smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1859

A word on training oxen. / have
found that by far the best time to train
steers is when they are calves, say the
first winter. Oxen that are trained when
quite young, are much more piable and
obedient, and this adds much to their va
lue. Steers that run until they are three
or four years old, are dangerous animals


to encounter. They are always running
away with the cart or sled whenever
there is chance for them, and often Sc
rious INJURY is the result. ] would not
recommend working steers hard, while
young, as it prevents their growth; there
is a difference between working them
and merely training them. / have obser-
we'd that very little attention is paid by
our farmers to train their steers to back,
but as they become able TO draw a consi-
derable load forward, they are often un-
mercifully beaten on the head and face,
because they will not back cart or sled
with as large load as they can draw for
ward, forgetting that much pains has been
Year: 1859

y The remarkable fact is stated in Hall s
Journal Of Health, that Of the fye thousand
persons tried last year before the New York
Court of Sessions, only ninetyJeur ters sober
4eAea arrested
Year: 1859

REBELLloUs PUPlLs.-A Boston paper
says


OF the nearly 900 pupils who left the Eli.
OF School on the recent rebellion, some sc
are still absent, and probably will not return
The remainder submit to the regulations o
the school. The committee are determined
that the discipline of the school shall be
maintained. Some half-dozen of the REBEL
ious boys have already been apprehended for
thieving and other roguery. and are in a fair
way for the House of Correction and the
State Prison. Their parents were afraid the
Bible would hurt them, of which there is no
particular danger, since they never probably
see it outside a school house.
Year: 1859

SIERRA TURNPKE.-Our esteemed friend
Peter Rice, of the Sierra Turnpike Compa-
ny, has been in town several days obtaining
subscriptions to the road in process of con-
struction between this city and Downieville
He is meeting with fine success. There can
be no doubt that stock in this road will pay
well, and, even if it did not it is manifestly
to the interest of Marysville to do all that
she can to forward the enterprise, Every in.
dividual citizen, having anything at stake in
the prosperity of Marysville, should lend a
helping hand to this work.
Year: 1859

ExPLos,oN.-Ths hot weather is rather
hard on lager, not only in the matter of its
being very much d~ank but in the degree of
fermentation to which it subjects it. Re
Gently. gentleman sent keg Of lager home,
for family use. The day was very hot, and
the LIQUID began soon to rumble and roar in
the vessel like mad. Directly, the hoops
burst. the head flew out and the contents
deluged the entire apartment. The noise was
like unto small thunder, and the neighbor-
hood supposed that a steam-boier in one of
the flour mills had busted" The lady Of
the house rushed down in dire dismay, and
what a scene for a housewife met her eye
Lager here, lager there, lager everywhere,
and several panes of glass broken out of a
window by the conclusion.


Really, the manufacturers of this whole
some summer drink must put it up in some.
what stronger kegs or make it weaker Sup.
pose such fermentation should take place
in the inner man, directly after inhibition
Where would the victim be? Busted" wide
OPEN A jury would "set' on him, and the
verdict would be:


Slaughtered by lager of too expansive
quality"
Year: 1859

MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY
A snow-drop, amid cold and storm,


Reared up its lovely head;
Surcharged with rain it mildly dropped
Ere spring had come twas dead.
Midway in air bird was poised,


Her hymn of praise to swell,
A fowler with uncrring aim,


Pierced her warm breast-she fell
A rosebud, proud of being first


TO own springs gentle sway,
Nipped by the frost, its blackened form


Foretold its sure decay.
The brilliant sun with golden beams


Pursues its daily flight;
But now he rose-why set so soon?


Twas but to speed the night.
Zen beauty in the early bud


Wings her Heayenward way,
Leaving life bereft Of love-


For nothing here can stay.
Then gricve not that it must be So
Thy bud shall one day bloom
'Tis grated in yon Heaven above,


Then gaze not on her tomb.
Year: 1859

"Shall / Get married?'' is question which
man often puts to himselfin the present day. And
nothing can be wiser than to make it a question;
but when man does so, he should examine and
weigh the thing fairly and fully, and not consider
that he has found a solution to it the moment he
meets with an objection to contravene his wishes.
1t is not his father or his mother, his friends or
his books, that he should yield to- in case that is
really too great for their decision Hear them, he
may to gather their opinions; but if his own con-
science proves stronger than their arguments, and
his spirit still cries out "marry," why, marry he
should.


