smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

People are not apt to think how much
the enjoyment of convival honors and po-
lite hospitalities depend upon harmony OF
manners and identity of education
Travellers in foreign countries find il nee
essary to learn one lesson, which, when ac-
quired, must add somewhat TO their COM
fort, and that is, not to be too nice 4 re-
cent 'howadji," writing of his journeyings
'.On the Nile" communicates some anu
sing experiences of his own, from which
We take an extract.


Fancy rough, honest NAVY doomed to
dine at a Belgrayian dinner party, He
would feel about as handy with his knife
and fork and as happy in his surroundings
as W. did deprived of those useful instru-
ments and eating before Mustapha Aga and
the Cadi in that dimly-lighted but luxu-
rious chamber of Amunoph's temple.


Did you ever accomplish a meal with
nothing to help you but your hands? No?
Then Just try it, and think what we must
have suffered as course, after course,-fowl,
pliaf, game,-tripped up the heels of its
fellow on the little round table whereat we
were seated i'll such illustrious companion
ship.


1t Is true that slave brought round
water after each course, and that a snowy
napkin was given to each guest ; but
some Of the dishes were soft and pappy, and
each man dipped his fingers into the dish
and fed by mouthfuls The Cadi had a
detestably indefinite way of hooking up
his food in the hollow of his hand, which
scandalized the professor, who sat next to
him. nightly.


"Will you take some goose ," said Mus
tapha, addressing Smith 1T is one | shot
yesterday


And he laid hold on one leg of the bird,
while Smith tore away the other 1t re-
minded me of breaking "a merry thought
with your neighbor, for neither was sure
which would get the larger half After
wards | was treated to a pull, and got a
wing. The professor came in for the
breast; there was some difficulty, | re-
member, in detaching the breast but
after deal of sputtering it was accom-
plished.


1t is needless to say that our awkward
ness at the feast was taken in good part
and that we all laughed heartily and en-
loyed ourselves to the full In fact, the
Cadi, a fat, moon-faced man, apoplcctical-
ly red, laughed till he nearly rolled on to
the floor. A gilt ever and basin were
brought in at the finish, and water poured
over the hands of each guest by robed
and turbaned Oriental, even as Elisha
poured water on the hands of his MASTER
Leisure Hoar.
Year: 1867

Losr-We extract from an interesting
book, called Lite's Work as il is; or
The Emicrant'S Home in Australia" =" the
following touching story of another lost one,
which We are sure will much interest our
readers


A little girl, about thirteen years ago
was employed by her master and mistress
to fetch in the dairy cows. and was in the
habit of doing so. One afternoon she had
sailed forth as usual but she went never
to return. After the lapse of a few hours
"a vigorous search was instituted the COWS
were found at no great distance, but no
girl. TO the credit OF this colony, we have
always observed that, III a calamity of this
kind, every one Joins hand and heart to
help And We have known a whole district
turn out for nearly whole week, riding
and walking, TO find lost children or people,
and never returned till they felt sure they
had secured every spot for miles around
La this instance the most diligent search
was made for days but unavailingly. The
master kept continually on the lookout,
but never could discover any trace of the
missing one.


Two years aft +, when in scrub not
more then a mile from home. he noticed a
few branches of trees placed together on
the ground; and in some way they excited
his attention. He got off his horse, and
examined them: they had been arranged
by some human hand There was small
space underneath, and in the recess lay the
bones of the poor lost one, who, almost in
sight of her home, had become confused
rom some unknown cause, AMI, finding
herself unable to discover her path back,
had formed this little shelter How it was
that no one found her, and that she never
heard those in pursuit, must forever remain
a mystery, as must many other similar cases.
But touching relic proved her death was
natural one, however fearful \ little
Wesleyan Hymn-Book lay by her side un-
destroyed. On opening it, her master found
the following words pricked with pin in
the fy-leaf: Dear father, love God, and
don't drink any MORE" to which she adj
| ded the first letters of her name.
Year: 1867

