smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

IPCBLIC hESOEUTIoS-NO. 30I
reOluton certain distilled spirits
ed to the Surgeon General for the the hos
pitfalls.


BE resolved by the Senate and House
the United America Congress assembled That
Secretary of the Treasury be- and h hereby
deliver tO the Surgeon General of the all the distilled
spirits produced during the made by the late
mission testing meters for the internal service
b. used Cor the hospitals and to be paid for
BILE out of appropriated for the purchase
hospital stores the received be applied toward
the expenses Of SAID commission


ed, June Is
Year: 1869

In the last illness of the witty George Col
man, the doctor being later than the time ap-
pointed, apologized to his patient, saying that
he had called in to see a man who had fallen
down a well.


Did he kick the bucket, doctor?" groaned
COlmln
Year: 1869

SOCIAL ARTTHMETIC.-A pleasant passtime
at an evening gathering Of Ia nily or friends is
the solution of problems in what writer in
Chambers Journal calls social arithmetic. !"
One of the examples he gives is the following :;
"Two brothers were walking the street, when
one of them stopped at house, saying he must
call aud see a sick niece. The other passed on,
saying, " am thankful have no niece. y
What relation was the last speaker to the in
valid? Another is apparently very easy and
simple, but we venture to say that not one in
ten will get the correct answer the first time
trying. A stranger entered shoe store and
bought pair of shoes worth four dollars, fol-
which he rendered five dollar greenback il
payment. The shoe dealer having no change


got the bill broken at the grocer's, mex
door, and delivered to the purchaser the shoes
and the one dollar in change. The grocer af
forwards discovered that the bill was counter
felt, and made the shoe dealer.take it back and
give him good money. Now, the question is
how much did the shoe dealer lose in all p
Year: 1869

reflect that a sound mind and body are tn. rAos
necessary requisites to promote connubial Lap
piness Indeed, without these the journey
through lite becomes weary pilgrimage; the
prosp ct hourly dsrkens TO the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed will
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1869

SHIPBUILBING ON THE pAcIFIc COAST
While our Congressman are passing their
copper tariff bills, making the ship. building of
Name more than ever unremunerative and its
prosecution well-nigh impossible, San Fl an
CISCO writer makes the following confident
statement which ought to command the at
tention OF all who have the good of the "Pine
Tree State" at heart: "We can build vessels
much cheaper on the Pacific coast than even
the State of Maine. Our forests supply a bet
ter class of timber; We manufacture our own
pitch, tar, turpentine and roSin on the spot;
the same regions produce the finest of iron and
copper; hemp is grown in abundance, almost
in the same localities; we manufacture run
ming and standing rigging of as good qualities
as the imported, and for lower prices; and
when the demand comes we can make as good
sail cloth. Scarcely anything will have to be
imported, while Maine is compelled to go.
abroad for all she requires except timber The
labor of skilled artisans commands higher
price in California; but not enough to counter
balance the difference of expenditures in many
o;her respects. Another great element in thi
connection is the fact that we have, and ca II
obtain to any required extent, cheaper labor
than our Eastern or European competitors.
The Chinese and Japanese can work the pro-
ducts of our forests, soil and mines, at less ex-
pense than the same labor can be performed
for in either the Atlantic States or Europe"
Year: 1869

Less than Cost.


All in want of Boots, Shoes, or Rubbers will do
well to call as above, the goods are ali perfect and
made OF the best material ant in a workmanike
manner. TRUE d CLARK


a. The store we now occupy viii be to rent as
soon AS the stock is disposed of. ac22d1w%
Year: 1869

PUBLIC BATHs.-The Aldermen are consid-
ering proposition to reserve piece of the
Battery water front for what is called public
bath, said property to be leased to the propri-
etor of the present Battery baths for five hun
dred dollars year. Five thousand year
would be cheap rent. 1t is good thing for
the Common Council to favor such an enter
prise as public bath, but the people must
have the benefit, and not an individual. If
the city gives this valuable privilege it must
require In return that there shall be five cent
days and ten cent days, and that the charge
shall be on no day more than twenty-five cents.
Year: 1869

EFFICIENT HEALTH OFFIoER.-The follow
ing is the result thus far of DIR. Swinburne's
act permitting the ship fever patients of the
James Foster, Jr., to come to the city,
Deaths.
Couti acted the disease.


