The Brussels Post, 1885-10-23, Page 3OCT. 23, 1885,
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OIV]4 HIM A LIFT,
In tho alrugglo and strife of a journey true'
life,
Whore earth's joys aro but born to deony,
Thorn are numerous throngs to whom sor•
row bolouga
Who would welcome a lift on the way.
Oh, what cicuds darkly roll o'er sumo grief
burdened 9o111,
With their dark:max uproot by a rift,
And whose sole earthly share seeing a car-
go of care,
With no ono to "give him a lift."
Some aro rolling in wealth, Dose, pleasure
and health,
IIigh tittos and mimes of renown,
No burden of grief, and no sighs for relief,
Yet how quickly their pleasures aro
flown.
Their motherless life gnome untouched by
the strife
Of a voyage through toil's hopeless drift;
No little to sharp iu a brother's despair,
Yet how little would "give him a lift."
Thorn bo Ronne who contrive upon others to
thrive,
Oppression they wield with their might,
Their tyrannical away they will practice by
day,
And drink to drown consoience et night.
While yen down -trodden slave, trudging on
to the grave,
On his loan, meagre pittance adrift ;
His soul, sad to -day, would to -morrow bo
gay,
If some one would "give him a lift."
The ties that should bind in their folds all
mankind
Are broken for titles and pelf,
And the distance may grow 'twist the high
and the low,
In honor of riches and self.
Yet how easy the stream could be bridged
and a gleam
Sent across it. How great worn the gift;
Then the poor son of toil on his labor would
smile,
And bless him who "gave hien a lift."
Ifitchen flints,
To prevent flatirons from scorch-
ing, wipe them on a cloth wet with
kerosene.
Mortar and paint may be removed
from window glass with hot, sharp
vinegar.
Water weakens digestion and en-
courages the absorption of fatty and
saccharine matters.
To bake pies to a fine brown, dip
a clean white cloth in fresh Dream,
and brush lightly over the top crust
before pivoting into the oven.
Everybody should live on the elm-
ny side of their houses as much as
possible, and allow the sun's genial
rays to penetrate the rooms.
Do not eat fruit skins or seeds.
The skin of an apple is as bad for
your child as a bit of your kid glove
would be; that of a grape more iu-
digeetible as sole leather.
For mildew stains, mix together
soft soap, laundry starch and half as
much salt, and the juice of a lemon.
Apply to mildewed spots, and spread
on the grass.
To make linen beautifully white,
prepare the water for washing by
puling into every ten gallons of water
a largo handful of powdered borax.
Or, boil with the clothes one tea.
spoonful of spirits of turpentine.
To beautify the nails, hold them
for fifteen minutes in warm water.
Then, while flexible, out carefully.
Polish them with a piece of chamois
shin dipped in a mixture of oil and
very finely powdered pumice stone.
It is said that by the following
simple method almost instant relief
of earache is afforded ; Put five
drops of chloroform on a little cotton
or wool in the bowl of a clay pipe ;
then blow the vapor through the
stem into the aching ear.
Bags of hot sand are =oh better
than bottles of hot water to place in
the beds of invalids who require art-
ificial heat. The sand retains heat
longer than water, and sand -bags are
much hater "bea•fellows" than bot•
ties.
At the French Academy of Medi-
cine Dr. Combo has made a valuable
communication respecting tho de-
ductive effects of the persistent use of
morphia on the teeth, He has notic-
ed that the victims have not a sound
tooth left after a year's addiction to
this habit.
Ten grain of iodine dissolved in an
ounce of turpentine forms a solution
eminently successful in the treatment
of ringworm of the scalp, after the
parts have been thorougly washed
and cleaned. It is a painless appli-
cation, and may bo employed at any
age and to any part.
