smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

1t is rafe to say that men do that
thing to win the admiration Of their EEL
lows which they can do the easiest, with
the least wear and tear, be it making.
money or any other thing.
Year: 1869

1t is claimed by a Florentine profess
sor that somnambulism may be cured by
simply winding a copper wire, slender and
flexible, around the leg Of the PATIENT
leaving an end long enough to touch the
ground. The theory is tina. the wire con-
ducts away the electricity of the body.
Year: 1869

A littlo girl, three years old, the


daughter of Henry Flynn, living
about 40 miles east of Ludington


Mich, was recently carried off by a


black bear, and recovered thirty-six


hours after almost unharmcd. She
accompanied her father on his horse
one morning, about forty rods from
homo, and then put down and told by
him to return home. On his return
it was found that she had disappear
cd. An examination of tho place
where she had been, showed tracks
of a largo bear.


Her parents Immediately began to
search for her, and were assisted by
two gentlemen looking for land -
About thirty-six hours after she had
disappeared, as the two gentlemen
were, passing a swampy spot, where
the underground was very thic k,
one Of them heard the childs voice.
He called her by name and told her
to come out of the bushes. She re-
piled that the bear would not let her.
The men then crept through the
brush, and when near the spot where
the child and bear were, they heard
a splash in the water, which the
child said was the bear.


On going to her they found her
standing upon log extending about
half way across the river. The bear
had undertaken to cross the river on
the log and being closely pursued,
left the child and swan away. She
had received some scratches about
her face, arms and legs, and her
clothes were almost torn from her,
but the bear had not bitten her to
hurt her, only the marks oflhis teeth
being found on her back, where, in
taking hold of her clothes to carry
her he had taken the flesh also.


The little one says the bear would
put her down occasionally, to rest,
and would put his nose up to her
face, when she would slap him, and
then the bear would hang his head
by her sido and purr and rub against
her like a cat The men asked her
if she was cold in the night, and she
told them the old bear lay down be-
side her and put his ''arms" around
her and huggod her to him and kept
her warm, though she did not like
his long hair. The supposition is
that It'll q femalo bear, and having
lost her cubs, came across the child
and adopted it.
Year: 1869

The LATEST man in tho world lives
n Oskaloosa, and is said to be a good
lawyer and great political econo-
mist. In his younger and "more
palmy days." he manifested some pc
culiar traits Of character, chief among
which was that OF economizing time
and space by lying in bed, studying
law and chewing tobacco all at the
same time, and il is further said that
when thus lying upon his back look
ing up in sublime alteration to Black
stone and Kent, if he had occasion
to spit while tracing "nice point"
be economical tine by splitting up
and then jerking tho cover over his
face ConSerrdtQ.
Year: 1869

POPULAR ERRoRs. editors
keep public reading rooms. That
they are delighted to get anything
to fill up the paper with. That they
are always pleased to have assistance
in selecting copy for the paper. That
every mans own private act is a
"matter Of public interest" That it
doesn't make much difference wheth.
er copy DO written on both Sides
That the editors always return re-
jectcd manuscript.
Year: 1869

Brigham Young, in q late address
in his tabernacle, delivered himself as
follows: ga great many ask me how
many wives l have but, to tell the
honest truth, never thought enough
about it to stop and think. But |
will get up the facts in the case and
tell everybody, SO that they may stop
asking me these questions. sup
pose have a dozen or fifteen that l
am taking caro- of perhaps few
more | do not know, and care moth
ing about it. try to do good. and |
try to save the pc pie; and | say, do
not let u lady come to destruction
Year: 1869

DOMESTIC HAPPINESS great end of pru-
dence is to give cheerfulness to those hours
which splendor cannot gild, and acclamaton
cannot exhilirate. Those soft intervals of un-
bended amusements, in which man shrinks to
his natural dimensions, and throws aside or1a-
ments and disguiseS which he feels in privacy
to be useless encumbrances and to lose all effect
when they become familiar. To be happy at
home, is the ultimate result of all ambition, the
end of which every enterprise and labor tends,
and of which desire prompts the execution. 1t
is, indeed, at home that every man must be
known by those who have just estimate of
his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery
are alike occasional, and the mind is often
dressed in painted honor and fictitious benevo-
Year: 1869

To do few things, and do them well, is a
success.


