smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

It does not matter, so far as appear
ance is concerned, what shape the male
mouth may have, as with the present
style of wearing full mustache and
beard but little of it can be seen. In
the smooth face of woman, however,
the form of the mouth has a great deal
to do with its beauty or ugliness. Ac-
cording to our Caucasian notion it
should be small, regular, dry, sweet
and in laughing or speaking not to
show more than half of the length of
the four or five upper teeth.


The standard of taste in regard to the
lips varies in diffe rent nations. The
lips should be neither very thin or full,
and form when the mouth is closed an
Obtuse angle at each corner and in the
center. Their color ought to be of a
lively red. The lower Lip should rise q
little, and the upper be marked with a
we'll defined dimple of a roseate hue.


Sometimes touching the lips lightly,
on going to bed with Il little fresh and
perfectly pure glycerine will be all that
is requisite.


THE TEETH AND GUMS.


Rousseau said that no woman with
fine teeth could be ugly. Any female
mouth, almost, with good set of ivor-
les, is kissa BILE. The too early loss of
the first teeth has an unfavorable infiu-
ence upon the beauty and duration of the
second. The youngest children should
accordingly be made to take care of
them. All that is necessary is to brush
them several times day with little
ordinary soap or InagneSia and water.
Grown people should clean their teeth
at least five times in the course of the
twenty-four hours, on rising in the
morning, and going to bed at night,
and after each meal. A brush as hard
as can be borne without pain should be
used, and the best of all applications is
| pure soap and water, always lulkewarm.
After eating all particles offood should
| be carefully removed from the teeth by
means Of a tOoth-pick of quill or wood,
| but never of metal, and by q thread
passed now and then between tho
/ teeth.


Tooth powders Of all kinds are injur-
ious both to the enamel and the gums,
and if employed every particle Of them
should be removed from the mouth by
careful rinsing. The habit which some
women have of using a bit of lemon,
! though it may whiten the teeth and
| give temporary frmness and color to
\ the gums, is fatal to the enamel, as are all
! acids. No one, young or Old should
/ turn their jaws into nut-craclSers and
| 1t is dangerous even for woman to bite
| of, as they often do the ends of the
/ thread in sewing. 1t is not safe to bring
Immediately followed By anything cold
4 in contact with the teeth, Distilled
/ bl0ck-cherry water,..,l ounce,


There Is no safe means Of making the
eye iaahes longer and more silSen than
/ nature has made them. When they as
sumo in their growth a wrong direc-
tion, the only remedy Is to get rid o.


them by cutting.


The beauty of the cheek is oftener de-
Year: 1868

From the San Francisco FA1ta California.


The railroad traek-Iayer is an in
dubitable and decided success. Tt is
now working along regularly at the
rate Of mile day, and Will do better
when several small defects are REM
edied. Some of its work has been done
at the rate of two miles in twelve hours
but one mile is considered its present
working capacity. The contractor and
directors of the Vallejo q Sacramento
Railroad, although most Of them were
skeptical, and some quite dissatisfied
about the delays in getting it into oper-
alton, give il the highest praise, and
have made their arrangements in re-
lance upon it. The machine is a car
sixty feet long and ten feet wide.
It has small engine on board for
handling the ties and rails. The
ties are carried on a common
freight car behind, and conveyed by an
endless chain over the top Of the ma.
chine, laid down in their places on the
track, and when enough are laid a rail
is put down on each side in a proper
position and spiked down. The track
iayer then advances, and keeps on its
work until theload of ties and rails is
exhausted, when other car loads are
brought. The machine Is driven ahead
by LOCOMOTIVES, and the work is done
so rapidly that sixty men are required
to wait on it, but they do more work
than twice as many could do by the old
system, and the work Is done quite as
well. The chief contractor Of the road
gives 1t as his opinion that when the
machine is improved by making a few
changes in the method of handling
rails and ties, the necessity Of which
changes is now apparent, is will be able
to put down five or six miles per day
unquesGionably. This will render It
possible to lay down track twelve times
as fast as the usual rate by hand, and
it will do the work at less expense,
Year: 1868