LooUACITY AND REsERvE.-The ideas of
a great talker differ very much from those
of the reserved man-the former being
superficial and comparatively valueless.
while the latter generally vented in prov
erbs) are truthful, impressive, and profound,
The language of the former skips along as
easily and gracefully as the greyhound,
while. on the contrary, that of the latter
slowly, clumsily. and heavily onward, like
the ponderous and unwieldly elephant He
finds it difficult 10 give utterance to his
thoughts, which rush forward to the por-
tails of his mouth in such crowds that they,
in fact, block it up. Whenever you meet
with a man of this kind, give him time, and
do not mistake his tedious hardness for ig


norence or imbecility of mind. In nine cas-
es out of ten he has lived in solitude, and
becaus he has not been habituatede to con-
versation, his tongue grows SO rusty that.
when he does venture into society. no one
will wait till he is drawn out, and therefore
his reserve continues to increase. Do not
contemptuously turn your back upon him,
but listen, and he will in all likelihood repay
your civility with interest The eagle il
solitary bird, and his voice may be harsh.
but still he is an eagle, nevertheless. Do
not imagine that he is dead or asleep, but
be more attentive to nature. The gun is
silent until its note is one of triumph the
tigers fatal spring and terrific roar are
simultaneous the valcano is sileut before
an eruption; and all nature seems dead
before the tornado and the earthquake.
Nature employs silence to concentrate her
energies, that the effect may be more ap-
palling and sublime. As iron, by long ex-
posure to the action of fresh water, has
rusty exterior, but is inwardly improved in
quality, so the rust of the reserved man is
only superficial, while his ideas, over which
the streams of time has passed, are suscep-
tible of higher polish, and sinks more
forcibly into the mind of his herer The
dimond is a rough, dull stone, when first
brought from its rocky bed, yet it receives
from the lapidary brilliancy. almost cap
able of dispelling the gloom of tight.
Year: 1867

A TAME BUTTEhFLY.-One cold, bleak
November morning when the sky, the air
and all nature wore that sullen aud des-
ponding look SO peculiar to our climate at
this season, lady, who for the first time
had risen from bed Of sickness, went into
an adjoining apartment where she perceiv-
ed gay and beautiful butterfly in the win
dow. Astonished at finding this creature
of flowers and sunshine in so uncongenial a


situation, she watched its movements and
operations. AS the sun came out for a
bright brief space, it futtered joyously
about the window, and impaired to the sick
room an air of cheerfulnes$ and hope.
Towards evening. however, the tiny crea-
ture dropped its wings; the lady then
placed it in glass tumbler on the mantle
piece. During the night, hard frost came
on, and the room was in consequence very
cold. In the morning the butterfly lay in
the bottom of the tumbler apparently dead.
The invalid, grieved that her gentle COM
panion of the previous day, should so soon
Year: 1867

A USEFUL CALCULATING MAcHINE.-A cal
culating machine is in use in the Office of the
Registrar General in London. It's operations
are both accurate and useful, and in the las I
annual report of the Registrar there are nu
merous calculations for which it was used


1t is limited to calculations involving regu-
lar series, but by means of logarithms, ques-
tions involving calculations in the higher
branches of mathematics can be reduced to
very simple formulas, and brought into such
compass will readily admit of their in
sertion in the machine. The machine was
intended to perform only the operation of
addition, but by various expedients it is
made to perform also subtraction, multiplied
ton and division.


The machine has also been used to intro
duce the element of interest in the various
tables. The preliminary steps of the work ),
such as calculating the mortality at decennial
periods of age deducing the difference, were
performed without the aid of the machine.
but when the difference were once obtained.
the machine was able to take up the work
and continue the calculation In thedifferen-
tial method.
Year: 1867

have fingered over my theme, but the
half is not yet told nor can it be told within
the scanty time allotted to these exercises 1t
is as well to pause here as to proceed further,
and then pause with the memorial still in
complete. OF Mr.. Bradley it may be said
with truth -
Year: 1867

MACHINE CIGARs-A German machine for
making cigars. patented in this country, is in
operation in Detroit. 1t is claimed for this
machine that the tobacco can be worked MP
dry: that when the cigar is made it is ready
for use; that cigars can he made al half the
price they can by hand, and that all the stock
can be worked mp. It requires forty five ex.
perienced cigar makers to put on the outside
wrappers as fast as they are made BY the ap-
paratne, which can without difficulty make
twenty. five thousand cigars every ten hours
This is equal TO the average work OF ninety or
one hundre persons.
Year: 1867

