The Huron Expositor, 1870-02-18, Page 6Engineering Virorisi in Europe.
Mr- Vignoles the new President of the
Institution oVel;i1 Engineers, gave his audi-
deuce on Tuesday night a picturesque view
.• of the great constructive works, which are
now in progress throughout. Europe. We
must not let the grandeur ot the Suez Canal
hold us by its spell : it is but alarger illus-
tration than ordinary of the skill and•enter
prise which are transforming the surface of
the earth and multiplying the conveniencesof life and the communidations' of nations
= M all directions. In Holland we find one
of our own countrymen, Mr. Hawksliaw,
csaoperating with aantitive engineer in the
'Amsterdam Sea Canal—a wonderful ex-
ample of engineering in small compass,
which will reduce the navigable distance
to the North Sea to 15A- miles. North
Germany has numerous great worksin hand
—a new Royal Dockyard on the Jade, an-
other at Kiel; and a steansquay at Ham-
Isurgi besides the improvement of the Prus-
sian commercial ports on the Baltic. Still
greater works are propoied; the Great Can-
• al from the North Sea near the mouth of
the Elbe to the port of Kiel on the Baltic,
and a new port of commerce and refuge on
the western coast of Sleswig. At home the
past year has been remarkable for works of
great scientific and public interest. It saw
the in
.ethe new !Bridge at Black-
friars, and with it that ,of the- Holborn
Viaduct, and the construction and trans-
port of that unique work, the Bermuda
Dock, which is capable of taking in the
largest of ironclads, and, indeed, any vessel
TIONV afloat, with the single exception Of the
Great Eastern. As a seecimen of iesults
of great utility obtained at a small Cost,
there is nothing bettee worth note than the
Tower Subway,- designed by Mr. Peter Bar-
low, and carried to completion by his son,
which is not only a specimen of a mode of
communication under large rivers, but seem
to point the way to an effectual method of
relieviag the street traffic of the metropo-
• lis. Two vertical shafts, ofte in Tower -hill
• and another near Tooley -street, in the Bor-
ough, are connected by a circular tube of
seven feet clear • diameter.. Shafts ,will
• be provided with lifts, which will rise' and
• descend at fixed intervais in connexion with
• omnibuses at the bottom, which are Worked
by -a wire -rope, and are to make the jour-
ney under the river from station to station
in one minute. The tunnel and shafts are
completed, and all that reniains to be done
• is to fix the. lifts. Mr. Vignole's view was
brought to a dose with a recommendation
with which many a shareholder will sym-
pathize—•`Aspire, to works of every day
utility, and °guard yourselves especially
from:supposing that the merit of an engi-
neer is measured by the expenditure On his
. works. I have always inculcated the doc
trine that the success of an Engineer is
best secured- by the pecuniary benefits, ac-
cruing from his works as commercial specu-
lations." ln this connexion we are glad to
see Mr. Vignoles expressing his opinien'
that the Suez Canal will be "a very excellent
financial speculation," although he confess• -
es that at one time he thought otherwise.
According to the President of the insti-
tution of Civil Engineers, the profitable ap-
plication of money is strictly a part of the
aim and duty of the engineer. Now that
• the Suez' -Canal is open it is becoming a
to recog-
those who
with it, -
and nothing can be more propee, provided
Lt be done juetlya To those who -now what
bppos en d di a enientiiie pi om0-
ters of the Suez Canal. had to contend a- room in it, or two rooms with a bed in it tulle, it is too innocent for earth, and rf it is
years, and is they choose. all science it is too much of a job.. Per-
.
was over- Boarders are requested to pull off their haps the best way to court is to begin with -
more ills- bouts before r•etiring, if they can conviently out much of any plan where you are going
Mr. Daniel Lange, who repr sented the Beds with or witlioot hues.
to fetch up and let the thing lzind,OT wor-
la,bours of do so.
interests of the Canal in Englan.d, and both . All money or other valuabbles are to be:
a, mill pond. You will find one strictly I
along Icarless, like throwing stones Into .
eyes flashed when the fact was announced.