The Doctor Is greatly alarmed and afraid If a
news boat runs sufficiently near an inward
bound vessel to have small package thrown
on board and landed at Whitehall slip in the
dead of night that contagion would thereby be
introduced in the city.
Year: 1869

WONDERFUL CUREs.-An affidavit has just
been made before the Mayor in regard to the
practices of knot of those city sharpers who
perform wonderful cures. These sharpers all
belong to the ''New York Medical Univer-
sity"-an institution not yet incorporated,
but the name of which sounds well in the
country. Countrymen should understand that
this is dodge in great use here for imposition,
and that we are not half so rich in medical
schools as we would seem in the medical
advertisements.
Year: 1869

1t Is curious to notice how the sentiment oi


the world oscillates in regard to the principles


of free trade. 1t Is long since Adam Smith
expounded the principles of national wealth |;
but while the correctness of Smiths theory has
been generally admitted nations have but
slowly grown up to the high standard of con-
viction which enables them to reduce the
theory to practice. Nor is it always safe to
conclude that because q people have taken
step in favor of free trade the step will
not be retraced. 1t is gratifying to find at one
and the same time that these principles are
now finding favor in New England, in Spain
and In France. The Spanish Finance Minister
proposes gradual reduction Of all prohibitory
duties. A similar proposal has also been
made in the French Corps Legislatif The
New Englanders, meanwhile, have established
q reform league, the principal object of which
is to advocate the principles of free trade. All
these are encouraging signs, giving us reason
to hope for better times. To buy in the
cheapest and to sell in the dearest market are
privileges which ought to be national as well
as individual in their range.
Year: 1869

LOOK Our FOR HER.-It is reported that
the Quarantine smugglcr Four Brothers, when
her repairs are finished, will come out from
Red Hook with a new name painted on her
stern. Look out for her. She will be the
same bold smuggler under whatever name she
may SAIL and If not closely watched will land
just as many ''dcad bodies" In canvas sacks as
she did last summer.
Year: 1869

CAR LAw.-An injured passenger is suing
a railroad company for damages for injuries
inflicted by a drunken conductor. If the
Court determines that the company is liable
we may expect that in future all discontented
conductors will ''get even" with their en-
ployers by stabbing passengers. This will
be an easy way to make the companies pay
but it is not pleasant prospect for passengers.
Year: 1869

MANNERS OF OUR New MINISTER TO
FRANCE. Our new Minister to France Is
studying the art Of politeness and elegance of
diction prior to his advent into Partisan
society. He calls our worthy Secretary Of
State "fossilized lunkhead." The term
"lunkhead" is usually applied by sporting
men to very sorry style Of horse. but never,
we believe, to horse mackerel.
Year: 1869

Coop DRusIoN.-Judge Bowling sent out
of court q policeman who, by his own admis-
sion, had ordered some citizens ''to move on"
though they were only quietly talking to each
other. It is not generally known that at GER
tain hours no person is permitted to stop for
moment on Broadway
Year: 1869

Nor POPULAR AT WAsHNGToN-Klope
mania. Grant has just removed one Of his
own officials for being possessed with that
weakness. If stealing among public officials
is to be thus punished the President will have
bis hands full for the remainder Of bis present
term.
Year: 1869