Censure is the tax a man pays to the public
for being eminent.


Everybody is anxious to go to heaven, but no.
body is in hurry about it.


Without frugality none can be rich, and with
it, very few would be poor


Wise sayings often fall to the ground, but q
kind word is never thrown away.


Admit no guest into your soul that the faith
full watchdog in your bosom barks at.


Truth is born with US, and do violence to
our nature when we shake off our veracity.


He who has never forgiven an enemy has never
yet tasted one of the sublime enjoyments of life


Be not all sugar, or the world will swallow
thee up; nor all wormwoOd, or it will split thee
out.


The whole of human virtue may be reduced to
speaking the truth always, and doing good to
others.


The state of life is most happy where super
fuities not required and necessities are not
wanting.


Ingratitude is a crime so shameful that no
man was found who would acknowledge
himself guilty of it.


Where there is love in the heart, there are
ralnDOWS In the eyes, covering every plack
cloud with gorgeous hues.


Truths are first clouds, then rain, then har-
vests and food. The philosophy o. one century
is the common sense of the next.


The path that leads to fortune too often passes
through deies of meanness, which man of an
exalted spirit cannot stoop to .read in.


You may depend upon it that he is a good
man whose intimate friends are all good, and
whose enemies are characters decidedly bad.
Rich relations are generally distant acquaint-
ances; like the great bear in the museum, to be
looked at and admired, but not approached.
The greatest truths are often first discovered
by inferior minds as the infant will find ruby
which the giant strides over without noticing.
1t requires more magnanimity to give up what
is wrong than to maintain what is right for
our pride is wounded by the first and fattered by
the latter.


We are all willing to make allowance for hu-
man nature in the abstract; but how few of us
make allowance for our neighbor's share in that
human nature.
Year: 1869

VIRTUE OF PERsIsTENCE.-Horace Greeley has
an excellent article in late number of Packard 8
Monthly, combating the idea that great achieve
ments are usually accomplished by sort of in-
spiratiou, without labor, and illustrating the
paramount importance of determination and per-
severance. He says:


l know there is small class Of whom the
world saws: "They see the heart of things by
intuition they are poets from impulse only or
ators, statesmen, critics, sages, because Nature
would have it So" l beg leave to doubt that
men of this stamp are a whit more abundant
than white crows. l know there enough
who take pleasure and pride in surprising the
public with prodigies of easy and rapid achieve
ments-who would have US believe that they
have thrown off their epic canto per day, and
can write you their quire of clever epigrams or
sonnets before dinner. Now, do not question
the facility of rapid and brilliant executions, as
the result of past study and requirement in fact
know of such instances; but look at Virgil s
four lines per day-written that day to be read
through alffuture time consider how Demos
themes made himself orator against host of
natural impediments examine facsimile of a
manuscript page of Byron s poems, and mark the
numerous erasures and interineations, arguing
slow composition and puzzling brain, and note
well that a man who writes poem, a sermon,
elaborate review, an oration in a day, has
been many years acquiring that felicity, and you
will agree with me that the vulgar supposition
that some so gifted by nature that they may
achieve distinction without effort, is contra.
dicted by thousands facts where it seems to be
sustained by one. My sometimes friend who
perished miserably with the delrium tremens,
often affected to write without labor; yet hap.
pen to know, from his intimate family connec-
tions, that he repeatedly shat himself up for
months and devoted his whole energies to study
In these periods of hibernation the sparkling eff.
fusons which he seemed to dash off impromtu
after his return to society had essentially their
origin.
Year: 1869

We notice that some man by the name
OF Robinson has introduced into Con-
gress a joint resolution increasing the
Presidents salary to hundred thous-
and dollars year, after the fourth OF
March next. 1t is related somewhere
in the scriptures that King David cut
off certain fellows head for doing him
what he (the fellow considered very
welcome turn. We wish it were possi-
bic for Grant to serve this man Robin
son as David served his would be fami-
liar, and unless the General has been
misquOted we dare say he feels tempt
ed to go for him. All such men should
bo treated as enemies of the country, as
indeed they really are.


a man who at time like the pres
ent, when the people are groaning and
Travelling under their burdens, shows
himself so wantonly regardless or
stupidity incapable of Oppreciating the
situation OF the country, deserves to be
rigidIy spotted In the distribution OF
public patronage.
Year: 1869

We were inexpressibly shocked last
night, to hear of the shooting, by man
whose name our informant could not give
us, of the Rev. Samuel Anthony, one of
the oldest and most respected ministers of
the Methodist Church in this State.


