davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

According to the Pail Mall Gazette,
thieves and policemen are the great
pests Of Russian towns. but especially
policemen. A man who has resided some
time in Russia even grows to doubt
whether the notions Of meum and tam,
are comprehended there an they ara In
other countries. II you pay q visit and
leave cloak on the seat Of your car
riage, that cloak is gone when you come
out. II you walk out with o dog IN.
chained. the dog vanishes round street
corner. Shopkeepers are afraid to place
articles Of value in their windows.
Householders are liable TO have their
horses and carriages stolen il they do
not keep q sufficient number Of stable
servants, and take care to see before
going TO bed that ono at least Of these
menials is sober. A man who goes out
for night stroll unarmed may be set
upon within sight Of droschky stand
and stripped Of every article he wears,
including shirt and small clothes. The
droschky drivers will not give him q
helping hand they will rather start OF
altogether in a panic, lest they should be
summoned to give evidence Us for the
police, they hurry up afterward, and
make the despoiled man pay twice the
value of tho things he has lost in fees
for investigation. It is said that per.
son influential enough to make himself
unpleasant to the police gets back his
lost PROPERTY in no time the police will
even restore him the equivalent il they
cannot recover the actual articles.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
Early American Patents.

The first patent issued by the govern.
ment was to Samuel Hopkins, on July
81, 1890, for making pot or pearl ashes.
Patents were issued on modes of making
candles, -four and meal later in the same
year, and in 1871 Francis Bartly was
granted letters for "punches of types.
Also in that year patents We're issued for
driving piles. for bridges, machines for
threshing grain, for improvements in
distilling, propelling boats by cattle
and improvements in steam engines.
In 1892 was patenteda canvas conduc-
tor, to be used when houses are on fire,
which may have been the original of the
late patent fire-escape. An improved
mode of turning spit was patented in
1888 also a stove of cast iron. A ma.
chine for cutting nails was patented by
Josiah G.. Peerson on March %, 1894.
A new mode of catching fish was patent
ed in 1895, since which timeinnumerable
laws have been enacted to compel people
to catch them by the old process. Re-
moving pains by metallic points was
patented in 1896, and the first improve
ment in piano-fortes is recorded in the
same year also stays for removing dis
tortions in the spine. A soap stone
stove was patented in 1897.
Bilious pills were patented in 1896,
effeminate ropery for spinning rope yarn
in 1899, and washing and wringing
machine, the Cavabar in 1900. Ebenezer
Whiting received patent for a cotton gin
on January %, 1901. An improvement
for manufacturing paper from corn husks
was patented December 80, 1903, and an
apple parer in 1902. A patent for find
ing salt water and metals was granted III
1903. In 1904 patent was issued for
an improvement in the bedstead, so con-
structed that it may be taken down and
removed by one person in case of fire Or
other occasions with much ease and ex-
petition. In 1904 the government felt
the value of an improvement in gallows,
or suspenders for brooches, pantaloons
or trowsers.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
Sequel to an English Wedding.

A marriage was celebrated few days
ago in St. Augustine's church, Shaw
street, Liverpool, and as part of the
preparations Mr.. William Stevenson,
upholsterer, received orders from the
brides mother to lay down roll of
crimson baize from the door of the
church along the aisle to the place
where the important and interesting
proceedings of the day were to take
place. After the ceremony Mr.. Steven
son went to pick up his crimson cloth
from the aisle with view of carrying it
away. He succeeded in getting it into a
roll, which he shouldered, and got the
length of the door when he was sudden
ly pulled up by the sexton, who seized
the cloth and told him to leave it in the
church. The owner naturally asked the
reason Of this stoppage, and the answer
was to the effect that the cloth having
been brought into the church and used
there had been made holy according to
his theory, and having thus been conse-
Grated could not again be removed with
out an act of sacrilege being committed.
An ecclesiastical "tug of war then be-
gan between the representative of the
church militant and the rightful owner of
the goods. Each managed to seize the
baize few yards apart, and began pull
ing it with might and main-the sexton
to get it inside, and Mr.. Stevenson to
get it outside the sacred edifice. "The
"tug" took place just at the door of
the church, and large crowd soon gath
cred to witness the novel contest of right
against might. The people cheered and
laughed; some cried "shame )" but
meanwhile the two combatants continued
to pull with all their strength, until it
became evident that very soon there
would be nothing but shreds and patches
to fight about. Mr.. Stevenson, after
employing his powers of persuasion and
other means to no purpose for a long
time, at length left his cloth under pro-
test, and it was deposit in the vestry to
await further steps which he will take.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
Wounds.