NEWS FROM New ENGLAND.-They have
taken to reform there, and coterie of the
leaders of opinion" in Boston have not only
declared against protection, but come out
plainly for free trade.
Year: 1869




reparation on her part for the great wrongs
done to us; but we have little inclination
to double the effect of those wrongs by nursing
them Better settle them at once peaceably,
if possible-by the sword, il necessary. 1t
would be grand strugglc-a battle between
old Mother England and ourselves. She is
powerful, full of terrible elements for offensive
or defensive warfare-all sinew, all courage
we are proud of her, but prouder still that we
face her with hands on our sword-hilts, fear
sweeping our commerce from the ocean; we
only complain that she lacked honor in not
frankly acknowledging that the dissolution of
the United States was and Is o necessity to


her. In her four years indirect warfare


against us she has gained some advantage.
We wish at least to repair It, and know of no
better way than to do 1t by active war. We
desire TO sweep her commerce from the ocean,
cut of her trade communications with other
countries and stop her spindles. The war
closed would find us side by side, well wre cked,
but with fair start for the future. With our
superior recuperative powers twenty years
would then give us the commercial position we
held before England destroyed IL. We believe
that General Grant feels and obeys the pres
| sure Of the people in their views as here pre-


sented. We want settlement with Spain


with England. The long looked for moment has


arrived when we feel strong enough to demand


''fair play"
Year: 1869

TIE degrees of crime are thus defined He who steals q million is only financier who steals half million is only defaulter who steals hundred thousand is a rogue who steals fifty thousand is knaye; but he who steals a pair of boots or a loaf of bread is scoundrel of the deepest dye and deserves to be hanged
Year: 1869

Private Medical and Surgical Institute. Sacramento Street below Montgomery Opposite Pacific Mail Steamship Companys oaice). Private entrance on I.eidesdoFff street San Francisco Established expressly afford The afflicted sound and scientific medical aid in the treatment and of all Private aud Chronic Diseases of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

An exchange wittily says:- The
fashion for coats this winter will be
a good deal like that of last winter,
particularly with those who are com
PEELED to wear last winters coats; the
only difference in the case of the latter
being that their coats will be worn q
little longer.
Year: 1869

of boiling water on tho largest island,
and you can put your eggs in there
and in four minutes you can boil
them as hard as any statement have
made during the past fifteen years.
Within ten feet of the boiling spring
is q spring of pure cold water sweet
and wholesome. So, i'll that island
you get your board and washing free
of charge-and if Nature had gone
further and furnished nice American
hotel clerk who was crusty and dis
obliging and didn't know anything
about timetables, on the railroad
routes-or anything-and was proud
of it-I would not wish for more
desirable boarding house.


Half a dozen little mountain brooks
flow into Mono Lake, but not stream
ofany kind flows out OF it. Itneithcr
rises or falls, apparently, and what il
does with its surplus water is dark
and bloody mystery. All the rivers
ofNevada sink into the earth myste-
ously after they have run 100 miles
or so-none OF them flow TO the sea
after the fashion OF rivers in all other
lands.


There are only two seasons in the
region round about Mono Lake, and
these are the breaking up Of win
ter and the beginning of another.
More than once have l seen a perfect
ly blistering morning open up with
the thermometer at ninety degrees at
eight o'clock, and seen the snow fall
fourteen inches deep and the same
identical thermometer go down to
forty-four degrees under shelter be-
fore nine O'Clock at night. Under
favorable circumstances it SHOWS at
least once in every single month III
the year, in the little town of Mono.
So uncertain is the climate in summer
that a lady who goes out visiting can
not hope to be prepared for all emer-
gencies unless she takes her fan under
one arm and her snow shoes under
the other. When they have Fonrth
OF July procession it generally SHOWS
on them, and they do say that, as 9
general thing, when man calls for q
brandy toddY there, the bar-keepel
chops it off with hatchet and wrap:
it Up in a paper like maple sugar
And it is further reported that the
old soakers haven't any teeth-wore
them out eating gin cocktails and
brandy punches. / don't endorse that
statement-I simply give it for what
it is worth-and it is worth-well
should say millions to man who car
believe it without straining himself
But 1 do endorse the snow on the
Fourth of July-because know it tc
| be true.
Year: 1869

a FEW days ago prominent mer-
chant of Paris stood at the open grave
OF his son, and when the coffin had
been inferred spoke the following tu-
neral sermon, the severe tone of which
made it unique in its kind: Gentle
men, the man at whose grave we are
standing was my son. He was a
young man in the bloom of youth,
we'll developed, and might have lived
a hundred years. But dissipation,
drunkenness and low debauchery has
brought him hither before his time
Gentlemen, let this be an example for
you and your children! Let us GOT
Year: 1869