He reeled from hs seat, and fell to the
:groundas if he was shot.. He was Picked
up insensible. He never spa° after-
wards, and in twenty-four hours he was
a corpse. The glad news hadkilled him.
But all his expectations were realized 'after
death. -To-day his son receives a very large
income from the company of capitalists who
are working the mine. -
Lucrezia Borgia Vindicated
A biogra2her has succeeded to his own
satisfaction, and very possible to that of
many of his readeis, in rescuing another
notorious mune from 'obloquy and odium.
Lucrezia Borgia, is the daughter of the in-
famous Pope Alexander VI, and sister of
Caesar Borgia, has come down in history
laden with charges of guilt like those which
attach to other members of the family. She
has been condemned unheard and without
defence, for it is only nataral to suppose
that one inheriting such bad blood must show
it in the life. The drama and the opera
have combined with the historian to hand
her down to infamy. •
Mr Roscoe, in his admirable biography
of Leo X, first attempted to stenrthe tide
of prejudice and gave his opinion that the
charges against her were not. proven,
and were in_ themselves improbable. A
Mr. Williara Gilbert an Englishman, has
just published a biography of her, in two
volumes, in which be brings forward such
corrobrative evidence to sustain Mr. Ros-
coe's judgement, She was married at the
early age of sixteen to one cf the B.atza
fa.mily, Lord Pesaw, a worthless tyrant
from whom she was soon divorced.—She
was soon married againe to the Duke of
Nalpes, with whom she lived happily
until he was murdered, probably by her
brother, though the fact was unknown to
her at thetime. She married againto the son
• of the Duke of Ferrara, and seems to .hrtae
• been warmly beloved by her husband,
her father-in-law, and his subjects. Indeed
her nature had in it that peculiar magnetism
which wins admiration and friendship, and
• she succeeded in attaching strongly all
whom she cared to bring into intimate re-
lations.
- Mr. Gilbert says that her life of nine-
teen years at Ferrara was a blameleas and
useful one and she was kind to the poor,
sympathizing to the unfortunate, an af-
fectionate wife and a devoted and wise
mother; and that her intimate friendshie
with the Marchioness of 1Viatria, one of the
most virtuous and high-minded women of
the age, is a sufficient pledge of her own in-
nocence. Mr. Gilbert has done his work
well, with the air of a candid biographer
rather than of a partizan; and it looks ad if
the good name of Lucrezia.Borgia had suf-
fered ftom its association with bad telatives.
ty8rrdR.
Henry Ward Beecher on the Orow
In a recent issue of the Ledger Henry
Ward Beecher speaks of the crow as fol-
lows:
Aside from this special question of . pro- i
fit and loss, we have a warm side toward 1
the swow, he is so much like one of our-
selves. He is lazy, tu,a that is human ; he I
is cunning, and that is human. He takes
advantage of those weaker than himself,
and that is manlike. He is sly, and hides
for to -morrow what he can't eat to -day,
showing a Veal human providence. He
learns tricks much faster than he does use-
ful things, showing a true boy nature.. He
thinks his own color the best, and loves to
hear his own ;voice, which are eminent
traits of humanity. He eats . whatever he
can lay his claws upon, and is less mischiev-
ous with a belly full than when hungry,
and that is like man. He is at war with
all living things except his own kind, and 1
with tthem, when be has nothing else '
to do. He will never work when be can
get, another to work for him --a genuine
human trait.
• No wonder men despise ctows. They
are too much like men. Take eff his
wings and put him in breeches, and crows
would make fair average men. Giye men
wings, and reduce their smartness a little,
and many of them would be almost good
enough to ,be crows.
A RAILROAD HAUNTED BY THE SPIRIT OF
' A VICTIM.—The Boston papers publishes
the following as a strange but well -authenti-
cated story: ,"The engineer of the freight
train on the Boston and Lowel Railway,
which leaves Boston about 3 o'clock in the
morning, has on several occasions discovered
a red light swinging lit a furious rate at the
fashion of our scientific societies
nize the eervices and merits of
- have been employed in connexiO,
• Mark Twain's Hotel.
- Having lately opened a }lathery, I send
you these My rules and regulations:
This house shall be consideaed strickly
inntemperate.