Every person should know how to treat
a flesh wound, every one is liable to be
placed in circumstances away from sur
gical and veterinary aid, where he may
save his own life, the life of friend or
a beast, simply by the exercise of a
little common sense. In the first place
close the lips of the wound within the
hands, and hold them firmly together to
check the flow of blood until several
stitches can be taken and bandage APP
piled. Then battle the wound for long
time in cold water. "Should it be pain
full" a correspondent says, stake pam
full of burning Goals and sprinkle upon
them common brown sugar and hold the
wounded part in the smoke, in minute
or two the pain will be allayed and the
recovery proceeds rapidly"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

barely 200 lett, 70 II was utterly In
capable Of going into action that day
aud even this regiment arrived too late,
Gen. Skobelef had left the redoubt at
four o'clock TO 90 10 his tent on woody
hill opposite. He had been there scarcely
an hour when he was informed that the
Turks were again attacking tho right
flank on the Lovcha road, Immediately
above Plevna. He galloped forward 10
soc. and was met by an orderly with the
news that tho Turks were also attacking
tho redoubt for the sixth time. He dashed
forward toward the redoubt In hopes OF
reaching II in time, but was met by q
stream Of his own men flying back.
They were exhausted by forty-eight
hours incessant fighting, and were worn
ont. hungry. and dying of thirst and
fatigue. Owing to the inactivity of the
Russians during the day, the Turks had
been enabled to collect an overwhelming
force, which had made one last desperate
effort aud had succeeded in driving the
Russians out. One bastion was held to
the last by young officer, whose name
| regret l have forgotten, with handful
Of men. They refused to fly, and were
slaughtered to the last man.
1t was JUS. after this that l met Gen.
Skobcleff, the first time that day. He
was in fearful state of excitement and
fury His uniform was covered with
mud and filth his sword broken his
Cross of st. George twisted round on his
shoulder his face black with powder
and smoke his eyes haggard and blood
shot, and his voice quite gone. He
spoke in hoarse whisper. never be-
fore saw such picture OF battle rs he
presented. saw him again in his tent
ut night. He was quite calm and col
lected. He said: 81 have done my
best; l could do no more. My detach-
ment is half destroyed my regiments do
not exist I have no officers left; they
sent me no reinforcements, and l have
lost three guns.' "Why did they re.
fuse you achievements! Who was to
blame" 81 blame nobody" he re-
piled. at is the will Of God"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
A (srnnh lkGrOYsl.

Nearly thirty years have elapsed since Hos
letters stomach Btters was FIRST brought to
the notice Of the American public. To-day II
il the most popular remedy on this continent
for dyspepsia, liver complaint, constipation,
debility, nervousness, urinary and uterine COM
plants, govt, rheumatism, intermittent and
remittent fevers, and is widely used in South
and Central America, Mexico, the West Indies
and Australia, AZ preventive and remedy for
malarious disorders, and for many other mala-
dies to the relief OF which II is adapted. The
record Of its victories Is written in tho testi-
monials Of thousands whom it has cured, to
many Of which the widest publicity has been
given; 1t has won the emphatic sanction Of
leading members Of the medical profession,
and it has repeatedly been made the subject Of
encomiums by the home and foreign press.
Comment OH the above facts il unnecessary.
We leave the public to draw its own conclusions.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

William Stevens, of Clay county, Ala,
has squatted on mountain tract and
built himself log cabin, where he re-
sides contentedly with his rifle, wife,
eight kids and one hundred goats. The
goats are hardy and prolific he shoots
them when he wants meat, or leather for
shoes; has their milk for milk, butter
and cheese exchanges kids flesh for
meal with a miller at the foot of the
mountain, and sells his surplus animals
yearly for clothing, hats, ETC., and
claims that he is the best fed, best
clothed, best shod and best humored
man in the county.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