Is marriage a desirable state? This is tho first
question. Almost every man and woman Will an-
xwer in the affirmative When should it be enter
ed into is the next question. TO this the re-
ply is, as soon as a man, hav wing reached proper
age say twenty-five, is able to support wife.
Then comes the question of children man by
pinching a little here, and good deal there, can
support wife; but the poor fellow is afraid OF
having a family to feed, and clothe, and educate,
without money enough to bear the additional cx-
pense This is the rub. We believe few young
men would be such fools to remain in state OF
single blessedness,' if the image of coming chill
dren did not haunt and bewider them. But this
apprehension is quite as groundless as the other
Children have hands to work with, and may be
rendered source of profit to prudent father, who
knows how to rear them up.


Do not listen, therefore, young man to these
frivolous objections. DO your friends advise you
against marriage? Look at their cases. You
will find that most of them got married themselves,
sooner or later, and that they did very well in
spite of the burden. If you really do discover
among them a few who have left their position,
and become poor since their marriage, in nine
out of ten you will find, by sitting the matter,
that it was not the wife and children who brought
them down, but their own vanity and dissipation
life Illustrated.
Year: 1859

New INVENTION IN SHOEING IloRsEs.-The
Scientific American speaks of new invention for
horse-shoeing which obviates the continual driving
of nails in the hoof, by which great injury is
sometimes inflicted upon valuable horses by
unskillful workmen. 4 groove is made in the
undersidc Of the common shoe, into which is
fastened a piece Of iron Of the same width and
shape as the groove; only thicker and slightly
curved upwards, the junction forming complete
dovetail. The advantage of this inner shoe is,
that it is made to project beyond the ordinary
shoe, and when worn down easily be removed
and replaced BY another without pulling off the
shoe from the horses hoof.
Year: 1859

To understand the philosophy Of this
beautiful and often sublime phenomena.
SO often witnessed since the creation of
the world, and essential to the very exis-
tence of plants and animals, few facts
derived from observation and long train
of experiments must be remembered. /.
Were the atmosphere everywhere, at all
times, at a uniform temperature, we
should never have rain, or hail, or snow.
The water absorbed by it in evaporation
from the sea and the earth's surface,
would descend in an imperceptible vap-
or, or cease to be absorbed by the air
when 1t was once fully saturated. 2. The
absorbing power of the atmosphere, and
consequently lis capability to retain hu-
midity, is proportionably greater in warm
than in cold air. 3. The air near the
surface of the earth is warmer than it is


in the regions of the clouds The high
er we ascend from the earth, the colder
do We find the atmosphere. Hence the
perpetual snow on very high mountains
IN the hottest climate. Now, when from
continued evaporation, the air is highly
saturated with vapor, though it be inyis-
ible aud the day cloudless, if its temper
ature is suddenly reduced by the cold
currents descending from above or rush
ing from a higher to lower latitude, its
capacity to retain moisture is diminish
ed, clouds are formed, and the result is
rain. Air condenses as it cools, and /,
like a sponge filled with water and com
pressed, pours out the water which its
diminished capacity cannot hold. How
singular, yet how simple, the philosophy
of rain What but Omniscience could
have devised such an admirable arrange
ment for watering the earth -.Scienifc
Journal.
Year: 1859

Exactly" said Dick, "and youl
limbs, too"


Yes, stranger, you're right, and
begin to feel it in the back OF my neck
and head"


"Of course you do /; and unless you
do do something for it, you'll be dead in
q short time, assure you. Take nay ad
vice, now, go back aboard that boat,
swallow down a gill of brandy. get into
your state room, and cover up with blan-
kets. Stay there until you perspire free
ly, then leave here like lightning p


Hoosier hurried on board that boat,
and followed Dicks Instructions to the
letter. On Monday he was met by a
gentleman at Citronelle, to whom he re
lated his wonderful escape from death By
yellow fever, even after preparations were
being made to procure his coffin. He
says he will never forget the kindness of
the tall man in Mobile, who gave him
such good advice"
Year: 1859