None but the brave deserve the fare.
Persons owing bills for board Will be
boredfor bills.
Boarders who do not wish to pay in ad-
va,nee are requested to advance and pay.
Boarders are expected to wait on the
colored cook—for meals.
Kitlorcfli ft.-:10ftn
Are offering
GREAT -BARGAINS
Feb. 13, 1870.
3.1-ERCII ANTS, TR A D ERS,
Ste.
_—.....—.....
,meTillite;sfa,biceiber has just reeeived a large assort -
DAY 6001(8, LOWERS, JOURNALS,
Blank Books, Bill Books, Countitaaliouse
Diaries, -
I
Pocket Diaries for 1870.
Bibles, Prayer Books, Pain Books ---and *
large assortment ofmiscellaneousbooks in splend-
\
did gilt bindings, suitable for Christmas and
New Yeat113 Gifts.
Sabbath School Books 1 !
•
CASH 1,3U-YERS 1
GROCERY AND WINE
TRADE.
Woburn Station, where the train stops o
water. The light would sometimes be in
front and sometimes in the rear of the train.
When the engineer would t,top his train and
send some one to learn. why the signal to
The Stock is v-e,ry -large, an
MUST BE SOLD
To made rt)0111 for further purchases.
It comprises the following staple articles :-
•
200 half chests Fine Young Hyson Tea,
100 boxes New Raisins,
50 barrels New Currents,
110 hhds, Bright Cuba Sugar,
100 bOxrels Yellow Refined Sugar,
-200 barrels No. 1 Labrador Herrings,
50 do White Fish, fall catch,
50 do Trout,
stop wa,s made, the messengerwould be great 100 barrels Superior Windsor Whiskey,
ly surprised to see the light vanish. In -
vestigation has proved that no person -?,as
50 barrels Old Rye and Malt do
there with a lantern, and the brakesman
and conductor concuralse in having beheld
the phenomenon, which, as far as known,
is without visible cause. Some laborets
living on the line of the above station state Also a large and well selected stock of
that a few mornings since they were com-
ing down the road in a hand -car, w -ben they
,saddenly heard the approach of an engine
' and train, and knowing that no train was
due in the vicinity at. that hour, they be-
came greatly frightened, and, jumping out
'of the car threw it off the track to await the
train which they thought was coming at a
rapid pace upon them, but which, it is need- •
less to say, did not come. The supersti-
tious regard the affair as 'a forewarning of
some disaster, while the spiritualists have
the ready theory that it is the spirit of a
man who was killed there about two years
a o "
Sheets will be nightly changed oqce I .1
six months or more if necessary. s
D boarders can have two,beds with a
g •
JOSH BILLINGS ON COURTSHIP.—COUrtina
is about balf nature and half science. The
nature in it is simply energy. You must
begin slow, and by and 'oy it will be best to
agitate things. Wimmin never surrender,
nor are they ever actually won, but rather
captured. They "light it out on this line."
• There are wimmin who are as easy to court
as lint " Luv at first sight" is like eating
honey. It duz seem as though you could
never get enuff of it This kind of luv is
apt to make blunders, and is hard to ac
ov well. But there ain't any such thing
aZ mathematicks in courting. it is all na-
gainsi, in this country for many
how pet serving and patiently it
come, it will seem strange that
ace is not done in public to the
4-ENERAL-G-ROCERIE;S!
Too numerous to mention.
Give them a call and see for yourselves.
Reward Tickets, Ice.
Plain and Fancy Note Paper and Envelopefi,
'
Pens, Ink, Pencilschool. Books, etc.
Musical Instruments !
Accordeons, Concertinas, Violins, Violin Strings.
Rosin, Bridgei, &c.
Briar and Mereschaum Pipes, and ?alley
Goods of all kinds.
A large a,ssortment of
KILLORAN and RYAN.
Jan. 21st 1870. 111-3m.
TOYS
For Girls and Boys,
At LUMSDEN'S
Corner Drag arid Book Store.
