davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
The Sphinx.

Miss Emma D. Southwick, describing a visit to the pyramids of Egypt in the Boston 1rdUeIer, says ThesSphinx, with it's mutilated face, yet grand and beauti- ful, rises out of it's bed of sand, having stood through so many generations that no writer gives any cleW to it's designer ,or design. The most that is known about 1t has been gleaned from a stone which was found in excavations about the smallest of the three pyramids, and Is now in the museum at Cairo, and which is supposed to have formed part of wall. It relates that Horus, king of Upper Egypt, during his lifetime, clear ed out the temple of Isis, ruler of the pyramids, which is situated near the Sphinx. From figure of the Sphinx on this stone and inscrption regarding it's restoration, 1t is found that it was old in the time of Cheops, B. c. 3209, so that we cannot wonder that its fore paws were found fifty feet below the present surface, and extending great distance beyond the head, in correspondence with the body, as to size, which is 40 feet long. The face, now almost obliter- ated, is thirty feet long from the upper part of the forehead to the bottom of the chin, and is surrounded by a huge mass of stone in the form of wig, while on the head was formerlya cap on which was an asp erect, and between the paws was found the walls of a temple, an altar, some tablets and lion; on one tablet king offering sacrifices, and figures to represent the name of the Sphinx, Harem Khoo--" The sun in his resting place. 7 Like other deities, he was supposed to grant power and pure life to the king
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
Satisfying His Hunger.

For the sake of humanity give me just one mouthful to eat, he said, as he halted before one of the eating stands in the Central Market yesterday.
 five nothing for tramps," replied the woman.
 "I'll take anything-even them 'tater parings,n he continued, flor I haven't tasted food in three days. If can't get food I shall become desperate.m
 "I can't spare anything but this prep"
 stI don't care what it is," he inter- rupted. "only don't be stingy with it. There-that's it-give me a heaping spoonful and I'll always remember you with gratitude"
 It was bottle of grated horse-radish, strong as the grip of a paving ring on a city, and the woman lifted out big spoonful and deposited it in his open mouth. The tra mp must have taken it for some sort of prepared infants food, for his mouth closed with yumi yum It opened again, however, and when he started to run he upset dozen flower pots, two boys and a barrel of charcoal. Much of the dose was blown into the eyes of a horse hitched to a vegetable wagon, and after the man had run twice around the market with his mouth wide open he got a slant for the Randolph street fountain, and never took his chin out of the basin for forty straight min uteS.-DetrOt Free Press.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
An OId.Fashioned Reaper.

One day, just before harvest, an Ohio farmer went to Cincinnati to buy a reaper A delighted agent collared the granger and dragged him into his ware house. As they walked down the we'll stocked room the farmer, in meditative mood, quoted the line: "There is a reaper whose name is Death," but be- fore he could start the second line the agent broke in: ''Ah, yes, I know it, sir; know it like a book. We handled that reaper one season, sir. and I'd take $5,000 out of my pocket this minute if it would undo the damage that reaper did our business in that one year. You don't want it, sir. You don't want to look at it. The machinery is compli- cated; it gets out of order easily; you have to send clear to Akron for new piece of gearing; it doesn't cut clean, and it nearly kills the horses; jams their shoulders all to pieces, sir. I know that reaper, sir. It's an old, old style, sir. and you don't want it. Now here, sir, I can show you reaper that-"se But the astonished farmer just interrupted him to say that the reaper he mentioned was an old style, but he was certain it did it's work well, though, all the same it wasn't the kind he wanted, and he had no idea of buying it to work on his farm. He bought another reaper, blood thirsty as d Cossack, and red as an autumn sunset, and the agent told how nicely he sold a reaper to an old fellow who came in there just dead set for some old machine that he had never heard oi before
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
DANGEROUS CoUNTERFEITs.
Spurious United States Bank Notes in
 Circulation.