The adoption of the reputation
platform by the Democratic Oonven- :
ton yesterday was Immediately follow
ed be fallin government bonds of
about one per cent Every holder of
the national debt has his property re-
duced in value; losing, in fact, two
months interest on his money by this
one rash vote of three hundred ire
sponsible politicians. the total imme-
diate loss in value was nearly twenty
millions of dollars. If the mere threat
of a disunited and poWerless faction
costs the country so much, how much
would the triumph of such a party
cost


Nor is there any oompensating ad-
vantage to any person whatever the
loss of national credit benefits no one,
but is pure loss to the bondholders,
the nation and the WOrld.-M T.
Post, July 9tb.
Year: 1868

"so you are going to teach school ~ said .
young lady TO q maiden aunt. Well, for my
part, sooner than do that, / would marry q wild
over with nine children.r


"I would prefer that myself p was the quiet re-
ply; "but where Is the widoWerm
Year: 1868

The usual Spring Exhibition and trial of horses
BY, the New Castle County Agricultural Society
city, on Friday, June 18th.


The schedule of premiums will be the same MS
that of last year.


We hope To see llie attendance large and the
exhibition an excellent one
Year: 1868

Two little boys were quarreing and theiI
mother came to settle the difficulty. She
could not find out which was the most to
blame. At last she said, Well, shall find
out in the last day who told the lie" A few
nights after there was dreadful storm, which
blew off the roof Of the house. The little
boys were frightened and began to pray
When the mother opened the chamber door
the boy that told the lie cried out, " Mother,
if it's the judgment day, it was me that told
the lie."
Year: 1868

at 6sglgIa- Ii 10 81 e ssREna line litter of
pigs from ravenous sow in the following
manner. He took the pigs away and gave
the mother pint of whiskey which made
her drunk. While she was thus fuddled and
made happy bV the whiskey, he carefully re-
placed the pigs, and after that she was
go I'd and kind mother. This is decidedly the
best thing we ever heard OF whiskey.
and just so far and no further we give il
credit. We always knew that hogs are lond
OF ardent spirits. We once saw several fuh
grown hogs drunk and absolutely silly, being
made so by cherries that had been long soak
ed in a barrel OF rum. We have Known
some human mothers quite tond of alcoholic
liquors. but we Lever knew that they increas-
ed maternal affection. They generally pro-
duce contrary effect. We are just at this
moment of writing reminded of an incident
that took place several years ago.


While we were engaged in the cruel sport
OF catching wild pigeons under net, some
one told us that soaking the wheat used for
baif in sweetened gin would make them like
it oil the more We did so and the result was
highly amusing.


These beautiful birds ate the wheat thus
prepared very sreedily. Soon they began to
show the effects and became unusually musi-
cal, clipper and playful. We never saw
pigeons so apparently happy before. This
/ stimulus drove fear from them and the ne
was easily drawn over them. So il seems al
coholic liquor has a much better effect On the
brute creation than on human beings. While
it makes the former happy and affectionate,
it stirs up anger and brutaizes the latter.


AGRICOIA
Year: 1868

whether any honest man, who has ever real ly reflected on it's dread portent, could pal ter one moment with the vile thing, Repu- dlatlon. For tie thing Is ever there, how eyer we may shirk the phrase.
Year: 1868

gers in this regard, and by the exaggera- ted theories of State rights, that he made Ill reference to this subject one of the few mistakes to be fonnd in his book, but a very, grave mistake. So slight was the pow CT of the General Government, he thought,

 and so feeble the sentiment of nationality as compared with the strength of the sep arate States and with the local attachments of their citizens that, in case of serious attempt made by any of the States to break up the Union, he expressed the opinion not only that the central government would nave no power to resist such rebellion, but that It would not even make serious ef- fort to resist 1t and to avert the threatened dissolution
Year: 1868

