Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1875, Winnipeg, Manitoba About All sorts of things. Listowel presbyterian Church by a members vote 75 to 11 is to have instrumental music. The grand jury of the court of general sessions new York in its presentment condemned the practice of Pool Selling Anil called for its suppression. While investigating the working of a new Patent cooking stove in Montreal it suddenly exploded and the owner of the article now suffers from a broken Arm. The Lieut. Governors Ball on tuesday night was crowded and was the most fashionable Ever held in Toronto. Many came from a distance to be present including members of Tho Senate House of commons and the local legislature. A Man named Henry has a Garter Snake with which he gets rid of All kinds of rats lie takes it to the fire heats it up to the Hunting pitch takes it to the cellar where the vermin Are and then dispatches them with a terrier and Sticks. My. William Sutherland been instructed by Telegram from the department of Public works to close the works in Progress at fort Francis for the present season. It is understood to pvt a Large number of persons arc Frozen in at this Point. persons every night in Large numbers apply at the several Toronto police stations for a night s shelter the majority of of the applicants being fresh arrivals from the country and Many of them evidently old hands at the business. A conductor named Daley on the g. B ii. Hud a barrel of fish at Guelph on the 14th inst. Or. Kerr inspector of fisheries has received instructions to prosecute him and the shipper and also the n. E. And g. T. 11. For carrying the fish Over their roads. A special meeting of the mortgage Bond holders in the Toronto Grey and Isree Kail Way was held at Toronto on tuesday the interest on a portion of the Bonds not being forthcoming a committs was appointed to report As to the Best Means of dealing with the bonded debt of the company. The militia department will hereafter Only Deal with pensioners themselves. This is owing to a number of sharper styling themselves pension agents having contrived. To secure to themselves Powers of attorney to negotiate with the militia authorities and draw pensions due them. A malicious attempt was made lately to Stop the working of the Western Union Tele graph company s lines Between san Franicisco Sacramento by twisting about them a strip of Fine wire one end of which was fastened to a Nail driven into a tree near by. The distracting wire was so Fine and the foliage of the tree covered the Nail so completely that it was a Long time before the workmen could find out what was the Matte r the lines. A a Kwesi Ai Elk is a window through which men look out on All that is going on in the world without a newspaper a Man is shut up in a Small room and knows Little or nothing of what is happening outside of himself. In our Day the newspapers keep Pace with history and record it. A news paper will keep a sensible Man in sympathy with the world s current history. It is an unbound Book forever issuing and never. Finished. A Youso Hartford merchant called on a Young lady a few evenings since and was shown into the parlor to await her appear Ance. When the lamps being unlit to re moved a Large quid of tobacco from his Mouth and throw it out of the window As he supposed. When the lady appeared with a Light the most prominent object in the room was that Young Man staring in a very embarrassed Way at a big chunk of tobacco pinning the lace curtain to the unopened window. Canadians at last Are becoming convinced of the evils of indiscriminate and other immigration. Recently a deputation of the labor league waited upon the member for Ottawa in the Ontario legislature and impressing upon that gentleman the import Ance of opposing any appropriation by the. Ontario government for immigration Pur poses. He expressed his concurrence in. The views of the labor league and promised to do As they wished. Extinguishing lamps with Chim Meys should not be extinguished by blowing Down the Chimney As is often done As this practice May occasion an explosion if the Oil used is impure. Explosions resulting in death have been occasioned in this Way. To blow out the Light blow a Sharp puff horizontally across the top of the Chimney. If this is done properly the Light will not Only be extinguished but there will be no subsequent smoking of the Wick. "siiy1 said or Naginder addressing or Maguffin at the boarding House dinner table do you decline to favor the theory of con traction or if said or Maguffin pausing in a desperate struggle to Cut a Stu piece of Tough meat that had been set Bart arc him in response to his order for roast beef if you refer to Money sir i unhesitatingly give in my adherence to con traction but if you refer to the Bill of fare a this boarding House then sir. I am heart and soul for the Duluth Tribune reports that father Only found a valuable de posit of Silver but has discovered a vast within the limits of Duluth anything yet