To destroy ante : Drop some quick-
lime on rho mouth of their nest, and
wash it in with boiling water ; or
dissolve some camphor in alcohol,
then mix with water, and pour into
their flaunts ; or tobacco water, whish
has boon proven satisfactory. They
are averse to strong scents. Oam-
phos will prevent their infesting a
cupboard, or a sponge saturated with
creosote. To prevent their climbing
up trees, plane a ring of tar nrotind'
the trunk of the true, or a cirolo of
rag moietonod with oreosotet
V1.400” it,0401K,
AT 12000., GA'rl., Nltw YORE, IIOOsN OP.
in order to protarrt life and property at
the Flood Book explosion on Saturday the
most careful and adequate police arrange -
merits worn perfected, A force of 450 pa.
lioetlten, in addition to the harbor police,
were detailed near the scone of action, 000
of whom were located on the hast River
front, Blaokwell'e Ieland contained a de-
tachment of 1.00 teen while 50 wore on duty
at Ward's inland. All the buildings 00 the
north and of Blitclttvoll'e laland were clear.
ed of inmates, including the almshouse,
workhouse and lunatic asylum, who were
massed in the lawns at a safe distance from
the explosion and carefully guarded, In
tho penitentiary the coil doors wore thrown
open and the prisoners conducted to the
halls, Tho prison was surrounded by po.
lice, while a large force was stationed
among rho convicts to prevent esoapo or
riot, and to give aid in case it was found
noroseary to roach the building.
All points on the shorn from which Plood
Boole could bo seen were densely packed
with people, The police worn kopt busy
in keeping the crowds outside of the dan-
ger line. Ropes had been stretched across
the river above and below the place of ex-
plosion, and launches from the navy yard
patrolled the river to see that no vessels
attempted to pass through. Tho boll in
the tower of tit, Anne's school building
struck the ]tour of 11. and 00,000 people
wailed expectantly for the explosion which
was advertised to be on hand at that hour.
But at that moment there was still a num-
ber of people on Flood Rock. A few mom-
ents later, however, a tug took them off,
and then the spectators braced themselves
for the expeotod shock, Ladies and gentle-
men in carriages stood upon the cushions
and levelled their opera glasses lowarda the
island. A hushed expectancy fell upon the
vast crowd, who seamed almost afraid to
breathe for fear the act world disturb their
view of the explosion, should it occur at
that moment. The river in the vicinity of
Flood Rook and Hallett's Point was now
clear of vessels, At a respootablo distance,
however, soores of excursion steamers, their
deeps black with people, yachts, tugs and
oven a sound liner waited for the pressing
of the electric button.
At precisely 11:19 o'clock the earth trem-
bled and the bosom of the river was pierced
with a mighty upheaval of rooks and tim-
bers. Up, up went the glittering masses
of water until it seemed as if they would
never stop. At a height of 200 foot the
uplifted waters paused and fell back again
to the river. At this moment, when the
air for hundreds of foot in each direction
was filled with the whits masses of spark-
ling water, the spectaolo was grand beyond
expression.
Maiy Newton, the 11 year old daughter
of Gen. Newton, who as chief engineer has
concluded the operations at Hell Gate
since the start, tonehed the button that set
froe the electric current that exploded the
submarine mines and shattered the moun-
tain of rook, lifting it out of the bosom of
the sea, and crushing ib into a million
of fragments. It was little Mary Newton,
who, when a mere baby, touohod off the
first Hell Gate explosion a few foot front
the point where she stood Saturday.
Tho shock of the collapse was felt only
slightly on the Astoria shore, and the noise
resembled far distant subterranean thun-
der. When Flood Rock had lifted its
strong back a mass of broken wreck was
seen on top of it all. The big derrick that
had been loft to its fate was turned over
on its side and broken. A huge tank that
had been left at the north end of the island
still stood in its plane, tilted over a little
as it had settled when lot down with the
angry waters from its aerial flight. Im-
mediately after the explosion a fire broke
out in the wreck and burned lustily among
the seething waters. Four instantaneous
photographs were taken by officers of the
corps of engineers from the firing point at
Astoria. As far as it was possible to judge
from the position and appearance of the
wreck the explosion had been an entire
success, though for the present the vicinity
of the blasted rook will be oven more dang-
erous than heretofore until the wreck has
been removed. The ishook was felt to a
slight extent in the city. It was distinctly
felt to the City Hall building, the structure
trembling ]for tho space of five seconds.
