smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

We have had several opportunities to
fully test the chloride of zinc, in solution,
10 such cases, and, so far as we are aware,
we were the first to use this agent. II
may be said thas if the persons who has
been bitten by dogs and had been sub.
jected TO its use did not have hydro
phobia, the dogs were not "mad." Under
circumstances itmight be difficult TO prove
this proposition, but we do not propose to
enter into an argument upon the subject
but TO make a plain statement of facts.
In one case, where three men were bitten
by the same dog, at thessame time, we
subjected two to the use of the zinc. They
are both living at the present time, al


though this occurred several years since


while the third man who was not treated
in this way, died, of hydrophobia on the
fourteenth day, In another case gen


gentleman, as well as a COW and horse


were bitten at the same time by rabid
dog. We treated the man with the zinc


he still lives; while the COW and horst
both died within fifteen days. We NIGH
give many other cases illustrative of th,
efficacy Of this treatment, but we consider
this sufficient. The method we employ 4


as follows; Make a saturated solution 0
chloride of zinc, and as soon as possible al
ter the injury inject this into any or all tn
wounds made by the teeth Of the animal


let it be done with small syringe AM
with sufficient force to bring the solution
in contact with every portion of th


punctured or abraded tissue. This shoult
be repeated the second day, after whicl
apply the water dressing until all tn


parts which have been subjected to tn


zinc slough out Then the wound shoul


be allowed to heal under the ordinar


dressing, which will be effected, if there ha
not been much laceration Of the parts, 1


from ten to fifteen days. AS an interns
remedy we use the carbonate of ammoni,
ten grains to the half pint Of water, thi
| quantity to be taken daily for twenty day


The longest time which had elapsed froI


the time the person was bitten until tn


above means were used was four hour


yet we are of the opinion that this woul


sntidote the poison even ten or tiftee


hours after the injury, for the reason thI
the zinc in any form when brought


contact with an abfaded tissue will q
upon parts quite remote from the part i
jured, and viii, if taken up by the a
sorbents, antidote the poison which ms
! have permeated the whole system mar
; hours preVious.-,E Eclectic Medical ,JourR,
Year: 1869

E5ls4 ~ al go -


THE cook Of 3 French nohlelnan had a
monkey which was so intelligent that by
severe training It was taught 70 perform
certain useful services, such as plucklng
fowls, at which 1t was uncommonly expert
One fine mornings pair Of partridges was
given It to pluck. The monkey took
them to an open window Of the kitchen,
and went to work with great diligence.
He soon finished one, which he laid on the
outer ledge Of the window, and then went
quietly on with the other. A hawk that
had been watching his proceedings from q
neighboring tree darted down upon tho
.plucked partridge, and in a minute was
up in the tree again, greedily devouring
his prey. He hoped about In great
distress for some minutes, when suddenly
3 bright thought struck him. Selling the
remaining partridge, he went TO work
with great energy and stripped Of the
feathers. He then laid it on the ledge,
Just where he had placed the other, and
closing one Of the shutters, concealed him
self behind It. The hawk, who by this
time had finished his meal, very soon
swooped down upon the partridge, but
hardly had his claws touched the bird
when the monkey sprang upon him from
behind the shutter. The hawks neck was
instantly wrung, and the monkey, with a
triumphant chuckle, proceeded to strip Of
the feathers. This done, he carried the
two plucked fowls to his master, with q
confident and self.satisfed air which
seemed to say ~" Here are two birds, sir


Just what you gave me" What the
cook said on finding one Of the partridges
converted into a hawk is more than we
ara ahla II tell
Year: 1869

ton supplemental report of the
Trustees of the Soldiers Home, set
ting forth the necessity which exists
tor such an institution. and demon
stratiug that it should receive from
the State a more liberal support than
was proposed to be given by the Gen
eTal Appropriation bill which passed
the House at the last session.


By the revenue bills passed at the
late session, the State Debt Sinking
Fund tax was reduced one-half, or
from twenty cents to ten cents on
each one hundred dollars 10 value of
property, and the State debt tax pr0p-
er was reduced one fourth, or from
twenty cents to fifteen cents. This is
certain y satisfactory reduction, and
If local taxation could be reduced In
a corresponding ratio, there would be
little cause of complaint of the bur-
thens of taxation. With this large
reduction, the State will still be in a
condition to make all the appropria-
tions contemplated at the regular ses-
sion, and increase the allowance to
the Soldiers Home to the extent
asked for by the Trustees of that in
stitution. | believe that duty to our
disabled soldiers, and to the orphan
children Of those who have passed
away, requires this at our hands. A
careful study Of the facts stated in
the supplemental report OF the trus-
tees will convince any unprecedented
mind of the necessity of such an iust-
tuition, and of increased liberality in
your appropriations for its enlarge
menb and support


L herewith also respectfully submit
for your consideration a supplemental
report of the Directors of the State
Prison South, showing that. for rea-
SONS therein set forth, the finances of
said prison are not in so favorable a
condition as was represented 10 the
late annual report of the Directors.
This discrepancy grows out Of the
fact, as the supplemental report al
leges, that the late Warden had con-
tracted debts on account of the prison
no account of which was contained on
the books, and no report of which was
made to the Directors. This supple
mental report also asks an appropria-
ton for repairs. and shows that the
number of prisoners is decreasing,
and that Marion County should be
re annexed to the Southern Prison
District.