DR. JoHN BULL Dear Sir:-I have re-
Gently given your Worm Destroyer. sever
al trials.and lind it wonderfully effcacious
1t has not failed in single instance to have
the wished for effect / am doing pretty
large country practice, and have daily use
for some article of the kind. / am free TO
confess that | know of no remedy recon-
mended by the ablest authors that is so cer-
tain and speedy in its effects. On the con-
trary they are uncertain in the extreme NV
object in writing you is to find out upon
what terms can get the medicine directly
from you. If L can get it upon easy terms
shall use a great deal of it, l am aware
that the nse of such articles is contrary to
the teachings and practice of great majoIi-
ty of the regular line of NJ DPS but l see no
just cause or good sense in discarding a rem
edy which we know to be efficient, simply
because we may be Ignorant of its combina-
tiOns. For my part, shall make it a rule
to use all and any means to alleviate suffer.
ing humanity which may be able to com
mand-nOJ hesitating because some one
more ingenious than myselfm have learn
ed its effects first, and secured the sole right
to secure that knowledge. However, am
by no means an advocate or supporter of the
thousands of worthless nostrums that flood
the country, that purport to cure all all man
ner of disease to which human flesh is heir
Please reply soon and inform me of Your
best terms. l am, sir, most respectfully,


JULIUS p. CLEMENT, NJ. d.


Good Reason For the Captains Faith.
Year: 1868

EDITOR ARIZONA MINER: As Is well known, resolutions censurng General Mcdowell were passed by the last Territorial Legislature, and it is as we'll known in the vicinity of the then Capital that the influence and active exer- tions of certain high officials aided much in their passage.

 There were those who then thought that the resolutions were unjust-at least, that the evidence adducod, upon which the reso- lutions were based, was insufficient to sustain the action then had.

 There were no specific charges made against General Mcdowell, in the preamble or reso- lutions but on the street, and in private con ferenccs, it was charged among other things, that the then Commander of the District oi Prescott was not permitted to make any movement or disposition of his troops with out the special permit of the Department Commander, that every contemplated move ment of troops by him must be sent to san Francisco for approval before action could be had, and that the District Commander had no discretionary power as to these matters

 Now, if these charges were true, then it followed that the District Commander was powerless to effect anything in the way ol putting an end to our Indian troubles, 1 have said that there were those, at the time of the passage of the resolutions, who thought the evidence adduced insufficient tc warrant the action then had, notwithstanding these charges were made and sanctioned by men of high official position.

 Now. that the public may be better able t'
Year: 1868

make desert ont Of the garden, sue
ceed prosperity with ruin, and sup
plant civilization with barbarism. Such
has ever been the character of his opera
tiOns, and our rulers could hardly have
expected reversal of natural laws and
contradiction of history to follow the
Congo experiment they propose to
complete in the South. The cost of
the military establishment is then
merely the first instalment of the out
lay. Other and heavier instalments are
to follow, when destroyed South hides
the wealth that should contribute to
upbuild the entire country, and perma-
nently fastens the burdens of national
taxation upon the people of the North
and West alone.


We very much question il the people
are prepared to sanction th.se results
which, through the War Department,
are TO be brought about at u cost of one
hundred and tifty-six millions annually.
An increased debt, desolated South, a
ruined Government, and negroized
nation are rather too heavy price 10
pay for the continued supremacy of
''lOSaltyv
Year: 1868

u Lnos Girl aud Sacrihceu.


The priests or BONES of Siam are VOW
ed to celibacy and monastic life.
Death is the certain consequence OF any
known departure from the vow of cell
bacy; a priest must not even be suppos-
ell conscious of the presence of such
temptation as women, to the Interrupt
ton of that abstract contemplation
which is the aim and end of the Buddhist
votary. One amoRg the priests, who
swarmed in one of the large monasteries
attached to the temples, has been re-
markable for his unflinching zeal in the
practice of every act of self-sacrtice
enjoined by his religion, observing the
most rigid abstinence, and also silence
which gave external evidence of the all
straction of his mind from all the cares
and concerns of this mundane exist
ence. He had taken his turn with his
brethren to issue forth upon the river
ut early dawn, to receive the daily cou-
tributions of provisions so willingly set
aside by the people for the sustenance
of their BONES. Sometimes he went
alone, latterly, on the occasion of his
fulfilling this mission alone, he had not
returned without some unusual delay.
There is a certain body among the
priesthood whose especial duty is to
watch over the private and public con-
duct of the other members Of their fra
terBity, and to bring them to trial for
neglect of duty, or on conviction of any
crime, religious or moral. Those Off
cials, being apprised that grave sus-
picion attached to one of their order,
placed a spy over his conduct. Having
selected for the purpose one ofthe most
tried and sagacious among themselves,
he began his task by studying closely the
movements and actions of the supposed
delinquest. On his return from one of
his missions on the river, uupercelyed
he watched him as he sat alone. He
appeared frequently to take something
from his bosom, which he pressed to his
lips, and then returned it TO its resting
place, The spy, drawing gradually
nearer, was enabled to satisfy himself
that the treasured article was rose:
further observation and vigilance now
became necessary. On the next occasion
of the culprit's sallying forth on the
river, his course was tracked by
a spy, by whom he was seen
to enter gate of one of the gardens
sloping down to the water, and to meet
a Young and handsome Laos girl, with
whom-coptrary TO the sacerdotal Law
he was seen to exchange words, from
whose hands he was also gnilty OF Ie-
ceiying a rsse, which he pressed to his
Inns. At length, being found absent
from his cell at late hour IN the even
ing, he was proved 10 have kept Sc
cret assignatioa with the matden-an
act which sealed his fate. The follow.
ing day he was tried for his crime and
condemned to cruel death, Mniie
similar sad fate was adjudged the un-
fortunate maiden.
Year: 1868