At the Oounty Court House the shook was
distinctly felt. In the upperpartlof the build.
ing the floors shook and the windows trem-
bled when the explosion occurred.
fdarper's weekly gives the following de-
scription of how the engineers prepared
for the great explosion :-Loss than 100
years ago Hell Gate watt six miles from
New York city. Instead of being six miles
from New York, as it was in those days,
Holl Gate is now opposite that thickly pop-
ulated part of the city lying adjacent to
NInety---second street, from the foot
of which a ferry crosses its troubled waters
to Astoria, on the Long Island side. For
many years engineers of tho United Status
Government have been engagod in romov-
ing Hell Gate's menacing rooks and reefs.
Little by little they have steadily improved
the channel, and in the autumn of 1870,
after years of arduous labor in preparing
the mine, they blew up and destroyed, by
one gigantic explosion, the dangerous reef
that extended into the river front Hallett's
Point, In this effort 10,000 pounds of ex-
plosives wore used, and it was the largest
single blast that had ever boon fired. As a
result, the site of the once dreaded reef is
now a twenty-six foot channel at mein low
water, and Hall Gate is shorn of many of
its terrors. But other and greater works
were yet to take plane. Immediately upon
finishing their work at IialleOt's Point, the
engineers began work neon Miidlo Roaf,
and sunk a shaft sixty feet deep in Flood
Rook. 1(0011 Oho bottom of the shaft gal-
leries were driven in every direction
through rho tough gneise forming the roof,
until a mine eight acres in extent had boon
excavated from the solid rock. By linear
measurement those galleries extend 21,070
foot, or something over four miles, 'rho
ground plan of these extensive excavations
showed twenty-three headings, running
nearly north mud south, and crossed at
right angles by forty-six galleries. All the
passages were twenty -live foot apart, Tho
height of the galleries depends upon the
depth of water in the river above them,
and the thielutoes of the roof depends npon
Otto character of the rock of which It 18
formol ; so that it varies from 15 to 20
fent, In this roof and in the walls and
pillars supporting it nearly 15,000 holes
'were drilled and filled with copper cart-
ridges, ooutaluing 4yitamito and raolcaru.k
powder. Tho holes in the roof warn drilled
by throes, and directly upward in the eon.
Oro of thel gallery, and one at each side,
but inclined outward at an angle of 45 do -
greets. Each wan ton feet deep, and thus
every pair of side holes in adjacent garter.
les approached oaoh other. Tito weight of
the explosive material with which these
bolos were charged Saturday was 275,000
peundx, or nearly six times Ess much as
was used in blowing up the r'e'ef at Ifailett's
Point.
H3'Iyl-rn Pdcri.elpa,
Put slablee in order.
'Ridge plow stiff clay.
Get ready for tree planting.
In fattening feed little and often.
White wash the lien -]rouse roof in-
side.
There is no better time for painting
than now.
Starving, freezing and ogg-laying
don't go together in poultry keeping.
Wo didn't count thein, but an au-
thority says there aro 750,000 grains
in a bushel of wheat. Should think
about that many.
Now is a good time to arrange for
adorning the yard with shade trees
and shrubs of deoiduons kinds, there
being less pressure from work on
moat farms than in the spring, Plant
all but evergreens,
Rest at Noon time, -It rests a
horse greatly to be relieved of his
harness during the noon hour. A
hurried rubbing over the snrfaeo of
the body with a wisp of straw before
putting the harnoes back, will be
grateful to the horse. Practice these
little acts of kindness, they bring
Comfort and strength to the animal
and a sense of peace and duty done
to the owner's mind, which is greatly
worth possessing.