Since the close &. the late regular
session, have been informed by NJ
=. Ghee, Esq, one of the Directors
of said Prison, that he has accepted
an appointment under the General
Government wiz: that of Guager of
Distilled Spirits.) and has qualified,
thereby vacating his Office Of Direc-
tor OF the Prison. / herewith submit
a copy of his letter announcing the
fact, to the end that you may take
such steps to fill the vacancy as to
you may seem proper.


l trust you will have a pleasant and
harmonious session, aud that your
deliberations will result in the passage
of such measures as will be promotiVe
of the welfare of the State and the
happiness of the people.


CONRAD BAKER.
Year: 1869

The bright summers sun OF yesterday had won
derful effect ON the attendance at nearly all the
metropolitan and Brooklyn churches, and the
congregations were large and correspondlngly
fashionable and brilliant. The May anniversary
commemorations, which take place this week, were
inaugurated at number of the churches and the
proceedings were of the usual interesting character.
In addition to these the regular Sabbath exercises
were of more than ordinary interest at other places
OF worship, and attractive themes were ably dis
cussed by some OF our most eloquent divnes, as
will be seen py the reports, subjOned, Of the most
interesting services.
Year: 1869

might speak Of ITS political power its commercial
significance, bur one could tell anything OF wnat
the great future with this powerful key was 10 un-
lock. The real greatness Of that achievement after
all, might be greatness that would gradually dawn
observing that the Pacific Railroad might be the
means OF greatly advancing the religion OF Jesus
Christ II the opportunities II afforded were properly
availed Of IL not 1t might have tendency 10 add
to the materialistic spirit OF the age
Year: 1869

out to preach the gospel instead OF staying at home
seeking culture and money. IL was only an lmper-
home, with some it being merely choice between
Machavel and Jesus Christ. In conclusion the rev.
sion work calling upon all to do that which God had
given them the power to PERFORM In order to send
the gospel all over the world ana 70 hasten the DAY
ms salvation.
Year: 1869

NAILS IN TUE FooT.-To relieve
from the terrible effects OF running d
nail in the foot OF man or horse, take
peach leaves, hruise them. apply "a
the wound, con6ne with bandage, and
the cure is as IL by magic Renew The
application twice a day, If necessary
bat one application generally does The
work Both man and beast have, IN
few hours. when apparently on the
point Of having the lockjaw, been
rrrnH
Year: 1869

Secretary Boutwell's monthly summary
of the state of the public debt for July
continues to show the result of an honest
collection of the taxes, an economical ad-
ministration of the Government, and a
wise appliance of the surplus means of
the Treasury to the sustainment of the
public credit. The apparent decrease in
the debt during the month of July was
$7,435.744, %, the actual decrease was ST.
636, ,8G1,31 more, the Treasury having ad-
vanced that amount in interest on the Pa
cifc Railroad bonds during the month";
During the five months since March lst,
when Republican Administration be-
came responsible for the management of
the National finance, the entire decrease
in the public debt has been 1896, ,523
y. This is an average decrease of about
SS.779.OOO a month, and of over one
hundred millions if continued throughout
the year. OF the decrease since March,
$27,O4,2737 is actually in the Treasury,
either in the shape of a sinking fund of
United States coin interest bonds, and in
terest collected or accrued thereon, or in
other similar bonds and interest thereon,
purchased by the Secretary and held to
await the action of Congress hereafter
The formation of this sinking fund has so
wholly met the approval Of the country
that we cannot doubt that Congress will
direct the whole amount, now in the Treas
ury or which the Secretary may purchase
before its meeting, to be converted into
that fund. to be held inviolate, with its
accruing interest, for the redemption of
the public debt.