Seaforth, an'y. 21st, 1870. 53-tf,
FARMERS 00 TO
• .1V,IllAticHT AND 'TEE:PLC
CLEARING SALE
Fon,
WAGGONS, BUGGIES
A GRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, and in
1-1.. fact, anything drawn by the horse. A large
assortment always kept on hand. And for first-
cla,ss HORSE SHOEING &JOBBING- thatis the
place.
A large stock of Dry Oak, and other Lumber,
also Dry Waggon Spokes, for Sale.
Seaforth, Feb. 4th, 1870. - 11 -1y.
THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN
THE
subscriber begs to inform the public that
he has just reeeived a great variety of Sad -
ales and
TR UNKS,
OF -Which he is prepared to sell
At Prices Almost Unparelieled_
COLLARS of every description, warrant.
• ed not to hurt the horse's neek.
WINTER GOODS
READY-MADE
In the way of Harness
OF ALL MNDS,
He is, as heretofore, in a position, to give
hi
CLOTHING customers as good. value. for their money as
any other establishment in Ontario. _
Quality of work and material, employed, indis-
. ., - pataNe.
., :3
CANADA_ TWEEDS ierysirio!: OPPOSITE KI]) 1) 4--
` al-b.-LILL\ S. ' ,
JOAN CAMPBELL.
Seaforth, Jan. :31. 18t0- .
,
.. . n, as he will be responsible for no lo
true, the more advice you uush•take to fel-
fought its battles single handedMrLange sisted o , w the less amount of good courting you
in the ptess and before learned societies left in ease of the proprietor. This is 111-
is not the man to put himself forward to other losses. will do.
Flannels
-demand paaise, but it is not fitting that Inside matter will not be furnished for - -
while so many are receiving it his valuable editors under any consideration. A Portland shoemaker' , who had long,
labors ahould be fore•otton.—Dc4ly 11ews. Relatives comine• to make a six months
been in love with a prettywidOw, but had
.411 • 410.- VISA be we ed but when they •
never dared to mention it to her met her
lcom •
Singular History on the street the other day, and blurted
THE WEAMORTH (ENGLAND) 00AL-1111s.rE.
Richard Pemberton, a man of means; first
'conceived the idea that coal was to be found
• on the spot: He eommenced operations and
soon exhausted his fortune, withoitt finding
coal. His friends endeavoured to dissuade
him from his enterprise, confident he had
made atnistake. He would not listen to
them, he felt -certain the coal was there.
His relatives were wealthy, and inspiting
theni with hiS eiattusiasm, they at first gave
him all the money he asked for. Still he
,lid, not succeed. They began to be distrust-
ful ; being a man of .strong will and much
persuasive power he induced them to make
advances until they were literally bank-
rupt. Again his friends importuned hint to
desist. He would not listen tb them, seem-
ing to be more confident as they grew more
despondent. • He swore ha weld Clio down
to hell before he .would stop : Ithat 'ie did
not get coal he Would find einders He was
declared crazy, but he still eontinued to
raise money, He would 'ley r admit the
-possibility of failure ; but hope, so long
defered, evidently wore up(bn him. He
grew thin and haggard, tracti6rn and mor-
ose ; and, being naturally of high temper,
his nearest friends were afraid' to speak to
him of the mine, 'about avhich they 'believed
he bad become a monomaniac At last one
day when he was in Newcastle, coal was
reached. A messenger was eclat pest -haste
from Sutherland to inform him of the joy-
• ou.s news. Pemberton met the messenger
on the bridge ever the Tyne, iand heard the
ticlings ashe was riding moodily along on Australian may, if he will, throw light.
horgeback. Pemberton's cheek flushed ; his W W Spicer, Havre.
bring their household furniture, virtue
will cease to be a forbearance. out : "I beg your pardon, Mrs. ,but I
Single men with their families will not want to marry you 1 have loved -you a
be boarded.
Beds with or without boardslong tittle," then he gave his name etc., "and
.
Dreams will be charged for by tyou can take a week to inquire about me,
he dozen . and can see me whenever you want to."
e With this he left her to consider • she did
Nieltmares hired- out at reasonable
rates. consider, and a speedy marriage was the re-.
/
Stone vaults will be furnished to snori!,1g suit.
boarders, as the proprietor will in nowise
.,
be respousible for the broken tin-pan-ums of
other ears.