The tragedy was enacted, yesterday, at
Andersonville, just before the arrival Of
the up-train on the Southwestern Road.
1t seems that Mr.. Anthony had gone to
Andersonvllle to marry q couple and
while in the middle Of the ceremony was
interrupted by the step father of the lady,
who ordered him to desist. He remon-
strated with the intruder, telling him it
was too late, then, and that he ought not
to be guilty of such unseemly conduct.
The mans response was the raising and
firing, at almost point blank range, of a
double barrel shot gun loaded with buck
shot, the entire load taking effect in the
lower part of his victims stomach. The
brave old man fell to the floor, but by o
tremendous effort raised himself up, and
saying, 81 will finish the job" proceeded
with the ceremony, and pronounced the
couple man and wife. He then fell down
completely exhausted, and when the cars
left was expected to die every moment
Macon (G0.) Messen9er. 3d
Year: 1869




"WELL," said the stranger, as he loos-
ened his belt and stretched himself in an
easy, recumbent position, I" it is not more
than fair that l should throw something
into the stock of common entertainment !;
but the story am to tell you is sad one,
aud fear will not add to the pleasure of
the evening. AS you desire 1t, however,
and it comes within the line of the request
that I would narrate some personal epi-
sode of the war, I will tell it, and trust
the impression will not be altogether un-
pleasant.
"It was at the battle of Malvern Hill
a battle where the carnage was more
frightful, as it seems to me, than in any
this side of the Alleghanies during the
whole war-that my story must begin. /
was then serving as Major in the --th
Massachusetts Regiment-the old til as
we used to call it-and bloody time the
boys had of it, too. About 2 D. m. we
had beer sent out to skirmish along the
edge of the wood in which, as our Gener-
ais suspected, the Rebs lay massing for a
charge across the slope, upon the crest of
which our army was posted. We had
barely entered the underbrush when we
met the heavy formations Of Magruder in
the very act of charging. Of course our
thin line of skirmishers was no impedi-
ment to those onrushing masses. They
were on us and over us before we could
get out of the way. / do not think that
half of those running, screaming masses
of men ever knew that they had passed
over the remnants of as plucky
a regiment as ever came out Of the
old Bay State. But many of the
boys had good reason to remember
that afternoon at the base of Malvern
Hill, and | among the number; for when
the last line of Rebs had passed over me,
I was left amid the bushes with the breath
nearly trampled out of me, and an ugly
bayonet-gash through my thigh; and
mighty little consolation wss it for me at
Year: 1869




A cheerful table is one of the greatest
attractions Of q well-ordered. house, but
to make it so, several rules must be OBJ
served, the principal one of which is
punctuality. Insist on every member
of the family being ready at the mo
ment, so that no vexatious delays shall
take place. Unpunctual people are
very apt to complain Of want of time
and pressing business engagements; but
when these interfere with their duties
at home, it is generally their own fault.
A habit of attending to everything at
the right time, makes it easy to accom-
plish all that comes within the ordinary
routine Of daily life; and when extraor-
dinary things occur, why, excuses may
be accepted. The mother should also
insist npon some sort of ceremonial in
the way of toilet-well brushed hair,
clean hands and face, fresh collar, a
ribbon in the hair, white waist, or a
bright colored Garibaldi for the girls,
and neatness at least in the boys. 1t is
a good plan, also, to use husband and
to the use Of napkins, or to the
custom of politely waiting on each
other as they would if they had friends
at the table. Attention to small mat
ters like these costs little or nothing,
and is yet an invaluable part of family
education. Teach children also To find
pleasant subjects of conversation, and
bring them to the table to relate anec-
dotes, to tell what they have seen,
where they have been, what they have
read, so as to add their quota to the gem
eral stock of amusement. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that all this u useless
If the mother herself does not contribute
the charm of cheerful, winning man.
ner, well-cooked, palatable food; clean,
bright table furniture, whether crock
cry, delf or china; and q disposition to
look on the best side of things. A
sunny temper is the finest illuminator
in the world.
Year: 1869