RUSSIAN CONTRACT-We understand that
the Colt Fire Arms Com pauy have received an
order from the Russian Government for one
hundred thousand rifles Of the Berdan patent
which is new gun complete, and that work
on the contract will be commenc ced at once
about every breech .loa der in the country, and
for simplicity and durability the Beroan is
pronounced the best. The above contract will
make lively times at Colts. 1t will, we are
In formed, take q thousand men nearly two
years to I'LL the order.-Hdrtford Courant.
Year: 1867

BATHING IN PUBLIC.-It has again become
matter of complaint that certain men and
many Juveniles use the beach near Barlho-
lows wharf for bathing purposes Just al The
time when the ladies residing in that vicinity
ings. The owners of wharf property, too,
Say that The bathers are very careless OF the
damage they do TO the merchandise piled on
the wharves. Bathing in such places between
the hours OF six M and eight p. m is vio-
lation OF law. for which eight or ten youths
Were arrested yesterday and fined. Should
any OF them be arrested for malicious mis-
chief the penalty might be much heavier than
has yet been imposed
Year: 1867

The Mechanics Magazine says A re.
markable mechanical curiosity has recently
been constructed in london 1t is watch
belonging to a member of Parliament and
designed and made expressly for him by JAS
Ferguson Cole. the celebrated London watch
maker. This unique pocket chronometer as
a silver dial, on which are nine hands; indi.
eating respectively the hours, minutes and
seconds, the days of the week, the days of
the month, and the mouths of the year. 1t
corrects itself for unequal months-that is
to say, changes when they have thirty and
when thirty-one days, and also corrects itself
for leap year. 1t is so constructed that any
slight agitation of the watch, such as the
ordinary exercise Of walking, winds it up.
Thus it may be worn and will go perfectly
tor years without requiring even TO be open
ed, although it can also be wound by key
in the usual manner. The dial is arranged
in five circles, and within the largest the
hour circle) there is semi circle showing
the moons age and phases by means of gold
on ground of blue Steel At the back of
the watch is gold indicator for ascertain
ing the time in the dark by touch. The
complication of the mechanicism may be
imagined, and yet the watch is of ordinary
dimensions and may be conveniently worn
in a gentleman pocket 1t cost the sum IF
three hundred guineas a
Year: 1867

SOMETIME 1t is a sweet song flowing to
and fro among the topmost boughs of the
heart, and fill the whole air with such joy
and gladness as the birds do, when the sum
mer morning comes cut of the darkness, and
the day is born on the mountains. We have
all our possessions in the future, which we
call sometime" Beautiful and sweet
singing birds are there, only our hands sell
dom grasp the one, or our ears hear, except
in far off strains, the other. But, oh, rea-
der, be of good cheer, for to al the good
there is golden ''sometin ~ When the
hills and valleys of time are all passed, when
the wear and the fever, the disappointment
and the sorrow of life is over, then there is
the peace and the rest appointed of God
Oh, homestead, over whose blessed roof falls
no shadow Of even clouds, across whose
threshold the voice of sorrow is never heard !;
built upon the eternal hills, and standing
with thy spires and pinnacles Of celestial
beauty among the. palm trees Of the city on
high. those who love God shall rest under
thy shadows, where there is no..more sorrow.
nor pain, nor the sound of weeping.
Year: 1867

KIND INQUIRIES Kate was a
sweet, wide beauty of about seven
teen, and she took It In her head to go down
on Long Island TO see some relations of hers
who had the misfortune to live there. A
song those refsffcas there chanced to be a
young swain who had seen Kate on previ-
Gus occasion, and seeing, fell deeply In love
with her. He called at the house on the
evening of her arrival, and she met him on
the piazza, where she was enjoying the even
ing air in company with two or three of her
friends. The poor fellow was so bashful
that he could not find his tongue for some
time. At length he stammered out:


How your mother ?"


Quite well, thank you.''


Another silence on the part Of Josh, du-
ring which Kate and her friends did the best
they could to relieve the monotony After
waiting about fifteen minutes for him to
commence to make himself agreeable, he
again broke the spell with


How your father p which was answer
ed much after the same fashion as the first
one, and then followed another silence like
the other.


How your father and mother p again
put in the bashful lover.


Quite well, both of them" This was
followed by an exchange of glances and a
suppressed smile.


This lasted some ten minutes more, du-
ring which Josh was fdgetine in his seat
and stroking his Sunday hat. But at length
another question came


"How's your parents ?''