THE AUSTRALIAN BEE. --Can any reader
conversant with Australia show any "just
cause or impediment" why the native bee 'of -
that island -continent should not be intro-
duced into Great Britain If too tender
to propagate it'self into a wild state here it
seems -admirably adapted for preservation in
hives. It lives in societies, it makes good
honey ; it is much smaller than our bee ;
it builds in trees, and is therefore we‘l suit-
ed for wooden hives, or at any rate for the
Swiss ferm of hive, above all it is perfectly
harmless, not being provided with a sting.
This last fact ;alone would cause it to become
a great fa,vorite, were it but once brought
over. It must, I imagine, be very prolific,
as it is pertinaceously sought after by the
natives for the sake of the honey ; and,
were it .not a good bi•eeder, it must have
yielded td ages of persecution, like the mos
of the seine hemisphere. As to the means
of transport. I presume that either the
ova or the grubs in an early stage might be
tranAmitted easily. enotrgh. However there
may be objections to its introduction of
which I am ignorant, but on which some
NOTWE TO
CHEESE MAKERS.
The Thames Road Cheese Factory, which is
situated in the Township of Hibbert, County of
Perth. Which is situated in a first-class dairying
locality, is for sale or rent. Sealed Tendere will
be taken up to the liith Feb, next, 12 o'clock
noon. For further particulars apply on the
premises.
ANDREW MALCOLM.
Farquhar, P.O.
112.
Hibbert, Jan'y, 28, 1870.
If you -want good -value for your ineney in
Boots and Shoes go to T. Coventry's. 87-tf-
M'GREGOR & SON,
•BOOKBINDERS, HULLETT.
RE prepared to execute binding in every
style. Persons residing at a distance by
leaving their books, at the -Signal Book Store,
Goderich, or at the Exsosrroa (Ace, Seaforth.
stating style, may rely upon them being well
bound.
AT THE LOWEST =PRICES
And returned without delP.y.
Seaforth i Jan'y. 21st, 1870, 80-tf.
(
Hoods,
: Also a large assortment of
WOOLEN GOODS.
FARM FOR. SALE
MHE Subscriber offers for Sale, fifty Acres o• z.
1. good land, from forty to foxty-live Acre
cleared and fenced, and in good state of cultivat-
ion, being composed of South -half of Lot, No.
• one, on the llth con. Grey on the Gravel Road,
adjoining the village of A.inleyville. Tittle in-
disputable.
For further particulars apply persolially or by
letter prepaid to
10 per cent allowed on all
Cash purchases over $2,00.
J. Bonthran & Sons
Seaforth, Janzy. 28, 1870.
D. .14.1LIASON, -
Grey, P. 0.
Or to J. P. BRINE, Seaforth.
Grey, Jan'y. 28, 1870.j
112-6ins•
INSOLVENT ACT OF 1869.
Canada, In the County Court
Province of Ontario.
County of Huron ) Countc)?of J1uron.
In the M attei: of CHSCY KING,
An -Insolvent
On Thursday, the tenth day of March next, at
: the hour of eleven o'clock- in the forenoon, the
undersigned -will apply to the Judge of the said
Court for a discharge under the said. Act.
Dated at Goderich, this 26th day of January.
A.D. 1870
• CHANCY K IN
by JOHN BELL i;ORDON,
his Attorney ad litem,
Goderich, Jan'y. 28, 1870. 112-7ins.
Notice of Guardianship.
Xv-OTICE is hereby giventhat at the expiration
1.11 of twenty-one days from clate,i will apply to
be appointed Guardian, to the persons and
estates of George Burton; aged 20 years ; .Tertath-
-...n Burton, aged 15 years, and Josepk. Burton,
aged 8 years, infant children, of Thomas Burton,
deceased, late of the Township of Tuckersmith,
in i the County of Hur._on.
ANN BURTON, Widow
of deceased Thomas Burton;
by
MeCAUGHEY & HOMSTEAD,
her Attornies. i
52 -if. Seaf- Feb11, 1870.
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su perStitiOia.
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their Winer
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permanentk
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colonies of
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continemen
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south side
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