eh.
fur. domen, inflicting injuries which
Grecian draperies loolc out of caused his death Friday night.
place on commonplace figures, con• Potatoes in Yarmouth are re
sequently fashion has abandoned ported rotting. The cause is at-
tributed to a heavy rain which oc
them
being confined in most cases to pushed forward until °emulated,
Tea gowns have become very eternal in the meanie. after a long
simple garments since the designers drought, producing a second growth,
have ceased 10 ring the changes on and hence the potato did not proper-
eleeves. ly mature.
The latest imported hat resem• Hospeler's electric light by-law
bles a tambourines It is trimmed enacts that ten aro lights will be
in almost the same fashion as the taken by the village at 17e. per light
bolero, par night ; each light to be of 1,500
The Medici collar looks well candle powor ; lamps to bo ligbted
from duel( till midnight at least 280
made in pink hyaeinth blossom and
lined with crape de Chine the SUMO nights en each year, and contract
shade. for same to last five years.
Ball dreas bodices are composed The 'Alone eu a Groat Citycpue•
of rose petals, poppy petals and binution, which has been playing to
hyacinth blossoms. They are
very poor badness in Canada, were
ex-
ceedingly pretty. tillable to pity their hotel bill at
The Grethan headdress is still Hamilton, and the proprietor of the
Popular. Bidedy matrons appear hotel attaohed the baggage belong,.
Mg to the °emptily, but a compro.
in feather caps that aro crownless
on smart occasions, naive was arrived at.
The easel writing &nit is oneof Mrs. Frank Rabadean, of Abbots.
the newest novelties in decorative ford, neat Port Huron, deowned her.
, ; it is ofelf Saturday afternome in a mill
The incandescent electric light is
making rapid headway Chethittn,
Three hundred and twouty five
lights are now ueed.
Henry Howard tote sold 150,000
feet of !ember for an ! Iinue ROIL
feet in length, to be eroded nn the
TUnnal 00.'H farm at Sarnia.
A Troy eubseriher writ" : M,
Sager, sr,, who is over 94 tonere of
age, is a hustler. The other day
he dug up 25 plum trees and (tarried
them over to Mr. 13Iasclall'e farin
and presented them to Mr. B. as a
memento from the oldest men in
Beverly, if not in the county,
During the hearing of a ono a at
St. Thomas the other doiy, Odin
Macdougall, Q. C., referring to 3. F.
Later, Q. 0., mid to it witness,
'Don't mind him ; there's more wind
h
tan ruin ab it hereupon Mr.
Lieber retorted 'Yoti're n old hum-
bug. His Lordship Judge MacMabon
threw eil on the trembled waters.
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Patty Cakes.—Talto one and a have been insane. She leaves a
half pounds of butter, one and a husband and four ohildeen.
pounds of sugar ; cream the batter L)111.8 Cyr, the Canadian strong
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the time. Than add four pounds of at Montreal,and ofTers to give $500
flour, one and a half ounces of atnto any athlete who can defeat him
mule, previously dissolved in ono in hie feate of strength. His ohal
and a belt pints of milk. Flavor to lougo is as follows : I will lift a
taste. heavy dumbbell from the floor with
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of silted flour, nine simnel of baltiug shove tho shoulder. I will shoulder
powder, eight ounces of lard, mixed a greater weight than Kuhn° with
thoroughly into the flour, eighteen ono hand. I will hold out a heavier
eggs, throe pomade of ougar, ono weight, straight horizontal arm,
quest of water, ono quart of milk ; than Ruhne oat, and I will lift a
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