A most singular discovery is that OF
the antennal language OF insects. Bees
and other insects are provided, as every
body knows, with feelerS or antennB.-
These are. in fact, most delicate organs
of touch, warning of danger, and sery-
ing the animals to mold a sort of conver-
saIion with other, and to communicate
their desires and wants.


A strong hive of bees will contain
thirty six thousand workers. Each of
these, IN order TO be assured of the pre-
sence of their queen, touches her every
day with its antenna. Should the
queen die or be removed, the whole colo
ay disperse themselves, and are seen in
the hive no more, perishing every one,
and quitting all the stores of now use
less honey which they had iabored in
dustrionsiy to collect for the use of them
selves and the larva. On the contrary
should the queen be put into wire cage,
placed at the bottom of the hive so that
her subjects can touch and feel her, they
are contcnted, and the business OF the
hive goes on as usual.


rhis antennal power is not confined
to bees Wasps and ants, and probably
other insects, exercise it. Ii caterru-
| lar is placed near an ants nest, most
curious scene will often ARISE. A soli-
/ tary ant will perhaps discover it, and
eagerly attempt to drag it away. Not
being able to accomplish this, it VIII GO
up to another ant, and by means of the
antcnnal language bring 1t to the cater


pillar. Still these two perhaps are un-
able to perform the task of moving it,
They will separate and bring up rein
forcements of the community by the
same means. till sufficient number is


collected to drag The caterpillar to theil
I nest.
Year: 1868

BY ALICE CAREY.
Tread lightly, little bird, tread lighter yet
Mist-lke across the grass, ye ivies creep,
And in your time y violet, softly set


Your blossoms on their stems, and softly
The rainy tears We cannot all repress-
She walks among ye yet, though shadowless.
And by her death, and lovely living days,
And by her slumber in among we now,
| charge ye that ye initiate her ways,


Unto the will Of Heaven submissive bow,
And give your charities of sweetness forth,
To bless some little sunless piece OF earth.
She loved We well. and all her morns and ewes
For your sweet company her house for


sock;


The low est whisper of the trembling leaves,
The widest prattle of the woodland brook,
She could interpret by that sense divine,
That understands whatever things are fine.
Often the rose would keep her summer state


Despite the frost that did her cruel wrong,
And like q sister at the valley gate


Wait to salute her as she passed along;
Often the meadow-clover lightly bent
Her slender neck to see the way size went.
But she has left We now, we wildings sweet,
For sweeter company than ye could be;
The quiet music of her quiet feet
Has dropt to silence, and her family
OF fior cry folk must gather round her place
OF sleep, and turn their faces to her face.
Year: 1868




1t does ones heart good to see mer-
ry round faced farmer. So indepen-
dent and yet so free from vanity. and
pride. So rich and yet so industrious;
so patient and persevering in his calling,
and yet so kind, social. and obliging.-s
There are u thousand noble traits about
him which light up his character
He is generally hospitable; eat and
drink with him, and he wont set mark
on YOU, aud sweat it out of you with o
double compound interest at another
t;me-you are welcome. He will do you
a Kindness without expectinga return


by way OF compensation; it Is not so


with every body. He is generally more


honest and sin ere-less disposed to


deal in a low and underhand cunning


than many could name. He gives to


society its best support, he is the edifice


of government and the lord of nature.
Look at him in homespun and gray back,
gentlemen; laugh, if you will-but, be-
lieve me, he can laugh back if he pleases.
Year: 1868