spurious United States Bank Notes in Circulation.
 The number of counterfeit national bank notes now in circulation through West, is q matter to which the secret service of the Treasury Department are at the present time giving their almost undivided attention. Special Agent Hall. chief of the service in the West, reports the coney" men and their CO., adjutors, the "shovers,n as energetic and daring in their crooked work. The Chi cago Times says:
 Mir. Hall has in his possession an inter esting collection of spurious notes. The largest is SI000United States note, dated March 10, 1862, bearing the signature of l.. E Chittenden, one of which turns up about every six months. The only de- feet noticeable in this bill is the letter "n " in Chittenden's signature, which is very defective. In many of the bills dis covered the defective letter has been de- stroyed, as if picked with pin. The circulation of this bill has been mainly confined to New York, Boston and Philadelphia, where number were suc- cessfully exchanged. Thenext is $500 United States note, series of 1869. But few of this issue are said to be in circula- tion, and it is believed that the plates
  utterer several years ago.
 Of the Sl00 denomination there are three distinct issues-on the National River bank, of Boston, the Merchants National bank, of New Bedford, and the Second National bank, of Wilkesbarre, Pa A II these closely approach the genu- inc. The only defect noticeable in the Wilkesbarre bill is the omission of the word Liberty from the crown on the head of the female figure in the vignette. Only four of these notes have been dis covered as yet. The River bank bill has marked defect in the face of the sailor, and the general execution is pronounced second class. A large number of this issue are in circulation throughout the West. The paper used in the New Bed ford bill is lighter than the genuine. In the counterfeit the loop of the ''y" in the name of "Colby," defaces the " M J in "Mass," while in the genuine it crosses over the first "s''
 The Third National bank, of Buffalo, and the Central National bank, of New York, are each honored with $50 imita- tions. All notes of the former bearing the name of L. E. Chittenden as register, are pronounced counterfeit, while the same applies to the second. Both the bills were struck from the same plate, 1 ftIlt iStFc tftCll w ltlC koPtIl ous $50 notes are also very generally cir culated on the Tradesmen's National and National Broadway. of New Y ork City. Several crooked $5 issues are known i co be in extensive circulation, principal among them being those on the First National bank of Tamaqua, Pa., and the First National of Hanover. A new issue of this denomination on the Nationa. bank of Pawling, N. Y., has just come into circulation. There are two other counterfeit $5 plates known to be in ex- 1 istence, but the issue of bills from them has not been discovered for several years perhaps a like nunlb9r of S2 plates. arc also known to be in existence, and tC have sent out large supplies of counter. | felt bills,
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
Words of Wisdom.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is peril ous.
 Friends are as companions on jour ney, who ought to aid each other to,per- severe in the road to happier life.
 When the millions applaud you, seri- ously ask what harm you have done; when they censure' you, what good.
 Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually, are what win and pre- serve the heart and secure comfort
 Misfortune is but another word for the follies, blunders and vices which, with a greater blindness, we attribute to the blind goddess, to the fates, to the stars, to anything, in short, but to ourselves Our own head and heart are the heaven and earth which we accuse and make responsible for all our calamities.
 There is this difference between those temporal blessings, health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious, when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. IF
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
A woman in Kansas Pacific railroad

A woman in Kansas Pacific railroad car sat facing man who with one sye, at least, seemed to be staring fixedly at her. She became indignant, and said !: Why do you look at me so, sirp" He done so; but she insisted. ''I beg your pardon, madam, but. it's this eye, is it not?" lifting his finger to his left optic. :" Yes, sir; it's that eye" "Well, madam, that eye won't do you any harm. It's glass eye, madam-only glass eye. 1 hope you will excuse it. But upon my soul, am not surprised that even :, glass eye should feel interested in so pretty a woman" The explanation and the compliment combined to put the woman in a good humor.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02

'.Sam," said one little urchin to an- other" Sam. does your schoolmaster eyer give you any rewards of meritp" :. I s'pose he does," was the reply; "he gives me lickin' reg'lar every day, and says I merit two"
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02