There is no reason to doubt that, with
the same faithful collection of the taxes
and a continuance of the economy that has
marked the present administration, we
shall be fully able to continue the average
decrease of the present year, and by the
Ist of March, 1870, show that we owe one
hundred millions of dollars less than IN
March. 1869. The actual expenditure OF
the Government for the fiscal year ending
June 3Oth we're about 100000, the
receipts S370,5O0,000, showing surplus
of S5O.OOO,OOO. But in that year we
paid S7,2OO,oO0 in gold for Alaska, and
S1S. 10000 for bounties. We do not
propose at present to dabble further IN
the real estate market, and S3,0QO,0O0
more will entirely settle the bounty ae-
count. Here are two important items,
aggregating nearly S25,000,000, to be Ia
ken out of the expenditure account for the
current year. Taking into account the
more effectual collection of the taxes and
their natural increase by the growth OF
the country, the amount of one hundred
millions surplus for the first year OF Gen,
eral Grants Administration is not at all
excessive, and more likely to be exceeded
than not


With our ability to create such sur
plus will come up the question whether
we will do it. There is much to be salo
ON both sides. and it will no doubt be fully
argued whenever Congress comes to act
Our own opinion is that surplus OF hfty
Year: 1869

Woman's love, like the rose blossom
ing in the arid desert, spreads its ray over
the barren plain of the human heart, and
while all around it is black and desolate
it rises strengthened from the absence Of
every other charm. In no situation does
the love of a woman appear more beauti-
full than that of wife. Parents, breth-
ren, and friends have claims upon the af-
fections--but the love of wife is of dis
tinct and different nature. A daughter
may yield her life to the preservation of
parent a sister may devote herself to a
suffering brother; but the feelings which
induces her to this conduct are not such as
those which lead wife to follow the hus-
band of her choice through every pain and
peril that can befall him; to watch over
him in danger, to cheer him in adversely,
and ever remain unalterable at his side i'll
the depths of ignomy and shame. 1t is a
heroic devotion which woman displays in
adherence to the fortunes of hapless hus-
band. When we behold her in domestic
scenes, mere passive creature of enjoy
ment an intellectual joy, Frightening the
family with the joys her endearments are
calculated to impart, we can scarcely credit
that the fragile being who seems to hold
her existence by thread is capable of sup
porting the extreme Of human suffering
nay, when the heart of man sinks beneath
the weight of agony; that she should
maintain her pristine powers of delight,
and by her words of comfort and patience
lead the murmurer to peace and resigna-
ton.
Year: 1869

A CERTAIN jagare, who was one MORN
ing keeping watch in the forest, saw a
fox cautiously making his approach toward
the strump of an old tree When sufii-
cintly near, he took high and determined
jump on to the top of it, and after looking
round while, hoped to the ground
again. After Reynard had repeated this
knightly exercise several times, he went
his way, but presently returned to the
spot, bearing a pretty large and heavy
piece of dry oak in his mouth, and thus
burdened, and as it would seem for the
purpose of testing his vaulting powers, he
renewed his leaps on to the stump. After
a time, however, and when he found that,
weighted as he was, he could make the
ascent with facility, he desisted from fur
thcr efforts, dropped the piece of wood
from his mouth, and coiling himself upon
the top of the stump, remained motionless
as if dead. AT the approach of evening,
an old sow and her progeny, five or six In
number, issued from a neighboring thicket,
and pursuing their usual track, passed near
the stump in question. Two of her suck
lings followed somewhat behind the rest,
and. lust as they neared his ambush,
Michel, with the rapieity of thought, dart
ed down from his perch upon one of them,
and in the twinkling of an eye, bore it in
triumph on to the fastness he had so provi-
dentially prepared beforehand. Confound-
ed at the shrieks of her offspring, the old
sow returned in fury to the spot, and until
late in the night made repeated attempts
to storm the murderer's stronghold ; but
the fox took the matter coolly, and devour-
ed the pig under the very nose of its
mother.
Year: 1869

millions year is fully as much as the
country is prepared to bear, and that it
will be better to reduce the taxes than to
overstrain the energies and wear out the
patience of the people by too hurried
attempt to absorb the whole of our vast
debt. Fifty millions of surplus year for
ten years, with the accruing interest col
lected and applied, will give us a sinking
fund of over five hundred millions of dol
lars. With such fund sacredly preserv-
ed, and the accruing interest regularly ap-
piled to its increase, the final extinction of
the public debt would cease to be pro-
blem. Each year it would rapidly lessen
each year it would become less and less a
burthen. and we might calculate the date
of the payment of the last dollar with en-
tire certainty. 1t will be the duty Of
Congress, at its next session, to find that
exact mean which will represent the abili-
ty of the people to pay off an annual
amount of the public debt without over
burdening the industry Of the country by
heavy taxes. Having determined on that
measure of ability, the taxes should be re-
duced until only the necessary amount for
the maintenance of the Government on an
economical basis and the payment of the
surplus fixed upon for the sinking fund
shall be collected. A heavy surplus in
the Treasury viii always be a provoca-
tive to extravagant appropriations, and is
one of the things to be avoided.---Bat.
american. ...
Year: 1869