A SPECIMEN of the wonderful plant,
" the flower of the Holy Ghost" has
been successfully raised in Norwich,
CT. The flower is n creamy white
cup, nearly as large as half an egg.
and extremely beautiful, and its won
der as q natural floral growth is the
fact that in this flower is little pure
white dove, with pink bill and eyes,
and its head turned as if looking over
its back. Its wings, feet, bill, &C.,
are as absolutely perfect as those OF
the living dove, whose counterpart
this wonderful mimic vegetable bird
-Erch0nde.
Year: 1869

When the lessons and tasks are all ended.


And the schoolfor the day is dismissed,
And the little ones gather round risa,


To bid me good night and be kissed.
Oh the little white arms that encircle


Ny neck In 9 tender embrace:
Oh the smiles that are hAlos OF heaven,


Shedding sunshine of love on my face.
And when they are gone. sit dreaming


or my childhood too lovely TO last;
OF love that my heart will remember.


While It wakes 10 the pulse Of the past
Ere the world and its Wickedness made mo
3 partner Of sorrow and sin;
" hen the glory Of God was about me,


And the glory Of gladness within.
OH my heart grows weak as q voman,s.
And the fountaihs Of feeling will how,S
When think of the paths steep and stony,


Where the feet Of the dear ones mustgo;
OF the mountains OF sin hanging Ger them,
OF the temptest Of Fate blowing wild;
oithere's nothing on earth half 30 holy


As the innocent heart of child
They are idols Of hearts and Of household;


They are angels OF God IN disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses;


His glory still CLEANS in their eyes.
o. those truants from home and from heAHsA,
They hAye made me more manly and midi
And know now bow Jesus could liken


The Kingdom of God to child.
ask not life for the dear ones.


All radiant az others have done;
But that may have just enough shadow


To temper the glare of the sun;
would pray God to guard them fSem evil,


But my prayer would hound back 10 myself;
Ali sersph may pray for q sinner,


But sinner must pray for himself
The fwig is so easily bended


have banished the rule and the rod,
have taught them the goodness of knowledge


They have taught me the goodness Of God:
My heart is a dungeon Of darkness,


When shut them from breaking . rub;
My frown is sufficient correction;


My love is the law of the school.
shall leave the old house In the AUTUMN,


To traverse its threshold no more;
All how shall sigh for the dear ones


That meet me each hour at the doorI
shall miss the good-nights I" and the kisses


And the gush of their innocent glee,
The groups on the green, and the flowers


That are brought every mornin TO me.
sholl miss them at morn and st eve


Their song IN the school and the strsett
shall miss the low hum of their voices,


And the tramp of their delicate feet
" hen the lessons are all ended.


And Death says, "Tho school is dismisseav"
May the little ones gather around me,


To bid me good night and be kissedY
Year: 1869

AN accommodating young Jersey
man, whose sympathies were aroused
by the moving tale of young lady in
deep mourning, volunteered to hold
her baby for her during their brief
journey to Philadelphia. Arrived at
that point, the Jerseyinan found him
self minus watch and money, and the
possessor Of huge India rubber doll.
1t would be hard to say which was the
biggest baby, or the softest, the Jer-
seyman or the rubber doll.
Year: 1869

WE learn from our. exchanges that
Lucy Stone said good thing in the
Woman's Convention at Chicago, to
wit: "Some mean towards say if
she would ask. who periis her life
when the soldier is born? The moth
er is his quartermaster until he is ca
pable of finding his own rations."