discovered scr seeing is Belg and when we see a car Load of Copper or Silve r o re ton the Superior and Mississippi cars we shall Lave More Confidence Thanet Prele t in the rcpo1.fcs of such Duluth Paul Purchase of Suez a Corro Snen writes is there room for scriptural "a8 fact d Ismeli s statesmen Jowish extraction tm1whvnakes this Purchase to flu old a jew the Money Lucre seems too much of the jewish mind engaged in tins Purchase in the land of Gyp not to suggest that something further May Spring from this beginning not so much of a temporal As of a religious import Joseph although sold As a Bondsman reached the highest place permitted to a subject in the government of Egypt d israeli has reached the highest in England. Moses led the israelite Forth from Egypt and now two others of the same origin Are playing a conspicuous paric there. The Triumph of Corncob Over Meerschaum. How unsatisfactory is the Possession of a Meerschaum pipe supposing you to have secured a Fine Best piece in the universe would not be More Liap by than miserable. The whole universe seems league to destroy it. You fear to put it away lest harm should come to it in your absence equally do you dread taking it up for there is a dread of dropping scratching breaking. While smoking it you cautiously keep on the Morocco Case hand Ling would soil the bowl and you have heard that the colouring Oil evaporates if the pipe be exposed to the air. The longer and More completely your precautions Are successful the greater your anxiety and nervous apprehensions and if after All it generally ends so the cherished the inimitable the invaluable Meerschaum is broken pieces your agonizing sense of loss pays dear for your season of uneasy ecstacy. This Over present excitement and unrest is destructive to the peace and Comfort which should attend thoughts of pipe smok ing. Our pipe should be our Solace and re Fuge rather than and torment. You will Seldom find a smoker of age and experience indulging his habit through a costly and fragile medium possibly if to be Rich to will have you to his Cabinet and Parade before you a Choice specimen of real Vien but you will notice that the Clay is still Virgin and having carefully locked it Back in the Cabinet your experienced Friend picks up some battered disreputable look ing old Corncob or other which lie loads and fires with a sigh of Relief and satisfaction and when he is through smoking he throws the Corncob carelessly on the table nor car ctr he should it fall thence to the floor Bles you the Corncob can stand it. Be not deceived by this seeming neglect however Trust to your Wise Friend loves Corncob from his heart and would feel its loss there while the Choice Vienna Evanish ment would chiefly Harrow anted a. Good Active girl for cd neral housework. Apply to mrs. Breden or at this office. Dlo.13 rent till 1st May next a Well furnished House. Immediate Possession. Apply to Clark Weedon. Dlo.10 me and see us everybody to keen Cool is a big tiling. To will sell ice in genuine chunks cheap. Don t contract till you Ket our in gurus. Brand James Metcalf. Oil log on the leu just above the steam ferry. Dom Public Are hereby cautioned against Selling goods chattels Mer Chandise or anything on my account to any per sons whatsoever without my written order As i will not be responsible therefor. Bryan Dev Lin. Dlo.15 Thtree lunch baffle Ujj cing at s hotel on saturday Lith december 1875. Winnipeg quadrille band in at Tendance. The Public Are respectfully invited. D or Purchase of Sale of half Breed claims apply to Lynn a o , land agents main Street next merchants Bank f Bright parcels etc., for fort Frances and North West Anglo to be left at Gul Hitte a Cuddy s before the 1st and 15th of each month. For passage etc., apply to them. Carpenter co. T to Winnett s Foft Christmas presents furniture and upholstery furniture and upholstery furniture and upholstery. Picture pictures pictures. Chromes chromo8 Chr ormos. Steel engravings lithographs prints of All kinds with or without frames. Of sold Rosewood and Gold rustic and Plain Walnut and Gold fancy velvet and passe Partout frames on hand and made to order m the neatest manner. Furniture of All kinds on hand and made to order at the shortest possible notice. Or. begs leave to inform the pub Lic that he has opened in connection with his household furniture War rooms the business of picture framing in All its branches. Having secured the services of an experienced Man highly recommended by some of Iho largest houses of new York City customers can depend upon getting first class work done at the shortest notice. Chromes mounted on Canvas. Oil paintings chromes and engravings cleaned and restored. Picture hang ing a specially. N.3m John w. Winnett second door South of merchants Bank main Street. Obj dry. Foundry. Manufacturers of car wheels Babbit Metal buildin.? material portable 9 09 m o o o o m co 50 copies. 11so .100 copies. 21 of 20009 surplus copies for distribution As tracts twelve dozen for ;