Pat into the water in which it is to
be boiled pint of vinegar, bay leaf,
and little bunch of thyme and pars-
ley. Boil slowly for two hours if it is
of moderate size, say ten pounds, then
take it out, skim it, CRATE bread crumbs
over it, and set it in the oven for half
al hour to brown. 1t will be found
immeasurably superior to ham cooked
in the ordinary way. Garnish with a
paper-frill round the ham bone, and
with small dice of firm jelly. A ham
should be soaked in cold water twenty
four hours before cooking.
Year: 1869

Beat two pounds of double-refned
sugar with two ounces of fine starch,
sift the whole through gauze sieve;
then beat the whites of five eggs with
a knife upon pewter dish for half an
hour; beat IN your sugar little at a
time, or it will make the eggs fail, and
injure the color; when all the sugar is
put in, beat is half an hour longer, and
then lay on your almond icing, spread
ing it even with n &uife. If put on as
soon as the cake comes from the oven,
it will harden by the time the cake is
cold
Year: 1869

Boil about two tablcspoonfulls of rice
in water till just soft; then pour away
the water and add pint of new milk
. little nutmeg, lemon-peel aud sugar;
then boil again, and when just off the
boil add the yolks and whites of nearly
three eggs; bake, and serve with sugar
sifteG over it.
Year: 1869

On the 9th of next month the Dem
ocratlc State Convention of Connecticut
will meet at Hartford. State officers
are To be selected, and the call for the
meeting reads as follows: "Deeming
it unsafe ro depar; at any time from tue
principles of the govern meut established
for the protection of persons aud prop
erty, and to secure tho liberties of the
people, the Democratic state Commit
ice cordially invite all the who are
friends of the Constitution and the
Union, all who demand economy in the
administration of the Federal aid State
governments, and who insist upon strict
compliance with the pledged faith OF
the unriou. To act with he Democratic
aud Conservative party i'll the ensuing
election" The Democracy of Connec-
ticut have conquered on many a hard
fought field. and we are confident their
banner will not be lowered by the result
of the coming State struggle.
Year: 1869

Up from his sleep of darkness has climbed the warm sun once more, and we have ended another week of our lives, lived to scc the beginning of another week, of which wc may never witness the close. Seven days of life travel. seven days less of the worlds woe and ioy Seven days more of the rush and battle of the world, seven days more of age, if we live to see them end. lt seems only week since the strong man who pushes and jcstles his way toward eternity, was tossed OF 6 pa- rents knee, was lad at childish sports, wondering if he should ever live to be a man, wondering how life must seem to the bowed down veteran of years. 1t is only step from the cradle to manhood and the short way is SO full of short rocks and deep roots that we can only catch here and there a blooming flower as we look back.

 Hearts that once filled eyes with tender tears at a loving or sympathetic word scared over with the many wounds received from the selfish world, and the poor, tell us of their sufferings, the stricken of their sorrows, the living of the dead, and we only speed along the faster, only hold back the good words and kind deeds the more. Some one is grieving to-day; loved one was laid away in the dark and narrow home of earth only hours ago, and tears and sObs tell us of the joy he was to hearts that outlived him. It is not our home that is made desolato-not our hearts that swell with grief-and we pass along without a care, without heed oi the dead and living. So is the world-rude unheedine and cold. And the good book tells us to love one another, to speak kind words, to be charitable, to live for something beyond life among men better or worC than we. Some one asked you for charity only night ago, and you gave stern lOoki and harsh words. Some one would have beer better. stronger to endure, for kind word and you would not bend your dignity to give it to him. Some one of your struggling brothers in life yearned for a cheerful voice and your mind was too busy with thought of riches and trade to speak of the genia sunshine and the cool breezes which Go, gives US. Our life is a ladder, one end O which rests upon the cradle of infancy, an, the other reaches up beyond the power O vision, resting at the foot of the great whit throne, around which every soul must gathe to hear the record made while in the body The years and months and days are the step which go up. Every day brins us nearer th end, every sunset is one less that will gree our vision. This morning we are seven step nearer-what7 Shall we say heaven2 Sha