The danger of taking hot bricks for
bed-fellows was illustrated in a town
down east. few nights since, when two
young ladies wrapped one in cloth to
toast their feet with in the foot of the bed.
They woke up in the night nearly suffo-
Gated, and found the bed on fire, tho
brick having burnt through five quilts
lying upon the foot of the bed, a hole in
the mattress. a portion of night gown
upon one of the ladies, and discolored
their feet with smoke.
Year: 1859

SINGULAR Christopher Stein.
burger was found hanging IN the woods
near St. Louis on the 18th, suspended
by handkerchief He committed self
murder for love, and carried out the
singular freak of making his dead body
a Christmas gift to his beloved. A
manuscript in German was found on his
person, the translation of which is az
follows:


To MARIA H. l send you my
Christmas Gift; that is my dead body.
Now again sacrifice myself for you
You will no longer find me in your path
in relation to your marriage. | do not
despise, do not curse you---for above
there we shall meet each other again.
never to be separated. Farewell :! Be
happy!
Year: 1859

A farmer said to barber that he
ought to reduce his prices. now that corn
was cheap. ''No. sir ee." said the
shaver, I" for when corn is low. farmers
make such long faces that l have twice
the ground to go over
Year: 1859

In the multitude Of created things,
there are many whose office it seems to
be to stir us with JOY, and fill US with
cheerfulness, and mix the rugged reali-
ties OF life with exquisite delight. Sights
and sounds there are that cannot be
turned into the channel of drudgery. and
that elude the grasp of science. When
philosophy has finished its deductions.
and utilitarian ingenuity has exhausted
itself, there is still an oyerplus of some
thing that touches the spring Of pleasure
still hoyers around us that indescriba-
bic beauty which is
Year: 1859

And is all this without intention in tie
Divine Scheme ? or does it show that
there is a lawful sphere of pleasure, and
that whatever in nature, or in human
agency, minister to this in due proper
ton, has its season in the economy Of
human life ?-CHAPIN.
Year: 1859

Ha% An ARRAY took place near Auburn on
monday last, between the Sheriff's party and


hattlesnake Dick" and Rattlesnake Jim,n
winch resulted in the death of Deputy Sheriff
Martin and "Rattlesnake Dick Crutchey and
johnston, both of the Sheriffs party were shot
IN the hand-the formers hand was shot to
pieces. "Dicks" body was afterwards found
lying On the road side. He was shot through
the body and head 1t is thought that, being
unable to travel because of the wound in the
oody he shot himself through the head
Year: 1859

IF YOUR TEETH ARE GOOD,


read tho following lines If your teeth are bad read
hom with great care If you have teeth at all lisp
fact that s daily exhibited in the streets in the social
crc and the parlor by the hunhes! peasant and the
proudest that hundreds Of persons lose good
sets teeth for the want OF the timely al of good and
silful dentist poor and inferior operation is IN many
cnses worse hun none all If your teeth good have
them examined by good dentist aud keep them in order
If or No time should be lost but have them repaired the
sooner tho hae aud escape that which Burns says Is hs
he'll of ull dlsHasts An irregularities of tho teeth should
be atfendettn in childhood aUu youth. .


An persons desruus Of ue deuu operations are invt-
ed to call at my where particular attention ls given
20 the preservation OF the natural teeih where tho


VULCANIZED CORALlTE,
Year: 1859

is consequently in great demand by persons
travelling, or about to settle in new parts of the
country especially, as well as by many in every
community, where it has become known, on
account of its various other remedial proper
ties.


In all cases of dropsical tendency, it is gen.
orally the only remedy required, when adopted
in the early stage of the disease.


In Dyspepsia maladies, when taken in proper
quantities, as diet drink, and especially at
dinner, it is found, by uniform experience, to be
eminenty efficacious in the most obstinate cases,
4 hen even the best of the usual remedies have
failed to afford more than temporary relief In
cases of Flatulency, it is an immediate and in
variable specific, and it may be administered in
diluted and proportionate quantities, even to
Young Infants, in all those paroxysms of gripping
pain in the stomach and bowels to which they
are especially subject, as well as in the collie of
grown persons.