There are, according to the Dubuque 0owa) Herdld, one billion logs af1oat on the Chippewa, Menominee and Black rivers. The mills, it thinks. will hay all they can do for the next two years.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02

Dr, Palli, distinguished Italian sa- van advances the theory that the hu- man organism undergoes, in the course of its existence, slow oxidation, on the completion of which death ensues. This operation should require (accidents eX- cepted) about 100 years To counteract the devitalizing action, he recommends that few grammes of sulphate be taken every morning as furnishing q check upon oxidation.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
TIMELY TOPICS.

The California Constitutional Conven- tion was in session l57 days, and cost several hundred thousand dollars. The session was to have been limited to 100 days, but it was impossible to complete the work within that time, and $780, 900 more than was apportioned for the purpose was consumed for the pay of the members and the conventions running expenses.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02

sheets are then sent to the surface presses to have the seal and the date imprinted These machines each turn out on an average 12,000 impressions per day. They are then sent to the numbering division, where each machine averages 4,00O impressions per day. The backs are usually printed first and go through a long process of wetting down and dry ing.
The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02

Brilliant gathering-A cluster of di, monds.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
That Boy of Mine.

We are sorry to see that some
father has gone to the newspapers,
because his boy was whipped. There
is law, and if his boy was NAL
treated, why did he not apply to the
Justice? He must have been afraid
that he had no case.
We are not acquainted with either
of the parties in this controversy,
and know nothing of the case except
what has been published in the
News, so we claim to be disinterest-
ed, and we would ask any candid
man to say what his opinion must
be, from the perusal of the two com
munications.
It is an absurd idea that some peo-
pie get into their heads, that the
teacher is thirsting for the blood of
their children. Mr.. Robinson may
be such a man, but we are not pre-
pared 10 believe it on the testimony.
Mr.. C.'s first mistake is, when he
thinks his boy ought to fight when
he is called a liar. We don't pre-
tend to be an anger but that would
not make us feel like fighting asn5e88
| the assertion a0ere true.
His next is, where he seems to
think a switch less than one half
inch in diameter and five feet long
is a "terrible weapon" We know
that he says it was ''nearIy an inch
and a half in circumference" but
thought will show that he might
have used the smaller figures. Why,
we have seen small boys take a doz-
en- blows ''well laid on, from a larg-
gr switch, and then laugh at the
teacher; and we would remark, Just
here, that if corporal punishment
becomes necessary, it should be
''well done"-it should not be trifed
with or held up as a threat.
Again, Mr. c. admits insubordi-
nation where he says his boy "got
loose from him (tbe teacher) and
started home, and we do not blame
Mr.. R. for doubling the dose"
As to the language eused by the boy,
Of course we know nothing, but,
Judging from the tone of the father s
communication, nothing that the son
could say would surprise US much.
But we have already said too much
concerning this.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
County Supervision.

They don't seem to be educated up
to the point of County Supervision
in Concord township, and though
but a young convert, we wish to no.
tice a few mistakes that their spokes-
man makes.
And first, County Supervision is
no experiment; it is part Of the
School economy of about thirty
States of our Union" Add to this
that Hon. W. D. Henkle has said,
that ''Mr. Worley's bill, if passed,
will give Ohio the best system Of
County Supervision in the United
States" and it does not look like an
experiment"
We fear they are practising too
much economy in Concord, for the
good Of her educational interests.
In Penn we pay $50 per month in
winter for six months, and about $50
per month for three months in the
summer, so that the Superintendent
could visit our schools when there
was no school in Concord.
Did the gentleman from Concord
ever hear of a member oftbe present
Board of Examiners visiting a coun-
try school? Will he deny that an
Examiner can learn more Of a teach
er's power from a little observation,
than by asking many questions?
viii he deny that many competent
teachers are cut of, and many in
competent ones graded high, under
the present system?-If not, he must
admit that County Supervision
would be benefit, as we'll as an
economy.
As to his "dead-head" argument,
we fail to see that it would apply
any better than under the present
system.
We know one thing. We are
tired of this "Buncombe" business
with reference to Examiners. eve
do not accuse Concord of it.) We
are tired of seeing the Examiners
"hand-in-glove' with their worst
enemies, merely because they fawn
upon them when in their presence.
We are tired of seeing them refuse
to speak to their best friends, be-
cause they advocated a principle
which seemed to reflect on the integ-
rity of the Examiners.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
Tbe cross Of tbe Eaitoc.