: Sleep in a cool room, in pure air, and
use plenty of water. Remember, too,
that no one can have clearly skin who
breathes bad air. But more than all, in
order to look well, wake up mind and soul.
When the mind is awake the dull, sleepy
look passes away from the eyes. I do not
know that the brain expands, but it seems
so. Think and read-not trashy novels,
but books that have something in them.
Talk with people who know something
hear lectures and learn by them.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
The Latest Fashion for Ladies',

Our attention has recently been called to the
Raritdn Matelasse Clodkings, something entire
ly new in the way of heavy, thick, warm, woole1
goods, specially adapted for ladies' wear during
the cold weather now approaching. These
goods are the handsomest, and most stylish
ever seen, and SO far as price is concerned, are
a miracle Of cheapness They are intended fol-
for both ladies' and children, and are to be found
at all the leading dry goods stores in the coun.
try. Be particular TO ask for the Raritan Cloak
mas and take no other.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

Given away-A strange, mysterious and mos
extraordinary book, entitled 1.-THE Book Of Won
ders." Containing, with numerous curiou
pictorial illustrations, the mysteries Of tn
heavens and earth, natural and supernatural
Oddities whimsical, strange curiosities, witches
and witchcraft, dreams, superstitions, absurd
that all may see this curious book, the pub
fishers have resolved to give it away to all tina
desire to see it, Address by postal card
F. Gleason Il Co., 1888 Washington street
Raston Macs
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

It is remarkable fact, which we can
not explain, that the boy who does
not kl ow that the gun is loaded is never
theless always to be found at the safe
end of it,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

The NIle' Alnym Nancy Drawer
IL an article almnst Indispensable 10 merchants
Being capable OF q variety OF combinations
itself to merchants IN an important part O
their store fixtures. Tll-tapping has becom,
30 prevalent that an ingenus arrangement
like that OF the Miles Money Drawer In indeet
necessity. They are sold by Messrs. Fair
banks 4 Co., al broadway, New York, ant
the hardware trade gclorally.-N. T. Express
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
Headquarters
Dor THE PROTECTION OF FISH AND GAM
SYRACIHSE N Y June % 1871

Dor THE PROTECTION OF FISH AND GAME,
SYRACUSE, N. Y, June %, 1877. J
10 Colwell Lead Company,
63 Centre Street, New York -
GENTs.-We have carefully examined your
Shot here on exhibition, and have also received
the unanimous report Of all the clubs on the
grounds of the State shoot in favor of your
shot. We cheerfuly pronounce it very per-
feet article, and recommend it to the sportsmen
generally throughout the country.
GREENE SMITH, President,
JOHN A. NICHOLS, Vice President.
CHAS. II. WRIGHT, Secretary.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

The Cheapest and Best Advertisin9
to reach readers outside Of the large cities.
Over 1000 newspapers, divided into six different
lists. Advertisements received for one or more
lists For catalogues containing names Of
papers, and for other information and for esti-
mates address Beals & Foster, Al Park Row
(TInes Building), New York.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

MAKE NO M1srAKE.-In Dooleys Yeast Pow
der you get the best article OF the kind in the
world. The cans are always full weight, the
article itself the purest and strongest pos
sible, 30 that smaller quantity than usual suf-
fees Do you want your baking always per-
feet Don't fail then to use Dooley's Yeast
Powder
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

Time will toll, and time has told that any
mans q fool who pays old prices. When
Jones, Of Binghamton Binghamton, N. Y,
offers Five Ton Wagon Scales, on trial, freight
prepaid, at $50 each FREQ price list.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
CHEW
The Celebrated
"MATCHLEss"
Wood Tag Plug
ToBACCo.
The PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago
Fairbanks Sculea

Fairbanks Scales.
In the month of August fifty carloads OF
scales were sent out from the scale works, and
ninety-nne carloads Of materials for manufac-
turing scales were received at the works in the
same month"; 81. Jo'tnsbn,y w. Caledonian,
Sent, 81,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
(Rv to1aOran'

(By C6IeBrHpH.J.
TO Haines Bros, No. 145 Fifth Avenue, Neac
York:
Iowa State Fair first gold medal ON Haines'
upright piano fortes. Must have two uprights
Immediately. A. REED SONS.
Chicago ILL., Sept. 20, 1877.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