 We look down into our hearts, back into th record of one single week, and say that W have done our duty--done that only whic has wreathed the angels brow with smiles { joy.-Llstrot Free Press.
Year: 1869

GEsTEEL-There is dreadful ambition abroad for being "genteel" We keep up appearances too often at the expense of hon esty, and though we may not be rich, yet we must seem to be 90. We must be "respcct- able" though only in the meanest sense-in mere vulgar outward show. We have not courage to go patiently onward in the condi- tion of life in which it has pleased God to call us, but must needs live in some fashion able state in which we ridiculously please to to call ourselves, and all to gratify the vanity of that unsubstantial, genteel world of which we form part. There is constant struggle and pressure for front seats in the social am phitheatre; in the midst of which all noble, self-denying love is trodden down, and very fine natures are evidently crushed to death. What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition te dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not describe. The mischevious re- suits show themselves in q thousand ways in the rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do not dare to seem poor. and in tha desperate dashes at fortune, in which the pity Is not so much for those who fall as Cor the hundreds of innocent fam flies who are SO often involved in ruin.
Year: 1869

HOLDINGS AND PIEs.-Americans as rule, prefer pies to buildings; Englishmen don't, end this is one reason why dyspepsia is less prevalent in England than in America. If pies were abolished from the national bill of fare, the national stomach would be easier, end ''the most enlightened people under the sum would sleep better o' nights, and be less troubled with that 'all gone sensation" in the region of the duodenum which so many pat ent medicines make promise to cure-their promise, like pie crust, being made only to be broken It would be difficult for the ingen- uity of woman to concoct out of wholesome materials anything more thoroughly indiges- tible than an American pie. Even light pas try does not yield readily to the solvent power of the gastric juice, but the sodden stuff which forms the side and flooring of the culinary structure in question, resists the chemical action of that animal acid almost as obstinately as so much leather If we must have pies why not have them made on Moth CT Bull plan, with merely a top dressing pastry and no under-crust or side-crust2 A vigorous stomach may dispose without much difficulty, of the wafery lid of pie, but not without a sharp struggle of the thick, mois- ture-loggcd patisseTie underneath. Yet tens of thousands of us lunch on this sort of pabu- lum every day, and most of us-such is the force of habit-would consider dinner q failure if it were lacking. Away with the dyspeptic dainty-a parent of fatulency, heartburn, headache and nightmare Let it be expnnged from the carte, and pudding, a real nourisher at life's feast installed in its stead.
Year: 1869

In giving an account of the eating Ot French soldier by cannbals, the London Daily Netrs says:

 If any of US look forward 10 being eaten by cannihals, he may wish to Toe informed how he is likely to be cooked 1t Is a comfort to know that the savages who may dcyour him are by no means devoid of refinement in their culinary disposition. Some French soldiers were recently taken prisoners by the Kanaks, and one of them was killed and eaten. His comrades described the process. The kaDaks first decapitate their victim; a matter of no small difficulty considering the bluntness of their hatchets Ten to fifteen blows are necessary. The body is then hung up to tree by the feet, and the blood allowed to run out for an hour Meanwhile hole a yard and half deep and a yard wide is dug

 in the ground. The hole is lined with stones, and then in the midst of them a great fire is lit. When the wood is burned down little and glows with heat, it Is covered over with more stones. The man is then cleaned out and divided into pieces about foot long, the hands and feet being thrown away as worth less. The pieces of the man are placed on the leaves of large rose tree peculiar to the tropics. The meat is surrounded with cocoa nut, banana, and some other plants noted for their delicate flavor. The whole is then tied | together firmly; the fire is then removed from { the pit; the meat is placed in among the hot stones, and thus, carefully covered, is lett to cook for an hour Women do not partake oi this warriors feast Men alone are permit ted to enjoy so great an honor and so rare U delicacy.