Shade in the Hon -yard. -Now is
the time to provide this by planting.
A good bush for the purpose is the
currant. It will thrive in an out-of-
the-way place, does not require much
room, and the hens like to hide under
its branches. Tho fruit is also ac-
ceptable, and seems to do them good.
This bush eau be planted quite as
well in the fall as in the spring. A.
line of lath should be stood around
each bush to keep the hens from
scratching the newly -handled earth.
Leave these until nest June.
Sore shoulder. --Always guard
against these on your work animals.
Soo that the Dollars are kept clean,
and if they have become hard, make
them limber before making your
horses work in them. Wash the
sweat off from the shoulders after a
hard day's work. If there is any in-
clination to soreness, apply some lini-
ment to the spot and relieve it by
cushioning all around it. Were this
course more practiced work animals
would do more and better work, and
less would also bo heard of balky
horses, for it is true that many a balky
horse became such through being
worked with a sore neck.
Manuring Grass Land. --Were
manuring properly done here the
yield of grass would in many oases
be doubled. The bust time for this
treatment is in the fall, as this will
give the growth a now impetus, help
to winter the plants better, and a
correspondingly early start in the
spring. Tho plants aro then in shape
for commencing early growth next
season, they have the full benefit of
the rains and coolness of the spring,
thus not only hastening and enlarg-
ing the first cutting, but helping ma-
terially the succeeding cuttings. We
can go on and keep up our meadows
after a fashion, by leaving the after-
math for protection and nutrition,
but not to the raising of largo hay
crops. For this manure -and iu
quantity -is essential.
OROBARD AND GARDEN.
Handle celery when it is dry.
Prepare for winter mushrooms.
Keep spinach hood and wended.
For good berries there must be
good land.
Shelter some tomatoes with sash
for late fruit. .
Raisin making from native grapes
is not a success.
One year with another the pear is
a more reliable cropper than the
apple.
A lady recently said at a fruit
grower's club that she planted rasp-
berries forty-five years ago that are
bearing good Drops yet.
Storing Root, -After the growth is
ohockod by frosts, gather and atom
radish, beets, carrots and the like in
a cool cellar. Quality and flavor will
be best preserved by packing them in
sand or light soil. If there is a largo
crop they may be kept over winter iu
pits, Locate any malt in well -drain-
ed ground covering with straw and
earth to prevent hard freezing and
'sudden changes of temperature.
Robb. S. Wood, Q. C., of Chatham,
"•tasbeen appointed junior judge of
Kent County Court,
Mr. Marton, B. A., of Exeter, hall
been engaged as Principal of the
Watford sclsvols fit POO.
HOUSE tPc LOT FOE SALE, ON
ClueueStruet, Tltorelaalso a shop on
the Ant that druid bo utilised for a stable.
Will be sold uuronsoneblo tonne. Apply to --
A, tOAWTINNIMLr1
BABY CARRIAGES,
J3ABY OAJIRIAGES,
SELLING OUT! JuSTo
A1\T2>
a Choice Stock of Baby Carriages
that Cannot fail to suit the wants
of the Public.
Call and see them,
LARGE STOCK of I-IABNESS
ON HAND.
Give 7/be Cb Call.
H. DENNIS.
f,r`.,a,w 7
SELLING OUT,
Great Clearing sale
FOR 60 D,IY'S
of harness, collars, fly nets, dusters, trunks
travelling bags, satchels, brushes, curry
combs, whips, and everything in the hat,
nees line. Tho stock must bo sold without
reserve as the proprietor is giving up bnsi-
noes.
Inspection I72,vitnid.
Over 20 sets of Harness to
choose from.
This is a bona fide sale and no catch;
penny affair.