Free! Leisure HOurs.-A splendid 10 page
family literary paper full Of Choice Stories Sketches
Poetry etc. sent three months, with pair Of beautiful
8xS Chromos, utable fr framing and adjoining the
walls of any home free to any one sending 8 cents
ers j. /. PATTEN & co, 1862 William ST., New York,
guara every double value of money sent News
dealers sell LEISURE HoURs, price cents
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

I nm bilious.
Quirk'a Irish Tea will mako now man o
you. Sold by druggists ut 25 cts. = package.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

---.kI---r- -.-k2-
A STEEL Thorn Hedge No other Fencing 50
decays, shrinks. nor waps. Unaffected by fire,
wind. or flood. A complete barrier to the most
unruly stock: Impossible BY man OF beast TWO
THOUSAND TONS SOLD AND PUT UP
DURING THE LAST YEAR. For sale OF the
leading hardware stores, with Stretchers and
Staples. Send for ilnatrated pamphiet
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20
AGENTS WANTED FOR THE
mILLUSTRATED HISTORY q
lHE GREAT Rl0TN

pttsbu, III Baltimore Chicago and other Cities The
conflicts between he troops and the mob rrs
and Incidents etc. etc. Send for full descrptonof
the work and our extra to- ms to Agents, address,;
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-20

shonld always be sept in your house, and be s'sn
iminec ely when the first symptoms appear which Will
the collected the throat and save tie
life of your dear child This Lung Balssm is the b~st
remedy for a Congh and r ConsumptiSsSpersons 70
use Sold by all druggists.
, 1877-07-27
The Last of the Four HarperS.

Fletcher Harper, who died recently,
was born in 1906 at Newtown, L. l., and
after being trained as practical printer,
became in 1925 q member of the firm
which his two elder brothers had estab-
lished eight years previous. He soon de-
veloped the highest qualities of business
ability. 1t was at his suggestion that the
XonthEy, Weekly and BdzGr - which now
yield the firm profit of not far from half
a million dollars year-were success
lively given to the public; and it is largely
to his foresight, tact and supervision that
the marvellous popularity of those period
icals is due.
The intelligence, the enterprise, the
liberality and the high moral tone Of
the fraternity of American publishers
may, in great part, be traced to the inf1u-
ence and example of the Harper Brothers
one of the oldest and by far the largest
of the great publishing houses of the coun-
try; and these healthful characteristics are
due quite as much to Mr.. Fletcher Har-
per as to either of his brothers. His act
i've business life was begun when Bryant,
Irving, Hallsck and the elder Dana were
in their literary homage, and thus covers
the entire period of distinctively Ameri-
can literature which be, rs much as any
man, contributed to raise to its present
high standard of excellence.
The publisher is, however, misrepre-
sented to the general public as a sordid
and grasping Individual, despite whose
Grabbed and short-sighted penuriousness,
authors manage to get works Of unques-
toned genius printed, and the reading
public are supplied with books. The fact
that on the same day which was marked
by the death of the eminent American
publisher, the great American historian
also died, will therefore be of superior
interest to most of our readers. The con-
sideration that Mr.. Harper published the
works of Irving, and Bancroft, and Pres
colt, and Curtis, and Motley, will be out
weighed by the consideration that Mr..
Motley wrote the History of the Dutch
Republic" Our Indebtedness to him
seems more real, and the announcement
of his death brings with it more of a
sense of personal loss-and with the more
reason, since Mr.. Harper had left the af-
fairs of his immense publishing house
mainly in the hands of the younger mem
bers of the family; while Mr.. Motley had
by no means transcribed the period of
arduous literary work and beueficent
production.
, 1877-07-27

THE most economical plan for the civ
ilizing of Africa is that proposed by some
Frenchmen a year or two ago and now
revived. The plan involves the cutting
of canal, commencing at point on the
west coast of Africa, opposite the Canary
Islands, to the western borders of the
Desert of Sahara, where the land is much
lower than the sea, thus admitting the
ocean over an immense region of country,
and facilitating commercial and other CIV
ilizing relations with the interior. Should
this artificial inland sea extend east eight
or ten degrees of longitude, Timbuctoo
and the valuable region adjacent would
be made easy of access from the coast.
, 1877-07-27
What Came of a Mule-kick.