Its judicious adoption in connection with the
principal meals or when sense of exhaustion
dictates its use never fails to relieve the debil-
ty attendant upon protracted chronic malades,
low temperament and exhausted vital energy, by
whatever cause induced. These are facts to
which many of the most eminent medical men,
both in England and the United States, have
borne testimony, and which are corroborated by
the highest written authorities


Put up in quart and pint bottles, in cases of
one dozen, with my name on the bottle, cork,
and facsimile of my signature on the label.
For sale by all the respectable Druggists and
Liquor Dealers in California and Oregon.


UDOLPHO WOLFE,


Sole Importer


% Beaver street, New York.
Year: 1859

The New York Home Journal has the fol-
lowing valuable hints on this subject:


The piano should be closed when not in
use, in order to prevent the collection Of
fine dust, &c, on the sound board, and also
TO prevent the strings and "action" from the
i'll effects Of sudden changes Of temperature.
Nothing Injuries piano so much as extreme
heat, whether arising from bright fire in
front Of it, or what is worse, the hot air
from the furnaces in such general use; few
pianos can resist the injurious action Of
the latter. Care should be taken to prevent
moisture of any kind from getting between
the keys particularly when cleaning them,
rs it will cause them to stick. Moths are
very destructive to pianos. and should be
kept out of them by placing lump Of cam
phor wrapped in paper to prevent evapor-
alton, in the inside corners. Any hard
substance placed on piano will cause a
jarring noise, and if the top part is unpro
tected by cloth cover, that also will often
rattle. Young pianists would injure the pi-
ano less if they would refrain from striking
the keys with such force; light touch,
with judicios use Of the loud pedal, will
yield far better and equally as full tone
as if they exerted all the force at their CON-
tnand. Were this fact more generally
attended fewer strings would be broken,
one cause Of the piano not remaining in tune
would he removed, and less injury would
result to the "action" of the piano. These
various aunoyances are often attributed to
inferior tuning, or defective make, when
neither is the cause.


Few are aware ofthe benefit to be derived
from having their pianos regularly tuned
and kept in orderj every new piano should be
tuned at least once month, and none
should be allowed to rem ain untuned over
three. When piano is half note below
"concert pitcb," and it is required to be
drawn up, it should be tuned twice, the
; second tuning about a month after tie Isrst
or it will not stand 'welltin tune.
Year: 1859

In reply to frequent inquires-I would say, that am now prepared travel to any part of the state, and will go prepared to do everything in the line of my profession in the neatest possible manner. Per sons wishing my services will please drop line to that effect, as shall not have time to go except where have calls, and will only charge the regular Memphis and eastern prices, same as l charge in my office. fs N. CASE, Dentist

 Little Rock, Ark Feb 3 '59-ly.
Year: 1859

DO you wish to be healthy and strong? Then go at once, and get some of McLeans Cordial. It will strengthen and invigorate yotr whole system causing healthy and pure circulation of blood to flow through every vein, and the rich, rosy bloom of health to mount to your cheek again.
Year: 1859

Mountains have been exhausted of their
gold, mines of their diamonds, and the
oceans of their peariy gems, The demand
has emptied the supply. Over once busy
scenes silence and solitude now reign; the
cavern no longer rings to the miners ham
mer, nor is the song Of thepearl-fsher heard
upon the deep. But the riches of the
grave are inexhaustible. All that have
gone before us have not made them less,
and we shall make them no less to those
who follow us. When they have supplied
the wants of unborn millions, the last of
Adams race, that lonely man, over whose
head the sun is dying, beneath whose feet
the earth is reeling, shall stand by as full
fountain as this day invites you to drink
and live, to wash and be Clean,


l have found it an interesting thing TO
stand on the edge of noble rolling river,
and to think that although it has been flow
ing on for 5000 years, watering the fields
and shaking the thirst Of hundred genera
tions, it shows no sign. of waste or want
and when ! have watched the rise Of the
sun, as he shot above the crest of the
mountain, or in sky draped with golden
curtains, sprang up from his ocean bed, |
have wondered to think that he has melted
the SHOWS of so many winters, and renewed
the verdure of so many springs, and paint.
ed the flowers of so many summers, and
ripeued the golded harvest of so many au-
tumDs, and yet shines as brilliant as ever,
his eyes not dim, nor his natural strength
abaled, nor his foods of light less full for
centuries of boundless profusion.