The cross of the editor, says the Troy
Times, constant as cruel, is the eyanes-
cence of his productions. The most
brilliant articles seem like the FREELY of
June. It flashes and then expires. Col
lected editorials are the dullest of read
ing. They are salt that has lost its SAVIOR.
The most promising experiments of this
kind have been failures. Dust is on the
leaves and publishers are Vexed. But to
what hard-working editors does there
not come the hope that at some time
with propitious circumstances, when the
collar shall no longer chafe, and the
strain shall be relaxed, of doing some
thing that will have permanent utility,
upon which he may felicitate himself,
as GibbOn Joyed beneath the acacias of
Lausanne, or as Allibone, with holier
emotion, returned his profound grati-
tude 10 that Almighty Being, without
whose help all labor is Intellectual, and
without whose grace all wisdom is
folly?' But the vision never receives
the halo of realization, hardly the hue
of anticipation. The grinding toll en-
dures, and to the last he tugs as at a
windlass, letting buckets down into the
well of thought only to draw them up
.ull-Of emptiness.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27

support that which is to be an ez-
pertinent ? Some talk about "econ-
omy," and is it not time we were
learning to economic, when the
people all over our country are
groaning beneath the burden Of tax
alton, which is heaped upon us by
unwise and unjust legislation ?
While we have teachers who are
doing noble work in our profess
sion, yet I admit that our schools, as
a whole, are not what they might be.
But how is a County Superinten-
dent to increase their efficiency &?
We have more schools in our coun-
ty than the number of days taught
in the country districts, so how much
time will he spend in each school7
Perhaps one halliday. What can he
learn in that time of teachers
character or qualifications VIII he
be better able to tell who is compe-
tent to teach our schools than our
worthy Examiners, who hsve spent
the greater part Of their lives il the
school-room, and studied carefully
the character of the teachers in our
county? Surely not.
Again Who are likely to be the
men appointed tof1 these positions?
viii they be men Of judgment and
zeal, and who are interested in our
common schools No. But as a
general thing, they will be "dead-
heads"-men who would deem it a
disgrace to enter a common school
as a teacher-men who are not as
well qualified to teach a common
school as one-half of our teachers
men who care not what becomes Of
the country schools so they can feast
on the public bounty. I might add
other objections, but I have given
enough, that you may. know the
opinion of at least nine-tenths of the
taxpayers in CONCORD.
Sugar Tree Ridge, o. Feb. 1879
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
THE CLEAN NEWSPAPER.