Not like a horse or man but through
his fore legs. There is a spot on each
leg. Just below the knee, in the form Of
a Sieve, through this the sweat passes
off, and it is necessary that this be kept
open. II it gets closed, as is sometimes
tile case, the hog will, get sick; he Will
appear stiff and cramped, and unless he
gets relief it will go hard with him. To
cure him simply open the pores. This
is d 1.ae by rubbing the spot with corn
cob, and washing with warm water.
Year: 1868

The best way to deal with kicking
COW is to drive her into corner. or,
what is better, tie her head firmly to
post; then take a strong cord about five
feet long, double it in the middle, and
pass it around the left leg just above the
hook or gambrel joint, put the ends OF
the cord thro' the loop made by douo-
ling, then part them and pass them a
round the other leg in opposite direc-
tions, and tic firmly together, She can
make but poor progress IN klchihs WIN
both feet at once. Let her try.
Year: 1868




FACT. The moneyrpaid to the
CONVENIENTLY the mechanics
and laborers in the shape of
taxes, to pay the interest on un-
taxed bonds in the hands of
loyal ,shoddy contractors, would
purchase a sewing machine for
every poor white girl in the
country. This is a fact worthy
the attention Of every fatherin
the State who labors for the
of his children. yiauoo
Year: 1868

LET us pity the sorrows of the poor white men who reside in Arkansas. The laws passed by the Radicals and negroes are very binding and grinding upon poor white trash. In fact the white people Of Arkansas have now no rights which darkey or a Hcssan is bound to respect
Year: 1868

IT is said that one half the children who enter and labor in Massachusetts factories die before arriving at the age of IS. Poor children! were they negroes, Butler and Sumner would do some thing to prevent this chid-murder
Year: 1868

GooD.-The Radical scheme to disintegrate split and hack Texas into four States is not like ly to succeed, as the Convention which recently assembled at Austin opposed it, and will not again undertake to accomplish the job unless Congress forces it to do so. Another setback 10 Radicalism.
Year: 1868

On THE AIR:-TnE FREE AIR OF HEAv-
~ For six long and weary weeks, until
last Tuesday, We were confined in worse
than prison, and probably would be now
were it not for our faithful Physician, DIR.
BALcoM, who gave his consent, and Justice
SIBREE, who invited us on that day to
breathe the free air behind his famous
twelve mile colt Oh, it was delightful to
kip over the snowy streets, and recog-
I izc and be recognized by some WILL known
acquaintance whose smile but TOO plainly
told the pleasure of his greeting.


And then when We alighted To see the
rlany friends take Us by the hand, and urge
us to warm and comfortable sitting place
1t was pleasure-n joy-to meet those
neutrality-suspicious. as well as Democrats
who, in our sickness and sorrow, did not
forget us-who made their calls at our bed
side like angels visits-whose kind offerings
of friendship were many and welcome. We
say it was more than a pleasure to meet
those, as it will be more of them, we hope,
by-and bye, whose home is in the distance,
but whose kindness will not be easily for
gotten. Aud now that we are on the road
10 health, We pray that it may bc a long
time before any friend will be denied the
AIR OF HEAVEN.
Year: 1868

WIDELY KNOWN. 1t is generally
supposed that the Nebstors, Palmerstons,
Gortaschoffs, Metternichs, and Garribaldis
Of politics are the men of world wide re-
nown, and SO they are where newspapers
circulate, but not many beyond. One of
our friends lately returned from China,
amuses US with the recital of his journey
inland for some distance, where the enquiry
oftenest made when he became known as
an American. was whether he knew or had
ever seen the great chemist of his country,
Dr. Aver, that made the medicines They
use bis remcdics-many Of them have been
cured by them-and they speak of him, as
if he occupied the whole of America or
we're at least the great feature of it. A
mandarin who had been cured of a malg-
nant ulcer on the hip by his Sarsaparilla,
seemed to consider it our principle article
Of export, and its inven tor one of the few
men this cohtincrt had ever produced
worthy the attention of Cinnamon -Nesl
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