R. STEVENSON.
Is- All indebted to mo•rnust oall and settle
accounts at once.
HURON AND BRUCE
Loan & Investment Co.
This Company is Loaning Money
on Farm Security at LOWEST RATES
of Interest.
MORTGAGES PURCHASED.
SWINGS BANE BRANCH.
3, 4 and 5 per cont. Interest Al-
lowed on Deposits, according to
amount and time left.
OFP1cr.--On corner of Market
Square and North street, Goderich.
Horace Horton,
MANAGER.
Goderich, Aug. 5th, 1885.
THOS. FLETCHER,
Praotioal Watchmaker and lewelerl
Gold Watches, Silver
Plated Ware, Silver,
Watches, Clocks, Gold
Rings, Violins, Etc.
I keep a full lino of goods usually
kept in a first-class Jewelry store.
Call and examine, no trouble to
show Goods.
Issuer of Marriage Licenses.
Agent for Ocean Tickets, Amer-
ican Express Company and Groat
Northwestern telegraph Company.
MEAT MARKET,
BAIN STREET, BEI'NSF'S
ANDREW CURRIE, Prop'r,
FRESH AND SALT MEATS
(nth()bee-Equalityaiwnyeonband and dell v
orodlnanypartoithoYlllagotree of charge
TERMS Very Favorable.
FAT CATTLE WANTED,
Aorwhlcitthe highestmarketprice willb e
Ialeomakes Speelaltyofbuylrighide sand
Skins , Derelforget the Place, sex doe r
FI etehcr'sdenellryMle re.
ANDREW CUBEST
Canadian Pacific Railway Time Table,
Teeswater Branch.
Miles. Going West. Drell. Express
0 Toronto.. Dep 7.20 a.m. 5.40 p.m.
0 Orangeville .. 9.50 " '7.05 "
4 Orangeville Jot 10.05 " 7.22 "
7i Amaranth t .. 10.15 7.32 "
10 Waldemar.. .. 10.24 " 7.38 "
12g Luther.. ....10.31 ' -v7.44 tt
24 Arthur ...... 11.03 " 8.10 "
80i Kenilworth.... 11.30 " 8.29 '
88j: Mr. FOREST .. 11.58 a.m. 8.46 '
44 Pages $ ...... 12.15 p.m. 9.01 "
47?j HARRIoTON.. .. 12.28 9.10 t
66i Fordwich ..., 12,55 " 9.31 "
60 Gerrie .. ... 1.08 " 9.40 "
62i Wroxeter .. 1.15 " 9.46 "
69 Wiugham Road 1,88 " 10.03 '
74 Teeswater..Arr. 1.55p.m .10.15 "
Miles Going East. Express. Mail
0 Teeswater Dep 5.15 a.m. 2.15 p.m.
5 Wingham Road 5.28 ' 2.30 "
111 Wroxeter .. 5.47 ' 2,49 '
14 Gorrie .. .... 5.53 ' 2.56 "
I71 Fordwich ,... 6.02 " 3,06 "
28i Harriston .. 6.25 t 3.29 "
80 Pages j..., .. 6.85 " 3.40 "
35f flit. Forest.... 0.51 ' • 8.57 ,
48} Kenilworth .. 7.09 ' 4.19 "
50i Arthur ...... 7.26 " 4.90 "
Big Luther ...... 7.58 " 5.10 "
64 Waldemar.... 7.68 " 5.17 "
06i Amaranth t 8.04 " 5.24 "
70 Orangeville Jot 8.12 " 5.85 "
74 Orangeville .. 8.86 •' 5.55 "
122 Toronto .. Arr. 10.45 a.m. 8.85 p.m.
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Tho undersigned having completed the ohauge from the stone to the
Celebrated Hungarian System of Grinding,has now tho Mill in
First -Class Running Order,
and will bo glad to see all his Old Customers and as many new ones
as possible. Chopping done,
Flour and Food Arrays on Mand,
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