One of the most remarkable occurrences
that has ever come to our knowledge was
related to US yesterday. Mr.. James Broil
farmer, who resides about seven miles
from the city, on the river road, has for
some time past been engaged extensively
in raising honey bees, and with almost un-
precedented success. He has lately re-
joiced in as many as forty-fve hives of the
industrious little "cusses," and, to use a
homely phrase, they have been plying
themselves like Turks and making "slath-
ers" of homer for the winter. A few
mornings ago, however, Mr.. Broil woke up
to find his bees non est They had " lit
out" between two days, leaving no trace
whatever of the point or region Of coun-
tay to which they had 50 unceremoniously
migrated. There was not bee left to
keep its lonely watch over the forty-fyc
hives. As might be expected, farmer
Broil was left in considerable of dilcm-
ma, and Immediately consulted all the au-
thorities at his command in relation to the
peculiar habits and freaks of the bee tribe.
Reading through many volumes it occur
red to him that some Of his neighbors
might be able to explain the why's and
wherefores Of this bounty jumping move
on the part of his army of honey-makers."
He accordingly made 'bee-line" for the
residence of his nearest neighbor to con-
suit him on the singular problem. To his
utter surprise he ascertained that his friend
who is also "beeist," had met with the
same loss in the same sudden manner, and
was in the same perplexity as to the cause.
They at once resolved on examining the
hives, and it revealed to them the fact that
each stand contained from sixty to seven
ty-fve pounds of honey. This develop
ment led the two bee raisers to seek for
further information, and in their rounds,
for a circuit of twenty-five miles, they
found that every hive had been deserted
about the same time, and all of them we're
left full of honey. The farmers in that
region are unable to account for this mys-
terious disappearance of their bees, and
many theories have been advanced, but up
to this time the problem remains unsolvcd
The opinion of most of them is that the
mildness of the weather up to so late a
season caused this singulnr migration.-
LOaisUilte Democrat, July II.
Year: 1869

snadow Will have overtaken him. and this.
TO MN, will be the central point of the
eclipse.


From this point onward he will be fol-
lowing after the flying shadow in the di-
rection of w L, with greater speed than
he retreated before it during the first hour
or the morning, because he will be mov-
ing In higher part of the curve toward
Il, and consequently, in direction more
nearly parallel to w Z, thus prolonglng
the duration of the last half of the eclipse
to a greater length than the first half was
prolonged.


But this .s exactly the reverse of what
occurred with US. 1t was the first half OF
our eclipse which was longest instead of
the last half.


And now, Mr.. Editor. it is more than
probable, if Student has followed me
thus far, that he has fairly understood the
causes which operate to make one-half of
solar eclipse Of longer duration than the
other half. But I am addressing myself
to other readers than Student and
must ask for little more space to apply
this mode of reasoning to our particular
case, in so far as it is applicable.


In order to apply this illustration to the
case of our Cincinnati observer. we must
suppose him to be transported from 80 de-
grees north to within a few degrees of the
equator.


Instead of supposing him to be located
dJ w DIT IHe IllOlnellU IlldI lie sees Lnc
eclipse begin, we must suppose him to be
at point about half way between L and
Il, remembering at the same time that the
earths rotation is carrying him toward e.
In this case the sun would be declining
toward the horizon, consequently, to him
it would be afternoon.


Suppose him to be half way from Z to-
ward T. when he saw the first contact be-
tween the sun and moon, keeping in mind
that the moon is moving from right to left
or in the direction from w to f.


Let us now consider what takes place
under these circumstances. He starts
with the beginning Ofthe eclipse at point
half way from Il toward Z, and at the end
of an hour he will have arrived at point
point the center of the eclipse overtakes
him.


During the next hour he will move over
half the remaining distance toward E, but
in doing this he viii not move so far in the
direction of w L rs he did during the first
hour of the eclipse, consequently the
pires-and in our case this event occurred
six minutes before the expiration of the
hour.


| would suggest to . Student,'' and 9th
ers who wish to follow out the reasoning
here Indicated, that they draw the dia-
gram as above directed, and even cut out
the disc for the moon, that they may be
able TO discover traces of the perfect har-
mOny which often reigns over the appa-
rent discordances observable in the opera
tiouS of nature.


81 WILLIAM NJ. DAVIS.


AUGUST. 10.
Year: 1869

THE following cure for the gout is taken
from an old work: First---Thc person must
pick handkerchief from the pocket &
maid of fifty years, who never had wish
to change her condition. Sccond---He must
wash it in an honest miller's pond. Third
He must dry it on the hedge of a parson
who was never covctous. Fourth---He
must send it to doctor who never killed
a patient. Fifth--He must mark it with
the ink of lawyer who never cheated a
client. sixth--Apply it to the part af-
fected, and cure will speedily follow.