Yet what are these but images of the
fulness that is in Christ? Let that feed
your hopes, and cheer your hearts, and
brighten your faith, and send you
away this day happy and rejoicing. For
when judgment flames have licked up that
flowing stream, and the light of that glori-
Gus sun shall be qusnched in darkness, OF
yelled in the smoke of burning world, the
fulIness that is in Christ shall flow Oh
throughout eternity in the bliss of the re.
deemed. Blessed Savior! Image of God
Divine Redeemer! in thy presence is full
ness of joy: at thy right hand there are
pleasures of evermore. What thou hasi
gone to heaven to prepare, may we be call
ed up at death TO enjoy.-Dr. Guthrie.
Year: 1859

two succeeding waves. La Mountain stuck
to the boat like hero, but lost his hat,
and got dash of the waves, but soon re.
covered and throw over the Express bag
and the last remaining ballast, and cried
out, "Be easy, gentlemen, III have her
afoat once more" In another moment
we we're up few hundred feet again, and
the steamer propeller "Young America
was tacking across our track. l now pro-
posed to swamp the boat and balloon in
the Lake, and trust to being picked up by
the Young America, but the desire was
that we should make the shore and try the
land, and as we crossed the bow Of the
steamer, they gave US a hearty hurrah.-
LaMountain had now cut out of the boat
all be could, and we were within fifteen
miles Of the shore, and the gale still ra-
giny below. LaMountain might have re-
NAMED in the boat below, and jumped out
at first touching the earth, and saw i'm.
propriety in that, as then we might have
had another hour or two to wait the lulling
of the gale, but be said be would share
our fate, and he also clambered into the
basket, Just as we were reaching the land


l saw by the swnying to and fro of the
lofty trees into which we must inevitably
dash, that our worst perils were at hand,
but l still had hope that we would be
saved. / ordered two men upon the valve
rope, and we struck within hundred yards
of the water, among some scattered trees
our hook, which was Of inch and quarter
iron, breaking like pipe stem at the first
catch of in tree, and we hurling through
the tree tops at terrific rate.


After dashing along this way for nearly 9
mile, crashing and breaking down trees
we were dashed most fearfully in the
boughs of large elm, SO that the basket
swung under and up through the crotch O
limb, while the boat had caught in some
of the outer branches, and this brought us
too little, but in another moment the
atlantic puffed up her huge proportions
and at one swoop away went the limb
basket and boat into the air hundred
feet and l was afraid some of the crew
were lmpaled upon the scrags. This lint
about inches thick at the butt and full o
branches, not weighing less than six O
eight hundred pounds, proved too much
| for the "Atlantic," and it brought her sud
denly down upon the top of very tai
| tree and collapsed her. 1t was fearfu
plunge, but it left us dangling between
heaven and earth, in the most sorrowfu
looking plight Of machinery, that can b.
imagined.


None of us were seriously injured, th
many cords, the strong hoop made of Woo
and iron, and the close wicker-work baske
saving us from harm, as long as the ma
chinery hung together, and that could no
have lasted two minutes longer.


We came to the land, or rather tree, o
Mr.. T. o. Whitney, town of Henderson
jefferson Co., N. Y.


We will soon have the "Atlantic" rebuilt
for, what l hope, may prove more sue
cessful demonstration of what we proposes
to do on this interesting occasion.


| STANwIx HALL, Albany N. Y. July 8


. r' JOHN WISE.
Year: 1859

NICE CALcULArIoN.-It has been cal
culated that hairs on the tip of dogs
tail of the average length of thirteen inches
(tail not hair) are made to traverse 25,4Ss
miles by the simple act of wagging, during
an ordinarily happy life of nine years two
months and eleven days which is the mean
lifetime of dog.