This produced an explosion that made
the woods ring.
Year: 1867

A DRUNKARD's WILL leave to socie-
ty a ruined character, wretched example,
ana a memory that will soon rot.


leave to my parents during the rest OF
their lives as much sorrow as humanity, in a
feeble and decrepit condition can sustain.


l leave my wife broken heart, life Of
wretchedness and shame, to weep over my
premature death.


l give and bequeath to each of my chill
dren ignorance, and low character, and the
remembrance that their father was low
brute
Year: 1867

A young lady, possessing more vanity
than personal charms, remarked in jesting
tone, but with an earnest glance that she
travelled on her good looks. A rejected
lover being present, remarked that he could
now account for the young lady never hav-
ing been far from home"
Year: 1867

MEN AND WoMEN-The skeptic some
times asks why so many more women than
men join the church, with an air that inti-
mates that he thinks it is because the latter
are more strongminded. Some one propo-
ses to answer it when the skeptic shall ex :
plain why SO many more men than women
are found in our penitentiaries.
Year: 1867

Scene on the street-Jubilant Democrat-
Do you hear those guns tell you we can
afford to burn powder over such victories as
these Touchy Republican-That's SO
You didn t burn much during the war and
havn't burned much since.
Year: 1867

The Bishop of Cork, in preaching ut the
opening OF a new church in his diocese,
made the following plea for beautiful church
es: feel personally, of course, as Bish-
op, very much grati6ed at what see, and
am very glad that this pleasing specimen of
architecture is by one of our own commu-
mon and an architect of our own town. The
Almighty Creator himself, We may say with
out lrreverenee. delights in beauty. All the
OF the heavens is beautiful the moon walk
ing In her brightness is beautiful; the sun
Uses and sets in beauty. All creation is
formed IN beauty; and, my Christian friends,
there IS no reason why We should not use
beautiful forms too. What is architecture?
Nothing but the beauty of order, the beauty
OF shape, the beauty of size, the beauty of
proportion. What is music? Nothing but
the beauty of sound. What is painting?
The beauty of color. What is oratory? The
beauty OF speech. What are the higher
sciences? The beauty Of reason. 1t IS con-
trary to Gods design, and contrary to our
nature, that we should not make use of those
things that God seems to delight in


he added: Any new church erected in
the united diocese must be submitted to me
before it can be opened for divine service,
and would cut off my right arm before
"o",u Hauotioh anything tudt WOuiQ lessen
the benefits to be conferred upon the people
committed to our ministers charge; but if
We desire to have, as We have, our houses
not only sufficient to protect US from the
weather, and convenient, but well furnished
in every part and beautifully arranged, are
We to except the house of God If we
could build house to God, with stupen-
dous architecture, we ought to do so-with
the lovliest shapes, and forms, and colors.
| would could have all our churches beau
tiful, and | would could have in them all
beauty of sound. The house is for God
honor and the benefit of his people; and the-
pleasant sounds uttered in it, whether form
ed by instruments, or that most exquisite of
all lnstraments-the human tongue-are
dedicated to the service of God. think it
exceedingly desirable that we should have
such churches as this
Year: 1867

CARE FOR THE FEEr.-Many are careless in
the care of the feet. If they wash them once
month they think they are doing we'll They
do not consider that the largest pores of the
that the most offensive matter is discharged
through the pores. They wear stockings from
the beg 'nniug to the end of the week without
change. The stockings become completely sat
urated with offensive matter. 1t is sickenng to
be in the presence Of such persons. lll-health
is generated by such treatment of the feet The
pores are not only repellants, but absorbents,
and this fetid matter, to great or less extent,
is taken back into the system. The feet should
be washed daily as well as the arm pits, from
which offensive odor is also emitted, unless
daily ablution is practiced. Stockings should
not be worn more than a day or two at time,
They may be worn for one day aud then aired
and summed and worn another day but to wear
the same stockings for whole weetSis not doing
justice to your feet your health, nor your
conscience; for who can have clear conscience
in a foul BODY?
Year: 1867