This is all well enough, 'bnt we
would like to know who perils his
life, to say nothing Of tranquility of
mind, when the marriage ceremony is
performed. "Let us have peace"
Year: 1869

LADY Montague, the famous wit, on
being asked whether she would not
have preferred to belong to the oppe-
site sex, replied sternly in the mega
tive, because in that case she might
have been obliged to marry a woman.
Year: 1869

a LAWYER who was pleading the
case of an infant plaintiff, stopped in
the midst of a brilliant pcroration,
and, taking the child in his arms, pre-
sented it to the jury suffused in tears.
The opposing counsel, observing the
effect on the twelve in the box, asked
the child with n great show of sympa-
thy what made it cry. "He pinched
me-" blubbered the innocent.
Year: 1869

THE LATEST YANKEE PROJECT is ship CO.
nal across Cape Cod. A party of wealthy
capitalists in Boston have taken the pre-
linlinary ateps to accomplish this work.
They propose to build the canal in nearly .
direct line from Buzzard's Bay to Cape Cod
Bay, through q narrow neck of land sep
arating those waters, which shall afford
sufficient depth of water to float the larg-
est class of vessels. The canal will be 800
feet wide, and deep enough to insure "a
feet of water at low tide. It is said the
persons who propose to achieve this impor-
tant work are fully prepared to carry it
out and ask for no pecuniary aid from the
state.
Year: 1869

dition to enjoy handsome profits from this
the easiest and plessantest branch of far
ming.


The present depression will not be
without its compensating advantages.
Farmers have learned costly lesson in
breeding Constitution and stamina, and
fleece of marketable value, will hereafter
take precedence of fancy points of little
value or positively injurious. Millions of
misbegotten caricatures, the produce of
rams that sold for high prices under fc-
titious and ruinous standard Of merit will
perish from the Wholesome exposure they
will receive.


The result Of all this will prove a
blessing to the wool grower who has
faith.


How soon this "good time coming" will
be here no man can tell. Every circum-
tends to show that the happy day is
fastening. So far as human reason and
human foresight may be relied on, it is
certain that at no distant day wool grow
ing will again be a remunerative employ
ment


twill be inferred then, that our advice
is against the wholesale slaughter of sheep.
We would say to the farmer, let the sheep
be thoroughly culled. Keep only the
best. Dispose of all inferior and all
ordinary ones without delay. Breed for
good size, constitution and heavy fleece
of merchantable wool. Keep no sheep
that will not live through the year and
maintain good condition on good hay in
winter and good pasture in Summer


Write to your Representative in Con-
gress to take care Of the tariff.


And have faith in wool growing. -
R,cord aud Farmer
Year: 1869

IMpRovEMExT.-We notice that our old friend,
ing Oh his lot, at the corner of Fifth and Alder,
streets. That part of the town for loEg time
WAS at stand,still, but recently a number Of
improvements have been made until now it will
rcoInpare favorably with any part of the city.
Year: 1869

An 0RSAMENT The scsffolding has been
knocked away from the front Of Phillips new
building, Nt the corner ofMain and Third streets,
and although the structure is not as yet COM
pete, all who pass that way pronounce it an
ornament to the neighborhood. This building
is said to cost very little more than frame of
the same size would cost, and if this be the fact,
we think that no more frames should be built in
the business part Of Main street. Indeed, in
country where lumber is high, and bricks are to
he had at a reasonable figure, it is always best
TO put up brick buildings. The saving on in~
surrance will pay the difference in cost in very
few years, and besides, the owner has build
ing that is a credit to him, and that will be a
monument to his enterprise long after he has
passed away.
Year: 1869

T.. Picnic AT SPRING PARx.-There will be
a grand picnic at Euker's Spring Park this
evening. Music, dancing, and fun, Will be
in order during the evening and as the
picnic is given for the benefit OF Inc La
dies Hebrew Benevolent Association, 4
large crowd will be expected. Let no one
who is able fail this evening to aid the
cause of charity. .-i 1-.
Year: 1869

, The following subject was adopted for
consideration at the next meeting-vlZ.,
''What are the best means we can use for
retaining the older scholars in our schooisw


After several interesting speeches the
meeting was closed. f rut
Year: 1869

Il meant 70 have told you OF that
hole, said gentleman to friend who
was walking With him in his garden,
and stumbled into pit full Of water.
mo matter said his friend, blowing
the mud and water out Of bis eyes, I've
found IT,