The following mule story curiously con-
Germs two celebrities in literature. Many
have been kicked into notoriety, but
there are very few really worthy ones who
can be said to have owed their fame to a
kick. The adventure here recorded hap
pened to Horace Greeley in a remote
Ohio village in 1856:
Mr.. Greeley was delivering temperance
lectures, and stopped on this occasion
with good old farmer who was showing
his guest about the farm. Mr.. Greeley,
notebook in hand, was taking the names
and qualities of the stock. AT last they
reached the mule.
The farmer told the animals name, and
Mr.. Greeley noted it down, but he had
barely done so when the mule backed
round and placed two hoofs SO forcibly
against the philosophers side that three
of his ribs were broken. He was assisted
to the farmers house, where he remained
two weeks waiting for the broken bones
to knit sufficiently to allow his return to
New York. In the farmers employ was
a hired girl. She waited on Mr.. Greeley
with great care, but it was but few months
later that Mr.. Greeley introduced this
country girl to the readers of the New York
Tribune as Alice Carey. She now sleeps be-
side her sister Phoebe, whose name was
made famous by this incident, not far
from the last resting place of her bene-
factor.
, 1877-07-27

FIaHTTNe FOR A HoAE.-A woodpeck-
ers hole is such a very convenient place
for nest, that many other birds are glad
to find one unoceupied. Sometimes a
pair of wrens will watch the motions of
the woodpeckers while they are at work,
until an unfinished hole is left unguarded,
when they will take possession Of it. As
soon as the lawful owners return, the
thieves are driven of, but they are so per-
sistent and troublesome that, although a
woodpecker is larger and stronger than
twenty wrens, the owners sometimes
abandon the place, and make.a new nest.
Still, the wrens are not always allowed
to keep the house they have stolen, for
the blue birds are equally covetous of it,
and sometimes fight fercely with the
Wrens in their attempts to gain possession
Of it. Occasionally, both wrens and blue
birds are driven away by the martins, for
these birds also prize woodpeckers' holes
very highly. The fierce battles between
these various birds over an abandoned
hole are very amusing, and often last sew
eral days; for they all are very obstinate
birds, and as each one is determined not
to give up, the matter is not very easily
settled.-St. Nicholas.
, 1877-07-27

SPICER was wsdiug wearily through
pile of work which had accumulated
during brief absence in New York,
when a stranger banged the inner office
door, placed his lighted cigar conven-
iently on the corner of the desk, and,
splitting gracefully in the waste-basket,
said:
"Mr. Spicer, presumed"
The paragrapher suppressed a smile at
a joke he was reading in the New York
Commercial AdVerti6sr, inhaled about
three cents worth of his guests fve-cent
cigar, and replied "Yessir" in one time
and three motions.
1.-THE fame of your journal has reached
us in New York State" continued the
visitor.
"Another Teller that wants a notice, ,"
thought the writer.
81 wish to talk with you about advertis-
ing," said the caller.
The newspaper man frightened, and
rathersWished he had fresh cigar to Of
fer the visitor.
"I introducing in New England the
celebrated Prolific Pinkhampton Pump
kin, and l am authorized to offer the
seeds to you at fifty dollars a quart, half
cash and half advertising in the Com
Hsrcidl-"
The exact manner of the Western seed
mans death will probably never be
known, but his friends will be pleased to
know that his remains have been care
fully planted at Forrest Hill, where the
Prolific Pumpkin vine can twine gar
land to his memory over his early grave.
-Comnlsrcidl Bulletin.
, 1877-07-27

AN old man died in Deckertown, N.
Y, the other day, and in obedience to his
dying request his coffin was carried TO
the grave by his six sons, who are all
young men and lawyers. 1t was a mourn
full sight-six lawyers in one family.
, 1877-07-27

TEXAS language is peculiar. To "land"
anywhere means to arrive there; baggage
is tricks, peanuts are "goobers," mus
tang is "cOw pony" yearling colt is a
maverick" and q whip is q squirt" /"
Travellers "meet up" with old scquaint-
ances, and if you have plenty of money
you are "an 0odles."
, 1877-07-27

THERE are thirty three thousand law
yers in the United States. This means
thirty-three thousand sets of obituary res
olutions,sooner or later. Let the unhappy
reading public fortify itself.
, 1877-07-27

NOTHING contributes to tranquilize the
mind 30 much as q steady purposs-a
point on which the soul may fx its in
tellectual eye.