County FISAScEs.-The Vancouver Register
calls attention to a law passed at the last session
of the Legislature, requiring each County Audi
tor to make out a full and complete exhibit of
the finances of his county. Such exhibit is to
be made out after the spring term of the Cons
missioners' Court, and is to be published in a
newspaper of the county, or is to be posted in
a CONSPICUOUS place in his Office, if no newspaper
is published in the county. Such exhibit is re-
qured to show, 6rst the amount of tax assessed
in the county the preceding year for Territorial,
county and school purposes; secondly, theamount
of tax collected on such assessment; thirdly,
the amount of money received from ether sources;
fourth, the amount received into the treasury /;
fifth, the amount still due and not collected I;
sixth, the uumber of orders issued, their several
amounts and for what they were issued seventh,
the total amount of orders redeemed; eighth,
the amount of outstanding orders; ninth, the
present condition Of the treasury. No such ex>
hibt has yet been made 10 this county and all
the people would be grati6ed to see this law
complied with, as they have been unable for
several years to discover in what condition the
finances of the county are.
Year: 1867

The penchant of the fair sex for good living
has something in it of instinct. A series of ex-
act and rigorous observation has demon strated
that a succulent diet, delicate, and well attended
to, repulses for long time and very far, the
exterior appearance of old age. 1t gives m ore
brlliancy to the eyes to the skin more freshness;
to the muscle more support and as it is certain
iu physiology that wrnkles-those formidable
enemies Of beauty, are due to the depression of
the muscles, it is equally true to say all things
equal, that those who know how to eat are COM
psrativey ten years younger than those to whom
this science is q stranger. Painters and sculP-
tors are well aware of this fact, for they never
represent those who are abstinent from choice
or duty, as misers and anehorites, without giving
them the paIsnsss of sickness, the leanness Of
misery and the wrinkles of decrepitude.
Year: 1867

THE USDIvIDBD CHURcH.-Take a mass Of
quicksilver, let it fall to the floor, and it will
split itself into a vast number Of distinct glob-
ules. Gather them up, and put them together
again, and they will coaiesce into one oody as
before. Thus Gods elect below are sometimes
crumbled and distinguished into various parties
though they are in fact members of one and the
same mystic body. But when taken up from
the world and put together in heaven, they wlll
constitute one glorious undivided Church Tor
ever and ever.
Year: 1867

NEw ORLEAss is to have an entertainment at
which fountain of iced elaret wine will jet
from the centre Of the parquet during the per-
formance, to be served out to the audiences in
silver goblets
Year: 1867

We call attention to the card of o. P. O., in this
DAYS TRIBUNE. advertising his readiness TO buy or
engage 10 edit a Radical or non-partisan journal
Knowing him TO be experienced, responsible, and
worthy, we commend him to the regard of those in
tor fpI
Year: 1867

Thar CLocK The clock for the Rock
Island Arsenal tower hss been received aud
will be put IN place as soon ss possible.


II you wi use Royal Baking Powder in
making your biscuits, pot pies. cskes and
puddings you will be satisfied that it is the
best and the cheapest.
Year: 1867

A HUMILIATING PICTURE.-It may be cold con-
ISOLATION to Californans that McDougall is not
the only member of the Senate who appeard in
his seat so very drunk as to attract the attention
of the galleries but the following extract from
the Washington correspondence of the Newark
4 .uertiser gives a picture which is humiliating
to every citizen of this State, and to every
American as we'll


The Senator from California, McDougall, ap-
peared in the Senate on Monday, drunk as usual,
and did most of the talking for his side of the
chamber, muttering his incoherent sentences so
that the reporters had to guess at his language.
His opportunities for disgracing himself and the
Senate at the same time will be exhausted with
the present session, and his successor, Cole, is
already in the city. We understand that Nc


Dougall's salary is paid only to his wife, who
deals it out to him at discretion. His salary and


mileage have been about $4,000 per year
Salisbury also commenced the session with un-
favorable promise, and yesterday was so much
under the influence of liquor as to speak in the
Senate with twitching SOLDERING tongue. Lost
to all sense of shame. he is pointed out to
strangers the unfortunate of the Senate With
intellect inferior to few, if any, in the body and
when himself gentleman of refinement and


social qualities. he is sweeping fast the inevt-
able end of such excesses as be has INDUCED in
during his Congressional career Riddle, the
other Senator from Delaware, is not far behind
his colleague, and while not so prominent in the
Senate, hence not much noticed, bids well to


reach first the end above referred to- He seldom
speaks in the chamber, and is far the inferior
mentally, of Salisbury. To this gentleman be.
longs the motion for increasing the members
salaries.