There Is a growing feeling in every heal
thy community against the journals which
make it their special object to minister to
perverted taste, by seeking out and serving
up in a seductive form disgusting scandals
and GCentiOus revelations.
There Is good reason to believe that the
clean newspaper Is more highly priced to-
day than it was four or FIVE years ago.
1t is also safe to predict that as people
in all ranks Of life, who protect their own
at least, from contamination, become more
conscious Of the perniciOus influence of a
certain class of journals called enterpris-
ing. because they are ambitious to serve up
dirty scandals, they will be careful to see
that the journals they permit to be read in
the family circle, are Of the class that never
forget the proPrieties Of life.
Already men and women Of refinement
and healthy morals, have had their atten-
tiOn called to the perniciOus influence Of
bad literature, and have made COM
meHdable efforts to Counteract the same by
causing sound literature to be published
and sold at popular prices.
These efforts are working a silent, but
sure revOlutiOn. The best authors are more
generally read to-day than at any previous
time. The sickly sentimental story paper,
and wild ranger and pirate story book, are
slowly yielding the field to worthier claim
ants.
To the praise Of the decent newspaper, it
may be said that where it has a place in
the family and has been read for years by
young and old, it has developed such
healthy tone, and such a discriminating
taste, that the literature of the slums has
no admirers. Fortunately, the lumber Of
such families is increasing in the land, and
as they increase, the Journal that devotes
itself to sickening revelations of immorali-
ty will be compelled to find its supporters
solely among those classes that practice
vice or crime, or are ambitious TO learn TO
follow such ways Boston Herald.
As such "cleaD newspaper" the GIN
CINNATI WEEKLY TIMES is com
mended to the reader For thirty-fve
years it has been conducted by editorial
management of the purest moral character,
as well as the best literary talent. The re-
suit is, that it has attained a reputation
and circulation, as a family newspaper, un-
ezcelled by any paper in the United
States. Those who begin with a years
subscription, generally continue for life;
so that it now has thousands of subscribers
who have been taking it constantly for
twenty to thirty years.
BI@The TIMES will be sent to any new
subscriber, on trial, for 81 for the first
year. Address TIMES COMPANY, Gin
cinnati, o. feb13w2
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
c#y n Tvo Sfatss. 7

This is perhaps the only city in the
world, says a Bristol correspondent, that
has two mayors and two city govern
ments, police, ETC., and is taxed in two
states. The line between Tennessee and
Virginia is the center of Main street, and
it gives rise to many funny scenes, as, for
example, a runaway couple need no
coach and four, but, arm in arm, step
across Main street and are welded. The
fugitive commits a crime in Virginia,
goes to the pavement on the other side
of the street, and talks defantly to the
officer on the opposite side, who has a
warrant for his arrest. A misstep or a
too bold disposition will sometimes,
however, bring him to grief Several
instances have occurred of a fugitive be-
ing hustled across the line by party
prepared, while in the act Of holding
such a conversation, and they tell of a
man who defantly perched himself on q
pile store boxes within six feet Of the
line, jeering at the officers on the othe~
side, but, unfortunately for him, Law
abiding citizens tilted the boxes, and
when he reached the ground he was in
the other state.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
Tie Growth Of London.

An important return has been issued
by the Metropolitan Board Of Works,
showing tie number Of inhabited
houses, population and ratable annual
value Of the PARISHES and districts COM
prised within the metropolitan area in
The year 1856 and 1857, or as near those
dates as can be accurately stated" Ac-
coTdingto this return it appears that the
total ratable annualYa las more than
doubled itself within the twenty years.
In 1856 the amount was Ell ,283,6 ,659, and
in I876it was e23,lI4, ,313. The total num-
Der Of Inhabited houses has increased
from 30O,O86 in 1851 to 1882 III 1877
but in this column a decrease is shown
in respect of the City of London. The
nun1ber Of inhabited houses in the CRY
Of london in 1851 was 14,483, but in
1871 there was only 9,235. In 1851 the
population Of the metropolis was 1882,
465, and in 1871 it had increased to
S,266987.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-02-27
WHOLE NO. 228l

Unfortunately for Mr.. T., most peo-
pie are so constituted that they are
inclined to be suspicious, where ap-
pearances seem to justify suspicion;
hence it is tOIerably certain that his
story will not receive that general or
implicit belief which che and his
friends would naturally desire that
it should. Wethink there is no doubt
that his prospects for a denomination
will be seriously damaged By the in
vestigatiOn Of these dispatches.
As for Pelton, Weed and Marble,
they are guilty, by their own admis-
sions, Of a most corrupt and audaci-
eiOus attempt to buy the Presidency
for Tilden, and their conduct viii not
only disgrace them forever in the es-
timation of all honorable men, but
VIII also inevitably bring odium upon
the party to which they belong.